Overview

OpenOffice.org maintains two repositories, one for extensions and one for templates.
While the two sites are completely independent, Extensions and Templates are to be considered twin sites, in that they use the same technology and were developed by the same people.
Both sites run on Drupal; they were created 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); the Templates site has already been updated to Drupal 6, while the Extensions site is still on Drupal 5.
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