On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Steve Poole <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:37 AM, Stuart Monteith <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello, >> It is that time for our quarterly status report. In the past quarter >> Steve posted that there had been discussions with Oracle regarding JSR-326 >> and this project, but so far nothing conclusive has occurred. There was an >> indication that Oracle was going to say something, but nothing came of that >> within this reporting period. >> >> Steve - can you update us with the current situation with Oracle - have you >> gotten any conclusions from them? And your views on the continuation of this >> project? >> > > Status is : > > 10: Bug Oracle execs > 20: They say "please wait" > 30: sleep (n days) > 40: goto 10 > > To be fair "n" is falling and It's not like Oracle have said no. Currently > the loop doesn't seem to have an exit though. My best guess is that "n" is > now looking to be about 60 days before we get a definite answer.
These things sometimes take time... > I say we make this the last go round. I will talk within IBM about the > future of JSR 326 without Oracle's support. If IBM still wants to continue > the JSR then great - otherwise, assuming that they want to continue funding > developers, we work out a smaller development plan that takes Kato to > graduation. ( We've got some great stuff but its all alpha level.) I've review the report and it seems fair. Thanks to everyone for their patience. Robert
