March 2026 monthly summary for com-lihaoyi/mill: Delivered dedicated documentation for the mill-explicit-dependencies plugin, enabling users to identify unused and undeclared dependencies and improving onboarding and maintenance. This work enhances plugin discoverability and reduces dependency-related surprises for Mill users. No major bugs fixed this month; emphasis was on documentation, knowledge transfer, and ecosystem alignment. Impact: higher adoption potential, improved build stability, and clearer guidance for dependency management. Technologies demonstrated: technical writing, cross-repo collaboration, plugin documentation, and documentation tooling.

June 2025 monthly summary for slick/slick: Focused on delivering codegen and release/process improvements to enhance schema compatibility, release velocity, and build hygiene. Key changes include Generated Columns Support in Code Generation, Relaxed Versioning Policy for Major Releases, and Build Configuration Cleanup by removing the Sonatype snapshots resolver. These improvements reduce insert-time surprises with generated columns, enable faster releases even when binary compatibility checks fail, and simplify the CI/build configuration.