Governing Board

The Governing Board oversees the structure, operation, and overall health of the OpenJDK Community. It upholds and maintains the Bylaws, resolves procedural disputes, and ensures that sufficient infrastructure is available to Community members. The Governing Board has no direct authority over technical or release decisions.

Bylaws

The final draft of the OpenJDK Community Bylaws is available, along with diffs relative to the previous draft and an accompanying Q&A page. Discussion of these documents takes place on the gb-discuss list.

The vote to ratify the Bylaws has started; it will end at 16:00 UTC on Tuesday 28 June.

Previous drafts, for reference:

• Second public draft [9]
• First public draft [7]

Membership

The current members of the Governing Board are:

• Adam Messinger (Chair, Oracle),
• Jason Gartner (Vice Chair, IBM),
• Mark Reinhold (OpenJDK Lead, Oracle),
• Prof. Doug Lea (At-Large, SUNY Oswego), and
• Mike Milinkovich (At-Large, Eclipse).

At-Large members serve for a term of one calendar year. After the first year they will be nominated and elected by a democratic process open to all key members of the Community.

The Members of the Governing Board may be reached via gb at openjdk dot java net.

Meeting minutes

• 2011/05/26
• 2011/05/19
• 2011/05/12
• 2011/05/05
• 2011/04/28
• 2011/04/21

History

Information about the original Sun-chartered Interim Governance Board has been archived here.