What does LTS mean for OpenJDK? (original) (raw)

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Sun Aug 19 20:02:40 UTC 2018

On 08/19/2018 08:03 PM, Stephen Colebourne wrote:

However, this is only during the first 6 months of Java 11. After that developers wanting the $free 11 binaries have to go to some other site. This inconsistency (changing where to find the download) does not seem great to me Would an OpenJDK equivalent of http://jdk.java.net clearly attached to and linked from OpenJDK itself be a suitable solution to the problem?

Probably, yes. We'll work something out. I certainly welcome that the official OpenJDK binaries won't necessarily come only from Oracle, but from some place (or probably places) agreed by the whole community. In the long run it's better that people think of Java as not something given by "them" but created by us as a shared endeavor. Java is a huge deal, and by working together we safeguard its future for as long as people need it.

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