CFV: New Project: Leyden

[Mani Sarkar]

Hi Mark,

This is a great step forward. I can only see upsides to this for Java the
Platform (JVM), the fruits of which current and future JVM languages and
GraalVM guest languages (written using the Truffle framework) will benefit
from.

Regards,
Mani

On Wed, 27 May 2020 at 16:26, <mark.reinhold at oracle.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 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 [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
>


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