You created a Hacker News account just to comment on this? Was it this comment (http://groovy.329449.n5.nabble.com/ANN-Groovy-2-0-is-release...) on the Groovy mailing list urging people to "spread the word" at Hacker News?

You mean the dormant one from 2004 which was never finished? http://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=241

Or the "Groovy specification" which is almost completely empty? http://groovy.codehaus.org/jsr/spec/