Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines... numerically ...

2011-06-02 Thread Greg Stein
I don't see any of this discussion about numbers being helpful, only divisive. "My numbers are right." "No, they're not. See?" "But those numbers are too small." Get over it already, people. Find something substative to discuss. -g On Jun 3, 2011 1:22 AM, "Norbert Thiebaud" wrote: > On Thu, Jun

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines... numerically ...

2011-06-02 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:07 PM, wrote: > Michael Meeks wrote on 06/02/2011 08:57:27 PM: > >> >> -    $scripts_dir/merge-log -p LIBREOFFICE_CREATE.. >$outdir/all-lo.log >> +    $scripts_dir/merge-log --all --since='2011-01-03' >>$outdir/all-lo.log >> >>    Show 'active' contributors by affiliati

Re: Proposal for OpenOffice Incubator strategy

2011-06-02 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/2/2011 7:12 PM, Simon Phipps wrote: > > This is purely my own thoughts, and there's no doubt room for improvement > although I have run it past a few wise friends before posting it. But I > suggest that without this clear demarcation of "new-project" and > "business-as-usual-project" it wi

Re: Volunteering for the Apache OpenOffice podling?

2011-06-02 Thread Craig L Russell
Hi Sebb, These days we record exactly what is in the first line of the ICLA: Sidney Phillip Rhodes. Both in the iclas.txt and the name of the document. Craig On Jun 2, 2011, at 6:59 PM, sebb wrote: On 3 June 2011 02:44, Phillip Rhodes wrote: On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 9:00 PM, sebb wrote

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-02 Thread robert_weir
Niall Pemberton wrote on 06/02/2011 09:07:31 PM: > > The "Required Resources" section of the proposal is pretty > minimalistic listing only two mailing lists, JIRA, Subversion & > download site. While it is not necessary IMO to detail all > requirements prior to accepting the proposal, it would

[ANNOUNCE] Apache Hama 0.2.0-incubating Released!

2011-06-02 Thread Edward J. Yoon
Hi all, The Hama team is pleased to announce the first release of Apache Hama 0.2.0-incubating under the Apache Incubator. Hama is a distributed computing framework based on BSP (Bulk Synchronous Parallel)[1] computing techniques for massive scientific computations. This first release includes:

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines... numerically ...

2011-06-02 Thread robert_weir
Michael Meeks wrote on 06/02/2011 08:57:27 PM: > > -$scripts_dir/merge-log -p LIBREOFFICE_CREATE.. >$outdir/all-lo.log > +$scripts_dir/merge-log --all --since='2011-01-03' >$outdir/all-lo.log > >Show 'active' contributors by affiliation - ie. at least one patch > contributed in the

Re: Corporate Contribution [Blondie's Parallel Lines...]

2011-06-02 Thread Sam Ruby
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:24 PM, wrote: > "William A. Rowe Jr." wrote on 06/02/2011 03:22:24 > PM: > >> > On 02/06/2011 16:22, Jim Jagielski wrote: >> >> >> >> The initial list has grown and I expect it to continue to; up >> >> until it was announced, no one new about it, so it was kinda >> >> i

Re: Corporate Contribution [Blondie's Parallel Lines...]

2011-06-02 Thread robert_weir
"William A. Rowe Jr." wrote on 06/02/2011 03:22:24 PM: > > On 02/06/2011 16:22, Jim Jagielski wrote: > >> > >> The initial list has grown and I expect it to continue to; up > >> until it was announced, no one new about it, so it was kinda > >> impossible to get a more comprehensive list. Now tha

Re: OpenOffice Apache Incubator Proposal and uniting "The Community"

2011-06-02 Thread Greg Stein
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 20:22, wrote: >... > The only concrete thing I've heard so far is the question of whether > subversion can handle the project. I would be extremely surprised if Subversion could not handle it. I'd like to know more about the problems that the OO.o devs ran into. >  Are th

Re: Volunteering for the Apache OpenOffice podling?

2011-06-02 Thread Phillip Rhodes
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 9:59 PM, sebb wrote: > > The CLA lists the name as "Sidney Philip Rhodes" - not sure why Philip > was omitted from the file that records the CLAs. > It's signed: "Philip Rhodes". > Yep, that would be me. Sidney is my first name, but since *both* of my grandfathers, and my

Re: Volunteering for the Apache OpenOffice podling?

2011-06-02 Thread sebb
On 3 June 2011 02:44, Phillip Rhodes wrote: > On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 9:00 PM, sebb wrote: > >> Specifically, here: >> >> http://people.apache.org/committer-index.html#unlistedclas >> >> but again I don't see your name >> >> > Actually, it is there.  It's just under my first name "Sidney" instead

Re: Volunteering for the Apache OpenOffice podling?

2011-06-02 Thread Phillip Rhodes
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 9:00 PM, sebb wrote: > Specifically, here: > > http://people.apache.org/committer-index.html#unlistedclas > > but again I don't see your name > > Actually, it is there. It's just under my first name "Sidney" instead of my middle name, which I usually go by. :-) That is, a

Re: Open Office Dependencies

2011-06-02 Thread robert_weir
Benson Margulies wrote on 06/02/2011 09:19:32 PM: > > The proposal, as I read it, doesn't address the license status of > third party software dependencies. > I'll get something into the proposal on the wiki. I think someone has mistaken the "external dependencies" section as meaning infrastr

Re: Proposal for OpenOffice Incubator strategy

2011-06-02 Thread robert_weir
Simon Phipps wrote on 06/02/2011 08:12:40 PM: > 2. This incubator project, which sets out to be the "Firefox of > OpenOffice", should proceed pretty much as described, but under a > name other than OpenOffice (just as Firefox got a different name). > Something like "Apache ODF Suite" that de

Open Office Dependencies

2011-06-02 Thread Benson Margulies
The proposal, as I read it, doesn't address the license status of third party software dependencies. The one time that I endeavoured to build OOo from source, it had a long list of mandatory dependencies. Reference http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html. While some of them might qualify as 'p

Re: Volunteering for the Apache OpenOffice podling?

2011-06-02 Thread Alasdair Nottingham
That isn't an impediment to Philip adding his name into the list of initial committers though. It just means he has to fax a CLA before he can get an id right? Alasdair Nottingham On 3 Jun 2011, at 02:00, sebb wrote: > Specifically, here: > > http://people.apache.org/committer-index.html#unl

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-02 Thread Niall Pemberton
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 4:41 PM, Luke Kowalski wrote: > The following project is being sent in as an incubator candidate. The "Required Resources" section of the proposal is pretty minimalistic listing only two mailing lists, JIRA, Subversion & download site. While it is not necessary IMO to detai

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Splitting^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HREUNITING the Community?

2011-06-02 Thread Benson Margulies
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Ian Lynch wrote: > On 2 June 2011 22:42, Benson Margulies wrote: > > The existing of TDF and the preference of its contributors for >> copyleft is data, but for me it's not data that could persuade me to >> vote -1 in this PMC. I don't care if there are 5,000 peopl

Re: Volunteering for the Apache OpenOffice podling?

2011-06-02 Thread sebb
Specifically, here: http://people.apache.org/committer-index.html#unlistedclas but again I don't see your name On 3 June 2011 01:59, Davanum Srinivas wrote: > Philip, > > please check here - http://people.apache.org/committer-index.html > > I don't think i see your name there > > -- dims > > On

Re: Volunteering for the Apache OpenOffice podling?

2011-06-02 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Philip, please check here - http://people.apache.org/committer-index.html I don't think i see your name there -- dims On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 8:53 PM, Phillip Rhodes wrote: > Hmmm... I was never a committer, somebody else applied that patch... but I > was asked to fax in a CLA.  Not sure if tha

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines... numerically ...

2011-06-02 Thread Michael Meeks
So, On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 16:55 -0400, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: > Questionable? If only 54 people have checked in code in the last 6 > months, then no amount of magic with source code indentation is going to > get you to 400 developers. If you disagree, I'd like to see the magic you > ca

Re: Volunteering for the Apache OpenOffice podling?

2011-06-02 Thread Phillip Rhodes
Hmmm... I was never a committer, somebody else applied that patch... but I was asked to fax in a CLA. Not sure if that helps or not. :-) Phil On Jun 2, 2011 8:25 PM, "Sam Ruby" wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Phillip Rhodes > wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Jim Jagielski

Re: Proposal for OpenOffice Incubator strategy

2011-06-02 Thread Simon Phipps
On 3 Jun 2011, at 02:32, Allen Pulsifer wrote: > Hello Simon, > > This is a noble proposal, but there are is an important prerequisite. The > LibreOffice is currently only accepting contributions licensed under the > LGPL. The LibreOffice project cannot take those contributions and insert > th

RE: OpenOffice Apache Incubator Proposal and uniting "The Community"

2011-06-02 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Jim Jagielski wrote: > Allen Pulsifer wrote: > > As a long time member of the OpenOffice.org community, I would like to offer > > my thoughts on the Oracle/IBM proposal. > Thanks for the very well-written and well-reasoned post. +1 --- Noel

RE: Proposal for OpenOffice Incubator strategy

2011-06-02 Thread Allen Pulsifer
Hello Simon, This is a noble proposal, but there are is an important prerequisite. The LibreOffice is currently only accepting contributions licensed under the LGPL. The LibreOffice project cannot take those contributions and insert them into an Apache Licensed project without the approval of th

Re: Volunteering for the Apache OpenOffice podling?

2011-06-02 Thread Sam Ruby
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Phillip Rhodes wrote: > On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: >> >> Under the list of proposed committers, yes. >> -- > > Awesome. I should already have a CLA on file, from when I made a > contribution to Roller Weblogger a few years back.  That was,

Re: OpenOffice Apache Incubator Proposal and uniting "The Community"

2011-06-02 Thread robert_weir
"Allen Pulsifer" wrote on 06/02/2011 06:58:45 PM: > > As a long time member of the OpenOffice.org community, I would like to offer > my thoughts on the Oracle/IBM proposal. > Thanks. This is a great summary of the history. . . . > > Despite the fact the IBM's vision for OpenOffice seems

Proposal for OpenOffice Incubator strategy

2011-06-02 Thread Simon Phipps
TL;DR version: I think I see people talking past each other for a bunch of reasons, and I have a compromise proposal that might make things easier. It's at the bottom, and explained in some detail in the middle. Introduction Before I start I will introduce myself. I was at Sun for

Re: Volunteering for the Apache OpenOffice podling?

2011-06-02 Thread Phillip Rhodes
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: > > > Under the list of proposed committers, yes. > -- Awesome. I should already have a CLA on file, from when I made a contribution to Roller Weblogger a few years back. That was, however, some time ago. Is there a way to confirm that my CL

Re: OpenOffice Apache Incubator Proposal and uniting "The Community"

2011-06-02 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 06:58:45PM -0400, Allen Pulsifer wrote: > As a long time member of the OpenOffice.org community, I would like to offer > my thoughts on the Oracle/IBM proposal. > Thanks for the very well-written and well-reasoned post. --

Re: Volunteering for the Apache OpenOffice podling?

2011-06-02 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 06:37:47PM -0400, Phillip Rhodes wrote: > For those of us who are interested in volunteering to support the new Apache > OpenOffice podling, > what is the correct procedure to state such interest? Should one add > themselves to the > wiki version of the proposal under "comm

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-02 Thread Greg Stein
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 19:06, Steve Loughran wrote: > On 01/06/2011 17:33, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: >... >> have the exactly numbers, but there are significant users of the following >> OpenOffice derivatives: >> >> - LibreOffice >> - IBM Lotus Symphony >> - EuroOffice >> - BrOffice (which so

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-02 Thread Steve Loughran
On 01/06/2011 17:33, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: Jukka Zitting wrote on 06/01/2011 12:13:09 PM: Community OpenOffice.org. seeks to further encourage developer and user communities during incubation, beyond the existing developers currently working on the project. Any thoughts on

Re: Volunteering for the Apache OpenOffice podling?

2011-06-02 Thread Craig L Russell
On Jun 2, 2011, at 3:37 PM, Phillip Rhodes wrote: For those of us who are interested in volunteering to support the new Apache OpenOffice podling, what is the correct procedure to state such interest? Should one add themselves to the wiki version of the proposal under "committers?" Or "other?

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-02 Thread Steve Loughran
On 01/06/2011 17:21, Ross Gardler wrote: Thanks for this exciting proposal. I have a few questions. There are only two initial committers identified in the proposal. Why only two for such a large codebase? It's going to be very hard for two committers to manage and maintain this code. The prop

OpenOffice Apache Incubator Proposal and uniting "The Community"

2011-06-02 Thread Allen Pulsifer
As a long time member of the OpenOffice.org community, I would like to offer my thoughts on the Oracle/IBM proposal. For a long time, we had the situation where Sun released OpenOffice under the LGPL, but insisted that any contributions to the official OpenOffice distribution include a copyright a

Volunteering for the Apache OpenOffice podling?

2011-06-02 Thread Phillip Rhodes
For those of us who are interested in volunteering to support the new Apache OpenOffice podling, what is the correct procedure to state such interest? Should one add themselves to the wiki version of the proposal under "committers?" Or "other?" Thanks, Phillip

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Splitting^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HREUNITING the Community?

2011-06-02 Thread Phillip Rhodes
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Benson Margulies wrote: > This whole topic seems to suffer from malformed or uninformative subject > lines. > > I submit that it's not the purview of the ASF or the Incubator PMC to > achieve world peace, or whirled peas, or a single project for open > source docume

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread dsh
Excellent Rob! FYI Celix [1] entered the inucbator with just one single initial committer and thus I'd say there's was no point at any time requiring hundreds of developers backing the proposal. [1] http://incubator.apache.org/projects/celix.html Cheers Daniel On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 12:12 AM,

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-02 Thread Dave Fisher
On Jun 2, 2011, at 11:12 AM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: > Yegor Kozlov wrote on 06/02/2011 01:36:52 PM: > >> >>> I can't speak for the whole project, but personally I'd be interested > in >>> discussing how the POI mission statement could be expanded, and if > that'd >>> work well for eve

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread robert_weir
Greg Stein wrote on 06/02/2011 05:45:57 PM: > On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 16:55, wrote: > > dsh wrote on 06/02/2011 04:44:26 PM: > > > >> > >> IMHO "the project" is "on track" the community just needs to discuss > >> some more things and sort them out. It is just that I don't even think > >> it'

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Splitting^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HREUNITING the Community?

2011-06-02 Thread Ian Lynch
On 2 June 2011 22:42, Benson Margulies wrote: The existing of TDF and the preference of its contributors for > copyleft is data, but for me it's not data that could persuade me to > vote -1 in this PMC. I don't care if there are 5,000 people out there > who are firmly planning to stick to TDF lik

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread Greg Stein
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 16:55, wrote: > dsh wrote on 06/02/2011 04:44:26 PM: > >> >> IMHO "the project" is "on track" the community just needs to discuss >> some more things and sort them out. It is just that I don't even think >> it's required to provide proof-points based on "questionable" >> a

Re: OpenOffice - Wiki - Required Resources - Subversion vs. Mercurial vs. Git

2011-06-02 Thread Greg Stein
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 16:40, Noel J. Bergman wrote: >> We already had subversion for some time as the repository for the main >> code and it didn't work well for a project this size. > > Tangential to the responses you've already received, I'm curious as to the > problems you experienced with Sub

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Splitting^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HREUNITING the Community?

2011-06-02 Thread Benson Margulies
This whole topic seems to suffer from malformed or uninformative subject lines. I submit that it's not the purview of the ASF or the Incubator PMC to achieve world peace, or whirled peas, or a single project for open source document software. Oracle has granted code to the ASF. A group of people

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Splitting^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HREUNITING the Community?

2011-06-02 Thread Ian Lynch
On 2 June 2011 21:22, Noel J. Bergman wrote: > Florian Effenberger wrote: > > > Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > > If there is a community split, that decision will rest solely on those > > > who choose not to join our all-inclusive environment. > > > So, if TDF does not join the Apache OOo project, a

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread dsh
Sorry no tab keys involved ... I'd like to indent with spaces :D :D Cheers Daniel On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:55 PM, wrote: > dsh wrote on 06/02/2011 04:44:26 PM: > >> >> IMHO "the project" is "on track" the community just needs to discuss >> some more things and sort them out. It is just that I

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread robert_weir
dsh wrote on 06/02/2011 04:44:26 PM: > > IMHO "the project" is "on track" the community just needs to discuss > some more things and sort them out. It is just that I don't even think > it's required to provide proof-points based on "questionable" > analytics at this point in time. There is a say

RE: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Splitting^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HREUNITING the Community?

2011-06-02 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Charles H. Schulz wrote: > Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > Oracle's move with OO.o will fully open the project to all participants > > and use-cases, including those who might previously have had to enter > > into alternate, paid, licensing arrangements with the copyright holder. > And it comes with ar

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread dsh
Rob, IMHO "the project" is "on track" the community just needs to discuss some more things and sort them out. It is just that I don't even think it's required to provide proof-points based on "questionable" analytics at this point in time. There is a saying in this regards "I only believe in stati

RE: OpenOffice - Wiki - Required Resources - Subversion vs. Mercurial vs. Git

2011-06-02 Thread Noel J. Bergman
> We already had subversion for some time as the repository for the main > code and it didn't work well for a project this size. Tangential to the responses you've already received, I'm curious as to the problems you experienced with Subversion. Our infrastructure team, working closely over the y

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Splitting^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HREUNITING the Community?

2011-06-02 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Noel, 2011/6/2 Noel J. Bergman > Florian Effenberger wrote: > > > Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > > If there is a community split, that decision will rest solely on those > > > who choose not to join our all-inclusive environment. > > > So, if TDF does not join the Apache OOo project, a communi

Re: OpenOffice - Wiki - Required Resources - Subversion vs. Mercurial vs. Git

2011-06-02 Thread eric b
Le 2 juin 11 à 22:26, Christian Lippka a écrit : Hello, Hello Christian, The Open Office Proposal Wiki currently lists a subversion repository as a required resource. We already had subversion for some time as the repository for the main code and it didn't work well for a project this

Re: OpenOffice - Wiki - Required Resources - Subversion vs. Mercurial vs. Git

2011-06-02 Thread Ross Gardler
On 02/06/2011 21:26, Christian Lippka wrote: Hello, The Open Office Proposal Wiki currently lists a subversion repository as a required resource. We already had subversion for some time as the repository for the main code and it didn't work well for a project this size. I do not like to start a

Re: OpenOffice - Wiki - Required Resources - Subversion vs. Mercurial vs. Git

2011-06-02 Thread Greg Stein
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 16:26, Christian Lippka wrote: > Hello, > > The Open Office Proposal Wiki currently lists a subversion repository as a > required resource. > > We already had subversion for some time as the repository for the main code > and it didn't > work well for a project this size. I

OpenOffice - Wiki - Required Resources - Subversion vs. Mercurial vs. Git

2011-06-02 Thread Christian Lippka
Hello, The Open Office Proposal Wiki currently lists a subversion repository as a required resource. We already had subversion for some time as the repository for the main code and it didn't work well for a project this size. I do not like to start a religious ware so from my point of view

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread Ross Gardler
On 02/06/2011 21:16, dsh wrote: Of course I now some more magic than just re-indent a codebase... that would be to easy to spot wouldn't it ;) Indeed, I inadvertently found what I believe to be the best approach. Commit an svn:props change to a template that is an svn:external in 30+ of ASF

RE: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Splitting^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HREUNITING the Community?

2011-06-02 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Florian Effenberger wrote: > Noel J. Bergman wrote: > > If there is a community split, that decision will rest solely on those > > who choose not to join our all-inclusive environment. > So, if TDF does not join the Apache OOo project, a community split is > our (=TDF) fault. However, if the peop

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread robert_weir
dsh wrote on 06/02/2011 04:05:38 PM: > > IMHO you should not discuss or question the LO community size > respective its vitality in any way at this place. That's certainly not > the scope of the OpenOffice Apache incubation proposal anyway. The I disagree. The question was raised on the list w

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread Greg Stein
Oh, totally agree. It is useful as a rough measure, but completely ignores many other forms of contribution. *shrug* On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 16:16, dsh wrote: > Of course I now some more magic than just re-indent a codebase... that > would be to easy to spot wouldn't it ;) > > Seriously: I doubt

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread dsh
Of course I now some more magic than just re-indent a codebase... that would be to easy to spot wouldn't it ;) Seriously: I doubt some code analysis or commit log analysis practices especially if the goal would be to make an assertion about someones "performance". IMHO that leaves a bad taste in a

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Splitting^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HREUNITING the Community?

2011-06-02 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jun 2, 2011, at 4:03 PM, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: > > That's a tough one, Jim :-) It's what I do :) > > my personal feeling (I'm not speaking > on behalf of TDF on this one) is that we didn't have enough time/opportunity > to understand each other more. And now, we are looking at a hairball

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread Greg Stein
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 16:05, dsh wrote: >... > Final note on commit log analysis - if that's a criterion how to > define an active ASF "participant" my most active times are certainly > pretty dated but of course I would know how to teak commit logs to > make me look more active if I'd ever like

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread dsh
Rob, IMHO you should not discuss or question the LO community size respective its vitality in any way at this place. That's certainly not the scope of the OpenOffice Apache incubation proposal anyway. The goal of the proposal as I understand it is to build a vital community around it at the ASF an

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread Greg Stein
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 15:48, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: >... > Well, would you be happy with the second part of the sentence you're > alluding to? To repeat it, LibreOffice and the Document Foundation embody de > facto most of the OpenOffice.org community, and even beyond. I certainly would agree

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Splitting^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HREUNITING the Community?

2011-06-02 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Jim, 2011/6/2 Jim Jagielski > > On Jun 2, 2011, at 3:34 PM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: > > > > Sense 2 is a but more subjective, since each person might have their own > > vision of what the ideal community would look like. > > Let's look at it this way: Pretend that when things starting goin

"opportunity to reunite the related communities" Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Splitting the Community?

2011-06-02 Thread Andreas Kuckartz
Am 02.06.2011 18:09, schrieb Jukka Zitting: > I wouldn't be too quick to throw away this opportunity to reunite the related communities. > > If the differences truly are insurmountable, I'd like to see that > explained in the proposal before we vote on it. +1 (not binding) Cheers, Andreas -

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Rob, 2011/6/2 > charles.h.sch...@gmail.com wrote on 06/02/2011 02:42:11 PM: > > > No Rob, I don't question your credentials, have not done that, will > never > > done that. Both of us know better than having that kind of talk, both of > us > > have worked together for years now, at the OASIS and

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Splitting^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HREUNITING the Community?

2011-06-02 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jun 2, 2011, at 3:34 PM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: > > Sense 2 is a but more subjective, since each person might have their own > vision of what the ideal community would look like. Let's look at it this way: Pretend that when things starting going south in OOo, but before TDF was formed

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread robert_weir
charles.h.sch...@gmail.com wrote on 06/02/2011 02:42:11 PM: > No Rob, I don't question your credentials, have not done that, will never > done that. Both of us know better than having that kind of talk, both of us > have worked together for years now, at the OASIS and elsewhere. What I'm > quest

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Splitting^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HREUNITING the Community?

2011-06-02 Thread robert_weir
Florian Effenberger wrote on 06/02/2011 03:01:26 PM: > > Hello, > > as we have a public holiday in Germany, I will reply to the other > messages tomorrow. However, I cannot leave this sentence uncommented: > > Noel J. Bergman wrote on 2011-06-02 20.50: > > If there is a community split, that

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Splitting^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HREUNITING the Community?

2011-06-02 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Christian, Christian Grobmeier wrote on 2011-06-02 21.09: Noel wants surely express OOo is open to everybody and there is no intention to split anything. Lets not speak about "faults" or anything. It is even possible that both communities can benefit from each other. Whatever, its not about

Re: Corporate Contribution [Blondie's Parallel Lines...]

2011-06-02 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/2/2011 11:07 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: > On 02/06/2011 16:22, Jim Jagielski wrote: >> >> The initial list has grown and I expect it to continue to; up >> until it was announced, no one new about it, so it was kinda >> impossible to get a more comprehensive list. Now that people >> do know about

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread Jomar Silva (Cuca)
> One simple example: Imagine the Apache project as the core > "guts" of OOo, the framework. With TDF working on parts > that extend and enhance OOo, in a modular fashion, for > a particular set of end-users... or something like that. +1 Best, Jomar -

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Splitting^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HREUNITING the Community?

2011-06-02 Thread Rich Bowen
On Jun 2, 2011, at 3:01 PM, Florian Effenberger wrote: > Noel J. Bergman wrote on 2011-06-02 20.50: >> If there is a community split, that >> decision will rest solely on those who choose not to join our all-inclusive >> environment. > > So, if TDF does not join the Apache OOo project, a communi

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Splitting^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HREUNITING the Community?

2011-06-02 Thread Christian Grobmeier
Hi Florian > So, if TDF does not join the Apache OOo project, a community split is our > (=TDF) fault. However, if the people proposing the Apache incubator project > do not join TDF, a community split is not their fault. Noel wants surely express OOo is open to everybody and there is no intentio

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread Sam Ruby
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: > > I am certainly not going to enter a debate on licensing, and I think nobody > wants that here. But I just think that there are other ways to cooperate > than pretending the elephant in the room (LibreOffice, the Document > Foundation) do

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Splitting^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HREUNITING the Community?

2011-06-02 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, as we have a public holiday in Germany, I will reply to the other messages tomorrow. However, I cannot leave this sentence uncommented: Noel J. Bergman wrote on 2011-06-02 20.50: If there is a community split, that decision will rest solely on those who choose not to join our all-inclu

RE: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Splitting^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HREUNITING the Community?

2011-06-02 Thread Noel J. Bergman
First off, as we've seen with other projects that have gone through Incubation, we have not chosen to avoid areas where others have projects. Simply put, if there is interest from a community, we seek to be supportive. If this proposal goes through, and the ASF chooses to incubate OO.o, everyone w

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Rob, 2011/6/2 > charles.h.sch...@gmail.com wrote on 06/02/2011 11:16:45 AM: > > > I do have a question though. To me it's unclear whether the Openoffice > > project has any real development ressources. I see so far one developer > and > > Rob, who I know to be a distinguished engineer from

Fwd: [CANCEL] [VOTE] Apache Isis release candidate 0.1.2-RC2-incubating

2011-06-02 Thread Mohammad Nour El-Din
Hi... Apache Isis release candidate 0.1.2-RC2-incubating vote has been canceled. -- Forwarded message -- From: Dan Haywood Date: Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 7:32 PM Subject: [CANCEL] [VOTE] Apache Isis release candidate 0.1.2-RC2-incubating To: isis-...@incubator.apache.org This vo

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-02 Thread robert_weir
Yegor Kozlov wrote on 06/02/2011 01:36:52 PM: > > > I can't speak for the whole project, but personally I'd be interested in > > discussing how the POI mission statement could be expanded, and if that'd > > work well for everyone. > > > > On the web site we say that the Apache POI Project's m

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread robert_weir
charles.h.sch...@gmail.com wrote on 06/02/2011 11:16:45 AM: > I do have a question though. To me it's unclear whether the Openoffice > project has any real development ressources. I see so far one developer and > Rob, who I know to be a distinguished engineer from IBM but who has never > contrib

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-02 Thread Yegor Kozlov
> I can't speak for the whole project, but personally I'd be interested in > discussing how the POI mission statement could be expanded, and if that'd > work well for everyone. > On the web site we say that the Apache POI Project's mission is to create and maintain Java APIs for Microsoft Document

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Splitting the Community?

2011-06-02 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: > All I'm trying to say is that if we are focusing more on > repeating what a missed opportunity it was, rather than > moving past it and trying to figure out how to take advantage > of the current opportunities that are now open to us, the

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Licensing Q's [was: Incubator Proposal]

2011-06-02 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/2/2011 11:45 AM, Greg Stein wrote: > > We know the *precise* list of files that we have rights to. They are > explicitly specified in the software grant recorded by the Secretary. > > For all other files not listed: we have no special rights. Those files > would be under their original licen

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Splitting the Community?

2011-06-02 Thread Phillip Rhodes
> All I'm trying to say is that if we are focusing more on > repeating what a missed opportunity it was, rather than > moving past it and trying to figure out how to take advantage > of the current opportunities that are now open to us, then > we need to adjust priorities a bit +1

[ANNOUNCE] Apache Lucy 0.1.0 (incubating)

2011-06-02 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (388J)
We are pleased to annouce the inaugural release of Apache Lucy™, version 0.1.0! Apache Lucy is full-text search engine library written in C and targeted at dynamic languages. The inaugural release provides Perl bindings. Lucy is a "loose C" port of Apache Lucene™, a search engine librar

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Licensing Q's [was: Incubator Proposal]

2011-06-02 Thread Greg Stein
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 12:19, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: >... > I guess I've seen too many failures to launch at incubator to support any > more projects coming in which are not in the realistic position to publish > working results as AL works.  So without these answers, I personally would > vote

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Splitting the Community?

2011-06-02 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jun 2, 2011, at 12:31 PM, Jukka Zitting wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: >> ??? I simply cannot grok the above as a response to my >> comment... huh? > > Apologies if I misunderstood. The way I read the exchange was: > > "this was a missed opportunity t

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-02 Thread Greg Stein
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 12:23, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: >... > Is this correct?  From what we've witnessed, the Board appears to have > presented this to the incubator on behalf of the proposers.  Although this > doesn't change the need for the incubator to vote to accept the podling, > it does s

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Splitting the Community?

2011-06-02 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: > ??? I simply cannot grok the above as a response to my > comment... huh? Apologies if I misunderstood. The way I read the exchange was: "this was a missed opportunity to reunite" - "agree on that point" - "move on" This seems like a pr

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Splitting the Community?

2011-06-02 Thread Ian Lynch
On 2 June 2011 17:18, Jim Jagielski wrote: > > On Jun 2, 2011, at 12:04 PM, Ian Lynch wrote: > > > On 2 June 2011 16:49, Jim Jagielski wrote: > > > >> > >> On Jun 2, 2011, at 11:35 AM, Thorsten Behrens wrote: > >>> As it doesn't fundamentally change the matter - this was a missed > >>> opportuni

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-02 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/1/2011 11:07 PM, Greg Stein wrote: > On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 22:52, wrote: >> ... >> What am I missing here? >> >> According to the Incubation Policy [1]: >> >> "A Sponsor SHALL be either: >> >>* the Board of the Apache Software Foundation; >>* a Top Level Project (TLP) within the Apa

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Splitting the Community?

2011-06-02 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jun 2, 2011, at 12:13 PM, Simos Xenitellis wrote: > And till now, I see no efforts to build a new community. > I see no inspiration either to get people to contribute to Apache OpenOffice. > You do realize that all this is about 24hrs old right? You might as well look at a newborn and say "ti

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Splitting the Community?

2011-06-02 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jun 2, 2011, at 12:09 PM, Jukka Zitting wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: >> On Jun 2, 2011, at 11:35 AM, Thorsten Behrens wrote: >>> As it doesn't fundamentally change the matter - this was a missed >>> opportunity to reunite. >> >> If we all agree on th

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Licensing Q's [was: Incubator Proposal]

2011-06-02 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/1/2011 10:37 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 10:23 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. > wrote: > >> Other Works >> >>* You can use the Creative Commons Attribution License >> ("Attribution-NoDerivs 2.5"). >> We only accept work under this license that is non-editab

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Splitting the Community?

2011-06-02 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jun 2, 2011, at 12:04 PM, Ian Lynch wrote: > On 2 June 2011 16:49, Jim Jagielski wrote: > >> >> On Jun 2, 2011, at 11:35 AM, Thorsten Behrens wrote: >>> As it doesn't fundamentally change the matter - this was a missed >>> opportunity to reunite. >> >> If we all agree on that point, can we

Re: [VOTE] Release Whirr version 0.5.0-incubating (candidate 1)

2011-06-02 Thread Stefan Seelmann
+1 (binding) Signature and checksums of source and binary tarball are ok. DISCLAIMER file is there. NOTICE and LICENSE files look ok. Build from sources worked under Linux (tests failed under MacOSX) Two notes for future releases: - The tarballs are signed with a 1024Bit DSA key. According to htt

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