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The TL;DR is that Red Hat and IBM are going to take over from Oracle as primary maintainers of java 8 (in the form of openjdk) after January 2019. That is likel
by bradleyjg 8y ago
The TL;DR is that Red Hat and IBM are going to take over from Oracle as primary maintainers of java 8 (in the form of openjdk) after January 2019. That is likely to last through at least 2022.
Going forward Oracle will be primary maintainers of openjdk for each new version of java for six months. Every third version (starting with 11) the hope and expectation is that RH, IBM, et al will take over after those six months are up and continue to support those versions for at least several years.
- adamson 8y agoThat's such a weird arrangement from a people perspective, but if that works out, it bodes pretty well for the longevity of Java
- flukus 8y agoThat sounds like a disaster, the developers at oracle no longer have any personal incentive when it comes to producing quality, maintainable software because it is no longer a problem they have to deal with. Because they're not feeling any personal pain from bad decisions they will no longer learn from them. This is close to the consultancy business model that's been at the root of so much bad software.
- MBCook 8y agoWhat makes you say that? The Oracle JDK IS the Open JDK, only with a few extra features. At least that’s my understanding. A shared code base. If they do a terrible job of sticking a feature in they’re going to have to keep handling it until it’s cleaned up or removed.