Technology Advisory Board Meeting Minutes - March 12, 2021
Board Members In Attendance:
- Jeff Scott Brown – Micronaut Foundation, co-founder and Director, Micronaut Practice Lead at Object Computing
- Graeme Rocher – Micronaut Foundation, co-founder and Director; Oracle, Architect
- James Kleeh – Object Computing, Micronaut Development Lead
- Neal Ford – ThoughtWorks, Director, Cloud Architect
- Ken Sipe – Mesosphere, Cloud Solutions Architect
- Yuriy Artamonov – JetBrains, Microservices Fellow
Board Members Not In Attendance:
- Guillaume LaForge – Google, Developer Advocate for Google Cloud Platform
- Venkat Subramaniam – Agile Developer Inc., Founder
- Zhamak Dehghani – ThoughtWorks, Principal Consultant
Others In Attendance:
- Jen Wiese – Object Computing, OSS Community Engagement Manager
Meeting led by:
- Jeff Scott Brown
Agenda:
- Welcome and Agenda
- New TAB Members
- Foundation Community Updates
- Technical Discussion
- Open Discussion
Welcome (JSB)
- Feel free to send in topics to discuss prior to meeting at techadvisory@micronaut.io
- All input and ideas are welcome
- We want to capitalize on the group of folks we have here, so please reach out
New TAB Members (JSB)
- We are in discussions with a potential new member to add to the technology advisory board; will update the group once we know more
- If anyone has suggestions for nominations to the TAB, please send those in
Foundation Community Updates (JW)
- As a not-for-profit organization, the Micronaut Foundation relies on the financial support from our amazing community of generous sponsors
- Corporate and Community sponsorship opportunities currently available
- We have a handful of Community All Star Sponsors
- Currently OCI is the only Corporate Sponsor
- The Foundation will be delivering events moving forward: training workshops, webinars, publications, and other online community events
Technical Discussion (JK, All)
- Roadmap Review
- Planning on Micronaut 3.x summer of 2021
- Planning on Micronaut 4.x summer of 2022
- https://github.com/micronaut-projects/micronaut-core/wiki/Top-Level-Roadmap
- Default Reactive Library; Moving from RxJava2 to Project Reactor
- Options discussed included RxJava3, Project Reactor, and Flow
- JDK Support Planning
- Will continue to support JDK8 until Micronaut 4.x
- Migrating from Javax Injection Annotations to Jakarta Annotations
- We will be transitioning to Jakarta Annotations in Micronaut 3.x
- Planning for a Micronaut Data repo for MongoDB
Open Discussion (All)
- Meeting notes will be published
- Thank you to everyone who attended. Your participation and time is very much appreciated.