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On 3/1/2012 2:43 PM, Dave Fisher wrote:
> Thanks Roberto!
>
> On Feb 29, 2012, at 10:44 AM, Roberto Galoppini wrote:
>
>> Below more details about the plan we are about to put into action.
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 8:34 PM, Roberto Galoppini<rgaloppini@geek.net>  wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>>   below some details about how we plan to manage users' accounts.
>>>
>>> 2012/2/27 J�rgen Schmidt<jogischmidt@googlemail.com>:
>>>> On 2/25/12 1:34 AM, Roberto Galoppini wrote:
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> We migrated the Extensions website over to sourceforge hardware.
>>>>> We've restored authentication with the openoffice.org accounts, make
>>>>> some module updates and updated the site to work with PHP 5.3.
>>>>>
>>>>> As of today, the Extensions website is available at this address
>>>>> located on our domain, at the following address:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://aoo-extensions.sourceforge.net.
>>>>>
>>>>> We've modified it to work under whatever domain name the community
>>>>> chooses, and we plan to keep the site up and running under the above
>>>>> domain to allow the community to provide us with feedback and to allow
>>>>> for time to get the final DNS setup in place. We will work with the
>>>>> PMCC and the Apache Infra team to point DNS to the new location as
>>>>> soon as we can.
>>>>>
>>>>> We are planning to get the Templates website up on sourceforge
>>>>> hardware one week from today.
>>>>>
>>>>> Here are some next steps to consider:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1 - Help users to switch their accounts smoothly. We can make sure
>>>>> that existing users can login using their openoffice.org password and
>>>>> automatically convert them to local users when they login, so that all
>>>>> users who logged in to the site before the Oracle shutdown will be
>>>>> preserved and will be able to see and edit their content.
>>>>>
>>>>> 2 - Help market AOO Extensions and Templates, e.g. interviewing
>>>>> creators and sharing the news via our media.
>>>>>
>>>>> 3 - Evaluate the upgrade of the Extensions/Templates website from
>>>>> Drupal 5/6 to Drupal 7, and eventually do it (long term).
>>>>>
>>>>> We are looking forward to your feedback and suggestions.
>>>>
>>>> thanks for the info.
>>>>
>>>> I was able to take a closer look on it in the morning. I was able to login
>>>> and noticed that my old @sun.com email is used.
>>>>
>>>> I tried to change it to my Apache email but it didn't worked. It seems that
>>>> I had to use @openoffice.org email address. How can I change it? I think we
>>>> will probably switch to other email addresses.
>>> Let me briefly recap how the Extensions website works, and how we
>>> eventually plan to change it.
>>>
>>> 1. Users logging in at openoffice.org (the vast majority) can't change
>>> emails nor their passwords.
>>> 2. Users logging in at the Extensions website (i.e. users who never
>>> migrated their accounts to openoffice.org, a small fraction of the
>>> user base) are told to convert their accounts to an openoffice.org
>>> accounts. They might change their emails, but only to a
>>> *@openoffice.org.
>>>
>>> We have already changed the misleading message requiring to migrate to
>>> openoffice.org, telling users instead that they won't have any problem
>>> when the openoffice.org authentication system will shut down. We are
>>> now working on:
>>>
>>> a) accept any email address (optionally we can avoid to accept
>>> *@openoffice.org).
>> All users - that means both the majority of them authenticating via
>> OpenOffice.org and the minority logging it at the Extensions website -
>> would be able to change their email addresses. We won't allow
>> @openoffice.org addresses, though.
>>
>>> b) New users creating their accounts at the Extensions website.
>> At http://aoo-extensions.sourceforge.net/user instead of inviting
>> users to create @openoffice.org accounts will make possible to create
>> accounts at the Extensions website.
>>
>>> c) Find a way to migrate users actually logging in at openoffice.org.
>> The plan is to transparently migrate users authenticating at
>> OpenOffice.org to the Extensions, by storing locally their
>> credentials. For the time being their email addresses will stay
>> @openoffice.org, but the idea is to migrate them all if we can get
>> their alternative emails. In fact we assume many of them won't access
>> the Extensions website before the Oracle authentication system will
>> shut down.
> AFAIK Oracle will not divulge alternative email. So, I think you will need to let them recreate openoffice.org accounts and immediately associate these with their issues.
I'm working with Roberto on this - I think we have a reasonable solution 
in the works.
>
>> Last but not least, since the Extensions updates in OOo 3.3.0 are
>> served through the updateexte.services.openoffice.org, we would ask
>> you to let us manage that too, so that we can restore the Extensions
>> updates service.
> Non-authoritative answer:
> updateexte.services.openoffice.org	canonical name = download.services.openoffice.org.
> Name:	download.services.openoffice.org
> Address: 192.9.173.38
>
> Well, this leads to an issue that we may have missed - the MirrorBrain network of the legacy releases of OpenOffice.org.
>
> I think a discussion of this is worth a brand new thread.
>
> Regards,
> Dave
>
>
>>
>> Roberto
>>
>>> Roberto
>>>
>>>
>>>> Anybody should be able to provide an extension independent of committer
>>>> status for Apache OpenOffice. Means user accounts independent from the the
>>>> Apache accounts.
>>>>
>>>> Juergen
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Roberto
>> ====
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