Ben Bucksch wrote:
>
> Gervase Markham wrote:
>
> > As most of you will know, there is a plan to reorganise the Mozilla
> > newsgroup hierarchy. The new hierarchy has now been finalised - however,
> > unfortunately, Netscape IS (who are responsible for making the changes)
> > are not going to be able to make them until their major news
> > rearchitecture, which involves new servers and several other changes,
> > happens.
> >
> > This will be at the end of January/early February - that's the current
> > estimate (up from mid-January earlier this week.) This is because (for
> > reasons that have not been explained to me) doing this upgrade requires a
> > freeze on all configuration changes on the server from 12/18/00, and there
> > is not time to reorganise n.p.m.* before that date.
>
> Early Feb is too late, especially since it usually gets later. I am
> annoyed about the Netscape user questions, just like many others
> probably are as well. IMO, Netscape IS should change its schedule based
> on that requirements.
And I'm going to suggest that perhaps we shouldn't get rid of .java
after all. I can think of situations where it would be decidedly
on-topic to have Java discussion that doesn't touch OJI (for example,
applet lifecycle discussions really make no sense in .oji, but they make
perfect sense in .java). I'm not so sure that it would attract
off-topic posts more than just having an .oji group (especially with the
rather massive renaming), and I can certainly envision scenarios where
generally clueful Java suggestions/questions are lost in the mix because
OJI is such an obscure acronym.
One person on .java *did* express discontent with the decision to
discontinue the group. Admittedly, not a majority, but lots of other
changes were made to the hierarchy at the suggestion of individuals.
However, if .java is dead and gone, I'll respect the decision.
