CFV: New Project Kulla

[Thomas Wuerthinger]

I think assuming a correlation between number of committers and project size is reasonable.

What is the planned relationship of this project with this existing open source Java REPL http://www.javarepl.com/console.html?

Thanks, thomas

On 26 Aug 2014, at 23:49, Brian Goetz <brian.goetz at oracle.com> wrote:

>> Yes, and although discussion before proposal is not mandatory, a project of
>> this scale (and importance) should have been discussed a bit in advance I
>> think.
> 
> I think you are vastly overestimating the scale.
> 
>> The main problem here is that the JEP bug doesn't really contain much
>> details, from the look of it seems like a trivial walk in the park, but
>> then the list of high profile initial contributors is massive.
> 
> You are reading way more into this than there is.  These are simply the members of the compiler group who are Committers to jdk; this is done because any of these people *might* want to contribute.
> 
> I think it is on this incorrect inference (many committers -> huge project) that your concerns in the first paragraph rest?
>