Howdy, NOTE - added infra ML on CC.
Alright, a copy of the draft mail message (see below) was sent to each of the contact addresses for the 98 mirrors listed at http://www.openoffice.org/distribution/mirrors/ with the subject line of: 'OpenOffice.org to Apache OpenOffice mirror system migration' Of those 5 emails immediately bounce, 4 with 505 err and 1 with unk DNS err. There is another 8 or 9 entries on that page without an email contact listing, perhaps contact information can be found over the weekend. Just wanted to give the Infra team a heads up, I did not try to check for which if any of these are already ASF mirrors, wouldn't be surprised if there aren't a few...so who knows they just may contact the infa folks direct..if so, now @you know why, now. Hopefully this will lead to some added mirrors. Best wishes, //drew On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 13:47 -0400, drew wrote: > On Wed, 2012-03-21 at 08:52 -0700, Joe Schaefer wrote: > <snip> > > > > > I still would like to strongly suggest that > > someone on the PPMC step up NOW and offer to contact > > existing mirror operators to get them to cover > > some of our losses. > > > > Howdy all, > > Please take a moment to review the draft of a contact email for direct > mailing to the OO.o mirror operators. > > ------------------------------------ > > Dear OpenOffice.org Mirror Operator, > > On behalf of all the members of the OpenOffice.org community I would > like to extend a warm thank you for the services rendered to the project > while participating in the download mirror system. > > As you likely are aware, the OpenOffice.org project has during the last > year migrated to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) and taken the new > name of Apache OpenOffice. > > Thanks to the efforts of numerous individuals contributing to the > project I am pleased to say that the first full release of the Apache > OpenOffice free open source (FOSS) office suite is nearing completion. > > The project is now looking for organizations that will again work with > us to deliver this important linchpin of the FOSS ecosystem to literally > millions of users worldwide. > > Specifically the project is looking for mirror operators to work within, > and augment, the existing ASF server mirror system. Details regarding > the ASF mirror system are available here: > http://www.apache.org/info/how-to-mirror.html > > Please contact our project with any questions you may have via our > public mailing list at ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org. > > In closing, please accept my thanks in advance for your time and > consideration in this matter. I look forward to hearing from you and > hope that our projects can once again work together to advance the cause > of Free Open Source Software around the globe. > > > Sincerely, > > Drew Jensen > Apache OpenOffice (incubating) > Poddling Project Management Committee > atjen...@apache.org > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Comments, fixes and the like are very much appreciated. > > Given the current state of work I would like to get this out tonight if > at all possible. > > Thanks > > //drew > > > > > >
