das alte DMOZ kommt bald wieder

Folgende Nachricht bekam ich gerade aus einem internen Forum vom DMOZ zugespielt. Scheint als ob der Dinosauriere noch nicht ganz tot ist und sich in den nächsten Tagen zurück kommt. Den einen freuts, den anderen nicht – für alle Zocker gibt es neuerdings auch einen “Wann kommt das DMOZ zurück Wettbewerb“.

Nothing new to report, just additional detail … there are 3 activities we are waiting for Ops to complete:

1. rsync the two editors servers.
2. autostart a process that publishes the HTML pages.
3. install a perl module required for an editor function.

All this should only take a couple of days to complete, but we still don’t know where we fall in the Ops schedule, so we don’t know when this work will begin. We’ve put in a request to get appropriate access so one of the developers can go in and do this work immediately, but we haven’t got the go ahead yet.

The ODP is a product of the AOL Search business unit. The decision to close, continue or move in a new direction with ODP would be determined by this group; and I’m part of this group. Restoring the ODP to its previous state is the short-term goal, but keeping it in maintenance mode is not a long term strategy. If there is a silver lining in this outage it’s a renewed interest in developing the ODP in a direction that is relevant to both the web community and AOL. Obviously, your input is pretty important to AOL in determining the ODP’s future, and you guys have had conversations here and there about how you’d like to see the ODP evolve … these conversations are not going unnoticed. As you sit here patiently waiting for the old system to come back online, perhaps you guys could begin a visioning discussion about what the ODP should become.

Mal gucken wielange es dauert bis das *neue* Web 2.0 DMOZ kommt *g* Sicher auch so lange wie die durschnittliche Freischaltung einer Domain ( 2 Jahre )…hehe