A changing of the guard for OpenJDK 6 release management

[Joe Darcy]

The first public source drop of OpenJDK 6 went out just over three years 
ago. I've been the release manager for the project for all that time and 
for the preceding six months while the effort was incubating inside of 
Sun. Somewhat later than anticipated at the start, all initial goals for 
the project have long been met, with a public master code repository 
worked on by both the internal and external community members and a code 
base that can be used to build a fully compatible implementation of Java 
SE 6. Combined with the IcedTea 6 set of patches and additions, the code 
from OpenJDK 6 is used to build the JDK packaged with many Linux 
distributions.

However, to have more time to spend on other projects, such as Project 
Coin, effective immediately I've turned over release management 
responsibilities for OpenJDK 6 to my colleague Kelly O'Hair. Kelly has 
considerable experience with JDK development in general and OpenJDK 6 in 
particular. Kelly has made major contributions to OpenJDK 6 throughout 
all phases of the project, starting from its inception, to the synthesis 
of its public Mercurial repositories with history information, to the 
recent purging of the despised binary plugs.

While I have some sadness in relinquishing leadership of the project, 
I'm happy to be leaving OpenJDK 6 release management in Kelly's capable 
hands.

-Joe