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On 09/03/2014 05:12 PM, Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia wrote:
> 1. Development of GNU Classpath seems to be stalled now (quoting from
> an earlier post from Andrew Haley: "I have to tell you that Classpath
> is not being actively developed, so your problem is unlikely to be
> fixed.")
> 
> 2. This is due to the lack of manpower, which in turn is probably due
> to the lack of interested developers, but also to the fact that most
> of the development effort of the current team is going to OpenJDK
> instead.
> 
> 3. Given the above, perhaps the current maintainers should consider
> switching priorities and start actively looking for a "competent
> successor" (as in lesson #5 of ESR's "The Cathedral and the Bazaar").

Your opinion has been noted.  Now, what do *you* intend to do to help?

Andrew.