An open letter to the EC calling for JCP reform

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Seizing the opportunity of a new Executive Committee (EC) under a new regime, I'd like to issue a call for reform of the Java Community Process (JCP) to allow it to produce more iterative and timely technology and live up to it's name as a "community process", rather than acting as the "corporate process" many believe it is today.

I hope that the new EC is brave enough to rise to this challenge.

The full contents of the open letter is available here:

http://www.mojavelinux.com/blog/archives/2010/11/an_open_letter_to_the_ec_calling_for_jcp_reform/

Another copy of the open letter can be found here:

http://ocpsoft.com/opensource/open-letter-to-the-jcp-executive-committee-calling-for-jcp-reform/

96 Signatures

  • Andrew Lee Rubinger
  • Brian Leathem
  • Lincoln Baxter, III
  • Edgar Silva
  • David Mendoza
  • Bruno Leonardo Gonзalves
    • Comments
    • OpenJCP
  • Sten Aksel Heien
    • Comments
    • В
  • Samuel Santos
  • Richard Kennard
    • Comments
    • I am a staunch supporter of the JCP. Serving the JCP has felt like an honour. But it will not be an honour in the future if the JCP is not credible
  • German Escobar
  • Tim Blommerde
  • Christian Kaltepoth
  • Peter Mannel
  • Marc Weinberger
    • Comments
    • В
  • Obermaier Dominik
  • Florian Huonder
  • Aslak Knutsen
  • Christian LIPP
    • Comments
    • unleash java!
  • Simon Berger
  • Arnold Johansson
  • Alexandre Porcelli
  • Martin Riedl
  • Gabriel Menessy
  • Paul Moloney
    • Comments
    • The curent waterfall approach to delivering specs every few years means that the platform will ose mindshare and segment to the more agile alternatives e.g. RoR or Groovy/Grails etc... Echo comment about opening up process to be more open and delivering artifacts to maven central
  • Geoffrey De Smet
  • leif hanack
  • Jason Porter
  • Andy Pemberton
  • Jani Kaarela
  • Werner Hammann
  • Travis De Silva
    • Comments
    • В
  • Shervin Asgari
  • George Sapountzis
  • Jhon Oviedo
  • Kim Eeckhout
  • Markus Kolb
  • Miguel Ping
  • Dan Allen
    • Comments
    • Bring the JCP out from behind closed doors!
  • Craig Doremus
    • Comments
    • I am an individual JCP member, and I agree with the reforms presented in this open letter
  • Paul Fremantle
  • king
  • Alexander Smirnov
    • Comments
    • JSR-314 (JSF 2.0) EG member
  • Michael Ayerle
  • Cay Horstmann
    • Comments
    • As with any long and detailed list of grievances, one can quibble with their relative importance. Three key issues stand out. (1) The specifications should be implementable under open licenses (2) Specifications should be developed in the open (3) There should be a process for maintaining and evolving technologies other than disbanding a JSR and forming a successor
  • Ajay Garga
  • Marius Kruger
    • Comments
    • Fix it or loose it.
  • Jean Deruelle
  • Ori Kremer
  • Jarosław Pałka
  • Peter Donald