Status of "Incubator Modules" (JEP 11)

[Volker Simonis]

Hi,

the Goals section of the "Incubator Modules" JEP [1,2] reads as follows:

"The incubation lifetime of an API is limited: It is expected that the
API will either be standardized or otherwise made final in the next
release, or else removed."

OpenJDK 9 was shipped with the httpclient incubator module and I
havn't seen any effort to standardize this API in Java 10/18.3.

Does this mean that the new httpclient library will be removed from
OpenJDK 10/18.3? Or should we better revise JEP 11 and rephrase the
Goals section to something like:

 "The incubation lifetime of an API is limited: It is expected that
the API will either be standardized or otherwise made final in the
next LTS release, or else removed."

Regards,
Volker

[1] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/11
[2] https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8169768