| URL | http://projectkenai.com/ |
|---|---|
| Type of site | Development website |
| Available language(s) | English |
| Owner | Oracle Corporation |
| Launched | September 17, 2008 |
| Current status | active; will be |
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 discontinued move the existing Kenai.com projects over to the Java.net domain[1] for public use as part of Oracle's restructuring of Sun.
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Kenai.com is a platform that enables developers to find each other and collaborate, and it offers free software project hosting.
Project Kenai is not, itself, an open source project.
In comparison to other open source software forges such as Google Code or SourceForge, Kenai.com offers a wider suite of integrated collaboration services to developer teams.
Sun Developer Network members can use their SDN accounts to log on to Kenai.com. Others can create an account easily by filling out a short form.
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 web hooks 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 they want to join. 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.
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.
Project Kenai was built using JRuby, Glassfish V2, and MySQL databases.[2]
As part of Oracle's restructuring of Sun the Project Kenai service will be discontinued[3]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.