Jeff Cheeney wrote: > Greetings Web crew, > > This message comes from one of the storage community project leads and > he brings up some great issues. Can any of you help answer his concerns > and provide any guidance on the future directions?
All but one of these issues have already been discussed fairly recently on the website-discuss mailing list, and are documented in the website-discuss archives (http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/website-discuss/). I'll therefore just give a brief summary, see the archives for more details. >> There seem to be plenty of bugs when using the system, such as you can >> sign-in only to find that it didn't actually get signed in. There are systemic issues with the current portal application which cause this sort of problem, and work is in progress to replace it with something better. See http://auth.opensolaris.org/restructuring.html for an overview. >> There >> are problems in posting messages to the forums and having them not >> show up in the mailman system (and vice-versa). We have recently upgraded to a new version of Jive, and this has a bug that we are currently working with the vendor to fix. See the website-discuss archives for details. >> Sometimes you can add >> a child page and the server will timeout. Sometimes you get 404 >> errors from the server for child pages you've just added and then try >> to edit. Then later all is inexplicably working. Again, these are caused by problems in the current portal application, most noticeably when it comes under severe memory and CPU pressure. >> We'd like to put up whole sets of web pages, most notably we'd like to >> host our javadoc for online reference and inclusion to online >> tutorials and such. For us to do that right now is prohibitively >> cumbersome (uploading attachments is the only way I know). We don't provide that as part of the portal, but we can provide something similar on request, via dlc.sun.com - see for example http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/IPS/docinfo.html >> There >> isn't a wiki system where we can collaboratively edit online >> information (apart from letting everyone have access to the website >> administration). The replacement for the existing portal will be wiki-based, see the archives for further information. >> We'd like to know who has checked out the source >> code from the repository as well, but that information is not available. That's not a facility we provide, and bearing in mind we support anonymous access to the repositories we can't feasibly 'who' provide information, although we could possibly provide 'how many' information. The SCM infrastructure is also being worked on at present, we could consider this as a feature request. >> Certainly other projects must have similar troubles. Do you know if >> there is a master-plan in the works and we just hang in there long >> enough it will be all good? The planning of and work on restructuring opensolaris.org has been an ongoing process for over 18 months, and has been discussed within the community, both on website-discuss and ogb-discuss. -- Alan Burlison -- _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list [email protected]
