Great!  Now about that board report...

On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 3:47 PM, John D. Ament <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Rob,
> >
> > Just curious, you have three mentors listed:
> >
> > Sam Ruby
> > Nick Burch
> > Yegor Kozlov
> >
> > However, it looks like you were the one who signed off on the last board
> > report.  Do we perhaps need to shuffle around mentors a bit?
> >
>
> I certainly needed to add myself, which I did here:
>
> http://incubator.apache.org/projects/odftoolkit.html
>
> Regards,
>
> -Rob
>
> > John
> >
> >
> > On Tue Oct 28 2014 at 9:03:25 PM Ian C <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Rob,
> >>
> >> you have a volunteer. Don't know what to do, don't have check access,
> but
> >> I'm will to learn and help.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Ian
> >>
> >> On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 10:27 PM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> > On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > > I think it is time to have a candid discussion about this project
> and
> >> > > what we want to do with it.
> >> > >
> >> > > On the positive side, we did have a release back in July.  Also, we
> do
> >> > > seem to have users, as evident from the questions on the users list.
> >> > >
> >> > > But as a Mentor, I'm noting that we're in the habit of being late
> for
> >> > > IPMC reports, and appear to have not had any list discussions or
> code
> >> > > commits in a few months.   We don't seem to be making progress
> towards
> >> > > graduation or growing the community.
> >> > >
> >> > > You can read more about the Attic here:
> >> > >
> >> > > http://attic.apache.org/
> >> > >
> >> > > Anyone have thoughts on this?
> >> > >
> >> > > Note:  moving to the Attic does not prevent us from then putting the
> >> > > codebase onto Github and maintaining it that way.   This might make
> >> > > more sense for a project that has only 2 or 3 developers
> sporadically
> >> > > working on it.
> >> > >
> >> >
> >> > Hello All !
> >> >
> >> > A quick follow up.    Responses to this idea show that there was no
> >> > support for moving to the Attic.  That's fine.   I'd like this to be a
> >> > community decision.   However, if we don't start showing a real
> >> > heartbeat in this project, including timely submission of our podling
> >> > reports to the IPMC, and progress towards graduating from the
> >> > Incubator, we may be forced into that position.
> >> >
> >> > Maybe it would help if someone volunteers to be Release Manager for
> >> > the next release and suggest a date for that release?
> >> >
> >> > Also, since we missed the podling report for October we need to get
> >> > one in for November,  We need a volunteer to draft that.
> >> >
> >> > -Rob
> >> >
> >> > > Regards,
> >> > >
> >> > > -Rob
> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Ian C
> >>
>

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