type-annotations based on JDK 9?

[Michael Ernst]

Alex-

Sorry for the delay in responding; I am traveling.

Your proposed change sounds good.  I'm glad to see type annotations 
transition from a project to merely a standard part of Java!

                     -Mike


> Subject: Re: type-annotations based on JDK 9?
> From: Alex Buckley <alex.buckley at oracle.com>
> To: Michael Ernst <mernst at cs.washington.edu>
> Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 11:03:43 -0700
>
> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> http://www.google.com/profiles/wdietl