Sorry, but if this were put to a vote on general@incubator I'd likely vote -1 as it is out of scope for the incubator to incubate a non-software-development related group. Frankly we have no business overseeing this work on anything more than a formal level because we have no institutional experience with forums and their management.
To say that I've long been frustrated with the general level of civility on all sides towards this project is an understatement. I was willing to extend my neck out pretty far to accommodate Terry's unique needs, but don't feel that he was inclined to reciprocate and was aiming for the exit door for quite a while now. Now that it's finally come to fruition I do wonder where we go from here. I'd appreciate more input from the forum volunteers on what their thoughts are. Maybe there's still a way to salvage this situation amicably, but I suspect the civility problem will continue to hinder any progress in this direction. >________________________________ >From: Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> >To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org >Sent: Tuesday, September 6, 2011 7:26 AM >Subject: Re: [RT] Create a second incubator podling - the ooo forums > >On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 6:03 AM, Christian Grobmeier <grobme...@gmail.com> >wrote: >> Hello, >> >> there are much emotions on the ooo forum at the moment and my feeling >> says if we continue this path of discussion, we'll have some problems. >> >> Now I had an idea: what if we would make up another incubator podling >> - the ooo forums - with an own PPMC. >> In fact Rob already expressed something like that and introduced the >> idea to run the forums outside apache. But this can happen different. >> What if we run the forums outside of the standard ooo project but as a >> project on its own. >> >> I mean, the forums have some technic - the phpBB boards. >> They have active admins (I call PPMC) and active mentors (committers). >> >> I think making ooo-forums another podling is way easier than >> integrating it into ooo-dev. >> >> Thoughts? >> > >I was actually having similar thoughts last night before I went to >bed. The forum admins want to maintain their own decision making >apparatus separate and distinct from the AOOo PPMC. In other words >(in Apache terms) they want their own PPMC. Since they have 75 >volunteers, this in itself would be a good nucleus for a standalone >project. > >As a Podling that also gives them the opportunity to understand the >Apache Way and how Apache works at a more leisurely pace. > >> Christian >> > > >
