CFV: New Project: OpenJFX (original) (raw)

Kelly O'Hair kelly.ohair at oracle.com
Thu Nov 10 14:00:42 UTC 2011

Vote: yes

-kto

On Nov 1, 2011, at 8:37 PM, Iris Clark wrote:

I hereby propose the creation of the OpenJFX Project with Richard Bair as the Lead and Swing as the sponsoring Group.

As discussed last week [1], the OpenJFX Project will be the home for the current and future development of the JavaFX toolkit. (The name has changed from "JFX" to "OpenJFX" due to trademark concerns.) Oracle's motivation for open-sourcing JavaFX is to build community and ecosystem support and adoption of JavaFX by increasing transparency, and also to get patches and early feedback. The goal of OpenJFX is to build the next-generation Java client toolkit. We intend open development to lead to a JSR in the Java SE 9 timeframe and ultimately for OpenJFX to be included as a proper part of the JDK. The OpenJFX codebase will be a significant contribution to the corpus of open-source code. It includes: - Over 6000+ public API members (methods/constructors/etc.) - Over 11,500 unit tests - Core libraries such as observable collections and binding - Scene graph, effects, graphics - CSS support for JavaFX - Media - WebView - Prism (hardware accelerated graphics, including openGL and D3D and java2D implementations) - Glass (windowing system, base porting layer, including mac, linux, and windows implementations) - UI Controls and Charts The initial contribution from Oracle will come in stages over some number of months, starting with the UI Controls code. During the initial period the OpenJFX source base will necessarily depend on Oracle's public binaries of JavaFX. Once all the initial code has been published then OpenJFX will no longer depend on Oracle binaries and will be a fully buildable open-source library. By that point we expect Oracle's JavaFX developers to have transitioned to working primarily on OpenJFX out in the open. The proposed Project Lead, Richard Bair, has been a public member of the Java community since 2004, first as a contributor to the open-source JDNC project then as the project lead for SwingLabs. He was a member of the Swing team and was one of the two engineers responsible for the Nimbus look and feel. He has been working on JavaFX from the beginning, serving first as UI Controls lead, then as API lead, and finally as the project architect. During the entire time he has been a forceful and persistent voice for the open-sourcing of the JavaFX platform. The list of proposed committers is large, commensurate with the size of the initial code contribution. The following Oracle engineers have all made significant contributions to the code base and are expected to make ongoing contributions to the OpenJFX Project: Alexander Matveev Alexey Menkov Alexey Utkin Amy Fowler Anthony Petrov Anton Tarasov Artem Ananiev Brent Christian Brian Burkhalter Chien Yang David DeHaven David Grieve David Hill Dmitry Cherepanov Eva Krejcirova Gerard Ziemski Greg Brown Igor Karpov James Graham Jan Valenta Jasper Potts Jennifer Godinez Joe Andresen Jonathan Giles Kevin Rushforth Kinsley Wong Kirill Kirichenko Kirill Prazdnikov Leif Samuelsson Leonid Popov Lubomir Nerad Martin Sladecek Martin Soch Michael Heinrichs Mick Fleming Mong Hang Vo Morris Meyer Oleg Mazurov Oleg Sukhodolsky Paru Somashekar Pavel Porvatov Pavel Safrata Per Bothner Peter Zhelezniakov Phillip Race Radko Najman Ragini Prasad Richard Bair Sergey Malenkov Steve Northover Thor Johannesson Tomas Brandalik Vasiliy Baranov Yao Wang Reviewers will be nominated by the Lead once formal review procedures are in place for the project. Votes are due by 8:00am UTC on Wednesday, 16 November [2]. Only current OpenJDK Members [3] are eligible to vote on this motion. For Lazy Consensus voting instructions, see [4]. Iris Clark

[1] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2011-October/002096.html [2] http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=OpenJFX+Project+Votes+Due&iso=20111116T0800&sort=1 [3] http://openjdk.java.net/census/#members [4] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/#new-project-vote

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