[steering] Migration plan (was: Gonna start calling votes)

[Marlene Bruce]

Hey folks,

>  > Could we get all this done by May Day?
>
>We can set some sort of deadline but if may be moot if theforum does
>not want to go forward with the changes.  So I wouldn't get too caught
>up with setting a hard and fast deadline at this point.

Sure. I didn't mean hard and fast, just something to start with.

>  > 1) Host published articles as at present
>  > 2) Support a general purpose wiki
>  > 3) Enable a subset of members to add private content (eg photos,
>>  non-published pages, private wikis, discussion fora, events, news,
>  > links) via a web front end - no ftp.
>>  4) Do all the above with a single signon
>>  5) Publish list info about lists beyond that which is on their Mailman
>>  listinfo page
>>
>>  Is there anything else we need to add?
>>
>  > (Easier submission & tracking of bugs/feature requests. Integrated
>>  search. Improved IA/design.)
>>
>>  Or did you mean different kinds of pieces?
>
>A little of both.  The pieces that I meant were the sites and/or
>functionality that we want to move to a separate host as in John's
>original message.  Of course, this involves mentioning the stuff
>mentioned above.  However, the stuff above is starting to sound a
>little like a design specification as if we were going to rebuild
>everything.

 From what has been said, we *are* going to rebuild vast portions of
what we now have (different servers, platforms[?], email system,
databases, software, modified services, a new front-end too), though
not all at once. That is the big picture. That's what I'm trying to
have defined (at least to some degree) before we go to theforum.

And speaking of which, can we go to theforum this week so we can get
the go-ahead? What do we want to tell theforum?

Okay, I'm going to take a stab at a letter today. I'll send it here
and you guys can hack away at it.

Thanks,
Marlene