Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 5:52 AM, Kazunari Hirano khir...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Rob, Drew, Dennis and all, Here you go. http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Concrete+Proposal+for+Migration You see I am a poor wiki editor. :) Just so it is clear: Is this the proposal that the

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-11 Thread drew
On Sun, 2011-09-11 at 08:14 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 5:52 AM, Kazunari Hirano khir...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Rob, Drew, Dennis and all, Here you go. http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Concrete+Proposal+for+Migration You see I am a poor wiki editor.

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-11 Thread Rory O'Farrell
As Drew said. The proposal is being seriously considered by Forum personnel; we want to allow time for consideration, also input from members temporarily off line for whatever reason. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-10 Thread Kazunari Hirano
Hi Rob, Drew, Dennis and all, Here you go. http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Concrete+Proposal+for+Migration You see I am a poor wiki editor. :) Please make it looking better. Thanks, khirano

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-10 Thread TJ Frazier
On 9/10/2011 05:52, Kazunari Hirano wrote: Hi Rob, Drew, Dennis and all, Here you go. http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Concrete+Proposal+for+Migration You see I am a poor wiki editor. :) Please make it looking better. Thanks, khirano Looks pretty good to me :-) . All it

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-10 Thread drew
On Sat, 2011-09-10 at 07:34 -0400, TJ Frazier wrote: where you actually have names ;-) ) A rose by any other. For the moment this is just the account names - Khirano was good enough to kick this off, and good he did - there are a few irregularities with group assignments (which I think is

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote: On 09/06/2011 10:04 PM, Rob Weir wrote: It couldn't have been all that bad if you spent so much time volunteering on those boards. -Rob The problem is that the forum was setup years ago by a single

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-08 Thread David McKay
On 08/09/2011 15:06, Rory O'Farrell wrote: On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 09:54:33 -0400 Rob Weirrobw...@apache.org wrote: Thanks for sharing the history on this. It is useful (I think) to understand the history of this community and what they've been through in the past, what problems they've

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-08 Thread Kazunari Hirano
Hi Rob and all, On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Yes, Hirano-san, take your time.  There is no advantage to rushing this.  In fact, we can all take some time to cool down as well. Good. Thanks. :) [1]

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-08 Thread drew
On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 00:15 +0900, Kazunari Hirano wrote: Hi Rob and all, On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Yes, Hirano-san, take your time. There is no advantage to rushing this. In fact, we can all take some time to cool down as well. Good. Thanks.

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-08 Thread drew
On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 11:49 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Kazunari Hirano khir...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Rob and all, On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Yes, Hirano-san, take your time. There is no advantage to rushing this. In

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-07 Thread RGB ES
2011/9/7 Larry Gusaas larry.gus...@gmail.com: On 2011-09-06 8:04 PM  Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org  wrote: On 09/04/2011 02:23 PM, Rob Weir wrote: If you do not own the hardware, the domain name and the trademark, then you are

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-07 Thread FR web forum
Indeed. I have 1743 posts on the old forums, but last one was on December 2007, /almost four years ago/: since then I only participated on the new forums. What's wrong with that? It's worse for me. ;-) I have post 7 messages on oooforum.org since nov. 2005 Fortunately, I catch up in the FR forum

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-07 Thread Jean Weber
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 12:04, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote: On 09/04/2011 02:23 PM, Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Terry Ellisonte...@ellisons.org.uk  wrote: On 04/09/11 18:01, Rob

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-07 Thread Dave Fisher
Who exactly are you? Please stop posting from a completely bogus email while spoofing a non-existing apache.org email address. Regards, Dave On Sep 7, 2011, at 1:53 PM, FR web forum wrote: Indeed. I have 1743 posts on the old forums, but last one was on December 2007, /almost four years

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-07 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Reizinger Zoltán zreizin...@hdsnet.hu wrote: snip Why you think the volunteers and admins will join to this list, if you not makes any steps into the other directions? I'm assuming the

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-07 Thread Dave Fisher
On Sep 7, 2011, at 3:57 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Reizinger Zoltán zreizin...@hdsnet.hu wrote: snip Why you think the volunteers and admins will join to this list, if you not makes

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-07 Thread Simon Phipps
On 8 Sep 2011, at 00:04, Dave Fisher wrote: +1, they are when a few individuals dominate the conversation making it difficult for consensus to build or solutions to be defined. Instead we went round and round. Agreed. It would be wonderful if responses could amplify the part of proposals

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-07 Thread Dave Fisher
Hi Simon - There are significant advantages to top posting when carefully done. Let's end this thread, and hope that one of the forum proposal threads is restarted with some restatement of someone's understanding of where a consensus might be. We were getting somewhere with a pragmatic

RE: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-07 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
. Time to clean up, learn the lesson, and stay the course. - Dennis -Original Message- From: Dave Fisher [mailto:dave2w...@comcast.net] Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 16:04 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-07 Thread eric b
Hi, Le 8 sept. 11 à 01:04, Dave Fisher a écrit : Honestly this seems like mailing lists are an awful way to take decision. Someones votes will be swamped by the hundred of other emails comenting and flamewaring making the vote completely disappeared. We need better software to account

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

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-06 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 09/04/2011 02:23 PM, Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Terry Ellisonte...@ellisons.org.uk wrote: On 04/09/11 18:01, Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Terry Ellisonte...@ellisons.org.uk wrote: On 04/09/11 17:22, Simon Phipps wrote: If you do not own the

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-06 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote: On 09/04/2011 02:23 PM, Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Terry Ellisonte...@ellisons.org.uk  wrote: On 04/09/11 18:01, Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Terry

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-06 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2011-09-06 8:04 PM Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote: On 09/04/2011 02:23 PM, Rob Weir wrote: If you do not own the hardware, the domain name and the trademark, then you are operating at the pleasure of those who do own these

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-06 Thread Kazunari Hirano
Hi Ross and all, On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 6:44 AM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: I don't see any problems with adopting what seems to be, for all intents an purposes, the same process on the forums. My only concern is the visibility into private discussions relating to list

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-06 Thread Kazunari Hirano
Hi Rob and all, On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 1:48 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: You also have other options which would require greater coordination with the Apache, including moving the forums into the AOOo project.  I prefer that option, but this is not my decision.  This is something

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-06 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 11:55 PM, Kazunari Hirano khir...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Rob and all, On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 1:48 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: You also have other options which would require greater coordination with the Apache, including moving the forums into the AOOo project.

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-05 Thread Terry Ellison
On 04/09/11 23:22, Ross Gardler wrote: On 4 September 2011 22:37, Terry Ellisonte...@ellisons.org.uk wrote: On 04/09/11 22:13, Dave Fisher wrote: On Sep 4, 2011, at 11:13 AM, Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Terry Ellisonte...@ellisons.org.uk ... If several members of the

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-05 Thread Ross Gardler
On Monday, 5 September 2011, Terry Ellison te...@ellisons.org.uk wrote: On 04/09/11 23:22, Ross Gardler wrote: On 4 September 2011 22:37, Terry Ellisonte...@ellisons.org.uk wrote: On 04/09/11 22:13, Dave Fisher wrote: On Sep 4, 2011, at 11:13 AM, Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-05 Thread Daniel Shahaf
drew wrote on Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 14:12:49 -0400: On Sun, 2011-09-04 at 14:05 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Joe Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.com wrote: Being a member-based organization the ASF requires that all foundation activities be subject to member

threading Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-05 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Subject: Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers [ ... ] If you do not own the hardware, the domain name and the trademark, then you are operating at the pleasure of those who do own these things. That might feel like autonomy, but that is illusory

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-05 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Rob Weir wrote on Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 13:01:50 -0400: I think it would be good if they made up their mind soon. I thought we were close to the physical migration being completed. If the current volunteers are not on board with the Apache project, then we'll need to explore alternative

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Daniel Shahaf d...@daniel.shahaf.name wrote: Rob Weir wrote on Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 13:01:50 -0400: I think it would be good if they made up their mind soon.  I thought we were close to the physical migration being completed.  If the current volunteers are not

Re: threading Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-05 Thread Eike Rathke
Hi, On Monday, 2011-09-05 15:33:13 +0300, Daniel Shahaf wrote: Dennis, some of your recent replies (including the one I'm replying to) break threading (at least in Mutt), could you look into that please? That seems to be some general problem with MS Outlook Dennis uses that omits References

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-05 Thread Kazunari Hirano
Hi Rob and all, I would like to know about migration of the Japanese Community Forum, http://user.services.openoffice.org/ja/forum/; It has three admins. 1. DrewJensen 2. TerryE 3. khirano It has six global moderators 1. DrewJensen 2. foral 3. khirano 4. NakataMaho 5. parpy 6. TerryE As you

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-05 Thread Terry Ellison
There are views of the mentors which we need to weight heavily. There are the views of the PPMC members actually doing the work -- me and the 5 other PPMC members doing the work -- which as far as I understand also carry some weight, and then there are the views of other PPMC non-involved

Re: threading Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-05 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Eike Rathke wrote on Mon, Sep 05, 2011 at 16:35:32 +0200: Hi, On Monday, 2011-09-05 15:33:13 +0300, Daniel Shahaf wrote: Dennis, some of your recent replies (including the one I'm replying to) break threading (at least in Mutt), could you look into that please? That seems to be some

RE: threading Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-05 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
@incubator.apache.org Subject: threading Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers Dennis, some of your recent replies (including the one I'm replying to) break threading (at least in Mutt), could you look into that please? (The mails appear in the same thread

RE: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-05 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Subject: Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers drew wrote on Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 14:12:49 -0400: On Sun, 2011-09-04 at 14:05 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Joe Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.com wrote: Being a member-based

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 10:48 AM, Kazunari Hirano khir...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Rob and all, I would like to know about migration of the Japanese Community Forum, http://user.services.openoffice.org/ja/forum/; It has three admins. 1. DrewJensen 2. TerryE 3. khirano It has six global

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-05 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Mon, 5 Sep 2011 09:34:48 -0700 Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: snip Whether to move to deletion or simply expunge immediately might be a choice of the moderator. I do not know. In general, blatant spam posts, advertising sales sites, are immediately expunged. Sites

RE: threading Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-05 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
, September 05, 2011 09:35 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: RE: threading Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers Daniel, I don't generally have any way of knowing what does and does not influence threading. I don't have threading in my mail client

Re: threading Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-05 Thread Daniel Shahaf
: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamil...@acm.org] Sent: Monday, September 05, 2011 09:35 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: RE: threading Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers Daniel, I don't generally have any way of knowing what does and does

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-05 Thread Ross Gardler
On 5 September 2011 17:52, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: On Mon, 5 Sep 2011 09:34:48 -0700 Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: snip Whether to move to deletion or simply expunge immediately might be a choice of the moderator.  I do not know. In general, blatant spam

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-04 Thread Reizinger Zoltán
Hi Rob, As a Hu forum admin and not a native English speaker lot of time raised the forum question from beginning. I dissatisfied with your ignorant behavior to forums, you not want to make any steps to understand our questions. Not registered into forums, and not see into the discussions.

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-04 Thread Terry Ellison
On 04/09/11 15:15, Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 7:31 AM, Terry Ellisonte...@ellisons.org.uk wrote: A few days ago, I made the statement below and received a generally robust and unapologetic response. I don't want to rehash this again, but this tipped the balance for me and I

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-04 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Terry Ellison te...@ellisons.org.uk wrote: On 04/09/11 15:15, Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 7:31 AM, Terry Ellisonte...@ellisons.org.uk  wrote: A few days ago, I made the statement below and received a generally robust and unapologetic response.  I

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-04 Thread Simon Phipps
On Sep 4, 2011 3:45 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: I don't think discussions about how the project is run is something that we should be doing in private. Discussing such matters, even if strong opinions are raised, is the essence of transparency. Remember, controversial is not the

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-04 Thread Terry Ellison
Rob, the volunteers on the forums want to keep providing a service for all OOo end-users that they can take pride and dignity in. That's all. The debating style here can be robust and sometimes falls far below the standard that we expect participants to follow.

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-04 Thread Reizinger Zoltán
2011.09.04. 16:42 keltezéssel, Rob Weir írta: On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Reizinger Zoltánzreizin...@hdsnet.hu wrote: snip Why you think the volunteers and admins will join to this list, if you not makes any steps into the other directions? I'm assuming the volunteers and admins want

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-04 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: On Sep 4, 2011 3:45 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: I don't think discussions about how the project is run is something that we should be doing in private.  Discussing such matters, even if strong opinions are

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-04 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Sun, 4 Sep 2011 10:45:31 -0400 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: I don't think discussions about how the project is run is something that we should be doing in private. Discussing such matters, even if strong opinions are raised, is the essence of transparency. Remember, controversial

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-04 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: On Sun, 4 Sep 2011 10:45:31 -0400 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: I don't think discussions about how the project is run is something that we should be doing in private.  Discussing such matters, even if strong

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-04 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Sun, 4 Sep 2011 11:52:00 -0400 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Your information is incomplete then. Earlier in the thread Terry said that there were ongoing discussions in the private forum that paralleled this discussion. I assume you are aware of that thread? Such discusssions were

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-04 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Terry Ellison te...@ellisons.org.uk wrote: Rob, the volunteers on the forums want to keep providing a service for all OOo end-users that they can take pride and dignity in.  That's all.  The debating style here can be robust and sometimes falls far below the

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-04 Thread Simon Phipps
On Sep 4, 2011 5:14 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Another thing to note is that the existing forum volunteers do not own the support forums. They do not operate autonomously. Are you sure? I believe they do. S.

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-04 Thread Terry Ellison
On 04/09/11 17:22, Simon Phipps wrote: On Sep 4, 2011 5:14 PM, Rob Weirrobw...@apache.org wrote: Another thing to note is that the existing forum volunteers do not own the support forums. They do not operate autonomously. Are you sure? I believe they do. +1 to Simons view -1 to Rob.

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-04 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: On Sun, 4 Sep 2011 11:52:00 -0400 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Your information is incomplete then.  Earlier in the thread Terry said that there were ongoing discussions in the private forum that paralleled this

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-04 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Terry Ellison te...@ellisons.org.uk wrote: On 04/09/11 17:22, Simon Phipps wrote: On Sep 4, 2011 5:14 PM, Rob Weirrobw...@apache.org  wrote: Another thing to note is that the existing forum volunteers do not own the support forums.  They do not operate

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-04 Thread Terry Ellison
On 04/09/11 16:49, Rob Weir wrote: ... we are not discussing project operations on ooo-private. We use that list for voting in new committers and for exchanging confidential information, like the real email addresses of new committers. Almost any other attempted use of ooo-private has been

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-04 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Terry Ellison wrote on Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 18:09:15 +0100: On 04/09/11 16:49, Rob Weir wrote: ... we are not discussing project operations on ooo-private. We use that list for voting in new committers and for exchanging confidential information, like the real email addresses of new

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-04 Thread Terry Ellison
On 04/09/11 18:01, Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Terry Ellisonte...@ellisons.org.uk wrote: On 04/09/11 17:22, Simon Phipps wrote: On Sep 4, 2011 5:14 PM, Rob Weirrobw...@apache.orgwrote: Another thing to note is that the existing forum volunteers do not own the support

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-04 Thread Joe Schaefer
delay. From: Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Sent: Sunday, September 4, 2011 11:14 AM Subject: Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers On Sep 4, 2011 3:45 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-04 Thread Terry Ellison
On 04/09/11 18:15, Daniel Shahaf wrote: ... If the forums community doesn't want to become part of the ASF project then why has the PPMC asked infra to migrate the forums to ASF hardware? ... Because those of us who are engaged on the project thought that it's the best thing to do, and want

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-04 Thread Rob Weir
: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers On Sep 4, 2011 3:45 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: I don't think discussions about how the project is run is something that we should be doing in private.  Discussing such matters, even if strong opinions are raised

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-04 Thread drew
On Sun, 2011-09-04 at 14:05 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 1:36 PM, Joe Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.com wrote: Being a member-based organization the ASF requires that all foundation activities be subject to member scrutiny (with only a handful of operational exceptions).

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-04 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Terry Ellison te...@ellisons.org.uk wrote: On 04/09/11 18:36, Joe Schaefer wrote: Being a member-based organization the ASF requires that all foundation activities be subject to member scrutiny (with only a handful of operational exceptions). I would be

RE: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-04 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
, September 04, 2011 07:46 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Terry Ellison te...@ellisons.org.uk wrote: On 04/09/11 15:15, Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 7:31 AM, Terry

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-04 Thread Ross Gardler
On 4 September 2011 22:37, Terry Ellison te...@ellisons.org.uk wrote: On 04/09/11 22:13, Dave Fisher wrote: On Sep 4, 2011, at 11:13 AM, Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Terry Ellisonte...@ellisons.org.uk ... If several members of the PPMC are participating as forum

RE: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-04 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers [ ... ] If you do not own the hardware, the domain name and the trademark, then you are operating at the pleasure of those who do own these things. That might feel like autonomy, but that is illusory. If you want to see what autonomy looks

RE: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-04 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: On Sun, 4 Sep 2011 10:45:31 -0400 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: I don't think discussions about how

RE: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-04 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
and I'm betting that any ASF Member would be equally welcome. - Dennis -Original Message- From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2011 11:06 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-04 Thread Rob Weir
amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers Terry Ellison wrote on Sun, Sep 04, 2011 at 18:09:15 +0100: On 04/09/11 16:49, Rob Weir wrote: ... we are not discussing project operations on ooo-private.  We use that list for voting in new committers and for exchanging confidential