Alexander Thurgood wrote: > "USERS BEWARE : the extensions site > appears to be currently suffering from availability issues", etc, this > does not actually solve the underlying problem. A quick whois tells me > that the servers are registered to Sun (no surprise there), so we remain > dependent on the goodwill of an Oracle (Sun) controlled server to be > able to continue to access extensions.
The Extensions server is not owned or operated by Oracle, but by the Oregon State University Open Source Lab. At least, it used to be this way and I have no indications that this has changed. I don't exactly know what kind of whois you ran, but $ host extensions.services.openoffice.org extensions.services.openoffice.org is an alias for oooapps.osuosl.org. oooapps.osuosl.org has address 140.211.166.72 > Are our resources so constrained that we can not, could not, provide > such an infrastructure ourselves ? Thorsten Bosbach from Oracle made a huge effort to port the Templates and Extensions websites to Drupal 6 (they currently run the obsolete and not so scalable Drupal 5), see http://openoffice.org/projects/extensions/lists/websites/archive/2011-04/message/2 Originally, these were scheduled to replace the Drupal 5 sites this month; I don't know when and if this will actually happen, but this would be the way to go. Regards, Andrea. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to website+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/website/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
