Re: [VOTE] Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation

2011-06-11 Thread Christoph Jopp
+1 Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation (non-binding) At first I thought beeing on the committers list would imply my approval of the proposal. But now I'd like to give the reasons for my vote as so many others did: (All just my point of view as an suburban inhabitant of the "old" OOo community

Re: Request: Can "proposed committers" introduce themselves?

2011-06-09 Thread Christoph Jopp
Am 09.06.2011 18:32, schrieb Manfred A. Reiter: > upps forgot ... > > reunification if somehow possible ... to be even stronger ;-) > ( please observe: in reunification we as germans have some experiences ;-) ) I hope it will not take 40 years ;-) > > 2011/6/9 Manfred A. Reiter : > [...] > >>

Re: Question to TDF and its community

2011-06-07 Thread Christoph Jopp
Am 07.06.2011 07:49, schrieb Christian Grobmeier: > ... > > With OOo the company was nasty and people went away and were happy. > The company wants the project at the ASF, and some people complain > now. I think it's far more complex and dates back very long. (see below) > After all I never reall

Re: Put myself on the initial committers list

2011-06-06 Thread Christoph Jopp
And not to forget: With Fernand Vanrie, we have aboard a still more experienced and more active extension developer. > > Hello Christoph, welcome aboard! > > I'm glad to see an extensions development expert with the project.I > remember reading many years ago, maybe 1990 or so in "Comput

Re: Put myself on the initial committers list

2011-06-06 Thread Christoph Jopp
Hello Rob, thank you very much for the warm welcome. Yes, I think the entry-level is far too high. Even experienced developers need much time to get started with their first extension. And besides "power users" needing a quick macro I also think of a second use case: Even a full featured office

Re: Put myself on the initial committers list

2011-06-06 Thread Christoph Jopp
Am 06.06.2011 15:01, schrieb Jim Jagielski: > > On Jun 6, 2011, at 7:57 AM, Christoph Jopp wrote: > >> Dear All, >> >> I put myself on the initial committers list because I want to help the >> Apache OpenOffice Project i

Put myself on the initial committers list

2011-06-06 Thread Christoph Jopp
Dear All, I put myself on the initial committers list because I want to help the Apache OpenOffice Project in some way I can. As nearly nobody should know my name, I'll introduce myself briefly: Since 2005 I tried to support OOo by helping on forums and mailing lists, writing and co-writing a nu