Janet M. Swisher wrote:
TECHNICAL ISSUES
This mailing list is currently hosted by the user-faq project at
openoffice.org. The server that handles this list has been having
increasing downtime and slowdowns, both in sending out messages and in
updating the archives.
This is really bad, at my NL project we have created a backup mailing
list at sourceforge.net because of the delay on CollabNet servers.
CONS
- There is hassle involved in migrating the list, especially as it may
not be possible to do automatically. People may have to explicitly
subscribe to the new list. As a result, we may lose some list members,
especially less active ones.
Migrating subscribes should be very easy but how about the list
archives? They are a valuable resource.
- This change makes the project more dependent on Enthought. They might
someday decide to stop hosting OOoAuthors.org, for whatever reason. (We
don't think this is likely, but it is possible.) If that happened, then
we'd have to move both the website and the mailing list to a new server,
though not a new domain. If we don't move the list, then if Enthought
kicks OOoAuthors out, "only" the website would have to move to another
server.
If the book selling was such a big problem, look at the bright side: if
OOoAuthors.org will secure a revenue source, then it may become possible
to pay for its hosting and not depend on anybody.
--
nicu
my OpenOffice.org pages: http://ooo.nicubunu.ro
Open Clip Art Library: http://www.openclipart.org
