CFV: Project Valhalla

[David Holmes]

Vote: yes

David

On 21/06/2014 11:44 AM, Brian Goetz wrote:
> I hereby propose the creation of Project Valhalla with myself as the
> Lead and the HotSpot group as the sponsoring group.
>
> In accordance with the OpenJDK guidelines [1], this project will provide
> a venue to explore and incubate advanced Java VM and Language feature
> candidates such as Value Types [2], Generic Specialization [3], enhanced
> volatiles [4] (and possibly other related topics, such as reified
> generics.)
>
> The initial Reviewers and Committers will be:
>
> * Brian Goetz
> * John Rose
> * Paul Sandoz
> * Maurizio Cimadamore
> * Paul Govereau
> * Dan Smith
> * David Chase
> * Mike Duigou
> * Vladimir Ivanov
> * Albert Noll
>
> The project will host at least the following mailing list:
>
> * valhalla-dev for developers
>
> and may eventually host specification lists if one or more JSRs is
> subsequently created.
>
> 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 Valhalla
> periodically.  Similar to Project Lambda, we will follow a "commit
> first, review later" policy, as code will not flow directly from the
> Valhalla 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 July 7, 2014.
>
> Only current OpenJDK Members [5] 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 [6].
>
>
> [1] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/#new-project
> [2] http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jrose/values/values-0.html
> [3] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8046267
> [4] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/193
> [5] http://openjdk.java.net/census#members
> [6] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/#new-project-vote