Project Proposal: Closures for Java

[Andrew John Hughes]

On 10/04/2008, Ray Gans <Ray.Gans at sun.com> wrote:
> We would like to see the Innovators' Challenge projects reside in OpenJDK if
> possible. Rather than just blindly create them, however, we thought it best
> to follow the OpenJDK project creation process. Each of the selected
> proposals will be assigned a contact person in Sun engineering who will
> propose the project within a representative OpenJDK group and get it
> approved quickly. Neal, being an OpenJDK member, is able to propose his own
> project himself.
>
> So yes, a bit strange, but we didn't see any need to ignore the formal
> process.  :-)
>
> -Ray
>
>
> On Apr 10, 2008, at 9:56 AM, Neal Gafter wrote:
> Hey... what can I say?
>
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 8:30 AM, Clemens Eisserer <linuxhippy at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > This is just .... somehow strange
> >
> > 2008/4/10, Neal Gafter <neal at gafter.com>:
> > > Vote: Yes
> >
>
>
>

Oh, I agree with this and think it's a good thing.  It would be great
to have an OpenJDK project.  It's just when I saw Neal's mail I
immediately thought two things:

1. Aaah I didn't know about this requirement (I still think that line
says 'work within the rules' not that you must create a project...)
2. How do the rest of us do this?

This has cleared that up and I look forward to seeing lots of new projects!
-- 
Andrew :-)

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