RE: Proposal: openjdk.java.net ➜ openjdk.org

[Langer, Christoph]

Sounds great!

Will it then also be possible to relay mails to <openjdk name>@openjdk.org to our mailboxes?

Cheers
Christoph

> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss <discuss-retn at openjdk.java.net> On Behalf Of
> mark.reinhold at oracle.com
> Sent: Donnerstag, 12. Mai 2022 17:18
> To: discuss at openjdk.java.net
> Subject: Proposal: openjdk.java.net ➜ openjdk.org
> 
> Since the dawn of time [1] the OpenJDK Community’s web, e-mail, wiki, issue
> tracking, and (Mercurial) source-code infrastructure has been hosted under the
> third-level domain name “openjdk.java.net”.
> 
> That name has served us well for fifteen years, but it has also been a constant
> source of confusion.  The second-level domain name “java.net”
> originally pointed to an unrelated source-code forge site [2], which was
> perplexing.  That forge was shut down in 2017, so now the “java.net” name is
> perplexing in a different way.
> 
> Above and beyond that, however, since the OpenJDK Community was founded
> many other open-source communities have placed their infrastructure under
> the “.org” top-level domain name.  This makes for easy discoverability.
> It also serves as both a reminder and a promise that the operation of the
> community is not meant to be dominated by any single corporate entity.
> 
> I therefore propose that we rename openjdk.java.net to openjdk.org and make
> corresponding changes to the names of all active subdomains (i.e., bugs, cr, db,
> git, hg, mail, and wiki).
> 
> If we proceed with this then Oracle’s infrastructure team will ensure that the
> old names act as aliases for the new names, so as not to break existing URLs or
> e-mail addresses.
> 
> Comments?
> 
> - Mark
> 
> 
> [1] https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/announce/2007-May/000000.html
> [2]
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> edia.org%2Fwiki%2FJava.net&data=05%7C01%7Cchristoph.langer%40sap.
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