Governance board status?

[Andy Tripp]

What's going on with the OpenJDK Interum Governance Board?

There hasn't been any email on this list in the last four months: 
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/gb-discuss/

I had heard (http://fitzsim.org/blog/)
that the OpenJDK constitution, which was supposed to
be ready by JavaOne2008, has been delayed a year, and that the
Interum GB now has two additional people. Are these true? If so,
why no posting about it on this list?

A search for "constitution" on the JavaOne2008 site returns nothing.

Until the OpenJDK has a constitution, things aren't really open, and
Sun continues to control everything. For example, without any rules
in place on the GB, Sun has changed the makeup of the GB and could 
continue to do so.

I thought that the initial time frame for a constitution (9 months?)
was too long. Now, the deadline has passed, there seems to be zero progress
on it, and a whole extra year is added to the deadline? That's an
awful way to start a community. Constitutions for whole new countries
have been created and ratified in less time than this.

Perhaps the whole IGB thing needs to be re-evaluated, since the main purpose
of it is to produce a constitution, and zero progress seems 
(at least from the outside looking in) to have been
made after nearly a year. 

I know everyone's busy, but so far it seems like this whole GB, constitution,
etc. is just a sham.

Your friendly neighborhood thorn-in-your-side,
Andy Tripp