An update on the jini.org domain name... I've been able to track some
things inside of Sun, and found that the registration for the name
will be renewed by Sun. What will happen the next time the
registration expires will be up to the new owners, but for now the
domain name will remain registered...
Jim Waldo
On Jul 1, 2009, at 9:14 PM, Peter Firmstone wrote:
Thanks & Welcome Elijah,
Great to have someone willing to jump in and assist.
Jim Waldo very graciously went to the trouble of obtaining and
recently uploading the email list archives to JIRA- https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RIVER-311
I think we should maintain, preserve and fund via volunteer
contribution jini.org for now, move relevant information to the
Apache River site and eventually archive the existing jini.org site
and redirect the domain name to Apache River. (Keeping jini.org
registered)
I'm just waiting for the paypal (or equivalent) account to make the
contribution to.
Cheers,
Peter.
Elijah Menifee wrote:
Just as I was getting the itch to look into JavaSpaces/Jini again
as a
possible technology to use for a possible redesign( at least a
proof of
concept) of my company's internal software, the announcement went
out that
the JavaSpaces-Users and Jini-Users mailing list were coming to an
end.
SO, I started looking into the River project, and have found the
recent
river-dev mail list archives, As far as I can tell still no
decision has
actually been made about what to do about jini.org, should it remain
distinct from the River project, is it going to stay funded, should
all the
data be ported with a redirect? I believe I came across the
deadline of
July 8....
If my company was not a month behind in payroll, I would offer to
at least
contribute via PayPal to fund the current site or domain name
registration.
However since I am currently in a bind financial I figured I could
at least
contribute some evenings and weekend work (Currently no other plans
for July
4th). Just in case no community decision is made I am planning to
start
manually adding what I think could be relavent from the Jini.org
site to the
Apache River wiki. The down-side however, is that I have not actively
followed the jini project in quite some time, SO I do not know for
sure what
might be the most important information or what information is out
of date
or irrelevant to the River project(I understand Jini is at 2.1, the
last
version I worked with was 1.2.1) In a way this will give me a
chance to
re-familiarize myself with what I think IS a great redundant
distributed
platform.
Also there is some talk that we may manage to get the archive lists
released
and stored on the River site, If the current plan falls through I
have a
large portion of the JAVASPACES-USERS since DEC 2002 in my IMAP
Maildir
folder. If needed I am confident I can browse through the list to
make sure
no irrelevant e-mails got save to that Maildir, and double check to
see if
any other messages got saved somewhere else. It would at least be
a partial
archive since there was a lot of non JavaSpace specific/Jini only
mailing I
did not archive and others may have gotten lost over the years,
still it is
approximately 1850 messages for the JavaSpaces info with some
generic Jini
bleed over.
