Grunt 0.5 "Update Release"

[vladikoff]

My proposal here is to make Grunt 0.5 an "Update Release". Meaning this release will mostly consist of updates and fixes that can't be landed with a minor bump. Efforts such as node-task will probably take longer than expected and in my opinion that should be pushed to 0.6. The plugin ecosystem should be able to update to this release with minimal effort.

Updated 11/03/2014

Include in 0.5 (draft list):

• Update nopt to 2.x.x #908 - Update nopt to 2.x.x
• Bump other dependencies
• Remove the words 'without errors.' after successfully running tasks #986 - Remove the words 'without errors.'
• Grunt LiveScript & CoffeeScript dependency strategy #911 - Add .coffee, .ls loading
• Add https://github.com/cowboy/node-globule
• Run specific task(s) with force option #810 Add specific force
• Remove external dependencies in grunt.util....
• Removed --stack option to always print stack traces for errors #864 Always print stack traces
• Fixing Issue #615 (grunt.file.copy preserves permissions) #732 - grunt.file.copy preserves permissions
• expand mode clobbers destination files with same name / different extensions #979 - Expand mode clobbers
• Improve usability of child process's stream interface for util.spawn #699 - Improve Spawn, add a callback
• Anything that is blocking grunt-contrib-*
• Warning on grunt.util.use
• Warning on Node 0.8
• ....

0.next:

• Drop Node.JS 0.8 support
• Add bin into local grunt #943 Ship grunt-cli with core grunt
• Organize Gruntfiles by Packages / Features #1048 - Organize Gruntfile by Feature
• loadTasks as they are needed to speed up Grunt load time #975 loadTasks as they are needed
• node-task
• new logging with https://github.com/cowboy/node-prolog
• ...

Thoughts? @cowboy @tkellen @shama and everyone else...

[shama]

👍 LGTM

[tkellen]

I agree 100% with this proposal. I'm happy to help to whatever extent necessary @cowboy.

[vladikoff]

1. Deleted irrelevant comments. Forwarded to Add bin into local grunt #943. Sorry about that.
2. "Drop Node.JS 0.8 support" thoughts on that? We have plugins that are already shipping >=0.10 (See gruntjs/grunt-contrib-imagemin@1291d28#commitcomment-5156396). Also I can't find any info regarding 0.12 Stable release date.

[cowboy]

This approach to the 0.5 release seems pretty solid. Over the next few weeks I'll be looking at Grunt to see what does and doesn't make sense in the proposed list.

We should update the wiki to change the mention of 0.5 to something else, like 0.future or something.

[vladikoff]

We had a talk on IRC and have decided not to drop 0.8 in 0.5 and push that to 0.6 or "0.next"

[sindresorhus]

👍 I like it.

[jzaefferer]

@vladikoff can you make node-task in your list a link to the spec? https://github.com/node-task/spec/wiki

[bnjmnt4n]

What’s the current status on this update? Seems to be that Grunt, on both npm and this repository, hasn’t been updated for a long time.

[jzaefferer]

Is there a more recent roadmap or release schedule somewhere?

[vladikoff]

@jzaefferer sorry Jörn, no schedule yet. I closed this because it seems like this proposal is not going to work out.

[stevenvachon]

How many years have we been hearing about v0.5 now?

[jlbruno]

@cowboy any word about the future of grunt?

[timomayer]

+1 for a word on the future of grunt. for me it seems grunt is dead :/

[monolithed]

+1. i'd like to hear anything about the working process as well.