Thanks, CodeReady Workspaces & Eclipse Che concerns added to
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SXlCkp_Ok0vw1ArCA8UjpWAyfqQLfZ96rK3ridnB1Eo/edit#gid=0


If PSSC proposes a new place to host these files that's safe enough for
supply chain security concerns, we can move our content to a new host.

Has anyone from PSSC been looped in on this?

Nick


On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 3:03 PM Max Rydahl Andersen <[email protected]>
wrote:

> More updates.
>
> Please See spreadsheet and add the sites You want us to be aware about and
> what issues/concerns You have.
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> *From:* Mark Newton <[email protected]>
> *Date:* 20 Jan 2022, 16:48 +0100
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Cc:* Core, The <[email protected]>
> *Subject:* Re: [IMPORTANT INFORMATION - PLEASE READ] jboss.org PHX2
> Shutdown
>
> Hi Andrew,
>
> Apologies for the delay in responding. A number of similar concerns have
> been raised by other people in this thread and elsewhere so we wanted to
> make sure we created one response that addressed all of them.
>
>
>    1.
>
>    You’re correct that the current work in progress is simply a
>    relocation of the SFTP and rsync services that constitute
>    filemgmt.jboss.org to another place. That was going to be OpenShift in
>    IAD2 but due to issues provisioning the services there we’re now using
>    OpenStack in IAD2. I’ll address accessing the content at URLs serviced by
>    filemgmt.jboss.org below.
>
>
>
>    1.
>
>    As filemgmt.jboss.org is used to upload content and all the other
>    domains are used to access/read content they are being treated differently.
>    1.
>
>       Some domains such as developer.jboss.org which used to be served by
>       a Jive server (forums, wiki and blogs) have been archived in the sense 
> that
>       the webpages are now flat HTML as we’ve decommissioned Jive. The 
> Confluence
>       server at docs.jboss.org/author (used to create project
>       documentation) is another example of this.
>       2.
>
>       Other domains like doc.jboss.org (without the /author path) and
>       issues.jboss.org have been moved to spaces.redhat.com and
>       issues.redhat.com respectively as the Confluence and JIRA servers
>       behind them are now owned by the Portfolio Lifecycle Management team in
>       Engineering. Due to an error redirecting traffic from docs.jboss.org
>       to spaces.redhat.com that didn’t account for subpaths, some of the
>       project documentation available at docs.jboss.org/<project> was
>       temporarily unavailable (as it was redirected to spaces.redhat.com)
>       but we’ve since fixed this.
>       3.
>
>       www.jboss.org is now owned by MW Engineering who use GitHub to
>       author content instead of the Magnolia CMS which has been shutdown.
>       4.
>
>       static.jboss.org and <project>.jboss.org (along with some
>       <project>.org domains) use Apache httpd servers which are being 
> relocated
>       from virtualized machines in PHX2 to OpenShift in IAD2.
>
>
>
>    1.
>
>    Content made available from the URLs mentioned in item 2 above will
>    continue to be be accessible after Dec 2022 but without further action
>    those domains will be considered archived in the sense that you will no
>    longer be able to upload content there (as filemgmt.jboss.org is
>    currently scheduled to be shutdown at the end of Dec 2022).
>
>
>
>    1.
>
>    What this means for projects like Byteman that have content at
>    byteman.jboss.org is that they would need to move to another hosting
>    provider like GitHub Pages ***by the end of Dec 2022*** if they wanted to
>    continue uploading content to their domain. I understand we can move
>    subdomains like byteman.jboss.org to GitHub while keeping other
>    jboss.org subdomains hosted by Red Hat. As such you wouldn’t have to
>    *personally* host your own web/file service but you would be expected to
>    perform the migration along with any necessary maintenance after that. We
>    will provide some instructions in Confluence on how to move to GitHub Pages
>    as we’ve already done this ourselves for some legacy projects to reduce the
>    amount of Akamai configuration needed for the overall jboss.org
>    migration out of PHX2.
>
>
> Max Andersen has also raised concerns about the impact of these changes to
> DevTools as they use downloads.jboss.org to serve tooling binaries which
> are considered pseudo-products and therefore treated differently from
> projects. This argument may impact whether or not we keep the content
> upload service at filemgmt.jboss.org living beyond Dec 2022 but the most
> appropriate solution still needs to be determined and project teams are
> still encouraged to move their project sites to GitHub Pages if possible as
> that service is actively developed to provide modern project site hosting
> capabilities.
>
> Ultimately we’re trying to establish the most appropriate balance of
> product/project concerns in terms of what Red Hat should be providing
> services for. Given all the recent reorganizations across the company to
> focus on capturing the Open Hybrid Cloud market the hosting of community
> projects is not something that is being considered part of our core
> business. As such we should look to externalize it if possible using
> companies that do treat it as their core business such as GitHub.
>
> It’s less clear cut to say that services such as Nexus and downloads for
> dev tooling, that are used in the overall software productization process
> or in support of our products, shouldn’t be provided by Red Hat which is
> why we’re having conversations with the related teams to determine the most
> appropriate outcomes.
>
> Max has started the following spreadsheet for MW Engineering to
> co-ordinate what the plans are for various jboss.org domains following
> the PHX2 shutdown so there’s one place to go:
>
>
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SXlCkp_Ok0vw1ArCA8UjpWAyfqQLfZ96rK3ridnB1Eo/edit#gid=0
>  -
> *.jboss.org transition
>
> I hope this helps to clear things up a bit.
>
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2022 at 11:42, Andrew Dinn <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Mark (Newton),
>>
>> Is that just the sound of tumbleweeds rolling down main street on an
>> east wind that I can hear? Or did I miss a response to the questions
>> below?
>>
>> I really need to know the answers to these questions quite soon,
>> especially question 4, and I am sure I am not alone in that regard.
>>
>> If projects are really being expected to find somewhere to store
>> web/download content then that's going to require time to plan, not
>> simply to provision the relevant services but also to deal with the
>> disruption (both to project processes and to users) that may arise from
>> having existing content relocated.
>>
>> Can we please have some clarification and advice here?
>>
>> regards,
>>
>>
>> Andrew Dinn
>> -----------
>>
>> On 17/01/2022 11:06, Andrew Dinn wrote:
>> > Can you be more explicit about a few points made in this post:
>> >
>> > 1) Is the current work in progress simply a relocation of
>> > filemgmt.jboss.org to a virtualized server running inside OpenShift in
>> > IAD2? Or does it actually entail disabling access to content addressed
>> > with URLs based on the name filemgmt.jboss.org before or by 31 March?
>> >
>> > 2) Is the story regarding current WIP for docs.jboss.org,
>> > developer.jboss.org, www.jboss.org,  static.jboss.org, and
>> > project.jboss.org the same as for filemgmt.jboss.org If not then what
>> is
>> > the difference?
>> >
>> > 3) Are you saying that all content made available via URLs based on the
>> > above list of names will need to be relocated to servers provided by the
>> > relevant projects before end of Dec 2022?
>> >
>> > 4) What does this mean for projects like Byteman that essentially belong
>> > within JBoss/Red Hat? Am I expected *personally* to host my own web/file
>> > service to serve Byteman related content? Am I also expected to provide
>> > my own domain and/or relocate the content from byteman.jboss.org Or is
>> > there some common Red Hat server resource I can use which keeps the
>> > content in the jboss domain?
>>
>>
>
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