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OpenJDK: Coordination and Announcements

The need for coordination

In one of the latest emails on the mailing lists Ray Gans was asking for a better coordination of work from contributors that are working on the OpenJDK project.

I think OpenJDK needs a general "Executive Coordination" that is driven by SUN Engineers who organize the work of contributors on OpenJDK projects.

Also it would be nice to have a more visible place for SUN announcements rather than the openjdk Website which seems to be unstable - that is it suffers several crashes.

I was trying to join the ircq Chat today via the url Tom Marble mentioned in his post but the site was unavailable however i do appreciate the affort to get a common OpenJDK Compliance License.

I had a couple of talks to several SUN Engineers and can say that most of you welcome community input - in particular Florian and Mathias from the Java Sound API and Igor from the Java 2D Team.

If it would be possible to facilitate project work and communication between contributors and SUN Engineers the whole community would benefit and new contributors have a better overview of whats going on right now.

This goes in particular for those parts of OpenJDK that are currently not open becuase of pending license issues. It would be nice to know when or if those parts are open and what the current status of these APIs is at present.

Finally, as thinks are moving on, i would suggest to improve the following things to speed up and improve community work:

I think there are some people having similar thoughts in the same direction so any input on this thread from the community and the SUN Engineers is appreciated.

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