Rob, I believe Terry is talking about the openoffice.org domain in situ and the existing OOo forums there. This has nothing to do with anything under Apache ooo custody at this time, nor does it have anything to do with the test version he has running in order to learn how to port. It was an offer to provide any interim support on the live openoffice.org forums, and understand their administration ther, not anything on Apache.
I assume that the rights that Terry Ellison has on openoffice.org is not anything that were conferred to him via the ASF. I believe that there is no policy matter here, and if it is it is between Oracle and Terry and those Terry approves to be there. - Dennis POLICY MATTERS THREADS There is certainly a policy matter on how administration is done on a port to Apache if we insist on operating it on an apache.org domain. There is a different policy matter, but still one, if we continue to operate it on the openoffice.org domain even though hosted in some sanitary way on Apache infrastructure. We already have unresolved discussions on other threads concerning that. -----Original Message----- From: Rob Weir [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2011 11:05 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: An invitation to committers to the OOo Community Forums On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Terry Ellison <[email protected]> wrote: > Rob, > > This was a polite invitation to committers if they wanted to see how the > forums operate. I will take your -1 to mean that you don't want to take me > up on the offer. > Let me be clearer then. The -1 is to your proposal to invite committers and assign them permissions to a private forum. This is not a technical objection, but a policy objection. Please do not take further steps on this until we can get a Mentor to weigh in on. Thanks, -Rob > Your reply is a valid topic but entirely off *this* topic. Unfortunately > since this is a DL and not a forum, I can't move this to new topic which > relates to your point. However, if you care to make this on another thread > on the topic you discuss, then I will reply there. > > Can we try to maintain some thread discipline, please? > > Regards > Terry > > On 01/09/11 17:59, Rob Weir wrote: >> >> On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Terry Ellison<[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Anyone is able to join the OOo Community forums, but we also have a >>> number >>> of closed forums use for internal management of the site. If any >>> committers >>> would like to have access to these, then just make sure that they've got >>> an >>> active account on the current production service (not >>> ooo-forums.apache.org) >>> and email me me from it requesting access. I will then raise you to >>> "volunteer" so that you can see the main closed forums. >>> >> -1 >> >> I propose that we eliminate any such "internal management" forums...<snip> >> > >
