Dear All
There seems to be a lot of infighting coming through.
To me it is bad Public Relations.
Is there any other way this could be handled ?
Kind regards
David
Hi André,
Am 15.10.2010 15:09, schrieb Andre Schnabel:
Hi,
that's not true at all. We established the release meeting some years
ago with good participation from non Oracle people to speak about
possible exceptions from the rules within the release process.
I agree on that.
But that said, it is also not correct to say, that the Oracle gstreamer
implementation has been overruled by "people from the comunity, one who is
now Foundation Funding Member and the other is from Novell".
My comment at this time was, that the gstreamer implementation was pushed
into the OOO330 branch after feature freeze (and just 5 days after
announcing, that there is some work on this). From my side - it was
a comment but I'm fully aware, that it is up to the RSM to see, if
exceptions should be made.
I did not refer to your comment, I refereed to
Fridrich Strba from Novell and Rene Engelhard
who is now Founding Members. Both voted
strongly against taking Gstreamer as an exception.
Note, I don't say that they should not have done that. It was all part
of a process where Oracle was overruled by other community members.
A democratic decision that we respected.
My point is that if people bring up the missing GStreamer support from
OOo 3.3 as an argument pro Foundation/Libre, they should at least know
the facts.
The arguments from the Foundation people often have the tone of "It is
not the people working at Oracle who contribute to OOo we have a problem
with but the company." so it is fair to also point out that many people
on the Foundation project are either self employed and making money with
OpenOffice.org or are part of a company who
makes money with OpenOffice.org. I'm not saying
that they should not do that, I'm happy
for anyone who has a job and makes money. But people should take into
account that not only Oracle has Business interests.
Regards,
Christian
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