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

[Ethan McCue]

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On Thu, May 12, 2022, 7:19 PM Simon Phipps <simon at webmink.com> wrote:

> Speaking as a relic from the dawn of time, that's a great suggestion that I
> wish we'd opted for at the dawn of time :-)
>
> S.
>
>
> On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 4:19 PM <mark.reinhold at oracle.com> wrote:
>
> > 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] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java.net
> >
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