[8u-communication] JDK 8u202 RDP2

[Andrew Hughes]

On Thu, 22 Nov 2018 at 10:10, dalibor topic <dalibor.topic at oracle.com> wrote:

snip...

> That worked, of course, but it wasn't always great for everyone either,
> as I believe some people had to sit on their changes until the
> transition took place.

Yes... and I was beginning to worry we were falling into the same thing again.
It's good to hear you're aware of it too.

>
> With the upcoming transition in this Project, Sean, i.e. the Project
> Lead, has chosen [1] a different and I think better path - to widen the
> set of Maintainers ahead of the transition, making the approval process
> a bit smoother in consequence, so that potential future maintainers
> would be able to approve changes for their next release before the
> actual transition of Project Leads.
>
> TLDR: I assume that approvals will pick up again once the new
> maintainers are on board.

I completely understand the dilemma. It's funny that I was wondering only
yesterday whether there was an application process for maintainers, so
we could get others on board to ease the transition, before the actual
leadership switch... :-)

>
> cheers,
> dalibor topic
>
> [0] I'll leave a story involving two letters here for future
> maintainers:
> https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1982/01/15/a-tale-of-two-letters/e1f65aa4-66ce-4991-8a1b-840fc6956766/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.26ad7b2224af
> ;)
>
> [1]
> http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk8u-dev/2018-November/008179.html
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