Re: [authors] Proposal: Moving this list

[Andre Schnabel]

Hi Daniel,


Some People will say "We have every know it! OOoAuthors.org wants to 
split from OpenOffice.org!
The blackamoor has be duty done, the blackamoor can go. They have 
betrayed us!"

Someone might. But consider that the OOo council has already talked 
about telling OOoAuthors to move. They thought of it. It seems wrong 
to say to someone "you can't use our list anymore" and when they move 
then say "see, they betrayed us!".
No, it was not discussed to tell you to move, just because we want you 
to move away from the OOo lists. *sigh*

The problem is that OOoAuthors seems to become a more and more closed 
community, that likes to move away from OOo. There is still the 
licensing issue. As it is nowhere visible at the OOoAuthors site, that 
documents could be used t the OOo project under PDL, new authors do not 
have to agree. So .. it is irrelevant, what has been discussed at the 
mailing lists, as long as this is not transparent for new authors.
You might even remember, that I have asked to write down your concerns 
about the PDL and ask the Council to revise the PDL. This has not been 
done, but would have been helpfull to make the PDL easier to handle.

Second reason was the announcement of selling OOoAuthors documentations 
and using it for OOoAuthors. If you read the Council lists, it was 
discussed to ask OOoAuthors to give some of the profits to OOo (in form 
of Team OOo e.V.). To me, this is a fair question, as OOoAuthors team is 
using ressources of OOo (that are payed by Sun to support the OOo project).
In fact other teams would be noted, that we would introduce some rules, 
how OOo ressources might be used for generating money. So .. OOoAuthors 
team is not the only one that would be affected.


Anyway .. to me, the situation seems very unfortunate. OOoAuthers has 
something to provide, where OOo could learn from. Using a more easy 
environment for document handling seems to be the right way to me. The 
sad thing is, that this has been accompanied with some decisions, that 
move OOoAuthors more and more away from OOo.

André