Well the next step would be to transfer this to apache and then do a collaborative cleanup. On Dec 4, 2014 6:16 PM, "Andrew Douglas Pitonyak" <and...@pitonyak.org> wrote:
> > On 12/04/2014 12:36 PM, Alexandro Colorado 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. >> > > Problem is that it was not able to package up what was needed so that it > could be downloaded. I have plenty of storage to have been able to download > it. > > I did a scrape of the pages, and it is about 8GB last time I did it. Off > hand, I expect that a huge chunk of that is SPAM, especially since most of > the SPAMS have large graphics included. I considered writing a PERL script > to clean that based on certain search criteria, but, it just feels like a > huge annoyance to spend hours removing posts and then trolling the rest of > the files to rearrange all of the links so that things continue to > function. So, I did not start the clean-up process from my scrape. > > -- > Andrew Pitonyak > My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt > Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
