On Nov 17, 2011, at 4:30 AM, Tim Williams wrote: > 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
I looked but it seems my searches on that page failed last night. Please excuse me on this. Stefan is properly connected to the project, but we've seen no email from him until today. I'm not sure why Martin is not properly signed up. Regards, Dave > > --tim
