Well, I thought Terry has resigned from the project according to another thread, leaving the wiki migration at a bit of a stand still. Figured I could step in and pick up where he left off on this. Am I able to, as a non-contributor reach out to Apache Infra on this (from what I read it seems the infra ML are for existing contributors only)? Not sure who all is involved at this point.
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 12:28 PM, Dave Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sep 6, 2011, at 10:02 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > > > 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. > > The plan was to put the existing wiki into read only and then do a final > export. That export would be used to build the final ooo-wiki. The next step > is to change the DNS. Once DNS is complete branding changes will be made. > > > > > 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. > > Terry has said he will finish the work. It is possible that Drew can do it. > I know that Terry was documenting everything for Infrastructure. > > Perhaps you should ask infra what they will require given the events of the > last days. > > I also wonder what moderation and administrative situation exists on the > Wiki and if there is any overlap beyond Terry and Drew between these two > groups. > > Regards, > Dave > > PS. A lot of us are older, let's have some consideration for other's health > and stress levels. > I totally understand real life/health needs to come before any of these types of projects. No problem. > > > > > - 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 > > > > -- --Matt
