CFV: Project Annotations Pipeline 2.0

[Mario Torre]

On Fri, 2014-06-27 at 13:45 -0700, Jonathan Gibbons wrote:

Vote: Yes,

Cheers,
Mario

> JDK 8 saw the introduction of three separate language features affecting 
> annotations and annotation processing.
> 
> * Annotations on Java Types [1]
> * Repeating Annotations [2]
> * Lambda Expressions [3], which introduced new positions for annotations
> 
> Although these features were developed independently, there is 
> non-trivial overlap between them, such as repeated type annotations on a 
> parameter type in a lambda expression. In addition, these features all 
> have to work well together with existing features such as the Annotation 
> Processing API, Language Model API, and javadoc.
> 
> The machinery within javac to handle these features needs to be improved.
> 
> Therefore, I hereby propose the creation of Project Annotations Pipeline 
> 2.0 with Joel Borggrén-Franck as the Lead and the Compiler group as the 
> sponsoring group.
> 
> In accordance with the OpenJDK guidelines [4], this project will provide 
> a venue to explore improvements to the overall handling of annotations 
> within the javac compilation pipeline. The project will be entirely 
> focussed on improving the implementation of the existing language and 
> API specifications, and is not intended as a venue to change or enhance 
> these specifications.
> 
> The initial Reviewers and Committers will be:
> 
> * Jonathan Gibbons
> * Joel Borggrén-Franck
> * Maurizio Cimadamore
> * Eric McCorkle
> * Jan Lahoda
> * Alex Buckley
> 
> Initial Authors will be
> 
> * Werner Dietl
> * Steve Sides
> * Andrey Eremeev
> 
> The project will host the following mailing list for developers:
> 
> * anno-pipeline-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 
> Annotations Pipeline 2.0 periodically.  Similar to Project Lambda, we 
> will follow a "commit first, review later" policy, as code will not flow 
> directly from the Annotations Pipeline 2.0 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 11, 2014, 5PM PDT.
> 
> 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] https://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=308
> [2] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/120
> [3] https://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=335
> [4] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/#new-project
> [5] http://openjdk.java.net/census#members
> [6] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/#new-project-vote