Looks like Oracle has started planning for JDK 8 and they are accepting proposals for language features (big and small).
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2011-March/001704.html "It's time to start thinking about planning JDK 8. We already know what some of the big-ticket items are likely to be. There'll be room for other features too, however, both large and small. It's therefore time to define a simple process for collecting, sorting, reviewing, and prioritizing proposals and plans for new features, for JDK 8 and for later releases. Some essential requirements (not in priority order): - As lightweight as possible. - Simple mechanics. - Version-controlled, so that changes can be tracked. - Open to all committers, with transparent decision-making. - The basic format should not be too different from (a simplified form of) the old Sun "one-pager" template [1], with which many are already familiar. - An approved proposal should be able to serve as the authoritative source of the summary and reference information needed for related documents such as the release feature list [2] and the Platform Umbrella JSR specification [3]. One can imagine all sorts of fancy database-backed systems that would fulfill these requirements, but we need something sooner rather than later. I think a workable solution, at least for now, is to collect proposals as structured text files in a Mercurial repository. So that people don't have to write raw HTML or XML we could use the "Markdown" lightweight markup language [4] together with an existing convention for placing common metadata at the top of a file [5]. The Mercurial repository would be set up so that a push operation would automatically update the appropriate web pages on openjdk.java.net. I've adapted an existing draft proposal for JDK 8 into Markdown as an example [6] (thanks to Maurizio Cimadamore for the draft). The exact template format would, of course, be a topic of further discussion. Comments? - Mark " -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
