My concern for this proposal is that it doesn't involve engaging any of the OpenOffice.org community, it simply tells them a two-week-out date where something will happen and there is no opportunity for dialog.
Maybe publishing the list on the wiki (the presumption being anything not on that list is simply shut down?) will help. Maybe assistance will come forward if there is more regret in what is foreseen and it is made know that help is welcome and valued? Do you see this as something that can be adjusted for or is it necessary for someone to take it off your hands to do that much? - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Rob Weir [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2011 15:13 To: [email protected] Subject: [Proposal] Shutting down legacy OOo mailing lists I'm making a proposal now to shut down the legacy OOo mailing lists and direct the existing subscribers to one of the AOOo mailing lists. I realize that this is not the solution that many of us would prefer, but I believe that it is the best way forward that anyone is willing to volunteer to lead. Please delight me by proving me wrong on this, by objecting this this proposal *and volunteering to do an alternative migration*. But this approach is more graceful than the default, if we do nothing, of just having the lists just go down one day and not recover. Proposal: If not one objects and offers to lead a different transition plan, in one week I will do the following: 1) Make a list of all public legacy OOo mailing lists that have received at least 5 non-spam email in 2011. 2) Publish that list on the wiki, along with : a) the language predominately spoken on the list, if not English b) the recommended AOOo list that existing subscribers should be pointed to. 3) I will then draft, in English, a post to be send to the above lists. The post will talk about the overall effort of the migration to Apache, the specific migration of the mailing lists, and invite the subscribers to stay informed and to participate in the new Apache lists. Information on how to subscribe will be provided. A shutdown date, for the legacy lists will be included, two weeks from the posting date. 4) I will invite volunteers to translate the draft post into other languages. 5) I, and whatever volunteers wish to help, will send the posts to the lists. 6) The note will be repeated a week later. 7) After two weeks we request via Oracle that the Kenai admins close the lists, per: http://kenai.com/projects/help/pages/ManageProject#MailingLists -Rob
