> -----Original Message----- > From: Dave Fisher [mailto:w...@apache.org] > Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2019 4:51 PM > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: volunteer activity tracking (was: Ariel is back > in our PMC and developer circle)
> At the Foundation we expect that everyone working on a > project are doing so as individuals and any merit attained is > as an individual. [1] In the initial formation of a project > at The ASF the original PMC and Committers is often > determined in part by those entities who are bringing the > donation to the Foundation. Incubation is about helping > project communities to work in the “Apache Way”. [2] > OpenOffice.org’s proposal was unique in that the Initial > Committer list was made open for all those who were > interested. I signed up as interested as did some other > members of the Apache POI PMC (we were interested in MSFT > document compatibility). I took it upon myself to help with > Infrastructure like the websites, confluence wikis, and domain names. Absolutely clear for me and absolutely no problem for me! I had already made explicit reference to the ASF rules, and of course the usual procedures also belong to them for me. > > For me, and this may be my personal opinion, one must not > put good agreement above success - you have to find a balance > between both things. > > > >> The influence of enterprises were drastic in the > >> moment they stopped supporting us. > > > > Exactly, and why are no consequences drawn? The problem was > not that the company stopped its support, but that one > company was doing it at absolutely the wrong time and under > the wrong circumstances. > > When IBM withdrew support it did not mean that PMC Members > who were employed by IBM stopped contributing. They stopped > as individuals slowly over time. > > We had one PMC Chair who seriously started a discussion about > shutting down the project. Thank you for this (imho) very important info. Not good that the community was not informed about it, but this info was apparently only known internally. greetings, Jörg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
