On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 2:51 AM, Dave Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Nov 16, 2011, at 12:39 PM, Shane Curcuru wrote: > >> On 2011-11-16 3:26 PM, Pedro Giffuni wrote: >>> Hi Martin; >>> >>> --- On Wed, 11/16/11, Martin Hollmichel wrote: >>> ... >>>> On 11/16/11 6:33 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: >>>>> On 16 November 2011 16:56, Martin Hollmichel >>>>> <[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>> ... >>>>> >>>>> 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. > > What is difficult for me to understand is that both Stefan Taxhet and Martin > Hollmichel signed up as Initial > Committers to the Apache project, but have never signed an iCLA.
What makes you think that? See: http://people.apache.org/committer-index.html --tim
