Re: A lot of bodies, a lot of money, and a source-dump release.

2011-06-07 Thread Ross Gardler
Sent from my mobile device (so please excuse typos) On 7 Jun 2011, at 02:40, Marvin Humphrey mar...@rectangular.com wrote: would then like to see a binding committment from IBM to fund this budget -- with cash, The ASF does not muddy the waters of open source development with cash. Our

Re: Code covered by the Oracle grant

2011-06-07 Thread eric b
Hi, Le 7 juin 11 à 06:01, Ralph Goers a écrit : It is my expectation that if we make reasonable requests and that if those requests are within Oracle's power to fulfill those requests, that we will obtain subsequent software grants. Sam, for me this is the only area where I question whether

Re: A lot of bodies, a lot of money, and a source-dump release.

2011-06-07 Thread Christian Grobmeier
 would then like to see a binding committment from IBM to fund this budget -- with cash, The ASF does not muddy the waters of open source development with cash. Our sponsors do not sponsor specific projects or activities. For this reason we cannot ask IBM or anyone else to pay for this

Fwd: Add incubator group to podling committers

2011-06-07 Thread Christian Grobmeier
Hello, I sent this to infra, but I have been told the incubator chair should handle this. Can the people below be added to the incubator group so they can update the ONGL website? I have hear our inc-chair is ooo (wow, that acronym got somehow hijiacked in this list) - do we have a deputy

Re: Added Education Project idea to the OpenOffice.org Apache incubator

2011-06-07 Thread Christian Grobmeier
For the record, I added the Education Project idea on the wiki page (http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenOfficeProposal). The idea we defend since several years, is to work with High Schools and Universities, train students, detect potential good ideas, write code (contribute back to

Re: Question to TDF and its community

2011-06-07 Thread Ian Lynch
On 7 June 2011 06:49, Christian Grobmeier grobme...@gmail.com wrote: With OOo the company was nasty and people went away and were happy. The company wants the project at the ASF, and some people complain now. After all I never really heard the words I want it at the ASF from somebody with OOo

Re: Question to TDF and its community

2011-06-07 Thread Simon Brouwer
Christian Grobmeier schreef: We didn't balk when Geronimo was proposed, despite complaints from JBoss. We didn't balk when Felix (nee Oscar) was proposed.  We didn't balk in other cases.  We have never picked winners, we have incubated projects and let the community pick the winners.  I

Re: Added Education Project idea to the OpenOffice.org Apache incubator

2011-06-07 Thread Ian Lynch
Note, I've signed up as a mentor on the proposal. We need to convince Ian Lynch to get involved too (if he's not already), but I'll work on him later ;-) So far, Ian never helped us, but who knows :-) You might remember we did talk a few months back. My problem is simply that getting the

Re: OpenOffice LibreOffice

2011-06-07 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On 5 Jun 2011, at 23:45, Keith Curtis wrote: On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Joe Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.com wrote: We only benefit if the code is contributed to us, as we only accept .. As the trees diverge, it will get harder to give code to you both. What if some changes depend on

Re-Introduction

2011-06-07 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
I thought I'd reintroduce myself. I first posted last week but over the weekend, was a) busy with other pressing things, and b) wanted to let others, especially new voices, speak—now is the time to shape the new community. I've been involved with OpenOffice.org (and now the ODF) for nearly 11

Re: Code covered by the Oracle grant

2011-06-07 Thread Simon Brouwer
Ralph Goers schreef: On Jun 6, 2011, at 7:27 AM, Sam Ruby wrote: On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Christian Lippka c...@lippka.com wrote: While the technical analyze here seems (should not use that word) correct my understanding is that missing bits could still be provided if requested.

Re: OOo - Lines in the sand and pre-determined conclusions...

2011-06-07 Thread Cor Nouws
Noel J. Bergman wrote (07-06-11 02:03) Michael Meeks: I do not believe the ASF is likely to provide a good home for the OO.o project in the long run. You: I agree; you draw the same inference that I do: he means that a non-copyleft license is the reason for (predicted eventual) failure. Is

Re: OpenOffice LibreOffice

2011-06-07 Thread Ross Gardler
Sent from my mobile device (so please excuse typos) On 7 Jun 2011, at 09:22, Dirk-Willem van Gulik di...@webweaving.org wrote: On 5 Jun 2011, at 23:45, Keith Curtis wrote: ... LibreOffice will for a long time be using a substantial amount of your software. Great! Don't worry about

Re: Added Education Project idea to the OpenOffice.org Apache incubator

2011-06-07 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 3:16 AM, Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com wrote: Note, I've signed up as a mentor on the proposal. We need to convince Ian Lynch to get involved too (if he's not already), but I'll work on him later ;-) So far, Ian never helped us, but who knows :-) You might

Re: A lot of bodies, a lot of money, and a source-dump release.

2011-06-07 Thread Niall Pemberton
I have concerns about the proposal, but not with the ones you raise. If you're right about the costs, they not going to hit from day one - as the initial effort will be in building the community and building something that can be released and very little needed in terms of end users - and the ASF

Re: Code covered by the Oracle grant

2011-06-07 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Simon Brouwer wrote: The real question is whether anything essential is missing that Oracle can't supply and that is very difficult to replace. If you re-read Christian's mail, the answer to both is yes. And another remark: given the overall state of the code (~20 years of sedimentation), the

Re: Code covered by the Oracle grant

2011-06-07 Thread Christian Lippka
Hi Thorsten, Am 07.06.2011 11:09, schrieb Thorsten Behrens: Simon Brouwer wrote: The real question is whether anything essential is missing that Oracle can't supply and that is very difficult to replace. If you re-read Christian's mail, the answer to both is yes. And another remark: given

Re: Code covered by the Oracle grant

2011-06-07 Thread Simon Brouwer
Hi Thorsten, Thorsten Behrens schreef: Simon Brouwer wrote: The real question is whether anything essential is missing that Oracle can't supply and that is very difficult to replace. If you re-read Christian's mail, the answer to both is yes. Both? That was only one question, and

Re: Code covered by the Oracle grant

2011-06-07 Thread Sam Ruby
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 12:01 AM, Ralph Goers ralph.go...@dslextreme.com wrote: On Jun 6, 2011, at 7:27 AM, Sam Ruby wrote: On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Christian Lippka c...@lippka.com wrote: While the technical analyze here seems (should not use that word) correct my understanding is

Re: Code covered by the Oracle grant

2011-06-07 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Mathias Bauer wrote: I don't think that this is really necessary *now*, as we can do that even better and more efficiently when we actually work on the code from the svn repository. It was promised that the needed files will be provided once they are known. I'm confident that this will work

Re: Code covered by the Oracle grant

2011-06-07 Thread Nóirín Plunkett
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Mathias Bauer mathias_ba...@gmx.net wrote: If there was still too much concern about that, I could work on an improved list from a technical perspective and provide this list in a few days. I don't claim to reach perfection, but the result should be much closer

Re: Question to TDF and its community

2011-06-07 Thread Christoph Jopp
Am 07.06.2011 07:49, schrieb Christian Grobmeier: ... With OOo the company was nasty and people went away and were happy. The company wants the project at the ASF, and some people complain now. I think it's far more complex and dates back very long. (see below) After all I never really

Re: OpenOffice LibreOffice

2011-06-07 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jun 6, 2011, at 5:18 PM, Keith Curtis wrote: On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 5:58 AM, Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com wrote: On Jun 5, 2011, at 5:32 PM, Keith Curtis wrote: I wish the Apache org was more useful to me than just providing my HTTP server. It is official: Keith is a troll. We

Re: OpenOffice LibreOffice

2011-06-07 Thread Simon Phipps
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Ross Gardler rgard...@apache.org wrote: Sent from my mobile device (so please excuse typos) On 7 Jun 2011, at 09:22, Dirk-Willem van Gulik di...@webweaving.org wrote: On 5 Jun 2011, at 23:45, Keith Curtis wrote: ... LibreOffice will for a long time be

Re: [tdf-discuss] How Close Is TDF...? [WAS Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Splitting^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HREUNITING the Community?]

2011-06-07 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jun 6, 2011, at 4:20 PM, Florian Effenberger wrote: Hi, Jim Jagielski wrote on 2011-06-06 22.13: Good to see the list... Not knowing things for sure, but I would guess that Oracle had issues with #3, which gave away (what I would expect to be) huge chunks of h/w infrastructure, esp to

Hardware, build farms and the like

2011-06-07 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
So code is one thing. Open office does also come with quite a need for build farms, automated test and so on. It would be good to understand this early - and understand wether this matters. I.e. Can normal development continue with the basics (svn, bug tracking, mailing lists, archives and a

Re: [tdf-discuss] How Close Is TDF...? [WAS Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Splitting^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HREUNITING the Community?]

2011-06-07 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Jim, Le Tue, 7 Jun 2011 07:50:42 -0400, Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com a écrit : On Jun 6, 2011, at 4:20 PM, Florian Effenberger wrote: Hi, Jim Jagielski wrote on 2011-06-06 22.13: Good to see the list... Not knowing things for sure, but I would guess that Oracle had issues

Re: Code covered by the Oracle grant

2011-06-07 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On 7 Jun 2011, at 13:06, Michael Stahl wrote: On 07/06/11 11:42, Christian Lippka wrote: Am 07.06.2011 11:09, schrieb Thorsten Behrens: If you re-read Christian's mail, the answer to both is yes. And another remark: given the overall state of the code (~20 years of sedimentation), the full

Re: Code covered by the Oracle grant

2011-06-07 Thread Simon Phipps
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Mathias Bauer mathias_ba...@gmx.netwrote: On 07.06.2011 12:37, Thorsten Behrens wrote: Mathias Bauer wrote: I don't think that this is really necessary *now*, as we can do that even better and more efficiently when we actually work on the code from the svn

Re: Code covered by the Oracle grant

2011-06-07 Thread Mathias Bauer
On 07.06.2011 13:00, Nóirín Plunkett wrote: On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Mathias Bauermathias_ba...@gmx.net wrote: If there was still too much concern about that, I could work on an improved list from a technical perspective and provide this list in a few days. I don't claim to reach

Re: Code covered by the Oracle grant

2011-06-07 Thread Sam Ruby
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: It seems entirely reasonable, though, to expect Oracle to provide a firm commitment that they will relicense any and all files in the repository that they own, including CWS. Sam, does the current commitment from Apache

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Splitting the Community?

2011-06-07 Thread Steve Loughran
On 06/02/2011 03:40 PM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: Florian Effenbergerflo...@documentfoundation.org wrote on 06/02/2011 06:39:12 AM: This would not only be about reinventing the wheel, but also about splitting the community, leading to disadvantages for end-users, contributors, and

Re: Happy happy joy joy

2011-06-07 Thread Steve Loughran
On 06/02/2011 04:31 PM, Donald Whytock wrote: The butler did it. yeah, the new butler, jenkins, killed the old one, hudson as hudson was getting too noise for a staff member of the household. - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: Corporate Contribution [Blondie's Parallel Lines...]

2011-06-07 Thread Steve Loughran
On 06/03/2011 03:58 AM, Sam Ruby wrote: On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:24 PM,robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: Corporate assignments are notorious at the ASF for disappearing communities. Sometimes, there is momentum to keep going, often times there is not. Communities are based on individuals.

Re: Corporate Contribution [Blondie's Parallel Lines...]

2011-06-07 Thread Davanum Srinivas
Steve, In the interest of completeness, please point out that folks from IBM did join and work on Axis2 which was a complete rewrite from scratch, got that integrated into other Apache projects like Geronimo. thanks, dims On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Steve Loughran ste...@apache.org wrote:

Re: Corporate Contribution [Blondie's Parallel Lines...]

2011-06-07 Thread Christian Lippka
Hi Steve, Am 07.06.2011 15:27, schrieb Steve Loughran: [...] The issue with corporate reassignments is that everyone just vanishes. They get reassigned, and go away. In OSS, individuals tend to drift off, go onto what else interests them, or whatever. The turnover/year may be the same,

Re: Corporate Contribution [Blondie's Parallel Lines...]

2011-06-07 Thread Christian Lippka
Hi Steve, Am 07.06.2011 15:27, schrieb Steve Loughran: [...] The issue with corporate reassignments is that everyone just vanishes. They get reassigned, and go away. In OSS, individuals tend to drift off, go onto what else interests them, or whatever. The turnover/year may be the same,

Re: Happy happy joy joy

2011-06-07 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Steve Loughran ste...@apache.org wrote: On 06/02/2011 04:31 PM, Donald Whytock wrote: The butler did it. yeah, the new butler, jenkins, killed the old one, hudson as hudson was getting too noise for a staff member of the household. ROFL :-) Robert

Re: Added Education Project idea to the OpenOffice.org Apache incubator

2011-06-07 Thread Ross Gardler
Sent from my mobile device (so please excuse typos) On 7 Jun 2011, at 08:58, Christian Grobmeier grobme...@gmail.com wrote: For the record, I added the Education Project idea on the wiki page (http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenOfficeProposal). The idea we defend since several years, is

OpenOffice: Arguments and facts. Going ahead

2011-06-07 Thread Christian Grobmeier
All, we have discussed a lots about everything the past days. Now it seems everything goes settled. We don't need to discuss more about the sense and nonsense of licensing. I also think there is no need to convince people or do marketing. As of now, we have more than 50 committers listed in the

Re: OpenOffice: Arguments and facts. Going ahead

2011-06-07 Thread Phillip Rhodes
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Christian Grobmeier grobme...@gmail.comwrote: All, Please list your questions in short sentences. Avoid discussions about licensing. Please don't refer to open discussion on TDF/ASF community - we all know we want to collaborate. If this all really happens

Re: Re-Introduction

2011-06-07 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.com wrote: I thought I'd reintroduce myself. Welcome Louis :-) I first posted last week but over the weekend, was a) busy with other pressing things, and b) wanted to let others, especially new voices, speak—now is the time to

Re: Re-Introduction

2011-06-07 Thread Volker Merschmann
Hi Robert, 2011/6/7 Robert Burrell Donkin robertburrelldon...@gmail.com: On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.com wrote: Tomorrow, the OpenOffice.org Community Council will hold a meeting to discuss What Now? It's not going to be our last meeting. I don't know what

Re: OpenOffice: Arguments and facts. Going ahead

2011-06-07 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Christian Grobmeier grobme...@gmail.com wrote: The only thing I really don't have read anything about is, if we can handle this project from infra-resourcing. Joe Schaefer added himself as a mentor, so we can consider that covered. -- Capitalism is the

A little OOo history

2011-06-07 Thread Danese Cooper
Some of you know I was closely involved in the original open-sourcing of StarDivision code as OpenOffice.org. I'm also an Apache Member. Thought some of the current discussions could benefit from a tiny bit of (no axe to grind) history. This information is offered in the spirit of trying to

Re: Re-Introduction

2011-06-07 Thread Ian Lynch
On 7 June 2011 16:08, Volker Merschmann merschm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Robert, 2011/6/7 Robert Burrell Donkin robertburrelldon...@gmail.com: On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.com wrote: Tomorrow, the OpenOffice.org Community Council will hold a meeting to

Re: A little OOo history

2011-06-07 Thread Phillip Rhodes
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Danese Cooper dan...@gmail.com wrote: 4) most customers use OOo on Windows Last time I checked, the percentage of Windows users was still in the high 90s percentile. But it builds on the various Linux distros, as well as MacOSX and a bunch of other

Re: Re-Introduction

2011-06-07 Thread Volker Merschmann
Hi Ian, 2011/6/7 Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com: On 7 June 2011 16:08, Volker Merschmann merschm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Robert, 2011/6/7 Robert Burrell Donkin robertburrelldon...@gmail.com: On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.com wrote: Tomorrow, the

Re: OpenOffice: Arguments and facts. Going ahead

2011-06-07 Thread Christian Grobmeier
The only thing I really don't have read anything about is, if we can handle this project from infra-resourcing. Joe Schaefer added himself as a mentor, so we can consider that covered. agreed -- Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most

Re: Re-Introduction

2011-06-07 Thread Ian Lynch
On 7 June 2011 16:27, Volker Merschmann merschm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ian, 2011/6/7 Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com: On 7 June 2011 16:08, Volker Merschmann merschm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Robert, 2011/6/7 Robert Burrell Donkin robertburrelldon...@gmail.com: On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at

Re: A little OOo history

2011-06-07 Thread Christian Grobmeier
Danese, 3) LOTS of people download OOo Like maybe 10% of the human population of the planet.  And its a big file. Initially we engaged Akamai, but it quickly became too expensive. Serving up downloads of OOo was pretty intense. I know Apache has all that web server download traffic and

Re: Re-Introduction

2011-06-07 Thread Volker Merschmann
2011/6/7 Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com: On 7 June 2011 16:27, Volker Merschmann merschm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ian, 2011/6/7 Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com: On 7 June 2011 16:08, Volker Merschmann merschm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Robert, 2011/6/7 Robert Burrell Donkin

Re: A little OOo history

2011-06-07 Thread Manfred A. Reiter
Hi all, 2011/6/7 Danese Cooper dan...@gmail.com: Some of you know I was closely involved in the original open-sourcing of StarDivision code as OpenOffice.org.  I'm also an Apache Member.  Thought some of the current discussions could benefit from a tiny bit of (no axe to grind) history.

Re: A little OOo history

2011-06-07 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/7/2011 10:23 AM, Phillip Rhodes wrote: One question about the comment above though: Are you advocating that Apache OOo stick to source-only releases, and avoid building and delivering binaries altogether? Or is your idea that Apache OOo would deliver builds, but that they be Vanilla

Re: A little OOo history

2011-06-07 Thread Volker Merschmann
Hi, 2011/6/7 Christian Grobmeier grobme...@gmail.com: 3) LOTS of people download OOo Like maybe 10% of the human population of the planet.  And its a big file. Initially we engaged Akamai, but it quickly became too expensive. Serving up downloads of OOo was pretty intense. I know Apache has

Re: Re-Introduction

2011-06-07 Thread robert_weir
Volker Merschmann merschm...@gmail.com wrote on 06/07/2011 11:08:26 AM: Hi Robert, 2011/6/7 Robert Burrell Donkin robertburrelldon...@gmail.com: On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.com wrote: Tomorrow, the OpenOffice.org Community Council will hold a

Re: A little OOo history

2011-06-07 Thread Christian Grobmeier
Have a look at http://marketing.openoffice.org/marketing_bouncer.html Maybe a bit outdated and actually there is no release date in the displayed time. The old load balancer (bouncer) usually failed totally when a new version was announced, therefore OOo switched to Suse's Mirrorbrain.

Re: Re-Introduction

2011-06-07 Thread Florian Effenberger
Rob, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote on 2011-06-07 17.56: Oh, let's not go down that path again, or else someone could equally point out that the TDF Steering Committee has not been elected yet either. I see no value from debating whose election is bigger. can you please stop these insulting

Re: End-Users of OpenOffice.org

2011-06-07 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 9:28 PM, Christoph Noack christ...@dogmatux.com wrote: Hi all, Hi Christoph I hope you don't mind that another new face appears on this mailing list. I followed some of the discussion during the last days and like to add that I'm generally happy to see the

Re: OpenOffice: Arguments and facts. Going ahead

2011-06-07 Thread Christian Grobmeier
The only thing I really don't have read anything about is, if we can handle this project from infra-resourcing. Joe Schaefer added himself as a mentor, so we can consider that covered. I just have learned OOo delivers 53.000 gigs of data each day. 300.000 downloads/day * 180 MB = 5400 MB

Re: A little OOo history

2011-06-07 Thread robert_weir
Danese Cooper dan...@gmail.com wrote on 06/07/2011 11:13:45 AM: 3) LOTS of people download OOo Like maybe 10% of the human population of the planet. And its a big file. Initially we engaged Akamai, but it quickly became too expensive. Serving up downloads of OOo was pretty intense.

Re: A little OOo history

2011-06-07 Thread Niall Pemberton
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 4:52 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: On 6/7/2011 10:23 AM, Phillip Rhodes wrote: One question about the comment above though:  Are you advocating that Apache OOo stick to source-only releases, and avoid building and delivering binaries altogether?  Or

Re: OpenOffice: Arguments and facts. Going ahead

2011-06-07 Thread Niall Pemberton
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Christian Grobmeier grobme...@gmail.com wrote: The only thing I really don't have read anything about is, if we can handle this project from infra-resourcing. Joe Schaefer added himself as a mentor, so we can consider that covered. I just have learned OOo

Re: Re-Introduction

2011-06-07 Thread robert_weir
Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org wrote on 06/07/2011 12:01:55 PM: Rob, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote on 2011-06-07 17.56: Oh, let's not go down that path again, or else someone could equally point out that the TDF Steering Committee has not been elected yet either. I

Re: Re-Introduction

2011-06-07 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hi Rob, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote on 2011-06-07 18.17: Florian, I stated a relevant fact to rebut an attempt to dismiss the input from the OOo Community Council. You do not dispute the facts. I apologize if you find this offensive. That was far from my intent. I think our collaboration

Re: A little OOo history

2011-06-07 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/7/2011 11:11 AM, Niall Pemberton wrote: On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 4:52 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: Just to clarify, only source code is released by the ASF. Yes, there may I don't believe this is true - we have to release the source, but anything we distribute is

Re: Re-Introduction

2011-06-07 Thread Manfred A. Reiter
Hi Flo, 2011/6/7 Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org: Hi Rob, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote on 2011-06-07 18.17: [...] let's forget about it. I'm not made out of sugar, as we have a saying in Germany. an another one: Der Klügere gibt nach. But, please, everyone, let's

Re: A little OOo history

2011-06-07 Thread Richard S. Hall
On 6/7/11 12:31, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: On 6/7/2011 11:11 AM, Niall Pemberton wrote: On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 4:52 PM, William A. Rowe Jr.wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: Just to clarify, only source code is released by the ASF. Yes, there may I don't believe this is true - we have to release

Re: Re-Introduction

2011-06-07 Thread Ian Lynch
and another one: Der Klügere gibt nach. But, please, everyone, let's not focus on the past, and let's not get personal or insulting. It simply doesn't help anyone. Peace, Gut gemacht. ;-) Vorwärts und aufwärts (Hope that translated ok, if not I'll stick to guten morgen and

Re: A little OOo history

2011-06-07 Thread Niall Pemberton
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 5:31 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: On 6/7/2011 11:11 AM, Niall Pemberton wrote: On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 4:52 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: Just to clarify, only source code is released by the ASF.  Yes, there may I don't

Re: A little OOo history

2011-06-07 Thread Steve Loughran
On 06/07/2011 05:00 PM, Christian Grobmeier wrote: Have a look at http://marketing.openoffice.org/marketing_bouncer.html Maybe a bit outdated and actually there is no release date in the displayed time. The old load balancer (bouncer) usually failed totally when a new version was announced,

Re: OpenOffice.org Summit Proposal

2011-06-07 Thread Simon Phipps
I just heard back from the Open World Forum Programme Committee (Paris, October) and they would be pleased to provide us with space for a meeting. S.

Re: A little OOo history

2011-06-07 Thread Christian Grobmeier
just to check the . there for i18n issues, you mean about 52TB? That translates to about 1.5PB/month, which is equivalent to the CERN LHC data rate once it's ramped up to full luminosity and event rate. Yes, I can imagine people's concerns. Its 30 downloads with 180 MB each (rounded).

Re: A little OOo history

2011-06-07 Thread Mark Struberg
30 downloads per day or per month? 52TB per month is still a lot... LieGrue, strub --- On Tue, 6/7/11, Christian Grobmeier grobme...@gmail.com wrote: From: Christian Grobmeier grobme...@gmail.com Subject: Re: A little OOo history To: general@incubator.apache.org Date: Tuesday, June 7,

Re: Code covered by the Oracle grant

2011-06-07 Thread Andrew Rist
It is Oracle's intent to provide to ASF the files needed to build OOo, taking into account licensing and ownership issues. This includes binary artifacts such as the OOo artwork and translation databases. I am following the discussions here closely, and I am collected all of the lists that are

Request: Can proposed committers introduce themselves?

2011-06-07 Thread robert_weir
By my count we have now have over 60 individuals listed on as proposed committers for the Apache OpenOffice project. I think this is a respectable start, though obviously the project will need to have a strong commitment to recruiting additional developers and growing the project further,

Re: OpenOffice.org Summit Proposal

2011-06-07 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Le Tue, 7 Jun 2011 17:59:21 +0100, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com a écrit : I just heard back from the Open World Forum Programme Committee (Paris, October) and they would be pleased to provide us with space for a meeting. S. Kiss the cook! (/points at himself)... -- Charles-H. Schulz

Re: Code covered by the Oracle grant

2011-06-07 Thread Simon Phipps
That's very helpful, thanks Andrew. Will Oracle also be providing the work-in-progress CWS[1] please? Thanks S. [1] http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1792694/cws.ods On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 6:08 PM, Andrew Rist andrew.r...@oracle.com wrote: It is Oracle's intent to provide to ASF the files needed to

Re: A little OOo history

2011-06-07 Thread André Schnabel
Hi, Am 07.06.2011 17:51, schrieb Manfred A. Reiter: In Switzerland, there is the brand name Open Office as well. - So be careful. ;-) Last time I checked (~2 years ago) it was not registered anymore. The name itself is still in use. The current BACHER EDV Beratung (in Liechtenstein) took

Re: A little OOo history

2011-06-07 Thread Christian Grobmeier
30 downloads per day or per month? 52TB per month is still a lot... per day. Look at this chart: http://marketing.openoffice.org/marketing_bouncer.html And please correct me if i am wrong. :-) Cheers LieGrue, strub --- On Tue, 6/7/11, Christian Grobmeier grobme...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: A little OOo history

2011-06-07 Thread Danese Cooper
Hi Phil, IMHO we would have to roll vanilla builds just to make sure it still builds when we declare a version. It used to take some iterations and tweaks per version to get a valid build (imagine that's still true). ASF should at least validate buildability as part of servicing the codebase,

Re: A little OOo history

2011-06-07 Thread Manfred A. Reiter
Hi André, *, Am 7. Juni 2011 19:32 schrieb André Schnabel andre.schna...@gmx.net: Hi, Am 07.06.2011 17:51, schrieb Manfred A. Reiter: In Switzerland, there is the brand name Open Office as well. - So be careful. ;-) Last time I checked (~2 years ago) it was not registered anymore. The

Re: A little OOo history

2011-06-07 Thread Simon Phipps
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 6:58 PM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: Of course, this is not necessarily a problem for Apache. Think of it this way. It would be perfectly possible, and actually quite easy for someone to host the files with a scalable cloud storage provider, e.g., Amazon, and

Re: A little OOo history

2011-06-07 Thread David Illsley
Hmmm. I'd have thought it a bit difficult to build a developer community for an end user product if theres effectively no way for an end user to get it from that community (or to get direct feedback from users)... while you want downstream distributors as well, I'd expect the podling to want to

Re: A little OOo history

2011-06-07 Thread Danese Cooper
Just have to say...I have often been quoted saying the advent of OpenOffice.org was a rare case of corporate greed aligning with human need. Safe to assume a high percentage of downloaders don't have $.99. I know we're all excited by the commercial potential of an unencumbered codebase, but

OOo mirroring (was: Re: A little OOo history)

2011-06-07 Thread Leo Simons
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Christian Grobmeier grobme...@gmail.com wrote: 30 downloads per day or per month? 52TB per month is still a lot... per day. Look at this chart: http://marketing.openoffice.org/marketing_bouncer.html TL;DR: these bandwidth numbers are not actually that

Re: Code covered by the Oracle grant

2011-06-07 Thread Andrew Rist
We are trying to provide all of the Oracle owned content in the OOo repositories. A. On 6/7/2011 10:14 AM, Simon Phipps wrote: That's very helpful, thanks Andrew. Will Oracle also be providing the work-in-progress CWS[1] please? Thanks S. [1] http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1792694/cws.ods On

Re: Code covered by the Oracle grant

2011-06-07 Thread Simon Phipps
Good to know, many thanks. S. On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 7:23 PM, Andrew Rist andrew.r...@oracle.com wrote: We are trying to provide all of the Oracle owned content in the OOo repositories. A. On 6/7/2011 10:14 AM, Simon Phipps wrote: That's very helpful, thanks Andrew. Will Oracle also

Re: [OO.o] updated mailing lists in proposal

2011-06-07 Thread Donald Whytock
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Jukka Zitting jukka.zitt...@gmail.com wrote: According to Markmail (http://openoffice.markmail.org/) the following 37 openoffice.org mailing lists received more than 365 messages in 2010: Based on the volume here over the last week, how many of those lists got

Re: A little OOo history

2011-06-07 Thread Leo Simons
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 6:58 PM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: Since this is a large download, I wonder whether the quoted numbers are impacted at all by timeouts, abandoned downloads attempts, etc.  In other words, is it counting the HTTP GET's?  Or the successful downloads?  That may

Re: [OO.o] updated mailing lists in proposal

2011-06-07 Thread André Schnabel
Hi, Am 07.06.2011 20:30, schrieb Donald Whytock: On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Jukka Zittingjukka.zitt...@gmail.com wrote: According to Markmail (http://openoffice.markmail.org/) the following 37 openoffice.org mailing lists received more than 365 messages in 2010: Based on the volume

Re: A little OOo history

2011-06-07 Thread robert_weir
Danese Cooper dan...@gmail.com wrote on 06/07/2011 02:19:38 PM: Just have to say...I have often been quoted saying the advent of OpenOffice.org was a rare case of corporate greed aligning with human need. Safe to assume a high percentage of downloaders don't have $.99. I know we're all

Re: A little OOo history

2011-06-07 Thread robert_weir
Leo Simons m...@leosimons.com wrote on 06/07/2011 02:40:01 PM: On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 6:58 PM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: Since this is a large download, I wonder whether the quoted numbers are impacted at all by timeouts, abandoned downloads attempts, etc. In other words, is it

RE: OpenOffice LibreOffice

2011-06-07 Thread Noel J. Bergman
Simon Phipps wrote: unless either the Apache project or the LibreOffice project do extremely substantial refactoring very fast, both projects will be using the same code for a long time. If we all do things right, this will be in the context of actual shared repositories. That sounds like a

Re: A little OOo history

2011-06-07 Thread Andy Brown
Leo Simons wrote: You know, there is this large and interesting community of maintainers of mirrors of open source software. A fair share of them are your typical beard stroking [1] uber experienced unix [2] system administrators who maintain a local mirror for their company / campus / ISP

RE: A little OOo history

2011-06-07 Thread Noel J. Bergman
It seems Apache will have a destination of value in OpenOffice.org. There should be a way to monetize this, similar to how Mozilla monetized their default search engine choice with Google. That'll spawn a whole other set of debates. For example, ASF could take bids and award a contracts to

Re: Request: Can proposed committers introduce themselves?

2011-06-07 Thread carl.mar...@codebuilders.net
Hi all, I'm Carl Marcum. Independent Java developer. Lately I have been doing custom OOo installations and extensions for a client. I look forward to helping out with the project where ever I can. Best regards, Carl Sent from my Verizon Wireless Phone

Re: OpenOffice LibreOffice

2011-06-07 Thread Sam Ruby
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Noel J. Bergman n...@devtech.com wrote: Simon Phipps wrote: unless either the Apache project or the LibreOffice project do extremely substantial refactoring very fast, both projects will

Re: OpenOffice LibreOffice

2011-06-07 Thread Simon Phipps
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Sam Ruby ru...@intertwingly.net wrote: On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 3:11 PM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Noel J. Bergman n...@devtech.com wrote: Simon Phipps wrote: unless either the Apache project or the LibreOffice

Re: Happy happy joy joy

2011-06-07 Thread Simos Xenitellis
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com wrote: Guys, if we are going to argue over the mistakes of the pasts and the slights of the past, quite frankly, we aren't going to get very far. This is supposed to be a happy occasion; let's not bicker and argue about

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