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How long will Trillium live?

As I was writing about the short-term future usage of Trillium for sending Constant Contact emails, it struck me that I haven’t really talked about what will happen to Trillium on a longer-term basis. All this hasn’t been confirmed with IT yet, so let’s just call it a general plan or some issues to consider.

First, we’d like to shut down editing of Trillium pages as soon as reasonable for the simple reason that we don’t want people thinking they’ve updated their web site (somehow) not knowing that their pages are no longer indexed by us or any other service like Google.

But, we do want to keep an accessible, archival copy of the Trillium site around for at least a year. This is in part because a number of sites keep annual pages that they refresh each year for a symposia, or other such time-based content. We also expect that after migration slows up, we’ll still find something that was missed and needs to make it over to the new server, or historical information we’d like to add post-launch.

Now, this archival copy need not be the fully-fledged version currently in use. After we turn off editing, we might instead grab a static copy of the content and keep that available elsewhere even as we shut down the current server. That way, we’d have all the usage without having to maintain the server anymore.

At any rate, we’ll probably play it by ear to see what happens and what we can reasonably do at each point along the way. If you have concerns about this, be sure to email us so that your voice is heard.

Also published: https://media.zendesk.com/forums/22045/entries/31096

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