On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 11:09 PM, Alexandro Colorado <j...@oooes.org> wrote:

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> On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Dave Fisher <dave2w...@comcast.net> wrote:
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>> On Sep 7, 2013, at 4:46 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
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>> > On 23/08/2013 janI wrote:
>> >> On 22 August 2013 23:51, Alexandro Colorado<j...@oooes.org>  wrote:
>> >>>>> just get a final confirmation if there a 'go' on the Wiki logo
>> update
>> >>>>> which
>> >>>>> was reverted due to a regression by infra when setting the SVN.
>> >> Infra did not revert anything.
>> >> As you very well know the revert on wiki was done by me, because
>> >> a) the logos was installed in a wrong place, that made updates very
>> >> difficult
>> >> b) the standard procedure to make a backup/commit was not followed
>> >> All something that had nothing to do with consensus, but how admins
>> work on
>> >> the vm.
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>> > I'm coming late to this part of the discussion, but this was definitely
>> the right thing to do. We care about a professional-level maintenance of
>> our Infrastructure (and actually Apache Infra demands and enforces it).
>> Everyone can make mistakes, but when we can correct them we must do so. And
>> this is the "technical" part.
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>> I agree. My default position is that I support Jan's sysadmin work. For
>> me silence is assent. I'll make it clear here.
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>> >> I respects these concerns and feel reel consensus is
>> >> much more important than a technicality, even if it takes 400+ hours.
>> >> As vm-admin, I will not install a new logo and/or change html/css
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>> >> see a broad acceptance. Other vm-admins might feel different.
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>> > And now coming to the "community" part: this was very right too. An
>> administrator must check consensus before doing changes. And consensus
>> reaching may well take weeks (the larger and simpler the issue -and this is
>> "large" since it affects several sites and "simple" since everybody can
>> have a say- the longer the discussion).
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>> > The important thing is that eventually we get things done! Hagar
>> restarted the constructive discussion at
>> http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=63523 recently
>> and I hope we can move forward there.
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> ​That discussion only applies to forum.​
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>> When the decision is made please bring it back here and flag it with a
>> [CONSENSUS] subject tag. We can then test that here and then proceed after
>> the consensus is proven.
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> ​There has been 0 comments on the wiki proposal. Is this a consensus?​
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>> Either way we should be vetting the new html, it's look, etc. The
>> sysadmin team is then responsible for implementation on MWiki and forums
>> and communication about that to the appropriate lists. The admin team is
>> responsible for maintaining these servers and needs to manage all
>> configuration changes in a manner that any server can be rebuilt from
>> scratch using private svn archives including a runbook and data backups.
>> This has to be co-ordinated. A change that is apparently simple and
>> seemingly 10 minutes is not. Sysadmins are correct to insist on process
>> here. Volunteer sysadmins even more so. Don't expect them to be happy if
>> you make them "volunteer" when they have real plans and other activities.
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>> But, Alexandro seems to want to discuss a full branding change to all AOO
>> assets if that is so then that decision must be made on this list, is much
>> larger and it requires a full proposal with willingness to discuss
>> everyone's ideas.
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> ​There has been no comments on this list for the wiki logo proposal.
> ​Which should by default be a Consensus AFAIK, that's the 'lazy' part of
> the consensus.
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>> In that case the co-ordination is large and complete consensus followed
>> by a conversion plan is required.
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> ​It seems there is no timeline, even if there is no comments, things are
> not getting done. The process is pretty much broken, since there seems to
> be no actual consensus process beside "waiting" which has been done, and
> still hasn't been applied.​
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>> - Sysadmin team
>> MWiki
>> Forums
>> - Committers
>> Websites
>> - Infra / bz admins
>> Bugzilla
>> - PMC / Infra
>> CWiki
>> Blogs
>> - Sourceforge
>> Extensions
>> Templates
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> ​ATM there is only proposed patches for Mwiki, Forum index and Forum
> logos. Extensions and Templates were already updated on Roberto's ​design.
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> Blogs logos were somewhat updated without much discussion (AFAIK).
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​And so we go on, there has been 3 days with no further commnts to the
discussion. The Wiki has been ready to go, and there is nobody actually
approving/implementing the patch.​



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>> Regards,
>> Dave
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>> > Regards,
>> >  Andrea.
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