Re: [ANN] This list is migrating to [email protected]

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Newsgroups gmane.comp.openoffice.questions
Message-ID <[email protected]>
NoOp - [email protected] wrote:
> On 09/02/2011 05:49 PM, Rob Weir wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Larry Gusaas<[email protected]>  wrote:
>>> On 2011-09-02 6:16 PM  NoOp wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I wonder if the OP (Rob Weir) will reply to my questions, or if he
>>>> simply intends to be a 'hit&   run' poster (cross-poster) to this list...
>>>> After all, posting such an annoucement on this list (and cross-posting
>>>> [email protected]&   [email protected])
>>>> without sticking around to answer questions, explain, offer further
>>>> details, is IMO pretty rude. Is this what can be expected from
>>>> ooo-apache in the future?
>>>
>>> I wouldn't judge Apache by Rob Weir's actions. He is new to Apache and an
>>> IBM employee. The long time Apache people seem to be much more relaxed and
>>> easy going, at least from what I have seen since the Apache-ooo  started.
>>>
>>
>> Larry, if you wanted to be useful you might have mentioned to NoOpthat
>> we have been discussing enabling Gmane for
>> ooo-users.incubator.apache.org on the ooo-dev list, and that you
>> yourself have volunteered to set that up in a few days.
>>
>> And btw, I've been an Apache Committer since 1999.
>
> However...
>
> You post an annoucement on this list (over 5 hours ago) that this list
> will be shutting down - not a trivial post. I post questions regarding
> such about 2 hours later, and your only post since then is to chastise
> Larry?

Maybe part of the confusion here is that some posts seem to be taking a 
while to get through?

Yesterday I was wondering what this was all about - all I'd seen was 
some discussion about an announcement of this list closing, often 
quoting other messages I hadn't seen. The first I'd seen of Rob's 
original announcement was your quote below.

Today, the Rob's announcement came through along with about 25 other 
replies. One of those was your questions from 2 hours later - which I 
hadn't received until now (more than 24 hours after posting). Perhaps 
Rob hadn't received your original questions either?

...
> You pop in annoucing:
>
>> Please note that, as part of the overall migration to Apache, this
>> list will be closed.  Based on feedback received, including from
>> participants on this list, we've decided to create a users list at the
>> Apache OpenOffice.org project to serve as a continuation of
>> [email protected].
>>
>> You are invited to subscribe to the new list by sending an email to:
>> [email protected]
>>
>> That Apache list is live now.  Although [email protected] is not
>> going to disappear immediately, it will eventually be shut down.    So
>> you might want to finish the threads you are engaged in here, but try
>> to start new ones at [email protected].  We're talking
>> weeks, not months, before the migration completes.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> -Rob
>
> and don't respond to responses regarding your post (except to Larry's of
> course). Again: "Is this what can be expected from
> ooo-apache in the future?". Many users on this list may not even have a
> clue as to what 'incubator.apache.org' is, who /you/ are, and why this
> is all taking place.
>
> The users on this list went through several months of trauma regarding
> the transition from Sun to Oracle list changes (including bug
> reporting). Now you show up with this?

To be honest, I don't see why Apache can't continue using the existing 
infrastructure on openoffice.org? incubator.apache.org sounds, to me, 
like something which is in the early stages of development - which OOo 
certainly isn't! I know the page at 
http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/ explains otherwise, but if I 
were not already familiar with OOo I probably wouldn't even have read 
that far.

That page also states that "Incubation is required of all newly accepted 
projects until a further review indicates that the infrastructure, 
communications, and decision making process have stabilized in a manner 
consistent with other successful ASF projects."

Does this mean the infrastructure, mailing list addresses, etc. are 
going to change *again* once they have stabilized? If that's the case, 
why not use the existing infrastructure at openoffice.org until Apache 
are ready to roll out whatever new infrastructure they want to put in place?

Mark.

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