Looks like we are finally onto the last mile - one way or other I should have Oracle's final decision in my hands within the next 8 weeks. That's a long time I know but we've waited a year so far.
Here's my question to anyone still listening: If Oracle say they will not pariticipate at all, or not in the next 12 months what should we do? For your deliberations you should be aware that I'm working in the OpenJDK space now. Some of our technical limitations (where we needed Oracle to do something for us in the JVM) may be solvable simply by doing the work ourselves (outside Apache) and submitting to OpenJDK. Options include : 1 - Retiring this podling full stop. 2 - Move the work to OpenJDK and possibly attempt to get JSR 326 into JDK8. 3 - Defering or dropping the "JSR" part of this project work and just focusing on producing a high quality codebase that solves peoples problems. Tell me what you think. -- Steve
