Re: Some thoughts on the learning curve

On 2/20/2016 8:39 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: I sympathize with Pedro's observation. Meanwhile, although I am not an expert, I could stand to buddy up on the following profile-related situation: . Looks interesting. I am familiar with

RE: Some thoughts on the learning curve

I sympathize with Pedro's observation. Meanwhile, although I am not an expert, I could stand to buddy up on the following profile-related situation: . If I had to name one absolutely critical situation it has to do with AOO release

Re: Some thoughts on the learning curve

Hi, I am one of the newcomers you speak about, I’m a college undergraduate trying to do something with AOO, and yes, I also find the learning curve quite steep. I started out gradually, and was focussing on implementing the bitwise functions in calc at the start. I must say here that

Re: Some thoughts on the learning curve

Hi Patricia; One disclaimer that I should make is that I am not actually an experienced OpenOffice developer. I only joined the project when it moved to the ASF and there were so many things to do that I basically managed to do a lot of stuff without having to learn the internals too much. Your

gbuild-reintegration branch

Hi I've begun work on reintegrating the (entire) gbuild branch into trunk, but it's very difficult: there are missing files, most commits don't build, files were added and deleted en-mass separately from the commits that need them, and license headers were only added much later. Trying to keep

Some thoughts on the learning curve

One of the biggest problems facing AOO is getting new developers up to speed. As I understand it, there is a small group of developers who do understand AOO, but do not have anywhere near enough time to do everything that needs doing. Meanwhile, you have newcomers with various levels of

Apache OpenOffice Report from the Approved 2016-01-20 ASF Board Meeting Minutes

[BCC to PMC] For your convenience, the Apache OpenOffice portion of the Approved 2016-01-20 ASF Board minutes is available at . - Dennis BACKGROUND The complete collection of Board Meeting Minutes

RE: [QUESTION] Karma for www.openoffice.org contribution and editing

Thank you, Kay and Keith. That is what I vaguely sensed. The explicit information is great. - Dennis > -Original Message- > From: Keith N. McKenna [mailto:keith.mcke...@comcast.net] > Sent: Friday, February 19, 2016 12:34 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: [QUESTION] Karma

Re: Buildbots update

Damjan Jovanovic wrote: I've asked infra to get LWP::Protocol::https installed on all the buildbots and they're working on it. Thanks for debugging, this will hopefully solve it. So indeed the issue is on the buildbots side but it was related to SourceForge now enforcing HTTPS downloads. I