Proposed dates for JDK 8

[Martijn Verburg]

Hi Mathias!

On Wednesday, 4 April 2012, wrote:

> 2012/4/4 9:40 -0700, mathias.axelsson at oracle.com <javascript:;>:
> > ...
> >
> > First of all I'd like to propose some dates for the implementation
> milestones
> > for JDK 8 so that there are some high-level buckets that can be targeted
> for
> > delivering features and enhancements.
> >
> > Implementation milestones:
> > - M1: August 2011 - April 24, 2012
> > - M2: Ends June 14, 2012
> > - M3: Ends July 30, 2012
> > - M4: Ends September 11, 2012
> > - M5: Ends November 26, 2012
> > - M6: Ends January 30, 2013
>
> Thanks Mathias.  FYI I've added these dates and others you mentioned to
> the JDK 8 Project page:http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk8/ .
>
> - Mark
>

One of the areas the JUGs would like to help with is to rally the prominent
OSS projects to test OpenJDK 8 early (try to avoid Lucene type issues). We
were originally thinking about a simple wiki table ticking off projects vs
milestones. Is this something that would be useful? If so at what Milestone
would you like us to really start pushing the message / running tests on?

Cheers,
Martijn