On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Simon Phipps <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Could you point us to your proposal? Or should we still be looking at >> your earlier proposal, the one I linked to? When you have a new >> proposal, I'll be glad to comment. >> > > The email you snipped all the content from in your reply included a number > of proposals :-) I've reproduced some of them below for your convenience. > > >> >> But note that a proposal to discuss something isn't really a proposal. >> A proposal is a proposal for a particular action. We should try to >> limit undirected chatter on this list. This is a working list, for >> AOOo dev. We need to preserve focus. >> > > On the contrary, ideas that extend beyond the scope of "I would like to do" > have to be discussed before firm proposals can be made. Otherwise the > proposals get dismissed out of hand by opponents because they don't have > consensus, as I think you have just proved. > > So: > > * I suggest we review realistically what binaries (platforms and languages) > can be sustained once the project is fully operational, seeking named > participants to take responsibility for each of them, and then collaborate > with other projects to ensure that the user community continues to be fully > served. It may be too early for this discussion. >
Apache projects tend to avoid carving out designated ownership of sub-project areas. That tends to degrade into territorial behavior that is anti-collaboration and anti-community. Although a person may take the lead on building the Windows port for a particular release, this is done without assumption that someone else might also work in that area. So I don't think we will have named/designated "owners" for various platforms. The project owns the release. The responsibility is with the PPMC. That said, I believe we already have volunteers on board who have expressed interest in supporting all platforms that OOo has, except Solaris. If anyone wants to collaborate on Solaris, please speak up. > * I suggest that end-users should be supported by shared forums or a > GetSatisfaction-style collaborative venue serving all OpenOffice-family > projects, hosted on the OpenOffice.org domain so it's easy to find. This > discussion is already in progress and my suggestion is a rough summary of > possible consensus. > We're already doing that today on the OOo support forums, yes? Are you proposing something different than that? > Feel free to start new threads if you prefer :-) > > S. >
