On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 2:51 AM, Dave Fisher <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Nov 16, 2011, at 12:39 PM, Shane Curcuru wrote:
>
>> On 2011-11-16 3:26 PM, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
>>> Hi Martin;
>>>
>>> --- On Wed, 11/16/11, Martin Hollmichel wrote:
>>> ...
>>>> On 11/16/11 6:33 PM, Ross Gardler wrote:
>>>>> On 16 November 2011 16:56, Martin Hollmichel
>>>>> <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>> ...
>>>>>
>>>>> What kind of a "release" are you talking about. OOo
>>>>> releases can only be made from the Apache Software
>>>>> Foundation. Perhaps you are planning a downstream
>>>>> release that conforms to our trademark policy.
>>>>>
>>>>> Please let us know your plans.
>>>> we're offering to provide an interim release of
>>>> OpenOffice.org 3.3.1 with a joint messaging of ASF and Team
>>>> OpenOffice.org. This would fill the gap between the 3.3.0
>>>> release from beginning of this year (with some known severe
>>>> issues) and the first AOO release in the future. I'm
>>>> convinced that this proceeding will help strengthen the
>>>> trust in OpenOffice.org / AOO.
>>
>> Based on the very little bit of information provided here on the Apache 
>> lists, I can't see how your plans would possibly be approved by the ASF.
>>
>> Obviously, having more information about your plans, and being able to see 
>> your work in the form of patches or commits to the AOO podling's Subversion 
>> tree would be a great start to be able to do this kind of work.
>>
>> So my first suggestion is to start doing some of the actual coding work 
>> here, on the ooo-dev@ list.  Then, work with the podling to show the PPMC 
>> that this is a good idea, and deserves to proceed together with the 
>> excellent progress the PPMC is making on the 3.4 release.
>>
>> Then, if the PPMC has a clear consensus to work with such an interim release 
>> plan, we can discuss any trademark, legal, or press/messaging questions you 
>> might have.
>
> What is difficult for me to understand is that both Stefan Taxhet and Martin 
> Hollmichel signed up as Initial
> Committers to the Apache project, but have never signed an iCLA.

What makes you think that?  See: http://people.apache.org/committer-index.html

--tim

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