Alan Burlison wrote: > 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. We have a short term fix in place for this and mail should now be syncing consistently. We hope to have it completely resolved next week.
Derek > >>> 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. > -- Derek Cicero Program Manager Solaris Kernel Group, Software Division _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list [email protected]
