On Nov 8, 2011, at 8:55 AM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: > On 8 November 2011 11:49, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Louis Suárez-Potts <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> I periodically (read: every day) receive requests from OOo community >>> members and OOo users to fix, alter or otherwise change the OOo site >>> (www.openoffice.org). These requests include such things as expunging >>> private information as well as normal updates. >>> >>> As we all know, the old OOo site is pretty much in the past, and we >>> are progressively moving to the new. >>> >>> But: I'd like to have some more concrete information to provide, and >>> ideally, be able to address the requests, too. >>> >> >> Hopefully there is not a lot of personal information on the public >> website. > > There is not. We at OOo also had a high bar—OOo site was predicated on > the Apache model, and that's no coincidence: Brian B. had a hand in > both. However, personal info does creep in when people erroneously > post their private information, such as phone numbers, to public > lists, unaware—!!— just how public the lists are. > > But this does happen, with mailing list archives, for >> example. Apache has a policy for this. It essentially sets a high >> bar for removing information from public archives: >> >> http://apache.org/foundation/public-archives.html >> >> For other information on the website, I'd recommend having them enter >> an issue in Bugzilla, classified as the "www" product. Hopefully >> we'll be cutting over to the new Apache-hosted version of these pages >> soon, and we can apply requested changes then. > > Rob, you don't get just how naive some of the users of OOo are and how > naive even those posting to the lists were. Perhaps you are unaware of > how popular OOo remains? Few of these users would even know how to > file an issue. > >> >> Of course, if there is something of a truly urgent nature, then >> escalate that, via ooo-private if appropriate. > > I am referring to www.openoffice.org/ You have not answered the > question—but I didn't think you could. The point is double: > > 1. Can I alter the old site, www.openoffice.org/
Yes, but please keep us informed as a lot has been ported to ooo-site.apache.org > 2. When will the old site fully migrate to the new, and when that > happens, what sort of content control would I (or someone like me) > have? The whole of the new site at ooo-site is under the Apache CMS and can be edited with the webgui by a committer. Patches accepted from others. See the podling site for instructions. Others can give details as I have to run. BR, Dave > > thanks > louis > > >> >>> Thanks >>> Louis <-the person formerly known as the OOo Community Manager >>> >>
