Proposed schedule change for JSR 376

[mark.reinhold at oracle.com]

2015/12/1 2:29 -0800, tim_ellison at uk.ibm.com:
> In the original schedule, the Proposed Final Draft date for this JSR and 
> the Feature Complete date for Java 9 is December 2015.  The new proposed 
> schedule has the Public Review (June 2016) one month /after/ the Java 9 
> proposed Feature Complete date (May 2016) [1].
> 
> If Java 9 is Feature Complete before the JSR is ready for Public Review, 
> and well before the Proposed Final Draft, then it seems there will be 
> little chance for the reviews to correct any significant problems in the 
> JSR. 

"Feature Complete" does not mean "frozen", it just means "complete".
Here's the definition [1]:

    All features have been implemented and integrated into the master
    forest, together with unit tests.

There are typically several months between FC and the first "rampdown"
phase.

- Mark


[1] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk8/milestones#Feature_Complete