Governing Board Minutes: 2013/2/14

The OpenJDK Governing Board met via conference call on Thursday, 14 February 2013 at 16:00 UTC with the following agenda:

  1. Approval of minutes
  2. Infrastructure update
  3. Any other business

Four Board members were present: Georges Saab, Doug Lea, Andrew Haley, and Mark Reinhold.

No observers were present.

The intent of these minutes is to capture the conversational flow of the Board’s discussion and also to record decisions. If you are interested only in the latter then search for the word “AGREED” throughout the text.

1. Approval of minutes

Mark asked whether Board members had a chance to review the previously submitted minutes. Andrew commented that he’d used the minutes to refresh his memory and was grateful that they’d been available ahead of FOSDEM 2013. Mark noted that those present constituted a quorum and asked to approve the minutes.

AGREED: Minutes approved.

2. Infrastructure update

Mark said that he expects the new OpenJDK wiki to be beta initialized with the OpenJDK-related content at wikis.oracle.com. The site will be read-only while it is evaluated for an Atlassian open software license. Once the license is granted then the site will become read/write, at which point everyone who is registered in the OpenJDK Census will be sent an e-mail message containing instructions on how to reset their password.

Doug was happy and asked whether there will be any content restrictions. Mark replied saying that each Project (or Group) Lead will be free to administer their space as appropriate. Mark also pointed out that the entire site will be covered by the OpenJDK Terms of Use, and that each space will have a link at the bottom of the page to the applicable license. Pages covering development of a specification in the JCP will typically use a comment-and-evaluation license. All other pages will be under GPLv2. Georges noted that the wiki also includes an identity system which will be key as more infrastructure is introduced.

3. Any other business

Andrew observed that JDK 6 Project will continue development with him as the [new Project Lead]. He stated that there are no plans to actively maintain the Windows and Mac ports but that he hopes to keep them in a “reasonable” state.

Georges reminded everybody that there is a planned Critical Patch Update for Java SE on 19 February 2013.

At this point the Board adjourned.