On 00:01 Tue 01 Mar , Joe Darcy wrote: > 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
Thanks for all your hard work, Joe. It's been much appreciated. -- Andrew :) Free Java Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. (http://www.redhat.com) Support Free Java! Contribute to GNU Classpath and IcedTea http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath http://icedtea.classpath.org PGP Key: F5862A37 (https://keys.indymedia.org/) Fingerprint = EA30 D855 D50F 90CD F54D 0698 0713 C3ED F586 2A37
