I was looking through the remaining PRs that are flagged for RC1: https://github.com/apache/grails-core/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Apr+milestone%3Agrails%3A8.0.0-RC1
>From what I can tell there are a lot of RC1 related PRs, most with only 1 reviewer. The test ones & AI started ones I assume we can skip, but I found a few issues that I think we should wait on the RC1 for: 1. https://github.com/apache/grails-core/pull/16044 - this identified that the version of jansi we're using is the unsupported version, while Groovy has switched to the supported one maintained by jline 2. https://github.com/apache/grails-core/pull/16052 - enum DDL - has feedback that needs to be implemented 3. the configuration metadata PRs (2x) 4. https://github.com/apache/grails-core/pull/16040 - i think feedback may have been implemented, but the tests hadn't yet run. 5. https://github.com/apache/grails-core/pull/16020 - the clob/text issue that was reported for hibernate 7 6. https://github.com/apache/grails-core/pull/16028 - many join table 7. https://github.com/apache/grails-core/pull/16019 - Groovy Bean DSL replacement Other PRs that should probably be worked through: 1. https://github.com/apache/grails-core/pull/16025 - the AI configuration (I think this has disagreements on the approach) 2.https://github.com/apache/grails-core/pull/15993 - logging restructure of core classes (I haven't had time to review this one yet) My biggest concern is #1. I did an initial pass at solving this one and have PR opened (draft here: https://github.com/apache/grails-core/pull/16078) as a first step. But it made me realize that as part of the CLI split, we never split the tests - so dependencies are on the same classpath for tests. I think this is critical to fix, but I won't be able to get to it until next week (unless someone else is willing?). Further issues identified as part of this: 1. I think jline can be removed from the entire production classpath with the cli split 2. some of the console specific classes did not get moved in the CLI split (i.e. AnsiConsoleUrlMappingsRenderer) I think we should hold on 8.0.0-RC1 to get through these tagged PR's and solve the jansi issue before issuing an RC1. What are people's thoughts?
