CFV: New Project: Leyden

[Langer, Christoph]

Vote: yes

/Christoph

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> From: announce <announce-bounces at openjdk.java.net> On Behalf Of
> mark.reinhold at oracle.com
> Sent: Mittwoch, 27. Mai 2020 17:25
> To: announce at openjdk.java.net
> Subject: CFV: New Project: Leyden
> 
> I hereby propose the creation a new Project, Leyden, with me as
> the Lead and the Core Libraries and HotSpot Groups as sponsors.
> 
> Leyden’s primary goal will be to address the long-term pain points
> of Java’s slow startup time, slow time to peak performance, and large
> footprint.  Leyden will address these pain points by introducing a
> concept of static images to the Java Platform, and to the JDK.
> 
> For further details, please see the call for discussion [1].
> 
> I propose that the initial Reviewers of this Project include Alex
> Buckley, Andrew Dinn, Andrew Haley, Bob Vandette, Claes Redestad,
> Igor Veresov, Ioi Lam, Jiangli Zhou, Mandy Chung, Severin Gehwolf,
> and Vladimir Kozlov.
> 
> I expect ongoing contributions in the form of experience reports,
> advice, and feedback from Christian Wimmer, Thomas Wuerthinger,
> Vojin Jovanovic, and other members of Oracle’s GraalVM team.
> 
> Votes are due by 23:59 UTC on Wednesday, 10 June 2020.
> 
> Only current OpenJDK Members [2] are eligible to vote on this motion.
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> 
> For Lazy Consensus voting instructions, see [3].
> 
> - Mark
> 
> 
> [1] https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2020-April/005429.html
> [2] https://openjdk.java.net/census#members
> [3] https://openjdk.java.net/projects/#new-project-vote