Governance board status?

[Roman Kennke]

Hi Andy,

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

> Until the OpenJDK has a constitution, things aren't really open, and
> Sun continues to control everything.

<etcetc>

I don't know about the constitution. But apart from that, there has been
a lot of progress on the technical side. OpenJDK now has live Mercurial
repositories, a lot of new active outside developers, both companies
(Red Hat, aicas) as well as individuals. There's a special TCK license
for OpenJDK. Sun has become reasonable open and responsive wrt to
patches and mailing list postings. I think they are doing pretty good,
considering that they are all horribly busy. I've been a strong critic
of the closedness of OpenJDK in the past, but I think I can honestly say
that OpenJDK is on a good way, not by observing one single mailing list
and detail of the progress, but by actively contributing and taking part
of the whole thing. IMO the constitution is only a beaurocratic little
detail and I'm sure it will be fixed, when needed.

Cheers, Roman

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