Re: Planning for emergency releases

On 8/9/2016 8:52 AM, Kay sch...@apache.org wrote: On 08/08/2016 09:26 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: On 8/8/2016 11:14 AM, Marcus wrote: Am 08/08/2016 07:28 PM, schrieb Andrea Pescetti: On 07/08/2016 Marcus wrote: Maybe we are not that far aways from each other. What I want to to avoid

Re: Planning for emergency releases

On 8/9/2016 2:41 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Patricia Shanahan wrote: How do we go about getting trained as release manager? By making a release, or two. If we only do two or three releases a year, we will only be able to train release managers are a rate of about two a year. Is that fast

Re: Planning for emergency releases

On 8/9/2016 3:12 PM, Marcus wrote: ... we have a documented release process here [1]. Of course it's for a full release. But for a bugfix (or emergency) release it can be derived and then shortend. [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Release+Planning+Template That is the

Building AOO412 on Windows

I am trying to build AOO412 on my Windows 8.1 system. Back in the previous "Building on Windows" thread I described a series of failures that were ultimately cured by adding "--disable-pch" to my configure parameters. Those problems have reappeared in the 4.1.2 build. Is there something

Re: Building on Windows

if it works for you as well. Damjan On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 7:51 PM, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote: I have already done some of this. The key difference between failing and non-failing is whether layoutex is built early or later in the build. See the attached files for sample build outpu

Configure failure

As part of my return-from-vacation, I did an "svn update" on my trunk checkout followed by an attempt to configure with my usual parameters: SDK_PATH="/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft SDKs/Windows/v7.0" ./configure \ --with-frame-home="$SDK_PATH" \ --with-psdk-home="$SDK_PATH" \

Re: Configure failure

ding external dependencies, please fix the previous problems and try again *** On 6/29/2016 3:49 PM, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: Please post the full output. The problem is earlier. On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 12:46 AM, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote: As part of my return-from-

Re: Configure failure

Not Found) download failed On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 12:58 AM, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote: Full output: checking whether configure is up-to-date.

Re: Increase the number of tables in Calc

In looking at AOO source code, I'm finding lots of uses of fixed size arrays. As far as I can tell, there is little use of the STL data structures. I assume this reflects conditions when StarOffice was designed. On 2/5/2017 7:42 PM, Jörg Schmidt wrote: From: Damjan Jovanovic

Re: AOO debugging revamp

Applying the patch fixed the vcl case, but not the one I really care about, main/sw On 1/29/2017 6:51 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: On 1/29/2017 5:59 PM, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: I am trying a Windows rebuild now. In the meanwhile, what debugger are you using? Can you debug any other modules

Re: AOO debugging revamp

sn't have disk space for a debug build anyway... On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 6:24 AM, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote: Applying the patch fixed the vcl case, but not the one I really care about, main/sw On 1/29/2017 6:51 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: On 1/29/2017 5:59 PM, Damjan Jova

Re: AOO debugging revamp

On 1/25/2017 9:35 AM, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: Hi For a while I've noticed how gbuild modules don't have debug symbols unless built with the maximum debug level ("./configure --enable-debug" globally or "build debug=true" per module) which also produces oceans of log messages we usually don't

Re: AOO debugging revamp

tp://windows.mk>. If so, please try the attached patch which should do that. I'll try it. On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 10:34 PM, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org <mailto:p...@acm.org>> wrote: On 1/25/2017 9:35 AM, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: Hi For a while I've notic

Difficulty with dmake

I am trying to set up a new debug environment, incorporating the recent changes to how debug works. Unfortunately, my configure-and-bootstrap cannot find dmake. It looks for it in a different URL from the one specified as DMAKE_URL from configure. run_configure.sh contains my configure

Re: Difficulty with dmake

p. Damjan On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 2:20 AM, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote: I am trying to set up a new debug environment, incorporating the recent changes to how debug works. Unfortunately, my configure-and-bootstrap cannot find dmake. It looks for it in a different URL from t

Documentation needs

I'm sure our documentation needs work, and there is someone with writing, editing, and copyediting skills hoping to help. The doc@ list seems to be dead, except for one message posted this year. What would be the best way to get started on improving our website or documentation?

Re: Documentation needs

On 2/14/2017 10:40 PM, Jörg Schmidt wrote: Hello, From: Patricia Shanahan [mailto:p...@acm.org] I'm sure our documentation needs work, and there is someone with writing, editing, and copyediting skills hoping to help. The doc@ list seems to be dead, except for one message posted this year

Re: buildbot failure in on openoffice-linux32-nightly

I am being held up by a similar failure on Windows 8.1: checking if C:/ant/bin/ant works... Ant works checking Ant lib directory... Ant lib directory found. checking whether ant is >= 1.6.0... yes, 1.9.6 ./configure: line 22505: syntax error near unexpected token `else' ./configure: line 22505:

Generating symbols for setup_native

I built with --enable-symbols in the configure parameters. For several modules, I can get symbols generated using: make clean; make debug=3Dtrue and copying the updated .dll files. I just tried this for main/setup_native and there does not seem to be a suitable makefile. Is there any way

Re: Generating symbols for setup_native

to rebuild the module I need right now. Thanks for the suggestions. On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 10:32 PM, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote: I built with --enable-symbols in the configure parameters. For several modules, I can get symbols generated using: make clean; make debug=3Dt

Re: Release Manager for 4.2.0?

On 8/19/2016 10:41 AM, Kay sch...@apache.org wrote: On 01/28/2016 04:06 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: As I wrote a few day ago, in theory it would be good to release OpenOffice 4.2.0 in February. If it happens a bit later it wouldn't be a big issue, but I believe that, in the constant balance

FOSDEM hacking

Maybe simplifying the Windows build process for AOO could be a FOSDEM hacking challenge? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org

Re: configure error

On 8/19/2016 2:57 PM, Don Lewis wrote: ... Hmn, I see that the error that you are seeing is coming from set_soenv and not configure. Did you rerun autoconf to regenerate configure after the update? ... A very good question. Reminder-to-self: Use the step-by-step instructions rather than

configure error

I did an "svn update". Now configure is failing: * * * Setting up the build environment variables.* *

Re: configure error

On 8/19/2016 12:51 PM, Don Lewis wrote: On 19 Aug, Patricia Shanahan wrote: I did an "svn update". Now configure is failing: * * * Setting up

Debug and gbuild

I am getting back into OpenOffice debug under Visual Studio. Last time I tried that, I needed to manually build the gbuild modules to get symbol generation. Has that been automated? If so, what configure and/or build flags should I be using? If not, any ideas on how to get it automated?

Taking a month off

I have a lot of non-Apache activities over the next month, so I'm taking a break from OpenOffice. I've made some progress towards learning my way around the code and data structures, but it is taking time. - To unsubscribe,

Re: Putting Windows First ( was RE: null)

On 8/31/2016 10:25 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: -Original Message- From: Patricia Shanahan [mailto:p...@acm.org] Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2016 12:57 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Putting Windows First ( was RE: null) [ ... ] [orcmid] I would like to suggest a way

Re: [DISCUSS] What Would OpenOffice Retirement Involve? (long)

On 9/2/2016 5:52 AM, RA Stehmann wrote: Am 02.09.2016 um 14:14 schrieb Jim Jagielski: What is obvious is that the AOO project cannot support, at the present time, being an end-user focused effort. I would suggest we focus on not being one, but instead being a framework or library that can be

Re: What would OpenOffice NON-retirement involve?

I looked at some of those services a few weeks ago. For the ones I found, the relatively inexpensive options did not have the capability of building software, let alone the capacity for build a substantial body of software. The options with the capability and capacity would cost more than a Mac

Re: What would OpenOffice NON-retirement involve?

On 9/2/2016 7:59 AM, Phillip Rhodes wrote: OK, counter-point to the other thread... let's talk specifically about what needs to happen next, given that some (plenty|most|all|???) of us want this project to continue moving forward. What has to happen next? What is the most important

Re: What would OpenOffice NON-retirement involve?

On 9/2/2016 10:21 AM, Phillip Rhodes wrote: On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote: Looking at it the other way round, for under $500 I could have a Mac Mini with 500 GB hard disk and Mac OS Yosemite delivered on Sunday. That is less than 10

Re: What would OpenOffice NON-retirement involve?

on another OS do they? Phil This message optimized for indexing by NSA PRISM On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 1:09 PM, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote: I looked at some of those services a few weeks ago. For the ones I found, the relatively inexpensive options did not have the capa

Re: What would OpenOffice NON-retirement involve?

, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote: On 9/2/2016 10:21 AM, Phillip Rhodes wrote: On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote: Looking at it the other way round, for under $500 I could have a Mac Mini with 500 GB hard disk and Mac OS Yosemite deliver

Re: What would OpenOffice NON-retirement involve?

On 9/2/2016 10:18 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: -Original Message- From: Patricia Shanahan [mailto:p...@acm.org] Sent: Friday, September 2, 2016 09:26 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: What would OpenOffice NON-retirement involve? On 9/2/2016 7:59 AM, Phillip Rhodes wrote

Re: What would OpenOffice NON-retirement involve?

On 9/2/2016 10:09 AM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: I looked at some of those services a few weeks ago. For the ones I found, the relatively inexpensive options did not have the capability of building software, let alone the capacity for build a substantial body of software. The options

Re: What would OpenOffice NON-retirement involve?

Do we understand the reason for the old version of OSX etc.? On 9/2/2016 3:48 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: The issue, currently, is that the Mac OS X build requires, last I checked, an extremely old version of OSX, Xcode, et.al. No one has such a beast laying around. I have tried creating a VMware

Re: What would OpenOffice NON-retirement involve?

On 9/2/2016 10:37 AM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: On 9/2/2016 10:18 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: -Original Message- From: Patricia Shanahan [mailto:p...@acm.org] Sent: Friday, September 2, 2016 09:26 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: What would OpenOffice NON-retirement

Re: What would OpenOffice NON-retirement involve?

Thanks. Any views on whether the archive should be private or public? Alternative volunteer for moderator? On 9/2/2016 3:22 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Patricia Shanahan wrote: If you can send me a pointer to documentation on the correct moderator tools, I can also do that. How soon can we get

Re: Starting Introduction to Contributing to Apache OpenOffice Module

Welcome aboard, Ed. More comments interleaved. On 9/2/2016 11:44 PM, Phillip Rhodes wrote: Welcome to the project, Ed. Don't sweat the lack of C++ experience. Not everything is in C++, and you can pick up the C++ knowledge as you go. I'm in a little bit of the same boat, as I *was* a C++

Re: What would OpenOffice NON-retirement involve?

Message From: Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2016 15:51:18 -0700 Thanks. Any views on whether the archive should be private or public? Alternative volunteer for moderator? On 9/2/2016 3:22 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Patricia Sh

Re: What would OpenOffice NON-retirement involve?

I have requested creation of the mailing list, with Andrea and myself as moderators. On 9/2/2016 3:22 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Patricia Shanahan wrote: If you can send me a pointer to documentation on the correct moderator tools, I can also do that. How soon can we get the list started

Re: Starting Introduction to Contributing to Apache OpenOffice Module

> On Sep 3, 2016, at 09:41, Ed Fallin wrote: > > Hi there Phillip and Patricia — > > Thanks for your e-mails. Is now the right time not to send to all? I’m > happy to avoid that but, I don’t want to be a lurker. I have requested creation of a recruitment mailing

Re: Presence at ApacheCon Europe, November

On 9/3/2016 7:10 AM, Pedro Giffuni wrote: Hello guys; Before "the dramatic events of the last hours" I had already submitted a talk for this year's ApacheConEU (Sevilla is such a nice city to have a conference!). I understand that AOO people may feel discouraged now to attend but I don't

Re: New volunteer

Welcome aboard! The first step is to build AOO on at least one computer. For windows, I found the step-by-step guide at https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO/Step_by_step most useful. On 9/5/2016 8:42 AM, Thomas Seeley wrote: Hello All! My name is Thomas

Recruitment mailing list created

The recruitment@ mailing list has been created, accepts messages, and appears in lists.apache.org. If you are pushing the "OpenOffice needs developers" message, please add a suggestion that anyone who wants to help can subscribe to recruitm...@openoffice.apache.org by sending e-mail to

Re: Heard you guys could use a hand

On 9/5/2016 3:23 PM, lhicks wrote: Hi there, My name is Logan Hicks, President of Eduarmor Inc. I heard you guys were struggling with OpenOffice, and we might have a solution. We currently run a program called PANDA, which stands for platform accessibility and development acceleration, and is

Re: [DISCUSS] What Would OpenOffice Retirement Involve? (long)

+1 I'm here for the present and the future, not the past. On 9/6/2016 8:15 AM, Rich Bowen wrote: On 2016-09-02 09:02 (-0400), Jorg Schmidt wrote: never we forget how members of OpenOffice (for example, Rob Weir) were insulted by TDF representatives. It's

apt-cyg

apt-cyg is a bash script that provides, within cygwin, similar capabilities to the Linux apt-get. The Windows step-by-step recommends using it to add some packages. One of our new volunteers has found that wget http://apt-cyg.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/apt-cyg no longer works. Does anyone

Re: apt-cyg

On 9/6/2016 2:58 PM, Don Lewis wrote: On 6 Sep, Patricia Shanahan wrote: apt-cyg is a bash script that provides, within cygwin, similar capabilities to the Linux apt-get. The Windows step-by-step recommends using it to add some packages. One of our new volunteers has found that wget http

Re: Development Donate

On 9/6/2016 10:43 AM, Burhan Karahasan wrote: I want to donate your project. I want to join OpenOffice Development Team. I am an amateur programmer but i can help. - In addition to dev@openoffice.apache.org we now have

Re: compiler warnings when building OpenOffice

I need a problem to work on. Would you like me to take a particular compiler warning and try to sort it out? On 9/1/2016 3:29 PM, Don Lewis wrote: On 29 Aug, Don Lewis wrote: When building OpenOffice trunk revsion r1758161 as a FreeBSD port on FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT with clang 3.8.0, I get the

Re: Releasing OpenOffice 4.1.3 (reopening the AOO410 branch)

On 9/8/2016 6:04 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: On Sep 7, 2016, at 6:40 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Recent events make it clear we will have to release OpenOffice 4.1.3 sooner or later, with some duplication of work with respect to 4.1.2-patch1 but with more clarity for those

Re: compiler warnings when building OpenOffice

On 9/1/2016 4:00 PM, Don Lewis wrote: On 1 Sep, Patricia Shanahan wrote: I need a problem to work on. Would you like me to take a particular compiler warning and try to sort it out? Here is one: /wrkdirs/usr/ports/editors/openoffice-devel2/work/aoo-4.2.0/main/solver/420/unxfbsdx.pro/inc/osl

Kay's activities

I think some of our troubles, including the Mac Buildbot issue, are related to not identifying and picking up activities that were being done by people who have left the project. I asked Kay for some notes on her activities - posted here with her permission: I'll do my best. Here goes --

Re: compiler warnings when building OpenOffice

On 9/4/2016 3:45 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: On 9/1/2016 4:00 PM, Don Lewis wrote: On 1 Sep, Patricia Shanahan wrote: I need a problem to work on. Would you like me to take a particular compiler warning and try to sort it out? Here is one: /wrkdirs/usr/ports/editors/openoffice-devel2/work

Re: ways to help

With home servers, IT support experience, and a range of Windows experience, would it be a good idea to ask Bryan to work on checking out Bugzilla reports? The objective with Bugzilla is to examine raw user bug reports. Some are really LibreOffice reports, some are duplicates, many have

Release manager for 4.1.3

I am volunteering to serve as release manager for 4.1.3. I may go on to be RM for 4.2, but we can see about that later. My objective is to complete 4.1.3 in November. If I succeed there will be no problem. However, the project should be aware that I have a vacation booked in England

Re: Putting Windows First ( was RE: null)

On 8/31/2016 10:25 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: -Original Message- From: Patricia Shanahan [mailto:p...@acm.org] Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2016 12:57 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Putting Windows First ( was RE: null) [ ... ] [orcmid] I would like to suggest a way

Re: How do all the binaries get built?

On 9/11/2016 12:50 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Patricia Shanahan wrote: What has to be done, in what sorts of environments, to generate all the binaries? Does, for example, building all the language versions for OSX have to be done on a Mac, or can one take some language files and some OSX

Re: I want to support OO development

Welcome aboard! On 9/11/2016 3:40 AM, Peter Kovacs wrote: Hello Open Office Dev Community, Dennis E. Hamilton forwarded my message to this list. Thank you for this activity. I was in the opinion that I have no time and therefore can not join the list or help. However OpenOffice devlopment is

Prepare to mark 4.1.4 content?

Should we create the release-blocker flag for 4.1.4 now, or wait until we create the branch and have content ready for it? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail:

Re: Last call for 4.1.3 patches

gielski <j...@jagunet.com> wrote: 4.1.3 won't build on 10.11 w/o this since the Xcode provided just has the 10.11 SDX and configure doesn't see it and so the configure process dies. You have to hand edit configure to push thru. On Sep 14, 2016, at 12:59 PM, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org>

Re: Last call for 4.1.3 patches

blocker: https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=127113 On Sep 13, 2016, at 6:26 PM, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote: Please make sure all patches for 4.1.3 are checked in to the AOO413 branch. - To unsub

Re: I want to support OO development

On 9/14/2016 12:23 PM, John D'Orazio wrote: On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 2:36 PM, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote: In the long term, work on the build system would be extremely valuable. That would make it easier to convert initial interest to long term contributions. [...] I mad

Re: building on Windows 10 breaks at guistdio.exe

I've never seen this failure before. The only suggestion I can make is to retry. That sometimes fixes failed builds. On 9/14/2016 12:39 PM, John D'Orazio wrote: ... dmake: '../../../wntmsci12.pro/bin/guistdio.exe' removed. 1 module(s): desktop need(s) to be rebuilt Reason(s):

Re: Release process and 4.1.3

On 9/10/2016 7:02 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Patricia Shanahan wrote: On 9/9/2016 12:11 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Actually, 4.1.2 was exactly this. Your starting point should thus be https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.1.2 ; just copy the wiki page and edit/generalize

Re: [4.1.3 Release] Bugzilla admin tasks

On 9/8/2016 1:02 PM, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: Hi Patricia, On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 12:38:50PM -0700, Patricia Shanahan wrote: @Patricia: do you have a bugzilla account? https://bz.apache.org/ooo/ You should be added to the relman group, so that you can grant/deny the release blocker

Question about binary upload process

Part of getting a release into our user's hands is uploading the binaries to both ASF and, with more practical effect, to SourceForge. Because of the number of natural languages and target operating systems, we have a lot of binaries to upload. Could someone with experience or knowledge of

Re: [4.1.3 Release] Bugzilla admin tasks

On 9/8/2016 12:34 PM, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: Hi *, as part of the preparation for the 4.1.3 Release, Bugzilla has now: - 4.1.3 target milestone, to be set on bugs targeted to this release - 4.1.3 release blocker flag, request this flag on bugs you consider that should be included in

Re: Question about binary upload process

On 9/9/2016 3:23 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Marcus wrote: Am 09/09/2016 04:38 PM, schrieb Dave Brondsema: On 9/8/16 6:31 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: 2) Whoever is in the best position to do so, uploads the binaries to the ASF. This can be done also by multiple people, who upload to different

Re: Releasing OpenOffice 4.1.3 (reopening the AOO410 branch)

On 9/10/2016 12:55 PM, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 12:40:48AM +0200, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Recent events make it clear we will have to release OpenOffice 4.1.3 sooner or later, with some duplication of work with respect to 4.1.2-patch1 but with more clarity for those

AOO413 branch created

I have created an AOO413 branch as a copy of AOO410. It is now available for check in of "release blocker" approved changes. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail:

Re: Releasing OpenOffice 4.1.3 (reopening the AOO410 branch)

On 9/10/2016 3:10 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Patricia Shanahan wrote: I'm going to wait a few hours to see if someone claims to depend on us not changing the branch. Absent a specific issue, I plan to create a 4.1.3 branch, and expect the, not yet selected, 4.1.4 Release Manager to create

Release process and 4.1.3

I've looked at the Release Planning Template, https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Release+Planning+Template It is what I would want to do for a major release with user interface changes. We also need something far, far more agile for getting simple bug fix releases out

How do all the binaries get built?

What has to be done, in what sorts of environments, to generate all the binaries? Does, for example, building all the language versions for OSX have to be done on a Mac, or can one take some language files and some OSX files and combine them on a Windows machine?

4.1.4 Release Manager?

Any volunteers for 4.1.4 Release Manager? It would be better to have someone else do it: Cross-training - part of our troubles may have been due to depending on one or two people for particular roles. Distraction - I need to keep my focus on pushing 4.1.3 out as soon as possible. Schedule

Last call for 4.1.3 patches

Please make sure all patches for 4.1.3 are checked in to the AOO413 branch. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org

Re: 4.1.4 Release Manager?

+1 On 9/15/2016 12:04 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: The strategy behind 4.1.3 and 4.1.4 is this:. (1) Quick releases of important bug fixes especially related to security. (2) quickly building release manager skills. We became overly dependent on people who are no longer with us. (3) establishing a

Re: 4.1.4 Release Manager?

I believe we should always have a point release, based on the last fully stable and released version, ready for code check-in: Release manager identified, branch created, release-blocker flags created. That shortens the latency from identifying an urgent fix to having the fix in our users'

Re: 4.1.4 Release Manager?

On 9/15/2016 12:59 PM, Jorg Schmidt wrote: From: Dave Fisher [mailto:dave2w...@comcast.net] Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2016 9:05 PM To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: 4.1.4 Release Manager? The strategy behind 4.1.3 and 4.1.4 is this:. (1) Quick releases of important bug fixes

Re: [VOTE] Recommend Marcus Lange (marcus) as the New Vice President for Apache OpenOffice

+1 On 9/15/2016 8:35 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: [BCC to PMC] RESOLUTION: That Marcus Lange (marcus) be recommended to the Apache Software Foundation Board to serve as Vice President for Apache OpenOffice. The Vice President for Apache OpenOffice serves in accordance with and

[DISCUSS] Draft 4.1.3 release notes

[Comments, suggestions, improvements welcome.] Release Notes for Apache OpenOffice 4.1.3 General Remarks === Apache OpenOffice 4.1.3 is a maintenance release incorporating security fixes, updated dictionaries, and build fixes. A 4.1.2 regression,

Status of "Base 4.1.2 does not open Tables and Queries in Mac OSX"

What is the status of https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=126622 ? Empirically, it does not reproduce in 4.1.3. Do we have a definite patch for it? Should I list it in the 4.1.3 release notes as having been fixed. - To

Release Manager's e-mail is down :-(

My ISP's West Coast data center has a major connectivity problem that has continued for over 90 minutes. See http://status.inmotionhosting.com/ I will try to keep up using PonyMail, but may be less responsive than I would like, especially at this stage in preparing 4.1.3. Please go ahead and

Re: Release Manager's e-mail is down :-(

My e-mail started up again a few minutes after I sent this. I still think a deputy in a different timezone would be useful. On 9/24/2016 8:37 AM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: My ISP's West Coast data center has a major connectivity problem that has continued for over 90 minutes. See http

Re: Question: Naming the dev/openoffice/4.1.3 folders

On 9/26/2016 9:41 AM, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 09:13:08AM -0700, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: I've been puzzling about the folder names. Let me test my understanding. If all of the dev/openoffice/4.1.3/ files being uploaded become RC1, will it be by renaming the

Re: [DISCUSS] Draft 4.1.3 release notes

+4.1.2+Release+Notes Or should _I_ transfer your text to the wiki? Greetings, Jörg -Original Message- From: Patricia Shanahan [mailto:p...@acm.org] Sent: Monday, September 26, 2016 5:59 AM To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: [DISCUSS] Draft 4.1.3 release notes [Comments, suggestions

Re: [4.1.3 release] Procedure for uploading binaries

This where having a release manager who has never seen a release happen is a disadvantage. HELP! On 9/24/2016 4:01 PM, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: Hi there, IIRC we used to upload the packages to our home directory at people.apache.org, once there I don't recall what the RM did until the

Re: [DISCUSS] Draft 4.1.3 release notes

Here is an updated version. Because of the lack of solid confirmation, I am deleting the paragraph about the 4.1.2 Mac OSX regression. If it does turn out to be fixed, we can announce that separately. I think it looks better with quotes around the bug titles. Release Notes for Apache

Re: [DISCUSS] Draft 4.1.3 release notes

I would like to get this into the Wiki, but unfortunately it is Confluence based. It will go faster if a confluence-skilled volunteer does the conversion. On 9/26/2016 5:52 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: Here is an updated version. Because of the lack of solid confirmation, I am deleting

Editing the release notes wiki

I had foolishly assumed that editing the Wiki would be reasonably easy. It isn't. I need to add a child page to https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Releases, and don't see an "Add Page" link. - To

Re: Which source files in release?

the result of a configure. On 9/30/2016 5:53 AM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: I am trying to select the files that should go in the zip and tar files for the source release for 4.1.3. I did a clean checkout of the 4.1.3 branch, and then deleted the .svn directories that I know do not belong in

Re: Testing 4.1.3 - source builds

On 10/5/2016 2:52 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 04/10/2016 Mechtilde wrote: Apache OpenOffice is a project with a wide user base, who only use the binaries. So it is important to release well defined and tested binaries. Yes, this is important. As we did for 4.1.2, I would leave PMC members

Re: {Dicuss] [Vote]

They are now marked as fixed. On 10/5/2016 3:28 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: I believe, based on my tracking and testing, that the release blockers are all fixed. I was hoping the people working on the bugs, especially those who requested release_blocker, will update them ASAP. On 10/5/2016 2

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I believe, based on my tracking and testing, that the release blockers are all fixed. I was hoping the people working on the bugs, especially those who requested release_blocker, will update them ASAP. On 10/5/2016 2:35 PM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: Just a procedural Question. How can we be

Re: 4.1.3_release_blocker denied: [Issue 126622] Base 4.1.2 does not open Tables and Queries in Mac OSX

On 10/5/2016 2:32 AM, Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2016-10-05, 12:48 AM Andrea Pescetti wrote: Larry Gusaas wrote: Is this approved or not approved as a release blocker??? I thought there was a fix for this. It is essential that this is fixed for Mac users. As I understand it, the reason is lack

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On 10/5/2016 5:51 PM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 07:17:27PM -0400, Keith N. McKenna wrote: Patricia Shanahan wrote: I believe, based on my tracking and testing, that the release blockers are all fixed. I was hoping the people working

Post vote release actions

I plan to start the 4.1.3 vote today. This is a draft of the action list assuming the vote passes. Please help by correcting, expanding, and adding anything missing. RM: Update https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.1.3 to show vote result etc. RM: Edit

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On 10/6/2016 5:21 AM, Marcus wrote: Am 10/06/2016 01:52 PM, schrieb Marcus: ... I'll take a look into the issue list, update the release notes with interesting issues for the average user and keep the full details to the link of BZ issues. done. I've also added a line for the BZ issue

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