[zaa]

"a new version of the JCP Process document and a formalized Executive Committee Members' Guide and is expected to be completed and approved within about six months."

What an irony. It will take them half an year to only come up with a process on how to modify the language, when the creators of languages like Go, Clojure, etc can modify a substantial part of their respective language during this time frame.

[Kaizyn]

It is still less time than is required for a new draft spec for C++ to come out of the language committee.

[joshsegall]

What are the odds that the new process comes out before Java 7?