Hello Michael,

Le Tue, 4 Jan 2011 01:26:09 +0930,
Michael Wheatland <[email protected]> a écrit :

> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 12:50 AM, Charles-H. Schulz
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > "to implement the Silverstripe CMS on Drupal.org" does not seem to
> > mean anything to me. "With a view to go with Drupal" was rather:
> > with the possible option of Drupal in the long term.
> 
> Sorry, I meant to write libreoffice.org not drupal.org

ah, okay. 

> 
> > "a little bit of misinformation", Michael, is perhaps your
> > enthusiasm leading to understand things the way you would like them
> > to be :-). At this stage, I don't believe we have any clear plans
> > to move to Drupal; there seems indeed to have been some early
> > misunderstanding, but if you wish the SC will clarify its position
> > (again) .  But given that I'm a member of the said SC, it might be
> > useful to you to take my words into account.
> 
> To make this clear in my mind I have listened and read the decision
> statement from the Steering Committee decision.
> 
> The conversation on the conference call:
> "I would ask the people working on Drupal to do a more detailed
> planning in the next month regarding additional services..."

right.

> There were some bits that I didn't quite understand (poor quality
> sound), but many people voiced their opinion that we should consider
> Drupal as the long term solution.

I might repeat Cor's statements here, but "many people voiced their
opinion that we should consider Drupal as the long term solution"
means: many people "think we should decide whether Drupal would be a
long term solution" . It's hardly a Steering Committee decision
requesting the use of Drupal. 
> 
> 
> The statement to the website list from the SC is as follows:
> "the CMS decision was taken: it will be Silverstripe as a starter,
> with plans to migrate to Drupal later on."
> 
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.libreoffice.website/592

"plans... later on". Not "now let's rush towards creating the
definitive Drupal website"...

> 
> I would have thought that this official statement is very clear in the
> outcome 

Obviously it is conditional, and makes clear that it's an option for
the long term. 

> and the website team has had a large group of people (larger
> than that working on the current site) working towards this end, whom
> might I say have done a fantastic job in a very short period of time.
> Clearly the implementation is still a few months off as we start to
> involve Native Language teams and other functional teams.

And to our great dismay, calls for help for the current website, which
has all the top priority, went lost in a sea of mails about the Drupal
project, and despite several mails of people explaining Drupal was just
an option. 

> 
> I hope this clarifies my point, and makes it quite clear that I am not
> just hearing what I want to. This was the official decision statement
> as communicated back to the website mailing list.
> 
Well you now see that the official decision was not a definitive
statement about Drupal, and that it was *considered* as an option.

Best,
-- 
Charles-H. Schulz
Membre du Comité exécutif
The Document Foundation.

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