We currently don't provide any hosting services at the ASF. Everything we put up on the net is owned and operated by the ASF (either by infra or delegated to a project like ooo).
If the forums do wind up being hosted on ASF gear, the legal ownership of those forums needs to be transferred to the ASF- anybody else with a claim needs to waive it. Practically speaking tho some of the volunteers would need access to the machines in order to do admin work on it, and those folks could be considered part of infra if they are not part of the ooo project on any formal level. And if something really does go horribly wrong with the forums, and the ASF decides to shut down the service, barring criminal conduct we'd probably let whomever is interested in hosting the forums elsewhere do so. We don't have an anti-forum axe to grind, and have dealt with dissatisfied projects before rather amicably. So to answer your questions, yes it certainly could be done within the Apache structure. No it probably cannot be done to host stuff here on behalf of some third party. >________________________________ >From: Rory O'Farrell <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Tuesday, September 6, 2011 8:37 AM >Subject: Re: [RT] Create a second incubator podling - the ooo forums > >On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 05:17:03 -0700 (PDT) >Joe Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Sorry, but if this were put to a vote on general@incubator >> I'd likely vote -1 as it is out of scope for the incubator >> to incubate a non-software-development related group. Frankly >> we have no business overseeing this work on anything more >> than a formal level because we have no institutional experience >> with forums and their management. > >Do you then see no role for support for whatever project at the unskilled >(ordinary member of the public) user level within the Apache structure? > >If the Forum continues to provide such support for OpenOffice and its various >forks, including it is to be hoped the forthcoming Apache version, which is >the wish and intention of its Volunteer corps, is there any mechanism whereby >Apache might provide hosting faciltities, with suitable disclaimers as to non >liability? > > >-- >Rory O'Farrell <[email protected]> > > >
