CFV: Project Javadoc.Next

[Jim Graham]

Vote: yes

	...jim

On 7/10/14 6:12 PM, Kumar Srinivasan wrote:
> I hereby propose the creation of Project Javadoc.Next with Jonathan
> Gibbons as the Lead and the Compiler group as the sponsoring group.
>
> In accordance with the OpenJDK guidelines [1], this project will provide
> a venue to explore and incubate javadoc feature candidates such as an
> Updated Doclet API [2], HTML 5 [3], search capabilities [4] (and
> possibly other related topics.)
>
> The initial Reviewers and Committers will be:
>
> * Jonathan Gibbons
> * Kumar Srinivasan
> * Bhavesh Patel
> * Maurizio Cimadamore
> * Joe Darcy
> * Sonali Goel
> * Joel Borggren-Franck
> * Mike Duigou
>
> The project will host the following mailing list for developers:
>
> * javadoc.next-dev
>
> The initial source of this project will be based on a clone of a JDK 9
> repository.  Changes from the JDK 9 parent will be synced into
> javadoc.next periodically.  Similar to Project Lambda, we will follow a
> "commit first, review later" policy, as code will not flow directly from
> the javadoc.next repositories into the JDK repositories, but instead
> will be done by a "curated merge" where select changes are extracted
> into new changesets for incorporation into JDK repositories when they
> are ready for inclusion.
>
> Votes are due by 07/24/2014, Midnight PDT.
>
> Only current OpenJDK Members [5] are eligible to vote on this motion.
> Votes must be cast in the open on the discuss list. Replying to this
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>
> For Lazy Consensus voting instructions, see [6].
>
> Kumar Srinivasan
>
> [1]http://openjdk.java.net/projects/#new-project
> [2]https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8042809
> [3]https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8046068
> [4]https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8044243
> [5]http://openjdk.java.net/census#members
> [6]http://openjdk.java.net/projects/#new-project-vote
>