Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-02 Thread Luke Kowalski
we were instructed to send the proposal to an email address. Should we go and hack at the wiki now? No issues, either way. On 6/1/2011 9:00 AM, Greg Stein wrote: On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 11:57, Christian Grobmeier grobme...@gmail.com mailto:grobme...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Luke, don't know

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-02 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
OpenOffice.org will be contributed to Apache Software Foundation by Oracle Corporation in compliance with ASF licensing and governance. Luke, could you offer some insight into affixing the Apache License v2.0 to this code base? Only ALv2 code is released by the foundation. LGPL/MPL cannot

Re: OpenOffice and the ASF

2011-06-02 Thread Alexandro Colorado
I am stil catching up for the discussion, but.. to add clarity i'll try to put as much information from the other discussions at OOo Marketing list. On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com wrote: FYI: Begin forwarded message: From: Louis Suarez-Potts

Re: Rép : OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-02 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 2:04 PM, eric b eric.bach...@free.fr wrote: Hi, First, apologies for the new thread, due to my late arrival on this list. As developer for OpenOffice.org since 2005, and having some knowledge in OOo source code, I'm interested to contribute to the new OpenOffice.org

Re: Rép : OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-02 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com wrote: On Jun 1, 2011, at 3:27 PM, Greg Stein wrote: On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 15:04, eric b eric.bach...@free.fr wrote: Hi, First, apologies for the new thread, due to my late arrival on this list. As developer for

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-02 Thread Geir Magnusson Jr.
Hi all - I see that I'm listed as a sponsor. Can you please remove my name and replace with someone else? I never agreed to sponsor this. Sorry about any inconvenience. geir On Jun 1, 2011, at 11:41 AM, Luke Kowalski wrote: The following project is being sent in as an incubator

Re: [italo.vign...@documentfoundation.org: Re: OpenOffice and the ASF]

2011-06-02 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/1/2011 8:41 PM, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: My questions then are absolutely pragmatic and relate—hence the to post—to issues not so far discussed: * Apache Foundation owns the trademark to OOo? * We at OOo receive lots of requests to use it for mostly good purposes. We grant these,

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-02 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 10:23 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.netwrote: On 6/1/2011 1:24 PM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: Ross Gardler rgard...@apache.org wrote on 06/01/2011 12:21:23 PM: There are only two initial committers identified in the proposal. Why only two for such a

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-02 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 10:31 PM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote on 06/01/2011 03:01:50 PM: What is a more serious question, how many bug fixes would go into LibreOffice without being offered to the ASF under the AL? LO has no copyright

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-02 Thread Sam Ruby
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 11:23 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: On 6/1/2011 1:24 PM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: From a practical perspective it would have been impossible to do all of that recruitment without this proposal becoming public prematurely. So the majority of the

Re: [italo.vign...@documentfoundation.org: Re: OpenOffice and the ASF]

2011-06-02 Thread Sam Ruby
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 11:52 PM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 21:41, Louis Suarez-Potts lsuarezpo...@gmail.com wrote: * Apache Foundation owns the trademark to OOo? [snip] I'm sure our legal folks can get that cleared up, should OOo be accepted into the

Added Education Project idea to the OpenOffice.org Apache incubator

2011-06-02 Thread eric b
Hi, 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

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

2011-06-02 Thread Ross Gardler
On 02/06/2011 10:30, eric b wrote: Hi, 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,

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-02 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jun 2, 2011, at 12:40 AM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: -- One thing that struck me today is that it is almost arcane mystical knowledge, for anyone outside of Apache, how exactly to affix their name in support of this proposal as a proposed initial committer, or even that this was

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-02 Thread Jim Jagielski
Threads are fine, as long as they are really threads ;) On Jun 2, 2011, at 1:25 AM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: Dumb question. Are we obligated to converse like this, in a single email thread, for the duration of the proposal review process? Is this an organizing principle? Would I

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-02 Thread Jim Jagielski
Let's use the Wiki to craft up the latest rev... Much easier for people not on the mailing lists. On Jun 1, 2011, at 12:34 PM, Luke Kowalski wrote: we were instructed to send the proposal to an email address. Should we go and hack at the wiki now? No issues, either way. On 6/1/2011 9:00

Re: [italo.vign...@documentfoundation.org: Re: OpenOffice and the ASF]

2011-06-02 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jun 1, 2011, at 10:58 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: On 6/1/2011 8:41 PM, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: My questions then are absolutely pragmatic and relate—hence the to post—to issues not so far discussed: * Apache Foundation owns the trademark to OOo? * We at OOo receive lots of

Re: OpenOffice and the ASF

2011-06-02 Thread Ross Gardler
On 02/06/2011 11:39, Florian Effenberger wrote: I hope you don't mind if I jump in to the discussion. Thank you for doing so. Speaking as someone outside all the involved communities I'm pleased to hear your voice. I'm not equipped to answer your questions, I'll leave that to people who know

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-02 Thread Alexei Fedotov
Rob, thanks for your question. OpenOffice integration is a minor issue compared to Hibernate and some other packages which require code changes. Openmeetings uses OpenOffice service via socket. Having the common license helps, for example, putting both into one distribution package. -- With best

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-02 Thread dsh
Yep and that's why I just felt tempted that it is important to just point out that people just lost the to me in my message ;) Cheers Daniel On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 1:18 AM, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: Ease up... people just lost the to me in your message. And others didn't see it in the

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-02 Thread Christian Grobmeier
Luke, the proposal meanwhile arrived in the wiki: http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenOfficeProposal On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 6:34 PM, Luke Kowalski luke.kowal...@oracle.com wrote: we were instructed to send the proposal to an email address. Should we go and hack at the wiki now? No issues,

OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: RedOffice invitation

2011-06-02 Thread robert_weir
Jim -- thanks for reaching out to the OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice communities with your emails. This is important. Since you've already started with the invites, I wonder if I could recommend to you one more? Another significant party that works in the core OpenOffice source code is

Re: OpenOffice and the ASF

2011-06-02 Thread Jan Holesovsky
Hi Ross, On 2011-06-02 at 12:09 +0100, Ross Gardler wrote: Instead I would like to understand if this technical objective of breaking OOo code into reusable libraries that the various forks can collaborate on, is part of the TDF mission. I am one of the LibreOffice developers. I am not

Re: OpenOffice and the ASF

2011-06-02 Thread Greg Stein
On Jun 2, 2011 4:32 AM, Alexandro Colorado j...@openoffice.org wrote: ... There is currently a bit rearagement movement toward figuring things out in TDF OOo previously to the OOo annoucement, which happened last month on the marketing list in OOo.

Re: OpenOffice and the ASF

2011-06-02 Thread Ian Lynch
On 2 June 2011 14:04, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: Should we add ourselfs as commiters? If you would like to contribute here (possibly instead of, or in addition, to your work at TDF), then yes! Please add yourself into the proposal on the wiki. I'm not likely to commit code. I run

Re: OpenOffice and the ASF

2011-06-02 Thread Simon Brouwer
Op 2-6-2011 15:04, Greg Stein schreef: On Jun 2, 2011 4:32 AM, Alexandro Coloradoj...@openoffice.org wrote: ... There is currently a bit rearagement movement toward figuring things out in TDF OOo previously to the OOo annoucement, which happened last month on the marketing list in OOo.

OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Training Certifications and Trademark

2011-06-02 Thread robert_weir
Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com wrote on 06/02/2011 09:12:10 AM: From: Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com To: general@incubator.apache.org Date: 06/02/2011 09:12 AM Subject: Re: OpenOffice and the ASF On 2 June 2011 14:04, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: Should we add ourselfs as

Re: OpenOffice and the ASF

2011-06-02 Thread Rich Bowen
On Jun 2, 2011, at 9:21 AM, Simon Brouwer wrote: proposal on the wiki. I had already been so bold as to adding myself to the list, expressing my support to the proposal. I was wondering though. In the OpenOffice.orgproject, many community members contribute in other ways than committing

Re: OpenOffice and the ASF

2011-06-02 Thread Greg Stein
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 09:21, Simon Brouwer simon.o...@xs4all.nl wrote: Op 2-6-2011 15:04, Greg Stein schreef: ... If you would like to contribute here (possibly instead of, or in addition, to your work at TDF), then yes! Please add yourself into the proposal on the wiki. I had already been

OpenOffice / OpenOffice.org

2011-06-02 Thread Simon Brouwer
Hi Robert, all, I'd like to mention that OpenOffice.org is to be consistently written as such, not omitting the .org, because there are various companies around the world that have preceding rights to the name Open Office or similar. Best regards, Simon Op 2-6-2011 15:27,

OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Meritocracy and Committers for non-coders?

2011-06-02 Thread robert_weir
Simon Brouwer simon.o...@xs4all.nl wrote on 06/02/2011 09:21:53 AM: Should we add ourselfs as commiters? If you would like to contribute here (possibly instead of, or in addition, to your work at TDF), then yes! Please add yourself into the proposal on the wiki. I had already been so

Re: OpenOffice and the ASF

2011-06-02 Thread Ross Gardler
On 02/06/2011 14:12, Ian Lynch wrote: On 2 June 2011 14:04, Greg Steingst...@gmail.com wrote: Should we add ourselfs as commiters? If you would like to contribute here (possibly instead of, or in addition, to your work at TDF), then yes! Please add yourself into the proposal on the wiki.

Re: OpenOffice and the ASF

2011-06-02 Thread Ross Gardler
On 02/06/2011 14:21, Simon Brouwer wrote: Op 2-6-2011 15:04, Greg Stein schreef: On Jun 2, 2011 4:32 AM, Alexandro Coloradoj...@openoffice.org wrote: ... There is currently a bit rearagement movement toward figuring things out in TDF OOo previously to the OOo annoucement, which happened last

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Meritocracy and Committers for non-coders?

2011-06-02 Thread Rich Bowen
On Jun 2, 2011, at 9:43 AM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: What isn't clear to me are things like the following: 1) A strong QA member, who does manual testing, enters defect reports, does smoke tests, etc. How do they advance in the meritocracy? Is there any opportunity for them to

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Meritocracy and Committers for non-coders?

2011-06-02 Thread Greg Stein
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 09:43, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: Simon Brouwer simon.o...@xs4all.nl wrote on 06/02/2011 09:21:53 AM: ... Some concern has been expressed that, if the meritocratic system in Apache is based on code contribution only, those community members are not able to fully

Re: OpenOffice and the ASF

2011-06-02 Thread Simon Brouwer
Op 2-6-2011 15:30, Greg Stein schreef: On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 09:21, Simon Brouwersimon.o...@xs4all.nl wrote: Op 2-6-2011 15:04, Greg Stein schreef: ... If you would like to contribute here (possibly instead of, or in addition, to your work at TDF), then yes! Please add yourself into the

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Meritocracy and Committers for non-coders?

2011-06-02 Thread Ralph Goers
Every Apache project's PMC has a duty and responsibility to award commit privileges to individuals who contribute to the project and, when warranted, invite those people to participate in the project management committee. The conditions the PMC chooses to use to base their decisions on who to

Re: OpenOffice and the ASF

2011-06-02 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Ross, On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 12:09 +0100, Ross Gardler wrote: However, I do have a binding vote here and therefore I have a couple of questions for you: .. Are the goals of the TDF the same as the goals of this proposal to the Apache Software Foundation. I would say they are

Re: OpenOffice and the ASF

2011-06-02 Thread Greg Stein
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:07, Simon Brouwer simon.o...@xs4all.nl wrote: Op 2-6-2011 15:30, Greg Stein schreef: ... I would suggest adding a Non-code Contributors table into the proposal and putting your name in there. We don't have precedent for it, so may as well start with something. We can

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-02 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 5:10 AM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: Jochen Wiedmann jochen.wiedm...@gmail.com wrote on 06/01/2011 02:56:10 PM: We could have put a much longer list of IBM names on this list, developers familiar with the code base via their work on Lotus Symphony (which is our

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: how to sign up

2011-06-02 Thread Craig L Russell
Here's how to sign up as an initial committer for the OOo podling. Go to the page http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenOfficeProposal Log in using the login button at the top left. If you don't have a wiki account, create one now. Once logged in, update the Initial Committers section with

Re: OpenOffice and the ASF

2011-06-02 Thread Shane Curcuru
Simon Brouwer wrote on Jun 2, 2011 6:21:30 am: I had already been so bold as to adding myself to the list, expressing my support to the proposal. I was wondering though. In the OpenOffice.org project, many community members contribute in other ways than committing code, for example by writing or

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-02 Thread Greg Stein
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:25, Jochen Wiedmann jochen.wiedm...@gmail.com wrote: ... Everyone else would be just as happy or even happier if the OO code base, trademarks, etc. where simply donated to TDF. Please don't speak for me under that everyone else. As long as the TDF maintains a copyleft

OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Splitting the Community?

2011-06-02 Thread robert_weir
Florian Effenberger flo...@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 enterprises. I'd like to challenge your assertion

Re: OpenOffice and the ASF

2011-06-02 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jun 2, 2011, at 9:21 AM, Simon Brouwer wrote: I had already been so bold as to adding myself to the list, expressing my support to the proposal. I was wondering though. In the OpenOffice.org project, many community members contribute in other ways than committing code, for example by

Re: OpenOffice and the ASF

2011-06-02 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jun 2, 2011, at 10:07 AM, Michael Meeks wrote: Sure - there are lots of nice side effects of rationalisation and so on, it all sounds good. But unfortunately IBM's move here is not primarily focused on that - otherwise (surely) it would work with TDF - where it has been made

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

2011-06-02 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jun 2, 2011, at 10:40 AM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: No one is forcing LibreOffice members to do anything. You are free to disagree with my goals, my priorities or even my methods and simply say, No thanks without suggesting that it is immoral for anyone else, including your own

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Training Certifications and Trademark

2011-06-02 Thread Ian Lynch
On 2 June 2011 14:27, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com wrote on 06/02/2011 09:12:10 AM: From: Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com To: general@incubator.apache.org Date: 06/02/2011 09:12 AM Subject: Re: OpenOffice and the ASF On 2 June 2011 14:04, Greg Stein

Re: OpenOffice and the ASF

2011-06-02 Thread Simon Brouwer
Hi Jim, Op 2-6-2011 16:42, Jim Jagielski schreef: On Jun 2, 2011, at 9:21 AM, Simon Brouwer wrote: I had already been so bold as to adding myself to the list, expressing my support to the proposal. I was wondering though. In the OpenOffice.org project, many community members contribute in

Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jun 2, 2011, at 10:40 AM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: I'd like to think that no one is working on LibreOffice merely because they have no choice, or that giving everyone a choice is seen as being antagonistic. If truly 100% of the LibreOffice members prefer TDF to Apache, then you

OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Are we required to make everyone happy?

2011-06-02 Thread robert_weir
Jochen Wiedmann jochen.wiedm...@gmail.com wrote on 06/02/2011 10:25:20 AM: I trust I do not need to explain at length to an Apache PMC the relative merits of the Apache 2.0 license or the strengths and stability of the ASF. I'll take it as granted that this is well-known to you all.

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Jim, 2011/6/2 Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com On Jun 2, 2011, at 10:40 AM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: I'd like to think that no one is working on LibreOffice merely because they have no choice, or that giving everyone a choice is seen as being antagonistic. If truly 100% of

Happy happy joy joy

2011-06-02 Thread Jim Jagielski
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 who-killed-who... :) On Jun 2, 2011, at 11:11 AM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote:

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jun 2, 2011, at 11:16 AM, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: To answer Jim's email, I think that while OOo and LibreOffice don't have to be competitors, I would not necessarily want to decide why we should split development efforts. I 'm sure the Apache Foundation has experience in dealing with

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread robert_weir
Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com wrote on 06/02/2011 11:06:54 AM: On Jun 2, 2011, at 10:40 AM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: I'd like to think that no one is working on LibreOffice merely because they have no choice, or that giving everyone a choice is seen as being

Re: Happy happy joy joy

2011-06-02 Thread Donald Whytock
The butler did it. On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 11:17 AM, 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

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

2011-06-02 Thread Thorsten Behrens
robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: I'd like to challenge your assertion here, about splitting the community, a nonsensical meme I'm hearing repeated in several venues. Hi Rob - well, are you happier then with perpetuating the split? As it doesn't fundamentally change the matter - this was a

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Are we required to make everyone happy?

2011-06-02 Thread Davide Dozza
Robert, Il 02/06/2011 17:11, robert_w...@us.ibm.com ha scritto: Despite TDF press releases, there was never unanimous support for LibreOffice among members of the OpenOffice.org community. We're seeing some of them stand up now and be counted. As OOo italian native lang maintainer and TDF

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-02 Thread Nick Burch
On Wed, 1 Jun 2011, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: But I see this as pulling in two directions: 1) On the one hand it is a good fit for a module in an OpenOffice SDK, so the OpenOffice project might be a good fit. On the other hand ODF is an application-independent document format, not

Re: OpenOffice and the ASF

2011-06-02 Thread Nick Kew
On Thu, 02 Jun 2011 12:39:12 +0200 Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org wrote: Hello, I hope you don't mind if I jump in to the discussion. Great to see you do so! We (ASF) have a decision to make here, and input from you (ODF and OOO folks) is exactly what we need. However,

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

2011-06-02 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jun 2, 2011, at 11:35 AM, Thorsten Behrens wrote: As it doesn't fundamentally change the matter - this was a missed opportunity to reunite. If we all agree on that point, can we please move on? - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Are we required to make everyone happy?

2011-06-02 Thread Richard S. Hall
On 6/2/11 11:40, Davide Dozza wrote: Robert, Il 02/06/2011 17:11, robert_w...@us.ibm.com ha scritto: Despite TDF press releases, there was never unanimous support for LibreOffice among members of the OpenOffice.org community. We're seeing some of them stand up now and be counted. As OOo

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread eric b
Hi, Le 2 juin 11 à 17:16, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit : I do have a question though. To me it's unclear whether the Openoffice project has any real development ressources. I see so far one developer and Rob, who I know to be a distinguished engineer from IBM but who has never contributed

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread Greg Stein
I don't think these statistics have any real relevance to the goal of evaluating the Proposal and whether it makes sense. Whether somebody has committed or not, the only question is do they have an interest in being part of the community? Whether one group has more committers than the other

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread eric b
Hi, Le 2 juin 11 à 17:57, Greg Stein a écrit : Whether one group has more committers than the other doesn't matter either. There are Apache projects with just a half-dozen people working on them. That is sufficient for the Foundation, so we can just ignore number comparisons. I fully

Re: OpenOffice and the ASF

2011-06-02 Thread Ross Gardler
On 02/06/2011 13:40, Jan Holesovsky wrote: Hi Ross, On 2011-06-02 at 12:09 +0100, Ross Gardler wrote: Instead I would like to understand if this technical objective of breaking OOo code into reusable libraries that the various forks can collaborate on, is part of the TDF mission. I am one

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

2011-06-02 Thread Ian Lynch
On 2 June 2011 16:49, Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com wrote: On Jun 2, 2011, at 11:35 AM, Thorsten Behrens wrote: As it doesn't fundamentally change the matter - this was a missed opportunity to reunite. If we all agree on that point, can we please move on? Seems to me the main issue is

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Eric, 2011/6/2 eric b eric.bach...@free.fr Hi, Le 2 juin 11 à 17:16, Charles-H. Schulz a écrit : I do have a question though. To me it's unclear whether the Openoffice project has any real development ressources. I see so far one developer and Rob, who I know to be a distinguished

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread Ross Gardler
On 02/06/2011 16:22, Jim Jagielski wrote: On Jun 2, 2011, at 11:16 AM, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: ... I do have a question though. To me it's unclear whether the Openoffice project has any real development ressources. I see so far one developer and Rob, who I know to be a distinguished

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

2011-06-02 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com wrote: On Jun 2, 2011, at 11:35 AM, Thorsten Behrens wrote: As it doesn't fundamentally change the matter - this was a missed opportunity to reunite. If we all agree on that point, can we please move on? I wouldn't be too

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

2011-06-02 Thread Simos Xenitellis
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com wrote: On Jun 2, 2011, at 10:40 AM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: No one is forcing LibreOffice members to do anything.  You are free to disagree with my goals, my priorities or even my methods and simply say, No thanks without

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

2011-06-02 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jun 2, 2011, at 12:04 PM, Ian Lynch wrote: On 2 June 2011 16:49, Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com wrote: On Jun 2, 2011, at 11:35 AM, Thorsten Behrens wrote: As it doesn't fundamentally change the matter - this was a missed opportunity to reunite. If we all agree on that point, can

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Licensing Q's [was: Incubator Proposal]

2011-06-02 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/1/2011 10:37 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 10:23 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.netwrote: Other Works * You can use the Creative Commons Attribution License (Attribution-NoDerivs 2.5). We only accept work under this license that is

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

2011-06-02 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jun 2, 2011, at 12:09 PM, Jukka Zitting wrote: Hi, On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 5:49 PM, Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com wrote: On Jun 2, 2011, at 11:35 AM, Thorsten Behrens wrote: As it doesn't fundamentally change the matter - this was a missed opportunity to reunite. If we all agree on

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-02 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/1/2011 11:07 PM, Greg Stein wrote: On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 22:52, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: ... What am I missing here? According to the Incubation Policy [1]: A Sponsor SHALL be either: * the Board of the Apache Software Foundation; * a Top Level Project (TLP) within the

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

2011-06-02 Thread Ian Lynch
On 2 June 2011 17:18, Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com wrote: On Jun 2, 2011, at 12:04 PM, Ian Lynch wrote: On 2 June 2011 16:49, Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com wrote: On Jun 2, 2011, at 11:35 AM, Thorsten Behrens wrote: As it doesn't fundamentally change the matter - this was a missed

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

2011-06-02 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com wrote: ??? I simply cannot grok the above as a response to my comment... huh? Apologies if I misunderstood. The way I read the exchange was: this was a missed opportunity to reunite - agree on that point - move on This seems

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-02 Thread Greg Stein
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 12:23, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: ... Is this correct?  From what we've witnessed, the Board appears to have presented this to the incubator on behalf of the proposers.  Although this doesn't change the need for the incubator to vote to accept the

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

2011-06-02 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jun 2, 2011, at 12:31 PM, Jukka Zitting wrote: Hi, On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com wrote: ??? I simply cannot grok the above as a response to my comment... huh? Apologies if I misunderstood. The way I read the exchange was: this was a missed

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Licensing Q's [was: Incubator Proposal]

2011-06-02 Thread Greg Stein
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 12:19, William A. Rowe Jr. wr...@rowe-clan.net wrote: ... I guess I've seen too many failures to launch at incubator to support any more projects coming in which are not in the realistic position to publish working results as AL works.  So without these answers, I

[ANNOUNCE] Apache Lucy 0.1.0 (incubating)

2011-06-02 Thread Mattmann, Chris A (388J)
We are pleased to annouce the inaugural release of Apache Lucy™, version 0.1.0! Apache Lucy is full-text search engine library written in C and targeted at dynamic languages. The inaugural release provides Perl bindings. Lucy is a loose C port of Apache Lucene™, a search engine library

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

2011-06-02 Thread Phillip Rhodes
All I'm trying to say is that if we are focusing more on repeating what a missed opportunity it was, rather than moving past it and trying to figure out how to take advantage of the current opportunities that are now open to us, then we need to adjust priorities a bit +1

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Licensing Q's [was: Incubator Proposal]

2011-06-02 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/2/2011 11:45 AM, Greg Stein wrote: We know the *precise* list of files that we have rights to. They are explicitly specified in the software grant recorded by the Secretary. For all other files not listed: we have no special rights. Those files would be under their original license,

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

2011-06-02 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Jim Jagielski j...@jagunet.com wrote: All I'm trying to say is that if we are focusing more on repeating what a missed opportunity it was, rather than moving past it and trying to figure out how to take advantage of the current opportunities that are now

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-02 Thread Yegor Kozlov
I can't speak for the whole project, but personally I'd be interested in discussing how the POI mission statement could be expanded, and if that'd work well for everyone. On the web site we say that the Apache POI Project's mission is to create and maintain Java APIs for Microsoft Documents,

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread robert_weir
charles.h.sch...@gmail.com wrote on 06/02/2011 11:16:45 AM: I do have a question though. To me it's unclear whether the Openoffice project has any real development ressources. I see so far one developer and Rob, who I know to be a distinguished engineer from IBM but who has never

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-02 Thread robert_weir
Yegor Kozlov yegor.koz...@dinom.ru wrote on 06/02/2011 01:36:52 PM: I can't speak for the whole project, but personally I'd be interested in discussing how the POI mission statement could be expanded, and if that'd work well for everyone. On the web site we say that the Apache POI

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Rob, 2011/6/2 robert_w...@us.ibm.com charles.h.sch...@gmail.com wrote on 06/02/2011 11:16:45 AM: I do have a question though. To me it's unclear whether the Openoffice project has any real development ressources. I see so far one developer and Rob, who I know to be a distinguished

RE: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Splitting^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HREUNITING the Community?

2011-06-02 Thread Noel J. Bergman
First off, as we've seen with other projects that have gone through Incubation, we have not chosen to avoid areas where others have projects. Simply put, if there is interest from a community, we seek to be supportive. If this proposal goes through, and the ASF chooses to incubate OO.o, everyone

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

2011-06-02 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hello, as we have a public holiday in Germany, I will reply to the other messages tomorrow. However, I cannot leave this sentence uncommented: Noel J. Bergman wrote on 2011-06-02 20.50: If there is a community split, that decision will rest solely on those who choose not to join our

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread Sam Ruby
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Charles-H. Schulz charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org wrote: I am certainly not going to enter a debate on licensing, and I think nobody wants that here. But I just think that there are other ways to cooperate than pretending the elephant in the room

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

2011-06-02 Thread Christian Grobmeier
Hi Florian So, if TDF does not join the Apache OOo project, a community split is our (=TDF) fault. However, if the people proposing the Apache incubator project do not join TDF, a community split is not their fault. Noel wants surely express OOo is open to everybody and there is no intention

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

2011-06-02 Thread Rich Bowen
On Jun 2, 2011, at 3:01 PM, Florian Effenberger wrote: Noel J. Bergman wrote on 2011-06-02 20.50: If there is a community split, that decision will rest solely on those who choose not to join our all-inclusive environment. So, if TDF does not join the Apache OOo project, a community split

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread Jomar Silva (Cuca)
One simple example: Imagine the Apache project as the core guts of OOo, the framework. With TDF working on parts that extend and enhance OOo, in a modular fashion, for a particular set of end-users... or something like that. +1 Best, Jomar

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

2011-06-02 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/2/2011 11:07 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: On 02/06/2011 16:22, Jim Jagielski wrote: The initial list has grown and I expect it to continue to; up until it was announced, no one new about it, so it was kinda impossible to get a more comprehensive list. Now that people do know about it, people

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

2011-06-02 Thread robert_weir
Florian Effenberger flo...@documentfoundation.org wrote on 06/02/2011 03:01:26 PM: Hello, as we have a public holiday in Germany, I will reply to the other messages tomorrow. However, I cannot leave this sentence uncommented: Noel J. Bergman wrote on 2011-06-02 20.50: If there is a

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread robert_weir
charles.h.sch...@gmail.com wrote on 06/02/2011 02:42:11 PM: No Rob, I don't question your credentials, have not done that, will never done that. Both of us know better than having that kind of talk, both of us have worked together for years now, at the OASIS and elsewhere. What I'm

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

2011-06-02 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jun 2, 2011, at 3:34 PM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: Sense 2 is a but more subjective, since each person might have their own vision of what the ideal community would look like. Let's look at it this way: Pretend that when things starting going south in OOo, but before TDF was formed,

Re: Blondie's Parallel Lines...

2011-06-02 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Rob, 2011/6/2 robert_w...@us.ibm.com charles.h.sch...@gmail.com wrote on 06/02/2011 02:42:11 PM: No Rob, I don't question your credentials, have not done that, will never done that. Both of us know better than having that kind of talk, both of us have worked together for years now, at

opportunity to reunite the related communities Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Splitting the Community?

2011-06-02 Thread Andreas Kuckartz
Am 02.06.2011 18:09, schrieb Jukka Zitting: I wouldn't be too quick to throw away this opportunity to reunite the related communities. If the differences truly are insurmountable, I'd like to see that explained in the proposal before we vote on it. +1 (not binding) Cheers, Andreas

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