Re: working on a OpenOffice roadmap

2011-11-06 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 02/11/2011 Martin Hollmichel wrote: So what ASF needs to do here for a 3.3.1 release is to set up the DNS entry to a new server. Besides these infrastructure considerations, is the Oracle build infrastructure still available? If a 3.3.1 release is distributed in binary form, it would be

Re: working on a OpenOffice roadmap

2011-11-06 Thread Marcus (OOo)
Am 11/06/2011 01:50 PM, schrieb Andrea Pescetti: On 02/11/2011 Martin Hollmichel wrote: So what ASF needs to do here for a 3.3.1 release is to set up the DNS entry to a new server. Besides these infrastructure considerations, is the Oracle build infrastructure still available? If a 3.3.1

Re: working on a OpenOffice roadmap

2011-10-26 Thread Ross Gardler
Sent from my mobile device, please forgive errors and brevity. On Oct 25, 2011 2:01 PM, Shane Curcuru a...@shanecurcuru.org wrote: Thank you Pedro for the very well thought out and politely presented explanation of your point. It's very helpful to have this kind of honest and detailed

Re: working on a OpenOffice roadmap

2011-10-26 Thread Ross Gardler
I'd like to return this thread to the original topic. Martin, Have you any further thoughts on Shanes comments below (I'm aware there was a response from you later in the thread but it got lost, I've come back to this point to get close to the root of the thread and as far away as possible from

Re: working on a OpenOffice roadmap

2011-10-25 Thread Simon Phipps
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 8:20 PM, Pedro Giffuni p...@apache.org wrote: If libreoffice encourages, but not requires, AL2 for stuff in the core package, that would be a huge advance to get a bit nearer both camps. Given licenses are the expression of the ethos of a community, it's disingenuous

Re: working on a OpenOffice roadmap

2011-10-25 Thread Ian Lynch
On 25 October 2011 11:28, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 8:20 PM, Pedro Giffuni p...@apache.org wrote: If libreoffice encourages, but not requires, AL2 for stuff in the core package, that would be a huge advance to get a bit nearer both camps. Given

Re: working on a OpenOffice roadmap

2011-10-25 Thread Pedro Giffuni
Hi Simon; I try to give people the benefit of the doubt. Ethos is something that goes well beyond a license, and once you read the iCLA its not an imposible thing to ask ( you signed it), and its surely not what SUN had in place. That said, and its something I have argued about publicly with

Re: working on a OpenOffice roadmap

2011-10-25 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 6:28 AM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 8:20 PM, Pedro Giffuni p...@apache.org wrote: If libreoffice encourages, but not requires, AL2 for stuff in the core package, that would be a huge advance to get a bit nearer both camps. Given

Re: working on a OpenOffice roadmap

2011-10-25 Thread Shane Curcuru
Thank you Pedro for the very well thought out and politely presented explanation of your point. It's very helpful to have this kind of honest and detailed discussion, especially when tempers run high, and doubly so when there's such a clear (and unfortunate) distrust between AOOo community

Re: working on a OpenOffice roadmap

2011-10-25 Thread Simon Phipps
I'm at a dinner so my apoligies for the top-post, but really, I'm trying to help Pedro (and now it seems you) see things from /outside/ the Apache worldview and understand why the mistrust is brewing. I can recidte the Apache mantra too, it's just no-one here needs to hear it any more :-) --

Re: working on a OpenOffice roadmap

2011-10-25 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 6:41 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 6:28 AM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 8:20 PM, Pedro Giffuni p...@apache.org wrote: If libreoffice encourages, but not requires, AL2 for stuff in the core package,

Re: working on a OpenOffice roadmap

2011-10-25 Thread Pedro Giffuni
--- On Tue, 10/25/11, Norbert Thiebaud nthieb...@gmail.com wrote: LO had no choice but to take LGPL.  So more necessity/inertia than ethos.  And -- according to Michael -- when it thought that MPL might be more acceptable TDF was quick to add MPL for new code contributions.  This

Re: working on a OpenOffice roadmap

2011-10-25 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Pedro Giffuni p...@apache.org wrote: I am pretty sure we are safe. good, I have no stake in the old bugzilla content... so as long as you are confident that all such stake-holder share Rob's interpretation of what 'accepted, for incorporation' means (i.e that

Re: working on a OpenOffice roadmap

2011-10-25 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Pedro Giffuni p...@apache.org wrote: --- On Tue, 10/25/11, Norbert Thiebaud nthieb...@gmail.com wrote: LO had no choice but to take LGPL.  So more necessity/inertia than ethos.  And -- according to Michael -- when it thought that MPL might be more

Re: working on a OpenOffice roadmap

2011-10-24 Thread Michael Meeks
On Sat, 2011-10-22 at 13:40 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: Since Sun had control of the Bugzilla instance, then anything you (a non-Sun member of the public) can see was accepted and made available under the OpenOffice.org open source project. I don't believe that to be the case. I'm also

Re: working on a OpenOffice roadmap

2011-10-24 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 5:12 AM, Michael Meeks michael.me...@suse.com wrote: On Sat, 2011-10-22 at 13:40 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: Since Sun had control of the Bugzilla instance, then anything you (a non-Sun member of the public) can see was accepted and made available under the OpenOffice.org

Re: working on a OpenOffice roadmap

2011-10-24 Thread Michael Meeks
On Mon, 2011-10-24 at 08:01 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: In my experience lawyers don't tend to add pointless distinctions into In your experience with lawyers, did they ever teach you to misquote and/or modify the legal language in order to bolster your arguments? Dearest Rob,

Re: working on a OpenOffice roadmap

2011-10-24 Thread Pedro Giffuni
--- On Mon, 10/24/11, Michael Meeks wrote: ...     Of course, in an atmosphere characterised by mutual respect and collaboration this would be no big deal. Of course Bugzilla notifies people when there is action taken on their patches and so far no has complained but I would certainly

Re: working on a OpenOffice roadmap

2011-10-22 Thread Christian Lohmaier
On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 3:16 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote: Are you aware of the number of changes that have already been applied to the LibreOffice code base? It is very large. So, although it seems

Re: working on a OpenOffice roadmap

2011-10-22 Thread Ian Lynch
On 22 October 2011 12:09, Christian Lohmaier cl...@openoffice.org wrote: On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 3:16 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote: Are you aware of the number of changes that have already been

Re: working on a OpenOffice roadmap

2011-10-22 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 7:09 AM, Christian Lohmaier cl...@openoffice.org wrote: On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 3:16 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote: Are you aware of the number of changes that have already been

Re: working on a OpenOffice roadmap

2011-10-22 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Pedro Giffuni p...@apache.org wrote: I merged some fixes from bugzilla that may be shared, and they have taken a lot of code that they tagged as contributed by Oracle. Are you sure about that? please read the CLA which many of the said bugzilla patches are

Re: working on a OpenOffice roadmap

2011-10-22 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Norbert Thiebaud nthieb...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Pedro Giffuni p...@apache.org wrote: I merged some fixes from bugzilla that may be shared, and they have taken a lot of code that they tagged as contributed by Oracle. Are you sure

Re: working on a OpenOffice roadmap

2011-10-22 Thread Pedro Giffuni
--- On Sat, 10/22/11, Norbert Thiebaud nthieb...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 9:26 PM, Pedro Giffuni wrote: I merged some fixes from bugzilla that may be shared, and they have taken a lot of code that they tagged as contributed by Oracle. Are you sure about that? please

Re: working on a OpenOffice roadmap

2011-10-22 Thread Ian Lynch
On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 6:35 AM, Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com wrote: It just seems that there are too many individual interests outweighing such a goal at present. Apache OOo fork is born out of 'corporate' interest not 'individual' interests. Hence the fatal license road block.

Re: working on a OpenOffice roadmap

2011-10-21 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 10/20/2011 05:02 AM, Martin Hollmichel wrote: * A call to LibreOffice contributors also to contribute their changes to Apache as the ASF is the long desired independent foundation for OpenOffice.org. On this basis a collaboration among the OpenOffice.org Apache Project and TDF can be

Re: working on a OpenOffice roadmap

2011-10-21 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote: On 10/20/2011 05:02 AM, Martin Hollmichel wrote: * A call to LibreOffice contributors also to contribute their changes to Apache as the ASF is the long desired independent foundation for OpenOffice.org. On

Re: working on a OpenOffice roadmap

2011-10-21 Thread Pedro Giffuni
--- On Fri, 10/21/11, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote: On 10/20/2011 05:02 AM, Martin Hollmichel wrote: * A call to LibreOffice contributors also to contribute their changes to Apache as the ASF

Re: working on a OpenOffice roadmap

2011-10-21 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 10/21/2011 10:26 PM, Pedro Giffuni wrote: --- On Fri, 10/21/11, Rob Weirrobw...@apache.org wrote: On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote: On 10/20/2011 05:02 AM, Martin Hollmichel wrote: * A call to LibreOffice contributors also to contribute

working on a OpenOffice roadmap

2011-10-20 Thread Martin Hollmichel
Hi, Wether to stay with OpenOffice or LibreOffice or to migrate to LibreOffice or to OpenOffce is a question in the recent past often occurred, by users, by people doing business with OpenOffice, by the press. The answer I would like to give is that this question is not really that relevant

Re: working on a OpenOffice roadmap

2011-10-20 Thread Ian Lynch
On 20 October 2011 10:02, Martin Hollmichel martin.hollmic...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, Wether to stay with OpenOffice or LibreOffice or to migrate to LibreOffice or to OpenOffce is a question in the recent past often occurred, by users, by people doing business with OpenOffice, by the

Re: working on a OpenOffice roadmap

2011-10-20 Thread Martin Hollmichel
Am 20.10.2011 11:02, schrieb Martin Hollmichel: A call to LibreOffice contributors also to contribute their changes to Apache as the ASF is the long desired independent foundation for OpenOffice.org. of course this should read as a call for all people providing patches, to do a dual licensing

Re: working on a OpenOffice roadmap

2011-10-20 Thread Pedro Giffuni
Hello Martin; First of all a hats off for the work you#39;ve done in the past for OOo, it#39;s difficult not to have seen your name around in some documents, and my best wishes that you can get some agreement to complement the ASF funding. Given that there has already been a 3.4-RC, I do

Re: working on a OpenOffice roadmap

2011-10-20 Thread Ian Lynch
On 20 October 2011 12:10, Pedro Giffuni p...@apache.org wrote: Hello Martin; First of all a hats off for the work you#39;ve done in the past for OOo, it#39;s difficult not to have seen your name around in some documents, and my best wishes that you can get some agreement to complement the

Re: working on a OpenOffice roadmap

2011-10-20 Thread Shane Curcuru
Thanks for joining the ooo-dev@ list! On 10/20/2011 5:02 AM, Martin Hollmichel wrote: Hi, Wether to stay with OpenOffice or LibreOffice or to migrate to LibreOffice or to OpenOffce is a question in the recent past often occurred, by users, by people doing business with OpenOffice, by the

Re: working on a OpenOffice roadmap

2011-10-20 Thread Donald Harbison
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 5:02 AM, Martin Hollmichel martin.hollmic...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, Wether to stay with OpenOffice or LibreOffice or to migrate to LibreOffice or to OpenOffce is a question in the recent past often occurred, by users, by people doing business with OpenOffice, by

Re: working on a OpenOffice roadmap

2011-10-20 Thread Donald Harbison
Forgot my footnote: [1] https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/what_is_a_podling On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Donald Harbison dpharbi...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 5:02 AM, Martin Hollmichel martin.hollmic...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, Wether to stay with OpenOffice or

Re: working on a OpenOffice roadmap

2011-10-20 Thread Simon Phipps
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Donald Harbison dpharbi...@gmail.comwrote: You could open the discussion here on ooo-dev, since there are TDF folks here already. I don't think this is a good assumption, any more than it would be to note that there are Apache members on the tdf-discuss

Re: working on a OpenOffice roadmap

2011-10-20 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 5:02 AM, Martin Hollmichel martin.hollmic...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, Wether to stay with OpenOffice or LibreOffice or to migrate to LibreOffice or to OpenOffce is a question in the recent past often occurred, by users, by people doing business with OpenOffice, by the

Re: working on a OpenOffice roadmap

2011-10-20 Thread Martin Hollmichel
Am 20.10.2011 14:35, schrieb Shane Curcuru: This is an interesting idea. The three key questions are: -- Are there sufficient volunteers in the Apache OpenOffice podling to actually complete this work in a reasonable time, without impacting (what I think is) the progress to a new Apache

Re: working on a OpenOffice roadmap

2011-10-20 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Shane Curcuru wrote on Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 08:35:57 -0400: However, there is a somewhat related precedent in the Apache Subversion project, which shipped code as a podling under it's previous license before creating a fully ASF blessed release. As a widely used and mature project before it