I'm having difficulty reconciling the openoffice.org email forwarding service with how Apache projects work.
Having such an address appears to suggest that the person is representing the project,or at the very least is a member of the project. But we speak as individuals, both in the project and externally. If we're suggesting that we represent the project, then that is incorrect. There are exceptions, as outlined in the "multiple hats" description [1] , where a PMC Chair or other Apache officers might need to speak authoritatively on policy matters. But that is not the typical case. And remember, committers are given email forwards via an a.o email address. So there is no functional requirement that I can see for an OOo address, other than the conventional postmaster and admin addresses. So I'd favor ending the OOo email forwarding. The alternative would be to continue this service, but that begs the question of who is permitted such an address, what such an address means, who decides and what criteria are used to decide who gets such an address? That seems to duplicate the kinds of questions we already deal with when we look at those individuals whose contributions to the project merit being voted in as Committers, and getting an a.o email address. -Rob [1] http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#hats On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote: > I am not certain this is identified as something to deal with. > > Along with the openoffice.org domain and whatever happens with that, there is > also the openoffice.org affinity e-mail forwarding operation. > > Is there anything in place to sustain that? > > Might it be interrupted or even retired at some point? > (Not proposing, just want to ensure that someone has their eye on this.) > > - Dennis > >
