Will there ever be non-Sun committers to the OpenJDK project?

Yes! We are very excited about collaborating with non-Sun community members on the code, and as is customary with open-source projects, inviting the best of them to become committers to the code base on equal terms. The process of becoming a committer to the OpenJDK code base will of course be governed by the new OpenJDK Constitution.

In the interim period, two new non-Sun developers have been voted into Membership: Neal Gafter (Compiler Group) and Doug Lea (Core Libraries Group). There are also several Members of OpenJDK Groups who are no longer Sun employees but who retain their Membership, and so gradually there are non-Sun committers becoming a part of the project. We expect more non-Sun committers to be voted into Groups, and for this process to accelerate in the coming year.

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