Sprint plan: 17-07-2017 "Maintenance and Long Standing Issues Summer"

[ktoso]

Akka Sprint: "Maintenance and Long Standing Issues Summer"

Start: 2017-07-17 End: 2017-08-04

Vacation

The team is operating at vacation-ized capacity ;-)

Known Consulting / Training / Other

• [x] GCE benchmarking takes priority if infrastructure provided (!) - done

Make sure to finish

• [x] Finalising HTTP Quickstart PR akka/akka-http-scala-seed.g8#11 - done
  • and getting a Java version (may be by community) - todo, pinged

Akka HTTP

• [x] Decide on versioning, in details - Johannes writes it up, and we discuss - done
  • [ ] Once we have that, call a version depending on Akka 2.5.x - todo
• [x] HTTP/2 upload flow control [maintenance] - done
  • Play users will be happy about this too
• Play-related tickets / bugfixes
• [x] Remove println debugging in HTTP/2 🙇 - done
• [ ] Johannes: attempt 2 or 3 days to get "auto to stricting" “re running entity”
• [ ] On one of bugfixing days: Idle timeout does not kill connections in pool (https://github.com/akka/akka-http/issues/1248)?
• [x] Start documenting HTTP/2 - very minimal, aimed at early adopters - done https://github.com/akka/akka-http/pull/1297
• [x] Ping community for help with Java HTTP QuickStart - done
• [ ] Consolidate Java / Scala versions of docs - we need community help here, it's a lot, but not very hard 🙇

Akka Streams

• [x] Review and merge PatritionHub https://github.com/akka/akka/pull/23102
  • required before any benchmarking -- done, released
• [x] Review and merge James’s restart stages - Konrad Johan -- done, released
• [ ] Stream Attributes issue [maintenance] [very hard] -- investigated a bit
  • It’s about dispatcher attributes - while you build the graph unexpected things happen
  • Out of ideas, needs a new pair of eyes on it

Alpakka

• [x] Maybe cut a release, we switched FTP impl - look at one of failing tests // @2m @raboof -- done, released

Akka Persistence DynamoDB

• [ ] Review and get mergeable snapshot store for dynamodb https://github.com/akka/akka-persistence-dynamodb -- finishing today

Documentation

• [x] Convert activator-akka-distributed-workers [maintenance] -- done
  • [x] Convert activator to quick-start style
  • [x] We do this one, since people like it, and we want to get away from Activator for good
  • [ ] Contribute this to TechHub -- TODO release it to tech hub

Play / Akka-Http integration

• [ ] We have some tickets
  • Coordinate here intensely

Bugs and failures

• [x] Bugfixing mondays -- done

Blog

• [ ] Dedicate a day to blog about Stream internals, like the research from Banff about how streams behave

• [ ] OPTIONAL If we have time: Blog about using protocol buffers 3? https://github.com/akka/akka/issues/23374#issuecomment-315966767

Other

• [x] release sbt-jmh for sbt 1.0-RC2 -- @ktoso
• [ ] https://github.com/spray/sbt-revolver/pull/74#issuecomment-315955412 - release sbt-revolver for sbt 1.0-RC2++ -- @jrudolph
  • May be blocked by sbt-1.0-RC2 bugs, may need to wait for RC3? Martynas knows workarounds https://github.com/sbt/sbt/issues/3325

Releases

• [x] Akka - on demand, or after sprint
  • Good reasons to release: our fixes this week, Restart stages, PartitionHub etc
• [x] Akka HTTP - on demand, or after sprint
  • explain versioning in detail in annoucement

[ktoso]

Play related issues to take note of:

• [ ] https://github.com/akka/akka-http/issues/1274#issuecomment-314009362 Incorrect request URIs with HTTP/2 #1274

[ktoso]

• [x] we released genjavadoc for 2.12.3

[patriknw]

We extended this sprint with one more week, because we had to complete the GCE benchmarking.

@ktoso please update this ticket with what was completed, and close it.

[ktoso]

Forgot to close, sorry :)