Call for Discussion: New Project: Metropolis

[Christian Thalinger]

> On Sep 18, 2017, at 12:40 PM, John Rose <john.r.rose at oracle.com> wrote:
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> On Sep 13, 2017, at 10:08 PM, John Rose <john.r.rose at oracle.com> wrote:
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>> <http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jrose/metropolis/Metropolis-Proposal.html>
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> 
> Here's a small bit of administration, for the record.
> 
> Mark has reminded me that OpenJDK has no "RFC" actions.
> 
> The official subject line for this discussion thread should be
> "Call for Discussion: New Project: Metropolis", as documented here.
>  http://openjdk.java.net/projects/#new-project-discuss
> 
> At the risk of splitting the thread, I am correcting the subject
> line in this message, so that the archives will be in better shape.

Replying here then… 

You and I are talking about this for quite a while now and I welcome this becoming an official OpenJDK project now.

How do you envision people working on this project?  Should individual people just become contributors and then work on whichever module they want to replace?

> 
> My thanks to the responders so far, including Andrew Dinn:
>  http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2017-September/004341.html
> 
> The next step is a call for votes; please stay tuned for that.
> 
> — John