Oracle's plans to contribute to OpenJDK 6 after November 2012

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> On 5/30/12 5:53 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> > In other words, does this also mean Oracle won't approve changes by
> > others
> > or make releases, or just that they won't contribute changes?  If
> > so, can
> > someone else take over this role?
> 
> I'd expect the OpenJDK 6 Project to close its forests in November,
> in the same manner how the JDK 7 Project closed its forests once it
> was
> done.
> 

That doesn't seem fair to me.  This is stopping other members of the
OpenJDK community from working on OpenJDK6, just because Oracle doesn't 
want to.

I guess we could set up a copy on the IcedTea servers and use that instead
for future OpenJDK6 work.

> cheers,
> dalibor topic
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