A changing of the guard for OpenJDK 6 release management

[Dr Andrew John Hughes]

On 00:01 Tue 01 Mar     , Joe Darcy wrote:
> The first public source drop of OpenJDK 6 went out just over three years 
> ago. I've been the release manager for the project for all that time and 
> for the preceding six months while the effort was incubating inside of 
> Sun. Somewhat later than anticipated at the start, all initial goals for 
> the project have long been met, with a public master code repository 
> worked on by both the internal and external community members and a code 
> base that can be used to build a fully compatible implementation of Java 
> SE 6. Combined with the IcedTea 6 set of patches and additions, the code 
> from OpenJDK 6 is used to build the JDK packaged with many Linux 
> distributions.
> 
> However, to have more time to spend on other projects, such as Project 
> Coin, effective immediately I've turned over release management 
> responsibilities for OpenJDK 6 to my colleague Kelly O'Hair. Kelly has 
> considerable experience with JDK development in general and OpenJDK 6 in 
> particular. Kelly has made major contributions to OpenJDK 6 throughout 
> all phases of the project, starting from its inception, to the synthesis 
> of its public Mercurial repositories with history information, to the 
> recent purging of the despised binary plugs.
> 
> While I have some sadness in relinquishing leadership of the project, 
> I'm happy to be leaving OpenJDK 6 release management in Kelly's capable 
> hands.
> 
> -Joe

Thanks for all your hard work, Joe.  It's been much appreciated.
-- 
Andrew :)

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