CFV: New Project: JDK

[David Grieve]

Vote: Yes


On 9/26/17 9:45 AM, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:
> I hereby propose the creation of the JDK Project, with me as the Lead and
> the Governing Board as the sponsoring Group.
>
> The goal of this Project will be to produce open-source reference
> implementations of the Java SE Platform, to be specified by JSRs in the
> Java Community Process.  Unlike past JDK Release Projects, which produced
> just one feature release and then terminated, this long-running Project
> will produce all future JDK feature releases.  Per my recent proposal
> [1][2] to accelerate the release cadence of the Java SE Platform and the
> JDK, this Project will ship a feature release every six months according
> to a strict, time-based model.
>
> The Project's repositories will be initialized from those of the JDK 10
> Project, and that Project will terminate.  Features for the release will
> be proposed and tracked via the JEP Process [3], as usual.
>
> The Authors, Committers, and Reviewers of this Project will initially be
> those of the JDK 10 Project [4].  I expect the first items of discussion
> amongst these contributors to include the schedule for the March 2018
> release and the version-string scheme.
>
> Votes are due by 17:00 UTC on Tuesday, 10 October [5].
>
> Only current OpenJDK Members [6] 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 [7].
>
> - Mark
>
>
> [1] https://mreinhold.org/blog/forward-faster
> [2] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2017-September/004281.html
> [3] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps
> [4] http://openjdk.java.net/census#jdk10
> [5] http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=OpenJDK+JDK+Project+CFV&iso=20171010T1700
> [6] http://openjdk.java.net/census#members
> [7] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/#new-project-vote