Practical points

[Alex Buckley]

294 experts,

I will imminently send 1) a statement of the problems Sun would like to 
solve in modular development, and 2) a set of requirements concerned 
with these problems that lay out Sun's interest in language work.

Overall, I would like to have an EDR by mid-April and a reference 
implementation by mid-May at the latest. The RI in Sun's javac and JVM 
will connect to the Jigsaw module system shortly to appear in OpenJDK. 
The compiler/JVM interface to a module system is in scope for 294 and I 
hope to discuss that as soon as the language requirements are done. 
Hopefully the language requirements will only take a couple of weeks. (I 
will be out-of-office Feb 5-12 for FOSDEM and other travel.)

The jsr294-modularity-observer list is now writable. All current members 
have been unmoderated. Mailman isn't as clever as I hoped, so it is NOT 
practical for the -eg and -observer lists to copy each other. What we 
have is that -eg traffic is copied to -observer, where -observer members 
may comment on it. No traffic on -observer comes back to -eg. -eg 
members could subscribe to -observer to follow discussions if they wish.

Alex