CFV: New Project: Project Duke

Christian Thalinger cthalinger at twitter.com
Thu Apr 6 21:36:06 UTC 2017


Vote: yes

> On Apr 6, 2017, at 5:11 AM, Jeff Dinkins <jeff.dinkins at oracle.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> I hereby propose the creation of Project Duke, with myself as the 
> Lead and the Core Libraries and Web groups as sponsoring groups.
> 
> In accordance with the OpenJDK guidelines [1], this project will 
> provide a location for Duke graphics to reside.  Duke is the Java 
> mascot, which was open sourced by Sun on November 13th 2006.
> 
> About the Lead: Jeff Dinkins (OpenJDK username: jeff) is a JDK 9
> Committer, and has had experinece drawing Duke for 15+ years.
> 
> The initial Committers will be:
> 
> * James Gosling
> • Jasper Potts
> * Jeff Dinkins
> 
> The project will host at least the following mailing list:
> 
> * duke-dev for developers & aspiring graphics artists
> 
> The initial “source" of this project will be based on a clone of the 
> existing (but soon to disappear) repo on Kenai [2].
> 
> Votes are due by April 21st, 2017.
> 
> Only current OpenJDK Members [3] are eligible to vote on this motion.  
> Votes must be cast in the open on the discuss list. Replying to this 
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> 
> For Lazy Consensus voting instructions, see [4].
> 
> 
> [1] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/#new-project
> 
> [2] https://duke.kenai.com
> 
> [3] http://openjdk.java.net/census#members
> 
> [4] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/#new-project-vote
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