CFV: New Project: JDK Updates

[Andrew Dinn]

Vote: Yes

regards,


Andrew Dinn
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Senior Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat UK Ltd
Registered in England and Wales under Company Registration No. 03798903
Directors: Michael Cunningham, Michael ("Mike") O'Neill, Eric Shander


On 27/09/2017 14:39, Rob McKenna wrote:
>> I hereby propose the creation of the "JDK Updates" Project with myself
>> as the Lead and the Build Group as the sponsoring Group. The goal of
>> this Project will be to produce JDK Updates on top of the JDK Project
>> currently under discussion. [1]
>>
>> I've been involved as a maintainer of the JDK 8 Updates Project [2]
>> since Dec 2013 and have been involved with managing all aspects of
>> a JDK Updates Project. I work as an engineer in the Oracle Java
>> Platform Group where JDK updates are key for delivering bug fixes
>> to end users
>>
>> This will be a long running project responsible for producing all
>> future updates to the feature releases. [3]  The Project's repositories
>> will initially be open for select critical bug fixes only. The first
>> release of this project will focus on the updates for the JDK 9
>> Project. [4]
>>
>> The initial Authors/Committers/Reviewers will be anyone who holds a
>> role in the JDK 8 Updates, JDK 9 & JDK 10 projects and has contributed
>> at least one changeset.  The most senior role across those Projects
>> will be granted in this Project
>>
>> Votes are due by 23:59 UTC on October 11th.
>>
>> Only current OpenJDK Members [5] 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 [6]
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Rob
>>
>> [1]
>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2017-September/004281.html
>> [2] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk8u
>> [3]
>> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/announce/2017-September/000231.html
>> [4] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk9
>> [5] http://openjdk.java.net/census#members
>> [6] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/#new-project-vote
>>