Request for Review and Sponsor needed: JDK-8167648: java.io.PrintWriter should have PrintWriter((String|File), Charset) constructors

Paul Sandoz paul.sandoz at oracle.com
Wed Nov 30 23:20:37 UTC 2016


> On 30 Nov 2016, at 13:47, Patrick Reinhart <patrick at reini.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi Roger,
> 
>> Am 30.11.2016 um 20:01 schrieb Roger Riggs <Roger.Riggs at Oracle.com>:
>> 
>> Hi Patrick,
>> 
>> I have reservations about trying to get this into JDK 9.  Because it is a new API,
>> it should have some bake time before feature freeze and it needs further review
>> from the compatibility point of view and resources committed to create new JCK tests.
>> Many folks are fully loaded also trying to hit feature freeze.
> 
> I did not expect that the first iteration is good enough. I took this issue, because it was
> marked for target 9. So I’m open for other views.
> 

We should defer to 10, hopefully the repos will be open soonish. Recommend that you assign the issue to yourself, triage it, and set the fix version to 10.

Paul.


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