[eclipse-pmc] F"Feature card" request: Java 6 annotation processing (APT

["Walter Harley" <wharley@xxxxxxx>]

> ... the process for contributing feature work is going to be tightened
a little bit. 
> You will need a feature card from the PMC in order to do so [...] 
> Note: approval is still needed to implement an API facade which got
released late into 3.3M6.

Request permission to continue with implementing the JSR-269 (Java 6
Pluggable Annotation Processing) API in M7.

This work is partly complete but there is still a lot to do; many
individual methods and classes of this API are not yet implemented.  

The umbrella bug request for this functionality is
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=154110.  Its
implementation is required in order for the Eclipse JDT compiler to be
fully Java 6 compliant.

I want to set expectations: my sense is that this work will be
continuing right down to the wire, and we will ship without a perfect
and 100% complete implementation.  This is an API with a lot of excess
functionality; our experience with Java 5 annotation processing makes me
believe that no one uses all of it, and what's most important is getting
the useful 80% out there and in the hands of users.

Thanks,
  -walter

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