We, the admins of the eGroupWare project, think the answers from Lars and Conny to our prior statement do not settle the issue by coming to a real decision, but rather by showing only the will to continue with the current situation.
We could now force by admin decision one of the alternatives of the statement. But, we think that for a decision of this magnitude that this should be decided by a vote of the project members instead. We also think this vote has to be, in the best interest of the project, done as quickly as possible, as the current situation is eroding the project, slowing down the development and unsettling our users. We don't think that waiting for a "proof of concept" to be finished makes any sense, as our problem is not with the written or future code, but with the basic approach, its dogma and magnitude. Therefore, we call upon the members of the eGroupWare project for a vote on the following: YES, if you are in favor of: The existing codeline keeping the name "eGroupWare" and continuing to evolve the existing codebase with it's broad range of applications. The new codeline has to form a new project under a new name as well as discontinuing the use of our mailing lists for purposes of advertising their new code, petitioning developers, etc. NO, if you are in favor of: Lars & Conny's new codeline using the name "eGroupWare" for their new development. The existing codeline would be forked into a new project (though fork is the wrong word as they would be the only ones using and supporting the existing code). According to our constitution, the vote must be at least one week after the vote has been announced on the mailing list. We ask for your votes on 20th December 2007 (full day UTC time). We suggest that either Peter Vratny or Oscar Manuel Gómez Senovilla act as "election master", who will announce the full formalities, collect and count the votes and announce the result. Your eGroupWare admins Ralf Becker, Pim Snel, Miles Lott ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ eGroupWare-core mailing list eGroupWare-core@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/egroupware-core
