Re: [Meta] Discussing in board-discuss [ was: Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF]

2022-06-12 Thread Paolo Vecchi
Hi Simon, On 12/06/2022 12:42, Simon Phipps wrote: Please note that I have (intentionally) refrained from responding to earlier messages. But no-one (including you) was addressing the repeated negative framing of Andreas' many e-mails so I offered a contribution from experience to balance

Re: [Meta] Discussing in board-discuss [ was: Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF]

2022-06-12 Thread Simon Phipps
Hi Emiliano, On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 11:03 AM Emiliano Vavassori < syntaxerror...@libreoffice.org> wrote: > Hi Simon, > > Il 12/06/22 11:17, Simon Phipps ha scritto: > > I am sorry you do not find this helpful, but being > > aware of the true history of the project (especially at a time when > >

Re: [Meta] Discussing in board-discuss [ was: Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF]

2022-06-12 Thread Paolo Vecchi
+1 Paolo On 12/06/2022 12:03, Emiliano Vavassori wrote: Hi Simon, Il 12/06/22 11:17, Simon Phipps ha scritto: They are to help newcomers like you become aware that the complaints being made are not in fact new or related to the current situation but date back to a dispute that is many years

Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF

2022-06-12 Thread Paolo Vecchi
Hi Simon, On 12/06/2022 11:17, Simon Phipps wrote: Hi Emilliano, On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 9:31 AM Emiliano Vavassori wrote: Hi Simon, Il 11/06/22 20:02, Simon Phipps ha scritto: > I will remind you > that you started this negative approach about how TDF is acting >

[Meta] Discussing in board-discuss [ was: Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF]

2022-06-12 Thread Emiliano Vavassori
Hi Simon, Il 12/06/22 11:17, Simon Phipps ha scritto: They are to help newcomers like you become aware that the complaints being made are not in fact new or related to the current situation but date back to a dispute that is many years old and still unresolved due to personal enmities. That

Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF

2022-06-12 Thread Simon Phipps
Hi Emilliano, On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 9:31 AM Emiliano Vavassori < syntaxerror...@libreoffice.org> wrote: > Hi Simon, > > Il 11/06/22 20:02, Simon Phipps ha scritto: > > I will remind you > > that you started this negative approach about how TDF is acting > > illegally when you and I were on the

Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF

2022-06-12 Thread Emiliano Vavassori
Hi Simon, Il 11/06/22 20:02, Simon Phipps ha scritto: I will remind you that you started this negative approach about how TDF is acting illegally when you and I were on the Board together last decade. I'm honestly struggling to see how your comments can be thought as positive. And how

Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF

2022-06-11 Thread Simon Phipps
Hi Andreas, On Sat, Jun 11, 2022 at 6:49 PM Andreas Mantke wrote: > But I'm tired to repeatedly try to explain things with the same result. > Otherwise that could be judged as a constant negative message by a > reader of this list. > Since I currently have no relevant affiliation to prevent me

Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF

2022-06-11 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi all, Am 10.06.22 um 12:20 schrieb Jan Holesovsky: Hi Andreas, Andreas Mantke píše v Čt 09. 06. 2022 v 20:48 +0200: this confirms that TDF has payed a part of the Android and Online development from donation money. Interestingly, I don't recall any of the Collabora Productivity clients

Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF

2022-06-11 Thread Paolo Vecchi
Hi Andreas, thanks again for providing a very good analysis of the issues which should be taken in consideration. Now that finally the objection about the "app stores" has been clarified as the board published the decision the are only a few differences left between my original proposal and

Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF

2022-06-10 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi all, Am 10.06.22 um 12:03 schrieb Jan Holesovsky: Hi Michael, Thank you for the feedback! I've updated the document accordingly, see below: Michael Weghorn píše v Út 07. 06. 2022 v 14:07 +: (...) Quoting from my previous email: (I think it definitely makes sense to get deeper into

Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF

2022-06-10 Thread Michael Weghorn
Hi Kendy, On 10/06/2022 12.03, Jan Holesovsky wrote: Thank you for the feedback! I've updated the document accordingly, see below: Thanks a lot! I'm not sure. It's still a bit unclear to me what "researching and increasing their experience by contributing to new ways to advance the free

Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF

2022-06-10 Thread Jan Holesovsky
Hi Andreas, Andreas Mantke píše v Čt 09. 06. 2022 v 20:48 +0200: > this confirms that TDF has payed a part of the Android and Online > development from donation money. Interestingly, I don't recall any of the Collabora Productivity clients (even proprietary companies) ever complaining that the

Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF

2022-06-10 Thread Jan Holesovsky
Hi Simon, Simon Phipps píše v Pá 03. 06. 2022 v 09:59 +0100: > On Fri, Jun 3, 2022 at 7:51 AM Ilmari Lauhakangas < > ilmari.lauhakan...@libreoffice.org> wrote: > > Tendering and in-house development are not interchangeable, but > > they are > > interlinked. Keep in mind that the in-house devs

Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF

2022-06-10 Thread Jan Holesovsky
Hi Michael, Thank you for the feedback! I've updated the document accordingly, see below: Michael Weghorn píše v Út 07. 06. 2022 v 14:07 +: > > Please don't get me wrong - I believe the appstores is an important > > discussion, just don't want to block the hiring on that; as I think > > it

Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF

2022-06-09 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi all, Am 09.06.22 um 13:03 schrieb Jan Holesovsky: Hi Andreas, Andreas Mantke píše v St 08. 06. 2022 v 19:53 +0200: Interestingly I cannot remember TDF ever tendering for LibreOffice Online work, can you please point me to the details? TDF tendered in 2014/2015 the work for the Android

Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF

2022-06-09 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi all, Am 09.06.22 um 08:53 schrieb Thorsten Behrens: Hi Andreas, all, Andreas Mantke wrote: Am 8. Juni 2022 22:35:01 MESZ schrieb Thorsten Behrens : As such, lets please get back to the topic. Because the acting people from that years hasn't realy changed I think that gives a clearer

Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF

2022-06-09 Thread Jan Holesovsky
Hi Andreas, Andreas Mantke píše v St 08. 06. 2022 v 19:53 +0200: > > Interestingly I cannot remember TDF ever tendering for LibreOffice > > Online work, can you please point me to the details? > TDF tendered in 2014/2015 the work for the Android editing, which was > explained to the board also

Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF

2022-06-09 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Hi Paolo, [last comment from me on this sub-thread] Paolo Vecchi wrote: > There isn't and hasn't been much debate going on and the ESC has > been asked to vote today about killing LOOL. > Whatever the outcome of the ESC discussion - moving to the attic is not 'killing' a project (which is an

Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF

2022-06-09 Thread Paolo Vecchi
Hi Thorsten, On 08/06/2022 22:35, Thorsten Behrens wrote: Dear list, Andreas Mantke wrote: Interestingly I cannot remember TDF ever tendering for LibreOffice Online work, can you please point me to the details? TDF tendered in 2014/2015 the work for the Android editing, which was explained

Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF

2022-06-09 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Hi Andreas, all, Andreas Mantke wrote: > Am 8. Juni 2022 22:35:01 MESZ schrieb Thorsten Behrens > : > >As such, lets please get back to the topic. > > > > Because the acting people from that years hasn't realy changed I > think that gives a clearer view on their mindset and agenda. It's >

Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF

2022-06-08 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi all, Am 8. Juni 2022 22:35:01 MESZ schrieb Thorsten Behrens : >Dear list, > >Andreas Mantke wrote: >> > Interestingly I cannot remember TDF ever tendering for LibreOffice >> > Online work, can you please point me to the details? >> TDF tendered in 2014/2015 the work for the Android editing,

Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF

2022-06-08 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Dear list, Andreas Mantke wrote: > > Interestingly I cannot remember TDF ever tendering for LibreOffice > > Online work, can you please point me to the details? > TDF tendered in 2014/2015 the work for the Android editing, which was > explained to the board also as important for LOOL. > That

Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF

2022-06-08 Thread Paolo Vecchi
Hi Andreas, On 08/06/2022 19:53, Andreas Mantke wrote: Hi all, Am 06.06.22 um 13:18 schrieb Jan Holesovsky: Hi Andreas, Andreas Mantke píše v Ne 05. 06. 2022 v 19:12 +0200: If I remember correctly TDF has paid a big part of work on the basics of LOOL. And maybe some former / current board

Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF

2022-06-08 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi all, Am 06.06.22 um 13:18 schrieb Jan Holesovsky: Hi Andreas, Andreas Mantke píše v Ne 05. 06. 2022 v 19:12 +0200: If I remember correctly TDF has paid a big part of work on the basics of LOOL. And maybe some former / current board member recognize which company was paid for that work

Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF

2022-06-07 Thread Michael Weghorn
Hi Kendy, all, On 31/05/2022 15.59, Jan Holesovsky wrote: Removal of section "App stores management": As mentioned earlier, I agree that it makes sense to separate the app store topic from the current proposal of hiring developers, and focus on areas that are currently not receiving enough

Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF

2022-06-06 Thread Jan Holesovsky
Hi Andreas, Andreas Mantke píše v Ne 05. 06. 2022 v 19:12 +0200: > If I remember correctly TDF has paid a big part of work on the basics > of > LOOL. And maybe some former / current board member recognize which > company was paid for that work from donation money. Interestingly I cannot

Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF

2022-06-05 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi Cor, all, Am 02.06.22 um 23:17 schrieb Cor Nouws: Hi Andreas, Thanks for your answer, Andreas Mantke wrote on 01/06/2022 20:13: Am 01.06.22 um 11:48 schrieb Cor Nouws: Andreas Mantke wrote on 31/05/2022 19:49: I only could see the difference that in one case TDF has full control

Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF

2022-06-04 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Hi Ilmari, Ilmari Lauhakangas wrote: > On 3.6.2022 11.58, Thorsten Behrens wrote: > > [1] curious as in - how much weight should that carry, when writing > > the job posting / assessing skills? > > It's a necessity. I have newbie level experience that I definitely hope to > grow alongside

Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF

2022-06-03 Thread Paolo Vecchi
Hi Cor, On 03/06/2022 13:16, Cor Nouws wrote: Hi Paolo, Paolo Vecchi wrote on 03/06/2022 11:53: ... Another reason why I did not want to share my proposal open for editing to anyone is that it might happen that someone writes something that should not be written in a public document. We

Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF

2022-06-03 Thread Jan Holesovsky
Hi Andreas, Andreas Mantke píše v Čt 02. 06. 2022 v 18:34 +0200: > But seriously: you behave in a way which is unworthy for a leader of > an > OSS project. The TDF community consists not only from TDF members. > And > you denigrate all participants which are not TDF member. This damages > the

Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF

2022-06-03 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Paolo, Paolo Vecchi wrote on 03/06/2022 11:53: ... Another reason why I did not want to share my proposal open for editing to anyone is that it might happen that someone writes something that should not be written in a public document. We want a public discussion (of course not when it

Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF

2022-06-03 Thread Ilmari Lauhakangas
On 3.6.2022 11.58, Thorsten Behrens wrote: Ilmari Lauhakangas wrote: Tendering and in-house development are not interchangeable, but they are interlinked. Keep in mind that the in-house devs would participate in running tenders. That's a possibility, yeah. But just curious [1], is that

Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF

2022-06-03 Thread Paolo Vecchi
Hi Simon, On 03/06/2022 10:59, Simon Phipps wrote: Hi! On Fri, Jun 3, 2022 at 7:51 AM Ilmari Lauhakangas wrote: Tendering and in-house development are not interchangeable, but they are interlinked. Keep in mind that the in-house devs would participate in running tenders.

Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF

2022-06-03 Thread Simon Phipps
Hi! On Fri, Jun 3, 2022 at 7:51 AM Ilmari Lauhakangas < ilmari.lauhakan...@libreoffice.org> wrote: > > Tendering and in-house development are not interchangeable, but they are > interlinked. Keep in mind that the in-house devs would participate in > running tenders. > Another valuable role for

Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF

2022-06-03 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Hi Ilmari, all, Ilmari Lauhakangas wrote: > Tendering and in-house development are not interchangeable, but they are > interlinked. Keep in mind that the in-house devs would participate in > running tenders. > That's a possibility, yeah. But just curious [1], is that currently a bottleneck for

Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF

2022-06-03 Thread Ilmari Lauhakangas
On 2.6.2022 21.50, laszlo.nem...@documentfoundation.org wrote: Also tendering and in-house development are not interchangeable. The planned in-house development with 1-2 developers is not a viable option for LibreOffice development without the development activity of a couple dozen developers

Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF

2022-06-02 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Paolo, Paolo Vecchi wrote on 02/06/2022 22:59: thanks for your extensive explanation which I really appreciate as I appreciate your contributions both during your working hours and as a volunteer. We surely are all working with passion to reach the same goal and we have specialisations

Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF

2022-06-02 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Andreas, Thanks for your answer, Andreas Mantke wrote on 01/06/2022 20:13: Am 01.06.22 um 11:48 schrieb Cor Nouws: Andreas Mantke wrote on 31/05/2022 19:49: I only could see the difference that in one case TDF has full control I do not understand what you mean. What is full

Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF

2022-06-02 Thread Paolo Vecchi
Hi Laszlo, thanks for your extensive explanation which I really appreciate as I appreciate your contributions both during your working hours and as a volunteer. We surely are all working with passion to reach the same goal and we have specialisations that allow us to view things from

Re: Details about CoI - Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF

2022-06-02 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi all, Am 02.06.22 um 16:14 schrieb Emiliano Vavassori: Hi all, I think it is just fair to add some small details about the how a CoI should be processed as food for thoughts and only for the sake of the argument. Il 02/06/22 12:32, Jan Holesovsky ha scritto: Thus I'd expect that this CoI

Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF

2022-06-02 Thread laszlo . nemeth
Hi, Sorry, I hope my late answer will be as friendly and productive as I intended it to be. On 2022-06-01 17:23, Andreas Mantke wrote: Hi all, Am 01.06.22 um 11:11 schrieb Jan Holesovsky: Hi Andreas, Andreas Mantke píše v Út 31. 05. 2022 v 19:49 +0200: I'd be curious to know what would

Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF

2022-06-02 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi, Am 02.06.22 um 12:32 schrieb Jan Holesovsky: Hi Andreas, Andreas Mantke píše v St 01. 06. 2022 v 17:23 +0200: Am 01.06.22 um 11:11 schrieb Jan Holesovsky: The difference is that once you hire a developer / developers, the development becomes a mandatory expense - TDF has to pay their

Details about CoI - Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF

2022-06-02 Thread Emiliano Vavassori
Hi all, I think it is just fair to add some small details about the how a CoI should be processed as food for thoughts and only for the sake of the argument. Il 02/06/22 12:32, Jan Holesovsky ha scritto: Thus I'd expect that this CoI should be solved asap and the appropriate measures taken

Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF

2022-06-02 Thread Jan Holesovsky
Hi Andreas, Andreas Mantke píše v St 01. 06. 2022 v 17:23 +0200: > Am 01.06.22 um 11:11 schrieb Jan Holesovsky: > > > > The difference is that once you hire a developer / developers, the > > development becomes a mandatory expense - TDF has to pay their wage > > every month. > > It seemed you

Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF

2022-06-01 Thread Paolo Vecchi
+1 Paolo On 01/06/2022 20:13, Andreas Mantke wrote: Hi Cor, all, Am 01.06.22 um 11:48 schrieb Cor Nouws: Hi Andreas, Andreas Mantke wrote on 31/05/2022 19:49: I'd be curious to know what would be (from the point of TDF's mission / statutes) the difference between working on the source

Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF

2022-06-01 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi Cor, all, Am 01.06.22 um 11:48 schrieb Cor Nouws: Hi Andreas, Andreas Mantke wrote on 31/05/2022 19:49: I'd be curious to know what would be (from the point of TDF's mission / statutes) the difference between working on the source code by in-house developers and by tendering and paying a

Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF

2022-06-01 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi all, Am 01.06.22 um 11:11 schrieb Jan Holesovsky: Hi Andreas, Andreas Mantke píše v Út 31. 05. 2022 v 19:49 +0200: I'd be curious to know what would be (from the point of TDF's mission / statutes) the difference between working on the source code by in- house developers and by tendering

Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF

2022-06-01 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Andreas, Andreas Mantke wrote on 31/05/2022 19:49: I'd be curious to know what would be (from the point of TDF's mission / statutes) the difference between working on the source code by in-house developers and by tendering and paying a commercial company for doing this work? I only could

Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF

2022-06-01 Thread Jan Holesovsky
Hi Andreas, Andreas Mantke píše v Út 31. 05. 2022 v 19:49 +0200: > I'd be curious to know what would be (from the point of TDF's mission > / > statutes) the difference between working on the source code by in- > house > developers and by tendering and paying a commercial company for doing > this

Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF

2022-06-01 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Paolo, Paolo Vecchi wrote on 28/05/2022 11:25: The intention here (and I would very much like to support that idea), is to come up with a merged proposal, which then gets broad support. Broad support by whom? Up until Collabora Productivity's general manager came out with his own

Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF

2022-05-31 Thread Andreas Mantke
Hi, Am 31.05.22 um 15:59 schrieb Jan Holesovsky: Hi Michael, Michael Weghorn píše v So 28. 05. 2022 v 21:21 +: (...) The following passage in that section is a bit unclear to me: It is also expected that while the Targeted Developer is unable to actively contribute to public and

Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF

2022-05-31 Thread Jan Holesovsky
Hi Michael, Michael Weghorn píše v So 28. 05. 2022 v 21:21 +: > I think having Paolo's original proposal and this one in a form > that's > easy to compare is very helpful. Thank you! > After reading the discussion on the mailing list, I was surprised > that > the overall direction still

Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF

2022-05-28 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Hi Paolo, all, Paolo Vecchi wrote: > On 27/05/2022 12:31, Thorsten Behrens wrote: > > Process-wise, my call to work out a proposal how to come to a joint > > text (in a small circle) is still open. > > I've asked many times but still no answer. Will you one day explain why you > keep wanting to

Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF

2022-05-28 Thread Michael Weghorn
Hi Kendy, all, On 26/05/2022 17.08, Jan Holesovsky wrote: Good idea, Paolo, thank you. The new version that merges the proposals is in: https://nextcloud.documentfoundation.org/f/960049 as TDF-In-House-Developers-Proposal-v2.1.odt All my changes are change-tracked, so it should make

Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF

2022-05-28 Thread Paolo Vecchi
Hi, On 27/05/2022 12:31, Thorsten Behrens wrote: Hi Paolo, all, Paolo Vecchi wrote: That document clearly contains another proposal which should go its own way instead of trying to make it pass as a "merged" proposal. The intention here (and I would very much like to support that idea), is

Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF

2022-05-27 Thread Jan Holesovsky
Hi Paolo, Paolo Vecchi píše v Pá 27. 05. 2022 v 10:58 +0200: > Hiring-another-mentor-controlled-by-ESC-v1.0.odt is probably a more > indicated name for that new proposal. Hiring: yes. another-mentor: no; the proposal clearly says the primary role is development. + The secondary mentoring

Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF

2022-05-27 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Hi Paolo, all, Paolo Vecchi wrote: > That document clearly contains another proposal which should go its own way > instead of trying to make it pass as a "merged" proposal. > The intention here (and I would very much like to support that idea), is to come up with a merged proposal, which then

Re: [board-discuss] Merged proposal for in-house developers at TDF

2022-05-27 Thread Paolo Vecchi
Hi Kendy, On 26/05/2022 17:08, Jan Holesovsky wrote: TDF-In-House-Developers-Proposal-v2.1.odt what you wrote in that document has completely changed the logic of the proposal so please do rename that file in something that relates better to its content. That document clearly contains