Re: [dev] Some thoughts about our community

2007-10-08 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Juergen, Davide, Allen, all, Juergen Schmidt a écrit : Hi Davide, Davide Dozza wrote: Hi Juergen, I wouldn't discuss about [2] and [3]. They are just examples and they have been discussing on other places. I would like to discuss about [1] and why we are almost the same people

Re: [dev] Some thoughts about our community

2007-10-08 Thread Mathias Bauer
Allen Pulsifer wrote: Speaking as a community participant... When I first became involved in OOo, I was not completely comfortable with the license arrangement, but thought Sun should be given the benefit of the doubt based on all of their contributions. However, let's look at this

Re: [dev] Some thoughts about our community

2007-10-08 Thread Peter Vandenabeele
On 10/8/07, Mathias Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please write it more exactly: that the copyright must be shared with Sun. For my understanding, a generic question: If a piece of software has: Copyright (C) 2007 Peter Janssens, Jan Peeters or Copyright (C) 2007 Peter Janssens

[dev] Is someone still building OOo with tcsh?

2007-10-08 Thread Volker Quetschke
CC'ing ESC and [EMAIL PROTECTED], please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] only. Hi, while working on some build feature/improvement for OOo W32 builds I realized that we have quite a lot of special casing of tcsh vs. bash. Is that still needed? I would like to remove the support for tcsh builds if

[dev] Re: [council-esc] Is someone still building OOo with tcsh?

2007-10-08 Thread Pavel Janík
Is that still needed? I would like to remove the support for tcsh builds if possible. Opinions? FWIW: I have moved to using bash this weekend... -- Pavel Janík - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional

RE: [dev] Some thoughts about our community

2007-10-08 Thread Allen Pulsifer
Hello Mathias, There is a lot of PR in this issue floating around the internet these days, most of it coming from Sun. Its clear to me that the goal of this PR is to maintain the status quo, i.e., ensure that contributions to the project keep coming in, and that the contributors sign the JCA or

[dev] Re: [council-esc] Is someone still building OOo with tcsh?

2007-10-08 Thread Volker Quetschke
Volker Quetschke wrote: CC'ing ESC and [EMAIL PROTECTED], please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] only. Please don't reply to the previous message! I botched the reply-to setting, please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sorry! Hi, while working on some build feature/improvement for OOo W32 builds I

Re: [dev] Is someone still building OOo with tcsh?

2007-10-08 Thread Volker Quetschke
Hans-Joachim Lankenau wrote: hi! Volker Quetschke wrote: CC'ing ESC and [EMAIL PROTECTED], please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] only. Hi, while working on some build feature/improvement for OOo W32 builds I realized that we have quite a lot of special casing of tcsh vs. bash. really?

RE: [dev] Some thoughts about our community

2007-10-08 Thread Caolan McNamara
On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 12:48 -0400, Allen Pulsifer wrote: The one rational Simon offers that is a little bit different than the usual is the following: In many cases (including some very well-known open source projects) [the JCA] also allows the original donor to offer commercial offerings,

Re: [dev] Volunteers for QA on Linux PowerPC ?

2007-10-08 Thread syed amjad ali
I am interested in PPC QA , we need a group that keeps with release of x86 rpms/deb. --- eric.bachard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Since some times, the demand for Linux PowerPC version is growing. At least for french version, and I found people willing to help for the QA (fr

Vá: [dev] Re: [council-esc] Is someon e still building OOo with tcsh?

2007-10-08 Thread Kálmán Szalai
I am still use it. What is the advantage to use bash? Best regards, KAMI Pavel Janík [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/08/07 6:21 du. Is that still needed? I would like to remove the support for tcsh builds if possible. Opinions? FWIW: I have moved to using bash this weekend... -- Pavel Janík

Re: [dev] Some thoughts about our community

2007-10-08 Thread Juergen Schmidt
Hi Allen, i don't know who you are neither do i know what your contributions to OpenOffice.org are. Probably you would say that you never have thought about any contribution because of the JCA and of course it's your personal right. But on the other hand we don't know what we have missed by

Re: [dev] Some thoughts about our community

2007-10-08 Thread Mathias Bauer
Peter Vandenabeele wrote: On 10/8/07, Mathias Bauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please write it more exactly: that the copyright must be shared with Sun. For my understanding, a generic question: If a piece of software has: Copyright (C) 2007 Peter Janssens, Jan Peeters or