[Gt-eos] GT Documentation and mailing lists

[Oliver Keeble]

Hi Frank,

What's the status of

https://github.com/globus/globus-toolkit-documentation

It looks complete, but hasn't been touched in a year. Not sure how easy 
it will be to generate a usable site from it.

Oliver.

On 22/11/17 12:32, Frank Scheiner wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> we haven't yet talked about the Globus Toolkit (1) documentation and (2) 
> mailing list archives.
> 
> ## (1) Documentation ##
> 
> I assume the relevant information for our version will be [1].
> 
> [1]: http://toolkit.globus.org/toolkit/docs/6.0/
> 
> Should we also preserve documentation for older GT versions?
> 
> I think there is no issue for documentation parts that can be generated 
> from the source code, like for example manpages.
> 
> I couldn't find any license information regarding the remaining 
> documentation. So what do others think, can we make use of this 
> documentation as is, i.e. can we host it under our gridcf umbrella? 
> Maybe someone close with Globus people could ask them if and how we can 
> reuse it.
> 
> If we can have it as is, the question is, where to host this 
> information? I could think of (a) a subdirectory on the gridcf web site 
> or (b) the wiki of the gct repo. (a) might be better suited to mimic the 
> original structure and can also be better tailored to our needs I assume.
> 
> ## (2) Mailing lists ##
> 
> There are/were multiple available. I know at least of the following ones:
> 
> * https://lists.globus.org/mailman/listinfo/gt-dev
> * https://lists.globus.org/mailman/listinfo/gt-user
> * https://lists.globus.org/mailman/listinfo/gt-announce
> * https://lists.globus.org/mailman/listinfo/gridftp-user
> 
> Especially the gt-user and gridftp-user list archives could still be 
> helpful. And the gt-dev archives might also contain helpful information.
> 
> I assume that these will be gone sometime in the future. So should we 
> not try to preserve their content?
> 
> Here the question is, if the archives of these lists can be preserved by 
> us? I'm unsure if there are any legal issues, as the mailing list users 
> only have a opted in for those Globus lists and might not welcome it if 
> other parties archive their posts. And we also need the consent of 
> Globus I believe.
> 
> Last, should we also create mailing lists of our own for gct in addition 
> to issue tracking via GitHub? It's certainly "easier" and I assume also 
> more straightforward for a user to enlist or write to a mailing list 
> than to create a GitHub account.
> 
> ****
> 
> We could also first just ask for how long Globus will keep up both the 
> documentation site and mailing list archives to get a better picture of 
> how urgent this is.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Cheers,
> Frank
> 
> 
> 
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