Attendees:
Action Items
@tomerd to add Sebastian to meeting
Discussions
Swiftly
- Discuss future strategy with Mishal and @patrick. @tomerd @adam-fowler to contact Mishal to arrange
- Adam to move thread to Swift forums for next steps
- Question around responsibilities of maintenance
- Who has spare capacity
- Tooling workgroup would be the ideal place, but not set up yet
- Patrick is still working on it
- Will check with Patrick to try and see about adding new maintainers
- @tomerd, @adam-fowler, @patrick and Mishal to discuss at next link up
Sven Joining
- Valuable member with lots of usage experience
- General consensus was that he would bring good experience for marketing, community out reach
- Sven raised issue of diversity and taking up another spot
- Given me have another slot, we can reach out to the community if anyone is interested to join
- @tomerd will publish welcome note for @sebsto and advertise open slot for people
- @tomerd to reach out and ask Sven
Survey Data
- Konrad created thread
- Going to circulate internally for input
- Everyone to have a read and create summary sentences
AL2023 Support
- @sebsto was working on it
- Major blocker is default linker is not supported
- Sebastian and Tom to try and push through as time allows
Other Agenda Items
- Structured Concurrency - @FranzBusch actively working on guide - carry over
- @FranzBusch to create thread for core team follow ups - done
- @Joannis_Orlandos to pitch MongoKitten - created
- SourceKit-LSP meeting - done today.
- Been a lot of work recently on SourceKit-LSP
- Discussions around ensuring releases are synced with Swift
- Commitment to continue working together to ensure issues are covered
- 5.9.1 Backtrace issue -
- 5.9.2 includes a number of fixes
- @0xTim, @graskind, @tomerd Follow up on SQLite separately from SSWG meeting - carry over
- Survey improvement discussions - @ktoso to create thread - carry over
Yearly Goals
- No concrete goals for how to grow the ecosystem
- Should assign owners to help push through
- Memcached library - GSoC project
- Connection Pool library - trialled in PostgresNIO
- Shared middleware - @tachyonics to own middleware goal. gRPC to get implementation
- Distributed Tracing - lacking guide for implementation and work in libraries.
- @ktoso to surface examples
- Better showcases of Swift on server deployments and success stories - TODO
- Better visibility of Swift as a server language - TODO
- Website improvements are good, more to be done. Documentation is a big focus for the SWWG which we need to work on
Goals for 2024
- HTTP Server a clear goal
- Ship new middleware library
- Revisit SSWG guides on swift.org to align with new design
- Big examples of real-world end-to-end use cases and project would be great
- AWS end-to-end example with Lambda is possible
- Success stories should be highlighted
- Performance benchmarks are an important focus as well