This kind of change may seem minor but it does make a very positive difference. New users approaching the project are undoubtably put off or made nervous seeing very stale documents. Out of date docs really kill confidence that a project is a "going concern". Mike On Nov 7 2012, at 18:24 , Iris Clark wrote:
Hi!
Just thought I’d let you know that I just pushed an update to the Guide [1] (webrev [2]). Don’t get too excited, all I did was a quick pass to remove the obviously incorrect (e.g. s/Sun/Oracle/g), eliminate references to plans that never materialized or things that longer exist, run it through the W3C Markup Validator, and bump the version number/date.
There’s still additional work that could be done. There’s no grand plan here. It just made me sad to see the Guide languishing for attention. Thanks, iris
[1]: http://openjdk.java.net/guide/ [2]: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~iris/guide/20121107/