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

[Nick Williams]

On Jun 12, 2013, at 11:17 AM, mark.reinhold at oracle.com wrote:

> 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].

Yes. I had see this and that is why I tried out the comments list instead.

> 
>>                                     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.

Thanks. I'm glad to see I wasn't just being ignored. :-)

> 
>> 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.

Thanks! I didn't know about the core-libs-dev list. I will go there for these suggestions.

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

Nick