Mamba,
1) It is technical.
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NEXT...
I don't know what is going on with the proposal/project council because I haven't seen any reports in sometime. I spoke with Crip and it seems that DJ is being tarred for re-opening this site not using the servers offered to him, but instead opting for using a dedicated server.
I am strongly of the opinion, that all this outage is due to two lines of code placed in Giba's file by someone with access to XOOPS server and SourceForge. (without Giba's knowledge)
These two lines of code, placed in xtm.php with the help of the server people gave full administrative control to themselves. I found two of these companion files myself, Quota and Membership in my database, and Giba's people found the xtm.php in his /xoopsers/class/xml/rss directory. (it was also on my server, hypermart.) His came from being planted in the distribution package on SourceForge, mine came from a server upgrade leftover in the move, to allow for the interaction of the distribution files implantation.
Having identified the files, the code and the method of access, I believe it is prudent to let DJ put the xoops.org on a server where if and when it goes down again in this matter, we know exactly where to expect the recovery to be handled.
As it is now, I am going to help in the recovery of the dev.xoops.org site and restore the recoverable content to this wiki.
I am very resentful to the fact that XI was started by the person that publically stated he could take down a server with two lines of php code programing. I never doubted this fact and someone with that knowledge should have protected the backups. Instead there were none.
For me, I am going to give DJ a chance.
The proposal/project link is on the wiki page. I think it is time whatever business is being held in secret on another server be bought over here and finished on xoops.org turf.
As I see it the turf war is over, everybody got what they asked for.
xoopsinfo is an English support site, xoopswiki is where documentation in progress takes place, xoopsdocs is where completed documents are stored, and XOOPS end user is going to be here routing the traffic.
Advertising is gone, and the foundation that hasn't existed to help the project anyway in the year I have been here is gone. Ono made that decision. It there is to be a foundation it will have to be newly created, along with what ever else the DPT has in mind.
I have administration privileges on this wiki, and I will try to make sure it stays an even playing field.
Now, I've said my piece...
I don't know what is going to happen from here... but my bet is with the addition of the integration of XOOPS with the MediaWiki is it going to be good.
169 users on the sidebar 95 of which are in the Support Forums, are the community, they will make the final decision.
BS
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