> On May 22, 2016, at 11:20 AM, Guillaume Laforge <[email protected]> wrote: > > And... it's back now!
YAY!!!!! > > Sorry again for the inconvenience, but this was really beyond our control > unfortunately. > > Regarding your points, Steve: > > 1) If a company is stupid to "abandon" a great language like Groovy, too bad > for them ;-) Yes -- absolutely! It was a dumb idea -- I understand their business reasons I think, but still.... [again, I was speaking of *perceptions* of people outside -- FUD] And yes, Groovy is a GREAT language! I wish I had started learning it earlier, would have bypassed Scala altogether! It's so easy to code in, GDK has tasteful augmentations to the JDK...I'm glad I'm on board now! > > 2) Well, we can't control perception obviously, and I didn't envision a > simple DNS domain name transfer would fail so bad. Normally, this kind of > process should really be smooth. So it's really really unfortunate that the > ASF infra couldn't handle that appropriately and timely. To their defense, > it's mostly a team of non-paid volunteers, relying on services granted for > free by third-parties, and in this instance, it was really not a smooth and > reliable process. Right -- I understand volunteer software efforts -- been there, done that. I thought ASF had a "foundation" that was funding some of their costs (just a presumption on my part). > > 3) We're at the wheel, don't worry, even if not full time like we used to. > Reverting the process wasn't possible, as once you've made the move to > transfer a domain name, you can't take it back, so I couldn't have been able > to reclaim it. And since the Apache foundation mandates that such domain > names be in their control, we would have had to go through that process > anyway. So reverting to try again later would have run the risk of two such > downtimes, which would be even worse. Oh -- I know you're in control of the situation. It's great that Apache was able to provide a home for Groovy, and that Groovy adoption has accelerated since the move! Thanks again for the explanation, and I'm beyond happy that groovy-lang.org <http://groovy-lang.org/> is back among the living!!! Steve
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