THIS IS A TEST INSTANCE. ALL YOUR CHANGES WILL BE LOST!!!!
Overview
OpenOffice.org maintains two repositories, one for extensions and one for templates.
While the two sites are completely independent, Extensions and Templates were born as twin sites, in that they used the same technology (Drupal), a similar visual identity and were developed by the same people; the lead developer was Thorsten Bosbach from Oracle and all development was done within Oracle.
The sites are hosted in the Oregon State University, Open Source Lab data center. Unverified: Oracle is providing financial support to OSUOSL for hosting the two sites.
Major differences between the two sites:
Extensions |
Templates |
|---|---|
Launched on Drupal 5, September 2007 |
Launched on Drupal 5, 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) |
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 |
See the attached presentation by Thorsten Bosbach (OOoCon August 2010, Budapest) for more information.
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
Lang |
items |
|---|---|
Da |
25 |
De |
310 |
El |
60 |
En |
1043 |
Es |
80 |
Fr |
138 |
He |
2 |
Hu |
15 |
It |
100 |
Ja |
125 |
Nl |
47 |
Pl |
90 |
Pt-Br |
55 |
Ru |
135 |
Sl |
10 |
Sv |
20 |
Zh (both) |
14 |
Open Issues
- License distribution
- Balance between hosted vs distributed repository ( do we store 'it' or just the meta-data and link )