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From: "Dennis E. Hamilton" <dennis.hamilton@acm.org>
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Subject: RE: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins,
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Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2011 16:29:02 -0700
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As far as I know, we have no (moral, and probably not legal either) =
right to issue ultimatums to the folks participating on the =
OpenOffice.org forums.

I may have to keep repeating that until it sinks in.

 - Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Terry Ellison [mailto:Terry@ellisons.org.uk]=20
Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2011 10:34
To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators =
and volunteers

On 04/09/11 18:01, Rob Weir wrote:
> If the
> current volunteers are not on board with the Apache project, then
> we'll need to explore alternative approaches, such as:
>
> 1) Point users to http://www.oooforum.org/
>
> 2) Do support via mailing list only
>
> 3) Use forums, but find new volunteers
If these are your options, then perhaps we should put this to a formal=20
PPMC vote and inform the community of this -- if the outcome is as you=20
are proposin ing this ultimatum,  then you really are forcing them into=20
the revolt option.  Very unnecessary and regrettable, IMHO