OpenJDK governing board, constitution

[Neal Gafter]

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Simon Phipps <webmink at sun.com> wrote:

>
> On Jan 16, 2009, at 19:09, Andy Tripp wrote:
>
>   What has changed so that a constitution is no longer needed?
>>
>
> Who said it wasn't needed? It's just that the only dispute that has arisen
> so far appears to be this one, and experience elsewhere shows that creating
> governance in a vacuum leads to bad decisions. What actually is the need
> precipitating your passion, beyond an arbitrary date passing (through, I
> agree, apparent neglect)?


I'm not sure I would characterize this as a dispute or a problem.  I'm not
upset or anything, I'm just trying to find out what the processes are for
things moving forward.  If people are happy with the current process for
changes going into JDK7 before the platform JSR exists (whatever that
process is), then that's OK with me.
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