Frustrated; how to contribute with no moderation, no responses?

[mark.reinhold at oracle.com]

2013/6/9 4:34 -0700, nicholas at nicholaswilliams.net:
> I must admit, I'm a bit frustrated. Maybe (hopefully) I've missed
> something or misunderstood something. I'd like to contribute
> suggestions and/or ask questions regarding the Java 8
> specification. My understanding was that such contributions from the
> community were welcomed so that the spec and the implementation could
> be made as high-quality as possible. However, when I post to the
> observers list nobody ever responds,

No one is obligated to respond to messages sent to the observers
list, per the description on the JSR 337 page [1].

>                                      and when I post to the comments
> list a moderator never approves my posts.

My apologies -- moderation requests for the comments list weren't
making it into my inbox, but I've fixed that.

> How am I supposed to contribute? Is there some other list or forum
> that I'm missing?

You're welcome to send detailed comments and suggestions to the
java-se-8-spec-comments list, and all such messages will eventually
get a response.  You're likely to get a more immediate response,
however, if you go directly to the relevant OpenJDK mailing list.
The core-libs-dev list, e.g., would be a good place to raise your
suggestions about the StackTraceElement and MessageFormat classes.

- Mark


[1] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk8/spec/