Fwd: ACTION REQUIRED: KDE Notes (Etherpad) migration

[Martin Klapetek]

Hey guys,

note the mail below, content from kde-telepathy.notes.org is going to be
removed. We usually only prepared the release notes there but if you've had
anything important in there, be sure to copy it. It's at
http://kde-telepathy.notes-old.kde.org

I'll ask for KTp etherpad so we can continue to have our own space for
stuff.

Cheers
-- 
Martin Klapetek | KDE Developer

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jeff Mitchell <mitchell at kde.org>
Date: Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 11:15 PM
Subject: ACTION REQUIRED: KDE Notes (Etherpad) migration
To: kdelibs <kde-core-devel at kde.org>


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
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