Re: Introduction
Hi Carl, Thank you. I emailed the dev@ for an account but am looking at the Wiki pages now. Best, Jungi On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 4:16 AM Carl Marcum wrote: > > > On 4/30/20 1:08 PM, Jungi Hong wrote: > > Hi, > > > > My name is Jungi and I'm interested in volunteering with Open Office. I'm > > interested in learning how to write documentation and I can also help > with > > tutorials and Youtube videos. > > > > Best, > > > > Jungi Hong > > > > Hi Jungi, > > Welcome!! > > Please let us know if need help with anything. > > If you haven't yet you can see the contributing page [1]. > > And signup for any other mailing lists you might be interested it [2]. > If you don't get a reply on a list like doc@ you can always try the dev@ > list. > > [1] https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Contribute > [2] https://openoffice.apache.org/mailing-lists.html > > Best regards, > Carl > >
Re: introduction
Welcome to Apache OpenOffice, How do you want to help? We could use help with translations, Documentation, creating tutorials or youtube videos, building and testing, bugresearch or programming. Different skills are needed for the topics. What sounds interesting to you? All the best Peter Am 28.03.20 um 08:34 schrieb Juli Lunnas: Hello, I am from Finland and I would like to partisipate in helping better Open Office. G. Juli Lunnas Lähetetty Windows 10:n Sähköpostista
Welcome, how we work, what you can do (was: Re: Introduction)
Hi Chris, and all others who are interested, welcome to Apache OpenOffice. Despite what you can read, we are basically anarchistic organized. Which means: No one is gonna tell you what to do. It is up to you. To be honest this is the biggest obstacle to volunteers interested in joining OpenOffice. To help people to find their ways we try to help to the best of our abilities. We communicate mainly over @dev mailing list. So feel free to ask and talk your way through. you can search the list for answers at [0] We have created a list of generic fields you can get active in link [1]. We have also a lot written to cwiki [1] or mwiki (architecture page) [2]. What else. I am trying an "Epic" List at [3], trying to cluster Bugs, hoping to create a plan how to solve multiple bugs in a workflow. Our official bug tracker is Bugzilla [4]. You can offer code via github [5]. We accept pull request there, to make it simple for code contributors. So have you already looked at the code? What do you think of the architecture? What Ideology do you follow? Clean Architecture from Uncle Bob? Would you stick to C / C++ or rather move OpenOffice to Java or rust? or what are your thoughts how should OpenOffice evolve? All the Best Peter [0] https://lists.apache.org/list.html?d...@openoffice.apache.org [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Help+Wanted [2] https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Architecture [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?projectKey=OPENOFFICE=301 [4] https://bz.apache.org/ooo/ [5] https://github.com/apache/openoffice/pulls On 03.09.19 15:37, Chris Vardy wrote: > Hi there, > > I am a contract solutions architect (aka freelancer) from the UK and I'm > interested in contributing to OpenOffice. > > I have a background in software development in C, C++ etc. primarily on > Windows and more recently Linux. However development is no longer my main > professional activity; architecture and design is. > > I work in the enterprise space i.e. on corporate business solutions and > have worked for Microsoft, Cap Gemini, IBM. > > My drivers are twofold; firstly keeping up with my development skills and > secondly giving back to the OSS community (I have been a user and advocate > for many years now). > > Many thanks. > > Kind regards, > Chris. >
Re: Introduction
C# AOO-kernel Sufilcillin 2019-09-03 15:37 GMT+02:00, Chris Vardy : > Hi there, > > I am a contract solutions architect (aka freelancer) from the UK and I'm > interested in contributing to OpenOffice. > > I have a background in software development in C, C++ etc. primarily on > Windows and more recently Linux. However development is no longer my main > professional activity; architecture and design is. > > I work in the enterprise space i.e. on corporate business solutions and > have worked for Microsoft, Cap Gemini, IBM. > > My drivers are twofold; firstly keeping up with my development skills and > secondly giving back to the OSS community (I have been a user and advocate > for many years now). > > Many thanks. > > Kind regards, > Chris. > -- OrG value? fuck.classList 1 Ostpreußen-russe-Gakushūjo capraso FE-College Darth Vader () ; (i) (i) 0 iOS 3 @RSS codeproject.com _TZ _tz Firefox OS 1 FFOS Fxos ;
Re: Introduction step 1
QxD 2019-04-26 6:39 GMT+02:00, Danny Cortez : > Hello, > > I am a forth year computer science student @ the University of Manitoba and > have a passion for c++. > I am in need of some additional experience and would love to help. I am open > to help anyway. > > I will send a note when I reach step 10 :) > > Dan > -- OrG
Re: Introduction
sorry for the late answer. I missed your mail. Welcome to OpenOffice. Best way to start with OpenOffice is to learn do your own builds and be persistent. There is no shame in asking questions. Even the experienced devs here have to ask around. You find a general guide here: https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO specific guide: https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO/Step_by_step How to setup eclipse: https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/OpenOffice_and_Eclipse I try to organize tasks on Jira: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?projectKey=OPENOFFICE=301 you can of course help to maintain Bugzilla. We get frequent reports, and have to look at old ones if they still are accurate. https://bz.apache.org/ooo/ Also you can try and write hints on bugs can be solved. Maybe a hint where to look can already help that a solution can be found. Or help update the documentation on Programming. We have some stuff here: https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Category:Development Hope this gives you enough hints and connects to choose how you contribute to the project. All actions even learning to build is very usefull for us. All the best Peter On 31.12.18 21:58, Gavriel Yadgarov wrote: > Hello, > > My name is Gavriel and I'm a 3rd year student (B.Sc. Computer Engineering). > > I'm knowledgeable in Java from University courses and mini-projects, but am > now learning C++. > > I'd looking for a C++ project which I can contribute to and learn from. > > Usually I have 2-3 hours a day to dedicate. > > I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! > > Best regards, > Gavriel Yadgarov >
Re: Introduction of: R J Wahl
The bugzilla link: https://bz.apache.org/ooo/ We are like 6 Developers. If you subscribe to Dev and say what you are working on it I think it is fine. However Once you have an User Account you can assign Issues to you, signaling that you are working on them. Best is to leave the issues Mailing list in CC, so QA and other devs can follow. Once you have a patch you upload it to bugzilla. If you determind enough to gain commiter status you can directly submit to our SVN repository. (Please keep in mind that we might want to discuss a switch to git. We have to take up the discussion on @dev mailinglist. OFC your opinion is then also to be heared so subscribe to the @dev list) The Revision number is then postet into the bugzilla to document the commit. you might be also interested in looking at this page for searching through the code: http://opengrok.adfinis-sygroup.org/source/ All the best Peter Am Montag, den 23.10.2017, 10:48 + schrieb David Larson: > I personally prefer Kanban and Scrum like teams to being in work > Hierarchy. The only thing Hierarchy makes sense to me is to control > the money and the expected result being paid for. I usually avoid > being part of Hierarchy as I don't see it as being productive for new > ideas. Suggestion: Put a useful link in your email when you refer to > something like Bugzilla tracking. How do you tell how many people > are working on the same task and what they are doing? If we were to > use a Kanban board, it would need a timeout for any volunteers that > don't report in to facilitate new volunteers taking over a task. > > > Data: I have been looking at Hadoop recently and have used > Python. R will come later. My personal approach to data of any > size so far involves a pseudo AI mindset I label as Instinct along > with dividing and conquering the data from different perspectives > until I like what I see. > > > I will be getting up to speed on more DevOps automation skills over > time while I play in cloud systems like AWS. I expect Cloudformation > and the Google management equivalent to be my best friends perhaps > Jenkins also. I have some experience with Gmake and it sounds like a > good move. I have Visual Studio 2017 professional installed on my > computers but I am concerned that environment path settings are > disappearing with windows updates on the windows insider > program. Next thing you know the command prompt no longer knows what > python is and pip install doesn't finish successfully. I don't look > forward to spending time fixing that. > > The garbage problem sounds similar to what I was seeing with > spreadsheet filters. Comparing what worked before and considering > event conflict scenerios might help. > > > From: Peter Kovacs <pe...@apache.org> > Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2017 1:45 PM > To: David Larson; recruitment@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: Introduction of: R J Wahl > > > Hi David, > > > Let me point out that we do not work Hierarchial. This might be > strange, but thats how it is. The focus is on your desicion. You > decide the amount, and the activity. There is no responsibility to do > anything, only the respect from those that are interested in > OpenOffice when you get involved. We currently have no company that > is looking for any positions. :P > > I understand that a lot of people have difficulties with this > approach, so I try to give some lead. And usually Recruitment is > quite quiet, since it has only the purpose to be an entrypoint for > newcommers to give some orientation and space. We hope that they join > the community and get involved there. If there is in need or you have > some Questions that you feel fit on recruitment then feel free to do > so. The Recruiters (where I think I am the most active one) will try > our best to support. > > > In general the Bugzilla Bugtracker has a lot of tasks where one can > find something to do. (I think over 3K open request, a lot of them > Rubbish, old whishes or whatever). > > > We currently have following dev Topics in Discussion: > > # There is the general Idea to do some generic Code maintenance by > replaceing the good ols C arrays with the more modern Container based > approches. > > # TOP Community Issue is that under certain conditions OpenOffice > writes rubbish to disk, destroying all users work. It is currently in > Analysis. > > # Our Microsoft compatibility sucks. There is the Idea to integrate > OOXML from Apache POI. This is kind of difficult since we use a SAX > API and POI does not support that, plus has limitations. > > # We still use 20 year old dmake. Damjan is migrating to gmake > toolset, maybe this could be supported. > >
Re: Introduction of: R J Wahl
Unsubscribe On 23-Oct-2017 1:19 PM, "Diana T" <didit...@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote: > How can I unsubscribe from this list??? > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Oct 22, 2017, at 19:24, Peter Kovacs <pe...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > Hi David Larson, > > > > What do you want? This list is ment for people who are interested in > joining OpenOffice to improve the application OpenOffice. > > Nothing more nothing less. > > > > Do you want to join or are you looking for coworkers? > > > > All the best > > Peter > > > >> On 21.10.2017 14:45, David Larson wrote: > >> I use openoffice portable so its handy when I need it but out of the > way (not using computer resources when I don't use it). I do the same with > the chrome browser as it launches too many processes for my tastes. I > don't use Microsoft Office as its too integrated with the OS. I want my > computer to be like a transformer Lamborghini not an overburdened bus. I > put 32gb of ram in each of my computers and I still feel that way as I have > my own plans for the data space. > >> > >> > >> One slightly annoying behavior of openoffice to fix is sometimes when I > start it the first time it complains about needing to clean up and quits > before starting but it works the second time I try, however then it tends > to state it is recovering documents I last worked on when I already have > them saved and puts them into a read only state. In addition, there is > document formats that probably need to be added. On the ancient side, there > is Wordstar which I discovered I still have old resumes written in and have > to resort to a different tool to recover their valuable content. On the > current side, I am suspicious that the latest Word like formats supported > are getting stale with the Office fans out there. Hopefully these are not > beyond our reach. I don't personally care about spreadsheet file formats > at this time as I only use them for my own experiments nor for presentation > formats usually although I may care for those soon. I do care about some > recent new spreadsheet misbehaviors with moderately sized data sets I have > been seeing which I don't like... mostly regarding auto filters that cause > weird results that are difficult to undo. This problem interferes with my > efforts to develop the information I need for a special new kindle book on > SQL. Do we have a comprehensive list of the latest formats, bugs, and > important features that should be supported but may not be? > >> > >> > >> Note I am willing to use github for public projects and I am using > Atlassian Bitbucket for my private projects as I can have 4 coworkers in it > for free in that we can use to get started saving the world from data > overload. > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> From: Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> > >> Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2017 12:44 AM > >> To: recruitment@openoffice.apache.org > >> Cc: arjaywoodmas...@gmail.com > >> Subject: Re: Introduction of: R J Wahl > >> > >> CCing R J for the answer below. When someone is new, please reply to > >> list+sender. R J, you may want to subscribe to the list, see > >> https://openoffice.apache.org/mailing-lists.html# > recruitment-mailing-list-public > >> Mailing Lists - Apache OpenOffice - Project Website<https://openoffice. > apache.org/mailing-lists.html#recruitment-mailing-list-public> > >> openoffice.apache.org > >> Mailing Lists Apache OpenOffice Public Mailing Lists¶ We welcome you to > join our mailing lists and let us know about your thoughts or ideas about > Apache OpenOffice. > >> > >> > >> > >> . Andrea. > >> > >>> On 20/10/2017 David Larson wrote: > >>> Hi R J, > >>> > >>> What programming languages are you learning/using and what are your > interests? > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> From: Arjay Woodmaster <arjaywoodmas...@gmail.com> > >>> Sent: Friday, October 20, 2017 11:50 AM > >>> To: recruitment@openoffice.apache.org > >>> Subject: Introduction of: R J Wahl > >>> > >>> Hi I am R J Wahl. > >>> I am from South Africa. > >>> I am interested in general programming, computers and heavy metal. > >>> > >>> I decided to look at open source projects as a learning curve towards > >>> becoming a better programmer. > >>> > >>> Thanks > >>> R J Wahl > >>> > > > > > >
Re: Introduction of: R J Wahl
; > > > > Have Fun! > > > > > > > > All the Best > > > > > > > > Peter > > > > > > > > > > > > On 22.10.2017 20:08, David Larson wrote: > > > > > > > >> > > > >> I have been waiting for some time to see message activity here that > > > makes > > > >> sense. It has been pretty quiet. Thanks for your reply. > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> I am an experienced software engineer with skills in C, C++, > Assembly, > > > >> Java, SQL and so on, in addition to constantly learning new skills. > > > Let me > > > >> turn your question around. I am willing to take a chance to help > > > >> volunteer a little of my time to make OpenOffice better. What do you > > > want > > > >> me to do? I don't have much spare time while I strive to pivot my > > > career > > > >> toward data analysis and find a job opportunity near me (or remote > > > access) > > > >> that doesn't include hidden age discrimination. Do you have a list > of > > > >> tasks available? Are you interested in adding new tasks such as > > fixing > > > the > > > >> spreadsheet filtering bug? I signed up expecting to see some > > activity > > > and > > > >> instructions on how to get started helping that I could focus on a > > task > > > to > > > >> help such as debugging, fixing something, code reviewing, mentoring > > > making > > > >> unit tests or even reproducing bugs. My last email was both to > > declare > > > >> OpenOffice as still being a worthwhile product and suggest possible > > > ideas > > > >> that occur to me. > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> Getting to know people with similar interests but different > > > perspectives > > > >> while helping is a plus. Nobody knows my accomplishments except my > > > former > > > >> job coworkers because I haven't been a social media type person > trying > > > to > > > >> promote everything I do and I haven't yet placed any of my personal > > > >> projects on public github repositories. I prefer to spend most of > my > > > time > > > >> focused on accomplishing the next something. > > > >> > > > >> Best regards, > > > >> David > > > >> > > > >> www.linkedin.com/in/davidmlarson > > > >> twitter @dynadml > > > >> > > > > > >> *From:* Peter Kovacs <pe...@apache.org> > > > >> *Sent:* Sunday, October 22, 2017 10:24 AM > > > >> *To:* recruitment@openoffice.apache.org; David Larson > > > >> *Cc:* arjaywoodmas...@gmail.com > > > >> *Subject:* Re: Introduction of: R J Wahl > > > >> > > > >> Hi David Larson, > > > >> > > > >> What do you want? This list is ment for people who are interested in > > > >> joining OpenOffice to improve the application OpenOffice. > > > >> Nothing more nothing less. > > > >> > > > >> Do you want to join or are you looking for coworkers? > > > >> > > > >> All the best > > > >> Peter > > > >> > > > >> On 21.10.2017 14:45, David Larson wrote: > > > >> > I use openoffice portable so its handy when I need it but out of > the > > > >> way (not using computer resources when I don't use it). I do the > same > > > with > > > >> the chrome browser as it launches too many processes for my tastes. > > I > > > >> don't use Microsoft Office as its too integrated with the OS. I > want > > my > > > >> computer to be like a transformer Lamborghini not an overburdened > > bus. > > > I > > > >> put 32gb of ram in each of my computers and I still feel that way > as I > > > have > > > >> my own plans for the data space. > > > >> > > > > >> > > > > >> > One slightly annoying behavior of openoffice to fix is sometimes > > when > > > I > > > >> start it the first time it complains about needing to clean up and > > quits > > > >> before
Re: Introduction of: R J Wahl
Hi David Larson, What do you want? This list is ment for people who are interested in joining OpenOffice to improve the application OpenOffice. Nothing more nothing less. Do you want to join or are you looking for coworkers? All the best Peter On 21.10.2017 14:45, David Larson wrote: I use openoffice portable so its handy when I need it but out of the way (not using computer resources when I don't use it). I do the same with the chrome browser as it launches too many processes for my tastes. I don't use Microsoft Office as its too integrated with the OS. I want my computer to be like a transformer Lamborghini not an overburdened bus. I put 32gb of ram in each of my computers and I still feel that way as I have my own plans for the data space. One slightly annoying behavior of openoffice to fix is sometimes when I start it the first time it complains about needing to clean up and quits before starting but it works the second time I try, however then it tends to state it is recovering documents I last worked on when I already have them saved and puts them into a read only state. In addition, there is document formats that probably need to be added. On the ancient side, there is Wordstar which I discovered I still have old resumes written in and have to resort to a different tool to recover their valuable content. On the current side, I am suspicious that the latest Word like formats supported are getting stale with the Office fans out there. Hopefully these are not beyond our reach. I don't personally care about spreadsheet file formats at this time as I only use them for my own experiments nor for presentation formats usually although I may care for those soon. I do care about some recent new spreadsheet misbehaviors with moderately sized data sets I have been seeing which I don't like... mostly regarding auto filters that cause weird results that are difficult to undo. This problem interferes with my efforts to develop the information I need for a special new kindle book on SQL. Do we have a comprehensive list of the latest formats, bugs, and important features that should be supported but may not be? Note I am willing to use github for public projects and I am using Atlassian Bitbucket for my private projects as I can have 4 coworkers in it for free in that we can use to get started saving the world from data overload. From: Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2017 12:44 AM To: recruitment@openoffice.apache.org Cc: arjaywoodmas...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Introduction of: R J Wahl CCing R J for the answer below. When someone is new, please reply to list+sender. R J, you may want to subscribe to the list, see https://openoffice.apache.org/mailing-lists.html#recruitment-mailing-list-public Mailing Lists - Apache OpenOffice - Project Website<https://openoffice.apache.org/mailing-lists.html#recruitment-mailing-list-public> openoffice.apache.org Mailing Lists Apache OpenOffice Public Mailing Lists¶ We welcome you to join our mailing lists and let us know about your thoughts or ideas about Apache OpenOffice. . Andrea. On 20/10/2017 David Larson wrote: Hi R J, What programming languages are you learning/using and what are your interests? From: Arjay Woodmaster <arjaywoodmas...@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, October 20, 2017 11:50 AM To: recruitment@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Introduction of: R J Wahl Hi I am R J Wahl. I am from South Africa. I am interested in general programming, computers and heavy metal. I decided to look at open source projects as a learning curve towards becoming a better programmer. Thanks R J Wahl
RE: Introduction of: R J Wahl
Unsubscribe Sent from my Windows 10 phone From: Diana T Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2017 11:23 PM To: recruitment@openoffice.apache.org Cc: arjaywoodmas...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Introduction of: R J Wahl Unsubscribe Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 21, 2017, at 15:45, David Larson <dyna...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > I use openoffice portable so its handy when I need it but out of the way (not > using computer resources when I don't use it). I do the same with the chrome > browser as it launches too many processes for my tastes. I don't use > Microsoft Office as its too integrated with the OS. I want my computer to be > like a transformer Lamborghini not an overburdened bus. I put 32gb of ram in > each of my computers and I still feel that way as I have my own plans for the > data space. > > > One slightly annoying behavior of openoffice to fix is sometimes when I start > it the first time it complains about needing to clean up and quits before > starting but it works the second time I try, however then it tends to state > it is recovering documents I last worked on when I already have them saved > and puts them into a read only state. In addition, there is document formats > that probably need to be added. On the ancient side, there is Wordstar which > I discovered I still have old resumes written in and have to resort to a > different tool to recover their valuable content. On the current side, I am > suspicious that the latest Word like formats supported are getting stale with > the Office fans out there. Hopefully these are not beyond our reach. I > don't personally care about spreadsheet file formats at this time as I only > use them for my own experiments nor for presentation formats usually although > I may care for those soon. I do care about some recent new spreadsheet > misbehaviors with moderately sized data sets I have been seeing which I don't > like... mostly regarding auto filters that cause weird results that are > difficult to undo. This problem interferes with my efforts to develop the > information I need for a special new kindle book on SQL. Do we have a > comprehensive list of the latest formats, bugs, and important features that > should be supported but may not be? > > > Note I am willing to use github for public projects and I am using Atlassian > Bitbucket for my private projects as I can have 4 coworkers in it for free in > that we can use to get started saving the world from data overload. > > > > > From: Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> > Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2017 12:44 AM > To: recruitment@openoffice.apache.org > Cc: arjaywoodmas...@gmail.com > Subject: Re: Introduction of: R J Wahl > > CCing R J for the answer below. When someone is new, please reply to > list+sender. R J, you may want to subscribe to the list, see > https://openoffice.apache.org/mailing-lists.html#recruitment-mailing-list-public > Mailing Lists - Apache OpenOffice - Project > Website<https://openoffice.apache.org/mailing-lists.html#recruitment-mailing-list-public> > openoffice.apache.org > Mailing Lists Apache OpenOffice Public Mailing Lists¶ We welcome you to join > our mailing lists and let us know about your thoughts or ideas about Apache > OpenOffice. > > > > . Andrea. > >> On 20/10/2017 David Larson wrote: >> Hi R J, >> >> What programming languages are you learning/using and what are your >> interests? >> >> >> >> From: Arjay Woodmaster <arjaywoodmas...@gmail.com> >> Sent: Friday, October 20, 2017 11:50 AM >> To: recruitment@openoffice.apache.org >> Subject: Introduction of: R J Wahl >> >> Hi I am R J Wahl. >> I am from South Africa. >> I am interested in general programming, computers and heavy metal. >> >> I decided to look at open source projects as a learning curve towards >> becoming a better programmer. >> >> Thanks >> R J Wahl >>
Re: Introduction
Welcome to OpenOffice. On 7/24/2017 2:15 PM, Andrey Zhitnikov wrote: Dear OpenOffice crew. My name is Andrey. I'm an electrical engineer from Israel. I'm interested in helping to develop OpenOffice project. I think I have programming skills and can help with programming tasks in Java, C++, Python . Regards, Andrey Zhitnikov
Re: Introduction and a project
On 2/10/2017 11:02 AM, Simos Xenitellis wrote: ... 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? I would assume, if there is no evidence to the contrary, that the comments are under the same license as the rest of the file, and therefore cannot be transferred. We have decided against bulk translation at this time. Instead, anyone reading the code who needs comments translated requests it through the Bugzilla entry. So far, anything I've needed has been translated within days of filing the request. The advantage is that the limited time of people with the natural language and programming language skills is only used on files that are being read, not on the hundreds of files nobody is looking at.
Re: Introduction and a project
On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 8:40 PM, Patricia Shanahanwrote: > 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