On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 9:05 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote: > Shane, > > If you register on the openoffice.org site (recommended), and are logged in, > you will find something amazing at > <http://openoffice.org/projects/www/lists>. > > Those are not all of the lists. There are, in addition, 15 pages of Projects > (146 total), > <http://openoffice.org/projects>. (Be logged in to view this too.) > > The Native Language (NL) projects appear to be here too. > > I believe that the static content has been captured. Kay Schenk can report > whether she has captured them all. > > Nothing about the interactive aspects such as mailing lists and the community > efforts is being sustained or salvaged as far as I know. > > There seem to be three aspects here: > > 1. These deserve pruning. Our alternative, so far, has been to add two > mailing lists to ooo-* @i.a.o. > > 2. No one able to handle preparation, staging, and figuring out what to > install and administer to continue on Apache infrastructure has stepped > forward at AOOo. It is not clear who has the keys to those operations. When > Terry Ellison was working to provide a migration of the MediaWiki setup and > the Forums services onto Apache Infrastructure, he reported that he had no > capacity to add this under his wing. No one else with knowledge of this kind > of service has been identified. > > 3. It would be great if there were some energetic body, similar to the > Forums squad, that could step in and find a way to embrace and sustain what > is still important as part of the OpenOffice.org ecosystem. >
Maybe the SpamAssassin PMC would be interested in archiving the legacy mailing lists? From what I can tell, most of the 146 mailing lists seem to receive nothing but spam. It could prove to be a useful corpus for them. -Rob > I don't have anything constructive to offer beyond pointing at the burning > building. > > - Dennis > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Shane Curcuru [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 16:45 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Migration: any plans to preserve mailing list archives? > > Are there any plans to preserve archives of any existing @oo.o mailing > lists? I didn't see a treatment of archives on the planning page: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Mailing+lists > > Obviously any mailing lists hosted at Apache will use the normal > mail-archive.a.o system, but I was wondering if there's any plan or need > for somehow preserving the past archives of lists. > > I'd certainly like to review some of the past lists, especially the > marketing/branding and strategy ones. I could imagine that a number of > the developer lists might also be valuable for future reference as well. > > - Shane > >
