Announcing: valhalla-spec-experts group

[Brian Goetz]

Several people tried to subscribe to valhalla-spec-experts, and were 
surprised to get rejected.  So let me clarify what's going on.

The valhalla-spec-experts list is publicly READABLE, but not publicly 
SUBSCRIBABLE -- the membership is limited.  Now, lots of folks are 
interested in subscribing not as members of the EG, but to get updates 
on a timely basis without polling the archives, which is totally 
reasonable.  For lambda, we had a lambda-spec-observers list which 
received copies of the traffic to lambda-spec-experts.  We plan to do 
the same for valhalla, we just haven't yet gone through the 
administrative work to do so (and I'd rather make some technical 
progress this week than futz with mailing list provisioning.)  So it 
will take some time to get the -observers and -comments lists up and 
running.  So please be patient!



On 12/14/2015 3:07 PM, Brian Goetz wrote:
> It's time to take the next step in Valhalla's evolution.  Accordingly, 
> I've created the valhalla-spec-experts list, which will be the 
> precursor to an eventual JCP Expert Group, and will operate under the 
> JCP-friendly ToU.  This list is publicly archived in the obvious 
> place, and the initial membership includes both corporate 
> participation (Oracle, IBM, Red Hat, Jetbrains, Google) and 
> individuals from the OpenJDK community.
>
> As was the case when we formed the Lambda experts list, the role of 
> valhalla-dev should now revert to its intended purpose, which is to 
> discuss the *implementation* of Valhalla in OpenJDK. Examples of 
> appropriate discussion topics for valhalla-dev include:
>
> - Bug reports
> - Code review comments
> - Test cases
> - Build or porting problems
> - Migration experiences for your own code
>
> What we are trying to avoid is: having design discussions play out 
> concurrently in multiple places with differing sets of players. So 
> please, we ask that you exercise restraint in commenting on active EG 
> discussions -- as design decisions start to converge, we'll announce 
> them here, and of course the primary place for implementation will 
> remain the valhalla repositories.
>
> Please remember that EG discussions often happen at a different pace 
> than in other open-source projects.  Days can go by without a 
> response, but this doesn't mean that the EG is not thinking about it, 
> doesn't care, or is "stumped".  Often it simply means the EG members 
> are working privately (or with their teams) to figure out what their 
> position is, and will respond when they've thought about it more.  So, 
> please let those discussions play out.
>
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