OpenJDK Governing Board Minutes: 20011/4/21

[Mike Milinkovich]

> It might help the contributors be more patient if they understood why it
> helps the OpenJDK community to wait for this.  Neither the minutes from
the
> board meeting nor the ensuing discussion in the last twelve hours really
> explain why waiting indefinitely is better than letting OpenJDK 8 get
> started now.
> 
> Put another way, what bad things might happen if it starts now?

Mark,

Good question, thanks. My apologies for a delayed response.

I think the short answer is that Doug and I believe that governance matters.
We did think this through, and our judgment call at the time was the we
needed to push this governance creation process to completion, and the Java8
project was some leverage to do so. It is certainly arguable whether we made
the right decision, but that is the explanation of why.