From mark.reinhold at oracle.com  Wed Aug 24 11:03:48 2011
From: mark.reinhold at oracle.com (mark.reinhold at oracle.com)
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:03:48 -0700
Subject: JDK Enhancement-Proposal & Roadmap Process
Message-ID: <20110824180348.6E1FD4EE@eggemoggin.niobe.net>

The JDK Enhancement-Proposal & Roadmap Process proposed earlier
this year [1] is now up and running.

Please see http://openjdk.java.net/jeps for details.

- Mark


[1] http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2011-June/001962.html

From mark.reinhold at oracle.com  Tue Aug 30 09:46:37 2011
From: mark.reinhold at oracle.com (mark.reinhold at oracle.com)
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 09:46:37 -0700
Subject: OpenJDK Community Census
Message-ID: <20110830164637.404FFB08@eggemoggin.niobe.net>

Per the transition plan defined in the Bylaws [1], a Census of the
OpenJDK Community has been completed and is available for review [2].

Please send corrections to registrar at openjdk.java.net by 19:00 UTC on
Tuesday, 13 September [3].  The Bylaws will become effective shortly
thereafter.

- Mark


[1] http://openjdk.java.net/groups/gb/bylaws/draft-openjdk-bylaws-10#_B
[2] http://openjdk.java.net/census/
[3] http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=OpenJDK+Census+Feedback+Due&iso=20110913T19&sort=1

From mark.reinhold at oracle.com  Wed Aug 31 21:12:28 2011
From: mark.reinhold at oracle.com (mark.reinhold at oracle.com)
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 21:12:28 -0700
Subject: openjdk.java.net status
Message-ID: <20110901041228.A6490C23@eggemoggin.niobe.net>

The DNS servers for the java.net domain became highly unstable earlier
today.  The actual OpenJDK site servers were not affected but the usual
hostnames failed to resolve, rendering the site mostly unusable.

About six hours ago the top-level DNS records for the java.net domain
were changed to point to new DNS servers.  DNS records for top-level
domains persist in server caches for up to 48 hours, so your local DNS
server might not be able to resolve any java.net domain name until some
time on Friday.

If you need to access an OpenJDK web site in the meantime then you can
temporarily add the following to your /etc/hosts file or equivalent:

  192.9.170.170  bugs.openjdk.java.net
  192.9.170.172  cr.openjdk.java.net
  192.9.170.171  db.openjdk.java.net
  192.9.170.175  hg.openjdk.java.net
  192.9.170.174  mail.openjdk.java.net
  192.9.170.173  openjdk.java.net

(Note to Oracle employees: openjdk.java.net and its subdomains have
 been usable from within the Oracle network all day since different
 DNS servers are used internally.)

- Mark