OpenJDK governing board, constitution

[Geir Magnusson Jr.]

I've been worried about this for a while.

geir

On Jan 15, 2009, at 10:58 AM, Neal Gafter wrote:

> The reason I ask is that I'm worried that openJDK may turn into the  
> defacto
> mechanism for features getting into the platform.  The JCP used to  
> play that
> role, but there has been little activity in forming a JSR for Java  
> SE 7 in
> the past few years.  I've noticed that openjdk7 is more and more being
> called Java 7, JDK7, etc, even though it doesn't implement a platform
> specification approved by the JCP.  If openjdk is to become the  
> mechanism by
> which features are added to the platform, it would be better for the
> governance model to acknowledge and support that.
>
> On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 6:15 AM, Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi Neal,
>>
>> On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 19:15 -0800, Neal Gafter wrote:
>>> The OpenJDK governing board, having had its life extended by a year,
>>> is now scheduled to dissolve in four months, with two of its non-Sun
>>> positions remaining unfilled.  The last published meeting minutes  
>>> were
>>> from April 2008, at which it was agreed that the GB would strive  
>>> for a
>>> draft Constitution by the end of 2008.
>>>
>>> Who are the seven members of the governing board?  Can we please see
>>> the minutes of meetings after April, and get a status report on the
>>> Constitution?
>>
>> Good questions, and I don't know the answers.
>> May I ask a meta-question in return though?
>>
>> What do we really expect from the governance board?
>>
>> While it has been completely missing in action for the last half  
>> year, I
>> cannot say I have actually missed it. Things do seem to happen  
>> anyway.
>> What kind of issues do we as hackers really have that could be  
>> solved by
>> having an active governance board and a "constitution"?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>