THIS IS A TEST INSTANCE. ALL YOUR CHANGES WILL BE LOST!!!!
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Extensions | Templates |
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Launched on Drupal 5 in September 2007 | Launched on Drupal 5 in November 2008 |
Still runs on Drupal 5, now unsupported (currently supported releases of Drupal are Drupal 6 and Drupal 7, and end-of-life for Drupal 6 will be in 2012 or later) | Runs on Drupal 6 (updated in February 2011) |
Has independent, site-specific, accounts Uses the same accounts as the openoffice.org main site (you login with your @openoffice.org address) | Uses the same accounts as the openoffice.org main site (you login with your @openoffice.org address) |
Daily traffic (August 2010): 110.000 page views | Daily traffic (August 2010): 120.000 page views |
Language-independent (even though the interface is multilingual, the same extensions are presented to all visitors) | Language-dependent (visitors with browsers in English only see the English templates, and so on for all supported languages) |
Has (limited) interaction with the OpenOffice.org program (capability to search updated extensions) | No interaction with the OpenOffice.org program: once a template is downloaded, OpenOffice.org can't know where it comes from or check if a newer version is available |
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> Looks like varnish died on the machine and I just kicked it. The site(s)
> should be back online now.
>
> The sites have been in an unstable state for quite a while mostly
> because neither we (OSL) nor Sun/Oracle had time to fix the performance
> issues both of the sites entails. Couple that with the fact that the
> machines they power those sites are very underpower considering the load
> they take. It's gotten so bad that we've turned off notifications
> because they just go off all the time.
>
> What really needs to happen is to have the sites completely
> re-architected from the ground up with scaling in mind. At least one of
> the sites is a stock Drupal 5.0 with a very hacked core. I know some
> Sun/Oracle engineers had been working on fixing that into a Drupal 6
> module but I'm not sure where that left off.
>
There are no hacks anymore, all plain drupal installations with modules.
> Anyways, If you would like some more help with how these sites can be
> fixed moving forward, please let me know. But we are strectched thin for
> resources.
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