CFV: Project sponsorship: "Common VM Interface"

[Peter B. Kessler]

Question: Should the HotSpot Group sponsor[1] the "Common VM
Interface" project?[2]

Please cast your vote by replying, publicly, to this message with
either

Vote: yes

or

Vote: no

as the first line of the message body.

You may, at your option, indicate the reason for your decision on
subsequent lines.

Votes must be cast in the open; votes sent as private replies will
not be counted.

The sponsorship decision will be made by a simple majority vote of
the Group's Members.  Votes are due by midnight Pacific Daylight
Time, Wednesday, April 30, 2008.  (0700 UTC, Thursday May 1, 2008.)
As an optimization, if an absolute majority of the Group's Members
votes one way or the other prior to that time then the decision
may be rendered earlier.

Only Members of the HotSpot Group are eligible to vote on this
decision.  The current Members are:

     Andrei Pangin
     Andrey Petrusenko
     Antonios Printezis
     Chuck Rasbold
     Coleen Phillimore
     Daniel Daugherty
     Dave Dice
     David Holmes
     Erik Trimble
     Igor Veresov
     Ivan Krylov
     James Melvin[3]
     Jim Holmlund
     John Coomes
     John Rose
     Jon Masamitsu
     Karen Kinnear
     Keith McGuigan
     Kenneth Russell
     Lev Serebryakov
     Paul Hohensee
     Peter Kessler
     Stephen Bohne
     Steve Goldman
     Thomas Rodriguez
     Vladimir Kozlov
     Xiaobin Lu
     Y S Ramakrishna

Once a decision has been made the votes will be tallied and reported
to this list and also to discuss at openjdk.java.net.

			... peter

[1] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/announce/2008-April/000042.html
[2] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/challenge-discuss/2008-March/000084.html
[3] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2008-April/001157.html