On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > In case you missed it on the other thread, we heard from Andrew that > the remaining Oracle servers that supported the legacy OOo project > will be shut down starting on March 15th. This includes the mailing > list and the mail forwarder. > > We dealt with the mailing lists before, sending notes to the active > ones that the project had moved over to Apache and gave them the new > addresses. I subscribe to many of these lists and they have been > silent for months. I moderate one and it is all spam, and has been > for months. If you are seeing any openoffice.org list that still has > real traffic on it, then please speak up. We need to identify any > active remaining lists and send them the information here: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Email+Migration+Post > > At the same time we need to notify users that the openoffice.org email > forwarding service is being retired as of March 15th. I had already > drafted a note for this, and it was previously reviewed. I've just > updated it to put in the actual shutdown date: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/%28Draft%29+Public+Statement+on+Email+Forwarding > > If there are no objections, my plan is to: > > 1) Move that wiki page into a blog post, clean up for formatting and publish > it >
The blog post is out: https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/retirement_of_openoffice_org_email Also on Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/rcweir/statuses/175664277552766977 And Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/110021943609888508798/posts/WnwA84zDZiJ > 2) On Monday morning send a note out to ooo-announce, referring to > that blog post for details. > I'm holding off until Monday for the ooo-announce post. It is more likely to be read if sent out on a Monday than a Friday. Are there any other places we should post this information to? Legacy dev/user/discuss lists? phpBB Forums? Any NLC's? If anyone can help broadening the reach of this information, it would help avoid surprises when March 15th comes. > 3) Open a JIRA issue with Infra on a custom bounce notification > Done: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-4506 > I could use help with: > > 1) Reaching out to NL groups that might not read or understand the > above announcement > > 2) Updating our migration status wiki page > (https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/OpenOffice.org+Migration+Status). > This is referred to in the post as giving "current" information, but > it is no longer current. > > 3) Responding to questions that this note may receive on the ooo-users list. > > Regards, > > -Rob
