Re: ApacheCon EU Survey

2012-11-14 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 10/11/2012 jan iversen wrote: has anyone thought about making events that did not cost 600,- EUR + travel/hotel etc. ?? Yes, free (or with a nominal fee, like 10 EUR) events used to be the norm. maybe it is time, we made a OpenOffice (I do not write AOO on purpose) gathering, where

Re: [PROPOSAL] Initiate a Contest for Branding of 4.0

2012-11-14 Thread Graham Lauder
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 6:03 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Graham Lauder g.a.lau...@gmail.com wrote: 5 days is about up and we have no -1so I've started a page for creating of the proposed RFP on the confluence wiki here:

Re: Apache OO program crashes

2012-11-14 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 13/11/2012 Painius wrote: then I should notify all of you to see if someone else has the problem and possibly a solution. His tip did not keep AOO from crashing, so here goes... Frequent crashes are often due to the first of our Known Issues:

Hello from Acrolinx

2012-11-14 Thread Robert Barbey
Hi everyone, since my colleagues and I started writing a plug-in for OpenOffice Writer I wanted to let you guys know what we're trying to achieve with it. My company's main product is a client-server-based tool that assists authors in editing technical documentation. With a plug-in in their

Re: Apache OpenOffice crew

2012-11-14 Thread Christoph Jopp
Am 14.11.2012 03:39, schrieb imacat: On 2012/11/14 07:14, Andrew Rist said: trying again on this thread - here is the group shot taken on the last day of ApacheConEU http://people.apache.org/~arist/apachecon/ApacheConEUAOOGroupShot.JPG : Don't be sad:

Compiling Symphony

2012-11-14 Thread Andre Fischer
Hi, I am currently trying to get an overview of the implementation and API that could be reused for the new task pane/sidebar feature. For this I am looking also at the symphony branch in our repository. But just looking at the source code is not so easy, because the Writer already has a

Re: Apache OpenOffice at FOSDEM 2013

2012-11-14 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 4:29 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: A draft of the Call for Papers/Talks (text only) is available at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/FOSDEM+2013+CFP ... It would be good to jazz this up a little. Is there a FOSDEM logo that we are

New entry for the Consultants Directory

2012-11-14 Thread David Vogt
Hi, I'd like to have the following entry on the consultants page. Here's the xml: consultant nameAdfinis SyGroup AG/name countryCH/country practiceDevelopment/practice practiceCustomization/practice practiceSupport/practice practiceOther/practice description Adfinis SyGroup AG has been

Re: [early codereview / check for standards] genLang in l10ntools

2012-11-14 Thread jan iversen
Hi soon is real soon, I have already had a mail conversation with juergen, and I understand that Dwayne first of all has a new release, and secondly is interested in some of the ideas I had. Jan. On 14 November 2012 13:38, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: On 06/11/2012 jan iversen

Re: ApacheCon EU Survey

2012-11-14 Thread jan iversen
On 14 November 2012 09:00, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: On 10/11/2012 jan iversen wrote: has anyone thought about making events that did not cost 600,- EUR + travel/hotel etc. ?? Yes, free (or with a nominal fee, like 10 EUR) events used to be the norm. maybe it is time,

Re: Compiling Symphony

2012-11-14 Thread Chao Huang
2012/11/14 Andre Fischer awf@gmail.com Hi, I am currently trying to get an overview of the implementation and API that could be reused for the new task pane/sidebar feature. It will be an interesting work! For this I am looking also at the symphony branch in our repository. But

Re: Planned entry for Apache OOO Blog

2012-11-14 Thread Armin Le Grand
Hi List, On 13.11.2012 14:50, Armin Le Grand wrote: Hi List, I have prepared a blog entry (currently draft) since I saw that LO had currently integrated some stuff from our codebase, e.g. the SVG import feature I added to AOO3.4. I wanted to share this with you before publishing.

Re: Apache OO program crashes

2012-11-14 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 3:08 AM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: On 13/11/2012 Painius wrote: then I should notify all of you to see if someone else has the problem and possibly a solution. His tip did not keep AOO from crashing, so here goes... Frequent crashes are often due

Re: Compiling Symphony

2012-11-14 Thread Andre Fischer
On 14.11.2012 14:37, Chao Huang wrote: 2012/11/14 Andre Fischer awf@gmail.com Hi, I am currently trying to get an overview of the implementation and API that could be reused for the new task pane/sidebar feature. It will be an interesting work! For this I am looking also at the

RE: Compiling Symphony

2012-11-14 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Can there please be some priority given to the IP cleanup of the Symphony section of the SVN so it is safe for others to begin working on it? It is in an untouchable state in its present form, especially if folks want to merge changes and fixes in preparation for integration of bits from it.

Re: Apache OO program crashes

2012-11-14 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Rob Weir wrote: On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 3:08 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Frequent crashes are often due to the first of our Known Issues: http://www.openoffice.org/development/releases/3.4.1.html#AOO3.4.1ReleaseNotes-KnownIssues So if this is our #1 issue, is there anything we can do to improve

Re: Apache OO program crashes

2012-11-14 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:18:11 +0100 Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: Rob Weir wrote: On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 3:08 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Frequent crashes are often due to the first of our Known Issues:

Symphony IP Cleanup (was RE: [DISCUSS]: next step towards graduation)

2012-11-14 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I know there's a lot of plates spinning as cutover from graduation occurs. It seems to me this is not an insignificant problem: 1. People who see the IP-encumbered code on the AOO SVN are not privy to the SGA. All they have to go by are the notices that they see there. 2. There are

Re: Apache OO program crashes

2012-11-14 Thread Kay Schenk
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 6:23 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 3:08 AM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: On 13/11/2012 Painius wrote: then I should notify all of you to see if someone else has the problem and possibly a solution. His tip did not

Best practices for contributing code to both Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice

2012-11-14 Thread Rob Weir
I've heard some discussion and interest in this topic off-list. There has been some practical experience, but nothing that we've written down or promoted. I'd be interested in seeing if we can come up with some solid best practices. The problem: Many (most?) open source contributors are not

Re: Apache OO program crashes

2012-11-14 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 6:23 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 3:08 AM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: On 13/11/2012 Painius wrote: then I should notify all of you to see if

Re: Best practices for contributing code to both Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice

2012-11-14 Thread jan iversen
+1 in general to your ideas, it would be VERY nice to have an easy way, and the more we all do to make it easy the more developers will work for both projects. I do however have one question. Regarding the mark #AOOCONTRIBUTION. It an AOO committer take the code and integrate it, would that not

Re: Apache OO program crashes

2012-11-14 Thread F C. Costero
There is some evidence, or suspicion, on the en forum that the automatic check for updates is involved with the problem. See this posting and others in the same thread. http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15t=55912start=30#p253337 Francis On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 11:33 AM, Rob

Re: [User Docs] What do we as a community want for user documentation or AOO

2012-11-14 Thread RGB ES
2012/11/13 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 5:05 PM, RGB ES rgb.m...@gmail.com wrote: I agree as a general concept, but I think the possible uses of AOO are so broad that it is quite difficult to identify definite tasks. For example, writing a letter seems a quite

Look at the pretty branches

2012-11-14 Thread Rob Weir
I see that our project is growing new branches. Would it make sense to start documenting these on a wiki page, so it is clear what each one is, and who is maintaining it? Current branches are: AOO34/ --- Our 3.4.x branch, would be used if we ever need a 3.4.2 alg/ -- This is Armin's long-term

Re: Proposal: Ask OpenOffice promotion

2012-11-14 Thread RGB ES
2012/11/15 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org This is mainly a community-relations / public outreach idea. I noticed that when we do a blog post we get a lot of unrelated questions, some of them quite good. So I'm thinking -- there must be a lot of good questions out there. They could range from

Re: Proposal: Ask OpenOffice promotion

2012-11-14 Thread Kay Schenk
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: This is mainly a community-relations / public outreach idea. I noticed that when we do a blog post we get a lot of unrelated questions, some of them quite good. So I'm thinking -- there must be a lot of good questions out

Re: Look at the pretty branches

2012-11-14 Thread Andrew Rist
On 11/14/2012 3:10 PM, Rob Weir wrote: I see that our project is growing new branches. Would it make sense to start documenting these on a wiki page, so it is clear what each one is, and who is maintaining it? Current branches are: AOO34/ --- Our 3.4.x branch, would be used if we ever need

Re: Editing needed on BZ footer -- remove podling reference

2012-11-14 Thread TJ Frazier
On 11/14/2012 18:47, Kay Schenk wrote: HI -- Could one of our BZ admins please remove the podling reference in the footer area for Apache OOo Bugzilla? Thanks. Hi, Kay, A little research in the BZ Help [1] reveals in Section 6.3.5 that the global footer is in a template,

Re: Compiling Symphony

2012-11-14 Thread Chao Huang
2012/11/14 Andre Fischer awf@gmail.com On 14.11.2012 14:37, Chao Huang wrote: 2012/11/14 Andre Fischer awf@gmail.com Hi, I am currently trying to get an overview of the implementation and API that could be reused for the new task pane/sidebar feature. It will be an interesting

Re: [RELEASE]: new snapshot base don revision r1400866

2012-11-14 Thread Li Feng Wang
I install a JDK 32bit on my windows 64bit env, There is no issue on Windows 64bit BVT. 2012/10/30 Ariel Constenla-Haile arie...@apache.org Hi, On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 01:40:53PM +0800, Li Feng Wang wrote: Hi,all, I already run BVT on OO snapshot r1400866 Result: Passed with known

Re: Proposal: Ask OpenOffice promotion

2012-11-14 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote: actually we do had faqs, many of them actually, the main issue is mantaining such FAQs. this remind me of a xkcd http://xkcd.com/927/ On 11/14/12, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 3:42

Re: desktop publishing

2012-11-14 Thread Graham Lauder
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Phillip Zadro ricaza1...@hotmail.com.auwrote: hi Is there any likelihood that OpenOffice will one day include a desktop publisher? You can use Draw as a DTP application without much problem, combined with the OpenClipart extension it's quite useful, not at

Re: desktop publishing

2012-11-14 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 11:24 PM, Phillip Zadro ricaza1...@hotmail.com.auwrote: hi Is there any likelihood that OpenOffice will one day include a desktop publisher? There is only one thing that is stopping me from migrating completely from Microsoft Office to either OpenOffice or

Re: Proposal: Ask OpenOffice promotion

2012-11-14 Thread Ross Gardler
What a great idea. I'm copying this to the ComDev list so others can consider it. Having said that this one reason this would work for AOO is that it has such a large non-technical user community., something that's not really true of other Apache projects. If any projects adapt the idea please

Re: Missing option in right click under OO 3.4.1

2012-11-14 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 29/10/2012 Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 25/10/2012 Eric Byers wrote: MS Office was installed first. Followed by OO 3.4.1 After the installation of OO, the option under the right mouse click for a new MS Word document was removed. Right click in a folder space, select New - spreadsheets, text

Re: [DISCUSS] Do we want download links for Dev Builds on a usual webpage?

2012-11-14 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 11/11/2012 Kay Schenk wrote: On 11/11/2012 04:22 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Development+Snapshot+Builds (they are also called with/without system integration respectively). OK, I see this note and I confess I don't pay much attention to