On Oct 2, 2012, at 7:01 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Louis Suárez-Potts <lui...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On 12-10-01, at 08:49 , Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: >> >>> 5 days have passed and no objections were raised, so I'll start moving >>> this forward. >> > > No luck with a JIRA issue asking Infra to create the new mailing list. > Evidently they are moving to a new request system that uses a form > that only Apache Members and Officers can access. So until we > graduate we need to filter mailing list creation requests through a > Mentor or someone else with permissions. > > Details for the list request are here, if anyone is able to help: > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-5334
Someone else beat me to it. Regards, Dave > > Regards, > > -Rob > > >> Great, thanks. >> Louis >> >>> >>> -Rob >>> >>> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: >>>> As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I'm shifting my focus more to >>>> the extended OpenOffice ecosystem rather than day-to-day release-cycle >>>> tasks. One of the things I'd like to push for is reinvigorating the >>>> application development community. >>>> >>>> In the legacy project we supported extensions authors via a dedicated >>>> mailing list, a wiki, its own IRC channel, and of course the >>>> extensions repository website. Today we have very little of that >>>> active. >>>> >>>> I'd like to breath some new life into this part of the ecosystem. Now >>>> that we have a steady heartbeat of releases, both delivered and >>>> planned, and a solid record of end-user downloads, it is easier to >>>> argue the value of developing extensions for OpenOffice. I'd like to >>>> help promote this side of the ecosystem via the following tasks: >>>> >>>> 1) Create a new mailing list: ooo-extensi...@incubator.apache.org (or >>>> app...@incubator.apache.org if we prefer). I'll assert that the >>>> current mailing lists are inadequate for encouraging this community to >>>> thrive. If they interact on ooo-dev then they are bombarded with 99% >>>> irrelevant posts, and if they gather on ooo-users then this will be >>>> disruptive to the end-user subscribers there. Extension authors >>>> really are a distinct sub-community of their own. >>>> >>>> 2) Promote the mailing list via the usual means: website, social >>>> networking, maybe a blog post. >>>> >>>> 3) Try to contact the existing extension authors, to encourage them to >>>> joint the list. I'd try to do this via SourceForge initially, since >>>> they might already have the means to send them all an email. >>>> >>>> 4) Promote AOO extension development in general, by interviews of >>>> extension authors, blog posts, perhaps even a rotating spot on our >>>> website featuring an "extension of the week" (or day). >>>> >>>> 5) Encourage this community to provide feedback to the project and >>>> help maintain the current app dev and SDK documentation, website and >>>> wiki. >>>> >>>> If there are no objections to the above I'll go ahead with step 1 in >>>> 72 hours. I'll need a couple more list moderator volunteers as well. >>>> >>>> And of course, if anyone wants to help with other parts of the above, >>>> or complimentary tasks, please let me know. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> >>>> -Rob >>
