On 2011-11-16 3:26 PM, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
Hi Martin;
--- On Wed, 11/16/11, Martin Hollmichel wrote:
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On 11/16/11 6:33 PM, Ross Gardler wrote:
On 16 November 2011 16:56, Martin Hollmichel
<[email protected]>
wrote:
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What kind of a "release" are you talking about. OOo
releases can only be made from the Apache Software
Foundation. Perhaps you are planning a downstream
release that conforms to our trademark policy.
Please let us know your plans.
we're offering to provide an interim release of
OpenOffice.org 3.3.1 with a joint messaging of ASF and Team
OpenOffice.org. This would fill the gap between the 3.3.0
release from beginning of this year (with some known severe
issues) and the first AOO release in the future. I'm
convinced that this proceeding will help strengthen the
trust in OpenOffice.org / AOO.
Based on the very little bit of information provided here on the Apache
lists, I can't see how your plans would possibly be approved by the ASF.
Obviously, having more information about your plans, and being able to
see your work in the form of patches or commits to the AOO podling's
Subversion tree would be a great start to be able to do this kind of work.
So my first suggestion is to start doing some of the actual coding work
here, on the ooo-dev@ list. Then, work with the podling to show the
PPMC that this is a good idea, and deserves to proceed together with the
excellent progress the PPMC is making on the 3.4 release.
Then, if the PPMC has a clear consensus to work with such an interim
release plan, we can discuss any trademark, legal, or press/messaging
questions you might have.
- Shane
As much as we would like to do an interim release I am
afraid there are issues that won't make it possible:
- Apache releases have to be approved by the PPMC and
can only be released under an Apache License.
- The old OpenOffice.Org made available 3.4 RC, releasing
3.3.1 would not give the right signal wrt continuity.
- The ASF, through the PPMC, cannot approve code that it
hasn't seen and AFAICT Team OOo hasn't been very visible
here in the community (sorry if I just missed it).
This said, 3.4 is advancing very nicely. I don't want to
hurry things but I think we are moving in the right
direction.
Pedro.
