type-annotations based on JDK 9?

[Alex Buckley]

Mike,

I'd like to suggest that it's now time to disable the 
type-annotations-dev list and remove the 
type-annotations/type-annotations forest.

The Type Annotations Project itself will remain, with a web page in the 
style of the ThreeTen Project - see 
http://openjdk.java.net/projects/threeten/. The Project and its 
contributors will continue to appear in the OpenJDK Census at 
http://openjdk.java.net/census#type-annotations.

Alex

On 1/10/2014 5:06 PM, Alex Buckley wrote:
> Mike,
>
> I've asked around (it took a while) about the future of the three
> OpenJDK Projects - Lambda, ThreeTen, and Type Annotations - which host
> Reference Implementations of JSRs for Java SE 8.
>
> The Type Annotations Project has essentially served its purpose of
> hosting the RI for JSR 308, and allowing the RI's code to make its way
> into the repositories of the JDK 8 Project. Woohoo!
>
> I agree that the type-annotations forest used by the Type Annotations
> Project has served its purpose. From now on, bug fixes to javac's
> handling of type annotations should be sent as patches to the
> compiler-dev list, just like fixes to any other area of javac. Depending
> on the nature of the bug in JBS, the patch would target either the
> repositories of the JDK 8 Updates Project or the repositories of the JDK
> 9 Project.
>
> The type-annotations-dev list is still playing a useful role as people
> download early-access JDK 8 binaries from Oracle and have questions
> about applying type annotations in source code, reflecting over them,
> etc. However, I don't see the list as necessary after the GA of JDK 8 in
> March.
>
> At that time, we should archive the list, make the forest read-only, and
> then vote to shut down the Type Annotations Project. (The ThreeTen
> Project will do basically the same.) JSR 308 will have made its Final
> Release and you and I will bask in the glory of being Maintenance Leads.
>
> Werner,
>
> Since you were an Author in the JDK 8 Project, you're an Author in the
> JDK 8 Updates Project and JDK 9 Project. It would probably be useful for
> you to be a Committer in one or both of those Projects, but there's a
> process for that, of course.
>
> Alex
>
> On 12/16/2013 4:15 PM, Michael Ernst wrote:
>> Werner-
>>
>> I feel that the type-annotations forest has served its purpose.  We
>> don't expect any significant development to occur on it -- just bug
>> fixes.  Those bug fixes can be communicated as patches and applied to
>> whatever forest is used for JDK 8 maintenance.
>>
>> Do others feel differently?
>>
>>                     -Mike
>>
>>
>>> Subject: type-annotations based on JDK 9?
>>> From: Werner Dietl <wdietl at gmail.com>
>>> To: Jonathan Gibbons <jonathan.gibbons at oracle.com>
>>> Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2013 17:56:06 -0500
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> now that updates in the JDK 8 repositories are winding down, I'm
>>> wondering whether I should start updating type-annotations from a JDK
>>> 9 forest, e.g.:
>>>
>>> http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/
>>>
>>> Or should we keep the current jdk8/tl setup and switch once a jdk8u
>>> forest exists?
>>>
>>> The type-annotations forest could continue to be the "play-ground" for
>>> fixes to type annotations handling.
>>> Or should we unceremoniously remove the type-annotations forest?
>>>
>>> cu, WMD.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 7:29 PM, Jonathan Gibbons
>>> <jonathan.gibbons at oracle.com> wrote:
>>>> Interesting point.
>>>>
>>>> Once 8 has shipped, the 8 repos will be frozen.  Updates to 8 will
>>>> occur in
>>>> a new 8 update forest, similar to the way that 7 updates happen now.
>>>> I'm
>>>> not sure if we can reparent type-annotations to 9 -- I will ask.
>>>> But we
>>>> can still sync the forest from 9.
>>>>
>>>> -- Jon
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 12/05/2013 04:00 PM, Werner Dietl wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Jon,
>>>>>
>>>>> thanks for that info.
>>>>> Will the type-annotations repositories continue to exist?
>>>>> Once the jdk9 repos are created, we could continue to use
>>>>> type-annotations to test type-annotation fixes.
>>>>>
>>>>> cu, WMD.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
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