Some projects have a '-changes' list for automated repo messages, such as openjfx-changes: https://mail.openjdk.org/archives/list/[email protected]/. Maybe Valhalla needs one too.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Dan Smith <[email protected]> > To: valhalla-dev <[email protected]> > Cc: > Bcc: > Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2026 23:48:22 +0000 > Subject: Rebooting valhalla-dev > Last week we achieved a major development milestone, with JEP 401: Value > Objects (Preview) integrated into the mainline JDK, and the `lworld` branch > closed to any further development. Those features are now part of JDK 28. > Future bug fixes will target the `jdk` repository directly, and future JEPs > will have their own development branches in the `valhalla` repository. > > Historically, this mailing list has been a firehose of development > notifications (my mail client has collected over 6800 messages in the 215 > days since Jan 1!). By closing the `lworld` branch, hopefully we’re turning > the firehose off. > > Going forward, I’d love to see this space be dominated by non-automated > conversations about value objects and other Valhalla features. Preview > features, in particular, are designed for collecting feedback before a > feature is made final, and ideally this mailing list is a lightweight way > for people trying out the feature to share their experiences and learn from > each other. > > Some open-source projects have “user” lists and “developer” lists. OpenJDK > `-dev` lists bridge both of those communities, and hopefully can serve both > of their needs. > > I’m going to keep an eye out for firehose traffic in next few weeks. If we > start generating a lot of commit or PR messages, I’ll suggest either > turning them off or sending them somewhere else. I think most people are > happy to handle PRs directly through the GitHub UI, for example. (I *think* > all the traffic may have been due to optional configuration settings of the > `lworld` branch, but we’ll see…) >
