Danese Cooper <dan...@gmail.com> wrote on 06/08/2011 09:31:24 PM: > From: Danese Cooper <dan...@gmail.com> > To: general@incubator.apache.org > Date: 06/08/2011 09:31 PM > Subject: Re: OpenOffice Proposal: Nominated Mentors > > Help me understand why the project would most benefit from that situation, > Don.
First off, I mean no dis-respect. Your track record with OO.o speaks for itself, in terms of the initial launch of OpenOffice.org. Thank You! (and Sun!!!) My suggestion, and that's all it is, was to seek a mentor for ASF who does *not* have your history, nor anyone's with that great legacy. Rather, the suggestion was to seek an Apache mentor with a fresh set of eyeballs, ears, and sensibilities wholly lacking in this great history. Who knows where someone like that would be able to influence the future direction of the project... > Mentors' main role is to help podling members learn the Apache Way so they > can graduate to TLP. This project enjoys a wealth of excellent mentors and > we happen to mostly be people who have worked successfully together at > Apache. With so many mentors, my thought was that it would be quite helpful > to have one that knows some history. > > Additionally, I am not currently and have no immediate plans to be in the > employ of any entity with a commercial interest in the outcome of this > project. I believe you may be confused on this point. > > I completely get it that this is a new chapter, and I am quite interested in > helping the podling succeed as an upstream source of OOo code to the entire > extended ecosystem. To that end, I would expect to help poding members > remember to be inclusive and transparent in their motives and actions. > > Danese > > > > Thanks Ross, much appreciated. The thought was that the project would most > > benefit > > from an Apache community development mentor with no past history with > > OpenOffice.org. > > The goal most seem to agree to is one of unification. So a 'Special > > Envoy', forgive the > > exaggerated metaphor, may be more effective. Danese has wonderful history, > > but this project > > is now moving forward re-born, in a sense. It deserves fresh leadership. > > IMHO.
