Re: [Issue 122233] sourceforge.net: download file name column of directory too narrow

2015-11-07 Thread Marcus
@Roberto: This issue seems to produce stil lsome pain. The problem is still there [1] that the file names are displayed truncated, so that it is not possible to see the complete filename to click on. Do you think it is possible for your webmaster team to find a solution to improve the

Re: update feed from 4.1.1 to 4.1.2 ready to go...

2015-11-07 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Kay Schenk wrote: Ok. Yeah, I remarked about the date in the attachments, so I will change to Oct 28. The issue is not much the date value, but the date format. I've now fixed the script to produce exactly the same format we have in legacy versions. At your option, you can re-run the script

Re: University student looking for experience in contributing to Open Office.

2015-11-07 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Damjan Jovanovic wrote: On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 #PATHANGI JANARDHANAN JATINSHRAVAN# wrote: I have successfully built OpenOffice on Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) ... The next step I would like to take is, as instructed previously, ask if anyone has any open projects that they would not mind mentoring

Re: [QUESTION] Getting to AOO for Java (AOO4J)?

2015-11-07 Thread Marcus
All nice, but with a short of developers that could do any of the points you listed below, it's just a theoretical idea what could be done. ;-) My 2 ct. Marcus Am 11/07/2015 08:41 PM, schrieb Dennis E. Hamilton: There has been suggestion, and some expressed support, for AOO becoming a Java

[QUESTION] Getting to AOO for Java (AOO4J)?

2015-11-07 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
There has been suggestion, and some expressed support, for AOO becoming a Java application. I don't want to discuss the merits of this, but how it might be undertaken. 1. NO STANDING-STILL ASSUMPTION. My first assumption is that one can't cease Apache OpenOffice maintenance and support while

Re: Reporting broken download link

2015-11-07 Thread Marcus
Am 11/07/2015 05:04 PM, schrieb Hans-Peter Steike: Der angekündigte Download über source forge findet nicht statt. Frühere updates funktionierten ohne Probleme. - Mein Betriebssystem: Windows 7 auf Laptop ACER Aspire 7736ZG. Download-Probleme sind nicht bekannt. Ich habe es gerade nochmal

Re: Fwd: [BUGZILLA] The OS field is not sorted and could be therefore improved

2015-11-07 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Marcus wrote: Before implementing the changes I wanted to have some input - even when it's just a "+1 just do it". Just do it! Looks better than the sorting we have now. Regards, Andrea. - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: Reporting broken download link

2015-11-07 Thread Jürgen Lange
Hallo Hans-Peter, habe das Update jetzt für Windows 7, Windows 8.1 und Apple OS X durchgeführt, immer ohne Probleme. Mal einen Reload der Browser-Seite durchgeführt? Mit freundlichen Grüßen Jürgen Lange For the rest of the world: Hans-Peter has problems downloading Apache OpenOffice 4.1.2.

RE: [QUESTION] Getting to AOO for Java (AOO4J)?

2015-11-07 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
+1 > -Original Message- > From: Marcus [mailto:marcus.m...@wtnet.de] > Sent: Saturday, November 7, 2015 11:57 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: [QUESTION] Getting to AOO for Java (AOO4J)? > > All nice, but with a short of developers that could do any of the points > you

Fwd: [BUGZILLA] The OS field is not sorted and could be therefore improved

2015-11-07 Thread Marcus
This is a forwarded mail from the qa@ mailing list. Before implementing the changes I wanted to have some input - even when it's just a "+1 just do it". However, of course there is the usual 72h lazy consensus window opened now. Marcus Original-Nachricht Betreff:

Reporting broken download link

2015-11-07 Thread Hans-Peter Steike
Der angekündigte Download über source forge findet nicht statt. Frühere updates funktionierten ohne Probleme. - Mein Betriebssystem: Windows 7 auf Laptop ACER Aspire 7736ZG. *Problembeschreibung* *Ersetze diesen Text und beschreibe das Problem (Was funktioniert nicht? Was wird erwartet?)*

RE: Thinking of joining OpenOffice as a developer

2015-11-07 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Patricia, I am in constant despair of what it takes to use Windows to build a Windows install of AOO, if only to confirm the build that was used in a release. If you have succeeded, can you share your build parameters and anything you learned about the instructions with regard to dependencies

Needing Build Instructions in Source Releases

2015-11-07 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
On some thread, there was a comment about keeping the build instructions out of the source release and having them somewhere else. I can no longer find where that was mentioned and my email-search incantations have failed me. As was already discussed on some different lists, it is important to

Re: Is AOO 4.1.2 notably faster?

2015-11-07 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 29/10/2015 Pedro Giffuni wrote: Are people noticing a faster startup in AOO 4.1.2? ... It’s too easy to be biased when you make such changes so it would be interesting to get confirmation ;). Yes, you are not biased, there are independent, unsolicited reports that 4.1.2 is much, faster on

[PROPOSAL] Distribute only one source package

2015-11-07 Thread Andrea Pescetti
We currently distribute 3 source packages at https://archive.apache.org/dist/openoffice/4.1.2/source/ 1) A .tar.bz2 file (209 MBytes) 2) A .tar.gz file (276 Mbytes) 3) A ZIP file (323 MBytes) The packages are equivalent, so any one would suffice. As discussed by Regina and Juergen recently, we

Re: Thinking of joining OpenOffice as a developer

2015-11-07 Thread Patricia Shanahan
I have finished my non-software project, so building AOO is now at the top of my project list. I am working through the instructions, keeping a log of issues and difficulties I encounter. One thought to consider: Is is possible that difficulty building AOO in one of the commonest desktop

RE: Thinking of joining OpenOffice as a developer

2015-11-07 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
> -Original Message- > From: Patricia Shanahan [mailto:p...@acm.org] > Sent: Saturday, November 7, 2015 18:40 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: Thinking of joining OpenOffice as a developer > > I have finished my non-software project, so building AOO is now at the > top of my

Re: [QUESTION] Getting to AOO for Java (AOO4J)?

2015-11-07 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 11/7/2015 11:41 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: There has been suggestion, and some expressed support, for AOO becoming a Java application. I don't want to discuss the merits of this, but how it might be undertaken. ... 2. FORKING TO MAKE AOO4J? One could consider making a project fork.

Re: University student looking for experience in contributing to Open Office.

2015-11-07 Thread #PATHANGI JANARDHANAN JATINSHRAVAN#
Hi Andrea, I have already started my journey and contributed two patches thus far, and I am now familiar with the process of executing a compatible build after modifying some code. I was thinking of working on updating the spreadsheet formulas with the BITAND and BITOR functions, but I