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svn commit: r796961 -
/websites/staging/openofficeorg/trunk/content/openofficeorg/ppmc-faqs.html
Author: buildbot
Date: Wed Oct 12 16:44:22 2011
New Revision: 796961
Log:
Staging update by buildbot
Modified:
websites/staging/openofficeorg/trunk/content/openofficeorg/ppmc-faqs.html
Modified: websites/staging/openofficeorg/trunk/content/openofficeorg/ppmc-faqs.html
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--- websites/staging/openofficeorg/trunk/content/openofficeorg/ppmc-faqs.html (original)
+++ websites/staging/openofficeorg/trunk/content/openofficeorg/ppmc-faqs.html Wed Oct 12 16:44:22 2011
@@ -77,12 +77,35 @@
<div id="contenta">
<h1 class="title">PPMC FAQs</h1>
- <h2 id="what_is_the_ppmc">What is the PPMC?</h2>
+ <p>Here are a number of FAQ's about how the Apache OpenOffice project governance works.</p>
+<p><strong>Contents</strong></p>
+<div class="toc">
+<ul>
+<li><a href="#ppmc">What is the PPMC?</a></li>
+<li><a href="#moderator">Who is the Admin/Moderator/Owner for X?</a><ul>
+<li><a href="#mailing_lists">Mailing lists</a><ul>
+<li><a href="#blog">Blog</a></li>
+<li><a href="#bugzilla">Bugzilla</a></li>
+<li><a href="#svn">SVN</a></li>
+<li><a href="#confluence_wiki">Confluence Wiki</a></li>
+<li><a href="#mediawiki">MediaWiki.</a></li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li><a href="#participate">How to participate?</a><ul>
+<li><a href="#i_was_invitedvoted_as_committer_so_whats_next">I was invited/voted as committer, so whats next?</a></li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li><a href="#voting">How and when to vote?</a></li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<h1 id="ppmc">What is the PPMC?</h1>
<p>The Podling Project Management Committee (PPMC) is the government of the project. It
consists of ASF mentors and initial committers. The committee is responsible for the
project and decides what to do and which direction to go.
<br> (<a href="http://incubator.apache.org/guides/ppmc.html">see here for more information</a>)</p>
-<h2 id="who_is_the_adminmoderatorowner_for_x">Who is the Admin/Moderator/Owner for X?</h2>
+<h1 id="moderator">Who is the Admin/Moderator/Owner for X?</h1>
<p>Although Apache projects have few formal roles, there are some technical
subsystems which have admin or similar roles filled by project volunteers. If you
have a question with one of these systems, these are the people you might want to
@@ -115,13 +138,13 @@ rights, such as importing a dump file, <
<h3 id="mediawiki">MediaWiki.</h3>
<p>TJ Frazier has Administrator rights and can enable others. Email
him (on ooo-dev or privately) to activate an existing account, or set up a new one.</p>
-<h2 id="how_to_participate">How to participate?</h2>
+<h1 id="participate">How to participate?</h1>
<p>First of all you have to think how you want to participate as we have different kind
of roles like user, developer, committer. The easiest way is to use what we build as
user. If you want to improve parts of the software, or documentation, write to our
<a href="http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/mailing-lists.html">mailing lists</a> what should be modified and how it should be done. On the
<a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Wiki+Home">community wiki</a> you can just create an account and start to work on it right
-away.</p>
+away. There is a <a href="https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Help+Wanted">Help Wanted</a> page that has ideas for getting started.</p>
<p>The following are conditions to become a committer:</p>
<ol>
<li>You have sent in patches that were well-respected to improve the software.</li>
@@ -196,7 +219,7 @@ instructed.</p>
</li>
</ol>
<p>See the <a href="http://www.apache.org/dev/new-committers-guide.html">Guide for new committers</a> and the <a href="http://www.apache.org/dev/committers.html">Committers' FAQ</a> for more information.</p>
-<h2 id="how_and_when_to_vote">How and when to vote?</h2>
+<h1 id="voting">How and when to vote?</h1>
<p>Voting is done when a formal decision has to be made or due to legal reasons, e.g.,
to vote in new members as committers. In any case avoid voting as the normal way is
to come to a decision by discussions. The initiator is responsible for the vote,