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<p>On 2025-03-19 20:17, Suren Konathala wrote:</p>
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<div>Hi Magnus and Group,</div>
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<div>Following up on our discussion, I've created a draft of
the website to give you a better idea of my vision for the
redesign.</div>
<div><a href="https://thesurenk.github.io/openjdk-website/" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://thesurenk.github.io/openjdk-website/</a>
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<p>While it looks modern, I think it entirely misses the point of
the audience. The openjdk.org site is not aimed at end users
wanting to "Download" or "Learn" java. There are other sites for
that, <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://learn.java/">https://learn.java/</a> and sure, we could possibly link to
those. Someone who stumbled to the site by mistake could certainly
be helped with a simple instruction on the top of the page akin to
this:</p>
<p>"This is the place to collaborate on an open-source
implementation of the <a href="https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/overview/index.html">
Java Platform, Standard Edition</a>, and related projects.</p>
<p>If you are looking for Java to run desktop applications:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.java.com/en/download/">https://www.java.com/en/download/</a></p>
<p>If you are looking for Java developer resources:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://dev.java/">https://dev.java/</a>"</p>
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<p>But the rest of the site must be focused on the OpenJDK
community. To me, the central parts are:</p>
<p>* The Developers guide</p>
<p>* The JEP index</p>
<p>* The mailing list index</p>
<p>* The wiki</p>
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<p>* All the groups</p>
<p>* All the projects</p>
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<p>* The census<br>
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<p>* The Bylaws</p>
<p>* A collection of relevant links, e.g. to the organization's
github page, the build readme, jtreg, etc.</p>
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<p>Maybe some kind of news-feed would be nice to have as well, where
information like upcoming workshops, recent releases, upcoming
rampdowns, etc, could be posted. (This needs to be automated to
work properly)</p>
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<p>What I think is unfortunate with the current design is that all
these important parts of the site is hidden in a sidebar (with an
almost unreadably small font size). I'm wishing for a design that
puts like the Developer's guide at a very prominent place, and
having the groups and projects listed centrally in the page
instead of hidden away. Perhaps an inline list of the most
important and active project, with a short blurb, followed by a
link to a page with "All projects", from where all projects could
be reached. The "important"/active projects would then be like:</p>
JDK<br>
JDK Updates<br>
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Amber<br>
Leyden<br>
Loom<br>
Panama<br>
Valhalla<br>
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Skara<br>
<p>And then the groups should be presented, in a logical fashion. So
the groups responsible for parts of the JDK source code should be
presented separately, with a short blurb on what the group
handles. Afaik, these are:<br>
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Build<br>
Client Libraries<br>
Compiler<br>
Core Libraries<br>
HotSpot<br>
Internationalization<br>
JMX<br>
Networking<br>
Security<br>
Serviceability<br>
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<p>The remaining groups are providing additional service to the
OpenJDK community, and should be listed separately and perhaps not
as prominent. These are: <br>
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Adoption<br>
Compatibility & Specification Review<br>
Conformance<br>
Governing Board<br>
IDE Tooling & Support<br>
Members<br>
Porters<br>
Quality<br>
Vulnerability<br>
Web<br>
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/Magnus<br>
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