Re: [ANNOUNCE] Directions to limit excessive or unfair marketing messages in the OFBiz mailing lists

2016-12-26 Thread Jacopo Cappellato
On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 12:41 PM, Jacques Le Roux < jacques.le.r...@les7arts.com> wrote: > > Long ago, I created the OFBiz Nabble forum with as many sub-forums as we > have mailing lists. > I have started a new thread to discuss Nabble in the dev listwith subject: "Review the configuration of

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Directions to limit excessive or unfair marketing messages in the OFBiz mailing lists

2016-12-26 Thread Jacopo Cappellato
On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote: > [...] the OFBiz PMC has published some > directions to govern how third parties can announce their > products/services/initiatives on the OFBiz user list: > >

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Directions to limit excessive or unfair marketing messages in the OFBiz mailing lists

2016-12-25 Thread Jacques Le Roux
Le 17/12/2016 à 09:14, Jacopo Cappellato a écrit : Over the past weeks a few individuals have posted several messages sponsoring their company's products/services/initiatives and, at the same time, criticized OFBiz and interfered with several threads in which OFBiz related topics were

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Directions to limit excessive or unfair marketing messages in the OFBiz mailing lists

2016-12-19 Thread Scott Gray
I don't personally recall seeing Pierre break any of the linked guidelines aside from cross posting to dev/private. IMO his marketing messages are neither excessive or unfair. So maybe, just maybe, this isn't about Pierre. And maybe we should stop worrying about who/what triggered it and instead

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Directions to limit excessive or unfair marketing messages in the OFBiz mailing lists

2016-12-19 Thread Mike
As a user, I appreciate information or even marketing emails related to ofbiz. If not here, then where? For instance, I appreciate it when bigfish announces a new version for download [here], and I also appreciate it when Pierre posts new modules. What is the big deal? The developers have

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Directions to limit excessive or unfair marketing messages in the OFBiz mailing lists

2016-12-18 Thread Pierre Smits
Hi Jacques, Thank you for expressing a perception. If that were so I guess the punishment described in the announcement would have been effected. But given that the statement is interpretable in many ways, I just thought to hedge my bets. Best regards, Pierre Smits ORRTIZ.COM

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Directions to limit excessive or unfair marketing messages in the OFBiz mailing lists

2016-12-18 Thread Jacques Le Roux
Hi Pierre, I think nobody accused you to critisise OFBiz Jacques Le 18/12/2016 à 14:39, Pierre Smits a écrit : First of all: I am NOT critisizing OFBIZ! So I beg the 'judges' to see this in light of a quest for clarity. A clarity that will benefit everybody contributing in this great ASF

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Directions to limit excessive or unfair marketing messages in the OFBiz mailing lists

2016-12-18 Thread Pierre Smits
First of all: I am NOT critisizing OFBIZ! So I beg the 'judges' to see this in light of a quest for clarity. A clarity that will benefit everybody contributing in this great ASF project, as the announcement lacks various references. The announcement talks about the image of the project. But what

[ANNOUNCE] Directions to limit excessive or unfair marketing messages in the OFBiz mailing lists

2016-12-17 Thread Jacopo Cappellato
Over the past weeks a few individuals have posted several messages sponsoring their company's products/services/initiatives and, at the same time, criticized OFBiz and interfered with several threads in which OFBiz related topics were discussed.These unfair marketing messages are distracting for