Let’s have a look at some numbers: we have 136 members who have been nominated for their contributions to the project; we have some 270 developers and 270 localizers (although we always want to attract more), many of whom are also members; we have over 100 mailing lists, with over 15,000 subscribers, half of whom […]
From: mark.reinhold@oracle.com Subject: openjdk.java.net is offline Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 23:06:30 -0700 (06/29/2011 08:06:30 AM) Mailer: MH-E 8.2; nmh 1.3; GNU Emacs 23.1.1 Due to an unexpected cooling-system failure, openjdk.java.net and all of its subdomains are offline. Oracle IT and facilities teams are working on the problem now. At this point we do not […]
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!