Re: Forums down (SQL error: Too many connections [1040])

2013-03-20 Thread Rory O'Farrell
En Forum down again just now. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org

Re: Forums down (SQL error: Too many connections [1040])

2013-03-20 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 09:07:01 + Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: En Forum down again just now. En-Forum now back - only a 15 min outage this time! -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: [Call-for-Review] code changes for more powerful smarttag extensions

2013-03-20 Thread Kai Labusch
Am Freitag, 15. März 2013, 07:34:17 schrieb Ariel Constenla-Haile: On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 10:45:56AM +0100, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: On 3/15/13 10:20 AM, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 02:30:26PM +0100, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: - a missing include of XInterface in the new

Re: w7snap build error

2013-03-20 Thread Oliver-Rainer Wittmann
Hi, On 19.03.2013 21:14, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 12:57:11PM -0700, Andrew Rist wrote: should I kick off a build? I don't have a subversion branch to check out that change, and I've no idea how git-svn works with subversion branches. If you can commit the change

Re: Forums down (SQL error: Too many connections [1040])

2013-03-20 Thread hagar . delest
Forum back but not very stable. Hagar Message du 20/03/13 10:22 De : Rory O'Farrell A : dev@openoffice.apache.org Copie à : Objet : Re: Forums down (SQL error: Too many connections [1040]) On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 09:07:01 + Rory O'Farrell wrote: En Forum down again just now.

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-20 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 9:43 PM, Guenter Marxen guenter.mar...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, I have a little bit the impression, that Rob and Jürgen are not understanding, what is meant. There is no demand, that special issues shouldt be resolved asap. There is no demand, to give a date or

Re: Forums down (SQL error: Too many connections [1040])

2013-03-20 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 5:22 AM, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 09:07:01 + Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: En Forum down again just now. En-Forum now back - only a 15 min outage this time! If this is going to be a regular occurrence, I wonder if we

Re: [Call-for-Review] code changes for more powerful smarttag extensions

2013-03-20 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
On 3/20/13 10:26 AM, Kai Labusch wrote: Am Freitag, 15. März 2013, 07:34:17 schrieb Ariel Constenla-Haile: On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 10:45:56AM +0100, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: On 3/15/13 10:20 AM, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 02:30:26PM +0100, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: - a

What I miss a bit at the project

2013-03-20 Thread Raphael Bircher
Hi all At the old OpenOffice project we have had different IRC Channels. Same were more active then others, but we have had a load more activity then now. The fact, that not a load Apache Projects use IRC does not mean that we are not allowed to use IRC. We are not allowed to make dessisions

Re: What I miss a bit at the project

2013-03-20 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hm. Why use #openoffice.org when, say, #openoffice or the like, would do? louis On 20 March 2013 09:28, Raphael Bircher r.birc...@gmx.ch wrote: Hi all At the old OpenOffice project we have had different IRC Channels. Same were more active then others, but we have had a load more activity then

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-20 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: Hagar Delest wrote: if the votes are reset, I'll take it as a huge setback for the users decisions Resetting votes does not make sense. There is a limit on how many bugs a user can vote for and votes can be

Re: What I miss a bit at the project

2013-03-20 Thread Joost Andrae
Hi Rafael, as you know we had several channels on freenode.net #openoffice.org (user channel) #dev.openoffice.org (developer channel) #qa.openoffice.org (qa channel) +1 to use IRC and not to use tools like Google+ or Facebook or the like... I realy would like a more active IRC Channel. I

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-20 Thread Joost Andrae
Hi Rob, maybe it has other reasons like missing access to the former OOo login on the Apache infrastructure eg. one thing that went wrong with my OOo account. There could be several reasons for this: 1) Older issues are better issues because they were entered by smarter people. But then

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-20 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Joost Andrae joost.and...@gmx.de wrote: Hi Rob, maybe it has other reasons like missing access to the former OOo login on the Apache infrastructure eg. one thing that went wrong with my OOo account. But that doesn't explain the steady decline from 2002 to

Re: What I miss a bit at the project

2013-03-20 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 9:28 AM, Raphael Bircher r.birc...@gmx.ch wrote: Hi all At the old OpenOffice project we have had different IRC Channels. Same were more active then others, but we have had a load more activity then now. The fact, that not a load Apache Projects use IRC does not mean

Re: What I miss a bit at the project

2013-03-20 Thread Phillip Rhodes
IRC is great and all, and I'm all for having as many channels as people feel a need for. Just keep in mind that the ASF approach to projects is to ensure that decision making is done in public and very openly. I think the implication of that is that most discussion that leads directly to a

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-20 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: Hagar Delest wrote: if the votes are reset, I'll take it as a huge setback for the users decisions Resetting votes does not make sense. There is a limit on how many bugs a user can vote for and

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-20 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Keith N. McKenna keith.mcke...@comcast.net wrote: Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: Hagar Delest wrote: if the votes are reset, I'll take it as a huge setback for the users decisions Resetting

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-20 Thread Joe Schaefer
FWLIW, passive users of Apache projects generally expect and get very little direct say in what features get actively developed and put back into the project. OTOH, people who actively contribute, by either supplying patches, or filing quality and timely bug reports with enough details for some

Re: What I miss a bit at the project

2013-03-20 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Phillip Rhodes motley.crue@gmail.com wrote: IRC is great and all, and I'm all for having as many channels as people feel a need for. Just keep in mind that the ASF approach to projects is to ensure that decision making is done in public and very openly.

Re: Forums down (SQL error: Too many connections [1040])

2013-03-20 Thread FR web forum
If this is going to be a regular occurrence Sorry but the best thing to do is to fix this issue. Since a couple of days, I asked to check the MySQL max_connections parameter. Somebody did it? With each passing day, we lose users that search some help on other forums.

Re: What I miss a bit at the project

2013-03-20 Thread Phillip Rhodes
Well said, Rob. I should have been more explicit in explaining that when I say decision making I mean big decisions for some value of big. It's a little bit subjective and will always be a judgment call, but I think your example is perfect. How to fix the broken build can absolutely be done on

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-20 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On 3/20/13, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: Hagar Delest wrote: if the votes are reset, I'll take it as a huge setback for the users decisions Resetting votes does not make sense. There is a limit on how many

RE: What I miss a bit at the project

2013-03-20 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
+1 There's also the problem of synchronicity. Living in gmt-0800 (now gmt-0700 until the end of October), it is very difficult to find an useful window. And if I am not present, I am not aware and have no available record. The Apach lists and procedures recognize the need for asynchronous

Re: What I miss a bit at the project

2013-03-20 Thread Phillip Rhodes
The lack of available record thing can be addressed - to some extent - by logging the channel traffic and posting the log somewhere where it will be publicly available. Offhand, I'd say this is something we should do, if we aren't already, to the extent that we use IRC. Phil On Wed, Mar 20,

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-20 Thread Donald Whytock
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: I was curious to check my intuition on this. So with a bit of effort I was able to get the following data out of Bugzilla, showing the yearly percentage of enhancement or feature issue types have had at least one vote. So it

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-20 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Donald Whytock dwhyt...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: I was curious to check my intuition on this. So with a bit of effort I was able to get the following data out of Bugzilla, showing the yearly

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-20 Thread Donald Whytock
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Now, if we had a way to get the detailed counts on issues, and do this over time, then we could find a way of highlighting trending issues, e.g., those that have recently been getting more votes, or more comments. (The number

Re: building rpms for fedora rawhide

2013-03-20 Thread Fred Ollinger
Ug, I wish I did this earlier. I don't have anything to add at this time. But I'll update this next time I find a new wrinkle in fedora rawhide that we need. At this point, I'm working on aooo build deps for fedora. Fred On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 10:02 AM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: CDN for Open Office - EdgeCast Networks

2013-03-20 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 19/03/2013 Alex LaFleur wrote: Who would be the correct person to speak with at Open Office about CDN services? I wanted to get EdgeCast on the radar as a top performing global network and see if there might be interest in a free evaluation as a way to improve performance and reliability of

Re: Forums down (SQL error: Too many connections [1040])

2013-03-20 Thread Hagar Delest
Le 20/03/2013 17:01, FR web forum a écrit : If this is going to be a regular occurrence Sorry but the best thing to do is to fix this issue. Since a couple of days, I asked to check the MySQL max_connections parameter. Somebody did it? With each passing day, we lose users that search some help

question about word processor

2013-03-20 Thread forpeace
I need to know if your word processor program paginates a manuscript. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org

Re: What I miss a bit at the project

2013-03-20 Thread Raphael Bircher
Hi Phil Am 20.03.13 16:19, schrieb Phillip Rhodes: IRC is great and all, and I'm all for having as many channels as people feel a need for. Just keep in mind that the ASF approach to projects is to ensure that decision making is done in public and very openly. I think the implication of that

Starting Introduction to Contributing to Apache OpenOffice Module

2013-03-20 Thread Steven Vollmer
Hello, I'm Steve; from Visalia, California USA (Central California) I'm interested in documentation - completely a newbie. I might consider other areas to participate in as I learn more. I have an MS in Education Administration, and BA in Psych. I hope to participate in group projects, and

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-20 Thread Hagar Delest
Top post. Since it's rather clear that there will never be any agreement about this, why doesn't PMC start a [Vote]? This topic is eating energy for nothing. There is no point arguing furthermore. If I understand correctly the problem (even if it was not exactly the initial point from Jörg),

Re: question about word processor

2013-03-20 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 2:58 PM, forpe...@lisco.com wrote: I need to know if your word processor program paginates a manuscript. There is an overview of the details here: http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Writer/Text_Formatting Regards, -Rob

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-20 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Hagar Delest hagar.del...@laposte.net wrote: Top post. Since it's rather clear that there will never be any agreement about this, why doesn't PMC start a [Vote]? This topic is eating energy for nothing. There is no point arguing furthermore. If I understand

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-20 Thread Donald Whytock
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: My take away from the thread was that the preference is not to do anything, and in effect continue to ignore the votes. Whether they are reset or ignored is immaterial to me. I'll just work on better and more accurate ways

Re: Forums down (SQL error: Too many connections [1040])

2013-03-20 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Hagar Delest wrote: It has worked fine the 5 previous years. So there must be somthing that has been done on the hosting part. Someone must have taken action here (imacat again, maybe?) since both yesterday and today we had outages and then the normal functioning was restored. I was probably

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-20 Thread Hagar Delest
Le 20/03/2013 22:03, Rob Weir a écrit : My take away from the thread was that the preference is not to do anything, and in effect continue to ignore the votes. Whether they are reset or ignored is immaterial to me. I'll just work on better and more accurate ways of getting user feedback, that

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-20 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Donald Whytock dwhyt...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: My take away from the thread was that the preference is not to do anything, and in effect continue to ignore the votes. Whether they are reset or

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-20 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Donald Whytock dwhyt...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: My take away from the thread was that the preference is not to do anything, and in

Re: Forums down (SQL error: Too many connections [1040])

2013-03-20 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 12:01 PM, FR web forum ooofo...@free.fr wrote: If this is going to be a regular occurrence Sorry but the best thing to do is to fix this issue. Yes, that would be best. But this does not appear to be happening very quickly, so my suggestion is one way to keep the users

Re: Forums down (SQL error: Too many connections [1040])

2013-03-20 Thread Dave Fisher
In these situations it is best to get on irc #asfinfra and ask in general about it. Imacat might be there but there is usually at least one infra person on line. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 20, 2013, at 2:15 PM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: Hagar Delest wrote: It has worked

Re: Starting Introduction to Contributing to Apache OpenOffice Module

2013-03-20 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Steven Vollmer wrote: Hello, I'm Steve; from Visalia, California USA (Central California) I'm interested in documentation - completely a newbie. I might consider other areas to participate in as I learn more. I have an MS in Education Administration, and BA in Psych. I hope to participate in