OpenJDK7 build and contributions

[Ivan Krylov]

Thank you for this clarification.

Ivan

On 07/05/2015 17:29, dalibor topic wrote:
> On 07.05.2015 11:47, Ivan Krylov wrote:
>> Oracle will select a company that would declared as the maintainer of
>> the project. For OpenJDK6 the maintainer is Red Hat.
>> That company will set the policies for updates, etc.
>
> Not quite. It's important to get the terminology right.
>
> A Projects has a Project Lead, who is an individual which may or may 
> not work for a given company. The Project Lead is responsible for 
> "directing and coordinating the Project’s activities" [0].
>
> When a Project is created, or when its Project Lead resigns or 
> departs, candidates for a new Project Lead may be nominated by the 
> Group Leads of a Project’s Sponsoring Groups. In the case of this 
> Project, the sponsoring Group is the Build Group, and its Group lead 
> is of course an individual.
>
> The Project Lead for the JDK 6 Project is Andrew Haley.
>
> cheers,
> dalibor topic
>
> [0] http://openjdk.java.net/bylaws#project-lead