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From: Mark Newton <[email protected]>
Date: 20 Jan 2022, 16:48 +0100
To: [email protected]
Cc: Core, The <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [IMPORTANT INFORMATION - PLEASE READ] jboss.org PHX2 Shutdown

> Hi Andrew,
>
> Apologies for the delay in responding. A number of similar concerns have been 
> raised by other people in this thread and elsewhere so we wanted to make sure 
> we created one response that addressed all of them.
>
>
> 1. > You’re correct that the current work in progress is simply a relocation 
> of the SFTP and rsync services that constitute filemgmt.jboss.org to another 
> place. That was going to be OpenShift in IAD2 but due to issues provisioning 
> the services there we’re now using OpenStack in IAD2. I’ll address accessing 
> the content at URLs serviced by filemgmt.jboss.org below.
>
>
>
> 2. > As filemgmt.jboss.org is used to upload content and all the other 
> domains are used to access/read content they are being treated differently.
>     a. > Some domains such as developer.jboss.org which used to be served by 
> a Jive server (forums, wiki and blogs) have been archived in the sense that 
> the webpages are now flat HTML as we’ve decommissioned Jive. The Confluence 
> server at docs.jboss.org/author (used to create project documentation) is 
> another example of this.
>     b. > Other domains like doc.jboss.org (without the /author path) and 
> issues.jboss.org have been moved to spaces.redhat.com and issues.redhat.com 
> respectively as the Confluence and JIRA servers behind them are now owned by 
> the Portfolio Lifecycle Management team in Engineering. Due to an error 
> redirecting traffic from docs.jboss.org to spaces.redhat.com that didn’t 
> account for subpaths, some of the project documentation available at 
> docs.jboss.org/<project> was temporarily unavailable (as it was redirected to 
> spaces.redhat.com) but we’ve since fixed this.
>     c. > www.jboss.org is now owned by MW Engineering who use GitHub to 
> author content instead of the Magnolia CMS which has been shutdown.
>     d. > static.jboss.org and <project>.jboss.org (along with some 
> <project>.org domains) use Apache httpd servers which are being relocated 
> from virtualized machines in PHX2 to OpenShift in IAD2.
>
>
>
> 3. > Content made available from the URLs mentioned in item 2 above will 
> continue to be be accessible after Dec 2022 but without further action those 
> domains will be considered archived in the sense that you will no longer be 
> able to upload content there (as filemgmt.jboss.org is currently scheduled to 
> be shutdown at the end of Dec 2022).
>
>
>
> 4. > What this means for projects like Byteman that have content at 
> byteman.jboss.org is that they would need to move to another hosting provider 
> like GitHub Pages ***by the end of Dec 2022*** if they wanted to continue 
> uploading content to their domain. I understand we can move subdomains like 
> byteman.jboss.org to GitHub while keeping other jboss.org subdomains hosted 
> by Red Hat. As such you wouldn’t have to *personally* host your own web/file 
> service but you would be expected to perform the migration along with any 
> necessary maintenance after that. We will provide some instructions in 
> Confluence on how to move to GitHub Pages as we’ve already done this 
> ourselves for some legacy projects to reduce the amount of Akamai 
> configuration needed for the overall jboss.org migration out of PHX2.
>
>
> Max Andersen has also raised concerns about the impact of these changes to 
> DevTools as they use downloads.jboss.org to serve tooling binaries which are 
> considered pseudo-products and therefore treated differently from projects. 
> This argument may impact whether or not we keep the content upload service at 
> filemgmt.jboss.org living beyond Dec 2022 but the most appropriate solution 
> still needs to be determined and project teams are still encouraged to move 
> their project sites to GitHub Pages if possible as that service is actively 
> developed to provide modern project site hosting capabilities.
>
> Ultimately we’re trying to establish the most appropriate balance of 
> product/project concerns in terms of what Red Hat should be providing 
> services for. Given all the recent reorganizations across the company to 
> focus on capturing the Open Hybrid Cloud market the hosting of community 
> projects is not something that is being considered part of our core business. 
> As such we should look to externalize it if possible using companies that do 
> treat it as their core business such as GitHub.
>
> It’s less clear cut to say that services such as Nexus and downloads for dev 
> tooling, that are used in the overall software productization process or in 
> support of our products, shouldn’t be provided by Red Hat which is why we’re 
> having conversations with the related teams to determine the most appropriate 
> outcomes.
>
> Max has started the following spreadsheet for MW Engineering to co-ordinate 
> what the plans are for various jboss.org domains following the PHX2 shutdown 
> so there’s one place to go:
>
>  
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SXlCkp_Ok0vw1ArCA8UjpWAyfqQLfZ96rK3ridnB1Eo/edit#gid=0
>  - *.jboss.org transition
>
> I hope this helps to clear things up a bit.
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> > On Thu, 20 Jan 2022 at 11:42, Andrew Dinn <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Hi Mark (Newton),
> > >
> > > Is that just the sound of tumbleweeds rolling down main street on an
> > > east wind that I can hear? Or did I miss a response to the questions 
> > > below?
> > >
> > > I really need to know the answers to these questions quite soon,
> > > especially question 4, and I am sure I am not alone in that regard.
> > >
> > > If projects are really being expected to find somewhere to store
> > > web/download content then that's going to require time to plan, not
> > > simply to provision the relevant services but also to deal with the
> > > disruption (both to project processes and to users) that may arise from
> > > having existing content relocated.
> > >
> > > Can we please have some clarification and advice here?
> > >
> > > regards,
> > >
> > >
> > > Andrew Dinn
> > > -----------
> > >
> > > On 17/01/2022 11:06, Andrew Dinn wrote:
> > > > Can you be more explicit about a few points made in this post:
> > > >
> > > > 1) Is the current work in progress simply a relocation of
> > > > filemgmt.jboss.org to a virtualized server running inside OpenShift in
> > > > IAD2? Or does it actually entail disabling access to content addressed
> > > > with URLs based on the name filemgmt.jboss.org before or by 31 March?
> > > >
> > > > 2) Is the story regarding current WIP for docs.jboss.org,
> > > > developer.jboss.org, www.jboss.org,  static.jboss.org, and
> > > > project.jboss.org the same as for filemgmt.jboss.org If not then what is
> > > > the difference?
> > > >
> > > > 3) Are you saying that all content made available via URLs based on the
> > > > above list of names will need to be relocated to servers provided by the
> > > > relevant projects before end of Dec 2022?
> > > >
> > > > 4) What does this mean for projects like Byteman that essentially belong
> > > > within JBoss/Red Hat? Am I expected *personally* to host my own web/file
> > > > service to serve Byteman related content? Am I also expected to provide
> > > > my own domain and/or relocate the content from byteman.jboss.org Or is
> > > > there some common Red Hat server resource I can use which keeps the
> > > > content in the jboss domain?
> > >
>
>
> --
> Mark Newton
> Director, Customer Digital Experience
> Red Hat
> +44 7795 520655
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