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... a custodian who actually cares to improve it, along with the insight and ability to say "no" to enough features that it has sharp unified direction and does
by WilliamLP 16y ago
... a custodian who actually cares to improve it, along with the insight and ability to say "no" to enough features that it has sharp unified direction and doesn't become a typical example of open source feature creep.
Unfortunately, I have a hard time seeing any reason to believe that this resembles Oracle, and any such beliefs seem to be indistinguishable from wishful thinking.
- ewjordan 16y agoa custodian who actually cares to improve it, along with the insight and ability to say "no" to enough features that it has sharp unified direction and doesn't become a typical example of open source feature creep. Sun, in its ownership of Java, has always had the second part down pat - they've flat out rejected many of these features in the past, as well as many other popular requests for improvements both in the VM and in Java the language. It's the first part, the "cares to improve it" bit, where they really fell down. Honestly, I think we could do with a little bit of "open source feature creep" to make up for the stagnation over the past several years... I've also gotten the sense that most of the "no"s were borne of lack of resources to devote to these things rather than a desire to avoid feature creep, though, and I don't know if Oracle is in any better position to devote developers to any of this stuff...