We, the eGroupWare admins, want to offer a way out of the current situation and the proposed vote.
Since Lars and Conny have renamed their effort to Tine, we are willing to stand down with the vote, given that both projects agree on a few basic rules about their relationship. The term projects is used to show equal respect to both efforts. 1. Neither project advertises or announces its current or future features on the user mailing lists of the other project. This rule is common sense in the relationship of all open source projects. We regard all current nationally or lingually-centric eGroupWare lists as user lists in addition to the standard -users list. 2. Technical matters such as innovations implemented in one project from which the other might benefit or negotiating areas for cooperation are welcome on the other projects developers list (not user lists). 3. No project makes public announcements or press releases, in which it claims to be the future of the other project. 4. Members of either project may have the freedom to work in both, given that freedom does not mean violating the above rules. Project membership will of course be handled independently within each project. 5. Both projects will strive toward a good and friendly working relationship. We think it's also necessary to clearly state consequences if the above rules are violated. If a violation occurs, we will: - block the offending email address from the list - if the block is somehow circumvented, we will regard that as an action against the project and will act accordingly We see this offer as a step towards each other and it is made in good faith. Please state in public on behalf of the Tine project if you agree to these rules about the relationship between our two projects. 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
