All,
There are several things going on and the goal is to make it easier
both for developers and endusers to get and work on OpenOffice.org.
* homepage redesign : homepage using Collabnet
* portal.openoffice.org: not CollabNet, using Drupal + outside servers
* users.services.openoffice.org: not collabnet, using outside servers
* overall infrastructure redesign: let's see
* wikis
+ overall infrastructure. The last one is global and there are
meetings involving the stakeholders later on this month and early
next. The idea there is to clarify which SCM (source code manager)
we'll be using, and to resolve other things related to the website.
You've seen, I am sure, the posts regarding "infrastructure
requirements."
+ The homepage redesign is necessary but there seems to be some
confusion. The wiki, http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/
User_Pages_Requirements, was created by me for the *portal,* not the
homepage; at the time, I wasn't thinking of "portal" as the term.
Unfortunately, at least for the foreseeable future, we are limited to
using CollabNet for the homepage, if not for the portal.
Portal was initially kicked off by Filip, whose company, Bluepoint
proposed something similar off the OOo domain. I feel, along with
Stefan, that we want something in the domain, else we jeopardize our
brand. The compromise was "portal.openoffice.org," which we can
use. We cannot replace the homepage right now as we are tied to
Collabnet. However, portal.openoffice.org would not be.
+ The users.services.openoffice.org site is the evolution of the
OOoForums, which Ed Buck used to manage. He still may but the the
group would like now to situate it within the .services universe, and
I agree. Most people think of the OOoForums site as being part of
OOo, anyway. The actual technology underlying it is something I have
not been tracking.
+ The wikis will continue to use mostly Sun severs and be Sun
managed, though not all servers within the universe are Sun, of course.
*** In a nutshell, then, the goal is ultimately to have a coherent
structure and infrastructure. We are clearly not there yet and are in
transition. Because of contractual obligations we must stay with the
collabnet infrastructure for a while, at least, but for enduser and
developer domains where it makes sense can use alternative servers
and infrastructures; that's where portal.openoffice.org comes in.
Does this clarify things? The immediate goal for this discussion is
double:
* homepage redesign
* portal.openoffice.org
Homepage: collabnet
Portal: not Collab but Drupal.
If an IRC discussion will help, I'm free anytime, more or less.
best
louis
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