We've seen now twice the rumor mill in action. A month ago it was due to a water pipe breaking and causing the Kenai data center to be temporarily shut down. And just yesterday it was a mistaken interpretation of a download error and inability to ping some servers where ping was administratively disabled, that led to wild speculations that Oracle as preemptively disabling their servers before we could migrate. The first rumor made it into the press. The second, fortunately, was squashed before the false rumor spread too far.
Oracle has stated repeatedly that they are committed to aiding with the migration to Apache. Andrew has done well squashing rumors when they pop up, but with the timezone difference this can take several hours. But since this seems to reoccur at regular intervals, for various reasons, I wonder if this would merit one or more FAQ's: 1) How should I report outages of OpenOffice.org services? 2) What is the migration plan for moving OpenOffice.org on to Apache infrastructure? 3) What is Oracle contributing to Apache? 4) How much longer will Oracle keep their OpenOffice servers up? Will they shut them down without notice? Answers to these questions might go in the Community FAQ's section of the web page: http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/community-faqs.html Then, the next time the rumors come up (and yes, there will be a next time) we can point to the FAQ. -Rob
