Hi Matt, A mirror of the forums was brought up on Apache infrastructure. It may need some tweaking. It also does not have a current image of the Forums, which are still at <http://user.services.openoffice.org/>.
A technical migration activity depends on setting up server and forum administration on the Apache system and performing the DNS magic to splice it into the OpenOffice.org namespace in place of the current server. Beside the logistical delays around that part of the migration, there are some governance issues. New Terms of Use need to be established and the agreement and cooperation of the current administrators and moderators of the forums is required. Those last aspects are being discussed among the Apache OpenOffice.org project and the current Forum operators. You can see some of the attempt to narrow in on a mutually-acceptable proposal at <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Changes+integrate+the+forums+into+the+AOOo+project>. Look at the sidebar expando-tree for more information. At the present time I think the next move is for the Forum operators to narrow in on a proposal that is acceptable to them -- I think they are close based on material that has been shared privately -- and then indicate their willingness to have it happen. My sense is that there are other options being considered. I can only speak to those that involve successful migration into the Apache OpenOffice.org incubator. - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Matt Richards [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 18:46 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Forum outage I'm glad the forums service is back online within Oracle's hosting. It would be nice to have some kind of alternative hosting plan for the forums, in the event Oracle decides to stop the services they are providing. It does not appear to be an easy task though, mostly due to heavy politics (forums are full of them, thus I tent to avoid them personally). I have also noticed over time in other projects, often users want to use forums or mailing lists.. Rarely are there people that use both (as a couple have pointed out within this thread). This is yet another pointless rambling other than to highlight the point of having an alternative hosting plan sooner than later. On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 8:09 PM, Kazunari Hirano <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > http://user.services.openoffice.org/ > > Now it's working :) > > Thanks, > khirano > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- --Matt --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
