Re: Registration and Update Services - What Will Be The Load?

2012-08-17 Thread Oliver-Rainer Wittmann

Hi,

On 16.08.2012 14:42, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote:

Hi

On 15.08.2012 19:05, Daniel Shahaf wrote:

Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote on Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 16:32:21 +0200:

Is it possible that somebody from the Apache Infrastructure can
provide a view on which URL the traffic load was soo high that the
servers got in trouble?



POST requests to /ProductUpdateService/check.Update file



I am currently investigating the server logs and will post my results later.



The trouble causing HTTP POST requests found in the server logs does not seem to 
be related to the update function in former OOo versions.
I have investigated the update function HTTP requests from various former OOo 
versions in the server logs. All of them provide content for the HTTP UserAgent 
field. All of found HTTP POST request does not have such data.
Looking at some sample HTTP requests from one IP address reveals that the HTTP 
requests from the update function are unrelated to the HTTP POST requests.
I investigated the HTTP traffic of update function from former OOo versions (OOo 
2.2, OOo 2.3, OOo 2.3.1, OOo 2.4, OOo 3.x). None of these showed an HTTP POST 
request.
I evaluated some server logs from days before the established redirects from 
INFRA-5112. Here, I could not found any of such HTTP POST requests.
My conclusion is that there were another function in OOo which causes these HTTP 
POST requests. OOo 3.2, OOo 3.2.1, OOo 3.3 does not seem to have such a 
function, because the redirects for their update functions had been established 
a couple of weeks ago and I did not found any HTTP POST requests.


In order to figure out what is going on here, I will follow up with Apache 
infrastructure. I will report on ooo-dev, when I know more.


Best regards, Oliver.


Re: Registration and Update Services - What Will Be The Load?

2012-08-17 Thread Kay Schenk



On 08/17/2012 03:55 AM, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote:

Hi,

On 16.08.2012 14:42, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote:

Hi

On 15.08.2012 19:05, Daniel Shahaf wrote:

Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote on Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 16:32:21 +0200:

Is it possible that somebody from the Apache Infrastructure can
provide a view on which URL the traffic load was soo high that the
servers got in trouble?



POST requests to /ProductUpdateService/check.Update file



I am currently investigating the server logs and will post my results
later.



The trouble causing HTTP POST requests found in the server logs does not
seem to be related to the update function in former OOo versions.
I have investigated the update function HTTP requests from various
former OOo versions in the server logs. All of them provide content for
the HTTP UserAgent field. All of found HTTP POST request does not have
such data.
Looking at some sample HTTP requests from one IP address reveals that
the HTTP requests from the update function are unrelated to the HTTP
POST requests.
I investigated the HTTP traffic of update function from former OOo
versions (OOo 2.2, OOo 2.3, OOo 2.3.1, OOo 2.4, OOo 3.x). None of these
showed an HTTP POST request.
I evaluated some server logs from days before the established redirects
from INFRA-5112. Here, I could not found any of such HTTP POST requests.
My conclusion is that there were another function in OOo which causes
these HTTP POST requests. OOo 3.2, OOo 3.2.1, OOo 3.3 does not seem to
have such a function, because the redirects for their update functions
had been established a couple of weeks ago and I did not found any HTTP
POST requests.


how curious...  thanks for the update and continued good luck with the 
investigation




In order to figure out what is going on here, I will follow up with
Apache infrastructure. I will report on ooo-dev, when I know more.

Best regards, Oliver.


--

MzK

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
   -- Niels Bohr


Re: Registration

2012-08-17 Thread Andrea Pescetti

On 15/08/2012 Dave Fisher wrote:

On Aug 14, 2012, at 8:09 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:

Ready at
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-5144


I'll look into this one tomorrow. There will be two parts.
(1) DNS redirect to www.openoffice.org
(2) httpd.conf rewrite to redirect to thankyou.html.


A further problem that Infra brought up is that the address to be 
redirected is https://registration2.services.openoffice.org and that to 
redirect HTTPS we need to retrieve (or buy) a matching SSL certificate.


Does anyone have access to the SSL certificate originally used for 
registration2.services.openoffice.org ? Read the issue (link above) for 
more details.


Regards,
  Andrea.


Re: Registration and Update Services - What Will Be The Load?

2012-08-16 Thread Oliver-Rainer Wittmann

Hi Daniel,

On 15.08.2012 19:28, Daniel Shahaf wrote:

Rob Weir wrote on Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 13:11:43 -0400:

On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Daniel Shahaf d...@daniel.shahaf.name wrote:

Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote on Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 16:32:21 +0200:

Is it possible that somebody from the Apache Infrastructure can
provide a view on which URL the traffic load was soo high that the
servers got in trouble?



POST requests to /ProductUpdateService/check.Update file



For which subdomain, which UpdateXX.openoffice.org ?


The access log doesn't say, and the error log has

% fgrep /ProductUpdateService/check.Update error_log | sed -e 
's#^.*/content/projects/##' | cut -d/ -f1 | sort | uniq -c

EU:
232046 update30
35548 update34
76543 update35


US:
198996 update30
33450 update34
71117 update35
0 update36




Currently, I am not sure about the changes to the 
infrastructure/dns/zones/openoffice.org file
You mentioned the revisions r828963 and r828965, but I did not find the 
corresponding SVN repository

Can you please point me to the repository or provide the change set?

Thank you in advance,
Oliver.


Re: Registration and Update Services - What Will Be The Load?

2012-08-16 Thread Oliver-Rainer Wittmann

Hi

On 15.08.2012 19:05, Daniel Shahaf wrote:

Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote on Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 16:32:21 +0200:

Is it possible that somebody from the Apache Infrastructure can
provide a view on which URL the traffic load was soo high that the
servers got in trouble?



POST requests to /ProductUpdateService/check.Update file



I am currently investigating the server logs and will post my results later.

Best regards, Oliver.


Re: Registration and Update Services - What Will Be The Load?

2012-08-15 Thread Oliver-Rainer Wittmann

Hi,

On 15.08.2012 16:00, Dave Fisher wrote:

Hi,

Apologies to the Apache Infra team, the load caused by implementing
INFRA-5112 caused trouble.

The changes to update*.services.openoffice.org to point to www.openoffice.org
was reverted.

This was due to added load on the Apache Infrastructure.

Before we can proceed with INFRA-5112 and INFRA-5144 we absolutely must have
some estimates about the volume of requests that will be received.



When I saw the problems on www.openoffice.org in the morning I already suggested 
that this might be related to the established redirects. I reported my 
assumption at #asfinfra in the morning.
If I remembering it correct, Kay S. and Joe S. already observed something like 
this earlier this year.


Unfortunately, I can not provide any volume.
In the past more than 100 million download of OpenOffice.org package had been 
counted by the OpenOffice.org community. I do not know how much OOo installation 
are really active and how the distribution between the different versions are.


What I know is the following:
(1) update38.services.openoffice.org is used by OOo 3.4 Beta and released AOO 
3.4 - a redirect for it has been established at 2012-05-21 and the traffic can 
be handled.
(2) update36.services.openoffice.org is used by OOo 3.3 - a redirect for it has 
been established at 2012-06-04 and the traffic can be handled.
(3) update35|34.services.openoffice.org is used by OOo 3.2.1 and OOo 3.2 - 
redirects for then have been established at 2012-07-12 and the traffic can be 
handled.
(4) update33.services.openoffice.org is _not_ used - a redirect is _not_ 
necessary. Does occur any traffic on this URL?
(5) update32.services.openoffice.org is used by OOo 3.1.1 and OOo 3.1 - a 
redirect has been requested and was established today. Due to the server load it 
has been reverted. Is the traffic data available?
(6) update31.services.openoffice.org is _not_ used - a redirect is _not_ 
necessary. Does occur any traffic on this URL?
(7) update30.services.openoffice.org is used by OOo 3.0.1 and OOo 3.0. Does 
occur any traffic on this URL?
(8) update.services.openoffice.org seems to be used by OOo 2.x version (at least 
my test installation of OOo 2.2 uses it). Is the traffic data available? When I 
remember it correct Kay S. and Joe S. observed the above mentioned problems 
earlier this year with this URL.


Is it possible that somebody from the Apache Infrastructure can provide a view 
on which URL the traffic load was soo high that the servers got in trouble?


Best regards, Oliver.


Re: Registration and Update Services - What Will Be The Load?

2012-08-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote:
 Hi,

 Apologies to the Apache Infra team, the load caused by implementing 
 INFRA-5112 caused trouble.

 The changes to update*.services.openoffice.org to point to www.openoffice.org 
 was reverted.

 This was due to added load on the Apache Infrastructure.


Can you be specific?  Are they seeing unusual load from the change?
or are they just not willing to make the change unless we first
provide them an estimate?

If you recall, we made this change for OOo 3.3.0, OOo 3.2.1 and OOo
3.2.0 already, and we never provided any estimates.  I don't think we
received any complaints about those.   Have you heard any load
concerns?

In any case, the general trend we see for the upgrades that are
enabled is around 40,000/day.But there was a peak of around
60,000/day for a couple of weeks when they were first enabled.That
is the number who have actually updated.  We don't know what % of
users dismiss the update notification but don't disable it, and so
receive such a notification every week.  I assume this is small.

Also, generally, we have diminishing numbers as we go back to older
versions.  For example, we've seen around 8K/day for US/Windows/3.3.0
upgrades, but only around 1K/day for OOo 3.2.1 upgrades, and around
500/day for OOo 3.2.0 upgrades.  So this would suggest that enabling
the older versions will pick up a few, but I wouldn't expect huge
numbers.


 Before we can proceed with INFRA-5112 and INFRA-5144 we absolutely must have 
 some estimates about the volume of requests that will be received.


Hopefully the above helps.

-Rob

 Regards,
 Dave



Re: Registration and Update Services - What Will Be The Load?

2012-08-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann
orwittm...@googlemail.com wrote:
 Hi,


 On 15.08.2012 16:00, Dave Fisher wrote:

 Hi,

 Apologies to the Apache Infra team, the load caused by implementing
 INFRA-5112 caused trouble.

 The changes to update*.services.openoffice.org to point to
 www.openoffice.org
 was reverted.

 This was due to added load on the Apache Infrastructure.

 Before we can proceed with INFRA-5112 and INFRA-5144 we absolutely must
 have
 some estimates about the volume of requests that will be received.


 When I saw the problems on www.openoffice.org in the morning I already
 suggested that this might be related to the established redirects. I
 reported my assumption at #asfinfra in the morning.
 If I remembering it correct, Kay S. and Joe S. already observed something
 like this earlier this year.

 Unfortunately, I can not provide any volume.
 In the past more than 100 million download of OpenOffice.org package had
 been counted by the OpenOffice.org community. I do not know how much OOo
 installation are really active and how the distribution between the
 different versions are.

 What I know is the following:
 (1) update38.services.openoffice.org is used by OOo 3.4 Beta and released
 AOO 3.4 - a redirect for it has been established at 2012-05-21 and the
 traffic can be handled.
 (2) update36.services.openoffice.org is used by OOo 3.3 - a redirect for it
 has been established at 2012-06-04 and the traffic can be handled.
 (3) update35|34.services.openoffice.org is used by OOo 3.2.1 and OOo 3.2 -
 redirects for then have been established at 2012-07-12 and the traffic can
 be handled.
 (4) update33.services.openoffice.org is _not_ used - a redirect is _not_
 necessary. Does occur any traffic on this URL?
 (5) update32.services.openoffice.org is used by OOo 3.1.1 and OOo 3.1 - a
 redirect has been requested and was established today. Due to the server
 load it has been reverted. Is the traffic data available?
 (6) update31.services.openoffice.org is _not_ used - a redirect is _not_
 necessary. Does occur any traffic on this URL?
 (7) update30.services.openoffice.org is used by OOo 3.0.1 and OOo 3.0. Does
 occur any traffic on this URL?
 (8) update.services.openoffice.org seems to be used by OOo 2.x version (at
 least my test installation of OOo 2.2 uses it). Is the traffic data
 available? When I remember it correct Kay S. and Joe S. observed the above
 mentioned problems earlier this year with this URL.

 Is it possible that somebody from the Apache Infrastructure can provide a
 view on which URL the traffic load was soo high that the servers got in
 trouble?


That would be good to know.  Once we know we could verify behavior
with a change to a local hosts file.  One scenario that could
conceivably cause a problem would be if some old version of OOo
behaved badly when it gets a 404 error, such as getting into a retry
loop.   We know this did not happen for OOo 3.3.0, 3.2.1 or 3.2.0.
But it is worth confirming with earlier versions, if the HTTP logs
suggest this is happening.

-Rob

 Best regards, Oliver.


Re: Registration and Update Services - What Will Be The Load?

2012-08-15 Thread Dave Fisher

On Aug 15, 2012, at 8:50 AM, Rob Weir wrote:

 On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann
 orwittm...@googlemail.com wrote:
 Hi,
 
 
 On 15.08.2012 16:00, Dave Fisher wrote:
 
 Hi,
 
 Apologies to the Apache Infra team, the load caused by implementing
 INFRA-5112 caused trouble.
 
 The changes to update*.services.openoffice.org to point to
 www.openoffice.org
 was reverted.
 
 This was due to added load on the Apache Infrastructure.
 
 Before we can proceed with INFRA-5112 and INFRA-5144 we absolutely must
 have
 some estimates about the volume of requests that will be received.
 
 
 When I saw the problems on www.openoffice.org in the morning I already
 suggested that this might be related to the established redirects. I
 reported my assumption at #asfinfra in the morning.
 If I remembering it correct, Kay S. and Joe S. already observed something
 like this earlier this year.
 
 Unfortunately, I can not provide any volume.
 In the past more than 100 million download of OpenOffice.org package had
 been counted by the OpenOffice.org community. I do not know how much OOo
 installation are really active and how the distribution between the
 different versions are.
 
 What I know is the following:
 (1) update38.services.openoffice.org is used by OOo 3.4 Beta and released
 AOO 3.4 - a redirect for it has been established at 2012-05-21 and the
 traffic can be handled.
 (2) update36.services.openoffice.org is used by OOo 3.3 - a redirect for it
 has been established at 2012-06-04 and the traffic can be handled.
 (3) update35|34.services.openoffice.org is used by OOo 3.2.1 and OOo 3.2 -
 redirects for then have been established at 2012-07-12 and the traffic can
 be handled.
 (4) update33.services.openoffice.org is _not_ used - a redirect is _not_
 necessary. Does occur any traffic on this URL?
 (5) update32.services.openoffice.org is used by OOo 3.1.1 and OOo 3.1 - a
 redirect has been requested and was established today. Due to the server
 load it has been reverted. Is the traffic data available?
 (6) update31.services.openoffice.org is _not_ used - a redirect is _not_
 necessary. Does occur any traffic on this URL?
 (7) update30.services.openoffice.org is used by OOo 3.0.1 and OOo 3.0. Does
 occur any traffic on this URL?
 (8) update.services.openoffice.org seems to be used by OOo 2.x version (at
 least my test installation of OOo 2.2 uses it). Is the traffic data
 available? When I remember it correct Kay S. and Joe S. observed the above
 mentioned problems earlier this year with this URL.
 
 Is it possible that somebody from the Apache Infrastructure can provide a
 view on which URL the traffic load was soo high that the servers got in
 trouble?
 
 
 That would be good to know.  Once we know we could verify behavior
 with a change to a local hosts file.  One scenario that could
 conceivably cause a problem would be if some old version of OOo
 behaved badly when it gets a 404 error, such as getting into a retry
 loop.   We know this did not happen for OOo 3.3.0, 3.2.1 or 3.2.0.
 But it is worth confirming with earlier versions, if the HTTP logs
 suggest this is happening.

We'll have access to full logs tonight / tomorrow.

Regards,
Dave

 
 -Rob
 
 Best regards, Oliver.



Re: Registration and Update Services - What Will Be The Load?

2012-08-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Daniel Shahaf d...@daniel.shahaf.name wrote:
 Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote on Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 16:32:21 +0200:
 Is it possible that somebody from the Apache Infrastructure can
 provide a view on which URL the traffic load was soo high that the
 servers got in trouble?


 POST requests to /ProductUpdateService/check.Update file


For which subdomain, which UpdateXX.openoffice.org ?

-Rob

 Best regards, Oliver.


Re: Registration and Update Services - What Will Be The Load?

2012-08-15 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Rob Weir wrote on Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 13:11:43 -0400:
 On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Daniel Shahaf d...@daniel.shahaf.name 
 wrote:
  Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote on Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 16:32:21 +0200:
  Is it possible that somebody from the Apache Infrastructure can
  provide a view on which URL the traffic load was soo high that the
  servers got in trouble?
 
 
  POST requests to /ProductUpdateService/check.Update file
 
 
 For which subdomain, which UpdateXX.openoffice.org ?

The access log doesn't say, and the error log has 

% fgrep /ProductUpdateService/check.Update error_log | sed -e 
's#^.*/content/projects/##' | cut -d/ -f1 | sort | uniq -c

EU:
232046 update30
35548 update34
76543 update35


US:
198996 update30
33450 update34
71117 update35
   0 update36




Re: Registration and Update Services - What Will Be The Load?

2012-08-15 Thread Dave Fisher

On Aug 15, 2012, at 10:28 AM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:

 Rob Weir wrote on Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 13:11:43 -0400:
 On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Daniel Shahaf d...@daniel.shahaf.name 
 wrote:
 Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote on Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 16:32:21 +0200:
 Is it possible that somebody from the Apache Infrastructure can
 provide a view on which URL the traffic load was soo high that the
 servers got in trouble?
 
 
 POST requests to /ProductUpdateService/check.Update file
 
 
 For which subdomain, which UpdateXX.openoffice.org ?
 
 The access log doesn't say, and the error log has 
 
 % fgrep /ProductUpdateService/check.Update error_log | sed -e 
 's#^.*/content/projects/##' | cut -d/ -f1 | sort | uniq -c
 
 EU:
 232046 update30
 35548 update34
 76543 update35
 
 
 US:
 198996 update30
 33450 update34
 71117 update35
   0 update36

We don't see update32 because those do not get redirected in the same way 
because there is no ooo-site/trunk/content/projects/update32

./update/aoo341/check.Update
./update/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
./update30/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
./update34/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
./update34/ProductUpdateService/test.Update
./update35/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
./update35/ProductUpdateService/test.Update
./update36/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
./update38/ProductUpdateService/check.Update

It looks like 34 and 35 have been trouble, but not as bad as 30.

Regards,
Dave

Re: Registration and Update Services - What Will Be The Load?

2012-08-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote:

 On Aug 15, 2012, at 10:28 AM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:

 Rob Weir wrote on Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 13:11:43 -0400:
 On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Daniel Shahaf d...@daniel.shahaf.name 
 wrote:
 Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote on Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 16:32:21 +0200:
 Is it possible that somebody from the Apache Infrastructure can
 provide a view on which URL the traffic load was soo high that the
 servers got in trouble?


 POST requests to /ProductUpdateService/check.Update file


 For which subdomain, which UpdateXX.openoffice.org ?

 The access log doesn't say, and the error log has

 % fgrep /ProductUpdateService/check.Update error_log | sed -e 
 's#^.*/content/projects/##' | cut -d/ -f1 | sort | uniq -c

 EU:
 232046 update30
 35548 update34
 76543 update35


 US:
 198996 update30
 33450 update34
 71117 update35
   0 update36

 We don't see update32 because those do not get redirected in the same way 
 because there is no ooo-site/trunk/content/projects/update32

 ./update/aoo341/check.Update
 ./update/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
 ./update30/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
 ./update34/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
 ./update34/ProductUpdateService/test.Update
 ./update35/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
 ./update35/ProductUpdateService/test.Update
 ./update36/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
 ./update38/ProductUpdateService/check.Update

 It looks like 34 and 35 have been trouble, but not as bad as 30.


But haven't 34 and 35 been in production since early July?  We've
certainly seen plenty of downloads triggered by them.  They should not
be giving any errors, since the requests resolve to files on our site.

I wonder, could the errors in those be caused by the outage caused by
the errors in update30?

-Rob

 Regards,
 Dave


Re: Registration and Update Services - What Will Be The Load?

2012-08-15 Thread Kay Schenk
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:

 On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net
 wrote:
 
  On Aug 15, 2012, at 10:28 AM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
 
  Rob Weir wrote on Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 13:11:43 -0400:
  On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Daniel Shahaf d...@daniel.shahaf.name
 wrote:
  Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote on Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 16:32:21 +0200:
  Is it possible that somebody from the Apache Infrastructure can
  provide a view on which URL the traffic load was soo high that the
  servers got in trouble?
 
 
  POST requests to /ProductUpdateService/check.Update file
 
 
  For which subdomain, which UpdateXX.openoffice.org ?
 
  The access log doesn't say, and the error log has
 
  % fgrep /ProductUpdateService/check.Update error_log | sed -e
 's#^.*/content/projects/##' | cut -d/ -f1 | sort | uniq -c
 
  EU:
  232046 update30
  35548 update34
  76543 update35
 
 
  US:
  198996 update30
  33450 update34
  71117 update35
0 update36
 
  We don't see update32 because those do not get redirected in the same
 way because there is no ooo-site/trunk/content/projects/update32


uh oh...this should have been setup before  and Oliver said he requested
this in the first post here.

And you're now saying that all the previous ones have been reverted?

I think we were OK until this last one, right? update32?

I think the others should be re-established as they weren't causing
problems, were they?

The thing is unless we go back to the code for OOo 3.1, we don't know what
it's doing.

When I asked about this when we had issues for OOo 3.0, I was told it was
fixed in OOo 3.2, so maybe 3.1. has the same issues?




  ./update/aoo341/check.Update
  ./update/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
  ./update30/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
  ./update34/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
  ./update34/ProductUpdateService/test.Update
  ./update35/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
  ./update35/ProductUpdateService/test.Update
  ./update36/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
  ./update38/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
 
  It looks like 34 and 35 have been trouble, but not as bad as 30.
 

 But haven't 34 and 35 been in production since early July?  We've
 certainly seen plenty of downloads triggered by them.  They should not
 be giving any errors, since the requests resolve to files on our site.

 I wonder, could the errors in those be caused by the outage caused by
 the errors in update30?


Rob...update 30  is completely out of the question, and we simply can not
do it, and reverted it within hours when I first requested it.

There IS an update30 directory there but it isn't actually being used, and
is just a dummy file anyway. Maybe we should just delete this one  so we
won't get confused about this one anymore. It was setup in early stages of
testing.

Should I just delete ./update30/ProductUpdateService/check.Update -- I mean
the whole directory.


 -Rob

  Regards,
  Dave




-- 

MzK

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
--
Niels Bohr


Re: Registration and Update Services - What Will Be The Load?

2012-08-15 Thread Dave Fisher

On Aug 15, 2012, at 2:29 PM, Kay Schenk wrote:

 On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:
 
 On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net
 wrote:
 
 On Aug 15, 2012, at 10:28 AM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
 
 Rob Weir wrote on Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 13:11:43 -0400:
 On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Daniel Shahaf d...@daniel.shahaf.name
 wrote:
 Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote on Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 16:32:21 +0200:
 Is it possible that somebody from the Apache Infrastructure can
 provide a view on which URL the traffic load was soo high that the
 servers got in trouble?
 
 
 POST requests to /ProductUpdateService/check.Update file
 
 
 For which subdomain, which UpdateXX.openoffice.org ?
 
 The access log doesn't say, and the error log has
 
 % fgrep /ProductUpdateService/check.Update error_log | sed -e
 's#^.*/content/projects/##' | cut -d/ -f1 | sort | uniq -c
 
 EU:
 232046 update30
 35548 update34
 76543 update35
 
 
 US:
 198996 update30
 33450 update34
 71117 update35
  0 update36
 
 We don't see update32 because those do not get redirected in the same
 way because there is no ooo-site/trunk/content/projects/update32
 
 
 uh oh...this should have been setup before  and Oliver said he requested
 this in the first post here.
 
 And you're now saying that all the previous ones have been reverted?

The zone file is now:

; update.services   CNAME www.openoffice.org.




; WARNING WARNING WARNING
; Changing the above entries to point to eos can overload it.  Do not enable
; them unless either eos is prepared for the load or the TTL is suitably
; lowered
update.services   CNAME sd-web4.staroffice.de.
update23.services CNAME sd-web2.staroffice.de.
update24.services CNAME sd-web2.staroffice.de.
update30.services CNAME sd-web2.staroffice.de.
update31.services CNAME sd-web2.staroffice.de.
update32.services CNAME sd-web2.staroffice.de.
update33.services CNAME sd-web2.staroffice.de.




update34.services CNAME www.openoffice.org.
update35.services CNAME www.openoffice.org.
update36.services CNAME www.openoffice.org.
update38.services CNAME www.openoffice.org.


 
 I think we were OK until this last one, right? update32?

Only yesterday's changes to DNS were reverted.

 
 I think the others should be re-established as they weren't causing
 problems, were they?
 
 The thing is unless we go back to the code for OOo 3.1, we don't know what
 it's doing.
 
 When I asked about this when we had issues for OOo 3.0, I was told it was
 fixed in OOo 3.2, so maybe 3.1. has the same issues?
 
 
 
 
 ./update/aoo341/check.Update
 ./update/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
 ./update30/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
 ./update34/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
 ./update34/ProductUpdateService/test.Update
 ./update35/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
 ./update35/ProductUpdateService/test.Update
 ./update36/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
 ./update38/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
 
 It looks like 34 and 35 have been trouble, but not as bad as 30.
 
 
 But haven't 34 and 35 been in production since early July?  We've
 certainly seen plenty of downloads triggered by them.  They should not
 be giving any errors, since the requests resolve to files on our site.
 
 I wonder, could the errors in those be caused by the outage caused by
 the errors in update30?
 
 
 Rob...update 30  is completely out of the question, and we simply can not
 do it, and reverted it within hours when I first requested it.
 
 There IS an update30 directory there but it isn't actually being used, and
 is just a dummy file anyway. Maybe we should just delete this one  so we
 won't get confused about this one anymore. It was setup in early stages of
 testing.
 
 Should I just delete ./update30/ProductUpdateService/check.Update -- I mean
 the whole directory.
 
 
 -Rob
 
 Regards,
 Dave
 
 
 
 
 -- 
 
 MzK
 
 Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
--
 Niels Bohr



Re: Registration and Update Services - What Will Be The Load?

2012-08-15 Thread Kay Schenk
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote:


 On Aug 15, 2012, at 2:29 PM, Kay Schenk wrote:

  On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:
 
  On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net
  wrote:
 
  On Aug 15, 2012, at 10:28 AM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
 
  Rob Weir wrote on Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 13:11:43 -0400:
  On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Daniel Shahaf 
 d...@daniel.shahaf.name
  wrote:
  Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote on Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 16:32:21 +0200:
  Is it possible that somebody from the Apache Infrastructure can
  provide a view on which URL the traffic load was soo high that the
  servers got in trouble?
 
 
  POST requests to /ProductUpdateService/check.Update file
 
 
  For which subdomain, which UpdateXX.openoffice.org ?
 
  The access log doesn't say, and the error log has
 
  % fgrep /ProductUpdateService/check.Update error_log | sed -e
  's#^.*/content/projects/##' | cut -d/ -f1 | sort | uniq -c
 
  EU:
  232046 update30
  35548 update34
  76543 update35
 
 
  US:
  198996 update30
  33450 update34
  71117 update35
   0 update36
 
  We don't see update32 because those do not get redirected in the same
  way because there is no ooo-site/trunk/content/projects/update32
 
 
  uh oh...this should have been setup before  and Oliver said he requested
  this in the first post here.
 
  And you're now saying that all the previous ones have been reverted?

 The zone file is now:

 ; update.services   CNAME www.openoffice.org.




 ; WARNING WARNING WARNING
 ; Changing the above entries to point to eos can overload it.  Do not
 enable
 ; them unless either eos is prepared for the load or the TTL is suitably
 ; lowered
 update.services   CNAME sd-web4.staroffice.de.
 update23.services CNAME sd-web2.staroffice.de.
 update24.services CNAME sd-web2.staroffice.de.
 update30.services CNAME sd-web2.staroffice.de.
 update31.services CNAME sd-web2.staroffice.de.
 update32.services CNAME sd-web2.staroffice.de.
 update33.services CNAME sd-web2.staroffice.de.




 update34.services CNAME www.openoffice.org.
 update35.services CNAME www.openoffice.org.
 update36.services CNAME www.openoffice.org.
 update38.services CNAME www.openoffice.org.


 
  I think we were OK until this last one, right? update32?

 Only yesterday's changes to DNS were reverted.


OK, good...it seems we can't go below update34 -- used for  OO 3.2 without
further investigation.

Meanwhile I will delete the

 ./update30/ProductUpdateService/check.Update

so it causes no further confusion...


 
  I think the others should be re-established as they weren't causing
  problems, were they?
 
  The thing is unless we go back to the code for OOo 3.1, we don't know
 what
  it's doing.
 
  When I asked about this when we had issues for OOo 3.0, I was told it was
  fixed in OOo 3.2, so maybe 3.1. has the same issues?
 
 
 
 
  ./update/aoo341/check.Update
  ./update/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
  ./update30/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
  ./update34/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
  ./update34/ProductUpdateService/test.Update
  ./update35/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
  ./update35/ProductUpdateService/test.Update
  ./update36/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
  ./update38/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
 
  It looks like 34 and 35 have been trouble, but not as bad as 30.
 
 
  But haven't 34 and 35 been in production since early July?  We've
  certainly seen plenty of downloads triggered by them.  They should not
  be giving any errors, since the requests resolve to files on our site.
 
  I wonder, could the errors in those be caused by the outage caused by
  the errors in update30?
 
 
  Rob...update 30  is completely out of the question, and we simply can not
  do it, and reverted it within hours when I first requested it.
 
  There IS an update30 directory there but it isn't actually being used,
 and
  is just a dummy file anyway. Maybe we should just delete this one  so we
  won't get confused about this one anymore. It was setup in early stages
 of
  testing.
 
  Should I just delete ./update30/ProductUpdateService/check.Update -- I
 mean
  the whole directory.
 
 
  -Rob
 
  Regards,
  Dave
 
 
 
 
  --
 
 
  MzK
 
  Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
 --
  Niels Bohr




-- 

MzK

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
--
Niels Bohr


Re: Registration and Update Services - What Will Be The Load?

2012-08-15 Thread Kay Schenk
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote:



 On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.netwrote:


 On Aug 15, 2012, at 2:29 PM, Kay Schenk wrote:

  On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:
 
  On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net
  wrote:
 
  On Aug 15, 2012, at 10:28 AM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
 
  Rob Weir wrote on Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 13:11:43 -0400:
  On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Daniel Shahaf 
 d...@daniel.shahaf.name
  wrote:
  Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote on Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 16:32:21
 +0200:
  Is it possible that somebody from the Apache Infrastructure can
  provide a view on which URL the traffic load was soo high that the
  servers got in trouble?
 
 
  POST requests to /ProductUpdateService/check.Update file
 
 
  For which subdomain, which UpdateXX.openoffice.org ?
 
  The access log doesn't say, and the error log has
 
  % fgrep /ProductUpdateService/check.Update error_log | sed -e
  's#^.*/content/projects/##' | cut -d/ -f1 | sort | uniq -c
 
  EU:
  232046 update30
  35548 update34
  76543 update35
 
 
  US:
  198996 update30
  33450 update34
  71117 update35
   0 update36
 
  We don't see update32 because those do not get redirected in the same
  way because there is no ooo-site/trunk/content/projects/update32
 
 
  uh oh...this should have been setup before  and Oliver said he requested
  this in the first post here.
 
  And you're now saying that all the previous ones have been reverted?

 The zone file is now:

 ; update.services   CNAME www.openoffice.org.




 ; WARNING WARNING WARNING
 ; Changing the above entries to point to eos can overload it.  Do not
 enable
 ; them unless either eos is prepared for the load or the TTL is suitably
 ; lowered
 update.services   CNAME sd-web4.staroffice.de.
 update23.services CNAME sd-web2.staroffice.de.
 update24.services CNAME sd-web2.staroffice.de.
 update30.services CNAME sd-web2.staroffice.de.
 update31.services CNAME sd-web2.staroffice.de.
 update32.services CNAME sd-web2.staroffice.de.
 update33.services CNAME sd-web2.staroffice.de.




 update34.services CNAME www.openoffice.org.
 update35.services CNAME www.openoffice.org.
 update36.services CNAME www.openoffice.org.
 update38.services CNAME www.openoffice.org.


 
  I think we were OK until this last one, right? update32?

 Only yesterday's changes to DNS were reverted.


 OK, good...it seems we can't go below update34 -- used for  OO 3.2 without
 further investigation.

 Meanwhile I will delete the

  ./update30/ProductUpdateService/check.Update

 so it causes no further confusion...


ok, this is gone now...the ones that remain with numbers following updatexx
are in use.

/projects/updatexx/

as well as

/projects/update/ which is used for aoo34





 
  I think the others should be re-established as they weren't causing
  problems, were they?
 
  The thing is unless we go back to the code for OOo 3.1, we don't know
 what
  it's doing.
 
  When I asked about this when we had issues for OOo 3.0, I was told it
 was
  fixed in OOo 3.2, so maybe 3.1. has the same issues?
 
 
 
 
  ./update/aoo341/check.Update
  ./update/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
  ./update30/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
  ./update34/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
  ./update34/ProductUpdateService/test.Update
  ./update35/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
  ./update35/ProductUpdateService/test.Update
  ./update36/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
  ./update38/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
 
  It looks like 34 and 35 have been trouble, but not as bad as 30.
 
 
  But haven't 34 and 35 been in production since early July?  We've
  certainly seen plenty of downloads triggered by them.  They should not
  be giving any errors, since the requests resolve to files on our site.
 
  I wonder, could the errors in those be caused by the outage caused by
  the errors in update30?
 
 
  Rob...update 30  is completely out of the question, and we simply can
 not
  do it, and reverted it within hours when I first requested it.
 
  There IS an update30 directory there but it isn't actually being used,
 and
  is just a dummy file anyway. Maybe we should just delete this one  so we
  won't get confused about this one anymore. It was setup in early stages
 of
  testing.
 
  Should I just delete ./update30/ProductUpdateService/check.Update -- I
 mean
  the whole directory.
 
 
  -Rob
 
  Regards,
  Dave
 
 
 
 
  --
 
 
  MzK
 
  Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
 
  --
  Niels Bohr




 --

 
 MzK

 Never express 

Re: Registration and Update Services - What Will Be The Load?

2012-08-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:

 On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net
 wrote:
 
  On Aug 15, 2012, at 10:28 AM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
 
  Rob Weir wrote on Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 13:11:43 -0400:
  On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Daniel Shahaf d...@daniel.shahaf.name
 wrote:
  Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote on Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 16:32:21 +0200:
  Is it possible that somebody from the Apache Infrastructure can
  provide a view on which URL the traffic load was soo high that the
  servers got in trouble?
 
 
  POST requests to /ProductUpdateService/check.Update file
 
 
  For which subdomain, which UpdateXX.openoffice.org ?
 
  The access log doesn't say, and the error log has
 
  % fgrep /ProductUpdateService/check.Update error_log | sed -e
 's#^.*/content/projects/##' | cut -d/ -f1 | sort | uniq -c
 
  EU:
  232046 update30
  35548 update34
  76543 update35
 
 
  US:
  198996 update30
  33450 update34
  71117 update35
0 update36
 
  We don't see update32 because those do not get redirected in the same
 way because there is no ooo-site/trunk/content/projects/update32


 uh oh...this should have been setup before  and Oliver said he requested
 this in the first post here.

 And you're now saying that all the previous ones have been reverted?

 I think we were OK until this last one, right? update32?

 I think the others should be re-established as they weren't causing
 problems, were they?

 The thing is unless we go back to the code for OOo 3.1, we don't know what
 it's doing.

 When I asked about this when we had issues for OOo 3.0, I was told it was
 fixed in OOo 3.2, so maybe 3.1. has the same issues?




  ./update/aoo341/check.Update
  ./update/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
  ./update30/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
  ./update34/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
  ./update34/ProductUpdateService/test.Update
  ./update35/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
  ./update35/ProductUpdateService/test.Update
  ./update36/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
  ./update38/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
 
  It looks like 34 and 35 have been trouble, but not as bad as 30.
 

 But haven't 34 and 35 been in production since early July?  We've
 certainly seen plenty of downloads triggered by them.  They should not
 be giving any errors, since the requests resolve to files on our site.

 I wonder, could the errors in those be caused by the outage caused by
 the errors in update30?


 Rob...update 30  is completely out of the question, and we simply can not
 do it, and reverted it within hours when I first requested it.


What is the issue with update 30?  The fact that it does a POST?  I
don't that would rule it out altogether.  But we would need to treat
it specially.  For example, we could redirect to an isolated server,
at Apache or outside, that is able/willing to handle it.  If we run it
for a month or two we should get the bulk of the upgrades.

Or was there some other issue?

 There IS an update30 directory there but it isn't actually being used, and
 is just a dummy file anyway. Maybe we should just delete this one  so we
 won't get confused about this one anymore. It was setup in early stages of
 testing.

 Should I just delete ./update30/ProductUpdateService/check.Update -- I mean
 the whole directory.


 -Rob

  Regards,
  Dave




 --
 
 MzK

 Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
 --
 Niels Bohr


Re: Registration and Update Services - What Will Be The Load?

2012-08-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 7:31 PM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:

 On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote:
  On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:
 
  On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net
  wrote:
  
   On Aug 15, 2012, at 10:28 AM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
  
   Rob Weir wrote on Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 13:11:43 -0400:
   On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Daniel Shahaf 
 d...@daniel.shahaf.name
  wrote:
   Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote on Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 16:32:21
 +0200:
   Is it possible that somebody from the Apache Infrastructure can
   provide a view on which URL the traffic load was soo high that the
   servers got in trouble?
  
  
   POST requests to /ProductUpdateService/check.Update file
  
  
   For which subdomain, which UpdateXX.openoffice.org ?
  
   The access log doesn't say, and the error log has
  
   % fgrep /ProductUpdateService/check.Update error_log | sed -e
  's#^.*/content/projects/##' | cut -d/ -f1 | sort | uniq -c
  
   EU:
   232046 update30
   35548 update34
   76543 update35
  
  
   US:
   198996 update30
   33450 update34
   71117 update35
 0 update36
  
   We don't see update32 because those do not get redirected in the same
  way because there is no ooo-site/trunk/content/projects/update32
 
 
  uh oh...this should have been setup before  and Oliver said he requested
  this in the first post here.
 
  And you're now saying that all the previous ones have been reverted?
 
  I think we were OK until this last one, right? update32?
 
  I think the others should be re-established as they weren't causing
  problems, were they?
 
  The thing is unless we go back to the code for OOo 3.1, we don't know
 what
  it's doing.
 
  When I asked about this when we had issues for OOo 3.0, I was told it was
  fixed in OOo 3.2, so maybe 3.1. has the same issues?
 
 
 
 
   ./update/aoo341/check.Update
   ./update/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
   ./update30/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
   ./update34/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
   ./update34/ProductUpdateService/test.Update
   ./update35/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
   ./update35/ProductUpdateService/test.Update
   ./update36/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
   ./update38/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
  
   It looks like 34 and 35 have been trouble, but not as bad as 30.
  
 
  But haven't 34 and 35 been in production since early July?  We've
  certainly seen plenty of downloads triggered by them.  They should not
  be giving any errors, since the requests resolve to files on our site.
 
  I wonder, could the errors in those be caused by the outage caused by
  the errors in update30?
 
 
  Rob...update 30  is completely out of the question, and we simply can not
  do it, and reverted it within hours when I first requested it.
 

 What is the issue with update 30?  The fact that it does a POST?  I
 don't that would rule it out altogether.  But we would need to treat
 it specially.  For example, we could redirect to an isolated server,
 at Apache or outside, that is able/willing to handle it.  If we run it
 for a month or two we should get the bulk of the upgrades.

 Or was there some other issue?


 The Apache web server, of which AOO is a part, does not allow POSTs so when
 I had infra enable this and redirect the old update30 to the web server, it
 caused MANY errors in a very short period of time (about an hour) and Joe
 reverted it rather quickly.  THis was like back in early March or
 something when I was playing around. The update feed itself didn't even DO
 anything but redirect them to a URL (in theory) it was the POST in the code
 for OOo 3.0 that caused all the havoc. When I inquired about this on this
 list, I was told yes, this WAS the case for 3.0 but had been fixed with, I
 thought 3.2.

 Anyway, as far as I know, this is the only issue.

 I was pretty wary initially about running the feed through the web server
 but was told we should be fine (this after Joe reverted the update30 in
 March) -- and I think we have been for the most part. But, yes, we need
 another box with a web server that would accept POSTs to deal with this --
 3.0, and it looks like 3.1.


OK.  That's the impression I had as well -- POST was disabled in
general on ASF servers.  We're not going to be able to change that.
But the traffic from permitted POSTs will be far less than the errors
and retries  generated from disallowed POSTs.   So if we can find a
volunteer to host this traffic on their website, then we could have
the redirects go there rather than to openoffice.org or staroffice.de.
  This would not need to be a host volunteering to do this forever.  I
think if we ran it for 2 months we'd get almost everyone, since the
upgrade checks occur once a week by default.

But we can discuss this more after AOO 3.4.1 is out.No sense
tempting the OOo 3.1 users to 

Re: Registration and Update Services - What Will Be The Load?

2012-08-15 Thread Dave Fisher

On Aug 15, 2012, at 6:53 PM, Rob Weir wrote:

 On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 7:31 PM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:
 
 On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 5:29 PM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:
 
 On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net
 wrote:
 
 On Aug 15, 2012, at 10:28 AM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
 
 Rob Weir wrote on Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 13:11:43 -0400:
 On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Daniel Shahaf 
 d...@daniel.shahaf.name
 wrote:
 Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote on Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 16:32:21
 +0200:
 Is it possible that somebody from the Apache Infrastructure can
 provide a view on which URL the traffic load was soo high that the
 servers got in trouble?
 
 
 POST requests to /ProductUpdateService/check.Update file
 
 
 For which subdomain, which UpdateXX.openoffice.org ?
 
 The access log doesn't say, and the error log has
 
 % fgrep /ProductUpdateService/check.Update error_log | sed -e
 's#^.*/content/projects/##' | cut -d/ -f1 | sort | uniq -c
 
 EU:
 232046 update30
 35548 update34
 76543 update35
 
 
 US:
 198996 update30
 33450 update34
 71117 update35
  0 update36
 
 We don't see update32 because those do not get redirected in the same
 way because there is no ooo-site/trunk/content/projects/update32
 
 
 uh oh...this should have been setup before  and Oliver said he requested
 this in the first post here.
 
 And you're now saying that all the previous ones have been reverted?
 
 I think we were OK until this last one, right? update32?
 
 I think the others should be re-established as they weren't causing
 problems, were they?
 
 The thing is unless we go back to the code for OOo 3.1, we don't know
 what
 it's doing.
 
 When I asked about this when we had issues for OOo 3.0, I was told it was
 fixed in OOo 3.2, so maybe 3.1. has the same issues?
 
 
 
 
 ./update/aoo341/check.Update
 ./update/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
 ./update30/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
 ./update34/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
 ./update34/ProductUpdateService/test.Update
 ./update35/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
 ./update35/ProductUpdateService/test.Update
 ./update36/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
 ./update38/ProductUpdateService/check.Update
 
 It looks like 34 and 35 have been trouble, but not as bad as 30.
 
 
 But haven't 34 and 35 been in production since early July?  We've
 certainly seen plenty of downloads triggered by them.  They should not
 be giving any errors, since the requests resolve to files on our site.
 
 I wonder, could the errors in those be caused by the outage caused by
 the errors in update30?
 
 
 Rob...update 30  is completely out of the question, and we simply can not
 do it, and reverted it within hours when I first requested it.
 
 
 What is the issue with update 30?  The fact that it does a POST?  I
 don't that would rule it out altogether.  But we would need to treat
 it specially.  For example, we could redirect to an isolated server,
 at Apache or outside, that is able/willing to handle it.  If we run it
 for a month or two we should get the bulk of the upgrades.
 
 Or was there some other issue?
 
 
 The Apache web server, of which AOO is a part, does not allow POSTs so when
 I had infra enable this and redirect the old update30 to the web server, it
 caused MANY errors in a very short period of time (about an hour) and Joe
 reverted it rather quickly.  THis was like back in early March or
 something when I was playing around. The update feed itself didn't even DO
 anything but redirect them to a URL (in theory) it was the POST in the code
 for OOo 3.0 that caused all the havoc. When I inquired about this on this
 list, I was told yes, this WAS the case for 3.0 but had been fixed with, I
 thought 3.2.
 
 Anyway, as far as I know, this is the only issue.
 
 I was pretty wary initially about running the feed through the web server
 but was told we should be fine (this after Joe reverted the update30 in
 March) -- and I think we have been for the most part. But, yes, we need
 another box with a web server that would accept POSTs to deal with this --
 3.0, and it looks like 3.1.
 
 
 OK.  That's the impression I had as well -- POST was disabled in
 general on ASF servers.  We're not going to be able to change that.
 But the traffic from permitted POSTs will be far less than the errors
 and retries  generated from disallowed POSTs.   So if we can find a
 volunteer to host this traffic on their website, then we could have
 the redirects go there rather than to openoffice.org or staroffice.de.
  This would not need to be a host volunteering to do this forever.  I
 think if we ran it for 2 months we'd get almost everyone, since the
 upgrade checks occur once a week by default.
 
 But we can discuss this more after AOO 3.4.1 is out.No sense
 tempting the OOo 3.1 users to upgrade to AOO 3.4.0 today and 

Re: Registration

2012-08-14 Thread Oliver-Rainer Wittmann

Hi,

On 09.08.2012 16:23, Rob Weir wrote:

On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 2:34 AM, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann
orwittm...@googlemail.com wrote:

Hi,


On 07.08.2012 23:44, Andrea Pescetti wrote:


On 23/07/2012 Rob Weir wrote:


On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:


So I'd propose to ask Infra to redirect the whole domains
https://registration2.services.openoffice.org/
http://registration2.services.openoffice.org/
http://survey.services.openoffice.org/
to something that explains that OpenOffice.org is now at Apache.


So it might make sense to send them to the download page?  Or a
custom/new page that says:
a) Thank you for installing OOo
b) OOo is now at Apache
c) The latest version is AOO 3.4.  You can get it here (give download
link)
d) Useful extensions and templates are here (give links)
e) If you want to stay informed about new releases and other
announcements, here is our announcement link, Twitter account, etc.



I created a page with this content at
http://www.openoffice.org/legacy/thankyou.html



This page looks good.

May be we can use it also for our update service. It could be the landing
page for users of legacy OOo versions for whose language we do not have a
released package. Currently, the update service for such legacy OOo versions
is not active.



How would that work, for an end user?  I thought an update check
occurs every week.  So suppose someone was currently using OOo 3.3.0
in the Korean translation.  Every week they would get a notification
saying an update is available.  This would take them to a page (in
English) that says AOO 3.4.0 is available, but not in Korean.  And if
they don't install 3.4.0 they continue to get the message every week?

That sounds annoying.



You are right, that would be annoying.


Or is there a way we can give a set of users a message once, so after
they dismiss the message it does not return every week?  Something
like an Atom/RSS feed that can be displayed in the client.  That would
be more useful.

Of course, we cannot now modify the UI and logic of OOo 3.3.0.  But we
could fake it with a hack.  For example, we could a message in for all
languages in the update XML, but only have it there for 2 weeks.  Then
we would revert the XML back to only notifying users for updates in
their language.



Sounds like a reasonable idea.


Best regards, Oliver.


update service for not released languages [was: Re: Registration]

2012-08-14 Thread Oliver-Rainer Wittmann

Hi,

On 09.08.2012 22:23, Andrea Pescetti wrote:

Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote:

On 07.08.2012 23:44, Andrea Pescetti wrote:

I created a page with this content at
http://www.openoffice.org/legacy/thankyou.html

May be we can use it also for our update service. It could be the
landing page for users of legacy OOo versions for whose language we do
not have a released package.


For those cases it would be better to wait until 3.4.1 is out, then provide, for
unsupported languages, some beta/RC builds or langpacks based on the same SVN
revision and the SDF files we have now and create a page saying something like
your language is not officially supported, but you can help us [links to
unofficial builds and instructions]. But this is just an idea that we can
discuss after 3.4.1 is released.



Yes, I would definitely wait until AOO 3.4.1 is out.

Having unofficial language packs for our unsupported languages would be a good 
idea, esp. to attract some new volunteers for translations.


I will keep your's and Rob's idea in mind for my planned future work on the 
update service.



Best regards, Oliver.


Re: Registration

2012-08-14 Thread Andrea Pescetti

On 09/08/2012 Dave Fisher wrote:

On Aug 7, 2012, at 2:44 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:

I created a page with this content at
http://www.openoffice.org/legacy/thankyou.html If we have lazy
consensus (i.e., no objections in 72 hours or so) on this, I'll
then proceed and ask Infra to redirect all legacy links to this
page. This includes the whole subdomains above and, if someone
manages to find it, the URL OpenOffice opens when one uninstalls
version 3.3.


Let me know when the JIRA is ready.


Ready at
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-5144

Regards,
  Andrea.


Re: Registration

2012-08-14 Thread Dave Fisher

On Aug 14, 2012, at 8:09 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:

 On 09/08/2012 Dave Fisher wrote:
 On Aug 7, 2012, at 2:44 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
 I created a page with this content at
 http://www.openoffice.org/legacy/thankyou.html If we have lazy
 consensus (i.e., no objections in 72 hours or so) on this, I'll
 then proceed and ask Infra to redirect all legacy links to this
 page. This includes the whole subdomains above and, if someone
 manages to find it, the URL OpenOffice opens when one uninstalls
 version 3.3.
 
 Let me know when the JIRA is ready.
 
 Ready at
 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-5144

I'll look into this one tomorrow. There will be two parts.

(1) DNS redirect to www.openoffice.org

(2) httpd.conf rewrite to redirect to thankyou.html.

Regards,
Dave

 
 Regards,
  Andrea.



Re: Registration

2012-08-09 Thread Oliver-Rainer Wittmann

Hi,

On 07.08.2012 23:44, Andrea Pescetti wrote:

On 23/07/2012 Rob Weir wrote:

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:

So I'd propose to ask Infra to redirect the whole domains
https://registration2.services.openoffice.org/
http://registration2.services.openoffice.org/
http://survey.services.openoffice.org/
to something that explains that OpenOffice.org is now at Apache.

So it might make sense to send them to the download page?  Or a
custom/new page that says:
a) Thank you for installing OOo
b) OOo is now at Apache
c) The latest version is AOO 3.4.  You can get it here (give download link)
d) Useful extensions and templates are here (give links)
e) If you want to stay informed about new releases and other
announcements, here is our announcement link, Twitter account, etc.


I created a page with this content at
http://www.openoffice.org/legacy/thankyou.html



This page looks good.

May be we can use it also for our update service. It could be the landing page 
for users of legacy OOo versions for whose language we do not have a released 
package. Currently, the update service for such legacy OOo versions is not active.


Best regards, Oliver.


If we have lazy consensus (i.e., no objections in 72 hours or so) on this, I'll
then proceed and ask Infra to redirect all legacy links to this page. This
includes the whole subdomains above and, if someone manages to find it, the URL
OpenOffice opens when one uninstalls version 3.3.

Regards,
   Andrea.


Re: Registration

2012-08-09 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 2:34 AM, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann
orwittm...@googlemail.com wrote:
 Hi,


 On 07.08.2012 23:44, Andrea Pescetti wrote:

 On 23/07/2012 Rob Weir wrote:

 On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:

 So I'd propose to ask Infra to redirect the whole domains
 https://registration2.services.openoffice.org/
 http://registration2.services.openoffice.org/
 http://survey.services.openoffice.org/
 to something that explains that OpenOffice.org is now at Apache.

 So it might make sense to send them to the download page?  Or a
 custom/new page that says:
 a) Thank you for installing OOo
 b) OOo is now at Apache
 c) The latest version is AOO 3.4.  You can get it here (give download
 link)
 d) Useful extensions and templates are here (give links)
 e) If you want to stay informed about new releases and other
 announcements, here is our announcement link, Twitter account, etc.


 I created a page with this content at
 http://www.openoffice.org/legacy/thankyou.html


 This page looks good.

 May be we can use it also for our update service. It could be the landing
 page for users of legacy OOo versions for whose language we do not have a
 released package. Currently, the update service for such legacy OOo versions
 is not active.


How would that work, for an end user?  I thought an update check
occurs every week.  So suppose someone was currently using OOo 3.3.0
in the Korean translation.  Every week they would get a notification
saying an update is available.  This would take them to a page (in
English) that says AOO 3.4.0 is available, but not in Korean.  And if
they don't install 3.4.0 they continue to get the message every week?

That sounds annoying.

Or is there a way we can give a set of users a message once, so after
they dismiss the message it does not return every week?  Something
like an Atom/RSS feed that can be displayed in the client.  That would
be more useful.

Of course, we cannot now modify the UI and logic of OOo 3.3.0.  But we
could fake it with a hack.  For example, we could a message in for all
languages in the update XML, but only have it there for 2 weeks.  Then
we would revert the XML back to only notifying users for updates in
their language.

-Rob

 Best regards, Oliver.


 If we have lazy consensus (i.e., no objections in 72 hours or so) on this,
 I'll
 then proceed and ask Infra to redirect all legacy links to this page. This
 includes the whole subdomains above and, if someone manages to find it,
 the URL
 OpenOffice opens when one uninstalls version 3.3.

 Regards,
Andrea.


Re: Registration

2012-08-09 Thread Andrea Pescetti

Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote:

On 07.08.2012 23:44, Andrea Pescetti wrote:

I created a page with this content at
http://www.openoffice.org/legacy/thankyou.html

May be we can use it also for our update service. It could be the
landing page for users of legacy OOo versions for whose language we do
not have a released package.


For those cases it would be better to wait until 3.4.1 is out, then 
provide, for unsupported languages, some beta/RC builds or langpacks 
based on the same SVN revision and the SDF files we have now and create 
a page saying something like your language is not officially supported, 
but you can help us [links to unofficial builds and instructions]. But 
this is just an idea that we can discuss after 3.4.1 is released.


Regards,
  Andrea.


Re: Registration

2012-08-08 Thread Dave Fisher

On Aug 7, 2012, at 2:44 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:

 On 23/07/2012 Rob Weir wrote:
 On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
 So I'd propose to ask Infra to redirect the whole domains
 https://registration2.services.openoffice.org/
 http://registration2.services.openoffice.org/
 http://survey.services.openoffice.org/
 to something that explains that OpenOffice.org is now at Apache.
 So it might make sense to send them to the download page?  Or a
 custom/new page that says:
 a) Thank you for installing OOo
 b) OOo is now at Apache
 c) The latest version is AOO 3.4.  You can get it here (give download link)
 d) Useful extensions and templates are here (give links)
 e) If you want to stay informed about new releases and other
 announcements, here is our announcement link, Twitter account, etc.
 
 I created a page with this content at
 http://www.openoffice.org/legacy/thankyou.html
 
 If we have lazy consensus (i.e., no objections in 72 hours or so) on this, 
 I'll then proceed and ask Infra to redirect all legacy links to this page. 
 This includes the whole subdomains above and, if someone manages to find it, 
 the URL OpenOffice opens when one uninstalls version 3.3.

Let me know when the JIRA is ready.

There will be two parts.

(1) DNS - Change these subdomain IPs to be ooo-site.apache.org

(2) httpd.conf - permanently redirect anything on the list of domains to this 
new page.

I'll just need the domains and no the http / https.

I just got Infra to do the patches to DNS for forum.oo.o and wiki.oo.o (for 
imacat: more work to do with the Apache Traffic Server config on the MWiki.) I 
think these will be quick.

Regards,
Dave


 
 Regards,
  Andrea.



Re: Registration

2012-08-07 Thread Andrea Pescetti

On 23/07/2012 Rob Weir wrote:

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:

So I'd propose to ask Infra to redirect the whole domains
https://registration2.services.openoffice.org/
http://registration2.services.openoffice.org/
http://survey.services.openoffice.org/
to something that explains that OpenOffice.org is now at Apache.

So it might make sense to send them to the download page?  Or a
custom/new page that says:
a) Thank you for installing OOo
b) OOo is now at Apache
c) The latest version is AOO 3.4.  You can get it here (give download link)
d) Useful extensions and templates are here (give links)
e) If you want to stay informed about new releases and other
announcements, here is our announcement link, Twitter account, etc.


I created a page with this content at
http://www.openoffice.org/legacy/thankyou.html

If we have lazy consensus (i.e., no objections in 72 hours or so) on 
this, I'll then proceed and ask Infra to redirect all legacy links to 
this page. This includes the whole subdomains above and, if someone 
manages to find it, the URL OpenOffice opens when one uninstalls version 
3.3.


Regards,
  Andrea.


Re: Registration

2012-08-07 Thread Marcus (OOo)

Am 08/07/2012 11:44 PM, schrieb Andrea Pescetti:

On 23/07/2012 Rob Weir wrote:

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:

So I'd propose to ask Infra to redirect the whole domains
https://registration2.services.openoffice.org/
http://registration2.services.openoffice.org/
http://survey.services.openoffice.org/
to something that explains that OpenOffice.org is now at Apache.

So it might make sense to send them to the download page? Or a
custom/new page that says:
a) Thank you for installing OOo
b) OOo is now at Apache
c) The latest version is AOO 3.4. You can get it here (give download
link)
d) Useful extensions and templates are here (give links)
e) If you want to stay informed about new releases and other
announcements, here is our announcement link, Twitter account, etc.


I created a page with this content at
http://www.openoffice.org/legacy/thankyou.html

If we have lazy consensus (i.e., no objections in 72 hours or so) on
this, I'll then proceed and ask Infra to redirect all legacy links to
this page. This includes the whole subdomains above and, if someone
manages to find it, the URL OpenOffice opens when one uninstalls version
3.3.


Great idea. I think there are a lot of URLs that could be routed to this 
new webpage.


Marcus



Re: Registration

2012-08-07 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 5:44 PM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote:
 On 23/07/2012 Rob Weir wrote:

 On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:

 So I'd propose to ask Infra to redirect the whole domains
 https://registration2.services.openoffice.org/
 http://registration2.services.openoffice.org/
 http://survey.services.openoffice.org/
 to something that explains that OpenOffice.org is now at Apache.

 So it might make sense to send them to the download page?  Or a

 custom/new page that says:
 a) Thank you for installing OOo
 b) OOo is now at Apache
 c) The latest version is AOO 3.4.  You can get it here (give download
 link)
 d) Useful extensions and templates are here (give links)
 e) If you want to stay informed about new releases and other
 announcements, here is our announcement link, Twitter account, etc.


 I created a page with this content at
 http://www.openoffice.org/legacy/thankyou.html


+1

This is nice.

-Rob

 If we have lazy consensus (i.e., no objections in 72 hours or so) on this,
 I'll then proceed and ask Infra to redirect all legacy links to this page.
 This includes the whole subdomains above and, if someone manages to find it,
 the URL OpenOffice opens when one uninstalls version 3.3.

 Regards,
   Andrea.


Re: Registration

2012-07-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti

On 16/07/2012 21:14, sebb wrote:

On 16 July 2012 19:01, Rob Weir wrote:

The registration URL's for OOo 3.3 look like this:
https://registration2.services.openoffice.org/RegistrationWeb/register/GUID?prduct=OpenOffice.orglocale=encid-926117
So we should be able to handle this entirely with ASF.


I've seen (in 3.3.0, build 9567)
http://survey.services.openoffice.org/user/index.php
too.


But I thought there was another version that went directly to an
Oracle domain.  Maybe that was OOo 3.4 beta 1?


OOo 3.4 beta 1 used something that currently redirects, for me, to
https://hs-ws1.oracle.com/RegistrationWeb/registration/default/en_US/register-login.jsp?legacy=truetgtPrd=OpenOffice.orgprd=registrationuuid=urn...e588
but being a beta version it was installed by a small fraction of users, 
and anyway the page works (it is an Oracle account registration, which 
is probably useless to OpenOffice users, but is online).



I'm not suggesting that 3.4.0 be updated to include registration,
merely that it would be helpful to direct users of 3.3 to the new
version, and let them know that the registration step has not failed.


So I'd propose to ask Infra to redirect the whole domains
https://registration2.services.openoffice.org/
http://registration2.services.openoffice.org/
http://survey.services.openoffice.org/
to something that explains that OpenOffice.org is now at Apache. I've 
looked at some options on the openoffice.org website, but the best 
candidate seems to be a blog post:

https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/openoffice_org_is_now_apache

Does anyone have better links to propose? Otherwise I guess we can ask 
Infra to setup the redirection.


Regards,
  Andrea.


Re: Registration

2012-07-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote:
 On 16/07/2012 21:14, sebb wrote:

 On 16 July 2012 19:01, Rob Weir wrote:

 The registration URL's for OOo 3.3 look like this:

 https://registration2.services.openoffice.org/RegistrationWeb/register/GUID?prduct=OpenOffice.orglocale=encid-926117
 So we should be able to handle this entirely with ASF.


 I've seen (in 3.3.0, build 9567)
 http://survey.services.openoffice.org/user/index.php
 too.


 But I thought there was another version that went directly to an
 Oracle domain.  Maybe that was OOo 3.4 beta 1?


 OOo 3.4 beta 1 used something that currently redirects, for me, to
 https://hs-ws1.oracle.com/RegistrationWeb/registration/default/en_US/register-login.jsp?legacy=truetgtPrd=OpenOffice.orgprd=registrationuuid=urn...e588
 but being a beta version it was installed by a small fraction of users, and
 anyway the page works (it is an Oracle account registration, which is
 probably useless to OpenOffice users, but is online).


 I'm not suggesting that 3.4.0 be updated to include registration,
 merely that it would be helpful to direct users of 3.3 to the new
 version, and let them know that the registration step has not failed.


 So I'd propose to ask Infra to redirect the whole domains
 https://registration2.services.openoffice.org/
 http://registration2.services.openoffice.org/
 http://survey.services.openoffice.org/
 to something that explains that OpenOffice.org is now at Apache. I've looked
 at some options on the openoffice.org website, but the best candidate seems
 to be a blog post:
 https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/openoffice_org_is_now_apache

 Does anyone have better links to propose? Otherwise I guess we can ask Infra
 to setup the redirection.


Anyone who has the access to the registration link is running an old
version of OpenOffice, right.  And they are probably just installing
the older version and seeing the registration link.  So I'd expect
that they would soon get a update prompt from within OpenOffice,
within a week, assuming they are using OOo 3.2, 3.2.1 or 3.3.0.  So in
those cases seem to be handled fine already.

The ones that are not covered by the above would be:

1) Someone using an earlier version of OOo (pre 3.2.0)

2) Someone using a version of OOo 3.3.0 or earlier that has not yet
been translated for AOO.

So it might make sense to send them to the download page?  Or a
custom/new page that says:

a) Thank you for installing OOo

b) OOo is now at Apache

c) The latest version is AOO 3.4.  You can get it here (give download link)

d) Useful extensions and templates are here (give links)

e) If you want to stay informed about new releases and other
announcements, here is our announcement link, Twitter account, etc.


 Regards,
   Andrea.


Re: Registration

2012-07-16 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Barry Storah barrysto...@yahoo.com wrote:
 Hi,

 I keep getting a message to Register Your OpenOffice.org, it is not 
 possible as I always get the message - Internet Explorer cannot display the 
 webpage, or from OpenOffice welcome page - get more information the webpage 
 cannot be found.


Hi Barry,

It sounds like you are installing an old version of OpenOffice.  The
current version is 3.4 and it does not have a registration screen.
You can download the latest version from
http://download.openoffice.org.

If for some reason you need to install the older version, you will get
the behavior you reported.  The registration went to a Sun/Oracle
website that no longer is up.  You can safely ignore that error.

Regards,

-Rob


 Regards,
 Barry Storah


Re: Registration

2012-07-16 Thread sebb
On 16 July 2012 17:26, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:
 On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Barry Storah barrysto...@yahoo.com wrote:
 Hi,

 I keep getting a message to Register Your OpenOffice.org, it is not 
 possible as I always get the message - Internet Explorer cannot display the 
 webpage, or from OpenOffice welcome page - get more information the webpage 
 cannot be found.


 Hi Barry,

 It sounds like you are installing an old version of OpenOffice.  The
 current version is 3.4 and it does not have a registration screen.
 You can download the latest version from
 http://download.openoffice.org.

 If for some reason you need to install the older version, you will get
 the behavior you reported.  The registration went to a Sun/Oracle
 website that no longer is up.  You can safely ignore that error.

Would it be possible to get the destination URL re-instated?
Ideally this would redirect to an ASF page (easier to maintain), where
the user could be informed that there is a new version.
Alternatively, the target page could do the same, with a link to the
ASF for further information.

 Regards,

 -Rob


 Regards,
 Barry Storah


Re: Registration

2012-07-16 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 1:13 PM, sebb seb...@gmail.com wrote:
 On 16 July 2012 17:26, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:
 On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Barry Storah barrysto...@yahoo.com wrote:
 Hi,

 I keep getting a message to Register Your OpenOffice.org, it is not 
 possible as I always get the message - Internet Explorer cannot display the 
 webpage, or from OpenOffice welcome page - get more information the 
 webpage cannot be found.


 Hi Barry,

 It sounds like you are installing an old version of OpenOffice.  The
 current version is 3.4 and it does not have a registration screen.
 You can download the latest version from
 http://download.openoffice.org.

 If for some reason you need to install the older version, you will get
 the behavior you reported.  The registration went to a Sun/Oracle
 website that no longer is up.  You can safely ignore that error.

 Would it be possible to get the destination URL re-instated?

The registration URL's for OOo 3.3 look like this:

https://registration2.services.openoffice.org/RegistrationWeb/register/GUID?prduct=OpenOffice.orglocale=encid-926117

So we should be able to handle this entirely with ASF.

But I thought there was another version that went directly to an
Oracle domain.  Maybe that was OOo 3.4 beta 1?

The question is:  what could we do if even a fraction of the 8 million
downloads of AOO 3.4.0 led to a registration?  Suggest they join the
ooo-announce list?  (Can ezmlm handle 100,000 subscribers?)  Follow us
on Twitter?  At the very least we can point them to the FAQ's and
support pages.

If there is some way we can help users by having them view a
post-install registration screen, then we might add the registration
step back in future versions.

-Rob

 Ideally this would redirect to an ASF page (easier to maintain), where
 the user could be informed that there is a new version.
 Alternatively, the target page could do the same, with a link to the
 ASF for further information.

 Regards,

 -Rob


 Regards,
 Barry Storah


Re: Registration

2012-07-16 Thread sebb
On 16 July 2012 19:01, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:
 On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 1:13 PM, sebb seb...@gmail.com wrote:
 On 16 July 2012 17:26, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:
 On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Barry Storah barrysto...@yahoo.com 
 wrote:
 Hi,

 I keep getting a message to Register Your OpenOffice.org, it is not 
 possible as I always get the message - Internet Explorer cannot display 
 the webpage, or from OpenOffice welcome page - get more information the 
 webpage cannot be found.


 Hi Barry,

 It sounds like you are installing an old version of OpenOffice.  The
 current version is 3.4 and it does not have a registration screen.
 You can download the latest version from
 http://download.openoffice.org.

 If for some reason you need to install the older version, you will get
 the behavior you reported.  The registration went to a Sun/Oracle
 website that no longer is up.  You can safely ignore that error.

 Would it be possible to get the destination URL re-instated?

 The registration URL's for OOo 3.3 look like this:

 https://registration2.services.openoffice.org/RegistrationWeb/register/GUID?prduct=OpenOffice.orglocale=encid-926117

 So we should be able to handle this entirely with ASF.

Good.

 But I thought there was another version that went directly to an
 Oracle domain.  Maybe that was OOo 3.4 beta 1?

Should catch that too.

 The question is:  what could we do if even a fraction of the 8 million
 downloads of AOO 3.4.0 led to a registration?  Suggest they join the
 ooo-announce list?  (Can ezmlm handle 100,000 subscribers?)  Follow us
 on Twitter?  At the very least we can point them to the FAQ's and
 support pages.

I'm not suggesting that 3.4.0 be updated to include registration,
merely that it would be helpful to direct users of 3.3 to the new
version, and let them know that the registration step has not failed.

 If there is some way we can help users by having them view a
 post-install registration screen, then we might add the registration
 step back in future versions.

In the meantime, avoiding the error message for users of earlier
versions would be a kindness to end users.
For every one person who bothered to report the error, there are
presumably many others who also encountered the error.

 -Rob

 Ideally this would redirect to an ASF page (easier to maintain), where
 the user could be informed that there is a new version.
 Alternatively, the target page could do the same, with a link to the
 ASF for further information.

 Regards,

 -Rob


 Regards,
 Barry Storah


Re: Registration

2012-03-21 Thread Andrea Pescetti

On 20/03/2012 16:32, Rob Weir wrote:

So it does have a locale parameter.   My guess is the legacy
registration server used that info to provide a localized registration
form.


I think it used to redirect to a (localized) page saying something like 
Thank you for downloading OpenOffice.org and providing links to a few 
resources like:

- Extensions and Temmplates
- Forums
- Mailing lists.

There might still be localizaed banners around too.

Regards,
  Andrea.


Re: Registration

2012-03-20 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote:
 Since we can't control existing distributions:

 To dos would be.

 (1) Create a page that explains things either in the podling site, either 
 wiki, or ooo-site.


I wonder whether this page would be appropriate:

http://www.openoffice.org/download/contribute.html

That is the one that we currently point users to as they download OOo
3.3.  It seems to cover all the bases,  getting help, mailing lists,
etc.  It even might direct some dimes to the treasury.

Maybe just change the header to Thanks for downloading OpenOffic.org
 ??   That would then cover both bases.


 (2) Redirect all registration[0-9].services.openoffice.org requests to that 
 page. This would be a JIRA ticket for INFRA after doing (1)

 Volunteers?


If there are no objections I'll do the above.

 Regards,
 DAve

 On Mar 19, 2012, at 11:38 AM, Andrew Rist wrote:

 Perhaps the register landing page should point to a page with this 
 information.
 (and maybe a plug for AOO and the Apache Way, etc.)

 A.

 On 3/19/2012 5:30 AM, Rob Weir wrote:
 Hi Tobias,

 Thanks for the report on the registration page.  This outage is
 intentional. We are no longer doing user registration with
 OpenOffice.org.  Our next release will remove this option so you do
 not get that error message.

 The closes thing to registration we have is a mailing list that
 users can sign up for to receive updates from the project,such as
 announcements of new releases.   If you want to subscribe to this
 list, send an email to:   ooo-announce-subscr...@incubator.apache.org.

 Regards,

 -Rob

 On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 1:19 AM, Tobias Cortese
 tobiascort...@hotmail.com  wrote:
 Hello,
 The registration link for OpenOffice brings up an error page. Here's the 
 link and error message:
 https://registration2.services.openoffice.org/RegistrationWeb/register/urn:st:e7251802-3c52-4e08-a74f-a22eca7458ff?product=OpenOffice.orglocale=encid=926117
 This webpage is not availableThe server at 
 registration2.services.openoffice.org can't be found, because the DNS 
 lookup failed. DNS is the network service that translates a website's name 
 to its Internet address. This error is most often caused by having no 
 connection to the Internet or a misconfigured network. It can also be 
 caused by an unresponsive DNS server or a firewall preventing Google 
 Chrome from accessing the network.Here are some suggestions:Reload this 
 webpage later.Check your Internet connection. Restart any router, modem, 
 or other network devices you may be using.Check your DNS settings. Contact 
 your network administrator if you're not sure what this means.Try 
 disabling network prediction by following these steps: Go to the wrench 
 menu  Preferences  Under the Hood and deselect Predict network actions 
 to improve page load performance. If this does not resolve the issue, we 
 recommend selecting this option again for improved performance.Add Google 
 Chrome as a permitted program in your firewall's or antivirus software's 
 settings. If it is already a permitted program, try deleting it from the 
 list of permitted programs and adding it again.If you use a proxy server, 
 check your proxy settings or contact your network administrator to make 
 sure the proxy server is working. If you don't believe you should be using 
 a proxy server, adjust your proxy settings: Go to Applications  System 
 Preferences  Network  Advanced  Proxies and deselect any proxies that 
 have been selected.Error 105 (net::ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED): Unable to 
 resolve the server's DNS address.Please let me know where I can go to 
 register my product.Thanks,Tobias





Re: Registration

2012-03-20 Thread Risto Jääskeläinen

I just wonder if all OpenOffice users are not Englishmen ... how this is 
handled?
Regards
Risto

Rob Weir [robw...@apache.org] kirjoitti: 

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote:
 Since we can't control existing distributions:

 To dos would be.

 (1) Create a page that explains things either in the podling site, either 
wiki, or ooo-site.


I wonder whether this page would be appropriate:

http://www.openoffice.org/download/contribute.html

That is the one that we currently point users to as they download OOo
3.3.  It seems to cover all the bases,  getting help, mailing lists,
etc.  It even might direct some dimes to the treasury.

Maybe just change the header to Thanks for downloading OpenOffic.org
 ??   That would then cover both bases.


 (2) Redirect all registration[0-9].services.openoffice.org requests to that 
page. This would be a JIRA ticket for INFRA after doing (1)

 Volunteers?


If there are no objections I'll do the above.

 Regards,
 DAve

 On Mar 19, 2012, at 11:38 AM, Andrew Rist wrote:

 Perhaps the register landing page should point to a page with this 
information.
 (and maybe a plug for AOO and the Apache Way, etc.)

 A.

 On 3/19/2012 5:30 AM, Rob Weir wrote:
 Hi Tobias,

 Thanks for the report on the registration page.  This outage is
 intentional. We are no longer doing user registration with
 OpenOffice.org.  Our next release will remove this option so you do
 not get that error message.

 The closes thing to registration we have is a mailing list that
 users can sign up for to receive updates from the project,such as
 announcements of new releases.   If you want to subscribe to this
 list, send an email to:   ooo-announce-subscr...@incubator.apache.org.

 Regards,

 -Rob

 On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 1:19 AM, Tobias Cortese
 tobiascort...@hotmail.com  wrote:
 Hello,
 The registration link for OpenOffice brings up an error page. Here's the 
link and error message:
 
https://registration2.services.openoffice.org/RegistrationWeb/register/urn:st:e7251802-3c52-4e08-a74f-a22eca7458ff?product=OpenOffice.orglocale=encid=926117
 This webpage is not availableThe server at registration2.services.openoffice.org can't be found, 
because the DNS lookup failed. DNS is the network service that translates a website's name to its Internet address. 
This error is most often caused by having no connection to the Internet or a misconfigured network. It can also be 
caused by an unresponsive DNS server or a firewall preventing Google Chrome from accessing the network.Here are some 
suggestions:Reload this webpage later.Check your Internet connection. Restart any router, modem, or other network 
devices you may be using.Check your DNS settings. Contact your network administrator if you're not sure what this 
means.Try disabling network prediction by following these steps: Go to the wrench menu  Preferences  Under the 
Hood and deselect Predict network actions to improve page load performance. If this does not resolve the 
issue, we recommend selecting this option again for improved performance.Add Google Chrome as a permitted program in 
your firewall's or antivirus software's settings. If it is already a permitted program, try deleting it from the list 
of permitted programs and adding it again.If you use a proxy server, check your proxy settings or contact your network 
administrator to make sure the proxy server is working. If you don't believe you should be using a proxy server, adjust 
your proxy settings: Go to Applications  System Preferences  Network  Advanced  Proxies and deselect 
any proxies that have been selected.Error 105 (net::ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED): Unable to resolve the server's DNS 
address.Please let me know where I can go to register my product.Thanks,Tobias








Re: Registration

2012-03-20 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 6:18 PM, Risto Jääskeläinen
rjaas...@saunalahti.fi wrote:
 I just wonder if all OpenOffice users are not Englishmen ... how this is
 handled?


Good question.  OOo 3.3 sends a request with a URL like this:

https://registration2.services.openoffice.org/RegistrationWeb/register/urn:st:e7251802-3c52-4e08-a74f-a22eca7458ff?product=OpenOffice.orglocale=encid=926117

So it does have a locale parameter.   My guess is the legacy
registration server used that info to provide a localized registration
form.

Currently we don't have an equivalent page in other languages.   We
could clean up that page and get it translated into the various
languages.  But I don't know enough about Apache server rewrites to
know if it is possible to redirect based on a URL parameter.  Maybe
one of our gurus can tell us it is possible to redirect:

https://registration2.services.openoffice.org/RegistrationWeb/register/urn:st:e7251802-3c52-4e08-a74f-a22eca7458ff?product=OpenOffice.orglocale=encid=926117

to

http://registration2.services.openoffice.org/confirm_en.html

or even:

http://en.openoffice.org/confirm.html


In other words, can we pick out a URL parameter and use that elsewhere
in the rewrite?


-Rob


 Regards
 Risto

 Rob Weir [robw...@apache.org] kirjoitti:

 On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net
 wrote:
  Since we can't control existing distributions:
 
  To dos would be.
 
  (1) Create a page that explains things either in the podling site,
  either wiki, or ooo-site.
 

 I wonder whether this page would be appropriate:

 http://www.openoffice.org/download/contribute.html

 That is the one that we currently point users to as they download OOo
 3.3.  It seems to cover all the bases,  getting help, mailing lists,
 etc.  It even might direct some dimes to the treasury.

 Maybe just change the header to Thanks for downloading OpenOffic.org
  ??   That would then cover both bases.


  (2) Redirect all registration[0-9].services.openoffice.org requests to
  that page. This would be a JIRA ticket for INFRA after doing (1)
 
  Volunteers?
 

 If there are no objections I'll do the above.

  Regards,
  DAve
 
  On Mar 19, 2012, at 11:38 AM, Andrew Rist wrote:
 
  Perhaps the register landing page should point to a page with this
  information.
  (and maybe a plug for AOO and the Apache Way, etc.)
 
  A.
 
  On 3/19/2012 5:30 AM, Rob Weir wrote:
  Hi Tobias,
 
  Thanks for the report on the registration page.  This outage is
  intentional. We are no longer doing user registration with
  OpenOffice.org.  Our next release will remove this option so you do
  not get that error message.
 
  The closes thing to registration we have is a mailing list that
  users can sign up for to receive updates from the project,such as
  announcements of new releases.   If you want to subscribe to this
  list, send an email to:   ooo-announce-subscr...@incubator.apache.org.
 
  Regards,
 
  -Rob
 
  On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 1:19 AM, Tobias Cortese
  tobiascort...@hotmail.com  wrote:
  Hello,
  The registration link for OpenOffice brings up an error page. Here's
  the link and error message:
 
  https://registration2.services.openoffice.org/RegistrationWeb/register/urn:st:e7251802-3c52-4e08-a74f-a22eca7458ff?product=OpenOffice.orglocale=encid=926117
  This webpage is not availableThe server at
  registration2.services.openoffice.org can't be found, because the DNS 
  lookup
  failed. DNS is the network service that translates a website's name to 
  its
  Internet address. This error is most often caused by having no 
  connection to
  the Internet or a misconfigured network. It can also be caused by an
  unresponsive DNS server or a firewall preventing Google Chrome from
  accessing the network.Here are some suggestions:Reload this webpage
  later.Check your Internet connection. Restart any router, modem, or 
  other
  network devices you may be using.Check your DNS settings. Contact your
  network administrator if you're not sure what this means.Try disabling
  network prediction by following these steps: Go to the wrench menu
   Preferences  Under the Hood and deselect Predict network actions to
  improve page load performance. If this does not resolve the issue, we
  recommend selecting this option again for improved performance.Add 
  Google
  Chrome as a permitted program in your firewall's or antivirus software's
  settings. If it is already a permitted program, try deleting it from the
  list of permitted programs and adding it again.If you use a proxy 
  server,
  check your proxy settings or contact your network administrator to make 
  sure
  the proxy server is working. If you don't believe you should be using a
  proxy server, adjust your proxy settings: Go to Applications  System
  Preferences  Network  Advanced  Proxies and deselect any proxies that
  have been selected.Error 105 (net::ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED): Unable to 
  resolve
  the server's DNS address.Please let me know where I can 

Re: Registration

2012-03-20 Thread Dave Fisher

On Mar 20, 2012, at 3:32 PM, Rob Weir wrote:

 On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 6:18 PM, Risto Jääskeläinen
 rjaas...@saunalahti.fi wrote:
 I just wonder if all OpenOffice users are not Englishmen ... how this is
 handled?
 
 
 Good question.  OOo 3.3 sends a request with a URL like this:
 
 https://registration2.services.openoffice.org/RegistrationWeb/register/urn:st:e7251802-3c52-4e08-a74f-a22eca7458ff?product=OpenOffice.orglocale=encid=926117
 
 So it does have a locale parameter.   My guess is the legacy
 registration server used that info to provide a localized registration
 form.
 
 Currently we don't have an equivalent page in other languages.   We
 could clean up that page and get it translated into the various
 languages.  But I don't know enough about Apache server rewrites to
 know if it is possible to redirect based on a URL parameter.  Maybe
 one of our gurus can tell us it is possible to redirect:
 
 https://registration2.services.openoffice.org/RegistrationWeb/register/urn:st:e7251802-3c52-4e08-a74f-a22eca7458ff?product=OpenOffice.orglocale=encid=926117
 
 to
 
 http://registration2.services.openoffice.org/confirm_en.html
 
 or even:
 
 http://en.openoffice.org/confirm.html
 
 
 In other words, can we pick out a URL parameter and use that elsewhere
 in the rewrite?

It ought to be possible to do a rewrite to go to say:

www.openoffice.org/contributing.html (if en)
www.openoffice.org/fr/contributing.html (if fr)
...

We can then put contributing pages in English into each NL site. A first task 
for NL volunteers can be to translate these to their own language.

Regards,
Dave

 
 
 -Rob
 
 
 Regards
 Risto
 
 Rob Weir [robw...@apache.org] kirjoitti:
 
 On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net
 wrote:
 Since we can't control existing distributions:
 
 To dos would be.
 
 (1) Create a page that explains things either in the podling site,
 either wiki, or ooo-site.
 
 
 I wonder whether this page would be appropriate:
 
 http://www.openoffice.org/download/contribute.html
 
 That is the one that we currently point users to as they download OOo
 3.3.  It seems to cover all the bases,  getting help, mailing lists,
 etc.  It even might direct some dimes to the treasury.
 
 Maybe just change the header to Thanks for downloading OpenOffic.org
  ??   That would then cover both bases.
 
 
 (2) Redirect all registration[0-9].services.openoffice.org requests to
 that page. This would be a JIRA ticket for INFRA after doing (1)
 
 Volunteers?
 
 
 If there are no objections I'll do the above.
 
 Regards,
 DAve
 
 On Mar 19, 2012, at 11:38 AM, Andrew Rist wrote:
 
 Perhaps the register landing page should point to a page with this
 information.
 (and maybe a plug for AOO and the Apache Way, etc.)
 
 A.
 
 On 3/19/2012 5:30 AM, Rob Weir wrote:
 Hi Tobias,
 
 Thanks for the report on the registration page.  This outage is
 intentional. We are no longer doing user registration with
 OpenOffice.org.  Our next release will remove this option so you do
 not get that error message.
 
 The closes thing to registration we have is a mailing list that
 users can sign up for to receive updates from the project,such as
 announcements of new releases.   If you want to subscribe to this
 list, send an email to:   ooo-announce-subscr...@incubator.apache.org.
 
 Regards,
 
 -Rob
 
 On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 1:19 AM, Tobias Cortese
 tobiascort...@hotmail.com  wrote:
 Hello,
 The registration link for OpenOffice brings up an error page. Here's
 the link and error message:
 
 https://registration2.services.openoffice.org/RegistrationWeb/register/urn:st:e7251802-3c52-4e08-a74f-a22eca7458ff?product=OpenOffice.orglocale=encid=926117
 This webpage is not availableThe server at
 registration2.services.openoffice.org can't be found, because the DNS 
 lookup
 failed. DNS is the network service that translates a website's name to 
 its
 Internet address. This error is most often caused by having no 
 connection to
 the Internet or a misconfigured network. It can also be caused by an
 unresponsive DNS server or a firewall preventing Google Chrome from
 accessing the network.Here are some suggestions:Reload this webpage
 later.Check your Internet connection. Restart any router, modem, or 
 other
 network devices you may be using.Check your DNS settings. Contact your
 network administrator if you're not sure what this means.Try disabling
 network prediction by following these steps: Go to the wrench menu
  Preferences  Under the Hood and deselect Predict network actions to
 improve page load performance. If this does not resolve the issue, we
 recommend selecting this option again for improved performance.Add 
 Google
 Chrome as a permitted program in your firewall's or antivirus software's
 settings. If it is already a permitted program, try deleting it from the
 list of permitted programs and adding it again.If you use a proxy 
 server,
 check your proxy settings or contact your network administrator to make 
 sure
 the 

Re: Registration

2012-03-20 Thread Dave Fisher

On Mar 20, 2012, at 4:43 PM, Rob Weir wrote:

 On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 6:42 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote:
 
 On Mar 20, 2012, at 3:32 PM, Rob Weir wrote:
 
 On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 6:18 PM, Risto Jääskeläinen
 rjaas...@saunalahti.fi wrote:
 I just wonder if all OpenOffice users are not Englishmen ... how this is
 handled?
 
 
 Good question.  OOo 3.3 sends a request with a URL like this:
 
 https://registration2.services.openoffice.org/RegistrationWeb/register/urn:st:e7251802-3c52-4e08-a74f-a22eca7458ff?product=OpenOffice.orglocale=encid=926117
 
 So it does have a locale parameter.   My guess is the legacy
 registration server used that info to provide a localized registration
 form.
 
 Currently we don't have an equivalent page in other languages.   We
 could clean up that page and get it translated into the various
 languages.  But I don't know enough about Apache server rewrites to
 know if it is possible to redirect based on a URL parameter.  Maybe
 one of our gurus can tell us it is possible to redirect:
 
 https://registration2.services.openoffice.org/RegistrationWeb/register/urn:st:e7251802-3c52-4e08-a74f-a22eca7458ff?product=OpenOffice.orglocale=encid=926117
 
 to
 
 http://registration2.services.openoffice.org/confirm_en.html
 
 or even:
 
 http://en.openoffice.org/confirm.html
 
 
 In other words, can we pick out a URL parameter and use that elsewhere
 in the rewrite?
 
 It ought to be possible to do a rewrite to go to say:
 
 www.openoffice.org/contributing.html (if en)
 www.openoffice.org/fr/contributing.html (if fr)
 ...
 
 We can then put contributing pages in English into each NL site. A first 
 task for NL volunteers can be to translate these to their own language.
 
 
 Maybe done via Subversion symbolic links, so we can keep the English
 version updated, at least until the point an NL group takes it over.

Or perhaps externals, I think that would be a folder.

We could have an apache, policy, or user directory - content/user/.

With files like: 

registration.mdtext
contributing.mdtext
policy.mdtext

The directory could be external in say French - content/fr/user/.

The files registration.mdtext etc in that directory become like branches, can 
be translated and it would be possible to flag these changes for each NL team.

I'll look for someone with svn superpowers like Joe to tell us if this is a 
good idea or crazy.

Regards,
Dave

 
 Regards,
 Dave
 
 
 
 -Rob
 
 
 Regards
 Risto
 
 Rob Weir [robw...@apache.org] kirjoitti:
 
 On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net
 wrote:
 Since we can't control existing distributions:
 
 To dos would be.
 
 (1) Create a page that explains things either in the podling site,
 either wiki, or ooo-site.
 
 
 I wonder whether this page would be appropriate:
 
 http://www.openoffice.org/download/contribute.html
 
 That is the one that we currently point users to as they download OOo
 3.3.  It seems to cover all the bases,  getting help, mailing lists,
 etc.  It even might direct some dimes to the treasury.
 
 Maybe just change the header to Thanks for downloading OpenOffic.org
  ??   That would then cover both bases.
 
 
 (2) Redirect all registration[0-9].services.openoffice.org requests to
 that page. This would be a JIRA ticket for INFRA after doing (1)
 
 Volunteers?
 
 
 If there are no objections I'll do the above.
 
 Regards,
 DAve
 
 On Mar 19, 2012, at 11:38 AM, Andrew Rist wrote:
 
 Perhaps the register landing page should point to a page with this
 information.
 (and maybe a plug for AOO and the Apache Way, etc.)
 
 A.
 
 On 3/19/2012 5:30 AM, Rob Weir wrote:
 Hi Tobias,
 
 Thanks for the report on the registration page.  This outage is
 intentional. We are no longer doing user registration with
 OpenOffice.org.  Our next release will remove this option so you do
 not get that error message.
 
 The closes thing to registration we have is a mailing list that
 users can sign up for to receive updates from the project,such as
 announcements of new releases.   If you want to subscribe to this
 list, send an email to:   ooo-announce-subscr...@incubator.apache.org.
 
 Regards,
 
 -Rob
 
 On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 1:19 AM, Tobias Cortese
 tobiascort...@hotmail.com  wrote:
 Hello,
 The registration link for OpenOffice brings up an error page. Here's
 the link and error message:
 
 https://registration2.services.openoffice.org/RegistrationWeb/register/urn:st:e7251802-3c52-4e08-a74f-a22eca7458ff?product=OpenOffice.orglocale=encid=926117
 This webpage is not availableThe server at
 registration2.services.openoffice.org can't be found, because the DNS 
 lookup
 failed. DNS is the network service that translates a website's name 
 to its
 Internet address. This error is most often caused by having no 
 connection to
 the Internet or a misconfigured network. It can also be caused by an
 unresponsive DNS server or a firewall preventing Google Chrome from
 accessing the network.Here are some suggestions:Reload this 

Re: Registration

2012-03-20 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 8:18 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote:

 On Mar 20, 2012, at 4:43 PM, Rob Weir wrote:

 On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 6:42 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote:

 On Mar 20, 2012, at 3:32 PM, Rob Weir wrote:

 On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 6:18 PM, Risto Jääskeläinen
 rjaas...@saunalahti.fi wrote:
 I just wonder if all OpenOffice users are not Englishmen ... how this is
 handled?


 Good question.  OOo 3.3 sends a request with a URL like this:

 https://registration2.services.openoffice.org/RegistrationWeb/register/urn:st:e7251802-3c52-4e08-a74f-a22eca7458ff?product=OpenOffice.orglocale=encid=926117

 So it does have a locale parameter.   My guess is the legacy
 registration server used that info to provide a localized registration
 form.

 Currently we don't have an equivalent page in other languages.   We
 could clean up that page and get it translated into the various
 languages.  But I don't know enough about Apache server rewrites to
 know if it is possible to redirect based on a URL parameter.  Maybe
 one of our gurus can tell us it is possible to redirect:

 https://registration2.services.openoffice.org/RegistrationWeb/register/urn:st:e7251802-3c52-4e08-a74f-a22eca7458ff?product=OpenOffice.orglocale=encid=926117

 to

 http://registration2.services.openoffice.org/confirm_en.html

 or even:

 http://en.openoffice.org/confirm.html


 In other words, can we pick out a URL parameter and use that elsewhere
 in the rewrite?

 It ought to be possible to do a rewrite to go to say:

 www.openoffice.org/contributing.html (if en)
 www.openoffice.org/fr/contributing.html (if fr)
 ...

 We can then put contributing pages in English into each NL site. A first 
 task for NL volunteers can be to translate these to their own language.


 Maybe done via Subversion symbolic links, so we can keep the English
 version updated, at least until the point an NL group takes it over.

 Or perhaps externals, I think that would be a folder.

 We could have an apache, policy, or user directory - content/user/.

 With files like:

 registration.mdtext
 contributing.mdtext
 policy.mdtext

 The directory could be external in say French - content/fr/user/.

 The files registration.mdtext etc in that directory become like branches, 
 can be translated and it would be possible to flag these changes for each NL 
 team.

 I'll look for someone with svn superpowers like Joe to tell us if this is a 
 good idea or crazy.


Right. Especially if there are any weird interactions with externals
or symb links and the CMS. I suspect many of the NL contributors will
start with the CMS/patch route.

-Rob

 Regards,
 Dave


 Regards,
 Dave



 -Rob


 Regards
 Risto

 Rob Weir [robw...@apache.org] kirjoitti:

 On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net
 wrote:
 Since we can't control existing distributions:

 To dos would be.

 (1) Create a page that explains things either in the podling site,
 either wiki, or ooo-site.


 I wonder whether this page would be appropriate:

 http://www.openoffice.org/download/contribute.html

 That is the one that we currently point users to as they download OOo
 3.3.  It seems to cover all the bases,  getting help, mailing lists,
 etc.  It even might direct some dimes to the treasury.

 Maybe just change the header to Thanks for downloading OpenOffic.org
  ??   That would then cover both bases.


 (2) Redirect all registration[0-9].services.openoffice.org requests to
 that page. This would be a JIRA ticket for INFRA after doing (1)

 Volunteers?


 If there are no objections I'll do the above.

 Regards,
 DAve

 On Mar 19, 2012, at 11:38 AM, Andrew Rist wrote:

 Perhaps the register landing page should point to a page with this
 information.
 (and maybe a plug for AOO and the Apache Way, etc.)

 A.

 On 3/19/2012 5:30 AM, Rob Weir wrote:
 Hi Tobias,

 Thanks for the report on the registration page.  This outage is
 intentional. We are no longer doing user registration with
 OpenOffice.org.  Our next release will remove this option so you do
 not get that error message.

 The closes thing to registration we have is a mailing list that
 users can sign up for to receive updates from the project,such as
 announcements of new releases.   If you want to subscribe to this
 list, send an email to:   ooo-announce-subscr...@incubator.apache.org.

 Regards,

 -Rob

 On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 1:19 AM, Tobias Cortese
 tobiascort...@hotmail.com  wrote:
 Hello,
 The registration link for OpenOffice brings up an error page. Here's
 the link and error message:

 https://registration2.services.openoffice.org/RegistrationWeb/register/urn:st:e7251802-3c52-4e08-a74f-a22eca7458ff?product=OpenOffice.orglocale=encid=926117
 This webpage is not availableThe server at
 registration2.services.openoffice.org can't be found, because the 
 DNS lookup
 failed. DNS is the network service that translates a website's name 
 to its
 Internet address. This error is most often caused by having no 
 

Re: Registration

2012-03-19 Thread Rob Weir
Hi Tobias,

Thanks for the report on the registration page.  This outage is
intentional. We are no longer doing user registration with
OpenOffice.org.  Our next release will remove this option so you do
not get that error message.

The closes thing to registration we have is a mailing list that
users can sign up for to receive updates from the project,such as
announcements of new releases.   If you want to subscribe to this
list, send an email to:   ooo-announce-subscr...@incubator.apache.org.

Regards,

-Rob

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 1:19 AM, Tobias Cortese
tobiascort...@hotmail.com wrote:

 Hello,
 The registration link for OpenOffice brings up an error page. Here's the link 
 and error message:
 https://registration2.services.openoffice.org/RegistrationWeb/register/urn:st:e7251802-3c52-4e08-a74f-a22eca7458ff?product=OpenOffice.orglocale=encid=926117
 This webpage is not availableThe server at 
 registration2.services.openoffice.org can't be found, because the DNS lookup 
 failed. DNS is the network service that translates a website's name to its 
 Internet address. This error is most often caused by having no connection to 
 the Internet or a misconfigured network. It can also be caused by an 
 unresponsive DNS server or a firewall preventing Google Chrome from accessing 
 the network.Here are some suggestions:Reload this webpage later.Check your 
 Internet connection. Restart any router, modem, or other network devices you 
 may be using.Check your DNS settings. Contact your network administrator if 
 you're not sure what this means.Try disabling network prediction by following 
 these steps: Go to the wrench menu  Preferences  Under the Hood and 
 deselect Predict network actions to improve page load performance. If this 
 does not resolve the issue, we recommend selecting this option again for 
 improved performance.Add Google Chrome as a permitted program in your 
 firewall's or antivirus software's settings. If it is already a permitted 
 program, try deleting it from the list of permitted programs and adding it 
 again.If you use a proxy server, check your proxy settings or contact your 
 network administrator to make sure the proxy server is working. If you don't 
 believe you should be using a proxy server, adjust your proxy settings: Go to 
 Applications  System Preferences  Network  Advanced  Proxies and deselect 
 any proxies that have been selected.Error 105 (net::ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED): 
 Unable to resolve the server's DNS address.Please let me know where I can go 
 to register my product.Thanks,Tobias


Re: Registration

2012-03-19 Thread Andrew Rist
Perhaps the register landing page should point to a page with this 
information.

(and maybe a plug for AOO and the Apache Way, etc.)

A.

On 3/19/2012 5:30 AM, Rob Weir wrote:

Hi Tobias,

Thanks for the report on the registration page.  This outage is
intentional. We are no longer doing user registration with
OpenOffice.org.  Our next release will remove this option so you do
not get that error message.

The closes thing to registration we have is a mailing list that
users can sign up for to receive updates from the project,such as
announcements of new releases.   If you want to subscribe to this
list, send an email to:   ooo-announce-subscr...@incubator.apache.org.

Regards,

-Rob

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 1:19 AM, Tobias Cortese
tobiascort...@hotmail.com  wrote:

Hello,
The registration link for OpenOffice brings up an error page. Here's the link 
and error message:
https://registration2.services.openoffice.org/RegistrationWeb/register/urn:st:e7251802-3c52-4e08-a74f-a22eca7458ff?product=OpenOffice.orglocale=encid=926117
This webpage is not availableThe server at registration2.services.openoffice.org can't be found, because 
the DNS lookup failed. DNS is the network service that translates a website's name to its Internet address. 
This error is most often caused by having no connection to the Internet or a misconfigured network. It can 
also be caused by an unresponsive DNS server or a firewall preventing Google Chrome from accessing the 
network.Here are some suggestions:Reload this webpage later.Check your Internet connection. Restart any 
router, modem, or other network devices you may be using.Check your DNS settings. Contact your network 
administrator if you're not sure what this means.Try disabling network prediction by following these steps: 
Go to the wrench menu  Preferences  Under the Hood and deselect Predict network actions to 
improve page load performance. If this does not resolve the issue, we recommend selecting this option 
again for improved performance.Add Google Chrome as a permitted program in your firewall's or antivirus 
software's settings. If it is already a permitted program, try deleting it from the list of permitted 
programs and adding it again.If you use a proxy server, check your proxy settings or contact your network 
administrator to make sure the proxy server is working. If you don't believe you should be using a proxy 
server, adjust your proxy settings: Go to Applications  System Preferences  Network  
Advanced  Proxies and deselect any proxies that have been selected.Error 105 
(net::ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED): Unable to resolve the server's DNS address.Please let me know where I can go 
to register my product.Thanks,Tobias





Re: Registration

2012-03-19 Thread Dave Fisher
Since we can't control existing distributions:

To dos would be.

(1) Create a page that explains things either in the podling site, either wiki, 
or ooo-site.

(2) Redirect all registration[0-9].services.openoffice.org requests to that 
page. This would be a JIRA ticket for INFRA after doing (1)

Volunteers?

Regards,
DAve

On Mar 19, 2012, at 11:38 AM, Andrew Rist wrote:

 Perhaps the register landing page should point to a page with this 
 information.
 (and maybe a plug for AOO and the Apache Way, etc.)
 
 A.
 
 On 3/19/2012 5:30 AM, Rob Weir wrote:
 Hi Tobias,
 
 Thanks for the report on the registration page.  This outage is
 intentional. We are no longer doing user registration with
 OpenOffice.org.  Our next release will remove this option so you do
 not get that error message.
 
 The closes thing to registration we have is a mailing list that
 users can sign up for to receive updates from the project,such as
 announcements of new releases.   If you want to subscribe to this
 list, send an email to:   ooo-announce-subscr...@incubator.apache.org.
 
 Regards,
 
 -Rob
 
 On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 1:19 AM, Tobias Cortese
 tobiascort...@hotmail.com  wrote:
 Hello,
 The registration link for OpenOffice brings up an error page. Here's the 
 link and error message:
 https://registration2.services.openoffice.org/RegistrationWeb/register/urn:st:e7251802-3c52-4e08-a74f-a22eca7458ff?product=OpenOffice.orglocale=encid=926117
 This webpage is not availableThe server at 
 registration2.services.openoffice.org can't be found, because the DNS 
 lookup failed. DNS is the network service that translates a website's name 
 to its Internet address. This error is most often caused by having no 
 connection to the Internet or a misconfigured network. It can also be 
 caused by an unresponsive DNS server or a firewall preventing Google Chrome 
 from accessing the network.Here are some suggestions:Reload this webpage 
 later.Check your Internet connection. Restart any router, modem, or other 
 network devices you may be using.Check your DNS settings. Contact your 
 network administrator if you're not sure what this means.Try disabling 
 network prediction by following these steps: Go to the wrench menu  
 Preferences  Under the Hood and deselect Predict network actions to 
 improve page load performance. If this does not resolve the issue, we 
 recommend selecting this option again for improved performance.Add Google 
 Chrome as a permitted program in your firewall's or antivirus software's 
 settings. If it is already a permitted program, try deleting it from the 
 list of permitted programs and adding it again.If you use a proxy server, 
 check your proxy settings or contact your network administrator to make 
 sure the proxy server is working. If you don't believe you should be using 
 a proxy server, adjust your proxy settings: Go to Applications  System 
 Preferences  Network  Advanced  Proxies and deselect any proxies that 
 have been selected.Error 105 (net::ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED): Unable to 
 resolve the server's DNS address.Please let me know where I can go to 
 register my product.Thanks,Tobias
 
 



Re: registration

2011-08-11 Thread Andy Brown

genevieve Berthault wrote:




Hello! I would like to subscribe to this mailing list please.
All the best,
Genny   


You will have to subscribe yourself.  Go to 
http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/mailing-lists.html  and click 
the link.


Just so that your aware this list is very active and you will be getting 
a large number of message per day.


Thanks for your interest in Apache OpenOffice.org and look forward to 
your input.


Andy

ps. Please reply only to the list.




Re: registration

2011-08-11 Thread Rob Weir
Send email to:   ooo-dev-subscr...@incubator.apache.org

Also, see:  http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/mailing-lists.html

-Rob

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 8:02 AM, genevieve Berthault
translatel...@sympatico.ca wrote:



 Hello! I would like to subscribe to this mailing list please.
 All the best,
 Genny