Website Transition: Announcements

The documents linked below contain announcements from the restructuring activities for opensolaris.org: plan development, source and binary releases, testing, open evaluation processes, conference calls, implementation details, and updates. Many more discussions about the website transition took place on the lists since 2007, but these are the major announcements for the project. Where links do not appear, either documents have been updated/replaced or the communication took place on a venue that does not offer links (either direct email to users or to a private list). In those cases, we merely document that the communication took place for transparency reasons, but please note that nothing confidential was discussed in those communications.

1. Updates to bugs.opensolaris.org 11/11/09
   New version of bugs.opensolaris.org deployed.
2. New OpenSolaris Website is Live 10/26/09
   opensolaris.org moves to XWiki on hub.opensolaris.org.
3. Schedule for Final Website Transition on Mon Oct 2 10/23/09
   Details for the final content migration to XWiki on Monday October 26th. This announcement ends the Phase 2 interim period, which consisted of 31 content migrations over 3 months to enable the community to prepare content for the final move to XWiki.
4. Website Transition Update: 1 Week Left 10/20/09
   29th content migration in 11 weeks. One week warning.
5. Auth account validation deadline 10/14/09
   Personal email communication to opensolaris.org users who have not validated their accounts under the new Auth system.
6. Website Transition Update: 2 Weeks Left 10/13/09
   26th content migration & 2 weeks left to the final content move on 10/26/09.
7. opensolaris.org website changes 10/08/09
   Personal email communication to all users on opensolaris.org about the final date of 10/26/09 to move to XWiki.
8. Website Transition Update: 3 Weeks Left 10/5/09
   23rd content migration & 3 weeks left to the final content move on 10/26/09.
9. Auth Updated 10/5/09
   CGs role names, Electorates
10. Scheduled Downtime for Auth System Update 10/1/09
    Change the roles in CGs to accommodate the OGB and add access to CG Electorates for the OGB Secretary.
11. Schedule Update: Target Date for Final Transition to XWiki is 10/26 9/28/09
    New target date for the final migration of content to XWiki on hub.opensolaris.org.
12. Website Transition Conference Call 9/17/09
    The 5th community conference call to discuss the website transition project.
13. Phase 2 Transition Schedule Update 8/28/09
    The switch to XWiki, which has been scheduled for Sept 14th, will be delayed approximately 2-3 weeks to complete new work on the roles in CGs and to do additional testing. New final date for the Phase 2 transition to XWiki is TBD.
14. Website Transition Conference Call 8/27/09
    The 4th community conference call to discuss the website transition project. Topics: status of the project, schedule changes, content preparation, content migration, URL redirects, URL hierarchy. All concall documents here.
15. Website Transition Conference Call 8/13/09
    The 3rd community conference call to discuss the website transition project.  All concall documents here.
16. Upgrade to defect.opensolaris.org 8/10/09
    Update to Bugzilla 3.4.1.
17. Phase 2 Starts: Tonic -> XWiki Content Prep Instructions 8/10/09
    Preparing content for Phase 2 content migration. This mail starts a series of content migrations leading into the final move to XWiki. All migrations will be posted to website-discuss and/or opensolaris-announce in Aug/Sept but the mails will not be listed here as well. Also, many of these content migration emails have been sent to all the OSUGs (about 150 lists) and all the key Projects and Community Groups (well over 100 lists).
18. OpenSolaris.org/XWiki Site Feature Mappings 8/6/09
    XWiki-Tonic website feature mappings.
19. Phase 2 Target Date Announcement 8/5/09
    Date for final move to XWiki announced as Sept 14 2009.
20. Phase 1 Implementation Complete 8/3/09
    Auth goes live.
21. Website Phase 1 Integration: Planned Outage is August 3 at 5 am PDT for 4 Hours 7/31/09
    opensolaris.org front page feature spot.
22. Reminder: Site down on 8/3 - 5 AM PT for website transition 7/31/09
    Announcement reminder for Phase 1 site outage.
23. Website Transition Conference Call 7/30/09
    The 2nd community conference call to discuss the website transition project. All concall documents here.
24. opensolaris.org website changes 7/25/09
    Personal email communication sent to all users of opensolaris.org about the website transition.
25. auth.opensolaris.org updated 7/24/09
    Final beta posted: bug fixes, updated roles/collectives, 17 languages.
26. Conference Call for Phase 1 of Website Transition 7/23/09
    Announcement of 2nd community conference call about website transition.
27. Website Transition: Phase 1 Date is Monday August 3rd 7/13/09
    Specific date of Phase 1 implementation announced.
28. Update: Website Transition 7/8/09
    Hidden collectives and endorsed projects updates.
29. 2 Deadlines to Create New Website Collectives 6/18/09
    Hidden collectives and new collectives deadlines.
30. Website Infrastructure: Collective Life Cycle Instructions. 6/17/09
    Based on the life cycle documentation from failed constitution.
31. opensolaris.org website changes 6/13/09
    Personal email communication sent to all users of opensolaris.org about the website transition.
32. Website Transition: Two Phase 1 Documents Posted 6/12/09
    
    • Roles and collectives and data migration documents
    • Roles and Collectives | Data Migration Strategy
33. XWiki-Auth Integration 6/12/09
    Overview of how XWiki and the Auth application work together.
34. Website Transition: Schedule Update 6/8/09
    Pushing Phase 1 to E/O July.
35. Temporary Moratorium on Creating Projects, Communities, and User Groups 5/22/09
    Temporary halt in creating collectives on the site.
36. spring cleaning: opensolaris.org 5/22/09
    Hidden collectives clean up.
37. Update to bugs.opensolaris.org 5/12/09
    Bug fixes. Tonic team takes ownership of the application.
38. New beta deployment of Auth on Monday May 11th 5/8/09
    Auth: Localization and back end administrative updates.
39. hub.opensolaris.org upgrade 5/8/09
    Hub updated to XWiki version 1.8.2 with new navigation elements.
40. Website Transition: Updated Website Community Content 5/6/09
    New content posted on Website Community.
41. OpenSolaris Town Hall Briefing | Announcement on ogb-discuss 4/24/09
    
    • The 1st community conference call to discuss the website transition project.
    • All concall documents here.
    • Update slides: Supporting the current constitution with governance roles defined by Community Groups as articulated in the constitution and adding Website roles defined for Projects/UGs not mentioned in the constitution.
    • Open Development: Update slides
42. Communication to OGB on ogb-private 4/22/09
    Website plans to account for the failed constitution while implementing the current constitution, resolving the issues with the current site, and accounting for how the community works in practice.
43. User Data Migration Strategy Update 3/27/09
    Posted in March. Updated on 6/12/09 to account for failed constitution. See above.
44. documents for website transition 3/18/09
    Links to restructuring documents.
45. XWiki and Auth Updates 2/11/09
    Bug fixes & updates to XWiki and Auth.
46. Preview version of new OSO portal & Auth system available 12/12/08
    First release of XWiki integrated with Auth.
47. New SCM Console Live 11/28/08
    Release of phase one of two planned phases to update the application.
48. Development of new SCM console online 10/10/08
    Test release of new SCM console.
49. Beta of new OSO registration & login application available for testing 8/20/08
    Auth: First release of the new Auth application.
50. XWiki and JSPWiki evaluations 6/23/08
    Evaluations for XWiki & JSPWiki
51. wiki candidates and evaluations 6/4/08
    Requirements and evaluation documents posted for wiki systems.
52. Latest version of auth application 11/13/07
    Auth: Assigning project/community membership.
53. opensolaris.org user management webapp updated 10/29/07
    Auth: SSH key management.
54. Development version of new user management app online 10/17/07
    Auth: Admin interface and core user management functions.
55. Repository for new opensolaris.org user management app available (also new website-notify list) 9/28/07
    First Auth source release.
56. Website Portal Code Released (here) 9/28/07
    Release of the original opensolaris.org portal source code (files).
57. Restructuring opensolaris.org 6/2/07
    The original announcement to build the new website infrastructure.