What is an observers board?

With the launch of JCP 2.7, every JSR has three discussion boards: a public one (jsr-xxx-public), an Expert Group-private one (jsr-xxx-eg), and an observers board (jsr-xxx-observers). The EG board is completely private to the people on the Expert Group, while the jsr-xxx-public board is accessible to any registered user of jcp.org. While Expert Groups are required to respond to all public comments, they may choose to operate in their day-to-day work on the JSR at some level of privacy in between EG-private and wide open. Such an option is the jsr-xxx-observers board, which is accessible to any registered user who has requested access to the board and been approved by the Spec Lead. Of course, you and your Expert Group are not constrained to use the observers board in that way; you could use it as a way of making announcements to select members of the community about the progress of your JSR.

How is it maintained?

Interested parties can go to this form to submit a request to be added. You, the Spec Lead, then go to your JSR's Administration tab to review and process these requests.

The board itself works just like any of the other boards on jcp.org.

The PMO welcomes suggestions and requests from the Spec Leads for improvements of this guide and the process: pmo@jcp.org