CFV: New Project: ZGC

[dalibor topic]

On 26.10.2017 17:42, Volker Simonis wrote:
> For example the Shenandoah project had to go through a six month
> interrogation [2,3] process before they could finally start the call
> for voting on their project creation.

The Shenandoah discussion in February had run its course within 9 days.

Once Roman wanted to initiate the vote on the Project in March, it 
became clear that the HotSpot Group Lead at the time was no longer at 
Oracle, and no longer actively acting as Group Lead, and therefore 
unable to get to sponsor the Project, as required in the Bylaws for the 
vote. [0]

While an inactive Group Lead could have been removed by votes of the 
HotSpot Group's Members (or in exceptional circumstances, by a vote of 
the Governing Board), I think that it's preferable for a person that is 
no longer acting as a Group Lead to resign if no longer interested in 
the role, than to attempt to vote them out.

The resignation happened three months later, in June. [1] The vote for a 
  new Group Lead was completed by the end of June. [2] The Governing 
Board confirmed the new Group Lead in July. [3]

The delay between the initial discussion of Shenandoah and the Project 
vote had nothing to do with interrogations of any kind.

cheers,
dalibor topic

[0] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2015-March/003701.html
[1] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2015-June/018933.html
[2] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/hotspot-dev/2015-June/019273.html
[3] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/gb-discuss/2015-July/thread.html

-- 
<http://www.oracle.com> Dalibor Topic | Principal Product Manager
Phone: +494089091214 <tel:+494089091214> | Mobile: +491737185961
<tel:+491737185961>

ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG | Kühnehöfe 5 | 22761 Hamburg

ORACLE Deutschland B.V. & Co. KG
Hauptverwaltung: Riesstr. 25, D-80992 München
Registergericht: Amtsgericht München, HRA 95603

Komplementärin: ORACLE Deutschland Verwaltung B.V.
Hertogswetering 163/167, 3543 AS Utrecht, Niederlande
Handelsregister der Handelskammer Midden-Niederlande, Nr. 30143697
Geschäftsführer: Alexander van der Ven, Jan Schultheiss, Val Maher

<http://www.oracle.com/commitment> Oracle is committed to developing
practices and products that help protect the environment