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The Center's new MOOC, "Effective +Programming in Scala", was also released the same month. + +[Databricks](https://databricks.com), known in the Scala community for +their stewardship of Apache Spark, has now joined the advisory +board as a full member and is represented by Kris Mok. Affiliate +member SwissBorg joined the meeting for the first time, represented by +Nicolas Rémond. + +Fengyun Liu, from the engineering team, has left the Center. Valérie +Pedroni has joined the new communications team as an intern. + +Center activities for the past quarter focused on the Scala 3 release, +the Scala 3 release party, ScalaCon (including three talks by Center +speakers), the new MOOC, updating most of the existing MOOCs to Scala +3, the Scala 3 documentation website including the Scala 3 book, Let's +Talk About Scala 3 video series, Scala 3 compiler improvements, the +TASTy reader, the Scala 3 migration tool, Scala 3 support in tooling +(Metals, Scalameta, Scalafmt, Scalafix, sbt, Maven plugin, Scastie, +Scaladex), Scala.js, Scala Native, a new sbt-version-policy plugin, +Google Summer of Code, and community management and governance. + +Details on all this are in +[Darja's management report](./2021-06-28-darja-june-28-2021.pdf), +[Darja's community management and governance proposal](./2021-06-28-darja-june-28-2021.pdf), +and [Seb's technical report](./2021-06-28-seb-june-28-2021.pdf). + +One new proposal was discussed: + +* [SCP-026](https://github.com/scalacenter/advisoryboard/blob/main/proposals/026-solidify-getting-started-with-coursier.md): Solidify Getting Started with Coursier (Chris Kipp (Lunatech) & Rob Norris (community)) + +The proposal was voted on and accepted. + +Other business discussed included the community management and +governance proposal. + +## Date, Time and Location + +The meeting took place virtually on Monday, June 28, 2021 at +3:00pm (UTC). + +Minutes were taken by Seth Tisue (secretary). + +## Attendees + +Officers: + +* Adriaan Moors (chairperson) + * also board member, representing Lightbend +* Darja Jovanovic (executive director), EPFL +* Sébastien Doeraene (technical director), EPFL +* Martin Odersky (technical advisor), EPFL +* Seth Tisue (secretary), Lightbend + +Board members: + +* Diego Alonso, 47 Degrees +* Maureen Elsberry, 47 Degrees +* Graham Griffiths, Goldman Sachs +* Chris Kipp, Lunatech +* Kris Mok, Databricks +* Rob Norris, community/Typelevel +* Krzysztof Romanowski, VirtusLab +* Daniela Sfregola, Morgan Stanley +* Filipe Regadas, Spotify +* Nicolas Rémond, SwissBorg (affiliate member) +* Bill Venners, community/Artima +* Eugene Yokota, Twitter + +Apologies: + +* none + +Guests: + +* none + +## Activities reports + +Darja and Seb summarized Scala Center activities since the last +meeting. + +Their remarks were largely based on their reports. The following notes +do not repeat the content of the reports, but only supplement them. + +### Management report + +* [Darja's management report](./2021-06-28-darja-june-28-2021.pdf) + +### Technical report + +* [Seb's technical report](./2021-06-28-seb-june-28-2021.pdf). + +Seb emphasized that feedback from the board (and from the community) +is especially welcome for scala3-migrate, the TASTy reader, and recent +Scala Native improvements. + +Seb's report mentions a proposed new "Standalone Scala" effort. It was +discussed further as part of the SCP-026 discussion, below. + +## Proposals + +### SCP-026: Solidify Getting Started with Coursier + +The [proposal](https://github.com/scalacenter/advisoryboard/blob/main/proposals/026-solidify-getting-started-with-coursier.md) was submitted by Chris Kipp (Lunatech) and Rob Norris (community). + +Chris presented the proposal. He said that it reflects Lunatech's +experiences educating new Scala programmers as well as Rob's +experiences interacting with Scala beginners. Rob: "There's a steady +drip of people getting super frustrated and confused trying to get +started with Scala. What do I download, where does it go, how do I do +it, how do I get my editor to work." + +Chris pointed out that the proposal overlaps with the Standalone Scala +effort, which they didn't know about before. Krzysztof believes their +plans are compatible with the proposal's goals. + +Seth said he hoped that Virtus and the Center will look at Dale +Wijnand's [scala-runners project](https://github.com/dwijnand/scala-runners) +as one of their sources of inspiration. + +Seb said "we love the proposal" at the Center. "We're glad to see +it. It mentions things that we were already working on, or planning to +work on," and then also has good suggestions they hadn't considered +yet. He acknowledged the issue with multiple sbt launchers and said +that Coursier-based sbt launcher not being fully ready yet was the +main blocker currently preventing `cs setup` from being the standard +recommendation for beginners. + +Martin: "The proposal is spot on. We have to give newcomers better +guidance, and it needs to be the same, if we can, for Scala 2 and +Scala 3." Darja also expressed support. + +Diego expressed support for the proposal and asked about the overlap +with Standalone Scala (aka "scala-cli"). Some discussion about that +with Seb, Krzysztof, and others followed. We mostly pass over that +here, since that work is still in such early stages. So, more on this +at next meeting. Krzysztof assured us that before too much longer, scala-cli will +be an open-source and transparent project and all actions related to +the language, documentation, and other key parts of the Scala ecosystem +will be made in consultation with Scala Center and the community. + +Eugene asked about the maintenance status of Coursier. Darja reminded +us that Alexandre Archambault is at VirtusLab now. Krzysztof offered +to be a liaison for board members concerned about Coursier issues. +Seb acknowledged that the Center may need to become more involved. + +Daniela expressed concern that the proposal could be too broad in +scope, since it covers both improving the getting-started experience, +and improving tools that are used by everyone for many purposes. Rob +and Chris thought it remains to be seen to what extent this might turn +into multiple streams of work, once the design questions have been +explored more. Also, Adriaan noted that it's ultimately up to the +Center to bridge the gap between recommendations made by the board and +the technical details of how they end up being addressed. + +**Voting**: The proposal was accepted by unanimous vote. + +## Other business + +### Management and governance + +Darja presented the new [community management and governance +proposal](./2021-06-28-darja-june-28-2021.pdf). Her opening remarks +were based on the slides in the second half of her [management +report](./2021-06-28-darja-june-28-2021.pdf). The following notes do +not repeat the content of these documents, but only supplement them. + +Maureen asked if fundraising for this could or should be more broadly +community-based, instead of only asking the advisory board. (Answer: +open question, but likely yes.) She also asked what the expected time +commitment would be for members of the Executive Working Group. +(Answer: open question, but probably 1 or 2 hours/week for six +months.) + +Nicolas asked about learning from other communities' experience; Darja +said that the proposal includes budget for a consultant who has +relevant expertise and a track record with the Drupal and Go +communities. + +Daniela suggested that any communication around fundraising should +distinguish between what the Center will do regardless, and what it +_could_ do if additional funds are raised. + +Several board members said they would check into whether their +companies would be interested in contributing additional funding to +this effort. (At least one member reminded us that the process of +getting permission for this kind of thing can be slow, and that a +document explaining the fundraising goals can't assume familiarity +with community history.) + +Several board members expressed interest in participating in the +Executive Working Group. + +### Scala on Twitter + +Chris asked about the Scala Center's Twitter presence; Darja confirmed +that it's by design that the Center uses +https://twitter.com/scala_lang rather than expect users to follow a +separate account. + +Chris also asked if community governance matters, and communications +around Scala more generally, should be understood by the community as +issuing from the Center, or also from other involved parties such as +Lightbend. Darja acknowledged that it's natural for people in the +community to be at least somewhat confused by the different groups +sharing cooperative responsibility for Scala. She mentioned her talk +"Scala 2 to Scala 3 Transition" +([video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVj58B0cLKo)), which may be +helpful for people seeking to understand this better. Seth mentioned +that the Scala website attempts to address this right at the top of +the site's [community +page](https://www.scala-lang.org/community/#whos-behind-scala). Darja +said that the Center would take care to be especially clear about +this in any communication around the community management changes. + +### Ammonite + +Chris asked about the Center's level of involvement in maintenance of +Ammonite, particularly Scala 3 support. Seb said that although the +Center contributed that support to Ammonite (through a contractor), +that doesn't mean the Center has assumed ongoing responsibility for +it, but he said he would look into whether there's something the +Center could appropriately do about specific issues Chris mentioned. + +Some discussion followed about the nature of the Center's agreements +with contractors, within EPFL's constraints. (Darja added that the +Center's unusually heavy use of contractors in the preparation for the +Scala 3 release was a one-time situation.) + +## Conclusion + +We ran out of meeting time and didn't elect a new chairman. (Adriaan's +one-year rotation is ending.) Seb suggested we deal with this +asynchronously, but before the next meeting. + +The next meeting will likely take place in September. diff --git a/records.md b/records.md index b42bcff..0a4fc7a 100644 --- a/records.md +++ b/records.md @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ layout: contact ### Board meeting minutes +- [June 28, 2021 - Twenty-First SC Advisory Board Meeting](/minutes/2021/06/28/june-28-2021.html) - [March 30, 2021 - Twentieth SC Advisory Board Meeting](/minutes/2021/03/30/march-30-2021.html) - [February 4, 2021 - Nineteenth SC Advisory Board Meeting](/minutes/2021/02/04/february-4-2021.html) - [October 28, 2020 - Eighteenth SC Advisory Board Meeting](/minutes/2020/10/28/october-28-2020.html)