Hi Bernhard,
I asked about it in the gene...@incubator.apache.org mailing list, where
the proposal is being discussed, in the thread "OpenOffice and the ASF"
The answers I'm getting are promising. Unfortunately it appears to take
a short while before messages are visible in the mailing list archives,
so they cannot be read there yet.
In any case in Apache there are several prominent members who have never
committed a line of code, and it should be no problem to be recognized
for contribution that "does not have to be checked in".
So if you feel you are a significant contributor to OpenOffice.org in
any way you should be welcome to add your name in the table of initial
committers. I also recommend subscribing to gene...@incubator.apache.org.
Best regards
Simon
Please make sure that Apache Software Foundation gets notice about the
large area of non-coding community in our projects.
As far as I know, their meritocratic system is only based on code
contribution, so none of the other community members will be able to
become part of the OpenOffice Apache project or the Apache community,
if they don't change the way they handle contributions.
So if you start to be involved in their decision making process,
please describe them the broadness of our community.
While Rob Weir (IBM) seems to have an interest in dividing the
community in a Apache based coding community and a different
supporting one (outside Apache, no mention about their
infrastructure), I don't think that this should be the way to go.
The question of giving up LGPL for the Apache license might be a
marketing topic too:
As this would allow companies to just take the code and include their
patches in their own commercial product only, support of the common
code basis might be reduced in future.
... Especially as open source enthusiastic developers (mostly
independent or related to Linux distributions) have told us over and
over again that they feel exploited by such commercial interests
without getting something back...
Best regards
Bernhard
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