CFV: Project Portola

Maurizio Cimadamore maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com
Wed Feb 22 21:52:28 UTC 2017


Vote: yes

Maurizio


On 22/02/17 18:17, Mikael Vidstedt wrote:
> I hereby propose the creation of Project Portola with myself as the
> Lead and the Porters group as the sponsoring group.
>
> This Project will provide a port of the JDK to the Alpine Linux [1]
> distribution, and in particular the "musl" C library [2].
>
> About the Lead: Mikael Vidstedt (OpenJDK username: mikael) is a JDK 9
> Committer, and also a Committer in the Panama project where he has
> been working on providing significantly improved support for
> foreign/native data and function access. He is working in the Hotspot
> team at Oracle, and has been working with JVMs for more than 15 years.
>
> The initial Reviewers and Committers will be:
>
> Mikael Vidstedt
> David Holmes
> Erik Joelsson
> Kumar Srinivasan
> Alan Bateman
> Vladimir Kozlov
> Sangheon Kim
> Poonam Bajaj
> Jini George
>
> The project will host at least the following mailing list:
>
> * portola-dev for development discussions and user feedback
>
> The initial source of this project will be based on a clone of a JDK
> 10 repository. Changes from the JDK 10 parent will be synced into
> Portola periodically. Similar to Projects Lambda and Valhalla, we will
> follow a "commit first, review later" policy, as code will not flow
> directly from the Portola 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 March 8, 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] https://www.alpinelinux.org
> [2] http://www.musl-libc.org
> [3] http://openjdk.java.net/census#members
> [4] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/#new-project-vote



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