Re: GSoC 2024 - Java 21 Language Features Support

[mohamed mahfouz]

Monday, 1 July report: 

Merged PRs: 
- https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/pull/15117
- https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/pull/15171
- https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/pull/15154
- https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/pull/15153
Open PRs:
- https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/pull/15175
- https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/pull/15173
- https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/pull/15168
- https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/pull/15166
- https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/pull/15176

Proposed mid-term eval goal
-  All current issues/PRs in "In Progress" state will be in "Done" state
- Nothing in "Needs Triage" state
 - reduced Issues in "Todo" state to less than 50

[mohamed mahfouz]

Thursday, 4 July report
Open PRs:
- https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/pull/15195
- https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/pull/15187
Merged PRs: 
- https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/pull/15192
- https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/pull/15189

What I will be doing till  mid-term evaluation  :
- implement at least one more new check
- finish all "high demand" issues in the "mid-term TODO" status

[mohamed mahfouz]

Monday, 8 July report
Open PRs:

1. New check WhenShouldbeUsed: https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/pull/15199
2. New treeWalker property to skip files on java parsing exception: https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/pull/15204
3. Remove support for string template syntax: https://github.com/checkstyle/checkstyle/pull/15212