Re: Corporate Contribution [Blondie's Parallel Lines...]

2011-06-07 Thread Steve Loughran
On 06/03/2011 03:58 AM, Sam Ruby wrote: On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:24 PM,robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: Corporate assignments are notorious at the ASF for disappearing communities. Sometimes, there is momentum to keep going, often times there is not. Communities are based on individuals.

Re: Corporate Contribution [Blondie's Parallel Lines...]

2011-06-07 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Steve, In the interest of completeness, please point out that folks from IBM did join and work on Axis2 which was a complete rewrite from scratch, got that integrated into other Apache projects like Geronimo. thanks, dims On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Steve Loughran ste...@apache.org wrote:

Re: Corporate Contribution [Blondie's Parallel Lines...]

2011-06-07 Thread Christian Lippka
Hi Steve, Am 07.06.2011 15:27, schrieb Steve Loughran: [...] The issue with corporate reassignments is that everyone just vanishes. They get reassigned, and go away. In OSS, individuals tend to drift off, go onto what else interests them, or whatever. The turnover/year may be the same,

Re: Corporate Contribution [Blondie's Parallel Lines...]

2011-06-07 Thread Christian Lippka
Hi Steve, Am 07.06.2011 15:27, schrieb Steve Loughran: [...] The issue with corporate reassignments is that everyone just vanishes. They get reassigned, and go away. In OSS, individuals tend to drift off, go onto what else interests them, or whatever. The turnover/year may be the same,

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-04 Thread Sam Ruby
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 11:00 PM, Norbert Thiebaud nthieb...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 9:25 PM,  robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: Cor Nouws oo...@nouenoff.nl wrote on 06/03/2011 06:14:56 PM: I would love to see all work in one big project - read all my pleas in the OpenOffice.org

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: 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

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-03 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Rob, all, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote (02-06-11 21:34) If you claim to have 200 developers working on LO then I suspect this is with a very low level of engagement. I know several people that started with really tiny contributions for LibreOffice in the past months but just evolved to

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-03 Thread Ian Lynch
Reality is what matters. So let's make the best reality possible :-) On 3 Jun 2011 23:15, Cor Nouws oo...@nouenoff.nl wrote: Hi Rob, all, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote (02-06-11 21:34) If you claim to have 200 developers working on LO then I suspect this is with a very low level... I know

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-03 Thread robert_weir
Cor Nouws oo...@nouenoff.nl wrote on 06/03/2011 06:14:56 PM: I would love to see all work in one big project - read all my pleas in the OpenOffice.org time. But reality tells me that is not going to happen. I would like to see this as well, everyone working on a single code base. The is

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-03 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 9:25 PM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: Cor Nouws oo...@nouenoff.nl wrote on 06/03/2011 06:14:56 PM: I would love to see all work in one big project - read all my pleas in the OpenOffice.org time. But reality tells me that is not going to happen. I would like to see

Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jun 2, 2011, at 10:40 AM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: I'd like to think that no one is working on LibreOffice merely because they have no choice, or that giving everyone a choice is seen as being antagonistic. If truly 100% of the LibreOffice members prefer TDF to Apache, then you

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Jim, 2011/6/2 Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com On Jun 2, 2011, at 10:40 AM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: I'd like to think that no one is working on LibreOffice merely because they have no choice, or that giving everyone a choice is seen as being antagonistic. If truly 100% of

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jun 2, 2011, at 11:16 AM, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: To answer Jim's email, I think that while OOo and LibreOffice don't have to be competitors, I would not necessarily want to decide why we should split development efforts. I 'm sure the Apache Foundation has experience in dealing with

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread robert_weir
Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com wrote on 06/02/2011 11:06:54 AM: On Jun 2, 2011, at 10:40 AM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: I'd like to think that no one is working on LibreOffice merely because they have no choice, or that giving everyone a choice is seen as being

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread eric b
Hi, Le 2 juin 11 à 17:16, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit : I do have a question though. To me it's unclear whether the Openoffice project has any real development ressources. I see so far one developer and Rob, who I know to be a distinguished engineer from IBM but who has never contributed

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread Greg Stein
I don't think these statistics have any real relevance to the goal of evaluating the Proposal and whether it makes sense. Whether somebody has committed or not, the only question is do they have an interest in being part of the community? Whether one group has more committers than the other

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread eric b
Hi, Le 2 juin 11 à 17:57, Greg Stein a écrit : Whether one group has more committers than the other doesn't matter either. There are Apache projects with just a half-dozen people working on them. That is sufficient for the Foundation, so we can just ignore number comparisons. I fully

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Eric, 2011/6/2 eric b eric.bach...@free.fr Hi, Le 2 juin 11 à 17:16, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit : I do have a question though. To me it's unclear whether the Openoffice project has any real development ressources. I see so far one developer and Rob, who I know to be a distinguished

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread Ross Gardler
On 02/06/2011 16:22, Jim Jagielski wrote: On Jun 2, 2011, at 11:16 AM, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: ... I do have a question though. To me it's unclear whether the Openoffice project has any real development ressources. I see so far one developer and Rob, who I know to be a distinguished

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread robert_weir
charles.h.sch...@gmail.com wrote on 06/02/2011 11:16:45 AM: I do have a question though. To me it's unclear whether the Openoffice project has any real development ressources. I see so far one developer and Rob, who I know to be a distinguished engineer from IBM but who has never

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Rob, 2011/6/2 robert_w...@us.ibm.com charles.h.sch...@gmail.com wrote on 06/02/2011 11:16:45 AM: I do have a question though. To me it's unclear whether the Openoffice project has any real development ressources. I see so far one developer and Rob, who I know to be a distinguished

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread Sam Ruby
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Charles-H. Schulz charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org wrote: I am certainly not going to enter a debate on licensing, and I think nobody wants that here. But I just think that there are other ways to cooperate than pretending the elephant in the room

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread Jomar Silva (Cuca)
One simple example: Imagine the Apache project as the core guts of OOo, the framework. With TDF working on parts that extend and enhance OOo, in a modular fashion, for a particular set of end-users... or something like that. +1 Best, Jomar

Re: Corporate Contribution [Blondie's Parallel Lines...]

2011-06-02 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/2/2011 11:07 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: On 02/06/2011 16:22, Jim Jagielski wrote: The initial list has grown and I expect it to continue to; up until it was announced, no one new about it, so it was kinda impossible to get a more comprehensive list. Now that people do know about it, people

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread robert_weir
charles.h.sch...@gmail.com wrote on 06/02/2011 02:42:11 PM: No Rob, I don't question your credentials, have not done that, will never done that. Both of us know better than having that kind of talk, both of us have worked together for years now, at the OASIS and elsewhere. What I'm

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Rob, 2011/6/2 robert_w...@us.ibm.com charles.h.sch...@gmail.com wrote on 06/02/2011 02:42:11 PM: No Rob, I don't question your credentials, have not done that, will never done that. Both of us know better than having that kind of talk, both of us have worked together for years now, at

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread Greg Stein
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 15:48, Charles-H. Schulz charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org wrote: ... Well, would you be happy with the second part of the sentence you're alluding to? To repeat it, LibreOffice and the Document Foundation embody de facto most of the OpenOffice.org community, and even

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread dsh
Of course I now some more magic than just re-indent a codebase... that would be to easy to spot wouldn't it ;) Seriously: I doubt some code analysis or commit log analysis practices especially if the goal would be to make an assertion about someones performance. IMHO that leaves a bad taste in an

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread Greg Stein
Oh, totally agree. It is useful as a rough measure, but completely ignores many other forms of contribution. *shrug* On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 16:16, dsh daniel.hais...@googlemail.com wrote: Of course I now some more magic than just re-indent a codebase... that would be to easy to spot wouldn't

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread robert_weir
dsh daniel.hais...@googlemail.com wrote on 06/02/2011 04:05:38 PM: IMHO you should not discuss or question the LO community size respective its vitality in any way at this place. That's certainly not the scope of the OpenOffice Apache incubation proposal anyway. The I disagree. The

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread Ross Gardler
On 02/06/2011 21:16, dsh wrote: Of course I now some more magic than just re-indent a codebase... that would be to easy to spot wouldn't it ;) Indeed, I inadvertently found what I believe to be the best approach. Commit an svn:props change to a template that is an svn:external in 30+ of ASF

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread robert_weir
dsh daniel.hais...@googlemail.com wrote on 06/02/2011 04:44:26 PM: IMHO the project is on track the community just needs to discuss some more things and sort them out. It is just that I don't even think it's required to provide proof-points based on questionable analytics at this point in

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread dsh
Sorry no tab keys involved ... I'd like to indent with spaces :D :D Cheers Daniel On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:55 PM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: dsh daniel.hais...@googlemail.com wrote on 06/02/2011 04:44:26 PM: IMHO the project is on track the community just needs to discuss some more

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread robert_weir
Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote on 06/02/2011 05:45:57 PM: On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 16:55, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: dsh daniel.hais...@googlemail.com wrote on 06/02/2011 04:44:26 PM: IMHO the project is on track the community just needs to discuss some more things and sort them

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread dsh
Excellent Rob! FYI Celix [1] entered the inucbator with just one single initial committer and thus I'd say there's was no point at any time requiring hundreds of developers backing the proposal. [1] http://incubator.apache.org/projects/celix.html Cheers Daniel On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 12:12 AM,

Re: Corporate Contribution [Blondie's Parallel Lines...]

2011-06-02 Thread robert_weir
William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote on 06/02/2011 03:22:24 PM: On 02/06/2011 16:22, Jim Jagielski wrote: The initial list has grown and I expect it to continue to; up until it was announced, no one new about it, so it was kinda impossible to get a more comprehensive list. Now

Re: Corporate Contribution [Blondie's Parallel Lines...]

2011-06-02 Thread Sam Ruby
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:24 PM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote on 06/02/2011 03:22:24 PM: On 02/06/2011 16:22, Jim Jagielski wrote: The initial list has grown and I expect it to continue to; up until it was announced, no one new about it,

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

2011-06-02 Thread robert_weir
Michael Meeks michael.me...@novell.com wrote on 06/02/2011 08:57:27 PM: -$scripts_dir/merge-log -p LIBREOFFICE_CREATE.. $outdir/all-lo.log +$scripts_dir/merge-log --all --since='2011-01-03' $outdir/all-lo.log Show 'active' contributors by affiliation - ie. at least one patch

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

2011-06-02 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:07 PM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: Michael Meeks michael.me...@novell.com wrote on 06/02/2011 08:57:27 PM: -    $scripts_dir/merge-log -p LIBREOFFICE_CREATE.. $outdir/all-lo.log +    $scripts_dir/merge-log --all --since='2011-01-03' $outdir/all-lo.log    Show