Vote: yes
> On Jun 21, 2021, at 6:23 PM, mark.reinh...@oracle.com wrote: > > // This is a call for votes from Members of the Governing Board. > // If you aren’t a Member of the Governing Board, please don’t vote. > > On behalf of Phil Race I hereby propose the creation of the Client > Libraries Group, with Phil as the initial Lead. The Client Libraries > Group is a consolidation of the interests and active members of the > existing AWT [1], 2D [2], Swing [3], and Sound [4] Groups. I further > propose the simultaneous dissolution of these historical Groups. > > The new Group will sponsor the OpenJFX [5] and Lanai [6] Projects. The > long-inactive Harfbuzz [7], Framebuffer Toolkit [8] and XRender Pipeline > [9] Projects will be dissolved by virtue of losing their sponsoring > Group. Over time the old Groups’ mailing lists, static web pages, etc., > will be coalesced at the discretion of the new Lead. > > Phil is the OpenJDK Group Lead for the 2D and Sound Groups and the Lead > of the Lanai Project. He has been a member of the Java 2D graphics team > since 1999 and has contributed hundreds, if not thousands, of changes to > client code over that period. Phil was the specification lead for JSR > 15 (Image I/O Framework) and JSR 6 (Unified Printing API). In JDK 17, > Phil led JEP 382 (New macOS Rendering Pipeline). > > The set of initial members of the new Client Libraries Group is the > union of the members of the 2D, AWT, Swing, and Sound Groups who have > sent e-mail to at least one of the five client libraries Group lists > (2d, awt, beans, swing, and sound) or a client libraries Project list > (lanai) any time since January 2020: > > Alexander Scherbartiy (alexsch) > Alexander Zuev (kizune) > Alexander Zvegintsev (azvegint) > Alexey Ushakov (avu) > Jay DV (jdv) > Laurent Bourges (lbourges) > Peter Zhelezniakov (peterz) > Sergey Bylokhov (serb) > > Votes are due by 23:59 UTC on Monday, 5 July. > > Only current Governing Board Members [a] are eligible to vote on this > motion. Votes must be cast in the open by replying to this mailing > list. > > For Two-Thirds Majority voting instructions, see [b]. > > - Mark > > > [1]: https://openjdk.java.net/census#awt > [2]: https://openjdk.java.net/census#2d > [3]: https://openjdk.java.net/census#swing > [4]: https://openjdk.java.net/census#sound > [5]: https://openjdk.java.net/census#openjfx > [6]: https://openjdk.java.net/census#lanai > [7]: https://openjdk.java.net/census#harfbuzz > [8]: https://openjdk.java.net/census#fbtoolkit > [9]: https://openjdk.java.net/census#xrender > [a]: https://openjdk.java.net/census#gb > [b]: https://openjdk.java.net/groups/#two-thirds-majority
