On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Ross Gardler
<[email protected]> wrote:
> The way to deal with these things is acknowledge the need to use the
> qualifier. Where there is a reasonable argument (blog titles on the ASF
> home page for example) undertake to improve things and move on.
>

I updated the last couple of blog posts, to add the incubation
disclaimer, the link to the podling website, or both.

https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/5_million_downloads_of_apache

https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/porting_apache_openoffice_to_solaris

-Rob


> These things come up occasionally when an interested IPMC member does a
> review and sees things the rest of us missed. I brought it here in the hope
> of preventing an IPMC mega-thread. Acknowledge it there, deal with it here.
>
> If it helps, I'm not worried about the logo thing, but that might be just
> me.
>
> Ross
>
> On Saturday, 23 June 2012, Dennis E. Hamilton
> <dennis.hamilton<[email protected]>
> @ <[email protected]>acm.org <[email protected]>> wrote:
>> I think it would be good and wait until the original reporter identifies
> what the specific infraction is and what its cure is.  One part of the
> complaint is how AOOi is mentioned in tweets by @TheASF.  Those are not, as
> far as I am aware, anything under our control whatsoever.
>>
>> I would not dispense with full atom feeds.
>>
>> Having "(incubating)" used at the beginning of a post, even with a link
> to what that entails, could be useful.  Whether it needs to be in the title
> or not remains to be seen.
>>
>> Of course, whatever the practice is asserted to be, it will need to be
> honored by all incubating projects, of course.
>>
>>  - Dennis
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Rob Weir [mailto:robweir <[email protected]>@ <[email protected]>
> apache.org <[email protected]>]
>> Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2012 08:40
>> To: ooo-dev@ 
>> <[email protected]>incubator.apache.org<[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: Must use the incubating qualifier
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 9:53 AM, drew jensen 
>> <drewjensen.inbox<[email protected]>
> @ <[email protected]>gmail.com <[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> On Sat, 2012-06-23 at 09:51 -0400, Rob Weir wrote:
>>>> On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 9:48 AM, drew <drew@ <[email protected]>
> baseanswers.com <[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>> > On Sat, 2012-06-23 at 08:52 -0400, Rob Weir wrote:
>>>> >> On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Rob Weir <robweir<[email protected]>
> @ <[email protected]>apache.org <[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>> >> > On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 5:58 AM, Ross Gardler
>>>> >> > <rgardler <[email protected]>@<[email protected]>
> opendirective.com <[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>> >> >> It has been pointed out on the general list that AOO is not
> always using
>>>> >> >> the incubating qualifier. For example recent blog posts don't
> include it.
>>>> >> >>
>>>> >> >
>>>> >> > It is right there, first thing on the page, in a very large font,
> for
>>>> >> > every blog post:  "Apache OpenOffice (incubating)"
>>>> >> >
>>>> >>
>>>> >> E.g, :  
>>>> >> https://<https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/5_million_downloads_of_apache>
> blogs.apache.org<https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/5_million_downloads_of_apache>
> /OOo/entry/5_million_downloads_of_apache<https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/5_million_downloads_of_apache>
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Note the <title> of the page says "Apache OpenOffice (incubating)".
>>>> >> Ditto for the largest (and first) header on the page.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Looking at the general list, it sounds like NIck's issue was that
> blog
>>>> >> aggregators, such as used by Apache for generating content on the
> home
>>>> >> page are not picking up on this.
>>>> >
>>>> > Hi,
>>>> >
>>>> > Maybe, I just read the incubator list also I think Nick is saying that
>>>> > _any_ time the phrase Apache OpenOffice is used it must have the word
>>>> > incubating included, not just in the title.
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>> But that's not the policy.  The policy is that it must be called out
>>>> as incubating at first mention in the document.
>>>
>>> That's what I thought also - I'm saying how it reads to me, that's all.
>>>
>>
>> Maybe the key is to realize that when we publish a blog post, we
>> publish two things:
>>
>> 1) A web page, which does IMHO have the correct incubation notices on it.
>>
>> 2) An Atom feed that will be used by websites and services outside of
>> our immediate control, and which will not bring along the full page
>> context from the blog.
>>
>> On the second one, I think the remedy might be get the incubation
>> notice into the post ("entry") titles.  It may be possible to do this
>> automatically (per my previous post), but it could be done manually as
>> well.
>>
>> -Rob
>>
>>>>
>>>> -Rob
>>>>
>>>> >
>>>> > //drew
>>>> >
>>>> > <snip>
>>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>
>>

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