Hi folks, Thanks to everyone for helping get out the last round of releases.
In Jira, I renamed the next Groovy 6 release to be 6.0.0-beta-1. Depending on any feedback we get, we can always rename back to alpha-3, or if we decide that we are in fact feature complete, we could push for RC-1 instead. There are a few open PRs and a few open GEPs we should discuss as we lock those in for Groovy 6/7 versions. I'll send those as separate emails over the coming week. The optimistic plan would be a beta-1 in a few weeks, then RC-1 a few weeks after that, and then 6 GA a few weeks after that. But obviously, more versions and/or more time between versions if we need it. We have also been in discussions with JetBrains about working with them to improve the Groovy plugin for IDEA. I think that is something we should try to do next once 6 looks locked down (which it is or is close). I also have draft reference implementations for groovy-ginq-sql (SQL and jOOQ extensions for groovy-ginq) and for switch pattern matching, but they are things I think we should target for Groovy 7. That is two of the "seeking feedback" emails I hope to write soon but feel free to look at the draft PRs in the meantime if you want. Cheers, Paul.
