Allen Pulsifer wrote:
Critically, at this stage in the process, everyone has a "free pass" to get involved.
Hi Allen, I don't like free passes so much ...
Normally, once the project is up and running, you would have to demonstrate your merit before you can join the project. But for the next few days, while the project is in the proposal stage, the gates are wide open--anyone can join as an initial member.
Does that kinda imply the people who've already signed up may not have accumulated enough merit otherwise? ;)
So here is my suggestion: I propose the everyone here head over to the Apache Incubator and join the proposal as an initial member.
Since it's not even clear what code exactly is donated, and in what form, and whether at all the ASF would be able to release official binaries anytime soon - I'd personally rather be a bit more reluctant to sign my name under a proposal - that is in fact a blanket statement currently. Meanwhile, there's a lot of work to do over here - we've just released 3.4.0 (http://libreoffice.org/download), and 3.3.3 RC1 is uploading to the mirrors (look here for a non-mirrored preview: http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/pre-releases/). :)
That's it. It does not obligate you to make any code contributions, but it will get you in on the ground floor and allow you to participate in the direction of the project.
Ehh - Allen, that ground floor metaphor is an almost verbatim copy from IBM - you're not astroturfing here, are you? Cheers, -- Thorsten
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