Roman Kennke wrote:
Hi Andy,
What's going on with the OpenJDK Interum Governance Board?
Until the OpenJDK has a constitution, things aren't really open, and
Sun continues to control everything.
<etcetc>
I don't know about the constitution. But apart from that, there has been
a lot of progress on the technical side. OpenJDK now has live Mercurial
repositories, a lot of new active outside developers, both companies
(Red Hat, aicas) as well as individuals. There's a special TCK license
for OpenJDK. Sun has become reasonable open and responsive wrt to
patches and mailing list postings. I think they are doing pretty good,
considering that they are all horribly busy. I've been a strong critic
of the closedness of OpenJDK in the past, but I think I can honestly say
that OpenJDK is on a good way, not by observing one single mailing list
and detail of the progress, but by actively contributing and taking part
of the whole thing. IMO the constitution is only a beaurocratic little
detail and I'm sure it will be fixed, when needed.
Thanks, Roman, that's spot on.
I posted a longer set on my thoughts about the Interim GB 2.0 on my blog on
http://robilad.livejournal.com/31357.html why the focus of the project
shifted
over the past year to providing code and infra first, and constitutions
later
(i.e. later this year, not later forever).
cheers,
dalibor topic
