On Jun 12, 2013, at 11:17 AM, [email protected] wrote: > 2013/6/9 4:34 -0700, [email protected]: >> I must admit, I'm a bit frustrated. Maybe (hopefully) I've missed >> something or misunderstood something. I'd like to contribute >> suggestions and/or ask questions regarding the Java 8 >> specification. My understanding was that such contributions from the >> community were welcomed so that the spec and the implementation could >> be made as high-quality as possible. However, when I post to the >> observers list nobody ever responds, > > No one is obligated to respond to messages sent to the observers > list, per the description on the JSR 337 page [1].
Yes. I had see this and that is why I tried out the comments list instead. > >> and when I post to the comments >> list a moderator never approves my posts. > > My apologies -- moderation requests for the comments list weren't > making it into my inbox, but I've fixed that. Thanks. I'm glad to see I wasn't just being ignored. :-) > >> How am I supposed to contribute? Is there some other list or forum >> that I'm missing? > > You're welcome to send detailed comments and suggestions to the > java-se-8-spec-comments list, and all such messages will eventually > get a response. You're likely to get a more immediate response, > however, if you go directly to the relevant OpenJDK mailing list. > The core-libs-dev list, e.g., would be a good place to raise your > suggestions about the StackTraceElement and MessageFormat classes. Thanks! I didn't know about the core-libs-dev list. I will go there for these suggestions. > > - Mark > > > [1] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk8/spec/ Nick
