Help me understand why the project would most benefit from that situation, Don.
Mentors' main role is to help podling members learn the Apache Way so they can graduate to TLP. This project enjoys a wealth of excellent mentors and we happen to mostly be people who have worked successfully together at Apache. With so many mentors, my thought was that it would be quite helpful to have one that knows some history. Additionally, I am not currently and have no immediate plans to be in the employ of any entity with a commercial interest in the outcome of this project. I believe you may be confused on this point. I completely get it that this is a new chapter, and I am quite interested in helping the podling succeed as an upstream source of OOo code to the entire extended ecosystem. To that end, I would expect to help poding members remember to be inclusive and transparent in their motives and actions. Danese > Thanks Ross, much appreciated. The thought was that the project would most > benefit > from an Apache community development mentor with no past history with > OpenOffice.org. > The goal most seem to agree to is one of unification. So a 'Special > Envoy', forgive the > exaggerated metaphor, may be more effective. Danese has wonderful history, > but this project > is now moving forward re-born, in a sense. It deserves fresh leadership. > IMHO.
