Re: [Proposal] Shutting down legacy OOo mailing lists

2011-10-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti

On 20/10/2011 Rob Weir wrote:

I  mentioned the technical details of moderator-initiated
subscriptions merely as a follow up to a side proposal that Andrea had
made for the Italian lists.


Thanks for trying and reporting. I see that, as you wrote later and 
Oracle confirmed, corporate policies can get in the way, but still it is 
very useful to have information on the technical feasibility of a 
complete list migration.


I understand, however, that the attention will now need to be shifted to 
the more urgent services.openoffice.org migration, where we have a lot 
of not widely known services needing attention. But I'll raise these 
issues on the dedicated threads.


Regards,
  Andrea.


Re: [Proposal] Shutting down legacy OOo mailing lists

2011-10-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti

On 22/10/2011 Dave Fisher wrote:

On Oct 21, 2011, at 5:33 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:

I would prefer that I was simply subscribed so
that I could do minimal work to make it happen. ...

Unfortunately we will not be getting any user lists from Oracle so an
automatic re-subscription is not possible.


This specific problem can easily be circumvented for most lists, since 
all project owners have access to the subscriber list for all mailing 
lists of their project (including delivery options).


A lot of project owners and moderators are here and I think that also 
people at TeamOpenOffice.org could extract subscriber lists from the 
Kenai infrastructure if needed.


So the issue is more whether people here think it would be useful or not 
to retrieve subscriber lists from Kenai (in doubt, I would retrieve them 
and decide later if and when to use them, but as I wrote earlier I 
understand that policies can get in the way).


Regards,
  Andrea.


Shutdown of the OOo FTP master server

2011-10-23 Thread Marcus (OOo)

Dear mirror admins,

The Apache OpenOffice.org (incubating) project got the information that 
server in the *.services.openoffice.org domain will be shutdown in the 
very near future.


This means that also the FTP master server 
(rsyncmaster.services.openoffice.org) will go away.


Normally there shouldn't be problems or deletions when the rsyc job 
fails due to the unreachable host. However, this mail is to notify you.


It would be great if you can still host all available OOo releases even 
when they become more and more historic. However, the OOo 3.3 is the 
latest stable release that still can be downloaded via the OOo webpage 
and the 3.4-Beta shows the new direction.


Within our new home at Apache we are of course planning new releases. 
However, the initial work that has to be done first is hugh, so it will 
take some time.


If you have any questions please visit our new home at the ASF or write 
to our mailing lists:


http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/index.html

Thank you very much for still supporting OpenOffice.org!

Best regards

Marcus


Re: Clarification on treatment of weak copyleft components

2011-10-23 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:41 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:
 On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Sam Ruby ru...@intertwingly.net wrote:
 On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:

snip

 Now, for our SVN, we need to host the actual source of the MPL
 components, since we need to build the binaries on the platforms that
 we support.  And in several cases we have patches the original source.
  Is this a problem?

 That normally is highly discouraged / not allowed.

Archiving the compressed source of weak copyleft dependencies in some
sort of repository[1] is something that Apache will need to become
comfortable with sometime soon

But developing downstream derivative works of weak copyleft
dependencies is likely to be a major issue

 Why can't the patches be contributed back to the original projects?


 There is no intent to hoard.  From talking to developers on this
 project I get the sense that they want to upstream patches more than
 was done previously.  But contributing a patch is no guarantee that it
 will be integrated by the other project in a timely manner.  Simply
 having it checked in by the 3rd party component, but not yet in their
 release, is also not optimal, for stability and supportability
 reasons.  Release schedules don't always sync up.

Downstream packagers face similar issues and typically cope by
maintaining independent patch sets (applied at build time). Why not
just use patch sets?

Robert

[1] Many weak copyleft licenses require distributors to maintain the
code beyond the lifetime of the organisation which issued the original
license. We need to get used to the idea that Apache is likely to be
around much longer than commercial players.


Re: how can I Extensions_Integration_into_Installation_Set?

2011-10-23 Thread Mathias Bauer
Hi,

Am 18.10.2011 07:51, schrieb jianlizhao:

 I want do  Extensions Integration into Installation Set, I find web page
 bellow:
 
 http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Extensions_Integration_into_Install
 ation_Set
 
 I read the article many times. I still can not solve the problem.
 
 My question is:
 
 I do not know which directory the  Extensions  files  is located under
 slover.
 
 for example:Extension Dictionarie   is located under slover’s pck
 directory.

All extensions containing code should end up in the bin sub folder of
the solver.

Regards,
Mathias



Re: Python and other scripting framework

2011-10-23 Thread Mathias Bauer
Am 20.10.2011 17:47, schrieb Alexandro Colorado:

 Wonder what is the future of the UNO scripting framework since there are
 many languages with different languages like Python, Beanshell and other
 scriptings that OOo ships. OOo builds have a full Python 2.6 version and
 also IDE like Rhino and other applications that are stringly attached to the
 OpenOffice.org core.
Python is not related to the Scripting Framework, it has its own UNO
Language Binding. The Scripting Framework adds support for some
scripting languages with an interpreter written in Java.

Besides that I would expect that the future of the Scripting Framework
will be defined by those who will work on it. Until developers show up
for that, it most probably will stay as it is.

Regards,
Mathias



Re: [DISCUSS] Migration of Forums Recruitment of Operators

2011-10-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 11:32 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton
dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote:
 These are my personal observations and I will report them to the Forum 
 Administrators also.  Any of the Forum operators can chime in here.

 There is not a formal vote that I can see.  There was a poll that ended up 
 63% in favor, 37% opposed on the English Language forums, and I understand 
 that there were wild variances on some of the other NL forums, including 
 nobody in favor in one case.

 The reality seems to be that the move is accepted as happening.  It comes 
 down to knowing what Forum operators will stick around, which ones will 
 declare themselves interested in the iCLA - committer - PPMC progression, 
 etc.


The move either happens or it doesn't.  We can't migrate it 63%. Is it
worth making the plan explicit, e.g:

We're going to migrate the lists now, since the Oracle servers are
going down on Friday. All existing moderators/admins are welcome to
continue participation.  Those who chose not to continue will be
replaced immediately after the move per the Forum's existing
mechanisms for choosing admins and moderators.

 I doubt that the picture will be completely clear until the move is 
 accomplished and folks can raise their heads after the current emergency.


Well, one reason it is an emergency is we wasted almost a week in an
unnecessary show vote that ultimately brought no additional clarity.
Let's hope there is still time to make a clean transition and avoid
outage for the users.

 Meanwhile, I have asked the Forum Operators to please identify who is raising 
 their hands to take the Apache plunge.  I've also asked *them* who on the 
 PPMC is already known there that could be useful as Apache Observers (if not 
 already among the Forum operators).  This would be to serve as consultants to 
 them and especially help communicate/build-bridges/support with the Native 
 Language forums and those operators, I think.

 It might be good to find out who here on the PPMC has interest in being 
 Apache Observers: Forum registrants who have access to the administrative 
 sections and can also post there, but not take administrative actions.  (This 
 is separate from current PPMC members who are already among the Forum 
 Operators and have whatever privileges come with that.)

 This would relax the need for them to rush everything through at once while 
 having someone on site to observe the Forums and their orderly operation.  
 This could satisfy the PPMC that there is adequate oversight in these early 
 days, even if only on an interim/transitional basis.


My main concern is that we don't have any forum that has no one there
helping users, removing spam, etc.  When will we know if that is the
case?

 I'm going to report this same perspective there.

  - Dennis

 -Original Message-
 From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org]
 Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2011 20:00
 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org
 Subject: Re: [VOTE][RESULT] Acceptance of the OpenOffice.org Proposal

 On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 10:56 PM, Alexandro Colorado j...@openoffice.org 
 wrote:
 On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 8:45 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:

 On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 12:26 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton orc...@apache.org
 wrote:
  The vote to accept the proposal for governance and operation of the
 OpenOffice.org Forums ended at midnight, Friday 2011-10-21T24:00Z.
 
  There were a total of 27 +1 votes cast.  There was one +0 vote and no
 -1 votes.
 

 I don't want to assume, so can some one tell us whether the forum
 people have also voted to accept the proposal?

 -Rob


 I see some of the mods but not all of them.


 mods == moderators?  So the vote is still going on?

 -Rob

 --
 *Alexandro Colorado*
 *OpenOffice.org* Español
 http://es.openoffice.org
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Re: Clarification on treatment of weak copyleft components

2011-10-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 8:02 AM, Robert Burrell Donkin
robertburrelldon...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:41 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:
 On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Sam Ruby ru...@intertwingly.net wrote:
 On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:

 snip

 Now, for our SVN, we need to host the actual source of the MPL
 components, since we need to build the binaries on the platforms that
 we support.  And in several cases we have patches the original source.
  Is this a problem?

 That normally is highly discouraged / not allowed.

 Archiving the compressed source of weak copyleft dependencies in some
 sort of repository[1] is something that Apache will need to become
 comfortable with sometime soon

 But developing downstream derivative works of weak copyleft
 dependencies is likely to be a major issue

 Why can't the patches be contributed back to the original projects?


 There is no intent to hoard.  From talking to developers on this
 project I get the sense that they want to upstream patches more than
 was done previously.  But contributing a patch is no guarantee that it
 will be integrated by the other project in a timely manner.  Simply
 having it checked in by the 3rd party component, but not yet in their
 release, is also not optimal, for stability and supportability
 reasons.  Release schedules don't always sync up.

 Downstream packagers face similar issues and typically cope by
 maintaining independent patch sets (applied at build time). Why not
 just use patch sets?


That is what we do.  We store the original source in a tarball and
then apply a patch at build time.  But we store both the source
tarball and the patch on our servers.

 Robert

 [1] Many weak copyleft licenses require distributors to maintain the
 code beyond the lifetime of the organisation which issued the original
 license. We need to get used to the idea that Apache is likely to be
 around much longer than commercial players.



Re: [DISCUSS] Migration of Forums Recruitment of Operators

2011-10-23 Thread RGB ES
2011/10/23 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org


 My main concern is that we don't have any forum that has no one there
 helping users, removing spam, etc.  When will we know if that is the
 case?


I did not understand that, sorry. Could you explain which your concern is?
And about volunteers, while many voted against the move I did not heard
anyone telling he or she will left the forums because the move is finally
accepted. You may see that as an example that our meritocracy is very
democratic, with volunteers following the decision from the majority...
Many volunteers will not apply to commiter status (and this maybe will raise
some questions about current and future admins) and are not interested on
being part of the PPMC, but AFAIK all of us will continue doing what we
always did: help users.

Cheers
Ricardo


Re: [DISCUSS] Migration of Forums Recruitment of Operators

2011-10-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 9:15 AM, RGB ES rgb.m...@gmail.com wrote:
 2011/10/23 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org


 My main concern is that we don't have any forum that has no one there
 helping users, removing spam, etc.  When will we know if that is the
 case?


 I did not understand that, sorry. Could you explain which your concern is?

As Dennis said: It comes down to knowing what Forum operators will
stick around

 And about volunteers, while many voted against the move I did not heard
 anyone telling he or she will left the forums because the move is finally
 accepted. You may see that as an example that our meritocracy is very

OK.  That is different from what Dennis seems to be saying.

 democratic, with volunteers following the decision from the majority...
 Many volunteers will not apply to commiter status (and this maybe will raise
 some questions about current and future admins) and are not interested on
 being part of the PPMC, but AFAIK all of us will continue doing what we
 always did: help users.

 Cheers
 Ricardo



Re: [DISCUSS] Migration of Forums Recruitment of Operators

2011-10-23 Thread floris v

Op 23-10-2011 15:15, RGB ES schreef:

2011/10/23 Rob Weirrobw...@apache.org


My main concern is that we don't have any forum that has no one there
helping users, removing spam, etc.  When will we know if that is the
case?



I did not understand that, sorry. Could you explain which your concern is?
And about volunteers, while many voted against the move I did not heard
anyone telling he or she will left the forums because the move is finally
accepted. You may see that as an example that our meritocracy is very
democratic, with volunteers following the decision from the majority...
Many volunteers will not apply to commiter status (and this maybe will raise
some questions about current and future admins) and are not interested on
being part of the PPMC, but AFAIK all of us will continue doing what we
always did: help users.

Cheers
Ricardo

There seems to be a problem with the staff at the Dutch language forum. 
Founding admin henke54 has already announced that he will  resign, I'm 
the only other Dutch speaking admin and will resign as well. The 
remaining active moderators (RPG and Johan) and volunteers (Eremmel, who 
visits the forum regularly but hasn't posted on the issue) aren't 
interested in signing the iCLA or becoming committers. We will all stay 
to help users, we just don't want the extra work or feel we're not 
suited for the job.


Peter aka floris v


Re: Clarification on treatment of weak copyleft components

2011-10-23 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:

snip

 There is no intent to hoard.  From talking to developers on this
 project I get the sense that they want to upstream patches more than
 was done previously.  But contributing a patch is no guarantee that it
 will be integrated by the other project in a timely manner.  Simply
 having it checked in by the 3rd party component, but not yet in their
 release, is also not optimal, for stability and supportability
 reasons.  Release schedules don't always sync up.

 Downstream packagers face similar issues and typically cope by
 maintaining independent patch sets (applied at build time). Why not
 just use patch sets?


 That is what we do.  We store the original source in a tarball and
 then apply a patch at build time.  But we store both the source
 tarball and the patch on our servers.

Dependency managers frequently used elsewhere at Apache[1] typically
use meta-data to describe dependencies for location. Does the current
build system work in a similar way?

Robert

[1] eg http://ant.apache.org/ivy/ and http://maven.apache.org/


RE: License implications of build-time or test-time dependencies?

2011-10-23 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
This announcement may be pertinent to the questions about Qt dependencies:
http://devworks.thinkdigit.com/Features/Qt-Project-launches-Qt-now-under-open_7799.html.

The Qt Project is taking some interesting directions,
http://www.qt-project.org/.  It is a structured meritocracy, with a Chief 
Maintainer and Elected Maintainers.

I haven't accessed the Qt Project version of iCLA, but the explanation for it
is rather interesting at http://qt-project.org/legal.html.

Key take-aways:

 1. With regard to the parts of Qt that must be statically bound into code,
there is a BSD-like license.

 2. The explanation of the Contribution Agreement is a tribute to the virality
of the ASF approach, as well as I can tell.

 3. The Qt Project is mostly LGPL 2.1 and they seem reluctant to have LGPL 3
contributions, although the iCLA lumps all GNU License Terms together.

 4. They use Gerrit.  One cool aspect is that to submit code, there is an iCLA
solicitation that can't be passed until executed.  They use JIRA accounts as
the identification mechanism.

 5. Digging around in the iCLA, I see that easily-accepted third-party
contributions are required to be LGPL 2.1 compatible as defined at
http://www.gnu.org/.  The Various Licenses page there do not indicate that
ALv2 is so compatible, with a point made that GPL3 is the point of
compatibility,
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#SoftwareLicenses.

 6. Apart from a little care in parsing a warranty in section 3.3 of the
actual License Grants (section 3), the terms appear quite similar to those of
the Apache iCLA.  In this case, the grant of license is to Nokia. There are
other terms that may be of concern and I offer no opinion on the acceptability
of the Qt iCLA by anyone.

That's about enough for Sunday reading.


 - Dennis E. Hamilton
   tools for document interoperability,  http://nfoWorks.org/
   dennis.hamil...@acm.org  gsm: +1-206-779-9430  @orcmid



-Original Message-
From: Robert Burrell Donkin [mailto:robertburrelldon...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, October 21, 2011 10:58
To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: License implications of build-time or test-time dependencies?

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 9:37 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:
 On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 4:07 PM, Sam Ruby ru...@intertwingly.net wrote:
 On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Pedro Giffuni p...@apache.org wrote:
 Hmm ...
 We have discussed some of the things that must be replaced but we have not
 drawn a roadmap about it beyond the initial migration list. I think we
 will have to open BZ issues for those.

 The gtk/qt issue is rather critcal: I do not think there is previous
 history among Apache projects depending on them but if we cannot consider
 those system provided libraries it would be a serious setback to an
 early Apache release.

 I would support allowing C/C++ code to link to gtk and/or qt, provided
 we don't distribute gtk or qt themselves.  Both are LGPL.  The LGPL is
 clear for languages like C, C++.


 Clear in what sense?  Dynamic linking and such?

Before Version 3, the meaning of the LGPL - when applied to many
dynamic and interpreted languages -  was sufficiently debatable to
pose a definite legal risk. It would be surprising but not
unreasonable for a court to rule that the license was strong (not
weak) copyleft for some languages.

Robert


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Re: Clarification on treatment of weak copyleft components

2011-10-23 Thread Michael Stahl
On 20.10.2011 23:27, Sam Ruby wrote:
 On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:

 Now, for our SVN, we need to host the actual source of the MPL
 components, since we need to build the binaries on the platforms that
 we support.  And in several cases we have patches the original source.
  Is this a problem?
 
 That normally is highly discouraged / not allowed.  Why can't the
 patches be contributed back to the original projects?

reasons why patches to external libraries exist include:

1) to add missing features/fix bugs.
   these should usually be submitable to upstream;
   reasons why they exist anyway:
   a) the patch was submitted and accepted,
  but OOo does not use the new release yet
   b) the patch was submitted but upstream is unresponsive
   c) the patch was submitted but upstream has NACKed it
   d) the patch was never submitted because upstream is dead
   e) the patch was never submitted upstream due to lack of time

2) to get it to build in our build system.
   quite often some C/C++ library does not come with a build system that
   works with MSVC on windows (and also OS/2), so we patch in some
   dmakefile to get it to build (the dmake build system requires the
   makefile to be in the same directory as the source files, hence the
   patch), and perhaps a config header.
   of course it does not make sense to upstream these patches.

3) the patch is actually taken from upstream, and backported to an older
   version.  this may happen for critical bugfixes (esp. security), when
   there was not enough time to evaluate and test a full update to a new
   upstream version.

a big problem in managing patches is that up until about 2 years ago, the
build system could only apply a single patch to an unpacked tarball.
so there are perhaps still some big patches left that contain fixes for
various distinct problems from various different categories.  of course,
once you have a 10k-line patch like that it becomes all the more difficult
to figure out what the heck it does.

regards,
 michael



Re: Disposition of *.services.oo.o

2011-10-23 Thread TJ Frazier

snip


Dave,

I want to be very sure about this, because I can and will post the
notices

on

the live wiki ...

On 10/21/2011 14:35, Dave Fisher wrote:

Hi All,

I had a conversation with Andrew Rist this morning. Here is what I have

found out about what will happen in one week.


(1) Forums and Mediawiki will be cloned and moved to Apache

Infrastructure on top of the work that TerryE and the Apache Infra team
accomplished. Andrew, Gavin and TJ will be doing the heavy lifting

starting

with some practice conversions.



I read this to mean that Infra has devised a way to support the live MW

wiki

satisfactorily. YEA!! from me, too. Well done, guys. I will post the

outage

notices Kay recommends as soon as I can, after confirmation.


Okay, some notices are up. Not very pretty, and not as universal as I'd 
like, but they're *there*. See [1].


The message says:
HURRAH!!We're moving! [in white, on red background]

Please expect temporary outages.

See Moving Day for the latest news.
_

Moving Day (linked) says:
quote
Latest news

12:25, 22 October 2011 (UTC) Expect outages starting next Friday night 
or Saturday morning (Oct 28/29, 2011 UTC).


Expected changes

12:25, 22 October 2011 (UTC) Probably none. Accounts and addresses 
should work as they always did. All data will be preserved.


Known problems (technical)

12:25, 22 October 2011 (UTC) Due to a version fall-back of the DPL 
extension, the DPL commands are less capable and more fussy (they do not 
tolerate CSS inside a template call). I will revise the affected 
templates, and any other uses I find (or you point out!).


Background

Feel free to ask questions on the Talk:Moving_Day page: other users 
probably have the same questions you do.


As part of the transfer of OpenOffice.org from Oracle/Kenai to the 
Apache Software Foundation, this wiki is being re-hosted on Apache 
servers. This requires some service outage (as brief as we can manage) 
while the wiki is dumped and reloaded, and addresses are redirected.

___
/quote

Suggestions and improvements welcome. Or change it yourself: it's a wiki.

[1] http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Main_Page

--
/tj/

T. J. Frazier
Melbourne, FL

(TJFrazier on OO.o)



Re: Shutdown of the download.services.openoffice.org host and its Mirrorbrain instance

2011-10-23 Thread Peter Pöml
Hi Marcus, 
hi list,

On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 01:15:34 +0200, Marcus (OOo) wrote:
 Hi Peter,
 
 it seems the end is near and the download.services.openoffice.org
 host on Oracle side with our Mirrorbrain instance will be shutdown
 in one week.

Okay... Little question, wouldn't it make sense, at this point, to take
the download.s.o.o VM and move it somewhere else? I don't have the disk
space myself, but maybe somebody else has? Perhaps the ASF can provide
the space? (Other than disk space, the requirements are pretty modest.)
Then the entire download service could continue to run, with very low
effort, and without the need to build everything from scratch for now.

 As we cannot buildup a solution that is running, tested and
 long-term-proven in a few days I would like to ask you if we can
 switch to your openoffice.mirrorbrain.org instance as long as we
 have no other solution at hand.
 
 In the past it was a very reliable host that we have used when there
 were outages (mostly unplanned as you know) and doesn't resulted in
 a significant higher load on the host.
 
 So, it would help us very much to have a stable download section
 until we have an own solution here at ASF.

Yes, please use my host for now!

 Thanks in advance and have a nice, sunny weekend.

Thanks a lot. Same to you all,
Peter


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Migration Status Page

2011-10-23 Thread Rob Weir
We have a lot of great material on the wiki related to the migration
planning, much of it very detailed and technical.  This is certainly
needed for our internal use.  But (I think) we should also have higher
level summary targeted more for the extended project and user
community, as well as the general public.  This could help set
expectations and show what is happening.  And just as important, it
can show that stuff is actually happening.  We're making good
progress.

A draft of the status page is here:

https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/OpenOffice.org+Migration+Status

I filled out the mailing list status as an example of what might be a
good level of detail.   And as I did there, you can also link to the
more detailed planning information for those who might be interested.

Can we agree to keep this page updated with the current status?

I'd like to link to this page when we post to the legacy mailing
lists, to give an overview of the overall migration effort.   But this
might also be a good page to link to from our homepage, etc.  It could
be quite useful, but only if we can keep it up-to-date.

What do you think?

-Rob


RE: Migration Status Page

2011-10-23 Thread Gavin McDonald


 -Original Message-
 From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org]
 Sent: Monday, 24 October 2011 8:23 AM
 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org
 Subject: Migration Status Page
 
 We have a lot of great material on the wiki related to the migration planning,
 much of it very detailed and technical.  This is certainly needed for our
 internal use.  But (I think) we should also have higher level summary targeted
 more for the extended project and user community, as well as the general
 public.  This could help set expectations and show what is happening.  And
 just as important, it can show that stuff is actually happening.  We're making
 good progress.
 
 A draft of the status page is here:
 
 https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/OpenOffice.org+M
 igration+Status
 
 I filled out the mailing list status as an example of what might be a
 good level of detail.   And as I did there, you can also link to the
 more detailed planning information for those who might be interested.
 
 Can we agree to keep this page updated with the current status?
 
 I'd like to link to this page when we post to the legacy mailing
 lists, to give an overview of the overall migration effort.   But this
 might also be a good page to link to from our homepage, etc.  It could be
 quite useful, but only if we can keep it up-to-date.
 
 What do you think?

(your mail prompted..)

I've just updated a couple of bits as did TJ just before me I believe.

Gav...

 
 -Rob



Re: Shutdown of the download.services.openoffice.org host and its Mirrorbrain instance

2011-10-23 Thread Marcus (OOo)

Am 10/23/2011 11:50 PM, schrieb Peter Pöml:

On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 01:15:34 +0200, Marcus (OOo) wrote:


Hi Peter,


it seems the end is near and the download.services.openoffice.org
host on Oracle side with our Mirrorbrain instance will be shutdown
in one week.


Okay... Little question, wouldn't it make sense, at this point, to take
the download.s.o.o VM and move it somewhere else? I don't have the disk
space myself, but maybe somebody else has? Perhaps the ASF can provide
the space? (Other than disk space, the requirements are pretty modest.)
Then the entire download service could continue to run, with very low
effort, and without the need to build everything from scratch for now.


The problem is that the ASF do not want to host and provide services of 
special software for single projects. I can understand this as even the 
ASF infra is a team of volunteers and their time is limited as it is for 
all others.


Furthermore, I don't know details about the VM setup and where it's 
detailed located. Do you?


However, I like your idea. It requires indeed only a bit diskspace and 
internet access. The maintainance could be done by us, the project 
members. If you would share a bit of your knowledge then I could 
takeover the admin role. ;-)


@List:
Has anybody an idea about where to host this service? It doesn't need to 
be necessarily inside the ASF.



As we cannot buildup a solution that is running, tested and
long-term-proven in a few days I would like to ask you if we can
switch to your openoffice.mirrorbrain.org instance as long as we
have no other solution at hand.

In the past it was a very reliable host that we have used when there
were outages (mostly unplanned as you know) and doesn't resulted in
a significant higher load on the host.

So, it would help us very much to have a stable download section
until we have an own solution here at ASF.


Yes, please use my host for now!


Great, thanks a lot.


Thanks in advance and have a nice, sunny weekend.


Thanks a lot. Same to you all,


Marcus


Re: Migration Status Page

2011-10-23 Thread Marcus (OOo)

Am 10/24/2011 12:22 AM, schrieb Rob Weir:

It could be quite useful, but only if we can keep it up-to-date.

What do you think?


I've updated some parts and add a bit color to the status column. I hope 
you like it as it increases the overview even a bit more.


Marcus