Steering committees stance on J2CL and the future of GWT?

[Brian Pedersen]

Based on the videos from the last meetup, and the notes from the steering committee, many of us got the impression that GWT was moving towards being a pure Java-to-Javascript transpiler, and that the official recommendations from the GWT team was for developers to plan ahead for this.

GWT 2.8 and Beyond (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltqWRoJ0S-o&list=PL1yReUCGwGvrqscLu1EAyYRPrr0ceEHLE)

These recommendations were repeated at GWTcon, but this time with a reference to the J2CL compiler that Google is working on, and it was more or less directly stated that it is up to the GWT steering committee to decide, if they want to base a future version of GWT on J2CL or not. 

This is causing a lot of confusion in the GWT community, as we all have a hard time distinguishing between what is GWT and what is not, when it comes to the new transpiler.

What are the steering committees future vision for GWT, and how does J2CL fit into this?