Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread Ralph Goers
Multiple threads would be welcome. Ralph On Jun 1, 2011, at 10:25 PM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: > Dumb question. Are we obligated to converse like this, in a single email > thread, for the duration of the proposal review process? Is this an > organizing principle? Would I break anything

[jira] [Resolved] (INCUBATOR-114) Broken link in Apache Incubator webpage

2011-06-01 Thread Edward J. Yoon (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INCUBATOR-114?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Edward J. Yoon resolved INCUBATOR-114. -- Resolution: Fixed This issue is fixed. Thanks! > Broken link in Apache Incubator we

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread robert_weir
Dumb question. Are we obligated to converse like this, in a single email thread, for the duration of the proposal review process? Is this an organizing principle? Would I break anything if I created threads, perhaps prefixed in a consistent way, like "OpenOffice Proposal: Topic Foo"? -Rob

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

2011-06-01 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
On 2011-06-02, at 01:02 , robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: > Louis Suarez-Potts wrote on 06/01/2011 09:41:08 > PM: > >> >> * Apache Foundation owns the trademark to OOo? >> * We at OOo receive lots of requests to use it for mostly good >> purposes. We grant these, with minimal fuss and have set

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

2011-06-01 Thread robert_weir
Louis Suarez-Potts wrote on 06/01/2011 09:41:08 PM: > > * Apache Foundation owns the trademark to OOo? > * We at OOo receive lots of requests to use it for mostly good > purposes. We grant these, with minimal fuss and have set up systems > to do that more efficiently. With the change in trade

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread robert_weir
Ross Gardler wrote on 06/01/2011 06:03:09 PM: > >> > >> There are only two initial committers identified in the proposal. Why > >> only two for such a large codebase? > >> > > > > We could have put a much longer list of IBM names on this list, developers > > familiar with the code base via their

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread Greg Stein
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 22:52, wrote: >... > What am I missing here? > > According to the Incubation Policy [1]: > > "A Sponsor SHALL be either: > >    * the Board of the Apache Software Foundation; >    * a Top Level Project (TLP) within the Apache Software Foundation > (where the TLP considers t

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

2011-06-01 Thread Greg Stein
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 21:41, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: > > On 2011-06-01, at 20:18 , Ross Gardler wrote: > >> [cc'ing Italo and Louis hopefully they have joined the incubator list >> already, but just in case] > > Thanks. I actually have already joined it. > So, to the list: Wave of hand signify

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread robert_weir
"William A. Rowe Jr." wrote on 06/01/2011 03:01:50 PM: > > What is a more serious question, how many bug fixes would go into > LibreOffice without being offered to the ASF under the AL? LO has no > copyright assignment, so the principals of LO don't have the flexibility > to offer these to the

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/1/2011 1:24 PM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: > Ross Gardler wrote on 06/01/2011 12:21:23 PM: > >> There are only two initial committers identified in the proposal. Why >> only two for such a large codebase? > > We could have put a much longer list of IBM names on this list, developers >

Re: [VOTE] Release Whirr version 0.5.0-incubating (candidate 1)

2011-06-01 Thread Johan Oskarsson
+1 based on successfully starting a Cassandra cluster on EC2. /Johan On 30 maj 2011, at 22.23, Tom White wrote: > Please vote on the following release candidate for Apache Whirr, > version 0.5.0-incubating. We already received two binding IPMC +1 > votes for the PPMC release vote on whirr-dev. >

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread robert_weir
Jochen Wiedmann wrote on 06/01/2011 02:56:10 PM: > > > We could have put a much longer list of IBM names on this list, developers > > familiar with the code base via their work on Lotus Symphony (which is our > > OpenOffice based project). But then we could have been criticized for the > >

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread robert_weir
sa3r...@gmail.com wrote on 06/01/2011 10:36:39 PM: > > Hi all - > > > > I see that I'm listed as a sponsor. Can you please remove my name > and replace with someone else? I never agreed to sponsor this. > > I've removed your name. > What am I missing here? According to the Incubation Policy

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread robert_weir
Alexei Fedotov wrote on 06/01/2011 01:38:43 PM: > > OpenOffice is used in our product [1] we want to submit to the > incubator. We promised to show that we can gradually clean up LGPL > from the code and were working on that [2]. We'd have one less > head-ache with OO under Apache License (even

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread Sam Ruby
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 9:25 PM, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote: > Hi all - > > I see that I'm listed as a sponsor.  Can you please remove my name and > replace with someone else?  I never agreed to sponsor this. I've removed your name. - Sam Ruby -

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread robert_weir
Ross Gardler wrote on 06/01/2011 12:52:46 PM: > > I think it would be really good to have this goal in the proposal > itself, it is something concrete to point to from a community > development point of view. > Thanks, Ross. I've updated the "community" section of the proposal on the wiki

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

2011-06-01 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
On 2011-06-01, at 20:18 , Ross Gardler wrote: > [cc'ing Italo and Louis hopefully they have joined the incubator list > already, but just in case] Thanks. I actually have already joined it. So, to the list: Wave of hand signifying hello! And, again, delighted this is moving ahead transparent

Re: Rép : OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread Sam Ruby
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: > > We've reached out to the OO and LO communities, and have > the call out to all current OO/LO developers to join up > if they want... +1 - Sam Ruby - To unsubscribe, e-mai

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

2011-06-01 Thread Ross Gardler
[cc'ing Italo and Louis hopefully they have joined the incubator list already, but just in case] On 02/06/2011 01:01, Jim Jagielski wrote: More info re TDF and LOo - Forwarded message from Italo Vignoli - Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 23:16:53 +0200 From: Italo Vignoli Reply-To: italo.vign.

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

2011-06-01 Thread Jim Jagielski
More info re TDF and LOo - Forwarded message from Italo Vignoli - Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 23:16:53 +0200 From: Italo Vignoli Reply-To: italo.vign...@documentfoundation.org To: Jim Jagielski CC: Louis Suarez-Potts , Sam Ruby Subject: Re: OpenOffice and the ASF On 6/1/11 8:35 PM

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread Greg Stein
Ease up... people just lost the "to me" in your message. And others didn't see it in the quoted sections. It happens Cheers, -g On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 18:31, dsh wrote: > Again, > > "to me" means to me as in it's my personal opinion and nothing else. > How could I be somebody defining the r

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread dsh
Again, "to me" means to me as in it's my personal opinion and nothing else. How could I be somebody defining the rules? I suspect the rules are all documented anyway. So you did the interpretation of an opinion expressed by somebody else and of course if you treat that opinion as a requirement or

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread Ross Gardler
On 01/06/2011 22:26, Greg Stein wrote: On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 17:20, Benson Margulies wrote: On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: On 01/06/2011 19:51, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: dshwrote on 06/01/2011 02:16:58 PM: ... And is it generally held to be a criterion for

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread Ross Gardler
On 01/06/2011 19:24, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: Ross Gardler wrote on 06/01/2011 12:21:23 PM: There are only two initial committers identified in the proposal. Why only two for such a large codebase? We could have put a much longer list of IBM names on this list, developers familiar wit

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread dsh
Guys, "to me" means to me as in it's my personal opinion and nothing else. And that opinion of course still stands unchanged. I never wrote anything about requirements especially not in a sense of formal requirements. Cheers Daniel On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 11:30 PM, Benson Margulies wrote: > Greg

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread Benson Margulies
Greg, I'm happy to see more people throw tomatoes at the 'distro requirement'. At the quote depth at the time, I though I was just joining Ross in challenging that supposed requirement. --benson On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Greg Stein wrote: > On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 17:20, Benson Margulies

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread Greg Stein
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 17:20, Benson Margulies wrote: > On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: >> On 01/06/2011 19:51, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: >>> >>> dsh  wrote on 06/01/2011 02:16:58 PM: >> >> ... >> >>> And is it generally held to be a criterion >>> for a podling to graduate

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread Benson Margulies
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: > On 01/06/2011 19:51, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: >> >> dsh  wrote on 06/01/2011 02:16:58 PM: > > ... > >> And is it generally held to be a criterion >> for a podling to graduate or even initiate, that it first persuade all >> Linux distros to

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread Ross Gardler
On 01/06/2011 19:51, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: dsh wrote on 06/01/2011 02:16:58 PM: ... And is it generally held to be a criterion for a podling to graduate or even initiate, that it first persuade all Linux distros to include it We don't care where it is used or how it is used. What w

Re: Policy for BUILD and CHANGES files in podling releases

2011-06-01 Thread ant elder
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Robert Burrell Donkin wrote: > On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 3:57 AM, Eric Sammer wrote: >> Incubators: >> >> I can't find an appropriate policy on the licensing requirements of >> ancillary files like BUILD or CHANGES files that are commonly distributed >> with releases.

Re: Rép : OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jun 1, 2011, at 3:27 PM, Greg Stein wrote: > On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 15:04, eric b wrote: >> Hi, >> >> First, apologies for the new thread, due to my late arrival on this list. >> >> As developer for OpenOffice.org since 2005, and having some knowledge in OOo >> source code, I'm interested t

Re: Rép : OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread Greg Stein
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 15:04, eric b wrote: > Hi, > > First, apologies for the new thread, due to my late arrival on this list. > > As developer for OpenOffice.org since 2005, and having some knowledge in OOo > source code, I'm interested to contribute to the new OpenOffice.org (as > dev). > > Whe

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread Greg Stein
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 14:56, Jochen Wiedmann wrote: > On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 8:24 PM,   wrote: > >> We could have put a much longer list of IBM names on this list, developers >> familiar with the code base via their work on Lotus Symphony (which is our >> OpenOffice based project).  But then we c

Fwd: OpenOffice and the ASF

2011-06-01 Thread Jim Jagielski
FYI: Begin forwarded message: > From: Louis Suarez-Potts > Date: June 1, 2011 2:58:02 PM EDT > To: Jim Jagielski > Cc: Louis Suarez-Potts , Italo Vignoli > , Sam Ruby > Subject: Re: OpenOffice and the ASF > message-id: > > For me, yes, share. And I quite agree that more is better and transp

Fwd: OpenOffice and the ASF

2011-06-01 Thread Jim Jagielski
Begin forwarded message: > From: Jim Jagielski > Date: June 1, 2011 2:33:15 PM EDT > To: Louis Suarez-Potts > Cc: Italo Vignoli , Sam Ruby > > Subject: Re: OpenOffice and the ASF > message-id: > > > On Jun 1, 2011, at 2:18 PM, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: > >> >> I don't have (yet) an agen

Rép : OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread eric b
Hi, First, apologies for the new thread, due to my late arrival on this list. As developer for OpenOffice.org since 2005, and having some knowledge in OOo source code, I'm interested to contribute to the new OpenOffice.org (as dev). Where are the essential links to start ? e.g. I create

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/1/2011 1:16 PM, dsh wrote: > To me the proof point whether this proposal will be successful or not > is whether Linux distributions having already dropped support for > OpenOffice and switched to LibreOffice instead would be willing to > reverse that decision and move back to OpenOffice again

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 8:24 PM, wrote: > We could have put a much longer list of IBM names on this list, developers > familiar with the code base via their work on Lotus Symphony (which is our > OpenOffice based project).  But then we could have been criticized for the > proposal being too domin

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread robert_weir
dsh wrote on 06/01/2011 02:16:58 PM: > > To me the proof point whether this proposal will be successful or not > is whether Linux distributions having already dropped support for > OpenOffice and switched to LibreOffice instead would be willing to > reverse that decision and move back to OpenOff

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread robert_weir
Ross Gardler wrote on 06/01/2011 12:21:23 PM: > > There are only two initial committers identified in the proposal. Why > only two for such a large codebase? > We could have put a much longer list of IBM names on this list, developers familiar with the code base via their work on Lotus Symph

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread robert_weir
Nick Burch wrote on 06/01/2011 01:48:49 PM: > > Speaking personally, I would be interested in seeing how ODF Toolkit could > fit within the POI project. We already have a number of components, and > interfaces that try to smooth over the differences between the different > formats underneat

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread dsh
To me the proof point whether this proposal will be successful or not is whether Linux distributions having already dropped support for OpenOffice and switched to LibreOffice instead would be willing to reverse that decision and move back to OpenOffice again now that it is in a process to be propos

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/1/2011 12:48 PM, Nick Burch wrote: > > This would possibly warrant a seperate discussion though, especially if the > codebase were > to be destined for POI rather than a new TLP. And note, this is a decision that can be made *during* incubation, with POI folks participating on the incubatin

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread Jochen Wiedmann
I view this proposal very critical. IMO, OpenOffice@Apache would be a dead end: - There is an existing community over at LibreOffice. So what good does it, to build a second community here? - The afore mentioned community was built exactly, because the initiators of the current proposal have been

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread Nick Burch
On Wed, 1 Jun 2011, Luke Kowalski wrote: The following project is being sent in as an incubator candidate. As there are likely quite a few people new to Apache interested in and coming with this proposal, I thought I should send a quick note pointing out some community releated resources and

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jun 1, 2011, at 1:13 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: > > For sure, we need to add people. I expect that we will get > quite a bunch interested. After all, this was all kept > hush-hush. Now that the cat is out of the bag, we will for > sure see that list grow. > FWIW, I have contacted the 2 main pe

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread Nick Burch
On Wed, 1 Jun 2011, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: That would be great. There is also another project (or set of projects) that IBM and Sun/Oracle have worked on over the past few years, called the :ODF Toolkit". For example, this component was just released today: http://odftoolkit.org/projects

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread Alexei Fedotov
OpenOffice is used in our product [1] we want to submit to the incubator. We promised to show that we can gradually clean up LGPL from the code and were working on that [2]. We'd have one less head-ache with OO under Apache License (even if we don't statically linking it, GPL does not define linkin

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jun 1, 2011, at 12:41 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: > On 01/06/2011 17:28, Jim Jagielski wrote: >> >> On Jun 1, 2011, at 12:21 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: >> >>> >>> There is a statement that "Oracle will assist in the transition and >>> migration from OpenOffice.org.", I am probably reading too muc

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 7:56 PM, Greg Trasuk wrote: > We're working on it (River, that is)! I know, and (having been one of the key mentors) I couldn't be happier about that! What I'm trying to bring up are lessons learned from the troubles that River had to go through. Let's make sure OpenO

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread Mohammad Nour El-Din
Sorry :D On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 6:52 PM, Christian Grobmeier wrote: > On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Mohammad Nour El-Din > wrote: >> Here you are ;) [1]. >> >> [1] - http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenOfficeProposal > > hey I was just about to enter it - my phone prevented me to submit. > >

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread Greg Trasuk
We're working on it (River, that is)! Cheers, Greg. On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 12:49, Jukka Zitting wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: > > On Jun 1, 2011, at 12:21 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: > >> There is a statement that "Oracle will assist in the transition and

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread Benson Margulies
>> Hopefully more will show up. As with other podlings, we're usually >> quite liberal with adding people onto the "Initial Committers" list. > > I see, so the community development starts now. Good. I hope we see plenty > of LibreOffice people stepping up to be named. If they do step up will they

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 6/1/2011 11:33 AM, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: > > That would be great. There is also another project (or set of projects) > that IBM and Sun/Oracle have worked on over the past few years, called the > :ODF Toolkit". For example, this component was just released today: > http://odftoolk

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread Ross Gardler
On 01/06/2011 17:33, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: Jukka Zitting wrote on 06/01/2011 12:13:09 PM: Community OpenOffice.org. seeks to further encourage developer and user communities during incubation, beyond the existing developers currently working on the project. Any thoughts on

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread Christian Grobmeier
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Mohammad Nour El-Din wrote: > Here you are ;) [1]. > > [1] - http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenOfficeProposal hey I was just about to enter it - my phone prevented me to submit. > > On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 6:23 PM, Greg Stein wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread Richard Frovarp
On 06/01/2011 11:45 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: On 01/06/2011 17:29, Greg Stein wrote: On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 12:21, Ross Gardler wrote: Thanks for this exciting proposal. I have a few questions. There are only two initial committers identified in the proposal. Why only two for such a large codeba

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread Greg Stein
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 12:34, Luke Kowalski wrote: > we were instructed to send the proposal to an email address. > Should we go and hack at the wiki now? No issues, either way. Thanks for the offer, but we're all good. The proposal came through just fine. Cheers, -g ---

Re: [PROPOSAL] Sqoop Project

2011-06-01 Thread Mohammad Nour El-Din
Thanks a lot Arvind On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 6:43 PM, arv...@cloudera.com wrote: > Hi Mohammad, > > Thanks for your offer to step in as a mentor. I have added you to the list > of nominated mentors on the proposal. > > Thanks and Regards, > Arvind Prabhakar > > On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 7:19 AM, Moham

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: > On Jun 1, 2011, at 12:21 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: >> There is a statement that "Oracle will assist in the transition and migration >> from OpenOffice.org.", I am probably reading too much into it, but why is >> there not a statement that O

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread Mohammad Nour El-Din
Here you are ;) [1]. [1] - http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenOfficeProposal On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 6:23 PM, Greg Stein wrote: > On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 12:12, Christian Grobmeier wrote: don't know if OpenOffice is an exception, but usually Proposals are done >>> here: http://wiki.ap

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread Ross Gardler
On 01/06/2011 17:29, Greg Stein wrote: On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 12:21, Ross Gardler wrote: Thanks for this exciting proposal. I have a few questions. There are only two initial committers identified in the proposal. Why only two for such a large codebase? Hopefully more will show up. As with o

Re: [PROPOSAL] Sqoop Project

2011-06-01 Thread arv...@cloudera.com
Hi Mohammad, Thanks for your offer to step in as a mentor. I have added you to the list of nominated mentors on the proposal. Thanks and Regards, Arvind Prabhakar On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 7:19 AM, Mohammad Nour El-Din < nour.moham...@gmail.com> wrote: > +1 on the proposal > > Sound like a very go

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread Ross Gardler
On 01/06/2011 17:28, Jim Jagielski wrote: On Jun 1, 2011, at 12:21 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: There is a statement that "Oracle will assist in the transition and migration from OpenOffice.org.", I am probably reading too much into it, but why is there not a statement that Oracle intend to cont

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread robert_weir
Jukka Zitting wrote on 06/01/2011 12:13:09 PM: > > > Community > > > > OpenOffice.org. seeks to further encourage developer and user communities > > during incubation, beyond the existing developers currently working on the > > project. > > Any thoughts on how (or if) the LibreOffice commun

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread Benson Margulies
> There are only two initial committers identified in the proposal. Why only > two for such a large codebase? > Not only is it a very large code base, it was a weakly maintained and documented code base for quite some time before the Sun->Oracle->LO-Split/Splat process. We generally expect Apache

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread Greg Stein
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 12:21, Ross Gardler wrote: > Thanks for this exciting proposal. I have a few questions. > > There are only two initial committers identified in the proposal. Why only > two for such a large codebase? Hopefully more will show up. As with other podlings, we're usually quite l

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread Jim Jagielski
On Jun 1, 2011, at 12:21 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: > > There is a statement that "Oracle will assist in the transition and migration > from OpenOffice.org.", I am probably reading too much into it, but why is > there not a statement that Oracle intend to continue development once the > transiti

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread Greg Stein
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 12:12, Christian Grobmeier wrote: >>> don't know if OpenOffice is an exception, but usually Proposals are done >> here: >>> http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/ >> >> There is no requirement to use the Wiki. I've attached the text of the .ODT >> file in the message below. > > T

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread Ross Gardler
Thanks for this exciting proposal. I have a few questions. There are only two initial committers identified in the proposal. Why only two for such a large codebase? It's going to be very hard for two committers to manage and maintain this code. The proposal states "Both Oracle and ASF agree

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread Jukka Zitting
Hi, On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Greg Stein wrote: > OpenOffice.org will be contributed to Apache Software Foundation by Oracle > Corporation in compliance with ASF licensing and governance. Nice! >  Community > >  OpenOffice.org. seeks to further encourage developer and user communities > d

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread Christian Grobmeier
>> don't know if OpenOffice is an exception, but usually Proposals are done > here: >> http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/ > > There is no requirement to use the Wiki. I've attached the text of the .ODT > file in the message below. Thanks Greg. ...but it helps developing the proposal. Guess we can

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread Stefan Seelmann
Oops, the attachment was opened with LibreOffice here. Sorry, can't resist. On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Luke Kowalski wrote: > The following project is being sent in as an incubator candidate. > > regards > luke > > > > - > T

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread Greg Stein
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 11:57, Christian Grobmeier wrote: > Hello Luke, > > don't know if OpenOffice is an exception, but usually Proposals are done here: > http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/ There is no requirement to use the Wiki. I've attached the text of the .ODT file in the message below. Abs

Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread Christian Grobmeier
Hello Luke, don't know if OpenOffice is an exception, but usually Proposals are done here: http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/ Best regards, Christian On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Luke Kowalski wrote: > The following project is being sent in as an incubator candidate. > > regards > luke > > >

OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal

2011-06-01 Thread Luke Kowalski
The following project is being sent in as an incubator candidate. regards luke Apache OpenOffice.org proposal_june12011.odt Description: application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text - To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@in

Re: [PROPOSAL] Sqoop Project

2011-06-01 Thread Mohammad Nour El-Din
+1 on the proposal Sound like a very good and project. Also I am interested to be a mentor if you would like to have another one and if thats possible :). On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Phillip Rhodes wrote: > On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 2:40 PM, arv...@cloudera.com > wrote: > >> Greetings All, >

Re: Policy for BUILD and CHANGES files in podling releases

2011-06-01 Thread Robert Burrell Donkin
On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 3:57 AM, Eric Sammer wrote: > Incubators: > > I can't find an appropriate policy on the licensing requirements of > ancillary files like BUILD or CHANGES files that are commonly distributed > with releases. I'm specifically looking at the somewhat vague and confusing > http:

Re: [PROPOSAL] Flume for the Apache Incubator

2011-06-01 Thread Edward J. Yoon
Cool, nice to see this project. +1 (non-binding) On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:18 PM, Jonathan Hsieh wrote: > Howdy! > > I would like to propose Flume to be an Apache Incubator project.  Flume is a > distributed, reliable, and available system for efficiently collecting, > aggregating, and moving l

[RESULT][VOTE] Release Hama 0.2-incubating RC4

2011-06-01 Thread Edward J. Yoon
Then, this vote passes as follows: +1 Stefan Seelmann* +1 Eric Charles +1 Tommaso Teofili* +1 Steve Loughran* Thanks for voting! I'll push the release out. Thanks. On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 12:03 AM, Stefan Seelmann wrote: > Hi, > > I think you already have a 3rd binding vote from Steve Lough

[jira] [Commented] (INCUBATOR-114) Broken link in Apache Incubator webpage

2011-06-01 Thread Mohammad Nour (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INCUBATOR-114?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13042064#comment-13042064 ] Mohammad Nour commented on INCUBATOR-114: - Thank you sir :) > Broken link in A

[jira] [Commented] (INCUBATOR-114) Broken link in Apache Incubator webpage

2011-06-01 Thread Edward J. Yoon (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INCUBATOR-114?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13042058#comment-13042058 ] Edward J. Yoon commented on INCUBATOR-114: -- yes sir. > Broken link in Apache

Re: watching the commit profile

2011-06-01 Thread Mohammad Nour El-Din
Yeah I know :), but I thought we will see more info. when signed in :D. Stupid me :P. On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: > Hi, > > On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Mohammad Nour El-Din > wrote: >> ...  There is no sign-up for this service, it only shows sign-in. Also I >

[jira] [Commented] (INCUBATOR-114) Broken link in Apache Incubator webpage

2011-06-01 Thread Mohammad Nour (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INCUBATOR-114?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13042051#comment-13042051 ] Mohammad Nour commented on INCUBATOR-114: - - Fixed. - But I don't have any priv

Re: [VOTE][RESULT] Release ace version 0.8.0-incubator and related subprojects

2011-06-01 Thread Karl Pauls
The 72 hours lazy consensus for the IPMC are up and we did get one more +1 from Mohammad Nour El-Din** and no other votes. The vote is successful and approved. I will make the artifacts available asap. regards, Karl On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 10:48 PM, Karl Pauls wrote: > Time to call the vote on

Re: [jira] [Commented] (INCUBATOR-114) Broken link in Apache Incubator webpage

2011-06-01 Thread Mohammad Nour El-Din
I am going to fix it now On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Edward J. Yoon (JIRA) wrote: > >    [ > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INCUBATOR-114?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13042045#comment-13042045 > ] > > Edward J. Yoon commented

Re: Podling "publicity" guidelines and release announcements

2011-06-01 Thread Mohammad Nour El-Din
Well I guess they are related to each other after all, but IMHO there is a very slight difference between them. AFAIU the PRC regulations that they are afraid of any misleading publicity or obligations that might outcome from incorrect publicity activity more specifically if this kind of publicity

[jira] [Commented] (INCUBATOR-114) Broken link in Apache Incubator webpage

2011-06-01 Thread Edward J. Yoon (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INCUBATOR-114?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13042045#comment-13042045 ] Edward J. Yoon commented on INCUBATOR-114: -- oh, it's a release#maven part : h

[jira] [Commented] (INCUBATOR-114) Broken link in Apache Incubator webpage

2011-06-01 Thread Upayavira (JIRA)
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INCUBATOR-114?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13042042#comment-13042042 ] Upayavira commented on INCUBATOR-114: - you don't say on which page this link appear

Re: Podling "publicity" guidelines and release announcements

2011-06-01 Thread Upayavira
Also, distinguish between 'press' activity and just trying to get more devs on board. You need to tell people about your project if you want it to grow, but that is a different business to seeking 'publicity'. Make sense? Upayavira On Tue, 31 May 2011 18:13 -0700, "Joe Schaefer" wrote: > > >

Re: watching the commit profile

2011-06-01 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Hi, On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Mohammad Nour El-Din wrote: > ...  There is no sign-up for this service, it only shows sign-in. Also I > can see that you can sign-in with your google account. But is it > configured to sign-in with our Apache account ?... http://svnsearch.org/svnsearch/repos

[jira] [Created] (INCUBATOR-114) Broken link in Apache Incubator webpage

2011-06-01 Thread Edward J. Yoon (JIRA)
Broken link in Apache Incubator webpage --- Key: INCUBATOR-114 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INCUBATOR-114 Project: Incubator Issue Type: Bug Components: site Reporter: E