OpenJDK6 is reaching the end of the road. Oracle's JDK 6 had its last public update in 2013, and I took over the leadership role in OpenJDK 6 in March of that year. But it's looking decidedly old now, and we should persuade people to move to something more recent.
Since I took over the lead we've maintained OpenJDK 6, back-porting important bug fixes and some updates, but I think the time has now come to say goodbye. We can't maintain it for ever, and we've been strongly recommending people to move to a more recent release for some time. With all that in mind, I intend to resign leadership of OpenJDK 6 at the end of his year. If any appropriately-qualified person wishes to take over the project leadership, they may apply to do so. However, I expect that the OpenJDK 6 project will quietly end. OpenJDK 6 EOL: December 31, 2016. Andrew.
