See also: OOo-Sitemap, OpenOffice Domains, Transition Planning

Constraints

At some point Oracle will reclaim their servers that are currently running the OpenOffice.org website.  We need a plan to transition services and content from that site to other sites, including Apache-hosted.

Goals

Goals for successful transition should include:

  • External links to OpenOffice.org, and there are many thousands of them, are not broken.  This could be done by preserving URLs or by doing redirects
  • Popular public-facing, end-user and community services should remain at the OpenOffice.org website
  • Project oriented services, such as bug tracking, code repositories, etc., should be transitioned to ooo.a.o.

Tasks

  • A survey of existing OOo services , describing what is there, in terms of services and content, with indications as to what areas are current versus legacy and which areas get the most traffic (volunteers = ???)
  • A recommendation, based on the above survey for how each service should be handled:  archive, delete, migrate to public site, migrate to project site, other (Volunteers = ???)
  • An infrastructure plan for how the needed migrations should occur (Volunteers = ???)
  • Migration of the individual services (Volunteers = ???)
  • Post migration monitoring and support for the inevitable thing that we miss (Volunteers = ???)

2 Comments

  1. T. J. Frazier

    1. There is an OO.o mailing list devoted to website maintenance: dev@infrastructure.openoffice.org   A request there for volunteers, with a good place to reply, should recruit some good people.
    2. As noted in the "Transition Planning" page, the OO.o website recently underwent another relocation. To a moderate degree of confidence, you may assume that if it's still there, it's current and wanted.

  2. Dave Fisher

    Thank you for this important piece of information. I'd like to pull together a full sense of what we learned about OOo infrastructure on ooo-dev in the last 9 days as a summary first. Then give the call for help. That way we get both correction and confirmation.