Overview

OpenOffice.org maintains an extension and template repository.
The repository is separated into two main areas, Extensions and Templates and use separate sub-domains as primary points of access.
Each sub-domain runs a separate instances of a Drupal (v 6) CMS framework based web site. I believe
The sites share user accounts, user meta data views are separate for each sub-domain.
The extensions site gets roughly 10x the traffic as the template site.
The sites are hosted in the Oregon State University, Open Source Lab data center.

Current status

OSUOSL says:

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Extensions and templates site down
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 07:32:14 -0700
From: Dave Fisher <dave2wave@comcast.net>
Reply-To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org
To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org

I sent an email to support@osuosl.org last night and got a response in 30 minutes.

OSUOSL admin says:

> 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.
>
> 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.

It looks like these two sites are going to need attention whether they are physically moved or the servers transferred to the ASF.

Statistics

Current usage:
Items available for download:
Extensions - 664
Number of downloads
Year To Date as of Aug 19, 2011

Templates available for download:
Total - 2,269

Open Issues

• License distribution
• Balance between hosted vs distributed repository ( do we store 'it' or just the meta-data and link )

Migration plan