Project Kenai

Project Kenai
Type of site
Development website
Available in English
Owner Oracle Corporation
Website kenai.com
Launched September 17, 2008
Current status active; will be closed by September 2017

Project Kenai is a collaborative hosting site for free and open source projects, launched by Sun Microsystems and now owned by Oracle. The service will be moved over to the Java.net domain[1] for public use as part of Oracle's restructuring of Sun. As of September 2015 the following message appears on the homepage: "As of 9/25/15 Kenai.com site will be closing in 18-24 months."[2]

Services

Kenai.com's services include version controlled source code repositories (Mercurial, Subversion, Git), team wikis, a download area to host documents, an integrated team member IM chat, issue tracking (JIRA, Bugzilla), forums, mailing lists, and webhooks for selected events.

The Kenai portal supports tagging, an advanced site search that enables finding people and project types via a tag cloud and other properties, and a project search that enables developers to find projects. There is also context-sensitive help available on every page.

Similar to a social network, Kenai encourages members to create a profile page that shows personal tags and lists all projects they follow and participate in. This makes it easy to get in contact and work with other developers who have similar interests. Members use their profiles also to browse their forum and mailing histories.

IDE integration

With the release of NetBeans IDE 6.7, it is possible to maintain Kenai projects directly from inside an IDE.

Developers can use the NetBeans IDE to check out source code and commit changes, to navigate between Kenai projects and local sources, and to submit bug reports and patches directly to the integrated issue tracker. The IDE also displays which project members are currently online.

Back-end

Project Kenai was built using JRuby, Glassfish V2, and MySQL databases.[3]

Discontinuation

As part of Oracle's restructuring of Sun the Project Kenai service will be migrated.[1] The Java.net domain will be migrated to the Kenai infrastructure and all Kenai projects will then be moved to the Java.net domain. The exact date for this migration has yet to be announced.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "The Future of Kenai.com". The Project Kenai Team. 5 February 2010. Retrieved 2013-11-25.
  2. https://kenai.com/site_news
  3. Colin, Charles (11 September 2008). "PROJECT KENAI". bytebot.net. Retrieved 25 November 2013.
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