Rename this Project? about consensusj HOT 6 CLOSED

I always thought the name bitcoinj-addons is too close to bitcoinj (the project), and even though bitcoinj is used here, it's an open question, whether this project remains closely linked to bitcoinj, or whether it's scope goes beyond that at some point.

On the other hand, the gem of the project is probably the bitcoinj-rpcclient, which is indeed very related to bitcoinj.

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Yeah, the current gem of the project is the rpcclient, but if we make progress on bidirectional JSON mapping and on the server that may become equally, or perhaps more significant.

Take a look at bitcoinj/bitcoinj#895 -- you'll see what people are looking for in RPC client/server support for bitcoinj and also that @mikehearn was OK with the bitcoinj-addons name. It was always may intention to flush this stuff out and submit one or more modules to the bitcoinj project. Though @mikehearn is focusing on Bitcoin XT these days and @schildbach is now leading the project.

My plan is:

1. Finish improving the Jackson mapping in the client (and do a little bit more work on the server)
2. Send an email to the bitcoinj list announcing the project and asking for feedback and, more importantly, seeing whether and how it could be submitted/merged into bitcoinj. (Given our multi project Gradle build maybe they'd just move the whole repo under the bitcoinj organization -- I really have no idea what feedback we'd get though.)
3. Choose a new name or names after receiving the feedback.

It will also be interesting to see if anyone volunteers to help -- or sponsor :) -- any of this work.

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It's also confused that in addons contains a lot of child projects. I think it would be better to rename it to incubator or shelter or even split to several projects.

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I like keeping it in a single Git repository with a single, Gradle, multi-project build. The README contains a Modules section that explains the different modules. I need to approach bitcoinj and see if they want to take some or all of the modules and then make some decisions after that.

Another reason I created so many modules is so that individual jars can be used without pulling in unwanted transitive dependencies.

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I'm leaning towards ConsensusJ and have reserved both the Github Organization name and the domain ConsensusJ.org.

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Project moved to the ConsensusJ Github organization.
Repository renamed to https://github.com/ConsensusJ/consensusj

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