CFV: New Project: Tiered Attribution

[Kumar Srinivasan]

Vote: yes


On 12/18/2014 10:22 AM, Maurizio Cimadamore wrote:
> I hereby propose [1] the creation of Project Tiered Attribution with 
> Vicente-Arturo Romero-Zaldivar as the Lead and the Compiler Group as 
> the sponsoring group.
>
> As type-checking got more and more complex with Java SE 8, the goal of 
> the Tiered Attribtion project is to investigate an alternate 
> architecture for the javac type-checking subsystem which would be free 
> from so called speculative attribution (and resulting performance 
> issues).  For more details see the JEP [2].
>
> The initial Committers will be:
>
> * Vicente-Arturo Romero-Zaldivar
> * Jonathan Gibbons
> * Joel Borggrén-Franck
> * Maurizio Cimadamore
> * Jan Lahoda
>
> The project will host the following mailing list for developers:
>
> * tiered-attribution-dev
>
> Votes are due by Jan 2nd, 2015, 10AM PDT.
>
> Only current OpenJDK Members [3] are eligible to vote on this
> motion.  Votes must be cast in the open on the discuss list.
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> For Lazy Consensus voting instructions, see [4].
>
> Maurizio Cimadamore
>
> [1] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/#new-project
> [2] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/215
> [3] http://openjdk.java.net/census#members
> [4] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/#new-project-vote