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On Oct 24, 2012, at 3:49 PM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 6:23 PM, Dave Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: >> Thanks Rob. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Oct 24, 2012, at 11:56 AM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> 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. >> > > That works for me. > > Maybe, in order to reduce duplication/overlap and the sync issues that > come from that, the wiki page would only have volunteers who are not > also committers? There is no need to make a bright line on this page. I think that PMC and Committers will be volunteering for particular efforts including mentoring new contributors or leading an effort. > > And since we're all "people" maybe rename the people.mdtext and nav > link to say "Committers"? A rename makes sense. Committers is good and it can link to the Volunteers page. This is the page where a "bright line" makes sense. In order to preserve history I may retire the old page and start new. A discussion of the columns will be needed. I think as a new thread - "Committers table data" - when I have a prospective new page. The content of the Volunteers page will likely be an influence. For example Committers may wish to indicate a primary focus which will link to the hash tag on the volunteer page. Regards, Dave > > -Rob > >> 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
