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Martin Buchholz martinrb at google.com
Tue Jun 30 18:01:56 UTC 2009

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 09:24, Andrew John Hughes <gnu_andrew at member.fsf.org

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2009/6/30 Martin Buchholz <martinrb at google.com>:

> (There is the deeper governance issue of who gets to make > such decisions. I would like most of such decisions to be made > by the "group" of engineers who do the work. For collections/concurrency, > such a group has worked informally for many years.) > OpenJDK is (or at least should now be) a community-driven open source project. And so, the community as a whole should be making such decisions, not just those who happen to be employed by Sun.

Right. There is a problem when different sets of contributors have different objectives for things like compatibility, portability, stability, benchmark performance....

It might be that a significant contributor (like Sun or IcedTea) would maintain a separate set of patches essentially forever, since they would not be acceptable to the greater community. Oh, I guess that's already happened, eh?

There's also the issue of the size of the project. Is OpenJDK a "project", or is it an aggregator of projects maintained by various third parties, like a Linux distro? Given how the code base has grown, at least a large number of components should be treated in the latter way. It is already the case, I believe, that the JAX* code is essentially imported unchanged from upstream maintainers.

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