Thanks Rob. Sent from my iPhone
On Oct 24, 2012, at 11:56 AM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > We have the following today: > > 1) http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/people.html -- This > lists a variety of people involved in the project, independent of > status. Let's convert this page into an official list of PMC members and Committers. Maintained by the PMC. I volunteer to update this by next week. > > 2) I'd like to have a place for new volunteers to put their names, > preferably on the wiki or some place where a non-committer has easy > access. +1 this can be dynamic and self organizing. > > 3) We have a list of Committers here, automatically generated: > http://people.apache.org/committers-by-project.html#ooo This is from the ASF and comes from karma as granted by the PMC chair. > > 4) We don't have anything that indicates which Committers are also PMC > members. The new people page will show the differences. > > 5) We have this "credits" page, which is linked to from our Help/About > dialog box. But it does not appear to be updated for AOO 3.4.0 or > 3.4.1: http://www.openoffice.org/welcome/credits.html > > 6) Wiki "User" pages > > 7) Any others? > > As we all know, with multiple lists like this things will get out of > synch. In fact they already have. > > One simplification idea might be: > > 1) Convert the people.html page into a wiki page I'd like to keep it as a CMS page. > > 2) Have that page indicate who is a Committer or PMC member. That can > be manual for now. > > 3) Point our Help/About box to the wiki page, and add sentence at the > end of the wiki that says, "OpenOffice has a long history and we also > thank those who contributed to it before our move to Apache" and then > link to credits.html > > > Any objections to this general idea? None other than the committer / PMC page should remain in the CMS. Regards, Dave > Any improvements? > > And if we did want a place to have a big table of volunteers, where on > the wiki should we put it (CWiki or MWiki)? > > -Rob
