New Project approved: JDK 6

[Joseph D. Darcy]

Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> On 25/01/2008, Joseph D. Darcy <Joe.Darcy at sun.com> wrote:
>> Dalibor Topic wrote:
>>> Andrew Haley wrote:
>>>> Mark Reinhold wrote:
>>>>> Per the interim governance guidelines for Projects [1] I'm pleased to
>>>>> announce the creation of the JDK 6 Project [2,3] following the Build
>>>>> Group's decision [4] to sponsor it.
>>>> How very splendid!  Good news, indeed.
>>> Yep, looking forward to see it developed out in the open.
>>>
>>> Joe, could you add a URL for the mercurial repository on the project's
>>> web page?
>> Hi Dalibor.
>>
>> I've sent out an email to the OpenJDK 6 dev list [1].  In summary, we
>> won't have Mercurial repositories immediately; I'm working on the
>> remaining Sun-internal processes to get the code out.  I'll add a link
>> to the source bundles and Mercurial repositories once they are available.
>>
>> -Joe
>>
>> [1] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk6-dev/2008-January/000000.html
>>
> 
> I presume having this pass the JDK 6 TCK will require the Javascript
> hole (and any other API facing ones) to be filled.

Actually the JCK tests only cover the javax.script API itself and not 
any specific language, including javascript, so while this may be 
considered a functionality hole, it isn't a conformance one.

-Joe