Hi. I want to inform the community about an ongoing discussion in Infra regarding the use of "wiki.openoffice.org" or "wiki.openoffice.apache.org"
Background: We decided sometime ago to let me upgrade mwiki, which I did, with great help from many in here. After that there has been a relatively high load on the VM (very positive) and bi-daily kernel panics due to lack of resources. It was then decided to make a new VM with a new ubuntu, instead of an upgrade in place (to get rid of the kernel panic) which I deemed risky due to the state (and documentation) of the installation. I have completed the work with the new VM, and we were ready to transfer the live site. At that point I learned about plans of using https instead of http. Infra-root has a policy that all logins (not only for committers) should be done through https. Using https, requires a certificate, and the ongoing discussion is whether "*.openoffice.org" is really needed or if "*.openoffice.apache.org" would be ok. If I have understood the details correctly (sorry for being vague, but I have not been able to get a clear answer), the users would address https: wiki.openoffice.org or http:wiki.openoffice.org and get a response as https: ooo-wiki.openoffice.org or https:ooo-wiki.openoffice.apache.org. I have written/mailed several times that openoffice.org is a legacy, very important to AOO, and hope it has been understood. The latest discussion seems to go in the direction of getting a certificate for openoffice.org, but there are no guarantees. I have informed infra, that I cannot participate in works that causes a url name change, without having a green light from the AOO community. Meaning that I am now just monitoring what happens and not participating. I am sorry to have partly caused the current situation, I wanted to make a clean installation to make the VM easier to maintain, had I not done that, the https discussion would problaly never have surfaced. I have no deadline for the change, mainly because it is done by others, but I am convinced that Infra will end with a solution that the community can accept. Please take this as information, I cannot go into a discussion on behalf of Infra (I am not infra, but we do have other committers that are infra). Rgds jan I.
