Can not visit the Chinese Community Forum!

2011-09-06 Thread 陈京东
Hi Terry, I have got to know you are migrating OOo forum to the Apache Infrastructure, and have accomplished several Community Forums, including the Japanese, but when I want to access to the Chinese Community Forum, an error appears, like this: Language file ./language/zh_cs/common.php

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-06 Thread RGB ES
2011/9/5 Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com: My only concern is the visibility into private discussions relating to list policies. Just to be clear: discussions about policies are very rare, and happened mostly on the past during the forum self-organization. Most of the time discussions on

Can not visit the Chinese Community Forum!

2011-09-06 Thread 陈京东
Hi Terry and all, I have got to know we are migrating OOo forum to the Apache Infrastructure, and have accomplished several Community Forums, including the Japanese, but when I want to access to the Chinese Community Forum, an error appears, like this: Language file

Re: Can not visit the Chinese Community Forum!

2011-09-06 Thread Reizinger Zoltán
Hi, You warns us about a migration test forum: http://ooo-forums.apache.org/zh/forum/ Where I get same error: Language file ./language/zh_cs/common.php couldn't be opened. The migration test not finished, The http://user.services.openoffice.org/zh/forum/ working correctly? I can reach it.

Who else can do it? (was: Fwd: What is needed for Support Forums to be fully integrated into the Apache OpenOffice.org project)

2011-09-06 Thread Christian Grobmeier
So, what now? I consider the ooo-forums a very important part of this project. Who else is able to help, when Terry is gone? This was a very sad thing to happen. And honestly, I cannot understand the way some stuff was discussed in this matter. I have learned that the goals of both parties are

[RT] Create a second incubator podling - the ooo forums

2011-09-06 Thread Christian Grobmeier
Hello, there are much emotions on the ooo forum at the moment and my feeling says if we continue this path of discussion, we'll have some problems. Now I had an idea: what if we would make up another incubator podling - the ooo forums - with an own PPMC. In fact Rob already expressed something

Re: What is needed for Support Forums to be fully integrated into the Apache OpenOffice.org project

2011-09-06 Thread David McKay
Not sure if this was directed at me:if it was, my handle is thegurkha and my real name is Dave McKay. On 05/09/2011 23:23, eric b wrote: Hi, Just curious: what is your real name ? Regards, Eric Bachard

Re: [RT] Create a second incubator podling - the ooo forums

2011-09-06 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 12:03:34 +0200 Christian Grobmeier grobme...@gmail.com wrote: snip I think making ooo-forums another podling is way easier than integrating it into ooo-dev. Christian: I have posted this suggestion to the Forum as I think it worthy of consideration. I made the following

Who rejected the two emails needing moderation from yesterday?

2011-09-06 Thread drew
Hi, Two email postings, written in Greek, where rejected by a moderator yesterday - may I ask who did that and why? thanks Drew Jensen

Re: Who rejected the two emails needing moderation from yesterday?

2011-09-06 Thread Tony Stevenson
Perhaps you could define which list first of all, and if you know it you can contact the moderators directly: listname-owner@a.a.o i.e. ooo-dev-ow...@incubator.apache.org How do you know they were rejected? Did you get a rejection mail? On 6 Sep 2011, at 11:40, drew wrote: Hi, Two

Re: Who rejected the two emails needing moderation from yesterday?

2011-09-06 Thread drew
Sorry guys, wrong projects mailing list. There where two Russian language emails rejected on this project lists yesterday - for obvious reasons. //drew On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 06:40 -0400, drew wrote: Hi, Two email postings, written in Greek, where rejected by a moderator yesterday - may I

Re: [RT] Create a second incubator podling - the ooo forums

2011-09-06 Thread Christian Grobmeier
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 12:03:34 +0200 Christian Grobmeier grobme...@gmail.com wrote: snip I think making ooo-forums another podling is way easier than integrating it into ooo-dev. Christian: I have posted this suggestion to

Re: Status of existing OOo user guides

2011-09-06 Thread Jean Weber
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 10:54, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: ... one alternative would be to upload the doc to Apache-Extra.org.  Projects there are hosted by Google Code, and also agree to these guidelines:

Re: [RT] Create a second incubator podling - the ooo forums

2011-09-06 Thread drew
On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 12:54 +0200, Christian Grobmeier wrote: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 12:03:34 +0200 Christian Grobmeier grobme...@gmail.com wrote: snip I think making ooo-forums another podling is way easier than

Re: What is needed for Support Forums to be fully integrated into the Apache OpenOffice.org project

2011-09-06 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 5:55 AM, Christian Grobmeier grobme...@gmail.com wrote: -1. Same as Zoltan. Except if admins and moderators are PPMC themselves. They are the ones who monitor the forum, know the users by reading their posts and how they react. So you want  to continue picking your own

Re: Status of existing OOo user guides

2011-09-06 Thread Jean Weber
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 23:02, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Wearing my IBM hat, the larger issue, one that may not concern everyone here but does concern me, is the impact the license choice has on our ability to attract corporate-sponsored contributors to an effort that is not using a

Re: What is needed for Support Forums to be fully integrated into the Apache OpenOffice.org project

2011-09-06 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Terry Ellison wrote: So my answer is that I don't need to do this. Hence this email is my last involvement in Apache and the Forums. No more work. Not more listening to attacks. No more listening to support Very sad news. It's bad to see the community fragmenting again, especially the forums,

Re: What is needed for Support Forums to be fully integrated into the Apache OpenOffice.org project

2011-09-06 Thread drew
On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 07:18 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: snip I suppose it depends on what you mean by the volunteer role. Hi I'm going to try and talk to things ONE issue per email - The Volunteer role - the reason it existed was precisely because there was no place to ground the forum at

Re: [RT] Create a second incubator podling - the ooo forums

2011-09-06 Thread Reizinger Zoltán
2011.09.06. 12:03 keltezéssel, Christian Grobmeier írta: Hello, there are much emotions on the ooo forum at the moment and my feeling says if we continue this path of discussion, we'll have some problems. Now I had an idea: what if we would make up another incubator podling - the ooo forums -

Re: Who wants to build OpenOffice?

2011-09-06 Thread Marc-Oliver Straub
As preparation for tomorrow, how will we deal with bugs found during the Linux builds? Tag them in the issue tracker? Post them on the mailing list only? Thanks, Oli On 9/5/2011 11:51 PM, Rob Weir wrote: On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Matt Richardsmricha...@gmail.com wrote: Now that I've

Re: What is needed for Support Forums to be fully integrated into the Apache OpenOffice.org project

2011-09-06 Thread Pedro Giffuni
On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 10:52:27 +0200, RGB ES rgb.m...@gmail.com wrote: Well, Rob, you finally did it. I hope you are happy. I'm not. Even if someone else can work the miracle and get the migration done (I doubt it), you'll find that the resulting forum under your conditions will be a place full of

Re: [WWW] OOo accepted projects websites have been backed up (svn checkout) to my Apache area

2011-09-06 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 10:32 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: Hi Kay, OK, I've done another svn checkout for the curretn OOo accepted projects and the put the web info (actually what the OOo site calls source code which could be a LOT of stuff), and these are now residing in

Re: [RT] Create a second incubator podling - the ooo forums

2011-09-06 Thread Joe Schaefer
Sorry, but if this were put to a vote on general@incubator I'd likely vote -1 as it is out of scope for the incubator to incubate a non-software-development related group.  Frankly we have no business overseeing this work on anything more than a formal level because we have no institutional

Re: [DISCUSS][wiki] Migration (was Re: Who Wants to build OpenOffice?)

2011-09-06 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 12:51 AM, Pedro F. Giffuni giffu...@tutopia.com wrote: Hmm ... It looks like  I missed where the decision to use MediaWiki and deprecate confluence was taken. I guess it was arranged with infra as long as MW is up to date and the extensions are documented. I am not

Re: Status of existing OOo user guides

2011-09-06 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 23:02, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Wearing my IBM hat, the larger issue, one that may not concern everyone here but does concern me, is the impact the license choice has on our ability to

Re: [RT] Create a second incubator podling - the ooo forums

2011-09-06 Thread drew
On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 07:13 -0400, drew wrote: On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 12:54 +0200, Christian Grobmeier wrote: snip Thanks. I would have suggested that by myself in the forum but it seems my account got deactivated. Hi, Just checked, your account is fine. If you having problems let me

Re: [RT] Create a second incubator podling - the ooo forums

2011-09-06 Thread Christian Grobmeier
Just checked, your account is fine. If you having problems let me know - but I don't see anything odd with the account settings from here. Ok - think I found it - there was a new group created for the ASF folks, then your account added to this new group - looks like the culprit was a

Re: [RT] Create a second incubator podling - the ooo forums

2011-09-06 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 05:17:03 -0700 (PDT) Joe Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.com wrote: Sorry, but if this were put to a vote on general@incubator I'd likely vote -1 as it is out of scope for the incubator to incubate a non-software-development related group.  Frankly we have no business

Re: [RT] Create a second incubator podling - the ooo forums

2011-09-06 Thread drew
On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 14:36 +0200, Christian Grobmeier wrote: Just checked, your account is fine. If you having problems let me know - but I don't see anything odd with the account settings from here. Ok - think I found it - there was a new group created for the ASF folks, then your

Re: Who wants to build OpenOffice?

2011-09-06 Thread Rob Weir
I did a build overnight on a freshly installed Ubuntu 11.04 (32-bit), Fresh, clean, nothing extra installed. I had to even apt-get subversion to get started. I tried to follow the instructions literally, to find any problems that might occur. Obviously the typical engineer will work around

Real names (was: What is needed for Support Forums to be fully integrated into the Apache OpenOffice.org project)

2011-09-06 Thread Shane Curcuru
There are a lot of differences between how Apache projects are managed and how OOo services have been managed in the past. This is one where the actual policies seem to be very similar; however the normal practice is very different. At Apache, anyone who signs an iCLA [1] must provide

Re: [RT] Create a second incubator podling - the ooo forums

2011-09-06 Thread Joe Schaefer
We currently don't provide any hosting services at the ASF.  Everything we put up on the net is owned and operated by the ASF (either by infra or delegated to a project like ooo). If the forums do wind up being hosted on ASF gear, the legal ownership of those forums needs to be transferred to the

Re: [RT] Create a second incubator podling - the ooo forums

2011-09-06 Thread Christian Grobmeier
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:17 PM, Joe Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.com wrote: Sorry, but if this were put to a vote on general@incubator I'd likely vote -1 as it is out of scope for the incubator to incubate a non-software-development related group. We knew when we voted for ooo to come to apache

Re: Real names (was: What is needed for Support Forums to be fully integrated into the Apache OpenOffice.org project)

2011-09-06 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Tue, 06 Sep 2011 08:47:25 -0400 Shane Curcuru a...@shanecurcuru.org wrote: snip When you sign an iCLA, you may optionally specify a Public name, which is what Apache displays as public information associated with your Apache id (if/when you get one). Thus by policy, Apache allows

Re: Who else can do it? (was: Fwd: What is needed for Support Forums to be fully integrated into the Apache OpenOffice.org project)

2011-09-06 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 5:45 AM, Christian Grobmeier grobme...@gmail.com wrote: So, what now? I consider the ooo-forums a very important part of this project. Who else is able to help, when Terry is gone? The important thing is that users have avenues of support. We were never talking about

Re: [RT] Create a second incubator podling - the ooo forums

2011-09-06 Thread Shane Curcuru
Here are the two fundamental and unalterable issues that are going to cause changes to the forums. On 9/6/2011 8:37 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 05:17:03 -0700 (PDT) Joe Schaeferjoe_schae...@yahoo.com wrote: Sorry, but if this were put to a vote on general@incubator I'd

Re: [RT] Create a second incubator podling - the ooo forums

2011-09-06 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 14:56:35 +0200 Christian Grobmeier grobme...@gmail.com wrote: snip As Rob said in this thread, there are many people on the forum (75). This is already a huge number! They want to have the power to vote new moderators in as they need it. I think this is incorrect; as I

Re: [RT] Create a second incubator podling - the ooo forums

2011-09-06 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 05:49:09 -0700 (PDT) Joe Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.com wrote: snip So to answer your questions, yes it certainly could be done within the Apache structure.  No it probably cannot be done to host stuff here on behalf of some third party. Thanks, that is helpful in

Re: [RT] Create a second incubator podling - the ooo forums

2011-09-06 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 14:56:35 +0200 Christian Grobmeier grobme...@gmail.com wrote: snip As Rob said in this thread, there are many people on the forum (75). This is already a huge number! They want to have the power to vote

Re: [RT] Create a second incubator podling - the ooo forums

2011-09-06 Thread Joe Schaefer
Up until a few days ago I thought we had one. Move the forums over to the ASF, give the PPMC and ASF members the full ability (upon request) to oversee allcommunications within the forums, and life goeson.  I see no need for the Volunteers to join the PPMC or anything like that, just keep doing

Re: What is needed for Support Forums to be fully integrated into the Apache OpenOffice.org project

2011-09-06 Thread Joe Schaefer
That's more or less what I was referring to when I talked about the lack of civility omnipresent on this list. From: Rob Weir robw...@apache.org To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Sent: Tuesday, September 6, 2011 9:06 AM Subject: Re: What is needed for Support

Re: [RT] Create a second incubator podling - the ooo forums

2011-09-06 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Tue, 06 Sep 2011 09:01:04 -0400 Shane Curcuru a...@shanecurcuru.org wrote: snip What is the best *single* place for me to communicate with the primary decision makers in the forums? Note that I prefer mailing lists but am happy to use a forum when needed. (I say *single* place only

Re: [RT] Create a second incubator podling - the ooo forums

2011-09-06 Thread drew
On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 09:10 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 9:02 AM, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 14:56:35 +0200 Christian Grobmeier grobme...@gmail.com wrote: snip As Rob said in this thread, there are many people on the forum (75). This is

Re: [RT] Create a second incubator podling - the ooo forums

2011-09-06 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 09:10:32 -0400 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Here are the roles at Apache: http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#roles Do you have a similar list, with definitions, for the forums? It would be good to understand what you think a Volunteer would map to

Re: [RT] Create a second incubator podling - the ooo forums

2011-09-06 Thread drew
On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 06:13 -0700, Joe Schaefer wrote: Up until a few days ago I thought we had one. right - and I thought that was becoming rather clear also. Move the forums over to the ASF, give the PPMC and ASF members the full ability (upon request) to oversee allcommunications within

Re: What is needed for Support Forums to be fully integrated into the Apache OpenOffice.org project

2011-09-06 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Rob Weir wrote on Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 09:06:31 -0400: I suspect I will be blamed for the *next* time Terry resigns as well, so I apologize in advance for whenever that day (or hour) comes. That wasn't necessary.

Re: [RT] Create a second incubator podling - the ooo forums

2011-09-06 Thread Christian Grobmeier
It is bizarre, but I hear people advocating for community fragmentation in the name of community unity.  Having two parallel meritocracies within the same project is fragmentation.  I don't see how we can call it anything else. Working on the same topic does not necessary mean it is the same

Re: [RT] Create a second incubator podling - the ooo forums

2011-09-06 Thread Joe Schaefer
It's called delegation Rob, and it's done all the time within the ASF.  The PPMC can delegate ALL management/oversight aspects to whomever is on the PPMC that is also involved with the forums. So long as 1 person on the PPMC is watching over the activity, and anything noteworthy gets passed

Re: [RT] Create a second incubator podling - the ooo forums

2011-09-06 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 09:10:32 -0400 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Here are the roles at Apache: http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#roles Do you have a similar list, with definitions, for the forums?

Re: [RT] Create a second incubator podling - the ooo forums

2011-09-06 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Joe Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.com wrote: It's called delegation Rob, and it's done all the time within the ASF.  The PPMC can delegate ALL management/oversight aspects to whomever is on the PPMC that is also involved with the forums. So long as 1 person on

Re: [RT] Create a second incubator podling - the ooo forums

2011-09-06 Thread Joe Schaefer
Where did you get that from in what I wrote? From: Rob Weir robw...@apache.org To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Sent: Tuesday, September 6, 2011 9:39 AM Subject: Re: [RT] Create a second incubator podling - the ooo forums On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Joe

Re: [RT] Create a second incubator podling - the ooo forums

2011-09-06 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Shane Curcuru wrote on Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 09:01:04 -0400: The fundamental issues requiring some sort of agreement or change are: 1 - The Oracle servers the forums live on are going away (someday). Hence, the existing technical and organizational leaders of the forums *must* migrate the

Re: [RT] Create a second incubator podling - the ooo forums

2011-09-06 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 9:40 AM, Joe Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.com wrote: Where did you get that from in what I wrote? Your use of the term ALL (in bold characters) -Rob From: Rob Weir robw...@apache.org To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Sent: Tuesday,

Re: [RT] Create a second incubator podling - the ooo forums

2011-09-06 Thread Joe Schaefer
Clearly you didn't read the whole sentence in context.  You certainly cannot delegate away someone'sPPMC voting rights on new committers, but that wouldn'tbe something I'd call a management/oversightaspect of the forums. Two different animals. From: Rob Weir

Re: [RT] Create a second incubator podling - the ooo forums

2011-09-06 Thread Shane Curcuru
On 9/6/2011 9:39 AM, Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Joe Schaeferjoe_schae...@yahoo.com wrote: It's called delegation Rob, and it's done all the time within the ASF. The PPMC can delegate ALL management/oversight aspects to whomever is on the PPMC that is also involved with

Re: [RT] Create a second incubator podling - the ooo forums

2011-09-06 Thread Shane Curcuru
On 9/6/2011 9:48 AM, Joe Schaefer wrote: Clearly you didn't read the whole sentence in context. You certainly cannot delegate away someone'sPPMC voting rights on new committers, but that wouldn'tbe something I'd call a management/oversightaspect of the forums. Two different animals. Sigh.

Re: [RT] Create a second incubator podling - the ooo forums

2011-09-06 Thread drew
On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 09:36 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 09:10:32 -0400 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Here are the roles at Apache: http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#roles Do you

Re: [RT] Create a second incubator podling - the ooo forums

2011-09-06 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Joe Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.com wrote: Clearly you didn't read the whole sentence in context.  You certainly cannot delegate away someone'sPPMC voting rights on new committers, but that wouldn'tbe something I'd call a management/oversightaspect of the

Re: Real names (was: What is needed for Support Forums to be fully integrated into the Apache OpenOffice.org project)

2011-09-06 Thread RGB ES
2011/9/6 Shane Curcuru a...@shanecurcuru.org: There are a lot of differences between how Apache projects are managed and how OOo services have been managed in the past.  This is one where the actual policies seem to be very similar; however the normal practice is very different. At

Re: [RT] Create a second incubator podling - the ooo forums

2011-09-06 Thread Shane Curcuru
On 9/6/2011 9:42 AM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: Shane Curcuru wrote on Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 09:01:04 -0400: The fundamental issues requiring some sort of agreement or change are: 1 - The Oracle servers the forums live on are going away (someday). Hence, the existing technical and organizational

Re: [RT] Create a second incubator podling - the ooo forums

2011-09-06 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 10:03 AM, drew d...@baseanswers.com wrote: On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 09:36 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 09:10:32 -0400 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Here are the roles at Apache:

Re: Who wants to build OpenOffice?

2011-09-06 Thread Fred Juan DIAZ
On 9/5/2011 11:51 PM, Rob Weir wrote: On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Matt Richardsmricha...@gmail.com  wrote: Now that I've built OpenOffice on Linux with moderate success, I'd like to lend a helping hand with the documentation side of things. As far as I am aware, the existing

Re: [RT] Create a second incubator podling - the ooo forums

2011-09-06 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 14:20:14 +0100 Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: On my way out the door to a meeting, so no time to read your url at present. Volunteers do the daily low level work of answering queires Back from appointment, off to another in a few minutes. Volunteers is the name

Re: [RT] Create a second incubator podling - the ooo forums

2011-09-06 Thread Shane Curcuru
The key distinction for me is that forum code is not something we ship in Apache products - it's merely a tool we use to serve content. Much like we can use GPL compilers, we can use GPL website serving software to serve our websites if we like. We just can't put it in the actual products

Re: [RT] Create a second incubator podling - the ooo forums

2011-09-06 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 10:10:53 -0400 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: snip Given that, would you then agree that an admin (as a committer) should also be approved by the PPMC? But if you agree with that, then what about the current ability for a forum admin to assign admin rights to others?

Re: Fwd: [PROPOSAL] Get lazy consensus on to recommend that the trademark permission be granted to BHV publishing GmbH

2011-09-06 Thread Peter Junge
Hi, I've been sending this request more than 72 hours ago, but didn't receive any reply. Is something missing? Best regards, Peter On 03.09.2011 18:26, Peter Junge wrote: The Apache OpenOffice.org PPMC has reached a lazy consensus to recommend that the trademark permission be granted to BHV

Re: Fwd: [PROPOSAL] Get lazy consensus on to recommend that the trademark permission be granted to BHV publishing GmbH

2011-09-06 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Peter Junge peter.ju...@gmx.org wrote: Hi, I've been sending this request more than 72 hours ago, but didn't receive any reply. Is something missing? Monday (yesterday) was a holiday in the USA (Labor Day) so many people were on holiday, some taking off last

RE: What is needed for Support Forums to be fully integrated into the Apache OpenOffice.org project

2011-09-06 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Christian, What I find awkward around all of these discussions is that there are already several Apache OOo PPMC members who were and are already administrators and moderators on the OpenOffice.org forums, and not one of them stood up here, on ooo-dev, and said so. It boggles my mind how much

RE: What is needed for Support Forums to be fully integrated into the Apache OpenOffice.org project

2011-09-06 Thread drew
On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 07:56 -0700, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: Christian, What I find awkward around all of these discussions is that there are already several Apache OOo PPMC members who were and are already administrators and moderators on the OpenOffice.org forums, and not one of them

Re: [DISCUSS][wiki] Migration (was Re: Who Wants to build OpenOffice?)

2011-09-06 Thread Matt Richards
As far as point 2, I thought Terry had completed the all of the migration work and all that was left was to create a final export and cut over the DNS entries? In my mind, if there is already a lot of content on the MW and the Apache Foundation allows us to continue to use it, why not? On Tue,

Catching up

2011-09-06 Thread Wanda Phillips
I've come over from the Open Office authors mailing list and but am finding the pace of discussion a tad overwhelming. I haven't had time to absorb what's going on in my own life, let alone on these lists. I'd like to work on the documentation in spite of the madness in my own life, but wading

Re: What is needed for Support Forums to be fully integrated into the Apache OpenOffice.org project

2011-09-06 Thread eric b
Hi, Le 6 sept. 11 à 17:29, drew a écrit : Hagar (leads the global moderator group) has introduced himself, No, Hagar introduced his pseudo, not himself. I wonder how we can trust people we don't know the identity ? Regards, Eric -- qɔᴉɹə Education Project:

Re: What is needed for Support Forums to be fully integrated into the Apache OpenOffice.org project

2011-09-06 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Tue, 06 Sep 2011 11:29:12 -0400 Terry, Zoltan, Khirano, Alexandro, Andreas, David, Ricardo, myself and I may have missed someone (apologies if I did) - are all members of the PPMC already if I'm not mistaken, we have all mentioned our involvement on the forums more then once I believe.

Re: Status of existing OOo user guides

2011-09-06 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Rob, Something to remember is that Symphony is only the three main apps. It does not cover, for example, Base. So even if we did switch to Symphony docs for the core, we'd still need to find a way to cover the other pieces. Does that mean we could have for AOO a commun trunk with

Re: Catching up

2011-09-06 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Wanda Phillips wetcoastwri...@me.com wrote: I've come over from the Open Office authors mailing list and but am finding the pace of discussion a tad overwhelming. I haven't had time to absorb what's going on in my own life, let alone on these lists. I'd like

Re: What is needed for Support Forums to be fully integrated into the Apache OpenOffice.org project

2011-09-06 Thread drew
On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 16:40 +0100, Rory O'Farrell wrote: On Tue, 06 Sep 2011 11:29:12 -0400 Terry, Zoltan, Khirano, Alexandro, Andreas, David, Ricardo, myself and I may have missed someone (apologies if I did) - are all members of the PPMC already if I'm not mistaken, we have all mentioned

Re: What is needed for Support Forums to be fully integrated into the Apache OpenOffice.org project

2011-09-06 Thread David McKay
On 06/09/2011 15:56, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: Christian, What I find awkward around all of these discussions is that there are already several Apache OOo PPMC members who were and are already administrators and moderators on the OpenOffice.org forums, and not one of them stood up here, on

Re: Status of existing OOo user guides

2011-09-06 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Guy Waterval waterval@gmail.com wrote: Hi Rob, Something to remember is that Symphony is only the three main apps. It does not cover, for example, Base.  So even if we did switch to Symphony docs for the core, we'd still need to find a way to cover the

Re: [legal] ICLA paragraph 7

2011-09-06 Thread Donald Whytock
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Pedro F. Giffuni giffu...@tutopia.com wrote: OpenOffice is probably a special case wrt patents and that's a special strength behind the Apache License so I think it's good in case of big contributions (like IBM's) to have such a document but otherwise I don't

Re: What is needed for Support Forums to be fully integrated into the Apache OpenOffice.org project

2011-09-06 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 17:36:10 +0200 eric b eric.bach...@free.fr wrote: Hi, Le 6 sept. 11 à 17:29, drew a écrit : Hagar (leads the global moderator group) has introduced himself, No, Hagar introduced his pseudo, not himself. I wonder how we can trust people we don't know the

Re: What is needed for Support Forums to be fully integrated into the Apache OpenOffice.org project

2011-09-06 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Tue, 06 Sep 2011 11:46:04 -0400 drew d...@baseanswers.com wrote: On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 16:40 +0100, Rory O'Farrell wrote: On Tue, 06 Sep 2011 11:29:12 -0400 Terry, Zoltan, Khirano, Alexandro, Andreas, David, Ricardo, myself and I may have missed someone (apologies if I did) - are all

Re: What is needed for Support Forums to be fully integrated into the Apache OpenOffice.org project

2011-09-06 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 11:41 AM, David McKay dmc...@btconnect.com wrote: On 06/09/2011 15:56, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: Christian, What I find awkward around all of these discussions is that there are already several Apache OOo PPMC members who were and are already administrators and

Re: Catching up

2011-09-06 Thread Matt Richards
I'm all for creating a separated documentation list.. I suppose using the [DOC] subject tag on this list would work as well, but then again you have to remember to use it.. On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Wanda Phillips

Re: What is needed for Support Forums to be fully integrated into the Apache OpenOffice.org project

2011-09-06 Thread Dave Fisher
On Sep 6, 2011, at 8:29 AM, drew wrote: On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 07:56 -0700, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: Christian, What I find awkward around all of these discussions is that there are already several Apache OOo PPMC members who were and are already administrators and moderators on the

RE: [RT] Create a second incubator podling - the ooo forums

2011-09-06 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Joe, I think, as Shane mentions, that there are two problems. The first is that we no longer have any resource stepping-forward, so far, to complete the migration of the forum operation onto Apache infrastructure. So it may become irrelevant what governance accommodation is possible. The

Re: What is needed for Support Forums to be fully integrated into the Apache OpenOffice.org project

2011-09-06 Thread eric b
Hi, Le 6 sept. 11 à 17:52, Rory O'Farrell a écrit : No, Hagar introduced his pseudo, not himself. I wonder how we can trust people we don't know the identity ? With respect, who he says he is,or who you say you are, is irrelevant; what is relevant is that he appears regularly, with

Re: What is needed for Support Forums to be fully integrated into the Apache OpenOffice.org project

2011-09-06 Thread drew
On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 11:57 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 11:41 AM, David McKay dmc...@btconnect.com wrote: On 06/09/2011 15:56, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: Christian, What I find awkward around all of these discussions is that there are already several Apache OOo PPMC

Re: What is needed for Support Forums to be fully integrated into the Apache OpenOffice.org project

2011-09-06 Thread MiguelAngel
I agree with Ricardo, To me, don't seem very nice how some people have helped Terry to carry on his effort to do the transition, and keep the relation with the forum and their members. I would prefer to feel not like an unwelcome guest for them. Some questions in the air: -Can have the forum a

Re: Catching up

2011-09-06 Thread Wanda Phillips
Yes, thanks Rob, the emails sort of get filtered on my iPad version of an e-mail reader. Sometimes just figuring out which thread I should be trying to follow has been difficult. I really didn't get what a ballyhoo this move meant. I've just started a new job, so the combination of changes are

Re: [legal] ICLA paragraph 7

2011-09-06 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Donald Whytock dwhyt...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Pedro F. Giffuni giffu...@tutopia.com wrote: OpenOffice is probably a special case wrt patents and that's a special strength behind the Apache License so I think it's good in case of big

[code][repo] Integration of CWSs

2011-09-06 Thread Eike Rathke
Hi, And now for something completely different: CODE As lined out in Message-ID: 20110831191817.gf29...@kulungile.erack.de http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-ooo-dev/201108.mbox/%3c20110831191817.gf29...@kulungile.erack.de%3E there are 2 possible approaches to integrate pending

Re: Catching up

2011-09-06 Thread Wolf Halton
Congratulations on the new job, Wanda. I think a documentation team list would be a good idea as well, as it would be far easier to filter by sent_to than by topic or content. -Wolf On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Wanda Phillips wetcoastwri...@me.comwrote: Yes, thanks Rob, the emails sort of

Re: [RT] Create a second incubator podling - the ooo forums

2011-09-06 Thread Christian Grobmeier
Dennis, not commenting all of your e-mail, you speak out what I have observed. I now heard very often there is no rush in this discussion but actually there is rush. As you said: The second is that the Forum operators may be losing faith in Apache.   Yesterday, it seemed that they were eager

Re: Who wants to build OpenOffice?

2011-09-06 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 7:59 AM, Marc-Oliver Straub openoff...@sb-software.de wrote: As preparation for tomorrow, how will we deal with bugs found during the Linux builds? Tag them in the issue tracker? Post them on the mailing list only? Since we will have (hopefully) new people participating

RE: What is needed for Support Forums to be fully integrated into the Apache OpenOffice.org project

2011-09-06 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
My apologies David, I looked you up on the PPMC list when I saw, yesterday that you said you were a moderator, but I must have overlooked earlier statements that you were a moderator there (possibly not realizing how significant that was to become for the current discussion). So the fault is

RE: Real names (was: What is needed for Support Forums to be fully integrated into the Apache OpenOffice.org project)

2011-09-06 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I think this thread was split off in response to Eric wanting to know Hagar's real name. It doesn't matter what that question was about. There was, however, a nice post and new thread providing an interesting situation with pseudonyms being used by folks who have registered iCLAs and who

RE: [DISCUSS][wiki] Migration (was Re: Who Wants to build OpenOffice?)

2011-09-06 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
My understanding that it really is a test build and it has *not* been maintained in synchronization with the OpenOffice.org operating version. So if that system started to be used as a production instance separate from OpenOffice.org, it would be a fork and there would be some issues with

RE: What is needed for Support Forums to be fully integrated into the Apache OpenOffice.org project

2011-09-06 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Somehow, it did not sink in that you were part of the folk that have administrative functions already. Especially when Terry was inviting PPMC members to come over. I grant you that he meant people who were taking positions about the forums without having been there to observe all that even

Re: [RT] Create a second incubator podling - the ooo forums

2011-09-06 Thread Matt Richards
Things appear to be quite heated surrounding the forum transition area and I fear this is ultimately going to rip apart a very strong existing portion of the OOo community if it continues on the path its going. I thought a big part of the Apache way is building and sustaining a community

Re: What is needed for Support Forums to be fully integrated into the Apache OpenOffice.org project

2011-09-06 Thread Dave Fisher
MiguelAngel, Welcome to the discussion. On Sep 6, 2011, at 9:24 AM, MiguelAngel wrote: I agree with Ricardo, To me, don't seem very nice how some people have helped Terry to carry on his effort to do the transition, and keep the relation with the forum and their members. I would prefer to

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