Project Kenai: Grow your code in the cloud

Since Halloween is tomorrow, I'll steal a line from the Monty Python movie, "Monty Python and The Holy Grail" to cover one of the new features recently added to Project Kenai.

Project Owners now have the ability to delete those pesty test projects, or projects that just never did make it off the ground.

If you're the project owner and there are no other project members (you can remove them if there are still some), you can go ahead and delete the project yourself.

Help keep Project Kenai active and vibrant by getting rid of those dead projects.

The Project Kenai team is working on other ways to manage the old and abandoned projects in the future, but this first step is a way that everyone can help out on their own.

So get to it, Bring Out Your Dead......

The Project Kenai Team

Please note:

For approximately 30 minutes on Tuesday, October 13th between 9:00 and 9:30PM Pacific Standard Time, kenai.com/jira will not be accessible while we make upgrades.

We apologize for any inconveniences this may cause users.

If you encounter any issues after 9:30PM please inform us by sending e-mail to kenai-admin<at>sun<dot>com.

- The Project Kenai Team

We're making improvements to Kenai.com tonight and JIRA may experience access issues from 9:30-10pm PT.

We apologize in advance for any inconveniences.

 The Project Kenai Team

We've just been informed that the registration service that we rely on is going through maintenance on its service hardware starting on Friday, August 7th at 8:00PM and ending on Saturday, August 8th at 10PM Pacific time.  During this time, you will not be able to create new accounts on the Kenai.com site, nor will you be able to update your existing profile data or password.

The rest of the site should continue to function normally.  All Kenai specific services, such as SCM, Issue Tracking, etc. will not be effected.

As usual, if you experience anything, other then what is stated above, during this period, please send an email to kenai-admin<at>sun.com.

Sorry for the inconvenience.  We are working with this dependency to try and remove these continued interruptions.

The Project Kenai Team 

With the latest update to Project Kenai on Aug. 4th, we added the ability for each project to now have their own Website.

A Website is a set of web pages that you have uploaded to Project Kenai to use as your project's public home page. This home page is accessed through a web browser at the URL

http://your-project-name.kenai.com. 

This website is completely under your control. It does not have any of the automatic navigation you see with pages in Project Kenai, like the left navbar that links to your project features, the breadcrumbs list, or search. If you want the user to be able to navigate to your project, you must supply the links yourself. 

A couple of the main advantages of this new feature are the ability to host a basic Maven repository and the display of JavaDocs with your own control over the CSS and layout of those docs. Of course just being able to display your project the way you want to, is also something that people have been asking for for some time now.

For complete details around how to implement the Website feature, and how to upload content to the site, please checkout the always informative Help pages.

As always, we're interested in your comments and feedback.  Don't hesitate to let us know what you think about this or any other feature on the site.  You can leave a comment here, post a topic to the Forums, or send an email to kenai-admin-AT-sun-DOT-com

The Project Kenai Team

 

 More information about NetBeans IDE 6.7:

Tonight we need to perform some maintenance on our group chat
(Jabber/XMPP) service, so we need to take the service offline for one
hour starting at 9PM PDT.

The Kenai.com site itself, as well as source code repositories, bug
tracking and all other services, are not affected and will stay
available.

Thanks for your patience during this maintenance window!

The Project Kenai Team

We will be pushing new bits out for the site tonight (6/23/09) starting at 9:00PM Pacific.  This update will include some updates to the services themselves so there will be a small period of time where the site will be unavailable. The complete update shouldn't take more then a couple of hours and the outages could be intermittent during that time period.

 Thanks for your patience while we bring new features and fixes to the site.

 The Project Kenai Team

We've just been informed that the registration service that we rely on is going to be doing more maintenance on their service hardware this Saturday between 1:30PM and 7:30PM Pacific time.

During this time, you will not be able to create new accounts on the Kenai.com site, nor will you be able to update your existing profile data or password.

The rest of the site should continue to function normally.  All Kenai specific services, such as SCM, Issue Tracking, etc. will not be effected.

As usual, if you experience anything, other then what is stated above, during this period, please send an email to kenai-admin<at>sun.com.

Sorry for the inconvenience.  We are working with this dependency to try and remove these continued interruptions.

The Project Kenai Team

Just a quick shout to let everyone know that we will be pushing new bits out for the site tonight (5/12/09) starting at 9:00PM Pacific.  There shouldn't be any interruption to the site functionality while we do this, but just in case you see something odd around this time, give it a little while and try it again.

Thanks for your patience while we bring new features and fixes to the site.

 The Project Kenai Team

 Your Opinion Matters!

Please take our 5 minute Project Kenai Survey and share your thoughts.  Your input will help us deliver a better experience to you!

 

 

So many amazing projects now live at Kenai.com! From JRuby, to TwitterFX, to Alice, and more.  The community is building out some amazing projects for developers' participation.

But what about your project? Are you getting the level of community interest and participation that you need? If not,  there's some steps YOU can take to stir interest. First and foremost, provide as many details as you can on your project page.  How do you do this? Simple, from your "MyPage" click on "Manage" for any project you're administering and fill in information.  Make sure you have a solid project description; briefly outline what you're trying to accomplish, what technologies are involved, if you want developers' participation, etc.  Also, fill out the tag field with as many terms that map to your project; this will make it easier for interested parties to find your project from the project tag cloud.

 

To learn more about how to manage your project, watch this brief screencast.

Also, if you want more exposure for your project, let us know! Send us an e-mail requesting us to highlight your project on Kenai.com's featured project section.  Or perhaps we can reference it on our Kenai Blog, in our Kenai Facebook community, or a mention on our Kenai Twitter voice.  Simply send your request to: kenai-admin<at>Sun<dot>com.

Furthermore, if you have the time, we can interview you on our Kenai BlogTalk Radio show! Again, just drop us a note, and we'll coordinate directly with you.

 Lastly, socialize your project at Kenai.com through your social networks! Blog a lot, blog often! Twitter about it (use #projectkenai so it shows up in our feed, as well - more exposure for you!).

 Let us help you make your code grow at Kenai.com! 

Hi folks,

One of the services that we rely on will be performing maintenance again this weekend. (Friday April 24th - Sunday 26th). There should be no downtime for the Kenai.com site and it's services, however new account creation and modifications to existing accounts will be unavailable on and off during this time. As always, if you experience something that does just doesn't seem right, drop us a note in the Forums or send an email to kenai-admin<at>sun.com

Thanks for your patience while the maintenance is performed.

The Project Kenai Team

 

Congratulations Kenai Community!

Project Kenai has surpassed 6,000 members and will exceed hosting 400 open source projects very soon (a matter of hours!).

With interest and use of Kenai growing every day, we'd love to hear why you enjoy using Project Kenai. Tell the world! Simply blog about using "Kenai" as a tag, or tweet about it on Twitter (make sure to use #projectkenai so it shows up in our Kenai Twitter feed).

Make your Kenai Voice Heard!

 

Surprise, surprise!

Project Kenai is on the road again.  This time we're at Rails Conference-Las Vegas (May 4th-May 7th).

Double down you bets, and come see the Kenai Team (we'll be there in full force!). Stop by our Sun booth to learn about our NetBeans and Kenai integration that is evolving, perhaps we'll even tease a little in terms of what's coming down the road (shhh!).  We even have a Kenai talk in the mix!

Here's a full line-up of Sun speakers, linked to their sessions:

 Nick Sieger (Kenai Engineering Guru)

 Arun Gupta (Glassfish Evangelist)

 Charles Nutter (jRuby Guru)

 Thomas Enebo (jRuby Guru)

 

Stop by, learn a lot, have some fun!