Re: On parks, commons, and websites... and fun (or lack of)

2012-07-18 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Hagar Delest wrote: You've taken the fun out of it. ... As a consequence, I resign from my PPMC role and will unsubscribe the dev private mailing lists right now. It's a very sad (hopefully temporary) consequence. It proves that the OpenOffice project is not mature yet: it can still happen

Re: On parks, commons, and websites... and fun (or lack of)

2012-07-18 Thread Joe Schaefer
- Original Message - From: Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Cc: hagar.del...@laposte.net Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 3:26 AM Subject: Re: On parks, commons, and websites... and fun (or lack of) Hagar Delest wrote: You've taken the fun out

Re: On parks, commons, and websites... and fun (or lack of)

2012-07-18 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
On 7/18/12 3:49 PM, Joe Schaefer wrote: - Original Message - From: Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Cc: hagar.del...@laposte.net Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 3:26 AM Subject: Re: On parks, commons, and websites... and fun (or lack of) Hagar

Re: On parks, commons, and websites... and fun (or lack of)

2012-07-18 Thread Joe Schaefer
- Original Message - From: Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@googlemail.com To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Cc: Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 10:18 AM Subject: Re: On parks, commons, and websites... and fun (or lack of) If Hagar really step back and won't continue his great job it will

Re: On parks, commons, and websites... and fun (or lack of)

2012-07-18 Thread Dave Fisher
I know that as a Mentor (only for Flex) my responsibility is to guide the community to sustainability. Most of the time I am quiet, respond when needed and let the project make its own decisions. Note that Christian, an original Mentor, recently asked about graduation. I won't speculate on why

Re: On parks, commons, and websites... and fun (or lack of)

2012-07-18 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Joe Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@googlemail.com To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Cc: Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 10:18 AM Subject: Re: On parks, commons, and websites... and fun (or

Re: On parks, commons, and websites... and fun (or lack of)

2012-07-18 Thread Joe Schaefer
- Original Message - From: Rob Weir robw...@apache.org To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Cc: Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 11:27 AM Subject: Re: On parks, commons, and websites... and fun (or lack of) On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Joe Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.com wrote:

Re: On parks, commons, and websites... and fun (or lack of)

2012-07-17 Thread Hagar Delest
Let's be clear: I don't have the desire to take the effort to do such thing. I volunteer to this project on my free time because I like it. But the deal is that I've to like it. I give my time to help users because I find some fun in it. So I won't engage in things that bore me. If you can't

Re: On parks, commons, and websites... and fun (or lack of)

2012-07-17 Thread Joe Schaefer
From: Hagar Delest hagar.del...@laposte.net To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 4:10 PM Subject: Re: On parks, commons, and websites... and fun (or lack of) Let's be clear: I don't have the desire to take the effort to do such thing.

Re: On parks, commons, and websites... and fun (or lack of)

2012-07-17 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-07-17 2:38 PM Joe Schaefer wrote: From: Hagar Delest hagar.del...@laposte.net To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 4:10 PM Subject: Re: On parks, commons, and websites... and fun (or lack of) Let's be clear: I don't have the

Re: On parks, commons, and websites... and fun (or lack of)

2012-07-17 Thread RGB ES
2012/7/17 Joe Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.com: I haven't attacked you not a single time; I'm not bashing you either. I have challenged you to increase your level of contribution to this project to match the expectations of the other participants and committers on this mailing list. It

Re: On parks, commons, and websites... and fun (or lack of)

2012-07-17 Thread Joe Schaefer
Larry, I trust you reserve this behavior for this mailing list and do not subject forum participants to the pack-animal behavior you've been exhibiting here lately.  The biggest concern I have here with forum participants on this list is how their behavior here translates to their conduct in the

Re: On parks, commons, and websites... and fun (or lack of)

2012-07-17 Thread Rob Weir
Please, everyone. Let's not pile on this thread with more name calling, etc., in the heat of the moment. Let's set it aside and see tomorrow if there is anything more that should be said. We accomplish nothing with rapid-fire, emotional responses. Thanks! -Rob On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 4:54

Re: On parks, commons, and websites... and fun (or lack of)

2012-07-17 Thread Joe Schaefer
- Original Message - From: RGB ES rgb.m...@gmail.com To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org; Joe Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.com Cc: Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 4:57 PM Subject: Re: On parks, commons, and websites... and fun (or lack of) 2012/7/17 Joe Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.com:

Re: On parks, commons, and websites... and fun (or lack of)

2012-07-17 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-07-17 3:01 PM Joe Schaefer wrote: Larry, I trust you reserve this behavior for this mailing list and do not subject forum participants to the pack-animal behavior you've been exhibiting here lately. The biggest concern I have here with forum participants on this list is how their

Re: On parks, commons, and websites... and fun (or lack of)

2012-07-17 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-07-17 3:04 PM Rob Weir wrote: Please, everyone. Let's not pile on this thread with more name calling, etc., in the heat of the moment. Let's set it aside and see tomorrow if there is anything more that should be said. We accomplish nothing with rapid-fire, emotional responses. I

Re: On parks, commons, and websites... and fun (or lack of)

2012-07-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Larry Gusaas larry.gus...@gmail.com wrote: On 2012-07-17 3:01 PM Joe Schaefer wrote: Larry, I trust you reserve this behavior for this mailing list and do not subject forum participants to the pack-animal behavior you've been exhibiting here lately. The

Re: On parks, commons, and websites... and fun (or lack of)

2012-07-17 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 14:54:29 -0600 Larry Gusaas larry.gus...@gmail.com wrote: On 2012-07-17 2:38 PM Joe Schaefer wrote: From: Hagar Delest hagar.del...@laposte.net To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 4:10 PM Subject: Re: On

Re: On parks, commons, and websites... and fun (or lack of)

2012-07-17 Thread Joe Schaefer
If Hagar has a debilitating illness that prevents him from acquiring the requisite skills, let me apologize for asking him to try to do something a normal person on this mailing list can accomplish for themselves. That's the best you're going to get Larry. - Original Message - From:

Re: On parks, commons, and websites... and fun (or lack of)

2012-07-17 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 14:20:02 -0700 (PDT) Joe Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.com wrote: If Hagar has a debilitating illness that prevents him from acquiring the requisite skills, let me apologize for asking him to try to do something a normal person on this mailing list can accomplish for

Re: On parks, commons, and websites... and fun (or lack of)

2012-07-17 Thread Joe Schaefer
- Original Message - From: Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Cc: Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 5:29 PM Subject: Re: On parks, commons, and websites... and fun (or lack of) On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 14:20:02 -0700 (PDT) Joe Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.com

Re: On parks, commons, and websites... and fun (or lack of)

2012-07-17 Thread Joe Schaefer
Larry, How do you think someone should be treated who preferred to file AOO bug reports to the forums instead of to the issue tracker? Would you encourage that sort of behavior, ignore it, or say something to them about it? All I'm saying is that the CMS is the analog to website bugs as to what

RE: On parks, commons, and websites... and fun (or lack of)

2012-07-17 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
The following text is boilerplate on the model that is sent to all who are invited to be committers on AOOi. It is derived from a model document that is to be found on the Apache site: Hello invitee, The Apache OpenOffice Podling Project Management Committee (PPMC) hereby offers

Re: On parks, commons, and websites... and fun (or lack of)

2012-07-17 Thread Joe Schaefer
Exactly so Dennis, and here is the community documentation which spells out how a committer can more easily make changes without having to go through the patch submission process for the website:     http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/website-local.html ...Making updates to the Apache

Re: On parks, commons, and websites... and fun (or lack of)

2012-07-17 Thread Joe Schaefer
- Original Message - From: Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Cc: dennis.hamil...@acm.org dennis.hamil...@acm.org Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 8:08 PM Subject: Re: On parks, commons, and websites... and fun (or lack of) I think that it is a good

Re: On parks, commons, and websites... and fun (or lack of)

2012-07-17 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 16:17:28 -0700 Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: The following text is boilerplate on the model that is sent to all who are invited to be committers on AOOi. It is derived from a model document that is to be found on the Apache site: Hello invitee,