CFV: Dissolve The JDK 7 and JDK 8 Projects

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

Vote: yes

/Magnus

On 2025-01-17 23:09, tim.bell at oracle.com wrote:
> I propose that the Build Group withdraw Sponsorship of the long-inactive
> JDK 7 [0] and JDK 8 [1] Projects.
>
> JDK 7 was delivered in July 2011 and the jdk7-dev mailing list [2] hasn't
> been active since August 2013.  The JDK 7 Updates Project, with a goal of
> delivering updates to JDK 7, was itself dissolved March 2023.
>
> JDK 8 was delivered in March 2014 and the jdk8-dev mailing list [3] 
> hasn't
> been active since September 2017.  JDK 8 update releases are regularly
> delivered by the JDK 8 Update Project [4] with communication on the
> associated jdk8u-dev mailing list [5].
>
> The JDK 7 and JDK 8 Projects have only one Sponsoring Group; hence they
> will be dissolved by virtue of losing all of their Sponsoring Groups 
> [6] if
> this measure is approved.
>
> Votes are due by 23:59 UTC on Monday, 3 February 2025
>
> Only current Build Group Members [7] are eligible to vote on this motion.
> Votes must be cast in the open by replying to this mailing list.
>
> For Lazy Consensus voting instructions, see [8].
>
> Tim Bell
> Build group Lead
>
> [0]: https://openjdk.org/projects/jdk7/
> [1]: https://openjdk.org/projects/jdk8/
> [2]: https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/jdk7-dev/
> [3]: https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/jdk8-dev/
> [4]: https://openjdk.org/projects/jdk8u/
> [5]: https://mail.openjdk.org/mailman/listinfo/jdk8u-dev
> [6]: https://openjdk.org/bylaws#sponsor
> [7]: https://openjdk.org/census#build
> [8]: https://openjdk.org/bylaws#lazy-consensus
>