January 2010 - and those open questions

[Alex Buckley]

Hi Steve,

With great respect, the Expert Group does not answer to observers.

As spec lead, I answer to the SE/EE Executive Committee of the JCP, to 
whom I presented 294's direction a couple of weeks ago.

The EG is currently considering a draft spec intended for EDR. I sent 
the material in December to the private EG list in the first instance, 
as has always been the custom. A number of comments have recently been 
made on that list, which I will consider before initiating the EDR. I do 
not intend to send the material to the observer list ahead of the EDR, 
since it is supposed to be the EDR that kickstarts community review.

Alex

Stephen J. McConnell wrote:
> If I were feeling cynical I could suggest that I just love the way that
> expert group members jump in and express opinions. I could perhaps
> suggests that it makes me feel all warm inside. Problem is that I'm not
> cynical and I'm not feeling all warm and fuzzy.  
> 
> So perhaps I need to lay out some direct questions:
> 
> a) where is the specification
> b) where is the expert group
> 
> Cheers, Steve.
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 23:02 +1030, Stephen J. McConnell wrote:
>> Alex:
>>
>> What is the status on this (re. your comments below)?
>> A timeline would be great.
>>
>> Cheers, Steve.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 09:15 -0800, Alex Buckley wrote:
>>> So, I will file an EDR this month based on the materials from June, 
>>> along the following lines:
>>>
>>> - Module accessibility is a JLS concept; runtime module is a JVMS
>>> concept.
>>>
>>> - Module compilation unit is a JLS concept; it defines a module name
>>> + 
>>> version; it is annotatable; its contents are implementation-defined.
>>>
>>> - java.* APIs are limited to representing runtime modules and (the 
>>> runtime form of) module compilation units.
>>>
>>> Alex 
>>
>>
> 
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