Informational JEP proposed for review: 12: Incubating Language and VM Features

[mark.reinhold at oracle.com]

2018/3/22 13:54:10 -0700, mark.reinhold at oracle.com:
> 2018/1/31 9:04:01 -0800, mark.reinhold at oracle.com:
>> This recently-submitted informational JEP has already been discussed
>> here in draft form.
>> 
>>  12: Incubating Language and VM Features
>>      http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/12
>> 
>> Further comment is invited.  If no objections are raised by 23:00 UTC
>> on Wednesday, 7 February, or if they're raised and then satisfactorily
>> answered, then per the JEP 2.0 process proposal [1] I'll mark this
>> informational JEP as Active.
> 
> In response to the feedback received, Alex has revised JEP 12 to:
> 
>   - Rename "incubating" features to "preview" features, with related
>     changes in the command-line options recommended for tools [1];
> 
>   - Clarify the relationship of preview features to Java SE APIs [2]
>     (see also a discussion on impact to the Language Model API [3]);
>     and
> 
>   - Clarify the rationale for preview features being supported in all
>     Java SE implementations, in line with [4].
> 
> At this point, if no further comments are raised by 23:00 UTC on
> Thursday, 29 March, or if they're raised and then satisfactorily
> answered, then per the JEP 2.0 process proposal [5] I'll mark this
> informational JEP as Active.

Hearing no further comments, I've marked this informational JEP as
Active.  (In JBS it's in the Completed state, since JBS does not yet
implement the informational part of the JEP workflow.)

- Mark