Thanks for the update Andrew - you've done a great job with OpenJDK 6 and I'm personally really happy to see you take on that same role for OpenJDK 7.
Cheers, Martijn On 19 June 2015 at 17:41, Andrew Haley <a...@redhat.com> wrote: > Some of you may have seen the press release at > http://investors.redhat.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=918712 > > I'd like to clarify some things. > > I am the leader of the OpenJDK 7 project and I work for Red Hat. I am > leading this project on behalf of the OpenJDK community because the > community (of which Red Hat is a part) needs to keep OpenJDK 7 going. > > Red Hat is surely going to be more involved than it has been. Oracle's > reduced involvement makes this necessary. > > However, Red Hat does not lead OpenJDK 7: I do. It's important to > make that distinction because this is a community project and in this > role I am responsible to the community, not to Red Hat. > > So, this is not an attempt by Red Hat to control or take over OpenJDK > 7 development. I intend to lead the project in the way that it has > been run in the past, working together with the whole community. > > Andrew. >
