017-lsp-stp-wg-support.md

date	accepted	updates	status
March 2018	true	Working groups are dormant Engineering work remains active The Center lead the efforts of the creation of BSP and also the implementation of this in both sbt and Bloop.	completed

Scala Center Support for LSP and STP Working Groups

Proposer

Proposed by Stu Hood, Eugene Burmako - Twitter - March 2018.

Abstract

The ecosystem for Scala's tooling (in particular, IDE integration and build tooling) has been beset for many years by a lack of coherence and coordination between different tooling projects.

The newly-created LSP Working Group (LSP-WG) and Scala Tooling Protocols Working Group (STP-WG) offer a unique opportunity to unite developers and users of tooling for Scala around common solutions which will help to define and stimulate an exciting new tooling ecosystem for Scala.

Proposal

The Scala Center should devote developer time and resources to supporting the work of the LSP-WG and STP-WG in kickstarting Scala's tooling ecosystem, through contributions which ensure a dependable level of quality of documentation, test coverage and reliability of key projects identified by or arising from the working groups.

Costs

There should be no direct costs associated with this proposal.

Timescales

The required input should be 5 developer-days per week, split between the two working groups, and dependent on developer availability, for one year.