The royal we is often presumptuous, so take it under advisement not to speak on behalf of the group unless granted such permission more or less explicitly.
----- Original Message ----- > From: Dennis E. Hamilton <dennis.hamil...@acm.org> > To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org > Cc: > Sent: Saturday, September 3, 2011 6:42 PM > Subject: RE: Re : [Discuss] Lost in translation > > I think you are miss-reading me and certainly making too big of a deal about > this. Please get off my back. Or practice diplomacy, perhaps? > > No one here, in the past two weeks, has suggested that either JB or Sophie > had > been administrating that portion of fr.OO.o and might still be able to help. > Why someone who knew that had nothing to offer since Eric described the > problem > on this list on August 19, I cannot say. I consider it quite generous of me > to > say that "we didn't know" > > Did you know it? Do you know who knew it? > > Also, until Raphael just explained the deal with kenaiadmin as the > "project" leader, was that knowledge "we" had? > > - Dennis > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] > Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2011 15:11 > To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org > Subject: Re: Re : [Discuss] Lost in translation > > On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton > <dennis.hamil...@acm.org> wrote: >> We didn't know to contact JB or Sophie. >> > > Please stop saying "we don't know". It is really annoying to > those > who do. I'm sure that you have no firm basis for believing that no one > on the list knows how to contact Sophie. How could you possibly? > > Of course, you could just say "I don't know", but in that case, > what's > the point? It is not really useful for everyone who doesn't know an > answer to a question to jump in to share that fact. What if we all > did that? So maybe don't try to be the first one to post a response > to a question if you don't know the answer. Wait a little while and > give someone who does know a chance to post a response. For example, > in this case, the two people who did post informative answers within > minutes of your "we don't know". > > Thanks, > > -Rob > >> We can contact them. >> >> Thank you. >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: FR web forum [mailto:o...@athena.apache.org] >> Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2011 14:36 >> To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org >> Subject: Re: Re : [Discuss] Lost in translation >> >> Bonjour Fred ;-) >> >>> I guess that the answer is somewhere in Oracle... but not even sure. >> Maybe ask to the ex french community members. >> Did you contact JB Faure or Sophie Gautier about that? >> >> >
