On Nov 10, 2011, at 9:44 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: > I don't see this email from Louis in my email at all. (I wonder) > > It has nothing to do with the forwarders. He is asking about what Rob and Kay > are working on with the MLs. > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Email+Migration+Post
Also this: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Mailing+lists > > Regards, > Dave > > On Nov 10, 2011, at 6:30 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > >> I'm concerned that there is some confusion of lists with the myname@ >> openoffice.org ID/forwarding scheme. >> >> Posts are already going to the lists about their imminent shutdown, with >> indication of suggested alternatives at ooo-*@ i.a.o lists. >> >> There has not been a comparable effort to notify the holders of myname@ >> openoffice.org accounts that those accounts will soon cease to function as >> mail-forwarding accounts. >> >> I think that one such avenue for such announcements is the currently-active >> lists@ openoffice.org, but perhaps with a simpler message that addresses >> demise of those forwarding accounts specifically? >> >> There's a different message that applies to the use of myname@ >> openoffice.org as a CC or submitter or project-member identifier in >> Bugzilla. There are probably others. All that needs to be sorted out as >> well. I prefer those cases to be dealt with separately as well. No need to >> confuse those not impacted by those cases. >> >> - Dennis >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: lui...@gmail.com [mailto:lui...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Louis >> Suárez-Potts >> Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 12:50 >> To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org >> Subject: Re: Shutdown of openoffice.org email forwarder: How to notify users >> >> [ ... ] >> >> yes. I was asked and have wanted to issue this statement, but lacked >> the clarity needed to make it make sense until fairly recently: >> >> To Marketing, Discuss and other lists: >> >> "OpenOffice.org is moving to the Apache site (URL). The project >> continues to work and to grow, and you are invited, as always, to >> contribute to it. But you need to do that now on the Apache site [URL} >> and you need to join the relevant lists for contributions. >> >> "The new project and community won't be the same as the old. That's >> good. It also means that we won't be using the @openoffice.org alias >> being a member of OpenOffice.org allowed. There will certainly be >> opportunity and even intensity to building the new project and >> community, and our success will depend ultimately on your >> participation in the new community—which I hope you will help bring >> into this world." >> >> —and possibly some other information on where they must go to >> contribute, though I'd rather point to a static URL wiki for that, or >> to the existing one we have for the incubator. >> I'd also formally be resigning or belatedly? from my posts. >> >> >> [ ... ] >
