----- Original Message ---- > From: Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Sent: Sun, June 5, 2011 11:43:47 AM > Subject: Re: OpenOffice: were are we now? > > > On Jun 5, 2011, at 6:26 AM, Christian Grobmeier wrote: > > >> Not just yet. I don't want anyone to feel that we rushed this. > > > > Oh, i didn't want to rush > > > >> If that progress can be made in less than 24 hours, imagine what the > >> next 24, 48, or even 72 hours will bring. > > > > Compared and good :-) > > > >> My expectation is that the right time to hold a vote will be by the > >> end of the week (Greg previously expressed a similar thought), however > >> if there is a good reason for this to spill over into early next week > >> I would be fine with that too. > > > > This is fine for me. > > > > But pragmatic as I am, I wanted to know about the key blockers if > > there are still any from incubator view. Currently discussion is > > focussing on convincing people why it is good. I think more on: is the > > proposal valid and good or are there unclear/incomplete items > > > > Thanks for your long response > > I posted a similar statement yesterday. Personally, I think the traffic > on this list has settled down a lot in the last 24 hours and is now > focusing in on topics more relevant to this list. But maybe that is just > because it was Saturday :-)
Most of the sniping^H^H^H^Hdiscussion has moved over to the libreoffice lists at this point. > What I am still waiting to hear on are: > 1. The amount of code in the project that the grant didn't give to us > under the Apache License. Not a blocker for starting incubation. IOW we don't ask for this level of detail from other podlings. > 2. The amount of work that will be required to rework dependencies. Not a blocker for starting incubation. Keep in mind that the podling may elect to "release" via the libreoffice infrastructure, which gives them the same flexibility wrt licensing issues that we gave to subversion (which to this point has yet to cut a formal ASF release). > 3. Whether the number of initial committers will be sufficient to start > the project (this is probably going to be very subjective). This is a concern I share. So far IBM has committed only a handful of people to this effort, despite big talk from Bob Sutor and friends about their vision for the code. > 4. Whether there are enough mentors who have the time to devote to this. > Since this is a very large undertaking I'd appreciate a bit more than just > their name on the wiki but perhaps an actual estimate of how much time they > have to devote to the project. Given the poor track record of most IPMC mentors, I sorta agree with this concern, but looking at the actual names involved I expect most of them will do their fair share. Remember the success or failure of OOo depends on the PPMC's ability to handle the load, not the mentors'. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
