It is not necessary to transfer anything. The domain can be privately administered. In fact, the entire site could remain in private hands. Like binary packages provided for convenience, we encourage the community to provide resources.
The problem for me is in what is considered the official homepage of the project. What is your idea on that? On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 3:58 PM, David Nalley <da...@gnsa.us> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 4:49 AM, Noah Slater <nsla...@tumbolia.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > What are the current plans for cloudstack.org? Do we want to move this > to > > ASF infra? > > > > So there are several complications. The first is all of the user > information that is contained in the site - ~35,000 people have > registered on the site and provided varying levels of information. > Ranging from username and email address to name, location, employer, > hypervisor, pictures of birthday parties etc. Transferring that > information without explicit consent, even to an organization as noble > as the ASF seems like a bad idea. > This also is problematic from a content standpoint as I have no idea > how to transfer all of the forum messages sans the link back to > accounts, etc. > > Second - the site is a complex collection of Joomla atop Linux with > plenty of Joomla modules - that's a tedious assembly exercise, and > something that requires ongoing maintenance from a security > perspective. I _think_ this is largely outsourced at the moment to a > specialized Joomla contractor. > > Finally there's the issue of getting this up and running - it appears > that it is a non-trivial amount of time and effort, and would likely > require someone who is a committer to setup and maintain - and AFAIK > no one has yet stepped up to do that work. > > So in summary - migrating the existing cs.o site to ASF infra is a lot > of work, and much of the value of the existing site would be > diminished with the loss of user data. Additionally no one has yet > signed up to do that work. We could as Wido noted redirect that to > the project site (http://incubator.apache.org/cloudstack), which is in > SVN, content maintained by the project and underlying infrastructure > maintained by ASF infra. > > And to answer Wido's other question - DNS for cs.o is still > administered by several Citrix employees - at some point that will > also need to migrate to the ASF. > > --David > -- NS
