On Jun 20, 2011, at 3:58 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Dave Fisher wrote: >> We certainly need a plan that does not simply stop openoffice.org >> email. > > Actually, as others said I would just keep the @openoffice.org addresses > running; to address a concern, I've used mine for many thousands of > OOo-related actions and nobody ever questioned if I was speaking on > behalf of OpenOffice.org or personally.
That is the concern. It is obvious when you see how many signed up for the project with openoffice.org email addresses. > >> How many individual forwards do we have? > > They used to be really many (in the thousands for sure) but they have > been reduced in March 2011 with the Kenai migration to only the users > who had been active (i.e., logged in on the OOo website) in the last (at > the time) 18 months. This is good to know. Last 18 months doesn't seem so terrible. I tracked down the following http://kenai.com/projects/ooo-migration/pages/Home This looks like a treasure chest of information about what is there and how it is organized. Here is an important piece: > The move is going to include services like publishing of web content, mailing > lists, bugtracking, > ... and the existing content of those. > Satellite sites like OpenOffice.org forums, extensions and templates sites, > ... will not be affected. > A better integration might be considered later but is not part of the initial > effort. Kenai to Apache Migration Topics are: - bugtracking - mailing lists and forwarders. - web content Satellite to Apache Migration topics include: - user forums - extensions - templates Much has been written about all these and other topics in the last week. I started a community wiki page https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Transition+Planning Please feel free to expand! I have surely missed a lot. > >> So, ANYONE could get an openoffice.org email alias for their real >> email address? > > Yes. Even squat it. But I don't think this has ever happened. > >> And there must be infrastructure to be able to change that email >> address and cancel it as well. > > No! Changing is probably possible and done in your personal profile, but > removing used to be impossible as far as I know (not that I ever tried). > >> Messy, the bugzilla transition is therefore entangled with how we deal >> with openoffice.org. > > Yes, because here it's hardcoded, as others wrote. And quite a bit - about 20 or so emails to find and summarize. > >> Does this personal openoffice.org email forwarding also entangle with >> the user forum transitions? > > Not in general, but I registered to the forum with my @openoffice.org > address, so in corner cases this could affect it. And a reason for trying to keep them. Regards, Dave > > Regards, > Andrea. >
