Technology Advisory Board Meeting Minutes - October 9, 2020
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
- James Kleeh – Object Computing, Micronaut Development Lead
- Neal Ford – ThoughtWorks, Director, Cloud Architect
- Venkat Subramaniam – Agile Developer Inc., Founder
- Yuriy Artamonov – JetBrains, Microservices Fellow
- Guillaume LaForge – Google, Developer Advocate for Google Cloud Platform
Board Members Not In Attendance:
- Ken Sipe – Mesosphere, Cloud Solutions Architect
- Zhamak Dehghani – ThoughtWorks, Principal Consultant
Others In Attendance:
- Jen Wiese – Object Computing, Micronaut Product Evangelist
Meeting led by:
- Jeff Scott Brown
Agenda
- Welcome
- Introduce New Attendee
- Managing This Agenda
- Recent And Upcoming Goings On
- Foundation Sponsorship Updates
- Discussion Of Communication Detail And Cadence
- Roadmap Updates
- Open Discussion / Qs and As
New Attendee (JSB)
- Jen Wiese – Evangelism for 2GM (Groovy, Grails, and Micronaut) team at OCI will present foundation sponsorship information today and take board meeting notes
Managing this Agenda (JSB)
- Feel free to send in topics to discuss prior to meeting at foundation@micronaut.io
- All input and ideas are welcome
- We want to capitalize on the group of folks we have here, so please reach out
Recent And Upcoming Goings On (JSB)
- The folks at Gartner requested briefings and demos on Micronaut
- We have completed several briefings and demos for them
- All with positive feedback
- So far all seem very enthusiastic about Micronaut and excited to get involved as well as provide direction
- Great questions/comments from TAB on this topic
- Will work on some additional documentation that showcases features/structure comparisons, rather than just performance benchmarks
- Enthusiastic about a recent interest from a major company wanting to contribute to Micronaut.
- More details to come as paperwork hasn’t been finalized at this time
- Evangelism efforts to improve adoption
- Keeping in mind the importance of the developer experience (from the ground up)
- Meetups (especially in larger cities)
- Online hackathon events
- More people getting involved doing these events
- OReilly Event – Follow up with Neal
- Keeping in mind the importance of the developer experience (from the ground up)
Foundation Sponsorship Updates (JW)
- As a not-for-profit organization, the Micronaut Foundation relies on the financial support from our amazing community of generous sponsors.
- Currently 7 Proposed Direct Sponsor Levels:
- Ambassador, Titanium, Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze, and our Community All Stars
- Need to finalize sponsor level details
- Idea proposed to offer “Donation”
- Anonymous monetary donation
- Donation in other ways as organizations are using the framework
- Ambassador, Titanium, Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze, and our Community All Stars
- GitHub sponsor option
- Demo sponsor site/page
- Swag preview
- Currently 7 Proposed Direct Sponsor Levels:
Roadmap Updates (JK and GR)
- github.com/micronaut-projects/micronaut-core/wiki/Top-Level-Roadmap
- Planned for 2.2
- Micronaut Data Reactive SQL
- Client Credentials Grant
- Improve X.509 Support
- MQTT
- Kotlin DSL For Gradle
- Maven up to Gradle
- Future standards support (CDI / MicroProfile)
- Graeme is working on this and there is a longer lifecycle for this to be completed – compliance with CDI specifications and implementation, working in coordination with other vendors for support.
- We are keeping in mind that we don’t want too many tooling options for Micronaut as we want to keep it light.
Discussion Of Communication Detail And Cadence (JK and JSB)
- Planning on communication regarding releases about every 6 weeks
- 2.2 is planned for mid November
- Will work on a project board for target release
- First share that board with the TAB
- TAB provide feedback/input
- Then release to general public
- How do prioritize what will be in an upcoming release?
- Development team and Business team discuss
- Listen to community feedback and questions in Gitter channel
- Responses in Github
- Feedback from clients and engineering teams
- Development team and Business team discuss
- Now we have the additional input from the TAB to provide guidance and suggestions
- Very excited to have that value add from leaders in this space that are outside of our immediate “bubble”
Open Discussion / Qs and As (All)
- Meeting notes will soon be published
- Thank you to everyone who attended