On 4 December 2014 at 18:36, Alexandro Colorado <j...@oooes.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> > wrote: > > > Alexandro Colorado wrote: > > > >> Unfortunately seems these matters went into private lists. I would > >> suggest a public IRC meetup > >> > > > > This is not an official resource of the project, so the project is trying > > to help simply as a benefit to existing users. Edward, who owns the > domain > > name, was cooperative and we had a brief exchange of e-mails a few months > > ago. > > > > The outcome, with no need of dedicated discussions, is that the best > > solution is: > > 1) Edward keeps the oooforum.org domain name, since it has historically > > been his > > 2) We agree that Ed will point oooforum.org to something like > > forum-archive.openoffice.org (the name is made up, but I mean something > > under Apache control) > > 3) Ed provides Apache with a full database dump and a full files tree for > > the phpbb installation now powering oooforum.org > > 4) oooforum.org remains as a public archive, but gradually we encourage > > people to post to forum.openoffice.org (a neutral resource, but on > Apache > > infrastructure and under control of the project) > > > > If Ed agrees with this, we can surely implement it reasonably quickly. > But > > we will need action from his side for item #3. > > > > Agreed and maybe he is under a lot of work. My question here is if he ever > got back, were there further outreach? And is it possible to share the > admin credentials with an AOO contributor like Andrew P. I heard he already > did an rsync of the site but was too large to hold on his client. Maybe AOO > could share a space to rsync there as a read-only. And then perform some > cleanup to tag spam posts and delete the pages. 100G should do it IMO. > The disk will not be the problem, but moving 100G across the net requires a lot of bandwidth in the ends....that is going to take quite a long time. Getting a dvd/usbkey would be a lot faster. rgds jan i. > > > > > > > Regards, > > Andrea. > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > > > > > > -- > Alexandro Colorado > Apache OpenOffice Contributor > 882C 4389 3C27 E8DF 41B9 5C4C 1DB7 9D1C 7F4C 2614 >
