[Core-dev] LimeWire.org - Out with the Old, In With the New

Hi Folks,

As you may or may not have noticed, LimeWire.org is undergoing some 
revisions.  The website (well, the whole machine) came to a screeching 
halt the other day, and in rebuilding it, we've decided to upgrade a 
bunch of older components.  The CVS server is now the newest available 
version (complete with cvs annotate!), mailman is being used for 
mailing list subscriptions, and we'll hopefully soon have JIRA up and 
running to keep track of bugs/issues and FishEye (from the makers of 
Clover) as the 'ViewCVS' program.

The website of LimeWire.org is still up in the air, though it will 
likely never look exactly the way it used to look.

A few mailing lists still have to be created (such as codepatch, trans, 
and discuss), but all the major ones have been migrated -- these 
include, cvs lists for core, gui, lib, tests, & daap, and dev lists for 
core & gui.  The remaining ones will be created and migrated early next 
week.

Zlatin deserves a huge thanks for the incredibly arduous (and 
difficult) task of setting up the new limewire.org, ranging from 
migrating our old CVS to the new CVS, to installing mailman & sendmail 
and migrating the existing subscriptions, to installing the newer 
version of Red Hat on the machine itself!

If you would to upgrade your subscriptions to the mailing lists, please 
visit http://www.limewire.org/mailman/listinfo and navigate to the 
appropriate place for your subscription.   All passwords have been 
changed, so the username/password that was on the old Tigris machine 
doesn't exist anymore.  You are identified by the email address you 
subscribed with.  The best way to go about changing your password if 
have mailman send you a reminder of the current password, in case you 
didn't get the initial email telling you that we've added you to the 
newer lists.

I should also take this opportunity to thank everyone in the LimeWire 
community for their incredible help, with contributions, word of mouth, 
or even idle support.  LimeWire 4.0 has been a huge success.  We have 
more the double the downloads of Morpheus, and are well on our way to 
surpassing iMesh, becoming the most downloaded p2p program on 
download.com.  In fact, if you add up all the downloads of our various 
versions, Windows (English), Windows (International), OSX, and Mac 
Classic, we already are the most downloaded p2p program!   Let's not 
forget that LimeWire is also open source, and is probably the most 
widely used consumer-oriented Java program in the world!

LimeWire, with the help of everyone who has ever mentioned a bug, 
submitted a patch, or requested a feature, is breaking all sorts of 
records, whether it be the most JRE downloads, most downloaded 
open-source program, most used [non-Apple] OSX program, most advanced 
Swing UI, or anything else you can name!

We're far from finished, also.  Future versions will open up the 
greater than 60% of firewalled users to allow sharing, with the use of 
firewall to firewall transfers.  Development is underway for a secure 
distributed parameter-update mechanism, allowing us to configure the 
network to its optimal performance.  Even the topology of the network 
is being revisited, with a change designed to promote the most stable 
users into central ultrapeers, easing the speed at which new users can 
join the network.  With existing additions, such as the What's New 
search and locale preferences when connecting, LimeWire is easily the 
most sophisticated file-sharing program out there, and will continue to 
hold that title.

Thank you for helping us to build LimeWire into the best file sharing 
program on the planet!

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