OpenJDK Governing Board Minutes: 2011/5/5

[Mario Torre]

Il giorno mar, 10/05/2011 alle 13.44 -0700, mark.reinhold at oracle.com ha
scritto:

> Mark nominated an initial list of Governing Board Observers:
> 
>  - John Duimovich (Java CTO & Distinguished Engineer, IBM),
>  - Andrew Haley (Java Team Lead, Red Hat), and
>  - Georges Saab (VP Java Platform Development, Oracle),
> 
> The board then unanimously
> 
> > AGREED: To invite John Duimovich, Andrew Haley, and Georges Saab
>   to attend Governing Board meetings as Observers.

Very good, news, cheers,

> First, contributors need more transparency around development
> processes
> such as code-review policies, unit-test requirements, TCK
> requirements,
> and so forth.  Developers inside Oracle know how these things work,
> but
> they are a mystery to most people outside.

Thanks Doug for brining this up in the meeting, I hope we can address
this topic soon, which is one of the 5 points Mark W. highlighted.

> > AGREED: To request an update from Oracle on the status of work on
> the
>   bug database and, if feasible, any other infrastructure projects.

Another long standing point (it's fun to read that Oracle "has a team
looking into infrastructure issues; they are at present gathering
requirements and investigating alternatives for an open bug database",
as those are exactly the words two years ago Sun used :)

But although those requirement are complex and it needs time to collect
them, I welcome and really appreciate the fact that at you started to
work on some of the real concerns that need to be addressed soon.

Thanks for those efforts,
Mario
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