2 Deadlines to Create New Website Collectives
As part of the new schedule for the website transition, there are two important deadlines to get collective infrastructure (Communities, Projects, User Groups) on opensolaris.org:
June 30th: Hidden Collectives: All collectives in a hidden state on opensolaris.org must be opened by June 30th or they will be deleted. Mail has been sent to these collective owners who will be affected. A few weeks ago there were about 40 hidden collectives, but that list is down to about a dozen now. On June 30th it will be zero. Also, on the new site, there will be no feature for "hidden" collectives. The current site's feature of hiding projects is a badly implemented bug. Any user logged into the site can find a hidden project if they know the URL (or are good at guessing), and repos from hidden projects show up in searchers as well. The new site will not put up with this.
July 20th: New Collectives: There will be a moratorium on setting up new collectives starting July 20th as we prepare to implement Phase 1 of the transition (Auth database goes live) at the end of July. If you have outstanding proposals for new Communities, Projects, or User Groups, you must send your approval threads to the project-setup list by July 20th. Please refer to the new Website Infrastructure: Collective Life Cycle Instructions document for implementation details when requesting new infrastructure.
June 30th: Hidden Collectives: All collectives in a hidden state on opensolaris.org must be opened by June 30th or they will be deleted. Mail has been sent to these collective owners who will be affected. A few weeks ago there were about 40 hidden collectives, but that list is down to about a dozen now. On June 30th it will be zero. Also, on the new site, there will be no feature for "hidden" collectives. The current site's feature of hiding projects is a badly implemented bug. Any user logged into the site can find a hidden project if they know the URL (or are good at guessing), and repos from hidden projects show up in searchers as well. The new site will not put up with this.
July 20th: New Collectives: There will be a moratorium on setting up new collectives starting July 20th as we prepare to implement Phase 1 of the transition (Auth database goes live) at the end of July. If you have outstanding proposals for new Communities, Projects, or User Groups, you must send your approval threads to the project-setup list by July 20th. Please refer to the new Website Infrastructure: Collective Life Cycle Instructions document for implementation details when requesting new infrastructure.
