On 10/26/2011 10:20 AM, Norbert Thiebaud wrote:
On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 8:21 AM, Shane Curcuru<[email protected]> wrote:
While I can certainly understand (in theory) trust issues from past OOo
participants about the new AOOo PPMC, I must admit I don't understand the
level of distrust I seem to see from some non-committers about the ASF as a
whole.
I can only speak for myself, but, for better or worse, all I knew of
Apache, prior to last June, was that it was a popular Web server and
also home to a bunch of Java-related stuff.
Since then, I've developed the feeling that ASF is to OOo what ISO is
to OOXML: a well intentioned organization that is used/abused as a
weapon in a corporate turf war.
If I was a betting man, I would wager that, if anything, we will see a
multi-millions line code dump (or a bunch of non-bisectable commits)
from IBM that turn AOOo into a circa 2007 fork of OOo named Apache
Symphony. At that point we will see if ASF hold IBM to the same
standard than it held the Blusky podling.
Norbert
I'm sorry to hear you have such a poor feeling about the ASF. I can
only mention the many, many ASF Members and Incubator PMC members who
don't work for IBM, and who should be reading the key requirement for
any podling to graduate:
http://incubator.apache.org/guides/graduation.html#community
In any case, these subjects are getting off topic for ooo-dev@, so we
should let the AOOo PPMC here figure out how it's going to publicize
ways to report security concerns to it.
- Shane
