>So, let’s ship a feature release every six months. I agree with the proposed plan, when I worked on the JVM, there was a mad dash to get features in by a cert

>So, let’s ship a feature release every six months. I agree with the proposed plan, when I worked on the JVM, there was a mad dash to get features in by a certain date, otherwise you'd have to wait till the next release of Java to ship your changes. From interacting with the service teams (L3 and above) customers prefer new features in a new version of Java, with the long release cycles, you have to ship new features in a service packs which made the service team queasy. It also removes the stigma that Java and its ecosystem is slow compared to V8, .NET and the other platforms.