Draft proposal: JEP 2.0

[Jon Masamitsu]

On 4/16/2014 1:58 AM, Martijn Verburg wrote:
> Hi Jon,
>
> On 15 April 2014 22:09, Jon Masamitsu <jon.masamitsu at oracle.com 
> <mailto:jon.masamitsu at oracle.com>> wrote:
>
>         The JEP owner is expected to update the Alert Status on a
>         weekly basis once a JEP is Funded and active development work
>         is under way. If the Alert Status is Yellow or Red then the
>         owner must use the Alert Reason field to explain what is
>         required to return the Status to Green. This way everyone
>         working on the release or otherwise interested in the JEP can
>         easily understand its current state.
>
>     This sounds a lot like the status I have to report to my managers.
>     Except that
>     I talk to my manager about how things are going.   This I have to
>     compose and
>     publish.  Sorry but it's something that I'll easily forget to do.
>
>         Any Committer to a Project may propose to target a Feature JEP
>         to a release of that Project after documenting a realistic
>         delivery plan and adequate funding. The proposer should be the
>         JEP's owner, or arrange to become the owner.
>
>
>     If I provided a "realistic delivery plan" how are you (people in
>     the OpenJDK community, this is
>     a question  for you) going to use it?  Is it that much more
>     valuable than a delivery in a milestone
>     date (as was done in JDK8)?
>
>
> At the very least it will certainly help the Adoption Group in that we 
> can plan for hackdays where day to day developers can test new JEPs 
> early and provide feedback on API design, implementation, bugs etc 
> (much like we did for Date & Time and Lambdas).

Granted that would be good use but would it be just as good to have an 
early access
milestone.    A delivery plan sounds like more than most would want to 
look at
and feels like a duplicate of what I have to produce for my 
management.    And I
don't want to cut-and-paste-and-sanitize an internal document to publish as
delivery plan.

Jon
>
> Cheers,
> Martijn
>
>     Jon
>
>
>
>     Subject:
>     Draft proposal: JEP 2.0
>     From:
>     mark.reinhold at oracle.com <mailto:mark.reinhold at oracle.com>
>     Date:
>     4/8/14 1:54 PM
>
>     To:
>     discuss at openjdk.java.net <mailto:discuss at openjdk.java.net>
>
>
>     The JEP Process [1] has served us well as a way to document proposed
>     enhancements to the JDK.  The process does not, however, say how we
>     decide to target a JEP to a particular JDK Release Project, nor does
>     it help track the work subsequently done on a JEP.  We also don't have
>     a documented process by which we can create and maintain the overall
>     schedule of a Release Project.
>
>     To fill these gaps I've drafted an extension of the JEP Process which
>     covers the planning of Release Projects, the tracking of the work done
>     for their Feature JEPs, and the tracking of work done for other kinds
>     of JEPs that are not associated with specific releases.  The current
>     draft of the proposal is here:
>
>     http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mr/jep/jep-2.0.html
>     <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/%7Emr/jep/jep-2.0.html>
>
>     The proposal suggests, among other things, that we create a new "JEP"
>     issue type in the JBS JIRA system so that it's easy to see the status
>     of a particular JEP as well as the overall status of an entire Release
>     Project.
>
>     This draft has been reviewed by a handful of people so far.  My thanks
>     to Mathias Axelsson, Brian Beck, Iris Clark, Joe Darcy, Brian Goetz,
>     Georges Saab, and Dalibor Topic for their feedback.
>
>     If you have comments or suggestions on this draft, please send them in
>     a public reply to this message by Monday, 21 April 2011.  I'd like to
>     put this new process in place shortly thereafter.
>
>     - Mark
>
>
>     [1]http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/
>
>
>