The Scala Platform

Why become a module?

The focus of the Scala Platform process is on growing communities around the Platform modules. For that, it enforces commonly-approved open-source rules that optimize the experience of contributors and maintainers, and provides infrastructure that makes easier developers' life.

  1. High-quality build machines that ensure a fast and responsive development cycle.

  2. Organizational help.

    • Scala Center Code of Conduct;
    • Process to elect maintainers, committers and evolve the modules;
    • Policies on ticket management, PR & core reviews policies;

In the future, when the Scala Platform consists of an initial set of libraries and maintainers, this set may be extended to:

  • Scala documentation website (public scaladoc);
  • Good-looking website under an official Scala namespace;
  • Template and infrastructure to write and update the docs; and
  • Integration with online Scala REPL-like tools to provide reproducible code snippets.

  1. Release of modules.

    • Maintainers of module have access to servers and CI.
    • Automation for nightly builds, milestones, release candidates and stable releases.
    • Modules maintainers that want to release changes on every merge are encouraged to do so, and our infrastructure accommodates this use case.
    • The automatic release process checks compatibility of releases according to our stability guarantees.

Any question so far? check the FAQ.

The above services focus on improving the development experience, removing the overhead of getting the contribution rules and the infrastructure right.