Hi James, You haven't responded to my requests on the PR for this change. I'm happy to enhance this, but this is a milestone. We are effectively stopping development until this is done, which will only delay 8.x release further. Why not block 8.0 instead of the milestone?
On 2026/07/21 13:29:06 James Fredley wrote: > I am a -1 until we figure out a path for end users that does not require them > waiting on plugins to be re-released to use plugin commands in Grails 8. > Grails 7 is EOL and users have to move to Grails 8 basically upon release, > let's not break their ability to use Plugin Commands from the existing > already published Grails 7 plugins, if we do not have to. > > https://github.com/apache/grails-core/pull/15948 was merged before a path was > identified and we only addressed 1 of 4 paths that provide commands. > > https://github.com/apache/grails-core/pull/16011 - provides a path, we can > debate that path, but I am firm that it should be the default for the reason > in the first paragraph. Let's not hurt the framework. > > James > > On 2026/07/21 09:35:43 Mattias Reichel wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > I am happy to start the VOTE thread to release Apache Grails 8.0.0-M4! > > > > Release notes for the release are here: > > https://github.com/apache/grails-core/releases/tag/v8.0.0-M4 > > > > The tag for this release is: > > https://github.com/apache/grails-core/releases/tag/v8.0.0-M4 > > > > Tag commit id: cb35496301c5423a557034394ce814dc1e1a36fa > > > > The artifacts to be voted on are located as follows (r86111): > > Source release: > > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/grails/core/8.0.0-M4/sources > > Binary distributions: > > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/grails/core/8.0.0-M4/distribution > > > > Release artifacts are signed with a key from the following file: > > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/grails/KEYS > > > > Please vote on releasing this package as: Apache Grails 8.0.0-M4. > > > > Reminder on ASF release approval requirements for PMC members: > > https://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy.html#release-approval > > > > Hints on validating checksums/signatures (but replace md5sum with > > sha512sum): > > https://www.apache.org/info/verification.html > > > > Details of our release process are documented at: > > https://github.com/apache/grails-core/blob/HEAD/RELEASE.md > > > > As a reminder, most of our tools support an env `GRAILS_REPO_URL` so > > that the tools can work with staged artefacts. Set it to the staging > > repo like this: `export > > GRAILS_REPO_URL=https://repository.apache.org/content/groups/staging` > > > > The vote is open for a minimum of 72 hours and passes if a majority of at > > least > > three +1 PMC votes are cast. > > > > [ ] +1 Release Apache Grails 8.0.0-M4 > > [ ] 0 I don't have a strong opinion about this, but I assume it's ok > > [ ] -1 Do not release Apache Grails 8.0.0-M4 because... > > > > Here is my vote: > > +1 (binding) > > >
