On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 8:40 PM, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote: > Introduction: > > I'm a member of the OpenOffice Project Management Committee. Some time ago, > I pushed the creation of the recruitment@ mailing list, and offered to do > some mentoring of new volunteers. > > The good news is that, although now retired, I am a very experienced > developer. The bad news is that I am relatively new to OpenOffice > development. We will be learning its implementation together. > > There seems to be a critical mass of developers here, so I would like to > offer you a joint project. I'm asking each person to attack this from their > own point of view, using their own skills and resources. Whenever you find > out anything about the problem, please post it here. The hope is that your > combined skills will be even more effective than each of you could be > individually. > > Project: > > There is a difference between spreadsheet and text document behavior. The > text document behavior is the more desirable. The objective is to understand > why spreadsheets don't behave the same way, and fix it. > > OpenOffice supports embedded OLE document links. I created each of the > attached files by creating a new document and then inserting a link: > > Insert -> Object -> OLE Object > > In the dialog, pick "Create from file" radio button, enable "Link to file", > and select a text file. The one I used contained the text "This is the dummy > file on the Windows 10 computer", and the path to the file is > c:/OpenOfficeDev/test_files/dummy.txt. If you want to use a different path, > you should create your own test files. > > To see the different behavior, open each file on a computer that has a file > with the same path but different content. The text file original.odt asks if > you want to update links. If you select "yes" you will see the content on > the computer on which you are running, not the original text. The > spreadsheet original.ods does not - it just uses the copy of the original > text from original.ods. > > I would like to get the spreadsheet to go through the same dialog as the > text document. > > Resources: > > The key for developers getting started is the build instructions at > https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO/Step_by_step. > Even if you don't want to actually build, you can use it for getting access > to the source code. > > There is an index of the source code at > http://opengrok.adfinis-sygroup.org/source/ There may well be better tools > for doing the same job - feel free to post suggestions here. > > Some of the files contain German comments. There is a problem for those of > us who do not know German. The usual solution of pasting the text into an > on-line translator does not work well because of the style and jargon. > Fortunately, we have some people who are fluent in both German and English, > and a system for asking them to translate a specific module. If you are > familiar with Bugzilla, or want to learn it, see > https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=39199 If you prefer not to deal > with Bugzilla at this time, post the path to the file here and I'll request > translation. > > Of course, ask any questions here as well as posting any results you get.
LibreOffice has been translating those German comments as a multi-year effort and just recently they managed to complete the translation. For this purpose, the used the following script to identify if a comment is likely to be in German and flag it for manual translation, https://github.com/LibreOffice/core/blob/master/bin/find-german-comments It is a big task to deal with the comments, because a volunteer needs to be both fluent in German and know how to read C++ code. While code from LibreOffice cannot be transfered to AOO unless the author grants their permission, is that the same with comments? Simos
