Just tried to download one template...very nice! 2012/3/21 Rob Weir <[email protected]>
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Roberto Galoppini <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Here is a quick recap of what we at SourceForge have been doing over > > the last weeks to help the Apache Open Office community and what we > > plan to do in the near future. > > > > - Full analysis of the configurations and setup of the Extensions and > > Templates sites, to better understand existing and potential future > > issues; > > > > - Maintenance and updates to he Drupal modules of the two sites; (this > > included the update of the Drupal 5 platform to work with PHP 5.3) > > > > - Analysis of the performance issues of the sites replacing the caching > systems; > > > > - Transparent Redirects to the SourceForge mirror for uploads' and > > downloads' operations to enabling a faster download and reducing > > significantly the load on the Drupal servers; > > > > - Rewriting all parts of the sites depending on > > extensions/templates.services.openoffice.org URLs; > > (the actual extensions/templates.openoffice.org can be relocated at > > any other URL the community might like); > > > > - Allowing users to login both with the openoffice.org accounts and > > with local accounts; > > (in order to manage smoothly the shutdown of Oracle infrastructure); > > > > - Automatic conversion of openoffice.org users' accounts to local > accounts; > > (all users who actually logged in before Oracle shutdown were hence > > migrated seamless) > > > > - Creation of new accounts directly as local accounts and not as an > > account at openoffice.org; > > > > - Managing the transition of active users to the new system by direct > > mailing them prior to the receipt of users' accounts; (we needed to > > do that in order to avoid the risk of having active users out of the > > system for some days) > > > > What's next: > > > > 1 - We plan to Migrats all users right away, providing them also with > > some interesting info (e.g. extensions/templates recently created, > > statistics, etc) > > > > 2 - Help market AOO Extensions and Templates, e.g. interviewing > > creators and sharing the news via our media. Our community growth > > hacker and Apache member Rich Bowen will be happy to help with that. > > > > I wish also to take the chance here to thanks Ross Gardler, who > > mentored us through the collaboration process, Rob Weir for his inputs > > and support, and Gavin McDonald and the whole Infra team, who provided > > us with all necessary information, often getting help in turn from > > Andrew Rist (who was also supportive and helpful). > > > > I think it's also appropriate to give credit to our SiteOp team, > > especially Jacob Morman who was the owner of the activity on our side, > > and Wayne Davison who worked hard, deployed new servers, and went > > above and beyond the call of duty in getting this deployed quickly. > > Our engineering team did a lot of work especially, Dave Brondsema was > > also of great help, enabling our Allura open source forge to deliver > > on performance. We’re also very grateful to Antonio DeMarco the > > contractor who actually turned all our specifications and fix requests > > into a working platform. And I’s also like to thank Mark Ramm who > > helped mobilize and organize the engineering, contractor, and site > > operations work so that we could get this done quickly. Last but not > > least, I wish to say thank to Andrea Pescetti, who actually provided > > us with all details about how those websites work. > > > > +1 and thanks to all that helped. And especially, to you Roberto, for > having the original idea that SourceForge might help, and then > perusing that idea, especially through the chaos of the ooo-dev list! > > -Rob > > > Roberto > > ==== > > This e- mail message is intended only for the named recipient(s) above. > It may contain confidential and privileged information. If you are not the > intended recipient you are hereby notified that any dissemination, > distribution or copying of this e-mail and any attachment(s) is strictly > prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately > notify the sender by replying to this e-mail and delete the message and any > attachment(s) from your system. Thank you. > > >
