Allen Pulsifer wrote: > Critically, at this stage in the process, everyone has a "free pass" to get > involved. > Hi Allen, I don't like free passes so much ...
> Normally, once the project is up and running, you would have to > demonstrate your merit before you can join the project. But for > the next few days, while the project is in the proposal stage, the > gates are wide open--anyone can join as an initial member. > Does that kinda imply the people who've already signed up may not have accumulated enough merit otherwise? ;) > > So here is my suggestion: I propose the everyone here head over to the > Apache Incubator and join the proposal as an initial member. > Since it's not even clear what code exactly is donated, and in what form, and whether at all the ASF would be able to release official binaries anytime soon - I'd personally rather be a bit more reluctant to sign my name under a proposal - that is in fact a blanket statement currently. Meanwhile, there's a lot of work to do over here - we've just released 3.4.0 (http://libreoffice.org/download), and 3.3.3 RC1 is uploading to the mirrors (look here for a non-mirrored preview: http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/pre-releases/). :) > That's it. It does not obligate you to make any code contributions, but it > will get you in on the ground floor and allow you to participate in the > direction of the project. > Ehh - Allen, that ground floor metaphor is an almost verbatim copy from IBM - you're not astroturfing here, are you? Cheers, -- Thorsten
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