Hey Roger -
Thanks for your efforts in tracking this down.
Roger Kitain wrote:
They also said that the older jsr-314-open messages could be injected
into this forum so we
would not lose anything.
That's great news!
I'm still awaiting specific
details about the new process and what we need to do to rectify the
situation, but it may mean
we change from jsr-314-open to jsr-314-public. I will let you know as
soon as I find out more.
Taking a look at the following info from the jcp site:
http://jcp.org/en/introduction/intro#boards
We have access to a 3 discussion boards:
* jsr-xxx-public: this is a board to which any registered user
can
post. Some Expert Groups may choose to use these boards for their
primary communication on the JSR's development. As an alternative to
viewing the long list of all boards, you can also get to a given JSR's
public board by clicking the "jsr-xxx-public" link on the JSR's
summary page.
* jsr-xxx-observers: this is a board to which any registered user
may request to be added, to which the JSR's Spec Lead and experts are
automatically subscribed. Some Expert Groups may choose to use these
boards for their primary communication on the JSR's development, while
still others may use it as a mechanism for providing updates to the
particularly interested members of the community. To request to be
added to a JSR's observer board, use the Observers board request form
to ask to be added to the board.
* jsr-xxx-eg: this is a board that is private to the Specification
Lead(s) and Expert Group members for that JSR. Some Expert Groups may
choose to use these boards for their primary communication on the
JSR's development, using the others as mechanisms for community updates.
Seems like we would want to perform the following mapping
jsr-314-comments is replaced by jsr-314-public.
jsr-314-open is replaced by jsr-314-observers.
jsr-314-eg stays the same (which is not really in use at this point).
Note that there is some degree of email support available:
Using the boards via e-mail
Many Expert Groups wish to conduct their communications primarily
through e-mail. Both the observers and EG-private boards also generate
e-mail messages. This allows the people using those boards to choose
to use either the board's web interface, or just to interact with the
board via e-mail, where it functions like a standard mailing list, or
some combination of the two. For instance, if you are on the Expert
Group for JSR 500, you could send mail to jsr-500-eg(a)jcp.org. This
message would be distributed to everyone else on the Expert Group via
e-mail, as well as being entered in the discussion board for future
reference.
But apparently no email love for jsr-314-public. Roger - any chance you
could raise this limitation with your jcp contact? Ideally we would
like email access to the public forum.
Andy