[GROOVY-8503] Fund Groovy Development

• Type: Planned Work
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Implemented
• Labels: Bounty Fund Funding PayPal Payment Pledge
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: mgroovy
• Created: 10/Mar/18 17:08
• Updated: 25/May/19 09:01
• Resolved: 25/May/19 09:01

Description

Join the HMS Groovy Bounty, Pledge Allegiance and Pay your Groovy Pals !

This is an experimental umbrella task to collect pledges/bounties that people commit to paying to a (to be created) Groovy funding / developer 's Paypal address on completion of a specific Groovy feature or fix.
If you would like to pledge for a task, just add the task name and the amount as a comment below, and I will update the totals in each currency.

Current feature bounties:

Name	Issue	Amount pledged	Description
Make Groovy Java 9 compatible		100 EUR	General ongoing development efforts to make Groovy compatible with Java 9 features
var & final RHS type support		100 EUR	Support final x = RHS -> final typeof(RHS) var typeof(RHS) x = RHS for the most common practical cases
Non-map based named parameters	GROOVY-8451	300 EUR	Support type safe, flexible named parameters for ctors and methods, in addition to the existing, restricted map-based named parameters
Global constructor call support without new keyword	GROOVY-8490	200 EUR	Extend @Newify so that calling class ctors can be easily enabled for a whole project
block type closures	(GROOVY-6880,GROOVY-8301)	200 EUR	Support a mechanism to inline "closures" that actually semantically represent block constructs, so that return/break/continue work as for a regular code block, and the unnecessary performance hit in these cases can be avoided