Re: [VOTE] Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation

2011-06-13 Thread Steve Loughran

On 10/06/11 17:02, Sam Ruby wrote:

*** Please change your Subject: line for any [DISCUSSION] of this [VOTE]

As the discussions on the OpenOfficeProposal threads seem to be winding
down, I would like to initiate the vote to accept OpenOffice.org as an
Apache Incubator project.

At the end of this mail, I've put a copy of the current proposal. Here
is a link to the document in the wiki:

http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenOfficeProposal?action=recallrev=207

As the proposal discussion threads are numerous, I encourage people to
scan and review the archives for this month:

http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201106.mbox/browser


Please cast your votes:

[ ] +1 Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation
[ ] +0 Indifferent to OpenOffice.org incubation
[ ] -1 Reject OpenOffice.org for incubation



I may have missed the vote it being over a weekend and me not checking 
my mail until work hours, but being in GMT0BST I think I'm still in 
time. I've also read through the other votes to help shape my own.


-1 (non binding)

* This may not foster an OSS community -just split a growing one in a 
way that benefits two large vendors (Oracle, IBM) rather than the world 
as a whole. In particular, a large chunk of the ongoing LibreOffice team 
are against this proposal, and I'd be happier being on good terms with 
the rest of the OSS world than with anyone else.


* A code dump without the oracle engineering team is going to be a hard 
thing to work with. If the majority of people who work on the ASF 
codebase are IBM FTEs, the knowledge of the codebase doesn't spread, and 
when IBM decide to re-assign the engineers (as has happened with Axis 
and Harmony), the knowledge of the code will go away. Sanjiva can vouch 
for that, having helped pick up the pieces of one of those projects (and 
done a good job of it :)


* It's a mass-market consumer OSS project on a par with firefox, not the 
developer-centric tooling or server-side platforms we've historically 
been involved in. If my mother has a problem with OpenOffice on her 
(Ubuntu 10.4) laptop, I can't tell her to download SVN trunk and debug 
the problem then submit a patch, as she can't even get the font settings 
right in Yahoo! mail to stop it sending emails out in Courier 36.


* Although it's key download bandwidth may be on Windows, it is the key 
office-compatible platform in the Linux world, which is why I run it on 
all my office PCs. That bandwidth doesn't get measured, as it comes from 
the RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, SuSE and, um, Oracle repositories. Linux 
hasn't suffered by being GPL, and IBM are happy to work within that 
license constraint, so why not say you want to stay on the trunk of the 
open-office derivative works? Embrace GPL!


* I don't see why the ASF should do Oracle any favours, not given their 
past behaviour w.r.t the Java TCK, and their apparent willingness to sue 
google on what may be apparent patent issues within the Apache codebase. 
You can't sue someone over one bit of code and then at the same time say 
let's be friends, on what may be just a way to gain some tax kickback 
by donating a half-dead brand to an open source project.


* I've not been happy with some of the discussions here were some of the 
evangelists of the proposal -who have never been seen on any ASF project 
I've ever encountered- suddenly seem to be knowledgeable about Apache's 
goals and intentions that myself. I get the feeling the ASF is being 
used as one of those pawns in a technology cold war we'll trade Cuba 
for Hungary. Case in point: press releases announced this before 
anything else, implies to me a propaganda effort rather than progress.


The momentum is with TdF, that's where its home should be, and the ASF, 
Oracle and IBM should accept and acknowledge that fact.



-Steve


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Re: [VOTE] Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation

2011-06-13 Thread Raphael Bircher

+1 (non-binding)

Greetings Raphael

Am 10.06.11 18:02, schrieb Sam Ruby:

*** Please change your Subject: line for any [DISCUSSION] of this [VOTE]

As the discussions on the OpenOfficeProposal threads seem to be 
winding down, I would like to initiate the vote to accept 
OpenOffice.org as an Apache Incubator project.


At the end of this mail, I've put a copy of the current proposal.  
Here is a link to the document in the wiki:


http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenOfficeProposal?action=recallrev=207

As the proposal discussion threads are numerous, I encourage people to 
scan and review the archives for this month:


http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201106.mbox/browser 



Please cast your votes:

[  ] +1 Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation
[  ] +0 Indifferent to OpenOffice.org incubation
[  ] -1 Reject OpenOffice.org for incubation

This vote will close 72 hours from now.

- Sam Ruby

= OpenOffice.org - An open productivity environment =
== Abstract ==
!OpenOffice.org is comprised of six personal productivity 
applications: a word processor (and its web-authoring component), 
spreadsheet, presentation graphics, drawing, equation editor, and 
database. !OpenOffice.org is released on Windows, Solaris, Linux and 
Macintosh operation systems, with more 
[[http://porting.openoffice.org/|communities]] joining, including a 
mature  [[http://porting.openoffice.org/freebsd/|FreeBSD port]]. 
!OpenOffice.org is localized, supporting over 110 languages worldwide.


== Proposal ==
Apache !OpenOffice.org will continue the mission pursued by the 
!OpenOffice.org project while under the sponsorship of Sun and Oracle, 
namely:


To create, as a community, the leading international office suite 
that  will run on all major platforms and provide access to all 
functionality and  data through open-component based APIs and an 
XML-based file format.


In addition to to building the !OpenOffice.org product, as an end-user 
facing product with many existing individual and corporate users, this 
project will also be active in supporting end-users via tutorials, 
user forums, document template repositories, etc.  The project will 
also work to further enable !OpenOffice.org to be used as a 
programmable module in document automation scenarios.


== Background ==
!OpenOffice.org was launched as an open source project by Sun 
Microsystems in June 2000.  !OpenOffice.org was originally developed 
under the name of StarOffice by Star Division, a German company, which 
was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 1999.  Sun released this as open 
source in 2000.  !OpenOffice.org is the leading alternative to 
MS-Office available.  Its most recent major version, the 3.x series 
saw over 
[[http://www.webmasterpro.de/portal/news/2010/02/05/international-openoffice-market-shares.html|100 
million downloads]] in its first year.  The 
[[http://www.webmasterpro.de/portal/news/2010/02/05/international-openoffice-market-shares.html|most 
recent estimates]] suggest a market share on the order of 8-15%.


The !OpenOffice source is written in C++ and delivers language-neutral 
and scriptable functionality. This source technology introduces the 
next-stage architecture, allowing use of the suite elements as 
separate applications or as embedded components in other applications. 
Numerous other features are also present including XML-based file 
formats based on the vendor-neutral !OpenDocument Format (ODF) 
standard from OASIS and other resources.


== Rationale ==
!OpenOffice.org core development would continue at Apache following 
the contribution by Oracle, in accordance with Apache bylaws and its 
usual open development processes. Both Oracle and ASF agree that the 
!OpenOffice.org development community, previously fragmented, would 
re-unite under ASF to ensure a stable and long term future for 
OpenOffice.org. ASF would enable corporate, non-profit, and volunteer 
stakeholders to contribute code in a collaborative fashion.


Supporting tooling projects will accompany the !OpenOffice.org 
contribution, providing APIs for extending and customizing 
!OpenOffice.org.


Both !OpenOffice.org and the related tooling projects support the 
OASIS Open Document Format, and will attract an ecosystem of 
developers, ISVs and Systems Integrators. ODF ensures the users of 
!OpenOffice.org and related solutions will own their document data, 
and be free to choose the application or solution that best meets 
their requirements.


The !OpenOffice.org implementation will serve as a reference 
implementation of the Open Document Format standard.


= Current Status =
== Meritocracy ==
We understand the intention and value of meritocracy at Apache.  We 
are particularly gratified to learn, during the discussion on this 
proposal, that there is a strong role for non-coders to participate in 
this meritocracy and as they demonstrate their sustained commitment 
and merit, to take on additional community responsibilities.


The initial 

ManifoldCF: Another mentor needed?

2011-06-13 Thread Karl Wright
Hi,

The ManifoldCF project just lost Grant Ingersoll as a mentor, who
resigned last Tuesday.  ManifoldCF has been incubating since January
2010 and basically provides a framework and connectors for
synchronizing content from a set of repositories to a set of target
search engines, with security.  Although Tommaso Teofili joined
recently, we could really use the full complement of three mentors, so
I was wondering if there are any additional interested parties wanting
to function in this capacity for ManifoldCF.

Please let us know!
Karl

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Re: [VOTE] Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation

2011-06-13 Thread Tim Williams
-1

As a foundation, we are optimized to support delivery of open source
code, it seems to me OOo and its user/community/the public would be
best served by an organization built for the delivery of a finished
end-user product.  OOo would be such an anomaly for us I fear would
lead to an embarrassing chapter.

--tim

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 12:02 PM, Sam Ruby ru...@intertwingly.net wrote:
 *** Please change your Subject: line for any [DISCUSSION] of this [VOTE]

 As the discussions on the OpenOfficeProposal threads seem to be winding
 down, I would like to initiate the vote to accept OpenOffice.org as an
 Apache Incubator project.

 At the end of this mail, I've put a copy of the current proposal.  Here is a
 link to the document in the wiki:

 http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenOfficeProposal?action=recallrev=207

 As the proposal discussion threads are numerous, I encourage people to scan
 and review the archives for this month:

 http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201106.mbox/browser

 Please cast your votes:

 [  ] +1 Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation
 [  ] +0 Indifferent to OpenOffice.org incubation
 [  ] -1 Reject OpenOffice.org for incubation

 This vote will close 72 hours from now.

 - Sam Ruby

 = OpenOffice.org - An open productivity environment =
 == Abstract ==
 !OpenOffice.org is comprised of six personal productivity applications: a
 word processor (and its web-authoring component), spreadsheet, presentation
 graphics, drawing, equation editor, and database. !OpenOffice.org is
 released on Windows, Solaris, Linux and Macintosh operation systems, with
 more [[http://porting.openoffice.org/|communities]] joining, including a
 mature  [[http://porting.openoffice.org/freebsd/|FreeBSD port]].
 !OpenOffice.org is localized, supporting over 110 languages worldwide.

 == Proposal ==
 Apache !OpenOffice.org will continue the mission pursued by the
 !OpenOffice.org project while under the sponsorship of Sun and Oracle,
 namely:

 To create, as a community, the leading international office suite that
  will run on all major platforms and provide access to all functionality and
  data through open-component based APIs and an XML-based file format.

 In addition to to building the !OpenOffice.org product, as an end-user
 facing product with many existing individual and corporate users, this
 project will also be active in supporting end-users via tutorials, user
 forums, document template repositories, etc.  The project will also work to
 further enable !OpenOffice.org to be used as a programmable module in
 document automation scenarios.

 == Background ==
 !OpenOffice.org was launched as an open source project by Sun Microsystems
 in June 2000.  !OpenOffice.org was originally developed under the name of
 StarOffice by Star Division, a German company, which was acquired by Sun
 Microsystems in 1999.  Sun released this as open source in 2000.
  !OpenOffice.org is the leading alternative to MS-Office available.  Its
 most recent major version, the 3.x series saw over
 [[http://www.webmasterpro.de/portal/news/2010/02/05/international-openoffice-market-shares.html|100
 million downloads]] in its first year.  The
 [[http://www.webmasterpro.de/portal/news/2010/02/05/international-openoffice-market-shares.html|most
 recent estimates]] suggest a market share on the order of 8-15%.

 The !OpenOffice source is written in C++ and delivers language-neutral and
 scriptable functionality. This source technology introduces the next-stage
 architecture, allowing use of the suite elements as separate applications or
 as embedded components in other applications. Numerous other features are
 also present including XML-based file formats based on the vendor-neutral
 !OpenDocument Format (ODF) standard from OASIS and other resources.

 == Rationale ==
 !OpenOffice.org core development would continue at Apache following the
 contribution by Oracle, in accordance with Apache bylaws and its usual open
 development processes. Both Oracle and ASF agree that the !OpenOffice.org
 development community, previously fragmented, would re-unite under ASF to
 ensure a stable and long term future for OpenOffice.org. ASF would enable
 corporate, non-profit, and volunteer stakeholders to contribute code in a
 collaborative fashion.

 Supporting tooling projects will accompany the !OpenOffice.org contribution,
 providing APIs for extending and customizing !OpenOffice.org.

 Both !OpenOffice.org and the related tooling projects support the OASIS Open
 Document Format, and will attract an ecosystem of developers, ISVs and
 Systems Integrators. ODF ensures the users of !OpenOffice.org and related
 solutions will own their document data, and be free to choose the
 application or solution that best meets their requirements.

 The !OpenOffice.org implementation will serve as a reference implementation
 of the Open Document Format standard.

 = Current Status =
 == Meritocracy ==
 We understand the intention and value 

Re: Request: Can proposed committers introduce themselves?

2011-06-13 Thread Dieter Loeschky

Hi,

I'm with the OpenOffice.org code base since the very first beginning.
While still being an Oracle employee, my engagement here will be on an 
individual base.


Here are some aspects of my OOo history in a nutshell:

- started at Star Division as lead developer of the Impress application
C++ implementation in core and UI, integration of the Drawing Layer, 
Edit Engine, SFX, etc.


- project lead of the graphics project at OOo
kicked off the graphics project which includes Impress, Draw, Chart, 
Drawing Engine, etc.


- project lead of the i18n project at OOo
kicked off the i18n project which focus on all aspects of 
internationalization and Unicode support


- co-lead of the performance project at OOo
kicked off the performance project which takes care of startup and 
load/save performance


- member of the OOo engineering steering committee

- coaching internal (at Star Division, Sun and Oracle) and external 
developers over years, intensive team building


- deep knowledge about the office market and product requirements

- deep knowledge about building and delivering OOo releases in time and 
in best quality


ODF related work
- helped to initiate the ODF standardization at OASIS
- helped to initiate the ODF Toolkit project at odftoolkit.org
- member of the engineering steering committee of the odftoolkit.org project

I would love to see one united OpenOffice.org project and hope that this 
Apache project can be the base of all OOo flavors.


Regards,
Dieter






Am 07.06.11 19:12, schrieb robert_w...@us.ibm.com:

By my count we have now have over 60 individuals listed on as proposed
committers for the Apache OpenOffice project.   I think this is a
respectable start, though obviously the project will need to have a strong
commitment to recruiting additional developers and growing the project
further,

On the list are many names on the list familiar to me, some from the
OpenOffice.org community,  some ODF experts, some involved in training and
certification, some in globalization,  some from downstream projects,
commercial and open source, Symphony, RedOffice, EducOOo, even some TDF/LO
names.

There are also a lot of names that I do not recognize.  This is good as
well.  I may have need of some new friends soon ;-)

I think it would be good if the proposed committers who have not yet done
so, could post a quick note to the list, to introduce yourself and your
interest in this project.   Think of this as an opportunity to introduce
yourself to your future collaborators on Apache OpenOffice.

Regards,

-Rob

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Re: [VOTE] Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation

2011-06-13 Thread Dieter Loeschky

+1 (non-binding)

Regards,
Dieter



Am 10.06.11 18:02, schrieb Sam Ruby:

*** Please change your Subject: line for any [DISCUSSION] of this [VOTE]

As the discussions on the OpenOfficeProposal threads seem to be 
winding down, I would like to initiate the vote to accept 
OpenOffice.org as an Apache Incubator project.


At the end of this mail, I've put a copy of the current proposal.  
Here is a link to the document in the wiki:


http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenOfficeProposal?action=recallrev=207

As the proposal discussion threads are numerous, I encourage people to 
scan and review the archives for this month:


http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201106.mbox/browser 



Please cast your votes:

[  ] +1 Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation
[  ] +0 Indifferent to OpenOffice.org incubation
[  ] -1 Reject OpenOffice.org for incubation

This vote will close 72 hours from now.

- Sam Ruby

= OpenOffice.org - An open productivity environment =
== Abstract ==
!OpenOffice.org is comprised of six personal productivity 
applications: a word processor (and its web-authoring component), 
spreadsheet, presentation graphics, drawing, equation editor, and 
database. !OpenOffice.org is released on Windows, Solaris, Linux and 
Macintosh operation systems, with more 
[[http://porting.openoffice.org/|communities]] joining, including a 
mature  [[http://porting.openoffice.org/freebsd/|FreeBSD port]]. 
!OpenOffice.org is localized, supporting over 110 languages worldwide.


== Proposal ==
Apache !OpenOffice.org will continue the mission pursued by the 
!OpenOffice.org project while under the sponsorship of Sun and Oracle, 
namely:


To create, as a community, the leading international office suite 
that  will run on all major platforms and provide access to all 
functionality and  data through open-component based APIs and an 
XML-based file format.


In addition to to building the !OpenOffice.org product, as an end-user 
facing product with many existing individual and corporate users, this 
project will also be active in supporting end-users via tutorials, 
user forums, document template repositories, etc.  The project will 
also work to further enable !OpenOffice.org to be used as a 
programmable module in document automation scenarios.


== Background ==
!OpenOffice.org was launched as an open source project by Sun 
Microsystems in June 2000.  !OpenOffice.org was originally developed 
under the name of StarOffice by Star Division, a German company, which 
was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 1999.  Sun released this as open 
source in 2000.  !OpenOffice.org is the leading alternative to 
MS-Office available.  Its most recent major version, the 3.x series 
saw over 
[[http://www.webmasterpro.de/portal/news/2010/02/05/international-openoffice-market-shares.html|100 
million downloads]] in its first year.  The 
[[http://www.webmasterpro.de/portal/news/2010/02/05/international-openoffice-market-shares.html|most 
recent estimates]] suggest a market share on the order of 8-15%.


The !OpenOffice source is written in C++ and delivers language-neutral 
and scriptable functionality. This source technology introduces the 
next-stage architecture, allowing use of the suite elements as 
separate applications or as embedded components in other applications. 
Numerous other features are also present including XML-based file 
formats based on the vendor-neutral !OpenDocument Format (ODF) 
standard from OASIS and other resources.


== Rationale ==
!OpenOffice.org core development would continue at Apache following 
the contribution by Oracle, in accordance with Apache bylaws and its 
usual open development processes. Both Oracle and ASF agree that the 
!OpenOffice.org development community, previously fragmented, would 
re-unite under ASF to ensure a stable and long term future for 
OpenOffice.org. ASF would enable corporate, non-profit, and volunteer 
stakeholders to contribute code in a collaborative fashion.


Supporting tooling projects will accompany the !OpenOffice.org 
contribution, providing APIs for extending and customizing 
!OpenOffice.org.


Both !OpenOffice.org and the related tooling projects support the 
OASIS Open Document Format, and will attract an ecosystem of 
developers, ISVs and Systems Integrators. ODF ensures the users of 
!OpenOffice.org and related solutions will own their document data, 
and be free to choose the application or solution that best meets 
their requirements.


The !OpenOffice.org implementation will serve as a reference 
implementation of the Open Document Format standard.


= Current Status =
== Meritocracy ==
We understand the intention and value of meritocracy at Apache.  We 
are particularly gratified to learn, during the discussion on this 
proposal, that there is a strong role for non-coders to participate in 
this meritocracy and as they demonstrate their sustained commitment 
and merit, to take on additional community responsibilities.


The initial 

Re: [VOTE] Release Droids 0.1-incubating RC2

2011-06-13 Thread Thorsten Scherler
+1 (binding)

sau2

On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 22:43 -0500, Richard Frovarp wrote:
 Please vote on the release cndidate for Apache Droids Incubating, 
 version 0.1-incubating. I've received one binding IPMC +1 votes and 2 
 non-binding +1 votes.
 
 PPMC release vote thread:
 http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-droids-dev/201106.mbox/%3c4de7d6cc.8080...@apache.org%3E
 
 Source files:
 http://people.apache.org/~rfrovarp/droids/
 
 Maven staging repo:
 https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapachedroids-011/
 
 SVN source tag (r1127762):
 https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/droids/tags/0.1-incubating/
 
 PGP release keys (signed using 3698A2B1):
 https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/droids/KEYS
 
 
 [ ] +1
 [ ] +0
 [ ] -1
 
 Thanks,
 Richard
 
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Re: [VOTE] Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation

2011-06-13 Thread Cor Nouws

Hi,

Sam Ruby wrote (10-06-11 18:02)

Please cast your votes:


a. - : because of the difficulties ahead, as mentioned on this list, for 
the OpenOffice.org product in the ASF (that may not be relevant for the 
AFS, but IMO are for OpenOffice.org), and since TDF for me is a more 
logical choice;


b. + : because the many people from the OpenOffice.org project that I 
know and want to give the Apache OpenOffice.org a chance, which I think 
is fair too.


Round (b-a) = +0 (non binding)

Kind regards,
Cor


[ ] +1 Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation
[ ] +0 Indifferent to OpenOffice.org incubation
[ ] -1 Reject OpenOffice.org for incubation

This vote will close 72 hours from now.


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Re: [VOTE] Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation

2011-06-13 Thread Nick Kew
On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 12:02:44 -0400
Sam Ruby ru...@intertwingly.net wrote:

-1 (non-binding)

I've agonised long and hard about this.  Wouldn't it be fantastic
to see Apache take on such a great trophy project?  And of course
we'll be best-of-friends with TDF despite perhaps a few vocal
individuals?  And in the worst case, incubation will show up
weaknesses and rifts and the project will be reevaluated, either
re-homed or pensioned off for TDF to pick over the bones.

But against that, why have we been offered it in the first place?
If this had happened before the split then I'd say great, but
now it smells of politics.

* Noone has explained why they want to donate to us in preference
  to TDF (the license issue doesn't wash given the history), only
  vague words about failing to reach agreement.
* It feels like we're being handed a fait accomplit: take this
  project, or the kitty dies.  Erm, excuse me?  I expect that
  kind of railroading from someone who's paying for my time
  and effort, not from someone who expects it for free.
  Granted it's not easy to explain to the press that it's not
  a done deal, but they could at least have made the effort.
* Who benefits?
  - Oracle and IBM have evidently decided it's in their interests.
Fine.  That's their business, not ours.
  - The competition?  MS has no direct interest.  Could go either
way for them, as for us.
  - TDF?  They get to cannibalise our work if they so choose.
But by the same token, that's work that wasn't contributed
to them in the first place.
  - The smaller companies?  I don't hear a unified voice.
  - The public?  More choice for the elite, confusion for the
many.  Too much kerfuffle in FOSS-land, better stick to MS.
  - ASF?  That's the only one that matters to us, isn't it?

* Well, we get a big trophy project, lots of attention.
  Good press if we make a success of it, bad press if we
  fail.  But that's asymmetric: the good press benefits
  us little (we don't need it), while the bad could seriously
  damage the brand.
* We also get a new project so big it's  sure to rock the boat,
  bring in a new culture.  Once it's in the incubator it has
  momentum: regardless of what happens, failure to graduate becomes
  an epic fail for us.
* We have a huge community to absorb: we don't know that their
  values match ours.  We do know that a number of them with
  Apache-like values of *community* and *open development*
  split off and formed TDF.  So perhaps those who *don't* share
  such values are overrepresented in the non-TDF community?
  We may be faced with individuals who are absolutely key to OOO
  yet incompatible with ASF, so we can neither take them on
  nor exclude them.
* It's outside our core competence.  This kind of takeover has
  been damaging for many ambitious corporations.


Having said all that, if we do accept it for incubation then
I'll be actively doing my best to make it a success.


-- 
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[VOTE][RESULT] Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation

2011-06-13 Thread Sam Ruby
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Sam Ruby ru...@intertwingly.net wrote:

 Binding votes are ones that are cast by Incubator PMC members.  Quorum
 is 3 binding +1 yes votes.  Once quorum is met, if more +1 votes are
 received than -1, the vote carries.  Otherwise, the vote fails.

Vote started on Friday, June 10th at 12:02pm EDT:

  http://s.apache.org/VgS

Voting is now closed.  Quorum was achieved, and the vote passes.
Voting results:

--- Summary ---

Binding:
+1: 41
--: 1
-0: 1
-1: 5

Non-binding:
+1: 45
+0: 2
±0: 1
-0: 1
-1: 8

--- Details ---

Binding:
+1 aadamchikAndrus Adamchik
+1 adc  Alan Cabrera
+1 akarasuluAlex Karasulu
-- antelder Anthony Elder
+1 ate  Ate Douma
+1 bdelacretaz  Bertrand Delacretaz
+1 bimargulies  Benson Margulies
+1 brettBrett Porter
+1 clr  Craig Russell
+1 curcuru  Shane Curcuru
+1 danese   Danese Cooper
+1 dims Davanum Srinivas
+1 dirkxDirk-Willem van Gulik
+1 elecharnyEmmanuel Lecharny
-0 gnodet   Guillaume Nodet
+1 grobmeierChristian Grobmeier
+1 gstein   Greg Stein
+1 jim  Jim Jagielski
+1 joes Joe Schaefer
+1 jukkaJukka Zitting
+1 jvermillard  Julien Vermillard
+1 kevanKevan Lee Miller
+1 leosimonsLeo Simons
+1 lresende Luciano Resende
+1 marrsMarcel Offermans
+1 marvin   Marvin Humphrey
+1 mattmann Chris Mattmann
+1 mturkMladen Turk
-1 niallp   Niall Pemberton
+1 nick Nick Burch
-1 niclas   Par Niclas Hedhman
+1 noel Noel J. Bergman
+1 noirin   Noirin Plunkett
+1 paulsKarl Pauls
-1 psteitz  Phil Steitz
+1 rdonkin  Robert Burrell Donkin
+1 rgardler Ross Duncan Gardler
+1 rgoers   Ralph Goers
+1 rhirsch  Richard Hirsch
+1 rubysSam Ruby
-1 sanjiva  Sanjiva Weerawarana
+1 sdeboy   Scott Deboy
+1 stoddard Bill Stoddard
+1 struberg Mark Struberg
-1 twilliamsTim Williams
+1 upayaviraUpayavira
+1 wroweWilliam A. Rowe Jr.
+1 zwoopLeif Hedstrom

Non-binding:
+1 aaf  Alexei Fedotov
+0 aku  Andreas Kuckartz
+1 asavory  Andrew Savory
+1 bayard   Henri Yandell
+1 damjan   Damjan Jovanovic (v)
+1 eric Eric Charles
+1 edwardsmjMike Edwards
+1 florent  Florent André (v)
+1 jkosin   James Kosin
-1 stevel   Steve Loughran
+1 mikemccand   Michael McCandless
-1 niq  Nick Kew
+1 ngn  Niklas Gustavsson
+1 rickhall Richard S. Hall
-0 seelmann Stefan Seelmann
+1 scottbw  Scott Wilson
+1 sgalaSantiago Gala
+1 svanderwaal  Sander van der Waal
+1 wave Dave Fisher (v)
+1 yegorYegor Kozlov (v)
+1 ---  Eric Bachard (v)
+1 ---  Mathias Bauer (v)
-1 ---  Thorsten Behrens
+1 ---  Stephan Bergmann (v)
+1 ---  Raphael Bircher (v)
+1 ---  Andy Brown (v)
+1 ---  Alexandro Colorado (v)
-1 ---  Keith Curtis
-1 ---  Florian Effenberger
+1 ---  Roman H. Gelbort (v)
+1 ---  Pedro Giffuni
+1 ---  Larry Gusaas
+1 ---  Daniel Haischt
+1 ---  Dennis E. Hamilton (v)
+1 ---  Don Harbison (v)
+1 ---  Kazunari Hirano (v)
+1 ---  Christoph Jopp
+1 ---  Steve Lee (v)
+1 ---  Dieter Loeschky (v)
+1 ---  Ian Lynch (v)
+1 ---  Carl Marcum (v)
+1 ---  Marcus
+1 ---  Ingrid von der Mehden (v)
-1 ---  Volker Merschmann
+0 ---  Cor Nouws
+1 ---  Simon Phipps
±0 ---  Manfred A. Reiter
+1 ---  Phillip Rhodes (v)
+1 ---  Andrew Rist (v)
+1 ---  Jürgen Schmidt (v)
-1 ---  André Schnabel
+1 ---  Jomar Silva (v)
+1 ---  Louis Suárez-Potts (v)
+1 ---  Malte Timmermann (v)
+1 ---  Jochen Wiedmann
+1 ---  Donald Whytock
-1 ---  Simos Xenitellis

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Re: [VOTE][RESULT] Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation

2011-06-13 Thread Christian Grobmeier
Congratulations to all who want this to happen! Now lets do our best
to make it a success.

For all the new committers: Welcome to the ASF. I wish a good time
here with lots of fun.

Cheers,
Christian

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Sam Ruby ru...@intertwingly.net wrote:
 On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Sam Ruby ru...@intertwingly.net wrote:

 Binding votes are ones that are cast by Incubator PMC members.  Quorum
 is 3 binding +1 yes votes.  Once quorum is met, if more +1 votes are
 received than -1, the vote carries.  Otherwise, the vote fails.

 Vote started on Friday, June 10th at 12:02pm EDT:

  http://s.apache.org/VgS

 Voting is now closed.  Quorum was achieved, and the vote passes.
 Voting results:

 --- Summary ---

 Binding:
 +1: 41
 --: 1
 -0: 1
 -1: 5

 Non-binding:
 +1: 45
 +0: 2
 ±0: 1
 -0: 1
 -1: 8

 --- Details ---

 Binding:
 +1 aadamchik    Andrus Adamchik
 +1 adc          Alan Cabrera
 +1 akarasulu    Alex Karasulu
 -- antelder     Anthony Elder
 +1 ate          Ate Douma
 +1 bdelacretaz  Bertrand Delacretaz
 +1 bimargulies  Benson Margulies
 +1 brett        Brett Porter
 +1 clr          Craig Russell
 +1 curcuru      Shane Curcuru
 +1 danese       Danese Cooper
 +1 dims         Davanum Srinivas
 +1 dirkx        Dirk-Willem van Gulik
 +1 elecharny    Emmanuel Lecharny
 -0 gnodet       Guillaume Nodet
 +1 grobmeier    Christian Grobmeier
 +1 gstein       Greg Stein
 +1 jim          Jim Jagielski
 +1 joes         Joe Schaefer
 +1 jukka        Jukka Zitting
 +1 jvermillard  Julien Vermillard
 +1 kevan        Kevan Lee Miller
 +1 leosimons    Leo Simons
 +1 lresende     Luciano Resende
 +1 marrs        Marcel Offermans
 +1 marvin       Marvin Humphrey
 +1 mattmann     Chris Mattmann
 +1 mturk        Mladen Turk
 -1 niallp       Niall Pemberton
 +1 nick         Nick Burch
 -1 niclas       Par Niclas Hedhman
 +1 noel         Noel J. Bergman
 +1 noirin       Noirin Plunkett
 +1 pauls        Karl Pauls
 -1 psteitz      Phil Steitz
 +1 rdonkin      Robert Burrell Donkin
 +1 rgardler     Ross Duncan Gardler
 +1 rgoers       Ralph Goers
 +1 rhirsch      Richard Hirsch
 +1 rubys        Sam Ruby
 -1 sanjiva      Sanjiva Weerawarana
 +1 sdeboy       Scott Deboy
 +1 stoddard     Bill Stoddard
 +1 struberg     Mark Struberg
 -1 twilliams    Tim Williams
 +1 upayavira    Upayavira
 +1 wrowe        William A. Rowe Jr.
 +1 zwoop        Leif Hedstrom

 Non-binding:
 +1 aaf          Alexei Fedotov
 +0 aku          Andreas Kuckartz
 +1 asavory      Andrew Savory
 +1 bayard       Henri Yandell
 +1 damjan       Damjan Jovanovic (v)
 +1 eric         Eric Charles
 +1 edwardsmj    Mike Edwards
 +1 florent      Florent André (v)
 +1 jkosin       James Kosin
 -1 stevel       Steve Loughran
 +1 mikemccand   Michael McCandless
 -1 niq          Nick Kew
 +1 ngn          Niklas Gustavsson
 +1 rickhall     Richard S. Hall
 -0 seelmann     Stefan Seelmann
 +1 scottbw      Scott Wilson
 +1 sgala        Santiago Gala
 +1 svanderwaal  Sander van der Waal
 +1 wave         Dave Fisher (v)
 +1 yegor        Yegor Kozlov (v)
 +1 ---          Eric Bachard (v)
 +1 ---          Mathias Bauer (v)
 -1 ---          Thorsten Behrens
 +1 ---          Stephan Bergmann (v)
 +1 ---          Raphael Bircher (v)
 +1 ---          Andy Brown (v)
 +1 ---          Alexandro Colorado (v)
 -1 ---          Keith Curtis
 -1 ---          Florian Effenberger
 +1 ---          Roman H. Gelbort (v)
 +1 ---          Pedro Giffuni
 +1 ---          Larry Gusaas
 +1 ---          Daniel Haischt
 +1 ---          Dennis E. Hamilton (v)
 +1 ---          Don Harbison (v)
 +1 ---          Kazunari Hirano (v)
 +1 ---          Christoph Jopp
 +1 ---          Steve Lee (v)
 +1 ---          Dieter Loeschky (v)
 +1 ---          Ian Lynch (v)
 +1 ---          Carl Marcum (v)
 +1 ---          Marcus
 +1 ---          Ingrid von der Mehden (v)
 -1 ---          Volker Merschmann
 +0 ---          Cor Nouws
 +1 ---          Simon Phipps
 ±0 ---          Manfred A. Reiter
 +1 ---          Phillip Rhodes (v)
 +1 ---          Andrew Rist (v)
 +1 ---          Jürgen Schmidt (v)
 -1 ---          André Schnabel
 +1 ---          Jomar Silva (v)
 +1 ---          Louis Suárez-Potts (v)
 +1 ---          Malte Timmermann (v)
 +1 ---          Jochen Wiedmann
 +1 ---          Donald Whytock
 -1 ---          Simos Xenitellis

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Re: [VOTE][RESULT] Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation

2011-06-13 Thread Phillip Rhodes
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Sam Ruby ru...@intertwingly.net wrote:

 On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Sam Ruby ru...@intertwingly.net wrote:
 
  Binding votes are ones that are cast by Incubator PMC members.  Quorum
  is 3 binding +1 yes votes.  Once quorum is met, if more +1 votes are
  received than -1, the vote carries.  Otherwise, the vote fails.

Vote started on Friday, June 10th at 12:02pm EDT:
http://s.apache.org/VgS
Voting is now closed.  Quorum was achieved, and the vote passes.
Voting results:


Mondo rad.  But one quick question what does the (v) mean, listed after
some of the names in the voter list?


Phil


[DISCUSS] how to add many committers to a new project (was: Re: [VOTE] Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation)

2011-06-13 Thread Leo Simons
Hey hey,

On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 7:04 PM, Joe Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.com wrote:
 +1 binding.  Given the sheer number of committers involved in this podling
 there will be some work to do trying to gel a coherent development community
 out of the group.  While I am optimistic, I am reminded of Roy's cautions
 about piling on [1] to a prospective podling, and am not entirely convinced
 that it's necessarily a good thing that we promote the idea of getting in
 on the ground floor wrt new podlings.

 [1]- http://s.apache.org/VT5

Perhaps one approach the podling could take at the guidance of its
mentors is to create accounts on demand. I.e. first order of business
is getting basic infrastructure up (I think everyone is looking
forward to having traffic on general@incubator back to normal -:) ),
next up is getting the initial code import. Next after that you start
adding in the people that have sent in CLAs and are wanting to touch
the code/website/etc. That's what harmony did. It helped the project
get into a mode of voting in new people frequently, and it also helped
make visible to the project that it was ok if you didn't show up on
day 0.

cheers...

Leo

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Re: [VOTE][RESULT] Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation

2011-06-13 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/13/2011 11:26 AM, Phillip Rhodes wrote:
 On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Sam Ruby ru...@intertwingly.net wrote:
 
 On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Sam Ruby ru...@intertwingly.net wrote:

 Binding votes are ones that are cast by Incubator PMC members.  Quorum
 is 3 binding +1 yes votes.  Once quorum is met, if more +1 votes are
 received than -1, the vote carries.  Otherwise, the vote fails.

 Vote started on Friday, June 10th at 12:02pm EDT:
 http://s.apache.org/VgS
 Voting is now closed.  Quorum was achieved, and the vote passes.
 Voting results:
 
 Mondo rad.  But one quick question what does the (v) mean, listed after
 some of the names in the voter list?

A (v)olunteer on the committer roster

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Re: [VOTE][RESULT] Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation

2011-06-13 Thread Sam Ruby
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Phillip Rhodes
motley.crue@gmail.com wrote:
 On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Sam Ruby ru...@intertwingly.net wrote:

 On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Sam Ruby ru...@intertwingly.net wrote:
 
  Binding votes are ones that are cast by Incubator PMC members.  Quorum
  is 3 binding +1 yes votes.  Once quorum is met, if more +1 votes are
  received than -1, the vote carries.  Otherwise, the vote fails.

    Vote started on Friday, June 10th at 12:02pm EDT:
    http://s.apache.org/VgS
    Voting is now closed.  Quorum was achieved, and the vote passes.
    Voting results:

 Mondo rad.  But one quick question what does the (v) mean, listed after
 some of the names in the voter list?

I meant to either explain that or remove it.  Oh well.  :-)

That was my own personal notation as to which people had volunteered
to be committers.  It doesn't have an effect on the vote, but perhaps
others will find it interesting.

 Phil

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Re: [VOTE][RESULT] Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation

2011-06-13 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/13/2011 11:31 AM, Sam Ruby wrote:
 On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Phillip Rhodes

 Mondo rad.  But one quick question what does the (v) mean, listed after
 some of the names in the voter list?
 
 I meant to either explain that or remove it.  Oh well.  :-)
 
 That was my own personal notation as to which people had volunteered
 to be committers.  It doesn't have an effect on the vote, but perhaps
 others will find it interesting.

And I was picturing a whole group of supporters in Guy Fawkes masks
donning black capes...

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Re: [DISCUSS] how to add many committers to a new project (was: Re: [VOTE] Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation)

2011-06-13 Thread Joe Schaefer
If you read Roy's thread you'd have known that what you're
suggesting was put forth by Noel, and Roy responded by basically
saying that putting mentors in charge of a codebase they
did not work on was a mistake:

http://s.apache.org/3h4



- Original Message 
 From: Leo Simons m...@leosimons.com
 To: general@incubator.apache.org
 Sent: Mon, June 13, 2011 12:31:00 PM
 Subject: [DISCUSS] how to add many committers to a new project (was: Re: 
 [VOTE] 
Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation)
 
 Hey hey,
 
 On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 7:04 PM, Joe Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.com  wrote:
  +1 binding.  Given the sheer number of committers involved in  this podling
  there will be some work to do trying to gel a coherent  development 
community
  out of the group.  While I am optimistic, I am  reminded of Roy's cautions
  about piling on [1] to a prospective  podling, and am not entirely 
convinced
  that it's necessarily a good  thing that we promote the idea of getting in
  on the ground floor wrt  new podlings.
 
  [1]- http://s.apache.org/VT5
 
 Perhaps one  approach the podling could take at the guidance of its
 mentors is to create  accounts on demand. I.e. first order of business
 is getting basic  infrastructure up (I think everyone is looking
 forward to having traffic on  general@incubator back to normal -:) ),
 next up is getting the initial code  import. Next after that you start
 adding in the people that have sent in CLAs  and are wanting to touch
 the code/website/etc. That's what harmony did. It  helped the project
 get into a mode of voting in new people frequently, and it  also helped
 make visible to the project that it was ok if you didn't show up  on
 day  0.
 
 cheers...
 
 Leo
 
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OpenOffice.org next steps

2011-06-13 Thread Sam Ruby
I've divided up the list of proposed committers into four categories,
based on their current status.

--- Have IDs:

damjan Damjan Jovanovic
florentFlorent André
grobmeier  Christian Grobmeier
gstein Greg Stein
jimJim Jagielski
lrosen Lawrence Rosen
rdonkinRobert Burrell Donkin
wave   David Fisher
yegor  Yegor Kozlov

   These inidividuals can be added immediately

--- Have ICLAs on file, but no ids:

Mathias Bauer
Raphael Bircher
Simon Brouwer
Andrew Brown
Arthur Buijs
Jian Hong Cheng
Jin Hua Chen
Dennis E. Hamilton
Don Harbison
Drew Jensen
Christoph Jopp
Steve Lee
Yong Lin Ma
Carl Marcum
Phillip Rhodes
Andrew Rist
Lei Wang
Zhe Wang
Jian Fang Zhang

  Next steps: I'll contact each to get preferred UNIX ids:
  http://www.apache.org/dev/pmc.html#newcommitter

(Note: in cases where they differ, I'll be using the
 email addresses from the ICLA, not from the proposal)

IDs selected should not match an already issued id:
  http://people.apache.org/committer-index.html

--- Need ICLAs:

Fred-Juan DIAZ
Eike Rathke
Marcelo Horacio Fortino
Cyril Beaussier
Carl Symons
Jaime R. Garza
Patrick Maupin
Stephane Quenson
Wolf Halton
Jomar Silva
Stefan Taxhet
Christian Lippka
imacat
Miguel Á. Ríos
Kent Åberg
Ben Bois
Dieter Loeschky
Roman Gelbort
Eric Bachard
Manfred Reiter
Herbert Duerr
Ingrid von der Mehden
Ivo Hinkelmann
Juergen Schmidt
Juan C. Sanz
Alexandro Colorado
Kai Ahrens
Kazunari Hirano
Kai Sommerfeld
Luis E. Vasquez
Louis Suárez-Potts
Maho NAKATA
Eric Hoch
Mechtilde Stehmann
Martin Hollmichel
Michael Stehmann
Marcus Lange
Michael Stahl
Malte Timmermann
Olaf Felka
Peter Junge
Allen Pulsifer
Zoltán Reizinger
Stephan Bergmann
Dave McKay
Graham Lauder
Fernand Vanrie
Hong Yun An
Shu Wang Han
Heng Lee
Chao Sun
Fernando Cassia
Dave Barton
Ian Lynch

   Next step: each should send in an ICLA

   http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.txt

   In about a week, I'll send out reminders to those who have not.

--- Not part of the approved proposal, need approval:

Joanmarie Diggs
Peter Korn
Jean Hollis Weber

   This is for the PPMC to vote in

   http://incubator.apache.org/guides/ppmc.html#Voting+in+a+new+committer

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Re: [VOTE][RESULT] Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation

2011-06-13 Thread Manfred A. Reiter
 A (v)olunteer on the committer roster

me too, if allowed

M.

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Re: [VOTE][RESULT] Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation

2011-06-13 Thread Sam Ruby
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Manfred A. Reiter ma.rei...@gmail.com wrote:
 A (v)olunteer on the committer roster

 me too, if allowed

Oversight on my part.  One that has no bearing on the process.  Next
step for you is to send in an ICLA.

  http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.txt

 M.

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Re: OpenOffice.org next steps

2011-06-13 Thread Sam Ruby
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Sam Ruby ru...@intertwingly.net wrote:

 --- Have IDs:

 damjan     Damjan Jovanovic
 florent    Florent André
 grobmeier  Christian Grobmeier
 gstein     Greg Stein
 jim        Jim Jagielski
 lrosen     Lawrence Rosen
 rdonkin    Robert Burrell Donkin
 wave       David Fisher
 yegor      Yegor Kozlov

Unintentionally omitted from this list:

  robweir Rob Weir

If anybody spots any more mistakes, please report them.

- Sam Ruby

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[OpenOffice] Status page

2011-06-13 Thread Christian Grobmeier
I just added the incubator status page.

Due to the high number of committers, would it be ok to add the
committer names once the (iclas  accounts) are fine?

Would like to avoid names in the list, who have thought to step up,
but then declined for some reason later.

I am referring to the project as OpenOffice.org, not as
OpenOffice. Hope thats fine too

If OK, I will update the incubator stie now.

Cheers

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Re: OpenOffice.org next steps

2011-06-13 Thread Andy Brown

Hi Sam,

Sam Ruby wrote:

I've divided up the list of proposed committers into four categories,
based on their current status.

--- Have IDs:

damjan Damjan Jovanovic
florentFlorent André
grobmeier  Christian Grobmeier
gstein Greg Stein
jimJim Jagielski
lrosen Lawrence Rosen
rdonkinRobert Burrell Donkin
wave   David Fisher
yegor  Yegor Kozlov

These inidividuals can be added immediately

--- Have ICLAs on file, but no ids:

Mathias Bauer
Raphael Bircher
Simon Brouwer
Andrew Brown


My name seems to be missing.  I forward a copy of the acceptance email.


Arthur Buijs
Jian Hong Cheng
Jin Hua Chen
Dennis E. Hamilton
Don Harbison
Drew Jensen
Christoph Jopp
Steve Lee
Yong Lin Ma
Carl Marcum
Phillip Rhodes
Andrew Rist
Lei Wang
Zhe Wang
Jian Fang Zhang

   Next steps: I'll contact each to get preferred UNIX ids:
   http://www.apache.org/dev/pmc.html#newcommitter

 (Note: in cases where they differ, I'll be using the
  email addresses from the ICLA, not from the proposal)

 IDs selected should not match an already issued id:
   http://people.apache.org/committer-index.html

--- Need ICLAs:

Fred-Juan DIAZ
Eike Rathke
Marcelo Horacio Fortino
Cyril Beaussier
Carl Symons
Jaime R. Garza
Patrick Maupin
Stephane Quenson
Wolf Halton
Jomar Silva
Stefan Taxhet
Christian Lippka
imacat
Miguel Á. Ríos
Kent Åberg
Ben Bois
Dieter Loeschky
Roman Gelbort
Eric Bachard
Manfred Reiter
Herbert Duerr
Ingrid von der Mehden
Ivo Hinkelmann
Juergen Schmidt
Juan C. Sanz
Alexandro Colorado
Kai Ahrens
Kazunari Hirano
Kai Sommerfeld
Luis E. Vasquez
Louis Suárez-Potts
Maho NAKATA
Eric Hoch
Mechtilde Stehmann
Martin Hollmichel
Michael Stehmann
Marcus Lange
Michael Stahl
Malte Timmermann
Olaf Felka
Peter Junge
Allen Pulsifer
Zoltán Reizinger
Stephan Bergmann
Dave McKay
Graham Lauder
Fernand Vanrie
Hong Yun An
Shu Wang Han
Heng Lee
Chao Sun
Fernando Cassia
Dave Barton
Ian Lynch

Next step: each should send in an ICLA

http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.txt

In about a week, I'll send out reminders to those who have not.

--- Not part of the approved proposal, need approval:

Joanmarie Diggs
Peter Korn
Jean Hollis Weber


What is required to get these approved?



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Re: OpenOffice.org next steps

2011-06-13 Thread Sam Ruby
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Andy Brown a...@the-martin-byrd.net wrote:
 Andrew Brown

 My name seems to be missing.  I forward a copy of the acceptance email.

The email addresses didn't match.  I'll send you a separate email
(using the email address provided on the ICLA) on the process for
requesting an id.

- Sam Ruby

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Re: OpenOffice.org next steps

2011-06-13 Thread Andy Brown

Christian Grobmeier wrote:

Joanmarie Diggs
Peter Korn
Jean Hollis Weber


What is required to get these approved?


http://incubator.apache.org/guides/ppmc.html#Voting+in+a+new+committer

The Podling PMC need to vote these people in.

If these people are already known to the current team, this should be
straightforward



Thanks for the info/link.

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Re: OpenOffice.org next steps

2011-06-13 Thread Joe Schaefer
If I can get a few volunteer list moderators I'll go ahead
and create the mailing lists.



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Re: OpenOffice.org next steps

2011-06-13 Thread Sam Ruby
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Joe Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.com wrote:
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Re: OpenOffice.org next steps

2011-06-13 Thread Danese Cooper
I'll be glad to moderate too.

Danese

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 If I can get a few volunteer list moderators I'll go ahead
 and create the mailing lists.



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  wrote:
  
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Re: OpenOffice.org next steps

2011-06-13 Thread Joe Schaefer
Lists are now available:

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The private list should only be subscribed to by folks who have already
submitted an ICLA and account request id to Sam.


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Re: OpenOffice.org next steps

2011-06-13 Thread Greg Stein
On Jun 13, 2011 11:31 AM, Joe Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.com wrote:

 Lists are now available:

 ooo-{dev,commits,issues,notifications,private}@incubator.apache.org

Thanks, Joe! Subscribed.



 The private list should only be subscribed to by folks who have already
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To clarify: some people already have IDs, such as myself. If you're on Sam's
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Also note that any IPMC Member and any ASF Member is allowed to be on that
list. There are usually quite a few non-project lurkers.

You're being watched. cue ominous music

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Re: [VOTE] Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation

2011-06-13 Thread JLCastle
I see this is too late to count but I offer my thoughts anyway.  
It was already late before it lurked in an outbox for a while.

[-1] (non-binding)  Vote to reject the OpenOffice.org PROPOSAL 

I reject the proposal not the community or the project.  

I am still a bit of an open source newb and do not have a long history
with either the code base, IP issues or the community.  
Please be free to correct or work around my misapprehensions.
Please accept my remarks as offered in the spirit of contribution to the
proposal's goal of continuing the creation, as a community, [of] the
leading international office suite.  

I am a TDF contributor but that is not the reason I reject the proposal
as it stands. 
I am powerfully drawn to contribute to ASF and the OO project, despite
my preference for an LGPL license. [1]   
I do not see the primary goals and interests of the Apache
OpenOffice.org community and the TDF community as divergent. 
I believe that all open source branches of the OpenOffice family tree
(linked by their still mostly common code base) will thrive best when
they all thrive.

The primary reasons I must reject this proposal (not the project!) come
from my understanding of ASF and from a few years of maintenance
development on a large old app: 

1) The Rationale doesn't work for me at all: 
Both Oracle and ASF agree that the OpenOffice.org development
community, previously fragmented, would re-unite under ASF to ensure a
stable and long term future for OpenOffice.org.  
-1A) This sentence speaks for ASF.  I have seen several emails where
this is frowned upon within the Apache community, but I will assume the
true Sponsor (the Incubator) can speak as ASF through the proposal (back
to itself?).  A bit convoluted for the Rationale.  More to the point is
TDF's first value: We commit ourselves to eliminate the digital divide
in society by giving everyone access to office productivity tools free
of charge to enable them to participate as full citizens in the 21st
century.  --
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/Next_Decade_Manifesto
-1B) The 're-uniting a fragmented development community' meme is
disingenuous or just plain wrong.  The permissive nature of the Apache
license is called pragmatic because it is intended to allow and
encourage a variety of proprietary downstream development branches: this
is a fragmentation of development effort, nu?  Also, LibreOffice
development with its maturing timed release schedule and replacement of
OpenOffice in many Linux distros is neither a figment nor a fragment.  
-1C) The Rationale for the project might simply change 'agree' to
'intend' and 'would re-unite' to 'could re-unite' to break down the
resemblance to the Borg's infamous 'assumed close' technique. [2]  

2) The Meritocracy section is broken. Apache was chosen specifically
because Oracle as contributor, and IBM as Sponsor [...] want to
encourage this style of development for the project.  Leaving aside the
veracity, what does IBM as Sponsor mean?   The Incubator site says the
Sponsor must be part of Apache - here the true Sponsor is the Apache
Incubator.  And I don't think 'IBM as Sponsor of ASF' works either.
Open, democratic and transparent aren't about style - they are
requirements for success and graduation.

3) The missings:  
3A) Initial Goals section:
It is sudden (tho' not surprising), a bit of a mess, all new and there
is a lot to sort out.  
The Initial Goals could be a series of assertions of 'by when' critical
aspects will get sorted out.  
-- Accessible, buildable repo: Unless it's just about to happen, this is
initial goal 1.
-- If the build system, code, artwork, etc have IP issues that make a
dev repo unavailable then they become goal 0.
-- Germ of Release Plan: Release what? when? OK, then: By when goals set
= initial goal
-- Idea of Core Team: how many FTers? From where? How many others to
balance as community? Enough in #? Enough in coverage? How many
community + non-sponsored developers to balance that into a community
project? (by when have #s)

3B) There is other suggested content here --
http://incubator.apache.org/guides/proposal.html --  that appears to be
germane in this case of a large, established (OO has code older than
Apache) project with a history checkered by 'management issues'.  

3C) The Community section is missing translators, help/doc and only
lists users and only infers the presence of national orgs with
supporter[sic], promoters, trainers, consultants, e.g., an extended
ecosystem. In fact, the whole Community section reads like a business
analysis: it speaks almost entirely about various releases. And as
either a business analysis or community description it fails to mention
the centralizing OOo brand. 

The flaws in Rationale, Meritocracy and Community with missing Initial
Goals all add up to this stopper: 
  --  The proposal doesn't just have hat problems, it looks like the
case of The Wrong Trousers. [3]

The proposal has existed a couple weeks and drawn 

Re: OpenOffice.org next steps

2011-06-13 Thread Damjan Jovanovic
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 9:07 PM, Andy Brown a...@the-martin-byrd.net wrote:
 Joe Schaefer wrote:

 Lists are now available:

 ooo-{dev,commits,issues,notifications,private}@incubator.apache.org


 The private list should only be subscribed to by folks who have already
 submitted an ICLA and account request id to Sam.

 Hi Joe,

 For us new to Apache, where/how do we subscribe?

 Andy

From what I gather, you send an email to ${LIST}-subscr...@incubator.apache.org

eg. ooo-dev-subscr...@incubator.apache.org

then reply to its reply

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Re: OpenOffice.org next steps

2011-06-13 Thread Andy Brown

Damjan Jovanovic wrote:

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 9:07 PM, Andy Browna...@the-martin-byrd.net  wrote:

Joe Schaefer wrote:


Lists are now available:

ooo-{dev,commits,issues,notifications,private}@incubator.apache.org


The private list should only be subscribed to by folks who have already
submitted an ICLA and account request id to Sam.


Hi Joe,

For us new to Apache, where/how do we subscribe?

Andy



From what I gather, you send an email to ${LIST}-subscr...@incubator.apache.org


eg. ooo-dev-subscr...@incubator.apache.org

then reply to its reply

Damjan


Thanks for the info.

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Re: OpenOffice.org next steps

2011-06-13 Thread Raphael Bircher

Am 13.06.11 21:07, schrieb Andy Brown:

Joe Schaefer wrote:

Lists are now available:

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The private list should only be subscribed to by folks who have already
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Hi Joe,

For us new to Apache, where/how do we subscribe?
For ooo-...@incubator.apache.org send a mail to 
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Re: OpenOffice.org next steps

2011-06-13 Thread Joe Schaefer
Send a message to ooo-dev-subscr...@incubator.apache.org and reply
to the automated response.  That will subscribe you to the dev
list, which is where the bulk of the conversations relating to
Apache OpenOffice.org belong.

If you wish to subscribe to the other lists, simply substitute
the name for dev in the above prescription: ie

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etc.



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Re: OpenOffice.org next steps

2011-06-13 Thread Sam Ruby
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Jun 13, 2011 11:31 AM, Joe Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.com wrote:


 The private list should only be subscribed to by folks who have already
 submitted an ICLA and account request id to Sam.

 To clarify: some people already have IDs, such as myself. If you're on Sam's
 list as such, go ahead and subscribe.

 Also note that any IPMC Member and any ASF Member is allowed to be on that
 list. There are usually quite a few non-project lurkers.

Note: if you are an ASF member, and wish to subscribe to this list
using an ID other than your apache.org id, please make sure that that
id is listed in members.txt.  I've already got two moderation requests
for ids that look like they might be from ASF members, but it is much
easier for me to verify this if I can match it to members.txt.
Thanks!

 You're being watched. cue ominous music

:-)

 Cheers,
 -g

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Re: OpenOffice.org next steps

2011-06-13 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Sam Ruby wrote on Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 15:48:37 -0400:
 On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote:
  On Jun 13, 2011 11:31 AM, Joe Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.com wrote:
 
 
  The private list should only be subscribed to by folks who have already
  submitted an ICLA and account request id to Sam.
 
  To clarify: some people already have IDs, such as myself. If you're on Sam's
  list as such, go ahead and subscribe.
 
  Also note that any IPMC Member and any ASF Member is allowed to be on that
  list. There are usually quite a few non-project lurkers.
 
 Note: if you are an ASF member, and wish to subscribe to this list
 using an ID other than your apache.org id, please make sure that that
 id is listed in members.txt.  I've already got two moderation requests
 for ids that look like they might be from ASF members, but it is much
 easier for me to verify this if I can match it to members.txt.
 Thanks!
 

or MailAlias.txt

(we could just throw that in ldap too...)

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Re: OpenOffice.org next steps

2011-06-13 Thread Simon Brouwer

Op 13-6-2011 22:14, Daniel Shahaf schreef:

Sam Ruby wrote on Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 15:48:37 -0400:

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Greg Steingst...@gmail.com  wrote:

On Jun 13, 2011 11:31 AM, Joe Schaeferjoe_schae...@yahoo.com  wrote:


The private list should only be subscribed to by folks who have already
submitted an ICLA and account request id to Sam.

To clarify: some people already have IDs, such as myself. If you're on Sam's
list as such, go ahead and subscribe.

Also note that any IPMC Member and any ASF Member is allowed to be on that
list. There are usually quite a few non-project lurkers.

Note: if you are an ASF member, and wish to subscribe to this list
using an ID other than your apache.org id,

Do you mean the email addres used to subscribe?


please make sure that that
id is listed in members.txt.

Where is members.txt?

--
Vriendelijke groet,
Simon Brouwer.

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Re: OpenOffice.org next steps

2011-06-13 Thread Sam Ruby
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 5:14 PM, Simon Brouwer simon.o...@xs4all.nl wrote:
 Op 13-6-2011 22:14, Daniel Shahaf schreef:

 Sam Ruby wrote on Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 15:48:37 -0400:

 On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Greg Steingst...@gmail.com  wrote:

 On Jun 13, 2011 11:31 AM, Joe Schaeferjoe_schae...@yahoo.com  wrote:

 The private list should only be subscribed to by folks who have already
 submitted an ICLA and account request id to Sam.

 To clarify: some people already have IDs, such as myself. If you're on
 Sam's
 list as such, go ahead and subscribe.

 Also note that any IPMC Member and any ASF Member is allowed to be on
 that
 list. There are usually quite a few non-project lurkers.

 Note: if you are an ASF member, and wish to subscribe to this list
 using an ID other than your apache.org id,

 Do you mean the email addres used to subscribe?

For new PPMC members, the subscription needs to be one that I can
verify as being associated with the ICLA that was provided.

 please make sure that that
 id is listed in members.txt.

 Where is members.txt?

In the ASF member private subversion repository.  Daniel also pointed
out that there is yet another place that committers can which provides
a similar function, but that requires me to do two separate
verifications (that the subscriber is an ASF member and that the
subscriber has a MailAlias.  Of course, if I need to do this enough,
I'm prone to simply write a script that will help out, so I guess
that's not a problem.

 --
 Vriendelijke groet,
 Simon Brouwer.

 | http://nl.openoffice.org | http://www.opentaal.org |

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Re: OpenOffice.org next steps

2011-06-13 Thread Simon Phipps
Presumably though the private list is an exception-handling venue and we
should just get started on ooo-...@incubator.apache.org for now? Or am I
missing key insights here?

S.


Re: OpenOffice.org next steps

2011-06-13 Thread Joe Schaefer
Correct.  99% of the time the private list is
used for voting in new committers/PPMC members.

The dev list is the all other business list for
the project.


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 To: general@incubator.apache.org
 Sent: Mon, June 13, 2011 5:41:27 PM
 Subject: Re: OpenOffice.org next steps
 
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 should just get started on ooo-...@incubator.apache.org for  now? Or am I
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Infrastructure and Data for... End-Users of OpenOffice.org

2011-06-13 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Robert,

thanks for your mail ... one may notice that my reply is a bit late, so
I'm glad that I disclaimer-ed the available time in advance *g*

So, if anybody is still interested in this topic, here we go ...

Am Dienstag, den 07.06.2011, 17:03 +0100 schrieb Robert Burrell Donkin:
 On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 9:28 PM, Christoph Noack christ...@dogmatux.com 
 wrote:
[...]
  Sorry for talking about such stuff in such a great detail, but my aim
  was to make clear that the Joe Averages we have (and we have lots of
  them), don't care about licensing details, or whether the code is well
  structured, or what build machinery is used. Instead, they judge whether
  a product fits to their needs (in this moment).
 
 +1
[...]

 So just to name a few tools we
  have/had at OOo which I still consider to be important in the mid- and
  long-term:
   * User survey tooling and data, including different questionnaires
 with over 3 million detailed responses
   * Usage data backend and data, covering millions of user actions
 to create statistics for development decisions
   * ...
 
 Sounds like ensuring that all documents that need to be included
 within the grant is going to be important

Okay, then please allow me to list them within the mail - it would be
great if anybody could pick those information to use them appropriately.
I'll try to add a personal judgment how important I think these
information are in the mid- to long-term.

ISSUE TRACKER CONTENT

Description: The complete content of the OOo issue tracker including all
votes, attachments and keywords.

Rationale: Many development decisions and also (partly) specifications
are documented within the issue tracker. Furthermore, there is a basic
vote system to enable community members to highlight issues to be
worked on (from their POV).

Source: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/query.cgi

Importance: Mid-High


WIKI CONTENT

Description: Selected wiki content including all linked data.

Rationale: The wiki contains development processes, ideas, and also
(partly) specifications that may be important for future use - to ensure
consistency.

Source: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org

Importance: Mid


USAGE TRACKING BACKEND AND CONTENT

Description: Also known as OpenOffice.org Improvement Program, or
OpenOffice.org User Feedback. More detailed, OpenOffice.org sends (if
the user permits) usage statistics to a server hosted by Oracle in
Hamburg. This closed-source backend both receives the data and
transforms it, so that (e.g.) the User Experience team is able to
analyze it. Important is both the backend (for analyzing changes in
OpenOffice.org) and the already available data (for development
reasons).

Rationale: Due to the complexity of OpenOffice.org, the usage data is
very important for design decisions that affect a majority of the user
base (e.g. UI changes).

Source (basic documentation, no backend source code):
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/User_Experience/OpenOffice.org_User_Feedback_Program

Importance: High

Note:
  * A plain export (numbers) is less sufficient, since it doesn't
contain dependencies between the individual recorded user
actions.
  * I'm not sure who might be contacted, but maybe the Oracle guys
on this list can shed some light on that (that would be great!)


USER SURVEY STRUCTURE AND CONTENT

Description: The User Experience Team did several user surveys and
collected an incredible amount of user feedback (approx. 3 million
filled-out questionnaires). Thus, this item refers to both the user
survey structure (can be exported), and the data.

Importance: Mid-High

Source (no code):
  * User Survey: http://surveys.services.openoffice.org
  * Description:

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Renaissance:Phase_1#Who_are_our_users.3F

Note:
  * The acquired data contains (helpful) text comments that may
contain personal information. So if there are any legal
concerns, the non-text data would be sufficiently helpful.
  * I have been told that a plain export from withing LimeSurvey
doesn't work with the given number of data sets - so there is a
need to do an export of the underlying database.


SPECIFICATION DOCUMENTS

Description: Specification documents that describe the behavior of
OpenOffice.org or intended feature enhancements

Rationale: Required to ensure consistent changes within OpenOffice.org.
Usually, the specification documents contain essential information /
requirements.

Importance: Mid

Source:
  * http://specs.openoffice.org/
  * http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Category:Specification

Note: Some of these documents may only be available internally at
Oracle, e.g. related to the upcoming Project Renaissance improvements.


HELP AUTHORING TOOLS

Description: The utilities (macros and xslt filter) for help authoring.
They have moved out of the regular source-repository, but they are not

[PROPOSAL] Bigtop for the Apache Incubator

2011-06-13 Thread Tom White
Hi,

I would like to propose Bigtop to be an Apache Incubator project.
Bigtop is a project for the development of packaging and tests of the
Hadoop ecosystem. The goal is to do testing at various levels
(packaging, platform, runtime, upgrade, etc...) developed by a
community with a focus on the system as a whole, rather than
individual projects.

Here's a link to the proposal on the wiki
http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/BigtopProposal

I've also included the initial contents below.

Cheers,
Tom

= Bigtop - Apache Hadoop Ecosystem Packaging and Test =

== Abstract ==

Bigtop - a project for the development of packaging and tests of the
Hadoop ecosystem.

== Proposal ==

The primary goal of Bigtop is to build a community around the
packaging and interoperability testing of Hadoop-related projects.
This includes testing at various levels (packaging, platform, runtime,
upgrade, etc...) developed by a community with a focus on the system
as a whole, rather than individual projects.

Build, packaging and integration test code that depends upon official
releases of the Apache Hadoop-related projects (HDFS, MapReduce,
HBase, Hive, Pig, ZooKeeper, etc...) will be developed and released by
this project. As bugs and other issues are found we expect these to be
fixed upstream.

== Background ==

The initial packaging and test code for Bigtop was developed by
Cloudera to package projects from the Apache Hadoop ecosystem and
provide a consistent, inter-operable framework.

== Rationale ==

Hadoop defines itself as:

{{{
The Apache Hadoop project develops open-source software for reliable,
scalable, distributed computing. Hadoop includes these subprojects:

* Hadoop Common: The common utilities that support the other Hadoop subprojects.
* HDFS: A distributed file system that provides high throughput access
to application data.
* MapReduce: A software framework for distributed processing of large
data sets on compute clusters.
}}}

There are also several other Hadoop-related projects at Apache.  Some
TLP examples include HBase, Hive, Mahout, ZooKeeper, and Pig.  There
are also several new projects in the Incubator such as HCatalog and
Sqoop.

There is limited interoperability testing done the projects
themselves. The intent of this project is to build a community where
the projects are brought together, packaged, and tested for
interoperability.

Projects such as Apache Whirr (incubating), which deploy and use a
collection of Hadoop-related projects, would benefit from the
interoperability testing done by Bigtop, rather than picking and
testing project combinations themselves.

== Initial Goals ==

Much of the code for Bigtop has been released by Cloudera under the
Apache 2.0 license for over two years.

Some current goals include:
 * create a set of packages for the Hadoop ecosystem, over a wide
range of platforms
 * interoperability test these projects
 * document project sets that are known to work well together

Bigtop’s release artifact would consist of a single tarball of
packaging and test code that, when built, would produce source and
binary Linux packages for the upstream projects.

= Current Status =

== Meritocracy ==

Bigtop was originally developed and released as an open source
packaging infrastructure, CDH, by Cloudera.

== Community ==

The community is primarily the original developers at Cloudera,
however a number of contributions to the packaging specifications have
been accepted from outside contributors. Growing a diverse community
is the main reason to bring Bigtop to the Apache Incubator.

== Core Developers ==

The core developers for Bigtop project are:
 * Andrew Bayer has extensive expertise with build tools, specifically
Jenkins continuous integration and Maven.
 * Peter Linnell has contributed to the RPM packaging.
 * Bruno Mahé has overseen much of the development of the RPM and
Debian packaging system.
 * Roman Shaposhnik designed and implemented the system testing framework.

Many of the committers to the Bigtop project have contributed towards
Hadoop or related Apache projects (Alejandro Abdelnur, Eli Collins,
Patrick Hunt, John Sichi, Michael Stack, Tom White) and are familiar
with Apache principals and philosophy for community driven software
development.

== Alignment ==

We expect projects in Bigtop to be drawn from Hadoop and related
projects at Apache. Bigtop will complement these projects (Hadoop,
Pig, Hive, HBase, etc...) by providing an environment for contributors
interested in building more complex data processing pipelines to work
together integrating more than a single project into a well tested
whole.

= Known Risks =

== Orphaned Products ==

The contributors are leading vendors of Hadoop-based technologies and
have a long standing in the Hadoop community. There is minimal risk of
this work becoming non-strategic and the contributors are confident
that a larger community will form within the project in a relatively
short space of time.

== Inexperience with Open Source ==


*** Monthly reports missing ...

2011-06-13 Thread Noel J. Bergman
I know that it is early (as in the earliest that the meeting could possibly
happen), but we're late.  BeanValidation, Bluesky, Isis, and Wave are all
missing from the Wiki.

--- Noel



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Re: *** Monthly reports missing ...

2011-06-13 Thread Christian Grobmeier
Wave is already in the making - seems it has just been forgotten to
add to the wiki. I pinged them

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 missing from the Wiki.

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