CFV: New Project: JDK

[Chris Hegarty]

Vote: YES.

-Chris.

> On 9/26/17 6:45 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