CFV: New Project: Leyden

[mark.reinhold at oracle.com]

I hereby propose the creation a new Project, Leyden, with me as
the Lead and the Core Libraries and HotSpot Groups as sponsors.

Leyden’s primary goal will be to address the long-term pain points
of Java’s slow startup time, slow time to peak performance, and large
footprint.  Leyden will address these pain points by introducing a
concept of static images to the Java Platform, and to the JDK.

For further details, please see the call for discussion [1].

I propose that the initial Reviewers of this Project include Alex
Buckley, Andrew Dinn, Andrew Haley, Bob Vandette, Claes Redestad,
Igor Veresov, Ioi Lam, Jiangli Zhou, Mandy Chung, Severin Gehwolf,
and Vladimir Kozlov.

I expect ongoing contributions in the form of experience reports,
advice, and feedback from Christian Wimmer, Thomas Wuerthinger,
Vojin Jovanovic, and other members of Oracle’s GraalVM team.

Votes are due by 23:59 UTC on Wednesday, 10 June 2020.

Only current OpenJDK Members [2] are eligible to vote on this motion.
Votes must be cast in the open on the discuss list.  Replying to this
message is sufficient if your mail program honors the Reply-To header.

For Lazy Consensus voting instructions, see [3].

- Mark


[1] https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2020-April/005429.html
[2] https://openjdk.java.net/census#members
[3] https://openjdk.java.net/projects/#new-project-vote