Hi Reinier, that's exactly my experience. See all the fun with Lambdas and Option.
OpenJDK is as much open source as Android: it is in the licensing sense; but not in the community and collaboration sense. Someone should probably invent a new word for it, so that people don't have false assumptions. The "no time" seems to be a result of the (intended) strict adherence to release dates. I guess all the individuals are just deeply afraid of causing a disruption here. And since pretty much everything going into OpenJDK needs to be "sponsored" by some Oracle group (exceptions apply) and everyone is busy there, there is no one left picking up even the small, random bits and pieces coming from the community (like fixing that "public constructor" in j.m.BigInteger, which is actually package private since decades already). Pretty much the only chance is getting into Project Coin (which would probably mean in this case that nothing else could go into Coin) or building up public pressure long enough for the marketing department to realize and act (see Lambdas). Maybe you should have a look at other projects which are more welcoming to community contributions. Nevertheless, I wish you good luck. Bye, Simon -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/javaposse/-/V1sMSztEOXsJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
