On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 1:27 AM, Ross Gardler <[email protected]>wrote:
> As some of you will know the board meeting got pushed back 6 days. It > was, however, held last night and I was able to attend. Consequently I > am pleased to confirm that we now have a go-ahead with respect to the > Sourceforge offer to host the extensions site. However, there is one > important restriction on what we can do, so I'll cover that first. > > There cannot be any advertising on a domain name owned by the ASF, > this includes openoffice.org. > > The board felt the most appropriate action would be to have users > directed to *.openoffice,org or *.apache.org where they will be > greeted by a page listing appropriate extensions sites with a > disclaimer. At a later date this would become the meta-data server. I > figured this would not be a problem as it is one of the options we > discussed. > > We did discuss whether this would break behaviour for older OOo > releases. If this is the case then it would be acceptable to provide a > redirect for appropriate URLs. This may need to be removed for at > graduation time, we didn't go into details about this as I felt it > would be acceptable to deprecate the old behaviour whilst in > incubation. Let me know if this is an incorrect assumption. > > I had some specific questions for the board, I copy them below but > please not these are my notes and not from the minutes. They have not > been approved yet, I'll let you know if I misunderstood anything. > > Can the PPMC accept SF's offer? > Yes > > MOU necessary? What should it cover? > PPMC to decide if necessary (with mentor guidance). > Since the long term plan is to move to a > PPMC owned meta-server it might make most sense to just let SF own > this extensions site and not be distracted by what they are doing (we > have trademarks policy to ensure they don't misbehave). > > Assuming trademarks are respected are we OK? > Yes (as long as no advertising on apache owned domain) > > Will this address IP issues since non-ASF code will be offsite > Probably (I believe this to be a yes, but allowing for edge cases) > > Advertising on the extensions download site? > OK as long as not an apache domain (incl. openoffice.org) > > Redirection preferred? > Yes (see no advertising requirement). Would be better to go via an > informational page on an openoffice.org or apache.org. > > So there you go. It's now over to the PPMC to get it moving. I'll > forward this mail to the infra team so that they can be ready to hand > over the keys to the current extensions site at an appropriate time. > Who is going to drive this? > > Ross > > > > -- > Ross Gardler (@rgardler) > Programme Leader (Open Development) > OpenDirective http://opendirective.com > Ross-- Thanks for this update. Yes, Apache OpenOffice PPMC will need to spend some time mulling this over. But -- good news! -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK "Follow your bliss." -- attributed to Joseph Campbell
