Re: Future of dnsjava

[Brian W. <bwe...@xb...>]

On May 18, 2019, at 3:40 PM, Ingo Bauersachs <in...@ji...> wrote:
> 
> Hi Brian, everyone
> 
> I have now mostly cleaned up Sourceforge and put pointers to Github there. There wasn't much that I considered worth keeping. If I missed something, please open an issue or, better yet, a pull request at Github. A Travis job builds the pull requests, and Coveralls shows changes in tested code.

Thanks!

I have a (short) list somewhere of minor bugs that I was planning to fix at some point, and if I can find it, I’ll open GitHub tickets and/or pull requests..

>> The front page on dnsjava.org <http://dnsjava.org>  doesn’t have much content
>> worth saving.  All of the releases can be downloaded from there, and it might
>> be easier to copy those to GitHub than to copy them from sourceforge.
>> There’s also a link to the generated docs, and I’m not sure how easy it is to
>> replicate that with GitHub.  I expect that it’s possible, but I never figured
>> out how to do it with sourceforge.
> 
> @kingle contributed a link to a javadoc.io, which pulls the Javadoc from Maven Central provides them as a website. IMO this is actually a better replacement since it's possible to switch between the published versions.

That definitely sounds better.  Should this get added to the README?

>> The dnsjava.org <http://dnsjava.org>  domain actually expires this month.  If
>> you want to take it over, I could transfer it, otherwise I’ll renew it for a
>> year, but probably not indefinitely.
> 
> I'd like to avoid that a domain grabber places advertisement there, or a bad actor poisoned binaries. Please contact me offlist for a potential transfer.

Will do.  Thanks!

Brian