Mailing lists for specification of enhanced metadata in Java SE 8

[Alex Buckley]

After further discussion, it seems like two lists for the design and 
specification of enhanced metadata is overkill.

I will ask the OpenJDK infra team to create _one_ list, 
enhanced-metadata-spec-discuss, where anyone may contribute to, or 
simply follow, the specification work for JEPs 118 and 120. 
Contributions will be licensed under comment-and-evaluation terms, and 
material contributions require the OCA to be signed. Neither 
implementation nor user experience with the implementation will be 
discussed on enhanced-metadata-spec-discuss, but rather on compiler-dev.

Alex

On 7/20/2012 12:09 PM, Alex Buckley wrote:
> Since no member of the Compiler Group is objecting to my invitation, I
> will go ahead and ask the OpenJDK infra team to create the lists.
>
> The -experts list will initially be populated by myself, Joe Darcy, and
> Joel Borggrén-Franck, all from Oracle's Java LangTools team. I will
> shortly invite other experts who I know to be interested in repeating
> annotations (mainly from the Java EE world).
>
> Alex
>
> On 7/18/2012 12:31 PM, Alex Buckley wrote:
>> Oracle has previously submitted JEPs for features which enhance the
>> metadata declared in, and available to, Java programs:
>>
>> - Access to Parameter Names at Runtime (JEP 118)
>> http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/118
>>
>> - Repeating Annotations (JEP 120)
>> http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/120
>>
>> These features change the Java language, JVM, and java.* API as part of
>> the Java SE 8 Platform Umbrella JSR (337) led by Oracle.
>>
>> Work on specifications for Java SE JSRs may now take place in the
>> OpenJDK Community, per the OpenJDK Terms of Use [1].
>>
>> I would therefore like to invite the Compiler Group to sponsor mailing
>> lists for discussion of the design and specification of these features:
>>
>> 1) enhanced-metadata-spec-experts, for discussion by invited experts.
>>
>> 2) enhanced-metadata-spec-observers, for observation and discussion of
>> the -experts traffic by interested parties.
>>
>> Contributions to both lists will be licensed under
>> comment-and-evaluation terms. Anyone making material contributions to
>> either list must sign the OCA. Please see the OpenJDK Terms of Use FAQ
>> [2] for more information.
>>
>> Feature implementation will be discussed on compiler-dev and hosted in
>> the jdk8/tl forest.
>>
>> Alex
>>
>> [1] http://openjdk.java.net/legal/tou/
>> [2] http://openjdk.java.net/legal/tou/faq