Project proposal: Penrose

[Alan Bateman]

On 07/01/2012 22:08, Tim Ellison wrote:
> :
> I agree Alan, but as you say, there is no OSGi implementation at
> OpenJDK we can use to conduct the whole story here; so the proposal is
> to prototype the Jigsaw changes required, and provide a forum for
> collaboration with the broader community including OSGi projects.
>
> I believe we can attract OSGi implementers to participate and do 'the
> other side' of the prototyping elsewhere - but we need to have the
> Jigsaw side too and that is the only part I can ask OpenJDK members to
> approve.
>
> If you have some other ideas about how to achieve the requirement it
> would be good to hear them.
>
> Regards,
> Tim
The proposed project is clearly important and welcome. As OpenJDK group 
lead for the core-libs group, I support the creation of this project. 
I'm also happy to seek sponsorship from the core-libs group for this 
project.

-Alan