Dennis, I am a commiter but I still don't have my user/pass for svn or the GUI editing option, so I am one of the 13. I am apparently not aware of how to signal my interest in being on the PPMC. What is a TLA? Why is it bad to have it?
Wolf Halton On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 11:46 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton <dennis.hamil...@acm.org > wrote: > For the record, as of yesterday, July 3, there are 50 committers on the > Apache OpenOffice.org project. 34 of those are non-mentor members of the > PPMC. Another 13 committers apparently don't know that they are invited to > be on the PPMC and the simple step required to activate that membership. > (One eligible committer has declined to serve on the PPMC. That's a free > choice.) > > You can find all of the current committers on the list here: > <http://people.apache.org/committers-by-project.html#ooo> > > As far as I can tell, among the current committers, there are only four > individuals with a TLA in their company name. It is a big company, and I > don't know all of them. > > We have further potential for committers and PPMC members among the 26 > listed as Initial Committers who are yet to submit an iCLA. Some may also > be affiliated with TLA Corporation, though I don't spot any. > > There are also those ooo-dev contributors who will, as the strength of > their contribution becomes evident, are invited to become committers and/or > serve on the PPMC. Some of those may well be affiliated with TLA > Corporation. > > - Dennis > > -----Original Message----- > From: rabas...@gmail.com [mailto:rabas...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Rob Weir > Sent: Monday, July 04, 2011 19:37 > To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: Another introduction > > On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 5:29 AM, Graham Lauder <yori...@openoffice.org> > wrote: > [ ... ] > > There was no error in the question, decisions made at IBM, whether > > policy on OSS, Developer time allowance, code release to the core, work > > on elements that are only useful in Symphony.... these are corporate > > decisions that can affect the project. > > > > Actually, none of this can affect the project unless the project > accepts the work we do. We have a PPMC of what? 50? 60? 70 members? > And how many IBM employees on it? Maybe 6? 7? 8? All we can do is > offer contributions. Remember, even a project Committer does not have > absolute ability to make changes at whim. Changes are reviewed and > can be rejected by other Committers. > > If you are saying that IBM engineers collectively have the ability to > make contributions that could be accepted by the project and by being > accepted would affect the project, then I thank you for the > compliment. But I don't see a problem here. Honestly, we're getting > pretty equal criticism from people suggesting we're not going to > contribute enough as there are people concerned that we're going to > contribute too much. > > [ ... ] > > -- This Apt Has Super Cow Powers - http://sourcefreedom.com
