Re: [DISCUSS] Mentor neutrality policy

2015-10-10 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 10/10/2015 Daniel Gruno wrote: I'm not suggesting we start auditing people. As later clarified, I am suggesting people recuse themselves from voting if they (or others?) feel that they have economic or other corporate interests that may cloud either their judgment or their perceived judgment.

Re: Question related to IP Clearance and software grant

2015-09-01 Thread Andrea Pescetti
jan i wrote: Your concern is valid for all countries in EU. except if a country has a exception. the default in the IT industry is that the employer need to allow you to do similar work off hours ... in any case copyright belong to the company. Wow, this is really interesting! I know this is

Re: What is the legal basis for enforcing release policies at ASF?

2015-08-25 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Roman Shaposhnik wrote: On the other hand, somebody taking said snapshot and releasing it under the name Project BOO, licensed under the ALv2. Is something that both the ALv2 license AND our trademark policy are totally fine with. What if (not a fictional example; a real case) the code is

Re: Incubating with Apache Commons as champion?

2015-01-20 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Stian Soiland-Reyes wrote: https://wiki.apache.org/incubator/BeanShellProposal was voted -1 in the incubator because it had many Apache folks already and didn't need to learn anything. Yet the project didn't move into Apache - perhaps because it didn't have any pressure or framework to go

Re: Binary Convenience Package Dependencies

2015-01-05 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 05/01/2015 jan i wrote: On 5 January 2015 at 18:52, Alex Harui wrote: 2) In [2] it says for Category B: By including only the object/binary form, there is less exposed surface area of the third-party work from which a work might be derived; this addresses the second guiding principle of this

Re: [VOTE] accept corinthia into incubator

2014-12-14 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 06/12/2014 jan i wrote: can help us in many ways, you are e.g. working on FOSDEM, we (you and I) could make a great presentation (I do the work) and use it to present Corinthia and at the same time show that AOO is very much alive. If you agree then I will fly to FOSDEM and also help with

Re: [VOTE] accept corinthia into incubator

2014-12-06 Thread Andrea Pescetti
. Since there are common technologies and expertise, for sure occasional updates about Corinthia won't be considered off-topic on the OpenOffice lists. Andrea Pescetti wrote: waiting for the time when I will finally be able to find again some nights for coding for fun, my appreciation is all I can

Re: [VOTE] accept corinthia into incubator

2014-12-02 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 02/12/2014 jan i wrote: As champion for corinthia, I hereby ask for a vote on accepting corinthia into incubator. +1 (non-binding) from me, and I'll accompany it with my sincere hopes that the project can be successful. As I told you in person at ApacheCon, I'm not signing up as an

Re: Convenience Binary Policy

2014-10-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 23/10/2014 brane wrote: On 22.10.2014 03:02, Justin Mclean wrote: You may possibly be forgetting about Category B licensed dependancies. These may only be included in binary form in an Apache product. ... I have trouble visualising how any ASF project could have /mandatory/ dependencies on

Re: Project swag store to benefit the ASF

2014-09-06 Thread Andrea Pescetti
P. Taylor Goetz wrote: Is there any precedent or best practice for setting up a project swag store on something like cafe press? The closest OpenOffice came to this is simply by listing reorder links to promotional material here:

Re: [RESULT] [VOTE] Release Apache Optiq 0.9.0 (incubating)

2014-08-25 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 25/08/2014 jan i wrote: I am amazed how many ways my name can be spelled. That happens more often if you don't use your full name when signing or in the mail sender... But I'm looking forward to seeing the next variant! (and sorry for the off-topic) Regards, Andrea.

Re: Incubator request

2014-08-15 Thread Andrea Pescetti
jan i wrote: I have been helping a project to change from a closed source project to an opensource project, and of course in due time join ASF. The project have today asked me to be their official champion, I am honored to be asked and have accepted. Very good, congratulations! Thanks peter

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Rob Weir joins the IPMC

2014-03-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Roman Shaposhnik wrote: The Incubator PMC has voted to offer membership to Rob Weir and he has accepted. Congratulations, Rob! Regards, Andrea. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For

Re: [DISCUSS] Pros and Cons of incubation requiring 2 mailing list migrations

2014-02-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Andy Konwinski wrote: However, as Apache, we don't ask the project to move mailing lists only once, we ask them to move twice: once when entering the incubator and once at graduation. Though the second move is easier, it is still painful in our case since (unless I'm missing something) you can't

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Raphael Bircher joins the Incubator PMC

2013-11-28 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Marvin Humphrey wrote: The Incubator PMC has voted to offer membership to Raphael Bircher and he has accepted. In addition to his work here in the Incubator, Raphael is active in Apache OpenOffice. Congratulations, Raphael! Nice to see you involved in the Apache community at large too.

Re: [DISCUSS] [VOTE] Accept Twill for Incubation

2013-11-08 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 07/11/2013 Andreas Neumann wrote: The discussion about the Weave proposal has calmed. As the outcome of the discussion, we have chosen a new name for the project, Twill. I would like to call a vote for Twill to become an incubated project. I used a different software named Twill in the

Re: Shepherd assignments October 2013

2013-10-05 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 02/10/2013 Marvin Humphrey wrote: Please welcome new shepherds Andrei Savu and Raphael Bircher! We look forward to the fresh perspectives you bring. Welcome both, and especially Raphael whom I happen to know quite well for his activity in OpenOffice! Good to see more OpenOffice people

Re: Unused OpenOffice source tree in incubator: keep or remove?

2013-06-01 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 29/05/2013 Daniel Shahaf wrote: On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 09:40:19PM +0200, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Is this the recommended configuration or shall we svn remove the whole old tree, maybe leaving only a README.txt pointing to the new location? Ask infra about arranging a redirect - this might

Unused OpenOffice source tree in incubator: keep or remove?

2013-05-21 Thread Andrea Pescetti
OpenOffice has had its own TLP source tree http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/openoffice/ since the end of 2012, and the old source tree http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/ooo/ is still reachable, read-only. Is this the recommended configuration or shall we svn remove the whole old tree, maybe

Re: [PROPOSAL] BeanShell join the Apache Incubator

2013-04-05 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 18/02/2013 Simone Tripodi wrote: feel free to join the list if you are interested, I am sure you would be more than welcome! I added myself to the interested people at http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/BeanShellProposal but I wonder if there are any news. It's been a while since the

Re: committee-info.txt and the incubator PMC

2013-04-02 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Benson Margulies wrote: I was not sure that I'd kept this updated, so I went back through all the email since November and tried to reconcile the entries and exists between the email, this file in svn, and ldap. Does anyone know how to cross-check this file and ldap? This might help (it helps

Wiki access

2013-04-02 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Can someone please grant me write access to the Incubator wiki? http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/ My username is AndreaPescetti Thanks, Andrea. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For

Re: committee-info.txt and the incubator PMC

2013-04-02 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: The real question might be why this needs to be duplicated (I assume) between LDAP and a file - any advice from infra? It is not strictly duplicated. committee-info.txt contains historical information that you won't find in LDAP (for example, PMC members who have

Re: How to handle 3rd party extensions

2013-03-12 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 12/03/2013 Juan Pablo Santos Rodríguez wrote: I'd like to ask a quick question to know how 3rd party extensions are handled in other Apache projects. Not that OpenOffice is a typical Apache project, but OpenOffice hosts its extensions at http://extensions.openoffice.org/ The site is

Re: [PROPOSAL] BeanShell join the Apache Incubator

2013-02-17 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Simone Tripodi wrote: the BeanShell project, the long living JSR-274 reference implementation, would like to join the Apache Incubator ... http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/BeanShellProposal Great news! Apache OpenOffice has BeanShell as a dependency and it would surely benefit from an

Re: [VOTE] Accept Apache Open Climate Workbench into the Incubator

2013-02-06 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 05/02/2013 Mattmann, Chris A (388J) wrote: OK, now that discussion has settled down, I'd like to call a VOTE for acceptance of Apache Open Climate Workbench into the Incubator. ... [ ] +1 Accept Apache Open Climate Workbench into the Incubator [ ] +0 Don't care. [ ] -1 Don't accept Apache

Re: [VOTE] Apache cTAKES 3.0.0-incubating RC5 release

2013-01-26 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 25/01/2013 Benson Margulies wrote: On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 3:04 AM, Mattmann, Chris A (388J) What about Apache OpenOffice? I asked this question about Open Office, and I got, more or less, what I typed in above. I was puzzled, but there you have it. As I recall, Roy made a remark like 'our

Using the incubator space to release new languages

2013-01-13 Thread Andrea Pescetti
no impact on end-user downloads, that are served from the SourceForge network. But still, since this is probably unusual for other projects, I preferred to send you this warning in advance. Best regards, Andrea Pescetti - Apache OpenOffice PMC

Re: PPMC versus commiter

2012-12-19 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 19/12/2012 Benson Margulies wrote: With all respect, I don't see the OO podling as typical. It's sheer size put it in a different category Indeed. In addition to what others already wrote, it should be noted that some of the OpenOffice committers only help with managing and checking in

Re: all podlings please update and maintain project metadata

2012-11-17 Thread Andrea Pescetti
David Crossley wrote: Recently Clutch is detecting that there are many such issues [1]. The notes in that table try to assist by linking to some relevant documentation. ... [1] http://incubator.apache.org/clutch.html#other In the OpenOffice case, offending filenames listed at

Re: [VOTE] [DISCUSS] Recommend to the Board to establish the Apache OpenOffice Project

2012-10-13 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 10/10/2012 Andrea Pescetti wrote: Please cast your vote: [ ] +1, recommend the resolution to the Board [ ] +0, abstain/don't care [ ] -1, do not recommend the resolution to the Board, because... This vote will be open for 72 hours from now; only votes from the Incubator PMC are binding

[RESULT] Re: [VOTE] Recommend to the Board to establish the Apache OpenOffice Project

2012-10-13 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 10/10/2012 Andrea Pescetti wrote: I'm hereby asking the IPMC to recommend the following resolution to the Board. Aim of the resolution is to establish the Apache OpenOffice Project as a Top Level Project. ... This vote will be open for 72 hours from now; only votes from the Incubator PMC

Re: [VOTE] [DISCUSS] Recommend to the Board to establish the Apache OpenOffice Project

2012-10-11 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Jukka Zitting wrote: On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 10:00 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Aim of the resolution is to establish the Apache OpenOffice Project as a Top Level Project. [x] +1, recommend the resolution to the Board Good luck, and a big thank you to everyone involved! Thank you

[VOTE] Recommend to the Board to establish the Apache OpenOffice Project

2012-10-10 Thread Andrea Pescetti
, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the Apache OpenOffice Project: * Andre Fischer (af) * Andrea Pescetti (pescetti) * Andrew Rist (arist) * Ariel Constenla-Haile (arielch) * Armin Le Grand (alg) * Dave Fisher (wave

Proposed resolution: Establish the Apache OpenOffice Project

2012-10-09 Thread Andrea Pescetti
, that the persons listed immediately below be and hereby are appointed to serve as the initial members of the Apache OpenOffice Project: * Andre Fischer (af) * Andrea Pescetti (pescetti) * Andrew Rist (arist) * Ariel Constenla-Haile (arielch) * Armin Le Grand (alg) * Dave Fisher

Re: OpenOffice.org dependencies at runtime. was: Re: OO/LO License + Why LO needs the AFL 2.0 to exist (quickly)

2011-06-10 Thread Andrea Pescetti
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Re: Code covered by the Oracle grant

2011-06-08 Thread Andrea Pescetti
/2011/06/01/statement-about-oracles-move-to-donate-openoffice-org-assets-to-the-apache-foundation/ [2] http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2011/06/01/open-office.html Regards, Andrea Pescetti. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr

Re: Code covered by the Oracle grant

2011-06-08 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Andrew Rist wrote: I'll quote my earlier answer [1] on that: Our approach is to start with the main open source code - stuff with clear provenance. The OOo extensions are more complex in terms of licensing and other issues, but this is certainly something to revisit at a later stage of the