CFV: New Project: Java Memory Model Update

[Joseph Darcy]

Vote:yes

-JOe

On 1/24/2014 8:18 AM, John Coomes wrote:
> We hereby propose the creation of the Java Memory Model Update Project
> with Doug Lea as the Lead and Hotspot as the sponsoring Group.  The
> corresponding submitted JEP 188 [1] contains more technical details.
> This is slightly unusual as a Project in that it will not produce
> software, so there is no suggested initial list of Authors. The
> sponsoring Group is also somewhat arbitrary, but Hotspot seems most
> directly impacted.  The main participants include academics and
> researchers expert in the formal specification of shared-memory
> concurrency, along with hardware and software engineers. The tentative
> participants are already making progress on identifying problems and
> solutions in ad-hoc discussions, so would be grateful to have an
> approved home base and mailing list to continue on.
>
> Doug Lea is an OpenJDK Governing Board member, is the author of
> "Concurrent Programming in Java: Design Principles and Patterns" and
> co-author of "Java Concurrency in Practice", has also authored a
> number of classes in the java.util and java.util.concurrent packages,
> and served as the the spec lead for JSR166 Concurrency Utilities,
> among many other contributions to the JDK.
>
> Votes are due by 8:00 PM Mon, February 3, 2014 UTC (12:00 noon PST
> Mon, February 3, 2014). [2]
>
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> motion.  Votes must be cast in the open on the discuss list.
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>
> John Coomes and Doug Lea
>
> [1] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/188
> [2] http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=CFV%3A+New+Project%3A+Java+Memory+Model+Update&iso=20140203T20
> [3] http://openjdk.java.net/census#members
> [4] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/#new-project-vote