David posted a good summary of the legal catch-22 at [1]. But the shortest story is:
+ Mustang wants to ship a GA Derby 10.2, which supports JDBC 4.0. + Derby can't ship a GA 10.2 until JDBC 4.0 is GA, which is with Mustang. Let's keep this thread confined to the JCP issue Andrew raised that to roll a release candidate qualifies as "creation".[2] And those release candidates will be generally available. How do we handle this cleanly? -jean [1] http://www.nabble.com/Proposal-for-10.2-release-schedule-t1832249.html [2] http://www.nabble.com/Proposal-for-10.2-release-schedule-t1832249.html