On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 2:05 AM, Sylvain DENIS <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Rob > > how to be on the list of contributors? (I'm promoting AOO, I am a professor > of computer and office, I also help in using AOO). >
It will be a wiki page, so you will be able to add your own information. I will send an announcement when it is ready. -Rob > For your information, I started the publication of the article (in French) > "High Level AOO" > > Greats > > > librement, > > Sylvain DENIS > Expert TIC, FLOSS & WEB > Conseiller en sécurité de l'information > Formateur, conférencier > Le 24/10/12 20:56, Rob Weir a écrit : > > 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. > > 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. > > 3) We have a list of Committers here, automatically generated: > http://people.apache.org/committers-by-project.html#ooo > > 4) We don't have anything that indicates which Committers are also PMC > members. > > 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 > > 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? 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 > >
