My understanding that it really is a test build and it has *not* been maintained in synchronization with the OpenOffice.org operating version. So if that system started to be used as a production instance separate from OpenOffice.org, it would be a fork and there would be some issues with that.
Also, I don't believe that would be an acceptable arrangement for Apache Infrastructure, for important operational reasons. Someone from there can explain the rules for having a MediaWiki server being sustained. - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Matt Richards [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 08:32 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [DISCUSS][wiki] Migration (was Re: Who Wants to build OpenOffice?) As far as point 2, I thought Terry had completed the all of the migration work and all that was left was to create a final export and cut over the DNS entries? In my mind, if there is already a lot of content on the MW and the Apache Foundation allows us to continue to use it, why not? On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 7:19 AM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 12:51 AM, Pedro F. Giffuni <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hmm ... > > It looks like I missed where the decision to use MediiaWiki and > deprecate confluence > > was taken. I guess it was arranged with infra as long as MW is up to date > and > > the extensions are documented. > > > > I am not complaining though: it sounds like lazy consensus in action plus > we can > > always change mind later on and try the conversion script. > > > > Do you have a counter-argument? I think the factors are at play were: > > 1) We have a huge amount of content already in MediaWiki from the > legacy project. Although it might be converted to Confluence, the > effort would be large. > > on the other hand > > 2) MediaWiki was not supported by Apache Infrastructure and getting it > supported and migrated would require a lot of admin work > > So far, it looks like the admin effort has made more progress than the > translation effort. Maybe not a final decision, but that is how it > looks to me today. > > -Rob > > > Pedro. > -- --Matt
