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It seems a bit confusing from the title vs the post: 214 in favor of Jenkins is what the original post says. Also mentioned is "Jenkins is not Oracle's project
by justlearning 16y ago
It seems a bit confusing from the title vs the post:
214 in favor of Jenkins is what the original post says.
Also mentioned is "Jenkins is not Oracle's project, nor CloudBee's
project, nor my project, nor Kohsuke's project - it's the community's
project, and it's going to thrive."
<quote>
"The vote is closed, and the results are in. More than half of the total
votes were from ineligible voters, but the result would have been the same
either way. The final result of all eligible votes is as follows: 214 votes
to rename, and 14 for the status quo. You can see the individual votes at
https://groups.google.com/group/hudson-jenkins-vote https://groups.google.com/group/hudson-jenkins-vote.
So what does this mean now? Well, it means Jenkins lives. We've registered
jenkins-ci.org, though it's empty at the moment. In the coming days, we will
be renaming the existing Google Groups to jenkins-@googlegroups.com,
renaming the Twitter account from @hudsonci to @jenkinsci, and renaming our
organization at Github from hudson to jenkinsci. I wanted to make sure
everyone had notice ahead of time that this was happening, so that no one
gets surprised by changes to their incoming mail, etc. As said before, the
initial, interim governance board will consist of me, Kohsuke and, if he and
Oracle are willing, Winston. If Winston is unwilling or unable to continue
in that role with Jenkins, we will select a replacement interim member. The
interim board will work on the details of a more permanent governance
process going forward. Discussions on the infrastructure changes (including
things like the Maven groupId/artifactIds, etc) will be in public, on these
lists. We're working to get the JIRA and wiki contents migrated over to the
Jenkins site, and hope to work with Oracle to get that done in the next
couple days.
Putting aside logistics, I want to personally thank everyone for voting, and
especially thank everyone who voted for renaming for supporting the Jenkins
project and its future. Jenkins is not Oracle's project, nor CloudBee's
project, nor my project, nor Kohsuke's project - it's the community's
project, and it's going to thrive. " *</quote>
I fail to understand why would someone change names for an established 'brand'.
(there are deserving candidates that do need a name change - Go, Closure and few hu la la from Google)
- steveklabnik 16y agoOracle owns the trademark name 'Hudson' and so they'd be able to exert a degree of control over the community that they weren't okay with. This vote is the result of a proposal to rename to 'Jenkins,' so they could get out from under the thumb of Oracle.
- space-monkey 16y agoAnd IIRC Oracle had been actively attempting to exert this degree of control, to the point of interfering in infrastructure changes that project contributors wanted to make.
- earl 16y agoNot to mention apparently being complete dicks to Kohsuke Kawaguchi; who not only founded the project, was the primary contributor while at Sun, and remains the primary contributor since leaving; but also has a rep for being a very nice person. Apparently Oracle / some oracle VP Ted were big enough assholes that KK declined to work with them in any capacity in the future [1]. So yeah, Oracle continues making friends with open source folks. [1] http://kohsuke.org/2011/01/26/one-last-plea-for-hudsonjenkins-vote http://kohsuke.org/2011/01/26/one-last-plea-for-hudsonjenkin...
- X-Istence 16y agoOracle has a long history of making friends with Open Source... This along with the whole OpenSolaris, and various other projects just makes me sad. Yes, they aren't viable business strategies (especially the amount of people Sun employed just to work on various random Open Source projects), but there is something to be said for good will. All of this is also leaving a sour taste in the mouths of people who have budgets and make decisions, yes many people will continue to purchase stuff from Oracle but ultimately I have a feeling this will come back to haunt them. I know quite a few places that ran exclusively Sun for their servers are now looking at whitebox machines running Linux and BSD.