Martin Buchholz wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 09:24, Andrew John Hughes > <gnu_and...@member.fsf.org <mailto:gnu_and...@member.fsf.org>> wrote: > > 2009/6/30 Martin Buchholz <marti...@google.com > <mailto:marti...@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.
