[libreoffice-website] infra status for 4.0 release

Hello,

as you know, the 4.0 release will most likely happen next week on 
Wednesday. At the same time, we have been experiencing load issues on 
kermit, our main webserver, leading to slow web sites and a slow wiki 
from time to time.

For 4.0, we expect a strong interest and therefore more access to our 
websites than usual, and at the same time, since it's a PR-relevant 
release, where any bad impression on our web site should be avoided.

I am therefore working hard to migrate the first websites to the new 
server soon, and making good progress. However, especially for the web 
server documentation, a lots of things have happened, done by many hands 
in the past, but severely lacking documentation. Lots of improvements 
and tweaks have happened in the early hours of September 28th, 2010, 
when we went live and had to cope with a high server load.

I have collected every piece of information from early on, but it's 
tedious to incorporate everything, and chances are something got missed. 
To avoid missing documentation in the future, we already have set up a 
new rule to only accept properly documented new productive services, but 
then, we still have to cope with the legacy of the past. (And that being 
said, we couldn't have done otherwise anyways, since in 2010, we had to 
act quickly to make a good impression on day #1, and not spend time with 
documentating instead of dong.)

Luckily, Alex Werner and Christian Lohmaier, both infra experts and 
valued members of the admin team, have time on the release date, and 
join forces with me to provide a stand-by team to react on high load 
situations in time. All three of us have worked in this area in the past 
already, so we bring in some experience.

Thank you so much, folks, this is really appreciated!

We are reachable on the usual channels, ideally on #tdf-infra at 
irc.freenode.net, or via email to the hostmaster list.

Maybe having three people as "hot standby" is exaggerated and all runs 
well, but then, I feel more comfortable if nothing happens, rather than 
it does, and we cannot react quickly.

The infra team wants to support the 4.0 release as good as it can.

Florian

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