Re: [libreoffice-website] [Drupal] The road ahead and missed opportunities

2011-01-20 Thread Italo Vignoli
On 1/20/11 7:42 AM, Narayan Aras wrote: Immediately after taking over, Oracle made OOo upgradable. Oracle cares about this. We don't. Only the proprietary Oracle Open [space] Office is upgradable, not the community version. Oracle cares so much that has decided to rename the proprietary

RE: [libreoffice-website] [Drupal] The road ahead and missed opportunities

2011-01-20 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Narayan Aras wrote: And yet LibO requires full download for each version. Immediately after taking over, Oracle made OOo upgradable. Oracle cares about this. We don't. We pander to the contributors instead. How much time was devoted to making LibO upgradable with patches? For what is

Re: [libreoffice-website] [Drupal] The road ahead and missed opportunities

2011-01-20 Thread Florian Effenberger
Hugh, Charles Marcus has spoken. Folks, ever thought that for problems, often two sides are responsiblem two parties are involved? It's rather easy to blame juste one side... Charles Marcus wrote on 2011-01-18 19.52: If no one*from the SC* contacted Michael*directly* and took the time to

Re: [libreoffice-website] [Drupal] The road ahead and missed opportunities

2011-01-20 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-01-20 8:48 AM, Florian Effenberger wrote: Charles Marcus wrote on 2011-01-18 19.52: If no one*from the SC* contacted Michael*directly* and took the time to explain the situation to him, then*the SC dropped the ball*. If no one*from the SC* *knew* that Michael was putting so much

Re: [libreoffice-website] [Drupal] The road ahead and missed opportunities

2011-01-20 Thread Michael Wheatland
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 3:22 AM, Charles Marcus cmar...@media-brokers.com wrote: On 2011-01-20 8:48 AM, Florian Effenberger wrote: Charles Marcus wrote on 2011-01-18 19.52: If no one*from the SC*  contacted Michael*directly*  and took the time to explain the situation to him, then*the SC

Re: [libreoffice-website] [Drupal] The road ahead and missed opportunities

2011-01-20 Thread David Nelson
Hi Mike, all, :-) Regardless of any of this, I believe that the situation is very salvageable. I hope this will be done at the Conference call very soon. Yes, I think it will be good for us all to have a good talk, and look at everyone's ideas. I am absolutely certain that, if we all

Re: [libreoffice-website] [Drupal] The road ahead and missed opportunities

2011-01-19 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi gang, Narayan Aras wrote (19-01-11 10:22) The whole work was in accordance with SC's decision. Pls don't play the killed innocence here. There were enough mails that should have make you think. Best, Cor -- - giving openoffice.org its foundation :: The Document Foundation - --

RE: [libreoffice-website] [Drupal] The road ahead and missed opportunities

2011-01-19 Thread Narayan Aras
: Re: [libreoffice-website] [Drupal] The road ahead andmissed opportunities Hi gang, Narayan Aras wrote (19-01-11 10:22) The whole work was in accordance with SC's decision. Pls don't play the killed innocence here. There were enough mails that should have make you think

Re: [libreoffice-website] [Drupal] The road ahead and missed opportunities

2011-01-19 Thread Cor Nouws
: [libreoffice-website] [Drupal] The road ahead and missed opportunities Hi gang, Narayan Aras wrote (19-01-11 10:22) The whole work was in accordance with SC's decision. Pls don't play the killed innocence here. There were enough mails that should have make you think. Best, Cor -- - giving

Re: [libreoffice-website] [Drupal] The road ahead and missed opportunities

2011-01-19 Thread Italo Vignoli
First of all, thanks for taking the time to answer. On 01/19/2011 10:22 AM, Narayan Aras wrote: BTW I have consistently maintained that mail lists are not suitable to capture such matters. There are easy solutions available. But SC is not interested. So SC has to blame itself for (a) not

Re: [libreoffice-website] [Drupal] The road ahead and missed opportunities

2011-01-19 Thread Sophie Gautier
Hi Narayan, On 19/01/2011 19:58, Narayan Aras wrote: BTW I have consistently maintained that mail lists are not suitable to capture such matters. There are easy solutions available. But SC is not interested. So SC has to blame itself for (a) not reading the mail list. and (b) not installing

Re: [libreoffice-website] [Drupal] The road ahead and missed opportunities

2011-01-19 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-01-19 12:13 PM, Sophie Gautier wrote: Do I have to claim any time that I'm in the SC or that I'm a founding member no, because coming to this project, you know who we are, and how it is organized. When you enter to a home, you know who lives there, this is the same, exactly here.

Re: [libreoffice-website] [Drupal] The road ahead and missed opportunities

2011-01-19 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
2011/1/19 Charles Marcus cmar...@media-brokers.com On 2011-01-19 12:13 PM, Sophie Gautier wrote: Do I have to claim any time that I'm in the SC or that I'm a founding member no, because coming to this project, you know who we are, and how it is organized. When you enter to a home, you know

RE: [libreoffice-website] [Drupal] The road ahead and missed opportunities

2011-01-19 Thread Christoph Noack
19.01.2011, 14:52 +0530 schrieb Narayan Aras: Hi Italo, Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 13:13:55 +0100 From: italo.vign...@gmail.com To: website@libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-website] [Drupal] The road ahead and missed opportunities [...] BTW I have consistently maintained

RE: [libreoffice-website] [Drupal] The road ahead and missed opportunities

2011-01-19 Thread Narayan Aras
Good points (as always), Christoph! This is exactly what we expect from SC: Know the pulse of the community and guide any effort. Tailoring by SC is essential. I know I read the bare act from CMMI and PMBOK, but that's not how we should/would be applying it. Any corporate project and

RE: [libreoffice-website] [Drupal] The road ahead and missed opportunities

2011-01-18 Thread Narayan Aras
Hi Michael, The development site will remain online at www.libreofficeaustralia.com however it is likely that I will make the site read only until we determine the path forward for this development. So... The question is, where to now for the Drupal development? I think the main problem

RE: RE : RE: [libreoffice-website] [Drupal] The road ahead and missed opportunities

2011-01-18 Thread Narayan Aras
Dear Charles, Subject: RE : RE: [libreoffice-website] [Drupal] The road ahead and missed opportunities From: charles.sch...@documentfoundation.org To: website@libreoffice.org Dear Narayan, I would advise you read the minutes of the latest steerinh committee. Thanks, Charles

Re: [libreoffice-website] [Drupal] The road ahead and missed opportunities

2011-01-18 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Le Tue, 18 Jan 2011 12:16:08 +0100, Karl-Heinz Gödderz libreoff...@gukk-online.de a écrit : Narayan Aras schrieb: Dear Charles, Dear Narayan, I would advise you read the minutes of the latest steerinh committee. Thanks, Charles. snip The statement from

RE: [libreoffice-website] [Drupal] The road ahead and missed opportunities

2011-01-18 Thread Narayan Aras
Charles, Logically, I haven't seen any discussion at the mail list that can lead to this conclusion. Oh there were discussions on several mailing lists about that. And so were the discussions about the official status of the Drupal site as a long-term solution. Also, we identified

RE: [libreoffice-website] [Drupal] The road ahead and missed opportunities

2011-01-18 Thread Narayan Aras
Hi Charles, Else we would have left OOo because of a dictatorial behavior of Oracle, to get that behavior from the SC. (Out of the frying pan into the fire?) I don't see it that way. It's perhaps misleading to call a dictatorial behavior anything that does not suit your vision.

Re: [libreoffice-website] [Drupal] The road ahead and missed opportunities

2011-01-18 Thread Italo Vignoli
On 1/18/11 12:26 PM, Narayan Aras wrote: Then I volunteered to collect the stakeholders requirements. The 23 roles were identified on this very mail list. I have seen mentions of these 23 roles many times, but I have not seen a list where they are described in detail. It looks like they have

Re: [libreoffice-website] [Drupal] The road ahead and missed opportunities

2011-01-18 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Narayan, Le Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:34:53 +0530, Narayan Aras narayana...@hotmail.com a écrit : Hi Charles, Else we would have left OOo because of a dictatorial behavior of Oracle, to get that behavior from the SC. (Out of the frying pan into the fire?) I don't see it that

Re: [libreoffice-website] [Drupal] The road ahead and missed opportunities

2011-01-18 Thread David Nelson
Hi Narayan, Michael :-) If you read the various SC meeting minutes objectively, there was never any firm commitment to going over to Drupal. It was, in fact, an openness to re-consider the issue at a later date, and to evaluate a working site alongside specific statements and proof of the

Re: [libreoffice-website] [Drupal] The road ahead and missed opportunities

2011-01-18 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-01-18 7:13 AM, Italo Vignoli wrote: I think that the main fault of everyone in this specific domain of the web site (including SC members) was to overlook the web site problem and leave it unmanaged. I agree, although I would say *especially* the SC members... this is a *management*

Re: [libreoffice-website] [Drupal] The road ahead and missed opportunities

2011-01-18 Thread Italo Vignoli
On 1/18/11 5:20 PM, Charles Marcus wrote: And no, they - meaning the SC - absolutely cannot claim ignorance, Michael was discussing their progress on the lists for a long time. Someone from the SC should have taken him aside as soon as they saw what was happening. I am a SC member, and I have

Re: [libreoffice-website] [Drupal] The road ahead and missed opportunities

2011-01-18 Thread drew
On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 11:20 -0500, Charles Marcus wrote: On 2011-01-18 7:13 AM, Italo Vignoli wrote: I think that the main fault of everyone in this specific domain of the web site (including SC members) was to overlook the web site problem and leave it unmanaged. I agree, although I

Re: [libreoffice-website] [Drupal] The road ahead and missed opportunities

2011-01-18 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-01-18 12:01 PM, Italo Vignoli wrote: On 1/18/11 5:20 PM, Charles Marcus wrote: And no, they - meaning the SC - absolutely cannot claim ignorance, Michael was discussing their progress on the lists for a long time. Someone from the SC should have taken him aside as soon as they saw

Re: [libreoffice-website] [Drupal] The road ahead and missed opportunities

2011-01-18 Thread drew
On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 18:01 +0100, Italo Vignoli wrote: On 1/18/11 5:20 PM, Charles Marcus wrote: And no, they - meaning the SC - absolutely cannot claim ignorance, Michael was discussing their progress on the lists for a long time. Someone from the SC should have taken him aside as soon

Re: [libreoffice-website] [Drupal] The road ahead and missed opportunities

2011-01-18 Thread Stefan Weigel
Hi, Am 18.01.2011 17:20, schrieb Charles Marcus: And no, they - meaning the SC - absolutely cannot claim ignorance, Michael was discussing their progress on the lists for a long time. Maybe not members of the SC, but there are people that have been answering on the mailing lists from the very

Re: [libreoffice-website] [Drupal] The road ahead and missed opportunities

2011-01-18 Thread ol klaus-jürgen weghorn
Am 18.01.2011 19:40, schrieb Stefan Weigel: Hi, Am 18.01.2011 17:20, schrieb Charles Marcus: And no, they - meaning the SC - absolutely cannot claim ignorance, Michael was discussing their progress on the lists for a long time. Maybe not members of the SC, but there are people that have

Re: [libreoffice-website] [Drupal] The road ahead and missed opportunities

2011-01-18 Thread Charles Marcus
On 2011-01-18 1:40 PM, Stefan Weigel wrote: Am 18.01.2011 17:20, schrieb Charles Marcus: And no, they - meaning the SC - absolutely cannot claim ignorance, Michael was discussing their progress on the lists for a long time. Maybe not members of the SC, but there are people that have been

Re: [libreoffice-website] [Drupal] The road ahead and missed opportunities

2011-01-18 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Drew! Am Dienstag, den 18.01.2011, 12:16 -0500 schrieb drew: And no, they - meaning the SC - absolutely cannot claim ignorance, Michael was discussing their progress on the lists for a long time. Someone from the SC should have taken him aside as soon as they saw what was happening.

Re: [libreoffice-website] [Drupal] The road ahead and missed opportunities

2011-01-18 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Italo Vignoli wrote: I have seen mentions of these 23 roles many times, but I have not seen a list where they are described in detail. It looks like they have been developed without even asking the SC members - or the group of the founders - if this was the right approach. Since nobody

Re: [libreoffice-website] [Drupal] The road ahead and missed opportunities

2011-01-18 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Charles, Charles Marcus wrote (18-01-11 17:20) [...] The first thing I would like to see is an *apology* to Michael and the others for allowing them to *waste so much of their time* on a project the SC was never going to endorse in the first place. Since truth is always A

Re: [libreoffice-website] [Drupal] The road ahead and missed opportunities

2011-01-18 Thread klaus-jürgen weghorn ol
Hi Andrea, Am 18.01.2011 20:20, schrieb Andrea Pescetti: Italo Vignoli wrote: I have seen mentions of these 23 roles many times, but I have not seen a list where they are described in detail. It looks like they have been developed without even asking the SC members - or the group of the

Re: [libreoffice-website] [Drupal] The road ahead and missed opportunities

2011-01-18 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi Andrea, *, On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 8:20 PM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@openoffice.org wrote: Italo Vignoli wrote: [...] Since nobody provides the link (the one Klaus-Jürgen sent was not working for me... a problem at mail-archive.com, perhaps?), Could be a bug - I'll investigate and forward