Re: [DISCUSS] Review of OpenOffice.org Forums Agreement

2011-10-18 Thread Christian Grobmeier
for binding votes on the forum and on ooo-dev list. Cheers Christian  - Dennis -Original Message- From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 17:57 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Review of OpenOffice.org Forums Agreement On Mon

Re: [DISCUSS] Review of OpenOffice.org Forums Agreement

2011-10-18 Thread Ross Gardler
Sent from my mobile device, please forgive errors and brevity. On Oct 18, 2011 1:56 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton orc...@apache.org wrote: The stated [DISCUSS] expiration of midnight, today, 2011-10-17T24:00Z has arrived. The

Re: [DISCUSS] Review of OpenOffice.org Forums Agreement

2011-10-18 Thread floris v
Op 18-10-2011 9:58, Ross Gardler schreef: Sent from my mobile device, please forgive errors and brevity. On Oct 18, 2011 1:56 AM, Rob Weirrobw...@apache.org wrote: On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 8:46 PM, Dennis E. Hamiltonorc...@apache.org wrote: The stated [DISCUSS] expiration of midnight, today,

Re: [DISCUSS] Review of OpenOffice.org Forums Agreement

2011-10-18 Thread Christian Grobmeier
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:15 AM, floris v floris...@gmail.com wrote: Op 18-10-2011 9:58, Ross Gardler schreef: Apache projects are about avoiding ceremonial actsand all about getting stiff done. A vote may be purely ceremonial, but it would kind of make clear how many people actually care

Re: [DISCUSS] Review of OpenOffice.org Forums Agreement

2011-10-18 Thread Christian Grobmeier
And please note Christian's comment: Finally we are adding people to the PMC with this vote too! Really?  Who - specifically - are we adding to the PMC?  Does everyone on this thread really have the same understanding of what this proposal does? PMC or committer additions are one of the

Re: [DISCUSS] Review of OpenOffice.org Forums Agreement

2011-10-18 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Shane Curcuru a...@shanecurcuru.org wrote: Sigh. On 10/18/2011 7:45 AM, Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 4:21 AM, Christian Grobmeier grobme...@gmail.com  wrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:15 AM, floris vfloris...@gmail.com  wrote: Op 18-10-2011

Re: [DISCUSS] Review of OpenOffice.org Forums Agreement

2011-10-18 Thread Shane Curcuru
On 10/18/2011 8:57 AM, Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Shane Curcurua...@shanecurcuru.org wrote: Sigh. On 10/18/2011 7:45 AM, Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 4:21 AM, Christian Grobmeier grobme...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:15 AM, floris

Re: [DISCUSS] Review of OpenOffice.org Forums Agreement

2011-10-18 Thread Christian Grobmeier
The Apache Way is like Zen.  There are some rules and plenty of guidelines, but it's really about having a healthy community that listens to each other and works towards consensus. Shane, it should be obvious to a stone that I am advocating the Zen approach of just taking the lazy

Re: [DISCUSS] Review of OpenOffice.org Forums Agreement

2011-10-17 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 11/10/2011 Rob Weir wrote [pasting the Wiki proposal]: *C.* Forum admins must sign the ICLA. They will interact with the Apache Infra group and should be official project members. At least one Moderator, who will sign the ICLA, or Admin on every NL forum will commit to reporting forum status

Re: [DISCUSS] Review of OpenOffice.org Forums Agreement

2011-10-17 Thread Rob Weir
didn't ask the PPMC to do anything. -Rob -Original Message- From: Christian Grobmeier [mailto:grobme...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 00:09 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Review of OpenOffice.org Forums Agreement 2011/10/13 Jürgen Schmidt

RE: [DISCUSS] Review of OpenOffice.org Forums Agreement

2011-10-17 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
do the work. The proposal didn't ask the PPMC to do anything. -Rob -Original Message- From: Christian Grobmeier [mailto:grobme...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 00:09 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Review of OpenOffice.org Forums Agreement

Re: [DISCUSS] Review of OpenOffice.org Forums Agreement

2011-10-13 Thread Christian Grobmeier
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 1:05 AM, Donald Whytock dwhyt...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Please not, there are not technical volunteers for fulfilling that task. Terry E, who left the project, has mentioned this might be very difficult or

Re: [DISCUSS] Review of OpenOffice.org Forums Agreement

2011-10-13 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton orc...@apache.orgwrote: The Draft Proposal for governance and operation of the OpenOffice.org Forums within the Apache OpenOffice.org Podling is available on the Apache OO.o Community Wiki at

Re: [DISCUSS] Review of OpenOffice.org Forums Agreement

2011-10-13 Thread Christian Grobmeier
2011/10/13 Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@googlemail.com: On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton orc...@apache.orgwrote: Wondering why the discussion is on the wiki as comments? Juergen There was discussion on this list, onn the forum, on the wiki and then back on the forum. These

Re: [DISCUSS] Review of OpenOffice.org Forums Agreement

2011-10-12 Thread F C. Costero
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 8:06 PM, F C. Costero fjcc.apa...@gmail.com wrote: *C.* Forum admins must sign the ICLA. They will interact with the Apache Infra group and should be official project members. At least one Moderator, who will sign the ICLA, or Admin on every NL forum will commit to

RE: [DISCUSS] Review of OpenOffice.org Forums Agreement

2011-10-11 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
The Draft Proposal for governance and operation of the OpenOffice.org Forums within the Apache OpenOffice.org Podling is available on the Apache OO.o Community Wiki at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Changes+integrate+the+forums+into+the+AOOo+project. The Draft Proposal is

Re: [DISCUSS] Review of OpenOffice.org Forums Agreement

2011-10-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton orc...@apache.org wrote: The Draft Proposal for governance and operation of the OpenOffice.org Forums within the Apache OpenOffice.org Podling is available on the Apache OO.o Community Wiki at

Re: [DISCUSS] Review of OpenOffice.org Forums Agreement

2011-10-11 Thread Christian Grobmeier
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton orc...@apache.org wrote: The Draft Proposal for governance and operation of the OpenOffice.org Forums within the Apache OpenOffice.org Podling is available on the Apache OO.o

Re: [DISCUSS] Review of OpenOffice.org Forums Agreement

2011-10-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Christian Grobmeier grobme...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton orc...@apache.org wrote: The Draft Proposal for governance and operation of the

Re: [DISCUSS] Review of OpenOffice.org Forums Agreement

2011-10-11 Thread Rob Weir
To enable list-based discussion of the proposal, I'm pasting in the current wiki markup. This will allow anyone to enter inline commentary, as a response, to the quoted original. -Rob --- h1. Changes to integrate the forums into the AOOo project h2. 1. Community The

Re: [DISCUSS] Review of OpenOffice.org Forums Agreement

2011-10-11 Thread Christian Grobmeier
And yes, the forum people are asking to look at this proposal now and discuss. OK.  That's what I wanted to hear.  We've had false starts on this before.  I expected the forum proposal to come from a forum admin or moderator, not fro Dennis.  But that's fine. I can confirm that this

Re: [DISCUSS] Review of OpenOffice.org Forums Agreement

2011-10-11 Thread Dave Fisher
The proposal looks pretty good to me. Well thought out. I do have an operational question about the three people given the role of Initial Committers / PMC Do Zoltan, Rory, and Ricardo each have the skills and time to necessary to both complete the migration of the Fora that was begun by

Re: [DISCUSS] Review of OpenOffice.org Forums Agreement

2011-10-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: To enable list-based discussion of the proposal, I'm pasting in the current wiki markup.  This will allow anyone to enter inline commentary, as a response, to the quoted original. -Rob --- h1. Changes

Re: [DISCUSS] Review of OpenOffice.org Forums Agreement

2011-10-11 Thread drew
On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 13:13 -0700, Dave Fisher wrote: The proposal looks pretty good to me. Well thought out. I do have an operational question about the three people given the role of Initial Committers / PMC Do Zoltan, Rory, and Ricardo each have the skills and time to necessary to

Re: [DISCUSS] Review of OpenOffice.org Forums Agreement

2011-10-11 Thread RGB ES
2011/10/11 Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net The proposal looks pretty good to me. Well thought out. I do have an operational question about the three people given the role of Initial Committers / PMC Do Zoltan, Rory, and Ricardo each have the skills and time to necessary to both complete

Re: [DISCUSS] Review of OpenOffice.org Forums Agreement

2011-10-11 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Rob Weir wrote on Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 15:13:31 -0400: To enable list-based discussion of the proposal, I'm pasting in the current wiki markup. This will allow anyone to enter inline commentary, as a response, to the quoted original. Thanks! *H.* Should the ASF or the Apache

Re: [DISCUSS] Review of OpenOffice.org Forums Agreement

2011-10-11 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 13:13:54 -0700 Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: I do have an operational question about the three people given the role of Initial Committers / PMC Do Zoltan, Rory, and Ricardo each have the skills and time I certainly do not have tthe skills to do that, not the

Re: [DISCUSS] Review of OpenOffice.org Forums Agreement

2011-10-11 Thread Kazunari Hirano
Hi Drew and all, I sent an email to Vietnamese and Chinese forum admins and asked them to read the proposal and say something. :) But I have not heard from them yet. Have you, Drew? Thanks, khirano

Re: [DISCUSS] Review of OpenOffice.org Forums Agreement

2011-10-11 Thread floris v
Op 11-10-2011 23:30, Kazunari Hirano schreef: Hi Drew and all, I sent an email to Vietnamese and Chinese forum admins and asked them to read the proposal and say something. :) But I have not heard from them yet. Have you, Drew? Thanks, khirano Your chances to hear something from the

Re: [DISCUSS] Review of OpenOffice.org Forums Agreement

2011-10-11 Thread drew
On Wed, 2011-10-12 at 06:30 +0900, Kazunari Hirano wrote: Hi Drew and all, I sent an email to Vietnamese and Chinese forum admins and asked them to read the proposal and say something. :) But I have not heard from them yet. Have you, Drew? No - but I'll be doing the following this

RE: [DISCUSS] Review of OpenOffice.org Forums Agreement

2011-10-11 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
of OpenOffice.org Forums Agreement Rob Weir wrote on Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 15:13:31 -0400: To enable list-based discussion of the proposal, I'm pasting in the current wiki markup. This will allow anyone to enter inline commentary, as a response, to the quoted original. Thanks! *H.* Should the ASF

Re: [DISCUSS] Review of OpenOffice.org Forums Agreement

2011-10-11 Thread Ross Gardler
On 11 October 2011 22:05, Daniel Shahaf d...@daniel.shahaf.name wrote: Rob Weir wrote on Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 15:13:31 -0400: To enable list-based discussion of the proposal, I'm pasting in the current wiki markup.  This will allow anyone to enter inline commentary, as a response, to the

Re: [DISCUSS] Review of OpenOffice.org Forums Agreement

2011-10-11 Thread floris v
Op 11-10-2011 23:46, Dennis E. Hamilton schreef: *H.* Should the ASF or the Apache OpenOffice.org project decide to terminate its support of the forums, it will grant a period of at least 90 days for the transfer of the contents and structure of the forums to another host as decided by the

Re: [DISCUSS] Review of OpenOffice.org Forums Agreement

2011-10-11 Thread Christian Grobmeier
Volunteers are registered users of the forum(s) with a post count of over 200 (or another lower limit), who visit and post regularly to answer questions, report spam and in general show commitment to the forum(s), as opposed to regular registered users who may never post at all or post

Re: [DISCUSS] Review of OpenOffice.org Forums Agreement

2011-10-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: On 11 October 2011 22:05, Daniel Shahaf d...@daniel.shahaf.name wrote: Rob Weir wrote on Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 15:13:31 -0400: To enable list-based discussion of the proposal, I'm pasting in the current wiki markup.

Re: [DISCUSS] Review of OpenOffice.org Forums Agreement

2011-10-11 Thread drew
On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 23:58 +0200, floris v wrote: Op 11-10-2011 23:46, Dennis E. Hamilton schreef: *H.* Should the ASF or the Apache OpenOffice.org project decide to terminate its support of the forums, it will grant a period of at least 90 days for the transfer of the contents and

Re: [DISCUSS] Review of OpenOffice.org Forums Agreement

2011-10-11 Thread Christian Grobmeier
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 11:58 PM, floris v floris...@gmail.com wrote: Op 11-10-2011 23:46, Dennis E. Hamilton schreef: *H.* Should the ASF or the Apache OpenOffice.org project decide to terminate its support of the forums, it will grant a period of at least 90 days for the transfer of the

Re: [DISCUSS] Review of OpenOffice.org Forums Agreement

2011-10-11 Thread Christian Grobmeier
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: On 11 October 2011 22:05, Daniel Shahaf d...@daniel.shahaf.name wrote: Rob Weir wrote on Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 15:13:31 -0400: To enable

Re: [DISCUSS] Review of OpenOffice.org Forums Agreement

2011-10-11 Thread Ross Gardler
On 11 October 2011 23:07, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: On 11 October 2011 22:05, Daniel Shahaf d...@daniel.shahaf.name wrote: Rob Weir wrote on Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 15:13:31 -0400: To enable list-based

Re: [DISCUSS] Review of OpenOffice.org Forums Agreement

2011-10-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Christian Grobmeier grobme...@gmail.com wrote: Volunteers are registered users of the forum(s) with a post count of over 200 (or another lower limit), who visit and post regularly to answer questions, report spam and in general show commitment to the forum(s),

Re: [DISCUSS] Review of OpenOffice.org Forums Agreement

2011-10-11 Thread Daniel Shahaf
drew wrote on Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 18:07:35 -0400: On Tue, 2011-10-11 at 23:58 +0200, floris v wrote: Op 11-10-2011 23:46, Dennis E. Hamilton schreef: *H.* Should the ASF or the Apache OpenOffice.org project decide to terminate its support of the forums, it will grant a period of at

Re: [DISCUSS] Review of OpenOffice.org Forums Agreement

2011-10-11 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Ross Gardler wrote on Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 23:11:23 +0100: On 11 October 2011 23:07, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: In any case, the right way to handle this is just to take out the mention of ASF.  If indeed the PPMC has delegated authority, then it is sufficient to just mention the

Re: [DISCUSS] Review of OpenOffice.org Forums Agreement

2011-10-11 Thread Shane Curcuru
On 10/11/2011 5:58 PM, floris v wrote: Op 11-10-2011 23:46, Dennis E. Hamilton schreef: *H.* Should the ASF or the Apache OpenOffice.org project decide to terminate its support of the forums, it will grant a period of at least 90 days for the transfer of the contents and structure of the

Re: [DISCUSS] Review of OpenOffice.org Forums Agreement

2011-10-11 Thread Shane Curcuru
I think by far the most important thing to realize is that we are trying to come up with well understood, basic guidelines for collaborative community governance here, under the broad umbrella of the Apache Way and an ASF podling. We are not trying to come up with an international treaty with

Re: [DISCUSS] Review of OpenOffice.org Forums Agreement

2011-10-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Shane Curcuru a...@shanecurcuru.org wrote: I think by far the most important thing to realize is that we are trying to come up with well understood, basic guidelines for collaborative community governance here, under the broad umbrella of the Apache Way and an

Re: [DISCUSS] Review of OpenOffice.org Forums Agreement

2011-10-11 Thread Shane Curcuru
On 10/11/2011 8:46 PM, Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Shane Curcurua...@shanecurcuru.org wrote: ...snip... Actually anyone is welcome to work with Apache infra on their normal mailing lists or even open JIRAs to get work done, so there's no strict need for Apache IDs in

RE: [DISCUSS] Review of OpenOffice.org Forums Agreement

2011-10-11 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
@incubator.apache.org Subject: RE: [DISCUSS] Review of OpenOffice.org Forums Agreement Beside infrastructure@ a.o, there is the public list infrastructure-dev @ a.o. - Dennis -Original Message- From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 17:47 To: ooo-dev

Re: [DISCUSS] Review of OpenOffice.org Forums Agreement

2011-10-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Shane Curcuru a...@shanecurcuru.org wrote: On 10/11/2011 8:46 PM, Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Shane Curcurua...@shanecurcuru.org  wrote: ...snip... Actually anyone is welcome to work with Apache infra on their normal mailing lists

Re: [DISCUSS] Review of OpenOffice.org Forums Agreement

2011-10-11 Thread F C. Costero
I'm not sure this is the best place to jump in here, but I'd like to add some comments and try to summarize changes to the proposal that may be required, or at least welcome. On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Christian Grobmeier