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

[Andrew Hughes]

----- Original Message -----
> Hi,
> 
> back at FOSDEM I received a couple of questions about OpenJDK 6
> future after the November
> 2012 date, with regard to Oracle's planned contributions to it. Tomas
> Nilsson, Oracle's
> outbound Principal Product Manager for Java SE let JUG leaders and
> Java champions
> know [0] today that
> 
> "[..] in line with no longer posting updates of Java SE 6 after
> November 2012 to Oracle’s
> public download sites, we don’t have plans to contribute further
> changes to OpenJDK 6 after
> November 2012. Users of OpenJDK 6 should consider upgrading to
> OpenJDK 7, or, of course,
> to Oracle JDK 7, depending on their requirements."
> 

Ok, so what does this mean for everyone else?  Most of the backports
to 6 have been performed by others (e.g. Red Hat) and then approved by
Oracle in the past.  But Oracle have always been the only ones to
approve patches and make releases.

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?

> cheers,
> dalibor topic
> 
> [0] http://markmail.org/thread/vkk7idimoin3z2ag
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