Splitting Grails 7 in subprojects (Divide Et Impera)

[gsartori]

It may be worth splitting Grails 7 release in subprojects each one of them with its own dedicated team.
Some of the subprojects must be sequential, some others may be run in parallel.

My ignorant guess:

SEQUENTIAL
x.7.1 - Porting Grails 6.2.0 to Groovy 4 + Java 17
x.7.2 - Removing Micronaut (can it become a plugin?)
x.7.3 - Refactoring the project architecture/structure + including the "core" plugins + adopt Gradle 8
x.7.4 - Porting to Spring Boot 3.3

PARALLEL
x.7.5 - Make each of the core plugins work
x.7.6 - Port GORM to "GroovyORM" with Hibernate 5.6 Jakarta release
x.7.7 - Make Spring Security Core Plugin work

I guess we then need a longer than usual testing/fixing phase.

[matrei]

There is a Github Project for managing the different tasks here: https://github.com/orgs/grails/projects/3

[sdelamo]

@gsartori I don't think we have several dedicated teams. Right now is just @matrei is pushing the development forward.