CFV: New Project: ThreeTen

[Roger Riggs]

The intention is to use the project name "ThreeTen".

The extra spec in the subject line is unintentional.

Roger


On 8/22/2012 2:19 PM, Alex Buckley wrote:
> Iris,
>
> Please clarify that the name of the proposed OpenJDK project is "Three 
> Ten", not "ThreeTen". "ThreeTen" is the SourceForge project but you 
> used it in the body where "Three Ten" was needed.
>
> Essentially, the ThreeTen project on SourceForge is going to 
> contribute materials to the Three Ten project on OpenJDK.
>
> Now that nomenclature is all cleared up (!), my main question: what 
> mailing lists are planned for the Three Ten project? If the JSR 310 
> specification is to be "contributed" to OpenJDK, then it will 
> presumably need a comment-and-evaluation-licensed mailing list 
> separate from a GPL'd list for RI discussion.
>
> Alex
>
> On Wednesday, August 22, 2012 4:55:31 AM, Iris Clark wrote:
>> I hereby propose the creation of the ThreeTen Project with Roger 
>> Riggs as the Lead and Core Libraries as the sponsoring Group.
>>
>> As discussed earlier [1], the goal of the ThreeTen Project is to 
>> integrate the JSR 310 Date and Time API [2] Reference Implementation 
>> (RI) into JDK 8 [3].  Currently, JSR 310 is hosted on SourceForge [4] 
>> and the source code is hosted at Github [5].  The ThreeTen Project 
>> will contribute the JSR 310 RI, specification, and tests to OpenJDK.  
>> This Project depends on other OpenJDK Projects such as Project Lambda 
>> and other related internationalization updates.
>>
>> The JSR 310 public discussion list [6] will continue to be hosted on 
>> SourceForge.  The development of the specification, RI, and tests 
>> will continue on Github and be periodically merged into the ThreeTen 
>> Project.
>>
>> The proposed Project Lead is Roger Riggs, a co-spec lead of JSR 310 
>> with Stephen Colebourne and Michael Nascimento Santos.  Roger has 
>> been working in the Core Libraries Group to facilitate the 
>> integration of the JSR 310 RI into JDK 8.
>>
>> The initial committers will be: Stephen Colebourne, Sherman Shen, 
>> Roger Riggs, James Gough, and Richard Warburton.
>>
>> Votes are due by 7:00pm UTC on Wednesday, 5 September [7].
>>
>> Only current OpenJDK Members [8] are eligible to vote on this 
>> motion.  Votes must be cast in the open by replying to this mailing 
>> list.
>>
>> For Lazy Consensus voting instructions, see [9].
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Iris Clark
>>
>> [1] 
>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2012-August/002716.html
>> [2] http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=310
>> [3] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk8/
>> [4] http://threeten.sourceforge.net
>> [5] https://github.com/ThreeTen/threeten
>> [6] https://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=386712
>> [7] 
>> http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=ThreeTen+Project+Votes&iso=20120905T12&p1=283
>> [8] http://openjdk.java.net/census#members
>> [9] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/#new-project-vote

-- 
Thanks, Roger

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