CFV: New Project: JDK 9

[Bradford Wetmore]

Vote: yes

Brad


On 10/30/2013 3:30 PM, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:
> I hereby propose the creation of the JDK 9 Project, with me as the Lead
> and the Governing Board as the sponsoring Group.
>
> The goal of this Project will be to produce an open-source reference
> implementation of the Java SE 9 Platform, which will be specified in a
> corresponding JSR, yet to be submitted, in the Java Community Process.
>
> The Project's repositories will initially be open for bug fixes and
> small enhancements only.  Features for the release will be proposed
> and tracked via the existing JEP Process [1].
>
> Anyone who holds the Author, Committer, or Reviewer role in the JDK 8
> Project [2] and has contributed at least one changeset to JDK 8 will
> be granted the same role in the JDK 9 Project.
>
> Votes are due by 23:59 UTC on Wednesday, 13 November [3].
>
> Only current OpenJDK Members [4] are eligible to vote on this motion.
> Votes must be cast in the open on the discuss list.  Replying to this
> message is sufficient if your mail program honors the Reply-To header.
>
> For Lazy Consensus voting instructions, see [5].
>
> - Mark
>
>
> [1] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps
> [2] http://openjdk.java.net/census#jdk8
> [3] http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=OpenJDK+JDK+9+CFV&iso=20131113T2359
> [4] http://openjdk.java.net/census#members
> [5] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/#new-project-vote
>