Good points, Mike. 1. Although the domains are now under ASF custody, the openoffice.org web site content is not all on ASF servers yet. When it is, the Apache OpenOffice podling can clean them up, reflect all the changes, etc. But, in general, AOO does not have the keys to the original sites. There is a draft/staging site where materials has been moved and will be the actual site when cut-over happens. After cut-over, cleanup will happen much more quickly and it will show up on the public face of the site near-immediately. All of the clean-up won't be done by cut-over, so expect it to be an on-going effort. A good way to notify the project of pages needing attention is with the Bugzilla or the Community Wiki. Cut-over is close and now would be a good time to add some child pages on cleanups to this one: <https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Site-PPMC-Plan>.
2. There are privacy considerations as well as technical differences that prevent the list subscriptions being transferred to the Apache OpenOffice lists. The lists are not being transferred (the lists and their current archives will completely disappear except where 3rd parties have established archives). 3. Nice catch on the subscription-required observation. I suppose wording it that way saves the moderators a lot of work -- initial posts from non-subscribers on the new lists are always moderated. Of course it is more accurate to say that, to *receive* the list, one must be subscribed. It's also recommended if you have a question and expect to see any answers. It may not be noticed that a Q is from a non-subscriber and responses likely go back to the list only. Some folks also ignore requests for direct replies and especially for private responses. - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Mike Scott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 09:04 To: [email protected] Subject: [users] Re: Hi On 14/12/11 16:49, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > The subscription address for the Apache OpenOffice users list is > > <[email protected]>. > > Send a message from the e-mail address you want to be subscribed. > Respond to the confirmation that is returned by the list robot. > > If for some reason your request bounces (it happens), report that > and your request to<[email protected]>. Couldn't the old list addresses be forwarded to the AOO list addresses in the interim? Then at least people subscribing to the old list would actually be on the new. It's not over-helpful that the OOo website /still/ has the old list subscribe address (plus, I see the incorrect advice that "You must be subscribed to post messages"). -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] For additional commands send email to [email protected] with Subject: help -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] For additional commands send email to [email protected] with Subject: help
