On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 14:27 -0400, Noel J. Bergman wrote:
> > Ultimately with a suite of 8+ million lines, packed with obscure features,
> > and thousands of lines of change a day it is fairly easy to slip things in,
> > to the potential detriment of other users of the code.
>
> Wait. How is an
Hi Sam,
On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 13:54 -0400, Sam Ruby wrote:
> The net of all of this is that there will need to be a substantial
> public aspect to this entire discussion. Yes, I will probably have
> some private discussions with ASF lawyers over time over this matter,
> but I can't see any way th
Hi Noel,
On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 13:13 -0400, Noel J. Bergman wrote:
> I heard about this, myself, in some specific detail very recently.
> I will leave disclosure to the relevant parties, but while it may
> or may not be an issue for you ...
I rest my case about FUD. It seems hard for me t
Hi Rob,
In the deluge of drivel I lost this gem in your response to
my scepticism about how quickly you could provide a binary release:
On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 10:31 -0400, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote:
> But one thing not to lose track of is that Symphony has done IP
> remediation at many
Hi Jim,
On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 16:14 -0400, Jim Jagielski wrote:
> certainly don't help. It just reinforces a perceived division
> as well as almost forcing the "other side" to take a defensive
> stance.
Hey ho; I see my name being taken intravenously ;-) so the longer quote
from a private
Hi Rob,
On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 21:26 -0400, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote:
> Finally, I think we're exaggerating the difficulty of getting out a
> release of OpenOfice. LibreOffice did it very quickly. And so did IBM
> with Symphony. This is not rocket science.
I am impressed by your
So,
On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 16:55 -0400, robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote:
> Questionable? If only 54 people have checked in code in the last 6
> months, then no amount of magic with source code indentation is going to
> get you to 400 developers. If you disagree, I'd like to see the magic you
> ca
Hi Ross,
On Thu, 2011-06-02 at 12:09 +0100, Ross Gardler wrote:
> However, I do have a binding vote here and therefore I have a
> couple of questions for you:
..
> Are the goals of the TDF the same as the goals of this proposal
> to the Apache Software Foundation.
I would say they are sim
