Is this intended as a blog post? It reads like one. In particular I don't see any proposals to discuss.
-Rob On Jul 12, 2011, at 4:30 PM, "Dennis E. Hamilton" <orc...@apache.org> wrote: > We are just one month into being the Apache OpenOffice.org Podling. It is > useful to interesting to take stock of all that is happening and where we are. > > The main activity that we are all holding our breath over is the > reconstitution of the code base under Apache. There is also concern for the > documentation and web sites and how they fit under an Apache umbrella. > > Depending on their interests and specialties, not everyone here is > immediately able to contribute much. We are in the process of organizing and > bringing over and IP-scrubbing the initial artifacts for the project that > will be the foundation for further work. There is not much to get our teeth > into in terms of actual development until that is sorted out. (E.g., we > don't have a bug tracker yet and the documentation, localization, and > user-facing folk, including marketing, are still wondering how our project > will accommodate them.) > > Meanwhile, there is also how we organize ourselves to operate as an Apache > project. > > - Dennis > > 1. BOOTSTRAPPING COMMITTERS AND THE PPMC > 2. HOW LONG IS THE OPEN DOOR OPEN? > 3. WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO BE A COMMITTER AS TIME GOES ON? > 4. WHEN BEING MORE PRIVATE THAN PRIVATE IS IMPORTANT > > > 1. BOOTSTRAPPING COMMITTERS AND THE PPMC > > The set of Initial Committers is a self-selected group who added their names > to the Initial Committers list on the original incubator proposal. That's > how the podling is bootstrapped. Likewise, ooo-dev participation is fully > self-selected, and it will stay that way. > > This means that we are a group of people who have not worked together as a > single Apache project community before, even though there are a variety of > mutual acquaintances and associations in the mix. > > Of the Initial Committers, a subset were eager to be on the project and have > arrived. That is the overwhelming source of the current 54 committers, 41 > also being on the PPMC. > > 2. HOW LONG IS THE OPEN DOOR OPEN? > > There are still about two-dozen Initial Committers who have not yet > registered an iCLA. We don't know if they are arriving or not. One issue is > when to close the door on initial committers who have taken no initiative to > be here, although reminders have been sent out. > > It is also the case that all initial committers are welcome to participate in > the PPMC but not all have taken action to do so. At some point, the PPMC > will not grow automatically and that also needs to be resolved. > > 3. WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO BE A COMMITTER AS TIME GOES ON? > > We vote on other committers the same as any [P]PMC. The addition of two > invited committers has already been reported. > > One thing that concerns the PPMC (who, for all but two members, walked > through an open door) is how and when do we move from consideration of > previous reputation and being known to some of us to a situation where > contribution on the podling is the determining factor. We're working our way > through that. The PPMC is also concerned that, although the addition of new > committers and new PPMC members is carried out in private, we be transparent > about how we are conducting ourselves and that we demonstrate that we are > even-handed about it. > > It is not clear what the ooo-dev community wants to see and what the > understood progression to the normal rules for invitation of committers > should be. > > > 4. WHEN BEING MORE PRIVATE THAN PRIVATE IS IMPORTANT > > The PPMC is responsible for dealing, quietly and privately, with security > matters and their resolution. The security@ team informs us that because we > have so many members who are unknown here and also to each other at this > point, a limited ooo-secur...@incubator.apache.org list is essential. We > need to identify those few among us who have appropriate skills and > sensibilities around security matters and who can keep their work secret when > that is appropriate. > > For this, we want to know who has been on the security teams of > OpenOffice.org and who happen to be here also. There will also be > cross-communication with other security teams that operate on the same code > base, or in some cases, that operate on the same document formats. > > We will be going ahead with the creation of the private ooo-security list for > that purpose. What we are waiting for is identification of three moderators > who are distributed around the earth's time zones well enough to provide > moderation of incoming reports in something approximating 24/7 coverage. > > [end] >
