Proposed schedule for JDK 9

Tue May 5 16:21:31 UTC 2015

Here is a proposed schedule for JDK 9:
 2015年12月10日 Feature Complete
 2016年02月04日 All Tests Run
 2016年02月25日 Rampdown Start
 2016年04月21日 Zero Bug Bounce
 2016年06月16日 Rampdown Phase 2
 2016年07月21日 Final Release Candidate
 2016年09月22日 General Availability
The dates here are meant to leave sufficient time for broad review and
testing of the significant features of the release, in particular the
introduction of a module system and the modularization of the platform,
while maintaining the cadence of shipping a major release about every
two years.
The milestone definitions are the same as those for JDK 8 [1].
Comments from JDK 9 Committers are welcome, as are reasoned objections.
If no such objections are raised by 23:00 UTC next Tuesday, 12 May, or
if they're raised and then satisfactorily answered, then per the JEP 2.0
process proposal [2] this will be adopted as the schedule for JDK 9.
(This information is also available on the JDK 9 Project Page [3]).
- Mark
[1] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk8/milestones#definitions
[2] http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mr/jep/jep-2.0-02.html
[3] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk9/