CFV: Project Portola

[Peter Lawrey]

Vote: Yes

On 22 Feb 2017 21:53, "Maurizio Cimadamore" <maurizio.cimadamore at oracle.com>
wrote:

> Vote: yes
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> Maurizio
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> On 22/02/17 18:17, Mikael Vidstedt wrote:
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>> 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:
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>> 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
>> message is sufficient if your mail program honors the Reply-To header.
>>
>> For Lazy Consensus voting instructions, see [4].
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>> [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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