Project Proposal JDK 6

[Joseph D. Darcy]

Hello Andrew and Dalibor.

Andrew John Hughes wrote:
> 
> 
> On 04/01/2008, *Dalibor Topic* <dalibor.topic at googlemail.com 
> <mailto:dalibor.topic at googlemail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Joe,
> 
>     your proposal seems to have gone lost in the holiday cheer, and I
>     haven't seen
>     any discussion of it on the lists.
> 
>     I think that it's an obvious next step for OpenJDK and would love to
>     see
>     it happen.
> 
>     Do you have a specific group in mind that you'd like to ask to sponsor
>     the project?
>     The build group, also sponsoring the JDK 7 project, would seem to be the
>     right place
>     to go to.
> 
>     cheers,
>     dalibor topic
> 
> 
> Hi Joe, Dalibor,
> 
> I had a similar interest in this project.  For one, as I also commented 
> on your blog about this, it seems an ideal opportunity for community 
> involvement with a clear target and fairly low-hanging fruit.  I'm 
> assuming that making JDK7 a JDK6 implementation is largely a matter of 
> getting it to pass the JDK6 TCK and not include any superfluous 
> packages/methods/etc. from JDK7.  Such cleanup work (rather than fresh 
> development work), obviously with appropriate guidance, would seem to be 
> ideal introductory stuff for a FOSS project, as has been shown by the 
> janitorial tasks on other projects such as Linux and WINE (the latter 
> being my own stepping stone into FOSS development many years ago).  
> However, from your blog, I got the impression that this was instead just 
> something that again would appear from Sun as a complete product.  What 
> are your thoughts on this?
> 
> Cheers,

For the last few weeks I've been on vacation taking in some of that 
holiday cheer myself and will be officially back to work on Monday :-) 
As discussed in previous email from Kelly, the Mercurial procedures for 
JDK repositories aren't fully worked out yet so in the meantime we've 
been working internally on addressing the "antibugs" of JDK 7 changes 
inappropriate for a Java SE 6 implementation back in teamware workspaces 
inside Sun.  That effort is already fairly far along, but we'll 
certainly welcome external community involvement in working on remaining 
aspects of the project.

More later in 2008, regards,

-Joe