Resigning Mobile Project Lead

[Johan Vos]

Hi,

The OpenJDK Mobile project has been a huge project so far. The resulting
work is a very important part in creating an end-to-end solution for Java 9
on Mobile. With Gluon, we now have a real cross-platform mobile solution,
based on Java 9 and JavaFX 9. This allows Java developers to write Java
apps once and deploy them to billions of devices, using the appstores. In
the whole history of Java, I feel we never came closer to WORA than we are
today.

As a community citizen, it is our duty to give back to the community.
Therefore, I am willing to increase my involvement in this project, and
move it forward. With the changes in the Java release cycle and repository
structure, and with the increasing role of Graal in the whole OpenJDK
system, I feel there are many challenges that have to be tackled in the
OpenJDK Mobile project. Those challenges provide great opportunities as
well, and in case I am given the opportunity, I am very excited to continue
this work.

To Bob, Gary, and the team at Oracle: thanks a lot for the great work you
did so far. Running Java 9 on a phone (the exact same classes that are also
executed on big servers) is not a trivial thing, but you managed to enable
it. It's up to the community now to prove that you did the right thing by
starting this project. Let's do that.

- Johan

Op ma 8 jan. 2018 om 21:54 schreef Bob Vandette <bob.vandette at oracle.com>:

> The OpenJDK Mobile project has completed its initial goal of providing
> a JDK 9 implementation for Mobile devices.  The project repository is
> now up-to-date with the final GA version of the JDK 9 sources.
>
> Since I am moving into a different role within Oracle and will no
> longer be focusing on Mobile platforms, I am planning on resigning [1]
> my position as Project Lead of the Mobile project as soon as a
> potential replacement is identified.  If anyone is interested in taking
> on this role, please email me.  If a replacement is not identified within
> 60 days, I will begin the process of dissolving the project.
>
> [1] http://openjdk.java.net/bylaws#project-lead
>
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