So code is one thing. Open office does also come with quite a need for build farms, automated test and so on.
It would be good to understand this early - and understand wether this matters. I.e. Can normal development continue with the basics (svn, bug tracking, mailing lists, archives and a delivery CDN of released products) - or is it paramount that there is more on day one ? And secondly - is it crucial that such happens very near to the code ? Or can it happen at a distance ? E.g. at companies or at specific community focal points ? Apache is all over the board - some projects just test, tag and release source tarballs, others rely on volunteers (usually a mix of companies and individuals) to contribute compiled binaries while others actually use ASF hardware to build these*. While others almost completely rely on others to take their raw products and integrate it into products. Or is there currently in the OpenOffice world a distinct lack/loss of capability associated with this transition - and it would be important to ensure that that capability is part of the incubator proposal ? Do we know how much hardware that is ? And secondly - does this cover it - or are their subtle other bits of infrastructure (end user help/document servers, core/crash-dump receivers, special DNS setups, template servers or what not) which are needed too ? Is that documented sufficiently ? Dw. *: And yes - we're fine with that - in apache we're process oriented - and if the PMC has clear oversight of a well managed process to get zips and exe's 'released' - then they can use whatever appropriate magic.
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