The future of OpenJDK6

[Andrew Haley]

On 03/14/2013 04:00 PM, Andrew Hughes wrote:
> 
> Ok.  Maybe you could explain what kind of changes you do foresee going
> into OpenJDK? Changes from IcedTea6 were proceeding upstream
> under Oracle's leadership (albeit very slowly) and your original e-mail
> suggested the acceptance policy, in general, wouldn't be changing.

I think I've already stated what kind of changes I forsee going into
OpenJDK 6.  It's explained quite well on the JDK 6 Project page.  If
an IcedTea6 patch qualifies under those criteria then it can be
considered, but because stability is the primary concern there is
necessarily a high bar.

Andrew.