I represent the London Java Community (LJC) on the Java Community Process (JCP) Executive Committee (EC), aka the Java standards body. I also help run the Adopt OpenJDK programme for OpenJDK outreach and onboarding new developers to work on Java itself.
Now that the acronyms are out of the way :-). We're working at the JCP with Oracle to streamline the standardisation process in order to facilitate these faster releases and provide other Java vendors the ability to run their reference implementations against an in flight Technical Compatibility Kit (TCK), which is what you need to pass in order to call yourself Java.
I'm really, really pleased that Oracle is increasing the cadence. Java 9 allows for incubation modules and so if something isn't ready, it can simply be put in there for early testing without it impacting the main release.
Some folks asked about alternative platforms. In terms of providing high quality releases of OpenJDK for alternative platforms we've created a portal at https://www.adoptopenjdk.net with the build farm run via https://ci.adoptopenjdk.net (code in various repos at https://www.github.com/AdoptOpenJDK). We've only just received the Java Test Compatibility Kit J(TCK) from Oracle and once we have the binaries tested against that then folks will be able to get the latest OpenJDK binaries for all of the esoteric platforms (ARM, z360, AMD variants, AIX, Solaris and so forth).
We'd love for folks with devops skills to come and join us (Docker, IaaS, Jenkins, make skills welcome).
If you have any specific questions please throw them my way!