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Re:Java 18 / JDK 18: General Availability by toyg on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @05:04PM (#30771524)
> LTS is not an openjdk term

It's an Oracle term, and I expect the majority of OpenJDK committers and decision-makers are still from Oracle.

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Re:Java 18 / JDK 18: General Availability by carimura on Tuesday March 22, 2022 @07:36PM (#30773033)
LTS was proposed by Mark Reinhold [1] who leads the JDK Project in the OpenJDK community in 2017. There was a lot of discussion [2] that resulted in many vendors supporting and adopting the LTS model.

It's a thriving ecosystem (which is great!) but yes, Oracle does contribute a significant portion [3].

[1] https://mreinhold.org/blog/forward-faster [2] https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2017-Septemb... [3] https://inside.java/2022/03/22/the-arrival-of-java18/

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Re:Java 18 / JDK 18: General Availability by krzyk on Wednesday March 30, 2022 @03:09AM (#30852252)
Yeah, but OpenJDK commiters thankfully don't care about it.

E.g. look on the things introduced in JDK 16 and JDK 17.

LTS is a good gimmick for decision makers in companies, but developers also don't care about it (it is not LTS as in e.g. Ubuntu).

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