On 3/21/17 2:23 PM, Dave Fisher wrote:
> Hi Dave,
> 
>> On Mar 20, 2017, at 7:42 PM, Dave Brondsema <d...@brondsema.net> wrote:
>>
>> On 3/20/17 1:46 PM, Dave Fisher wrote:
>>> Hi -
>>>
>>> SourceForge has been very helpful to the OpenOffice community. But with the 
>>> issues seen in the other thread it may be time to explore what it would 
>>> take to find an alternative way to host the OpenOffice extensions and 
>>> templates sites. We need to have quick support and there is risk to the 
>>> community not to have it.
>>
>> Hi Dave,
>>
>> I don't see how a different host would help with the lack of general Drupal
>> skills, or specific knowledge about the Templates and Extensions sites.  But
>> I'll be glad to answer your questions.  And to continue to hunt down any
>> technical problems in the other thread (so far they don't really seem to be 
>> that
>> widespread, might just some templates that aren't public).
> 
> I am certainly thankful for all of the support the project has received from 
> SourceForge. It is awesome. I do have concerns. I am exploring the size of 
> the site and whether or not there might be a better way to handle this rather 
> than being subject to the whims of a corporation whose priorities have and 
> will change. The final answer does not have to be Drupal. Or, I might decide 
> to learn Drupal. I am not sure.
> 
>>
>>>
>>> In order to begin an exploration of this it would be important to know the 
>>> size of the “problem”. A few questions about the scope.
>>>
>>> (1) How many downloads in a month and what is the pattern?
>>
>> 50-60,000 templates per month
>>
>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/aoo-templates/files/stats/timeline?dates=2017-01-01+to+2017-03-21
>>
>> 45-90,000 extensions per month
>>
>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/aoo-extensions/files/stats/timeline?dates=2017-01-01+to+2017-03-21
>>
>> At those stats links you can explore over time, country, and platform.
>>
>>> (2) How many extensions are there?
>>
>> 3013
>>
>>> (3) How many templates?
>>
>> 50,339
>>
>>> (4) What scheme is used for login/security?
>>
>> SourceForge accounts are used to manage the aoo-templates and aoo-extensions
>> projects, which contain all the file releases and ssh/sftp access to web 
>> hosting
>> (apache/php/mysql).  The Drupal sites are separate, so have their own 
>> security.
>> I am not familiar with how it was developed, but I would imagine it is 
>> standard
>> Drupal security.
> 
> How many template and extensions project owners?
> 

Short answer: I don't know.  That is in the Drupal database, and I've looked
around but there are a lot of tables and I don't know their structure & use.  I
was able to get the total count of templates earlier because those are also
stored on disk and easy to count up.



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