The usual advice given when an outsider wants to suggest an improvement or even report a mundane bug to the JDK is "bring it up on the mailing list". I have done this in the past. I think I might never dare to do so again. The usual flow is:
1. Sign up to the list, so you can send messages. You will now start receiving lots of messages, most of which are unrelated to the thing you wanted to talk about. (Digest mode helps) 1. Bring up your suggestion and whatever, and stay for the discussion. 2. Eventually the discussion will wrap-up, and you can unsubscribe, because let's face it, the lists tend to be quite high-traffic. Without self-service: 1. Do you dare to sign up, given that you are at the mercy of a very busy list admin's help to then get back OFF the list? 2. Do you dare to be removed, given that it may be hard to back? Hence, I'm still subscribed to core libs dev, putting up with a minor spam flood, even though I haven't read or sent a single message in months. Hence, I don't intend to subscribe to any further lists, even though I do indeed have something I'd like to talk about. (Core-libs-dev is probably the wrong venue.) Some JDK team members sometimes say "the JDK is not bottlenecked on coding; we don't need drive-by pull requests, but we're sometimes bottlenecked on feedback". Please don't lock people out of providing it. Trivial inconveniences like this can matter. Just my two cents. Thanks. ________________________________ The information contained in this message is intended only for the recipient, and may be a confidential attorney-client communication or may otherwise be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, please be aware that any dissemination or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify us by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. S&P Global Inc. reserves the right, subject to applicable local law, to monitor, review and process the content of any electronic message or information sent to or from S&P Global Inc. e-mail addresses without informing the sender or recipient of the message. By sending electronic message or information to S&P Global Inc. e-mail addresses you, as the sender, are consenting to S&P Global Inc. processing any of your personal data therein.
