Thank you SO much for this update...and see inline below. On 11/23/2014 11:30 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > The OpenOffice PMC had a productive meeting with Infrastructure at > ApacheCon a few days ago. As agreed, I'm sending my notes (sorry for the > delay). I'm putting everything together so that we can update this from > time to time and measure progress. (For the OpenOffice dev list: this > message contains updates on a lot of pending infrastructure actions, > please make sure to read it all). > > 1) Custom infrastructure: forum/wiki > > Jan Iversen (jani) expressed his availability to take over from Andrea > in managing the virtual machines powering the OpenOffice Forum and Wiki. > So we will transition soon, and he will be free to reset permissions as > he sees fit. Limited sudo access (to restart the VM in case of need) > will still be available for the current administrators. > > Next action: Jan to reconfigure access (this is already in progress) > > 2) Mac buildbot > > It is ready (operating system), Andrew Rist is taking care of the setup > (buildbot "slave" software and its connection to the "master"). > > Next action: Andrew Rist to finish setup, then talk to Infra
YAY! > > 3) Linux buildbot > > A Centos 5 VM is ready, currently turned off. It was setup by jani > months ago. It is unclear who has access to it. We currently have the > basic system only, buildbot software still needs to be installed. > > Next action: Infra to actually make the VM accessible so that the > project can install the missing parts. Good on this also. To my knowledge, CentOS5 has 32-bit and 64-bit flavors. So, are both 32-bit and 64-bit VMs setup? > > 4) Digitally signed releases (Windows) > > Infra is ready with a digital signing service for Windows binaries; the > major difference with the current process is that digital signatures > will be recognized as valid by Windows. > > We have a test signing server and a production signing server (both with > a "test" and "production" signing system). The production system should > not be abused since we have limited credits (or "signing events", each > of which can contain several binaries), but we can surely try signing > our 4.1.1 binaries for a start. > > Missing a release manager, Andrea has the signing certificates. You can > send binaries to the signing server directly from a local machine (not > necessarily within the Apache network) and in case of issues the signing > event can be revoked. > > Next action: Andrea to figure out how the service works and to start > playing with it, asking Infra if needed. > > 5) Digitally signed releases (Mac) > > We are ready to produce digitally signed releases that will be accepted > by Mac OS too. But this is blocked by a legal issue, LEGAL-174: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-174 > > Next action: Andrea to weigh in in LEGAL-174 to say that OpenOffice > would like to sign Mac binaries too. > > 6) E-mail functionality monitoring > > Andrea states that the relatively long (about 1 week) e-mail outage we > had some months ago was a problem for the project work and image. A very > complete monitoring plan is being set up by Infra. Basic monitoring is > already active. > > Next action: Infra to continue the setup of monitoring systems and blog > about it when appropriate. > > 7) Mailing lists setup > > Despite many attempts and discussions on our mailing lists, the mailing > list setup is still problematic, since we allow unsubscribed posters to > post (moderated) but force the Reply-To to be the list. The preferred > setup for our lists is still Reply-To set to the list, but it would be > great to add the sender to Reply-To in case of unsubscribed posters. > > Next action: Andrea to revive the conversation on the Infra lists, > digging the old threads and linking to them. CC pctony. > > [Just for information, mailing lists can be moderated by non-committers] > > 8) Website > > Site has to stay pure HTML, PHP is not an option. Jekyll > http://jekyllrb.com/ may be worth a look if we are to rebuild our site, > and other projects are using it. The so-called "sledgehammer" commits > (template updates triggering mass-rebuilds) are not expected to be a > problem any longer. The publish.pl script is minimally maintained, > Andrea reports it's not working but needs to check his setup better. > > Next action: Andrea (or actually, anyone who is using it!) to check his > publish.pl and report to Infra if it's broken. I think this is fine. > > 9) Blog > > Roller is not nice or user-friendly for editors, and it is not linked to > Apache accounts so one has to create a separate account for it anyway. > If this move can increase participation, OpenOffice is free to move to > Wordpress (preferably a hosted version on wordpress.com) and have > blog.openoffice.org created and redirected to it (the current URL is > https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/ ). > > Next action: OpenOffice dev list to assess whether a different setup can > increase the (currently very scarce, and limited to Andrea in the last 6 > months) blogging activity in the project. > > 10) Translation server (Pootle) > > We had a request from Michal Hrin (hrin), approved by lazy consensus by > the OpenOffice dev list, to become an administrator of the Pootle server > limited to the OpenOffice project(s). This is technically possible, and > Jan is a super-administrator there and can make those changes. > > Next action: Jan to give Michal admin rights, limited to the OpenOffice > project [note: later conversations moved in the direction to evaluate > hosted solutions for Pootle, so this evaluation will probably be done > first]. > > 11) Budget for 2015 > > If there is need of anything from Infra that requires to allocate a > budget, the OpenOffice PMC should ask for it in February 2015. > > Regards, > Andrea. Thanks again for this information. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK "One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star." -- Friedrich Nietzsche --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
