On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Louis Suárez-Potts <lui...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 12-10-01, at 08:49 , Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > >> 5 days have passed and no objections were raised, so I'll start moving >> this forward. >
No luck with a JIRA issue asking Infra to create the new mailing list. Evidently they are moving to a new request system that uses a form that only Apache Members and Officers can access. So until we graduate we need to filter mailing list creation requests through a Mentor or someone else with permissions. Details for the list request are here, if anyone is able to help: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-5334 Regards, -Rob > Great, thanks. > Louis > >> >> -Rob >> >> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: >>> As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I'm shifting my focus more to >>> the extended OpenOffice ecosystem rather than day-to-day release-cycle >>> tasks. One of the things I'd like to push for is reinvigorating the >>> application development community. >>> >>> In the legacy project we supported extensions authors via a dedicated >>> mailing list, a wiki, its own IRC channel, and of course the >>> extensions repository website. Today we have very little of that >>> active. >>> >>> I'd like to breath some new life into this part of the ecosystem. Now >>> that we have a steady heartbeat of releases, both delivered and >>> planned, and a solid record of end-user downloads, it is easier to >>> argue the value of developing extensions for OpenOffice. I'd like to >>> help promote this side of the ecosystem via the following tasks: >>> >>> 1) Create a new mailing list: ooo-extensi...@incubator.apache.org (or >>> app...@incubator.apache.org if we prefer). I'll assert that the >>> current mailing lists are inadequate for encouraging this community to >>> thrive. If they interact on ooo-dev then they are bombarded with 99% >>> irrelevant posts, and if they gather on ooo-users then this will be >>> disruptive to the end-user subscribers there. Extension authors >>> really are a distinct sub-community of their own. >>> >>> 2) Promote the mailing list via the usual means: website, social >>> networking, maybe a blog post. >>> >>> 3) Try to contact the existing extension authors, to encourage them to >>> joint the list. I'd try to do this via SourceForge initially, since >>> they might already have the means to send them all an email. >>> >>> 4) Promote AOO extension development in general, by interviews of >>> extension authors, blog posts, perhaps even a rotating spot on our >>> website featuring an "extension of the week" (or day). >>> >>> 5) Encourage this community to provide feedback to the project and >>> help maintain the current app dev and SDK documentation, website and >>> wiki. >>> >>> If there are no objections to the above I'll go ahead with step 1 in >>> 72 hours. I'll need a couple more list moderator volunteers as well. >>> >>> And of course, if anyone wants to help with other parts of the above, >>> or complimentary tasks, please let me know. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> -Rob >
