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From: Gavin McDonald <gavin@16degrees.com.au>
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Subject: Re: Forums and Wiki VM Migrations
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 10:50:04 +1000
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archived-at: Wed, 28 Jun 2017 00:50:19 -0000

Hi,

> On 28 Jun 2017, at 2:18 am, Andrea Pescetti <pescetti@apache.org> =
wrote:
>=20
> Gavin McDonald wrote:
>> https://forum.openoffice.org ...
>> https://wiki.openoffice.org ...
>> We need to migrate these services over to new fully puppetized VMs.
>=20
> One thing to remember: while we can live without buildbots (that were =
left crippled by a similar infrastructure upgrade) we can't have a long =
downtime for the Forum or Wiki; so if Infra is embarking on this, then =
this time the job must be completed successfully. I see the JIRA issues =
already take care of stating this, but it's better to point it out =
again.

This deserves another thread so I=E2=80=99ll do that shortly.

>=20
>> I imagine that identifying all the nuts and bolts of these services =
will take a
>> bit of time to go through, and to puppetize everything that we can.
>=20
> Speaking as probably the only active person in maintaining the =
services, I can say that the text files available to Infra (not publicly =
accessible, but ask me the URL if needed) describe reasonably well the =
setup. The wiki is mostly normal, but the forum is crazy (for historical =
reasons).

Right. I have been involved in the initial setup and upgrades of both =
services so we should be good.

>=20
>> I will be here on list and also liaising through the INFRA Jira =
tickets [1][2].
>=20
> Thank you. I don't see it necessary to create a wiki page for the =
migration but if it helps, no problem.

The wiki page was not to help me, but rather the project as a whole as =
future documentation to refer to.

>=20
>> A volunteer or two to assist with communication between Infra and the
>> Openoffice communities (such as those using and managing the Forums -
>> particularly since some of those dont follow the mailing lists or =
Jira.) would
>> be nice.
>> A volunteer or two who wants to be involved in the actual migration =
process
>> would also be nice so that we have folks here with some working =
knowledge
>> by the end of the process.
>=20
> I volunteer for the second part: I don't have a lot of spare time, but =
at the moment I'm the only person with recent experience of managing the =
services. I've subscribed to both JIRA issues.

Great, thanks.

Gav=E2=80=A6

>=20
> Regards,
>  Andrea.


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