From mark.reinhold at oracle.com  Wed Dec 18 16:06:37 2013
From: mark.reinhold at oracle.com (mark.reinhold at oracle.com)
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 16:06:37 -0800
Subject: Java SE 8 (JSR 337) status & remaining timeline
Message-ID: <20131218160637.149013@eggemoggin.niobe.net>

The Public Review period ended on 4 December.

The Public Review EC ballot is in progress, ending on 23 December
(just in time for Christmas!).

I expect to send you the draft Proposed Final Draft Specification
for review in the next few days, with comments due by 8 January so
that I can submit it to the PMO for posting the following week.

For the Final Approval Ballot I expect to make the Specification,
Reference Implementation, and TCK available for you to review in
mid-January, with comments due two weeks later, so that I can
submit them to the PMO by the end of the month.

The FAB ballot period will then run for the first couple of weeks
of February.  If all goes well then we'll be able to declare the
Final Release of this Specification in early March.

- Mark

From mark.reinhold at oracle.com  Mon Dec 23 11:44:46 2013
From: mark.reinhold at oracle.com (mark.reinhold at oracle.com)
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 11:44:46 -0800
Subject: Java SE 8 (JSR 337) Proposed Final Draft Specification: DRAFT
Message-ID: <20131223114446.652437@eggemoggin.niobe.net>

The draft Proposed Final Draft Specification is available here:

  http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mr/se/8/java-se-8-pfd-spec-01/

Changes in this draft:

  - The section on Stripped Implementations now includes a set
    of specific constraints designed to preserve compatibility
    and guard against fragmentation.

  - Annex 1, the detailed API specification-change summary, and
    Annex 2, the annotated API specification showing the exact
    differences relative to Java SE 7, have been updated to
    include the most recent small enhancements, clarifications,
    and bug fixes as well as the latest API changes from the
    Component JSR Specifications.

  - Annex 3, which contains draft versions of The Java Language
    Specification and The Java Virtual Machine Specification,
    has been updated to include all changes from Component JSR
    Specifications (i.e., Lambda Expressions (JSR 335) and
    Annotations on Java Types (JSR 308)).

I'd like to submit this to the JCP PMO as the Proposed Final Draft
Specification in early January.  Please let me know by 22:00 UTC on
Wednesday, 8 January, of any changes you'd like me to make before I
submit it, or if you think that further discussion is required.

Thanks,
- Mark