CFV: New Project: Project Duke

[Jonathan Gibbons]

Vote: yes


On 4/6/17 8:11 AM, Jeff Dinkins wrote:
> I hereby propose the creation of Project Duke, with myself as the
> Lead and the Core Libraries and Web groups as sponsoring groups.
>
> In accordance with the OpenJDK guidelines [1], this project will
> provide a location for Duke graphics to reside.  Duke is the Java
> mascot, which was open sourced by Sun on November 13th 2006.
>
> About the Lead: Jeff Dinkins (OpenJDK username: jeff) is a JDK 9
> Committer, and has had experinece drawing Duke for 15+ years.
>
> The initial Committers will be:
>
> * James Gosling
> • Jasper Potts
> * Jeff Dinkins
>
> The project will host at least the following mailing list:
>
> * duke-dev for developers & aspiring graphics artists
>
> The initial “source" of this project will be based on a clone of the
> existing (but soon to disappear) repo on Kenai [2].
>
> Votes are due by April 21st, 2017.
>
> Only current OpenJDK Members [3] 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 [4].
>
>
> [1] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/#new-project
>
> [2] https://duke.kenai.com
>
> [3] http://openjdk.java.net/census#members
>
> [4] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/#new-project-vote
>