That was quick… We wish to inform you that as of Friday, 15 April 2011, the APNIC pool reached the Final /8 IPv4 address block http://www.apnic.net/publications/news/2011/final-8 So, everybody ready for IPv6 yet?
Over the last few weeks Xerxes and I have been experimenting with a buildbot setup which you can see at: http://builder.classpath.org/icedtea/buildbot/waterfall It does various builds on ia32, x86_64 and arm buildslaves whenever a commit is pushed to icedtea6, icedtea7, icedtea-web or the testrepo. The slaves also test various alternative runtime setups (cacao, shark, zero). By […]
The Debian Freedom Box Project has the cutest logo. I want one! There is now also the The FreedomBox Foundation. They are raising some money through their “Push the FreedomBox Foundation from 0 to 60 in 30 days” initiative. Does anybody have recommendations for which of the targeted plug devices to get?
Simon Phipps made a handy dandy OpenJDK governance Score Card. Taking the proposed OpenJDK Community Bylaws draft proposal, and measuring it against the Open-By-Rule Benchmark. So you can quickly see how the current draft is doing against the ten benchmark rules (“open”, “meritocratic”, “oligarchy”, “license”, “copyright aggregation”, “trademark”, “roadmap”, “co-developers”, “forking” and “transparency”). Scoring goes […]
I am not really sure what to think about the proposed OpenJDK Community Bylaws. There are some very obvious issues in there: The governance board is responsible for sufficient infrastructure for the members, but doesn’t have any resources for that. There is a direct tie to the JCP and the platform JSRs, but those are […]
Finally created a new GPG key using gnupg. The old one was a DSA/1024 bits one and 8 years old. The new one is a RSA/2048 bits one. I will use the new one in the future to sign any release tarballs I might create. pub 2048R/57816A6A 2011-01-29 Key fingerprint = 47CC 0331 081B 8BC6 […]
Obvious, with only hours till we run out of ipv4 addresses, I am a little late to the party, but it was ridiculously easy to get an IPv6 tunnel going so that I will be able to happily connect to all those new IPv6-only hosts in the future. It literally took just 5 minutes. On […]
Free Java @ Fosdem Talk Schedule Saturday 5, Sunday 6 February 2011, Fosdem, Brussels, Belgium. Room AW1.125. Updated!
We already have some awesome proposals… but we want MORE! So we’re giving you a little more time to get those talk proposals in. We have reserved some slots for quick lightning talks (5 min), these can be done spontaneously at the event, but please do let us know if you are attending and will […]
Mark Reinhold recently pointed out that he, Joe Darcy and Brian Goetz had submitted their OpenJDK work on features for JDK7 and JDK8 to the JCP for standardization. Normally I am somewhat sceptical about the JCP. I don’t believe the JCP fosters a truly open process and discourages Free Software implementations. But Mark, Joe and Brian seem to be proving me wrong.