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TL;DR Andrew Haley is stepping up on behalf of RedHat and the greater OpenJDK community to provide leadership for LTS branches of OpenJDK 8 and 11.

> The OpenJDK Vulnerability Group, with members from many organizations, collaborates on critical security issues.

Huh, I'd never heard of that before.

> There is also the question of back-porting important features from later OpenJDK releases ... While new features, particularly performance-related ones, are undoubtedly nice to have, our first priority must be to not break anything: we must remember that we are stewards of a very precious piece of software. ... each proposal will have to be taken on its individual merits, and I don’t think we can have a one-size-fits-all policy for such things.

This is so refreshing to hear. Especially after all the turmoil over the Linux CoC, it's nice to just hear: we'll rely on my human judgment and that if my peers.

All in all I think this is good news and well needed clarity.




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