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

2011-06-03 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 nthieb...@gmail.com wrote:

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

2011-06-03 Thread Christian Lippka
Am 02.06.2011 22:40, schrieb 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

Re: confirm subscribe to general@incubator.apache.org

2011-06-03 Thread drew
On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 20:14 +, general-h...@incubator.apache.org wrote: Hi! This is the ezmlm program. I'm managing the general@incubator.apache.org mailing list. I'm working for my owner, who can be reached at general-ow...@incubator.apache.org. To confirm that you would like

Re: confirm subscribe to general@incubator.apache.org

2011-06-03 Thread Maurizio Cucchiara
I think this is not the right address to confirm your subscription. On 1 June 2011 22:21, drew d...@baseanswers.com wrote: On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 20:14 +, general-h...@incubator.apache.org wrote: Hi! This is the ezmlm program. I'm managing the general@incubator.apache.org mailing list.

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-03 Thread James Kosin
On 2:59 PM, Luke Kowalski wrote: The following project is being sent in as an incubator candidate. regards luke Okay, First, I've been reading the talking points going back and forth on this for about 1-2 days now. And there are some valid concerns. (1) The project as a whole is LARGE.

[OGNL] website root

2011-06-03 Thread Maurizio Cucchiara
Hi guys, we would like to publish the OGNL [1] website, but I realized that there is no ognl directory inside the incubator root's website: mcucchiara@minotaur:/www/incubator.apache.org$ ls -la | grep -i ognl I'm wondering if is a infra task or someone from the incubator team with the proper

Re: [OGNL] website root

2011-06-03 Thread Christian Grobmeier
I have created that directory. You can now publish the static html files to /www/incubator.apache.org/ognl Let me know if any problems Cheers Christian On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Maurizio Cucchiara maurizio.cucchi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, we would like to publish the OGNL [1]

Re: [OGNL] website root

2011-06-03 Thread Simone Tripodi
cool, thanks a lot!!! :) Simo http://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/ http://www.99soft.org/ On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Christian Grobmeier grobme...@gmail.com wrote: I have created that directory. You can now publish the static html files to /www/incubator.apache.org/ognl Let me

Re: [OGNL] website root

2011-06-03 Thread Maurizio Cucchiara
Thank you Christian, faster than the speed of light :) I don't know if is the usual delay of the people.a.o, but I have no write access. I'm wondering if I'm a part of the incubator group On 3 June 2011 11:08, Christian Grobmeier grobme...@gmail.com wrote: I can take care of it. Will do now.

Re: [OGNL] website root

2011-06-03 Thread Maurizio Cucchiara
I'm wondering if I'm a part of the incubator group No, I am not mcucchiara@minotaur:/www/incubator.apache.org/ognl$ groups mcucchiara committers struts Do I need additional carma? -- Maurizio Cucchiara - To unsubscribe,

Re: Volunteering for the Apache OpenOffice podling?

2011-06-03 Thread Sam Ruby
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 12:23 AM, Craig L Russell craig.russ...@oracle.com wrote: 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. I'll note that we maintain two fields. One as Craig

Re: [OGNL] website root

2011-06-03 Thread Lukasz Lenart
Me too lukaszlenart@minotaur:~$ groups lukaszlenart committers struts Thanks in advance -- Łukasz + 48 606 323 122 http://www.lenart.org.pl/ Warszawa JUG conference - Confitura http://confitura.pl/ 2011/6/3 Maurizio Cucchiara maurizio.cucchi...@gmail.com: I'm wondering if I'm a part of the

Re: [OGNL] website root

2011-06-03 Thread Christian Grobmeier
mcucchiara@minotaur:/www/incubator.apache.org/ognl$ groups mcucchiara committers struts Do I need additional carma? hmm i think yes: drwxrwxr-x2 grobmeierincubator 2 Jun 3 09:10 ognl ognl folder has the same permissions as every other folder in there. Guess you all need to be

Re: [OGNL] website root

2011-06-03 Thread Christian Grobmeier
I have asked infra to add the ognl committers to the incubator group, if this is the way to go. Lets see what they respond :-) On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Lukasz Lenart lukasz.len...@googlemail.com wrote: Me too lukaszlenart@minotaur:~$ groups lukaszlenart committers struts Thanks in

Re: [OGNL] website root

2011-06-03 Thread Simone Tripodi
Hi Christian, to publish the site it is enough updating the distributionManagement/site section in the POM, the running `mvn site-deploy` HTH, have a nice day, Simo http://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/ http://www.99soft.org/ On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Christian Grobmeier

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-03 Thread Ross Gardler
On 03/06/2011 04:07, James Kosin wrote: (2) The licensing is also an issue, and a serious one at that. When a project goes into Apache the entire project needs to be signed over by all supporters and all code either signed over by all the copyright holders or the copy-protected code removed.

Re: [OGNL] website root

2011-06-03 Thread Christian Grobmeier
OK will give it a try. Will commit the updated pom. Anyway, we should return to the commons list again :-) Cheers On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Simone Tripodi simonetrip...@apache.org wrote: Hi Christian, to publish the site it is enough updating the distributionManagement/site section in

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-03 Thread eric b
Hi James, Le 3 juin 11 à 05:07, James Kosin a écrit : On 2:59 PM, Luke Kowalski wrote: The following project is being sent in as an incubator candidate. regards luke Okay, First, I've been reading the talking points going back and forth on this for about 1-2 days now. And there are some

Re: Happy happy joy joy

2011-06-03 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Donald Whytock dwhyt...@gmail.com wrote: The butler did it. :-) On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com wrote: Guys, if we are going to argue over the mistakes of the pasts and the slights of the past, quite frankly, we aren't going to

Re: Policy for BUILD and CHANGES files in podling releases

2011-06-03 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 9:59 PM, ant elder ant.el...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin robertburrelldon...@gmail.com wrote: snip (IMHO BUILDING and CHANGES are corner cases. I incline towards adding license headers unless they are clearly trivial.) I

Re: Rép : OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-03 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 9:20 PM, Alexandro Colorado j...@openoffice.org wrote: snip On the spirit of better 'ask for fogiveness than ask for permission' I added my name to the proposal. :-) :-) Robert - To unsubscribe,

Re: Proposal for OpenOffice Incubator strategy

2011-06-03 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jun 2, 2011, at 8:12 PM, Simon Phipps wrote: 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. Welcome to the discussion.

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

2011-06-03 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jun 3, 2011, at 2:13 AM, Greg Stein wrote: 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. Agreed... if we

Meta-question: How many committers on a proposal are enough?

2011-06-03 Thread robert_weir
Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote on 06/03/2011 08:02:25 AM: There is a meta-question here: what are the criteria by which the IPMC should evaluate a proposal? 1. Are there enough people on the proposal to plausibly start out? I think everyone agrees on this as a legitimate

Re: Meta-question: How many committers on a proposal are enough?

2011-06-03 Thread Benson Margulies
Here's the dilemma of 'question 2' as I see it. Many podlings launch here with a very small group. If they do a good job of marketing, if the podling is an itch that a lot of people want to scratch, then more and more people show up, and all is well. However, and it's a pretty big however, most

Development infrastructure and methodology for OO

2011-06-03 Thread Benson Margulies
Here is a thread for some infrastructure implications of an OO podling. Things to note: 1. OO is very large. 2. OO is a good-old C++ giant. It's not 'build once, run anywhere'. It has to be built many times in many configurations to maintain regression testing. There is, in short, a detectable

Re: Development infrastructure and methodology for OO

2011-06-03 Thread Christian Lippka
Am 03.06.2011 14:52, schrieb Benson Margulies: Here is a thread for some infrastructure implications of an OO podling. Things to note: 1. OO is very large. 2. OO is a good-old C++ giant. It's not 'build once, run anywhere'. It has to be built many times in many configurations to maintain

Re: Volunteering for the Apache OpenOffice podling?

2011-06-03 Thread sebb
On 3 June 2011 10:20, Sam Ruby ru...@intertwingly.net wrote: On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 12:23 AM, Craig L Russell craig.russ...@oracle.com wrote: 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

Re: Meta-question: How many committers on a proposal are enough?

2011-06-03 Thread Ross Gardler
On 03/06/2011 13:35, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: Benson Marguliesbimargul...@gmail.com wrote on 06/03/2011 08:02:25 AM: There is a meta-question here: what are the criteria by which the IPMC should evaluate a proposal? 1. Are there enough people on the proposal to plausibly start out? I

RE: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-03 Thread Allen Pulsifer
(3)  There is even talk as to why?  I'm also curious as to why they would need or want to transfer the project to Apache. Only the person who made that decision knows the answer, and if you ask them, you might get an answer, and it might even be the real answer. But you never know. I will

Re: confirm subscribe to general@incubator.apache.org

2011-06-03 Thread Roman H. Gelbort
Welcome Drew! I'm a new subscriber too. And I am reading with attention the conversation about the input of OpenOffice.org in the ASF ecosystem. -- --- Prof. Román H. Gelbort No busquemos aplicaciones que

RE: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-03 Thread Allen Pulsifer
When this question comes up I've been asking the commenter to give a reasoned estimate for how many volunteers will be needed.  I'm generally seeing that 20 core developers are needed for project maintenance.  Some suggest more is needed for incubation, but I think this might be a shifting

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-03 Thread Ian Lynch
On 3 June 2011 14:31, Allen Pulsifer pulsi...@openoffice.org wrote: (3) There is even talk as to why? I'm also curious as to why they would need or want to transfer the project to Apache. Only the person who made that decision knows the answer, and if you ask them, you might get an

Re: Proposal for OpenOffice Incubator strategy

2011-06-03 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Rob, On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 21:26 -0400, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: Finally, I think we're exaggerating the difficulty of getting out a release of OpenOfice. LibreOffice did it very quickly. And so did IBM with Symphony. This is not rocket science. I am impressed by your

Re: Proposal for OpenOffice Incubator strategy

2011-06-03 Thread Roman H. Gelbort
El 03/06/11 05:15, Ian Lynch escribió: We are getting demand for OpenOffice certification not any other name. +1 This is a global and urgent demand by the companies that migrate to OpenOffice.org... and we can't satisfier. --

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-03 Thread Ross Gardler
On 03/06/2011 14:53, Allen Pulsifer wrote: It has been suggested that volunteers, working on their own time, are sufficient for other projects, so the ASF likes to see that. IMO, that is not going to cut it with the OpenOffice code base. With the OpenOffice code base, you need a minimum core

Re: Proposal for OpenOffice Incubator strategy

2011-06-03 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jun 3, 2011, at 10:05 AM, Michael Meeks wrote: Hi Rob, On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 21:26 -0400, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: Finally, I think we're exaggerating the difficulty of getting out a release of OpenOfice. LibreOffice did it very quickly. And so did IBM with Symphony. This is

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-03 Thread Ross Gardler
On 03/06/2011 15:01, Ian Lynch wrote: So the safest community strategy is to develop community driven business models that can sustain the project. I said this back in 2004 and went off to do it because of no understanding in the community leaders or Sun at the time. If 10% of the effort put

OpenOffice Proposal: Podling Releases

2011-06-03 Thread robert_weir
Michael Meeks michael.me...@novell.com wrote on 06/03/2011 10:05:31 AM: As for continuity of OpenOffice releases, there was a full stable release of OpenOffice in January and a preview 3.4.0 release in April. It is very reasonable for the new ApacheOffice project to start up, and even

Re: Proposal for OpenOffice Incubator strategy

2011-06-03 Thread Simon Phipps
That is what I was suggesting and which Rob claims he won't need because its so easy. {Terse? Mobile!} On Jun 3, 2011 3:23 PM, Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com wrote: On Jun 3, 2011, at 10:05 AM, Michael Meeks wrote: Hi Rob, On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 21:26 -0400, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote:

Re: Proposal for OpenOffice Incubator strategy

2011-06-03 Thread Christian Grobmeier
Stupid question time: If TDF already has the *build* infrastructure, then isn't *that* a clear choice of where at least some level of cooperation can occur. After all, the ASF provides source... the TDF could provide the builds?? (but that's not all, of course)... what a fantastic idea!

Re: Proposal for OpenOffice Incubator strategy

2011-06-03 Thread Benson Margulies
Um, it seems to me that this discussion of builds and distribution belongs on the dev list of the podling when/if there is a podling. Unless someone feels that there's a problem so gigantic that it should motivate -1 votes for the podling itself. On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Christian

Re: Proposal for OpenOffice Incubator strategy

2011-06-03 Thread Ross Gardler
On 03/06/2011 16:04, Benson Margulies wrote: Um, it seems to me that this discussion of builds and distribution belongs on the dev list of the podling when/if there is a podling. Unless someone feels that there's a problem so gigantic that it should motivate -1 votes for the podling itself. I

Re: Proposal for OpenOffice Incubator strategy

2011-06-03 Thread Ross Gardler
On 03/06/2011 16:00, Christian Grobmeier wrote: Stupid question time: If TDF already has the *build* infrastructure, then isn't *that* a clear choice of where at least some level of cooperation can occur. After all, the ASF provides source... the TDF could provide the builds?? (but that's not

Re: Proposal for OpenOffice Incubator strategy

2011-06-03 Thread Jim Jagielski
Of course it does... but we are discussing ways where we can use all aspects of the existing communities to give the IPMC a warm-and-fuzzy regarding voting +1 On Jun 3, 2011, at 11:04 AM, Benson Margulies wrote: Um, it seems to me that this discussion of builds and distribution belongs on the

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-03 Thread Ross Gardler
On 03/06/2011 16:09, Norbert Thiebaud wrote: On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Ross Gardlerrgard...@apache.org wrote: This is why, inside the ASF, we expect individuals to represent the communities interests not their commercial or their employers interests. It is difficult to get a man to

Re: Proposal for OpenOffice Incubator strategy

2011-06-03 Thread Benson Margulies
I'll go away on this. My concern has been to avoid setting an impossible bar of organized cooperation as a prerequisite to voting for the podling. It would be a wonderful thing if cooperation breaks out, but I think that it is unrealistic to achieve very much of it before the podling launches.

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-03 Thread Benson Margulies
Can we launch the Apache Sausage Project? On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Ross Gardler rgard...@apache.org wrote: On 03/06/2011 16:09, Norbert Thiebaud wrote: On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Ross Gardlerrgard...@apache.org  wrote: This is why, inside the ASF, we expect individuals to

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

2011-06-03 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello everyone, and thanks for the feedback to my initial mail. I've read many other messages and blog postings, and would like to focus on just a hand full of points that I think are crucial. Everything I leave out I do not leave out because I consider it unimportant in general, but because

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

2011-06-03 Thread Sam Ruby
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org wrote: I on purpose leave out the discussion about (re-)licensing here [snip] I hope I replied to all questions asked. If I missed something, this was not on purpose, so feel free to ask again, and I will

Re: Proposal for OpenOffice Incubator strategy

2011-06-03 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jun 3, 2011, at 11:09 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: On 03/06/2011 16:00, Christian Grobmeier wrote: Stupid question time: If TDF already has the *build* infrastructure, then isn't *that* a clear choice of where at least some level of cooperation can occur. After all, the ASF provides

Re: Proposal for OpenOffice Incubator strategy

2011-06-03 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jun 3, 2011, at 11:09 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: Please see Simon Phipps' email earlier today that contained a very similar suggestion with some more detail, it would be nice to bring these two threads together. Simon's email, from what I can tell, boils down to: 1. The podling goes

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

2011-06-03 Thread Allen Pulsifer
- What is wrong about the TDF that is better at ASF, for being the home of a free office suite? It is not clear to what extent the choice of the ASF was driven by Oracle, and you probably won't get either Oracle or IBM to talk about that. However, to the extent that it was driven by Oracle, that

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

2011-06-03 Thread Tom White
This vote has now passed with 3 binding +1s (2 from the dev list vote), no +0's, and no -1's. The binding votes were: Stefan Seelmann, +1 Doug Cutting, +1 (on dev vote thread) Tom White, +1 (on dev vote thread) The non-binding votes (including those from the dev list vote) were as follows:

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-03 Thread Greg Stein
Eh? I thought we were already a sausagefest? On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 11:16, Benson Margulies bimargul...@gmail.com wrote: Can we launch the Apache Sausage Project? On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Ross Gardler rgard...@apache.org wrote: On 03/06/2011 16:09, Norbert Thiebaud wrote: On Fri,

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

2011-06-03 Thread robert_weir
Allen Pulsifer pulsi...@openoffice.org wrote on 06/03/2011 11:45:03 AM: It is my understanding though that IBM wants to work with a project that is licensed under the Apache License, not the LGPL. If The Document Foundation is willing to change its release from the LGPL to the Apache

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-03 Thread robert_weir
Norbert Thiebaud nthieb...@gmail.com wrote on 06/03/2011 11:09:23 AM: On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Ross Gardler rgard...@apache.org wrote: This is why, inside the ASF, we expect individuals to represent the communities interests not their commercial or their employers interests.

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

2011-06-03 Thread Sam Ruby
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Allen Pulsifer pulsi...@openoffice.org wrote: - What is wrong about the TDF that is better at ASF, for being the home of a free office suite? It is not clear to what extent the choice of the ASF was driven by Oracle, and you probably won't get either Oracle or

Re: Proposal for OpenOffice Incubator strategy

2011-06-03 Thread Ross Gardler
On 03/06/2011 16:43, Jim Jagielski wrote: On Jun 3, 2011, at 11:09 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: Please see Simon Phipps' email earlier today that contained a very similar suggestion with some more detail, it would be nice to bring these two threads together. Simon's email, from what I can

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

2011-06-03 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/3/2011 10:20 AM, Florian Effenberger wrote: I on purpose leave out the discussion about (re-)licensing here, as others can comment much better about the impact of the various licenses, and how they play together, and what ASF could to with the software grant they received, may it be

Re: Proposal for OpenOffice Incubator strategy

2011-06-03 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jun 3, 2011, at 12:06 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: On 03/06/2011 16:43, Jim Jagielski wrote: On Jun 3, 2011, at 11:09 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: Please see Simon Phipps' email earlier today that contained a very similar suggestion with some more detail, it would be nice to bring these two

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

2011-06-03 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Sam Ruby wrote: From my perspective, I think the license discussion is the essential one. TDF is now in the position where it has a historic opportunity to change their license to the Apache License. As I understand it, TDF should certainly be able to replace their original LGPL license

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

2011-06-03 Thread Ian Lynch
Hi Florian, I do see with great concern is the need for a second project to be set-up at Apache or any other entity. Thing is that this is done, Oracle didn't and won't now give the IP to any other foundation. So we are where we are. Let me speak for my self: I do this as a pure

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

2011-06-03 Thread Ian Lynch
On 3 June 2011 17:16, Noel J. Bergman n...@devtech.com wrote: Sam Ruby wrote: From my perspective, I think the license discussion is the essential one. TDF is now in the position where it has a historic opportunity to change their license to the Apache License. As I understand it, TDF

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Meritocracy and Committers for non-coders?

2011-06-03 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Ross Gardler rgard...@apache.org wrote: On 02/06/2011 14:43, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: Simon Brouwersimon.o...@xs4all.nl  wrote on 06/02/2011 09:21:53 AM: snip What isn't clear to me are things like the following: 1) A strong QA member, who does manual

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

2011-06-03 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Ian Lynch wrote: Noel J. Bergman: Sam Ruby wrote: From my perspective, I think the license discussion is the essential one. TDF is now in the position where it has a historic opportunity to change their license to the Apache License. As I understand it, TDF should certainly be

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

2011-06-03 Thread Ian Lynch
On 3 June 2011 18:21, Noel J. Bergman n...@devtech.com wrote: Ian Lynch wrote: Noel J. Bergman: Sam Ruby wrote: From my perspective, I think the license discussion is the essential one. TDF is now in the position where it has a historic opportunity to change their license to

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

2011-06-03 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jun 3, 2011, at 1:36 PM, Simon Phipps wrote: and especially to use the trademark (which is the only actual asset being transferred) for everyone's good. And as a tangible, valuable asset, the ASF cannot, as a 501(c)3 non-profit just give it away to just anyone... in general, the

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

2011-06-03 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jun 3, 2011, at 1:36 PM, Simon Phipps wrote: On 3 Jun 2011, at 17:52, Ian Lynch wrote: Hi Florian, I do see with great concern is the need for a second project to be set-up at Apache or any other entity. Thing is that this is done, Oracle didn't and won't now give the IP to

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

2011-06-03 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jun 3, 2011, at 1:57 PM, Greg Stein wrote: On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 13:50, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Noel J. Bergman n...@devtech.com wrote: Which is why I raised the question regarding TDF's ability to relicense all of the contributions it

Apache OpenOffice.org Incubator Proposal: Collaboration with TDF/LO

2011-06-03 Thread robert_weir
I'm perceiving that we're circling around on the same points with no new options coming up. So I'd like to record the state of the issue. If there is consensus on this formulation, I'll place it in the wiki. Of course, if the discussion advances the issue or positions move, I can always go

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

2011-06-03 Thread Joe Schaefer
Cmon Jim, he wrote a lengthy monologue which spelled out his position. As I read it, we could license the OpenOffice trademark to the Document Foundation for, as Simon put it, business as usual distributions. If we wanted to we could specify a time/date/event upon which that license terminates,

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

2011-06-03 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 8:56 PM, Andreas Kuckartz a.kucka...@ping.de wrote: 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

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

2011-06-03 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/3/2011 12:36 PM, Simon Phipps wrote: On 3 Jun 2011, at 17:52, Ian Lynch wrote: Thing is that this is done, Oracle didn't and won't now give the IP to any other foundation. So we are where we are. We may be where we are, but we collectively have the opportunity to collaborate once

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

2011-06-03 Thread Sam Ruby
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Joe Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.com wrote: Cmon Jim, he wrote a lengthy monologue which spelled out his position.  As I read it, we could license the OpenOffice trademark to the Document Foundation for, as Simon put it, business as usual distributions. If we

Re: Proposal for OpenOffice Incubator strategy

2011-06-03 Thread Simon Phipps
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com wrote: On Jun 3, 2011, at 11:09 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: Please see Simon Phipps' email earlier today that contained a very similar suggestion with some more detail, it would be nice to bring these two threads together.

Re: OpenOffice Apache Incubator Proposal and uniting The Community

2011-06-03 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Noel J. Bergman n...@devtech.com wrote: 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.

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

2011-06-03 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jun 3, 2011, at 2:12 PM, Sam Ruby wrote: On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Joe Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.com wrote: Cmon Jim, he wrote a lengthy monologue which spelled out his position. As I read it, we could license the OpenOffice trademark to the Document Foundation for, as Simon put

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

2011-06-03 Thread Joe Schaefer
Oh completely agreed there. A lot of this hot-air is quite premature. Geronimo was nothing other than a JBoss fork and we had no problems entertaining that resolution, I see no major concerns for OOo other than volunteer resources signed up for the task. - Original Message From: Sam

Re: Proposal for OpenOffice Incubator strategy

2011-06-03 Thread Simon Phipps
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Ross Gardler rgard...@apache.org wrote: Ahhh... Yes I see something missing from Simons mail here. I assumed that the LibreOffice distribution would gradually migrate to using the core components proposed here (Apache ODFSuite as Simin called it) and thus

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

2011-06-03 Thread Sam Ruby
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Noel J. Bergman n...@devtech.com wrote:  Which is why I raised the question regarding TDF's ability to relicense all of the contributions it has received. As I understand it Noel, TDF

Re: OpenOffice Apache Incubator Proposal and uniting The Community

2011-06-03 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 1:22 AM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: Allen Pulsifer pulsi...@openoffice.org wrote on 06/02/2011 06:58:45 PM: snip Second, if Apache takes on OpenOffice, it will instantly become the Apache project with the largest number of end-users (if you include the number of

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

2011-06-03 Thread Simon Phipps
I suggest you stick to the content of the e-mails on the list, Jim. Yes, I am concerned about how this all came about, but the reason I am here on the list is to be constructive and not to be bitch-slapped and misrepresented just for showing up. On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Jim Jagielski

Re: Proposal for OpenOffice Incubator strategy

2011-06-03 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jun 3, 2011, at 2:14 PM, Simon Phipps wrote: If I were voting on this incubator proposal (and of course I know I am not), I would want to know that the people proposing it had a grasp of the enormity of the task and a plan for dealing with it /from day one/ and not from an undefined

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

2011-06-03 Thread Simon Phipps
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 7:22 PM, Sam Ruby ru...@intertwingly.net wrote: On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Noel J. Bergman n...@devtech.com wrote: Which is why I raised the question regarding TDF's ability to relicense

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

2011-06-03 Thread Sam Ruby
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin robertburrelldon...@gmail.com wrote: What might be reasonably hoped for is that the ASF could act as an upstream for GPLv3 office product(s) with a reunited community spanning these projects (as widely as ideologically possible). I would

Re: Apache OpenOffice.org Incubator Proposal: Collaboration with TDF/LO

2011-06-03 Thread Greg Stein
Your proposed text does not cover the fact that TDF/LO can lift code from ASF into their products. (and typo in the first sentence) On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 14:03, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: I'm perceiving that we're circling around on the same points with no new options coming up.  So I'd

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

2011-06-03 Thread Simon Phipps
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Sam Ruby ru...@intertwingly.net wrote: Just remember, we haven't yet even voted on whether or not to accept the podling. These are decisions the podling should be making. They can only make those decisions if they know they have to make them. I think it's

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

2011-06-03 Thread Sam Ruby
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: I suggest you stick to the content of the e-mails on the list, Jim. Yes, I am concerned about how this all came about, but the reason I am here on the list is to be constructive and not to be bitch-slapped and misrepresented

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

2011-06-03 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/3/2011 1:17 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: Are you ready to call for a vote? :) I'm certainly not support OOo from 2 committers and 1 mentor. It would be good to see the rest of that list hashed out and know that those already on board are good with the individuals signed up (including IBM

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

2011-06-03 Thread Allen Pulsifer
 Which is why I raised the question regarding TDF's ability to relicense all of the contributions it has received. As I understand it Noel, TDF accepts contributions under open source licenses alone and unlike ASF does not require a contributor license agreement, so is unable to relicense

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

2011-06-03 Thread Greg Stein
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 14:27, Sam Ruby ru...@intertwingly.net wrote: On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin robertburrelldon...@gmail.com wrote: What might be reasonably hoped for is that the ASF could act as an upstream for GPLv3 office product(s) with a reunited community

Re: Apache OpenOffice.org Incubator Proposal: Collaboration with TDF/LO

2011-06-03 Thread Simon Phipps
Your proposed text also does not recognise possibilities for collaboration to protect the OpenOffice consumer end-user community in the interim while your project sorts itself out. S.

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

2011-06-03 Thread Allen Pulsifer
Are you ready to call for a vote? :) I think you need to allow a little time for people to read what has been written, absorb and reflect on it, and react appropriately. And I'm not (just) talking about ASF members--I'm talking about the potentially larger community. Rushing things will not

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

2011-06-03 Thread Simon Phipps
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 7:09 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin robertburrelldon...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 8:56 PM, Andreas Kuckartz a.kucka...@ping.de wrote: Am 02.06.2011 18:09, schrieb Jukka Zitting: I wouldn't be too quick to throw away this opportunity to reunite the related

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

2011-06-03 Thread Sam Ruby
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 7:09 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin robertburrelldon...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 8:56 PM, Andreas Kuckartz a.kucka...@ping.de wrote: Am 02.06.2011 18:09, schrieb Jukka Zitting: I

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

2011-06-03 Thread Sam Ruby
Whoops. Forgot to copy the list. On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Sam Ruby ru...@intertwingly.net wrote: On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 2:30 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: On 6/3/2011 1:17 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: Are you ready to call for a vote? :) No; there are some good

Re: Proposal for OpenOffice Incubator strategy

2011-06-03 Thread Simon Phipps
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com wrote: On Jun 3, 2011, at 2:14 PM, Simon Phipps wrote: If I were voting on this incubator proposal (and of course I know I am not), I would want to know that the people proposing it had a grasp of the enormity of the task

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

2011-06-03 Thread Allen Pulsifer
I suggest you stick to the content of the e-mails on the list, Jim. Yes, I am concerned about how this all came about, but the reason I am here on the list is to be constructive and not to be bitch-slapped and misrepresented just for showing up. This email has no place on this list.  Take

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

2011-06-03 Thread Jim Jagielski
Cmon, being bitch-slapped is why we're *all* here. :) The fact is that I feel that having OOo here and, especially, under the AL2.0, is a Very Good Thing. No, that does not mean in any way, shape or form that I think that TDF needs to go away, is superfluous or any other sort of nonsensical

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