ACTION REQUIRED: KDE Notes (Etherpad) migration

[Jeff Mitchell]

Hello,

If you are receiving this email, you're either on kde-core-devel or you 
have an account on the current KDE Etherpad system (possibly from being 
a KDE developer, possibly from Desktop Summit 2010).

If you (a) no longer wish to use the Etherpad system, and/or (b) you 
don't care about keeping any of your content, you can ignore the rest of 
this email, and you will receive no further messages about it.

The old, unmaintained, broken, crufty, non-scaling Etherpad installation 
at notes.kde.org is being replaced with an up-to-date installation of 
Etherpad-Lite at the same address, available immediately (or as soon as 
the DNS change propagates). The old Etherpad installation is still 
available at https://notes-old.kde.org

Because the two products share essentially no ancestry except for the 
name, after much discussion (two years' worth, essentially) and 
trialling out a few possibilities, we're setting down a migration path. 
The timing is a bit forced due to some hosting changes that are coming 
down the wire and over which we have no control.

Migration of pads is not straightforward (quite the opposite) on the 
sysadmin side, and because of this, and the fact that we know many pads 
on there to be very old and uncared for, we're putting the onus on 
interested users to migrate the pads they care about *BEFORE APRIL 
27th*. You will not be able to keep history, but you will be able to 
keep content. Yes, it sucks. Yes, we know. Yes, we're sorry. No, we're 
not going to do it a different way.

Part of the reason that migration is not straightforward is that on the 
new system, there are no subdomains; instead access is being protected 
via pad name matching. For example, sysadmin pads will be protected via 
a group in KDE Identity that has access to pads named sysadmin-private*. 
If you currently have a subdomain and have a need to have private pads, 
file a sysadmin bug, asssigned to me, with the list of Identity user 
names, and I will create you a private namespace.

There is a bit of good news: the number one feature request (Identity 
integration) is now satisfied. In fact, anyone with a KDE Identity 
account can create pads at-will on the new system.

Summary:
1) The old system (https://notes-old.kde.org) goes away on April 27th.

2) If you have private pads that you want to keep private, file a 
sysadmin bug, assigned to me, with Identity names of the people that 
should have access.

3) If you care about keeping pad content, copy that pad content to pads 
on the new system.

4) Yes, this is not the most ideal way to migrate. We've been hoping a 
better migration path would surface. It hasn't.

5) Not everything is bad; the new Etherpad is open for all Identity 
users to create and use pads at-will. We're going to say that that 
outweighs the annoyance of all the other bad news.

Thanks,
Jeff