Posted
on June 29, 2011, 13:06,
by mjw.
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 expect service to be
restored before mid-morning tomorrow (Wednesday) Pacific time.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
(In case you're wondering, you're receiving this message because you've
sent a message to one or more OpenJDK mailing lists in the last thirty
days. Please pass this on to any other interested parties.)
- Mark
If people desperately need the code right now then we have some mirrors of the code on http://icedtea.classpath.org/hg/ and some more on the mirror of IcedTea itself http://icedtea.wildebeest.org/hg/ but only the main forests have been mirrored. If you find something missing then please leave a comment and I make sure we add it for next time the openjdk servers go down. The mirrors update every hour, so should have all of the recent changes.
Posted
on April 15, 2011, 08:51,
by mjw.
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?
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Posted
on February 21, 2011, 09:47,
by mjw.
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 doing continuous builds on all these various setups we hope to keep the projects green at all times.
More information and how to help extend the current setup on the mailing list.
Posted
on February 19, 2011, 20:16,
by mjw.
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?
Posted
on February 4, 2011, 00:35,
by mjw.
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 from -10 till 10…
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Posted
on February 3, 2011, 20:52,
by mjw.
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 currently published under license terms that are GPL-incompatible (See Moving Java forward through the JCP?).
- Members are those that assign all rights to Oracle. (See Trusting companies with your code… and Oracle tries to destroy free java – now what?).
- It doesn’t define the minimum (GPL) copyright, trademark and patent grants as used by the project (although it does mention it should be open-source).
- The board consists of Oracle and IBM appointees, with only a minority for independent candidates (the second and third largest corporate contributors, Red Hat and Google are not even mentioned.)
I have posted a longer analysis to the mailinglist.
Hope those blockers can be fixed, but there is a long way to go IMHO.
Posted
on February 1, 2011, 10:38,
by mjw.
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 D0FD 4DA0 8370 665B 5781 6A6A
It currently is only signed by my old key (0x95ABF50C), so if you trusted that really was me, then you can be pretty sure the new one is also me. But it would be good to get some more people to confirm the transition. So if you happen to come to Fosdem next weekend and run into me, please exchange GPG key details to confirm each others identity. Full public key available from my homepage and on the various keyservers (gpg --recv-key 57816A6A) .
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Posted
on January 31, 2011, 09:48,
by mjw.
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 Fedora make sure you also run the network scripts on startup (it seems to default to NetworkManager only these days): chkconfig networking on.
- Look up your ISP IPv6 tunnel setup procedure (or if they haven’t one yet, look for a public one like Sixxs, Freenet6 or Hurricane Electric).
- Punch in the ipv4 tunnel address and the ipv6 addresses provided into /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-sit1.
- Add NETWORKING_IPV6=yes and IPV6_DEFAULTDEV=sit1 to /etc/sysconfig/network.
- Restart networking: service networking restart.
- Done! You can now happily explore the IPv6 space: traceroute6 fedoraproject.org. And check http://test-ipv6.com/ to see your are ready for World IPv6 day.
Example /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-sit1 file:
DEVICE=sit1
BOOTPROTO=none
ONBOOT=yes
IPV6INIT=yes
IPV6TUNNELIPV4=198.51.100.241
IPV6ADDR=2001:db8:10:a8c::2
Apparently things are even easier with 6to4 if you have a direct IPv4 address, but the above works even behind a NAT. The above doesn’t use all the fancy IPv6 features yet like providing automatic configuration for all your devices in your network. Such a tunnel will automagically provide you with at least 2^64 IPv6 addresses, and most likely you get a whole IPv6 /48 network meaning you will be getting 2^16 * 2^64 addresses (yes, that is 2^48 times more addresses than there are currently IPv4 addresses in the world!). But it is a nice start to make sure the future transition will be smooth.
See also /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/ipv6-tunnel.howto and/or /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/ipv6-6to4.howto for more information, including setting up all the fancy routing stuff on your local network if you want.
Posted
on January 20, 2011, 12:13,
by mjw.
Saturday 5, Sunday 6 February 2011, Fosdem, Brussels, Belgium. Room AW1.125. Updated! Now with even more talks!
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Posted
on December 9, 2010, 22:31,
by mjw.
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 likely want to do one, even if you are not 100% sure yet. That way we can better schedule the time slots.
If you don’t want to give a talk, but want to support speakers attending the Free Java devroom at FOSDEM 2011, please see our sponsoring campaign: http://pledgie.com/campaigns/14110
Original announcement with adjusted dates follows:
Join us at FOSDEM 2011 to be a part of our sessions where we’ll discuss the state of Free Java!
Our theme is “Java Sans Frontières”
- Why Free Java technology is awesome
- Standing on the Shoulders of Free Java
- The future of Free Java
The Call For Participation is OPEN NOW, but closes on 17th December…
So send in a talk proposal today and join us in Brussels 5-6 February!
Why FOSDEM?
- Engage in scintillating discussions with smart hackers over world famous Belgian Beer
- Join the Web of Trust by getting your strong new key signed
- Indulge in exquisite chocolate
- Visit historic Brussels within walking distance
Why the Free Java DevJam?
- This is the most significant non-commercial, neutral environment for Java developers to meet
- Learn how to get involved in technical Free Java projects
- We will not shy away from politics (especially this year)!
- We will get together for an awesome Dinner
- You will meet historic hackers in the evolution of Free Java
Please join the freejava-devroom@lists.fosdem.org list for general discussion about the event.
To submit a formal Talk Proposal follow the guidelines at
http://wiki.debian.org/Java/DevJam/2011/Fosdem/CallForParticipation
Respectfully,
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