On 06/05/2012 08:36 PM, Kevin Grignon wrote:
KG01 - See comments inline.
Kay, thanks for putting this information together.
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Rob Weir<robw...@apache.org> wrote:
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Kay Schenk<kay.sch...@gmail.com> wrote:
OK, here's a draft -- Dennis is working on getting me actual "people"
numbers later today, so what I have here in terms of new committers is
just
a (bad) guess. And, duh -- we only report in March, June, September,
December, so what I have here in terms of what we've been doing since
March
is probably way, way off... Please update as you see fit!
I now have an incubator wiki account so I will happily post when we're
done
== proposed June AOO report ==
*Project Name and Brief Description*
OpenOffice (was OpenOffice.org)
* OpenOffice entered incubation 2011-06-13
OpenOffice is an open-source, office-document productivity suite
providing
six productivity applications based around the OpenDocument Format (ODF).
OpenOffice is released on multiple platforms. Its localizations have
supported 110 languages worldwide.
* Most Important Items To Address Toward Graduation *
1. Review of distributed articles to ensure compliance with ASF policy
2. Given the size and scope of OpenOffice, continue work on
"community
readiness" espeically with refgard to
organization and communication style.
3. Increase size and diversity of the active development community
It seems odd to have a list that large and say that we're about to
start a graduation vote. My impression was we're really only working
on #1, and Andre and Pedro seem to have those under control. #2 and
#3 are ongoing activities, before and after graduation, for us and any
other Apache project. But I don't think we have any graduation
blocking issues there.
We have started preliminary discussion concerning graduation, and are
putting renewed emphasis on the above items
as we would like to propose graduation within the next month.
* Issues for IPMC or ASF Board Awareness *
- None
* Community Development Progress *
- Since our last report we have voted in 5 (?) new Committers/PPMC
members.
- Since our last report, one committer/PPMC member has resigned
- We have improved to act more as a self organized project to address
and solve project related topics (eg. budget transfer from SPI, forum
moderation).
- We accepted an offer from SourceForge to host our older 3.3 version
and
provide client installs of our latest release 3.4.
This decision was arrived after much discussion among members and
consulation with mentors.
- Due to heightened interest, we are putting more resources (services,
volunteers) into translation efforts
- We are putting more effort into addressing trademark and third-party
distributin requests. Ongoing emphasis as to
how to accomodate and track these requests is becoming an important
concern.
- We are putting renewed emphasis on recruitment to assist with
maintaiing
now abandoned former native-language project web sites.
KG01 - Re "3. Increase size and diversity of the active development
community", perhaps we could acknowledge that we are working to
re-invigorate the user experience design effort. Software is for people,
and we should show that we are working hard to understand who is user our
product, why and for what, and how we will work to deliver the best
experience possible to support our users. We don't just make code software,
we design great products that align with our client's view of success -
that is a design activity. My feedback here is too wordy, please include
anything that acknowledges effort in user research and design of our
products would be great.
you got it! I'll include something on this!
I'd word that as, 'We are increasing our global reach by recruiting
volunteers to help update and maintain the large set of legacy native
language home pages"
* Project Development Progress *
- We released Apache OpenOffice 3.4 on May 8, 2012.
Over three million downloads in the first month.
This release included:
Five different client platform install versions in 15 languages
Source tarbalss in Engligh
Software development kit packaging for 5 platforms
Language packs for 15 languages
A summary of downloads for the installs can be found at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/files/stats/timeline
We would like to publicly acknowledge the efforts of our mentors,
the
Apache infrastructure team, and the wonderful folks at SourceForge in
making
this release a success!
- We are currently working on an alternate repository for category-B
code
to comply with graduation requirements
- Prepartion was made in May for importing IBM Symphony changes into the
OpenOffice repository
Maybe first say an SGA was received from IBM for IBM Lotus Symphony,
and now are preparing to import...
This should be complete by the time of the June board meeting.
- Work is continuing on making translation processes easier for
volunteers.
Currently, only committers can access the Pootel server.
- Testing and implementation of old update service for OpenOffice has
been
accomplished. This service is for older OpenOffice clients to identify
updates and, optionally, install an update if available.
- !!!! need and update on this one and the mailing list numbers!!:
For ooo-dev we have 409 subscribers !
Community support forums remain popular with users, hitting a new
concurrency record (296)
Very good report. I see you have some other suggestions as well.
Once those are included, and maybe a run through a spell checker, it
should be "ready to go".
Thanks for volunteering to draft this!
-Rob
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