+1 to all. Once you've got decent drafts of these on the actual FAQ
page would be a great time for another blog post, and then people to
tweet the post, to show that there's plenty of community here making
real progress.
While development lists at Apache are all public, it's much easier to
reach outside the community - to showcase the progress we have made -
with a tweet or blog post that might get into people's feed reader or
the like.
- Shane
On 8/9/2011 9:20 AM, Rob Weir wrote:
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 9:05 AM, Rob Weir<[email protected]> wrote:
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:
Just to be clear, I'm volunteering to put this up on the web site. But
I would like to make sure we have consensus on the responses.
1) How should I report outages of OpenOffice.org services?
I assume all outages should be reported to the ooo-dev list? Once the
migration starts it is impossible for the average end user to
determine whether the service is hosted by Oracle or Apache. So
better to just report everything here.
2) What is the migration plan for moving OpenOffice.org on to Apache
infrastructure?
We should point to the plans on the wiki, perhaps with a few general
comments on the goals.
3) What is Oracle contributing to Apache?
Is there an authoritative statement on this? I know there is an SGA,
but that is not public. So what can we say here? I'd prefer to link
to an authoritative statement by Oracle on what they are committed to
contributing (even if in general terms).
4) How much longer will Oracle keep their OpenOffice servers up? Will
they shut them down without notice?
Again, I'd love to point to an authoritative statement, since that
would work best to squash the rumor mill the next time.
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
