On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Simon Phipps <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Simon Phipps <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > 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. >> > > All platform/language combinations? Do you have a pointer to the list > pelase? > >
Is this really all you wanted to discuss when you said yesterday: "I think we still need to have a serious discussion about the scope of the ambitions of AOOo - it's been raised before but deferred pending actually having a repo to work on." Is that your "serious discussion about the scope of the ambitions of AOOo"? You just want to know what languages we will support? >> >> 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? >> > > This is the conversation that's in progress, about mailing lists needing > migration from Oracle infrastructure; I had assumed you were following it. > I'm giving you the opportunity to raise these "serious discussion about the scope of the ambitions of AOO". Are you saying that this is just a question about migrating support forums. Seriously? -Rob > S. >
