I can start the work for drools and Toshiya offered help. I can also take
on Optaplanner.

That leaves jbpm. I know dmn had a site setup, but not sure if we need/want
a separate section for it in the future?

Toni

On Fri, Apr 25, 2025 at 2:56 AM Craig Russell <apache....@gmail.com> wrote:

> Peanut here.
>
> What Toni sez.
>
> Right now, an internet search for "drools" returns links to the obsolete
> drools.org <http://drools.org/> web site, which makes it seem like drools
> is dead. The downloads on the site are years old. Wrong message.
>
> I'd suggest to copy any current data still on drools.org <
> http://drools.org/> to a section on kie.apache.org <http://kie.apache.org/>
> In "no time at all" search engines will notice that drools is now homed at
> kie.
>
> Until the domain expires, now redirect drools.org <http://drools.org/> to
> kie.apache.org <http://kie.apache.org/> .
>
> Unless this is done, the project is missing out on a lot of possible users.
>
> Same for other domains that are now kie projects.
>
> HTH,
> Craig
>
> > On Apr 24, 2025, at 03:57, Toni Rikkola <trikk...@redhat.com.INVALID>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Right now we have drools.org and kie.apache.org and I guess the same
> goes
> > for every other subproject.
> >
> > Old sites
> > * They break the copyrights that Apache now has for KIE.
> > * They get a lot of hits and the site contents are 1.5 years old.
> Basically
> > they say the project is dead, use something else.
> > * No updates. No mentions of the Apache releases
> > * Can go down at any moment since this community does not fund them
> >
> > New site
> > * No content
> >
> > Both
> > * No, or minimal, resources to maintain them
> >
> > Looking at the fact that it has been years. It is clear we have no
> > motivation or man power to maintain these. So the question is what is the
> > shortest path to victory?
> >
> > My suggestion is we use the domains and forward to kie.apache.org as
> soon
> > as possible. Right now the old domains are sending the wrong signal.
> >
> > I am sure we have a lot of ideas, but also consider where we get the
> > resources to implement. For few years there has been none.
> >
> > Toni Rikkola
>
> Craig L Russell
> c...@apache.org
>
>

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