Re: OpenOffice.org Apache Incubator Proposal: Splitting the Community?

2011-06-02 Thread Thorsten Behrens
robert_w...@us.ibm.com wrote: > I'd like to challenge your assertion here, about "splitting the > community", a nonsensical meme I'm hearing repeated in several venues. > Hi Rob - well, are you happier then with "perpetuating the split"? As it doesn't fundamentally change the matter - this was a

Re: Code covered by the Oracle grant

2011-06-07 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Simon Brouwer wrote: > The real question is whether anything essential is missing that Oracle > can't supply and that is very difficult to replace. > If you re-read Christian's mail, the answer to both is "yes". And another remark: given the overall state of the code (~20 years of sedimentation),

Re: Code covered by the Oracle grant

2011-06-07 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Mathias Bauer wrote: > I don't think that this is really necessary *now*, as we can do that > even better and more efficiently when we actually work on the code > from the svn repository. It was promised that the needed files will > be provided once they are known. I'm confident that this will work

Re: [VOTE] Accept OpenOffice.org for incubation

2011-06-11 Thread Thorsten Behrens
-1 (non-binding) As stated elsewhere [1], this incubator, combined with the disruption and delay it's causing to the OOo ecosystem, does not add enough unique value to what we already have a TDF to justify the effort. (I'm referring to the existing proposal's mission statement [2], not to the (qu

Apache ODF Toolkit (retired) migration to TDF

2019-02-04 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Dear people, one of your committers (Michael Stahl, in Cc) last year asked to migrate the retired ODF Toolkit project over to the Document Foundation, which TDF would be happy to accept. Volunteers from various sides have helped moving stuff; a few things are though still left to do, thus this ma

Re: Apache ODF Toolkit (retired) migration to TDF

2019-02-06 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Hi Dave, Dave Fisher wrote: > Created https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-17810 > Thx a lot, seems the transfer is in flight. > > 2. adding a pointer from the ASF website > > https://incubator.apache.org/projects/odftoolkit.html to the new > > TDF website for the project, such that p

Re: Apache ODF Toolkit (retired) migration to TDF

2019-02-07 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Hi Daniel, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > Also, you might want to update the lists' autoresponders. > That would indeed be helpful - perhaps also with a pointer to odftoolkit.org. > What about this page: > > http://odftoolkit.incubator.apache.org/odftoolkit/index.mdtext > Dunno, is that prominently re