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Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Tue Jun 30 18:32:09 UTC 2009

Martin Buchholz wrote:

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 09:24, Andrew John Hughes <gnuandrew at member.fsf.org <mailto:gnuandrew at member.fsf.org>> wrote: 2009/6/30 Martin Buchholz <martinrb at google.com_ _<mailto: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?

Ouch, that touched a nerve.

I certainly hope not. Goodness knows, we're really trying to make that separate set of patches go away.

Andrew.

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