I have now filed a new board report. I have done so, to give us time to
rethink
the report. I apologize for not having sought consensus on the new report,
but speed was essential, to stop a discussion on board@, I hope the
community
will support my action.
Just to avoid any misunderstanding, the PMC supported the old report, and
nobody
in the PMC has asked to withdraw the old report
This is a copy of the new report:
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Based on the reactions on this Mailing List, I as chair, have filed a press
conform report,
hoping the AOO community will support my action.
A new discussion is started on AOO dev@ to formulate a report, that has
consensus in
the AOO community (which the old one had) as well as satisfies the readers
of this mailing
list. I do not expect that discussion to be finalized in time for the board
meeting.
As Chair and member I would like to raise my concern, that this discussion,
which basically
ask me to void a public consensus discussion, takes place on a private
list, without the
participation of the AOO community.
Everybody who has an opinion on the content of the AOO board report, are
more than welcome,
to participate in the public discussion on dev@ but please stop discussing,
in a place where the
AOO community cannot participate.
committed board report:
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## Description:
Apache OpenOffice is an open-source, office-document productivity
suite providing six productivity applications based around the
OpenDocument Format (ODF). OpenOffice is released on multiple
platforms and in dozens of languages.
## Activity:
No new activity, not already covered in the jannuary report.
## Issues:
No urgent issues, not already reported.
## PMC/Committership changes:
- Currently 140 committers and 29 PMC members in the project.
- New PMC members:
- Jan Iversen was added to the PMC on Wed Feb 11 2015
- Mechtilde Stehmann was added to the PMC on Sat Jan 03 2015
- Dr. Michael Stehmann was added to the PMC on Sat Jan 03 2015
- Dennis E. Hamilton was added to the PMC on Fri Feb 13 2015
- Last committer addition was Tal Daniel at Tue Apr 29 2014
## Releases:
- Last release was 4.1.1 on Thu Aug 21 2014
## Mailing list activity:
- us...@openoffice.apache.org:
- 569 subscribers (down -16 in the last 3 months):
- 917 emails sent to list (866 in previous quarter)
- dev@openoffice.apache.org:
- 500 subscribers (up 0 in the last 3 months):
- 1377 emails sent to list (1195 in previous quarter)
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Now please let us have an open discussion about the content of the report,
and to me more importantly which signal we want to sent.
The old report was negative, but based on facts. My goal was to do a
wake-up call, instead of continuing the "no news is good news" we have been
using for quite a while.
Rgds
jan i.
