Fwd: Why can modules not be annotated?

[mark.reinhold at oracle.com]

2016/3/9 8:50 -0800, pbenedict at apache.org:
> I am proposing a standard set of source retention annotations that
> developers write and tools consume to build the module-info.java
> automatically.

I think I understand your proposal for a javax.tools.Export annotation
for use on packages.  The idea there is that a developer could write
@Export in a package-info.java file, and a tool could interpret that to
add an appropriate `exports` directive to a synthesized module-info.java
file.

I'm still confused, however, by your earlier statement

>>> *) Allow annotations on the module to express the custom attributes that
>>> you've spec-ed out.

Who's the "you" in this sentence?  What annotations do you have in mind
here?

> PS: This is a different issue than those who want to annotate statements in
> module-info.java.

Understood.

- Mark