Minor correction to the StringGroovyMethods line, that is stripIndent not eachMatch.
On Fri, May 15, 2026 at 9:25 AM Paul King <[email protected]> wrote: > > I asked AI for a summary of the oldest "Incubating" features. The two > oldest involved Realm and MetaClassConstant. They were the features > that motivated Jochen to create @Incubating in the first place! I > don't think we progressed that work but maybe with AI we can consider > it now. But that would be a Groovy 7 thing. > > The next 8 rows are shown below: > > 1. 2017-03-28 - Macro methods: @Macro, MacroBuilder, MacroContext, > MacroClass - Groovy 2.5.0 (@since 2.5.0) > 2. 2018-02-16 - groovy.transform.options.PropertyHandler: pluggable > handlers for @Immutable / property AST transforms (GROOVY-8477) - > Groovy 2.5.0 (@since 2.5.0) > 3. 2020-01-19 - JavaShell: in-memory Java compiler used by the Groovy > Console's Java source mode - Groovy 3.0.x > 4. 2020-01-23 - StringGroovyMethods.eachMatch: new @Incubating > overload - Groovy 3.0.x > 5. 2020-08-06 - groovy-contracts: @Requires, @Ensures, @Invariant - Groovy > 4.0.0 > 6. 2020-08-19 - groovy-typecheckers: RegexChecker (later joined by > NullChecker, FormatStringChecker, PurityChecker, ModifiesChecker) - > Groovy 4.0.0 > 7. 2020-11-06 - GINQ: GinqGroovyMethods - Groovy 4.0.0 (@since 4.0.0) > 8. 2021-05-04 - groovy-toml: TomlBuilder, TomlSlurper, > TomlRuntimeException - Groovy 4.0.0 (@since 4.0.0) > > I am going to pick off some of those and see if we can stabilise. If > anyone wants to help, please shout! > > I think a good set of criteria for removing incubating status would > be: seems to be used, design seems stable, not a source of many bug > issues in Jira, and doesn't seem to suffer from being under-specified. > I am trying to create GEPs for major things we think need clearer > specs, but that can proceed in parallel as we have time. > > There is no rush to remove the incubating status. No users have > reported holding back from using particular features because they are > still incubating. However, since we are adding more new features in 6, > the length of "still incubating" list is growing longer, so it would > be nice to prune off a few. > > Cheers, Paul.
