Recruiting for redesign of Swing text editing components

With all due respect to the efforts of the Swing engineering team, I personally feel it is high time somebody took the incentive of completely reconsidering the implementations of JTextComponent and providing an open source replacement.
As those of us who have tried to make use of the existing JTextComponent will agree, it seems to be some of the most complex and obscure code in the entire Swing library, and has some serious deficiencies of fundamental design and implementation that do not seem to be being addressed.
I am appealing to anyone who wishes to contribute to such an effort to email me at [email protected] I would like to start by organizing a blue-ribbon team to review the current design, and a parallel effort to identify an ideal requirements set and a project plan moving forward.
Mitch Goldstein
Consultant, Swing Guru, Author of Hardcore JFC
[email protected]

As those of us who have tried to make use of the
existing JTextComponent will agree, it seems to
be some of the most complex and obscure code in the
entire Swing library, and has some serious
deficiencies of fundamental design and implementation
that do not seem to be being addressed.[...]
It's good to know I'm not the only one that was thinking that. Sorry Tim :-) (Tim Prinzing wrote the text package).

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