Dennis, On Oct 12, 2011, at 6:05 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
> Shane, > > If you register on the openoffice.org site (recommended), and are logged in, > you will find something amazing at > <http://openoffice.org/projects/www/lists>. > > Those are not all of the lists. There are, in addition, 15 pages of Projects > (146 total), > <http://openoffice.org/projects>. (Be logged in to view this too.) > > The Native Language (NL) projects appear to be here too. > > I believe that the static content has been captured. Kay Schenk can report > whether she has captured them all. Things are probably fully captured. Kay, Raphael and I have all checked in projects. The variation in the html for each project is the next thing that I must tackle on branding/migration. The checklist of projects including NL projects is the same. If someone cares to join me in Apache CMS and python and other scripting then see http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/website-local.html I'll be working on variations of view.pm and path.pm to provide the proper wrapping strategy as indicated by the html in each project. There are scripts in ooo-site/trunk/tools - See readme.txt for docs about the scripts. Kay and I are debating URL rewriting which I do via sed. > > Nothing about the interactive aspects such as mailing lists and the community > efforts is being sustained or salvaged as far as I know. It has been a question that has not been asked of Apache Infrastructure. This could use a volunteer. > > There seem to be three aspects here: Are you describing all of OOo or just the MX part in the following three points? I will assume that is so. > > 1. These deserve pruning. Our alternative, so far, has been to add two > mailing lists to ooo-* @i.a.o. > > 2. No one able to handle preparation, staging, and figuring out what to > install and administer to continue on Apache infrastructure has stepped > forward at AOOo. It is not clear who has the keys to those operations. When > Terry Ellison was working to provide a migration of the MediaWiki setup and > the Forums services onto Apache Infrastructure, he reported that he had no > capacity to add this under his wing. No one else with knowledge of this kind > of service has been identified. In recent discussions Martin Hollmichel apparently has some foo with the Mailing Lists. I'm not sure if it the correct foo, or simple Admin. I wonder if Andrew has any insight into this. > > 3. It would be great if there were some energetic body, similar to the Forums > squad, that could step in and find a way to embrace and sustain what is still > important as part of the OpenOffice.org ecosystem. In a related area there are upwards of 460,000 individuals subscribed as OpenOffice.org users. It is is unclear what we can take - this may fall under tight German privacy laws. Do we care to preserve this User Database? > > I don't have anything constructive to offer beyond pointing at the burning > building. > > - Dennis > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Shane Curcuru [mailto:a...@shanecurcuru.org] > Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2011 16:45 > To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Migration: any plans to preserve mailing list archives? > > Are there any plans to preserve archives of any existing @oo.o mailing > lists? I didn't see a treatment of archives on the planning page: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Mailing+lists > > Obviously any mailing lists hosted at Apache will use the normal > mail-archive.a.o system, but I was wondering if there's any plan or need > for somehow preserving the past archives of lists. > > I'd certainly like to review some of the past lists, especially the > marketing/branding and strategy ones. I could imagine that a number of > the developer lists might also be valuable for future reference as well. > > - Shane >