On 10/19/2011 11:28 AM, Simon Phipps wrote:
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Pedro Giffuni<[email protected]> wrote:
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The Apache Foundation *IS* neutral.
Beyond the evident open wounds the previous relationship with SUN/Oracle
may have left in the community, the OpenOffice.org domain is the natural
reference for longtime users and the developers of the many forks.
I agree, but the problem is one not of the neutrality of the trademark owner
but rather the practical neutrality of the administration of the shared
list. Is the project happy for the list administration to be shared with
others outside Apache?
If so (and if it actually happened!) I would share your vote and re-iterate
my earlier proposal that [email protected] be used.
S.
I'm confident that the Apache security team and specific members of AOOo
PPMC could arrange a suitable adminstration structure to satisfy any
reputable security-minded contributor in the OOo world. While some of
us may have significant differences elsewhere, I hope (and presume) that
we all take security seriously enough to do it correctly.
And given that the existing [email protected] email address is already plastered
over archives and search results and millions of user's existing
installs, keeping the same email address is a huge bonus in terms of
capturing security issues from less technical end-users.
In terms of reliability, that should not be an issue once we are hosting
the mailing lists at the ASF and the Apache infra team has full access
to maintain the lists up to the same standards as our other lists.
- Shane
