On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: >> In case you missed it on the other thread, we heard from Andrew that >> the remaining Oracle servers that supported the legacy OOo project >> will be shut down starting on March 15th. This includes the mailing >> list and the mail forwarder. >> >> We dealt with the mailing lists before, sending notes to the active >> ones that the project had moved over to Apache and gave them the new >> addresses. I subscribe to many of these lists and they have been >> silent for months. I moderate one and it is all spam, and has been >> for months. If you are seeing any openoffice.org list that still has >> real traffic on it, then please speak up. We need to identify any >> active remaining lists and send them the information here: >> >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Email+Migration+Post >> >> At the same time we need to notify users that the openoffice.org email >> forwarding service is being retired as of March 15th. I had already >> drafted a note for this, and it was previously reviewed. I've just >> updated it to put in the actual shutdown date: >> >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/%28Draft%29+Public+Statement+on+Email+Forwarding >> >> If there are no objections, my plan is to: >> >> 1) Move that wiki page into a blog post, clean up for formatting and publish >> it >> > > The blog post is out: > https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/retirement_of_openoffice_org_email > > Also on Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/rcweir/statuses/175664277552766977 > > And Google+: > https://plus.google.com/u/0/110021943609888508798/posts/WnwA84zDZiJ > > >> 2) On Monday morning send a note out to ooo-announce, referring to >> that blog post for details. >>
Done. > > I'm holding off until Monday for the ooo-announce post. It is more > likely to be read if sent out on a Monday than a Friday. > > > Are there any other places we should post this information to? > Legacy dev/user/discuss lists? phpBB Forums? Any NLC's? If anyone > can help broadening the reach of this information, it would help avoid > surprises when March 15th comes. > >> 3) Open a JIRA issue with Infra on a custom bounce notification >> > > Done: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-4506 >> I could use help with: >> >> 1) Reaching out to NL groups that might not read or understand the >> above announcement >> >> 2) Updating our migration status wiki page >> (https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/OpenOffice.org+Migration+Status). >> This is referred to in the post as giving "current" information, but >> it is no longer current. >> >> 3) Responding to questions that this note may receive on the ooo-users list. >> >> Regards, >> >> -Rob
