Re: Testing 4.1.3 - release notes

2016-10-06 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 10/6/2016 5:29 AM, Marcus wrote: Am 10/05/2016 12:23 AM, schrieb Patricia Shanahan: Could people working on the bugzilla entries check the status and update as appropriate? I've seen now all issues as "Resolved - Fixed" - or "Verified - Fixed". Note that I did

Re: {Dicuss] [Vote] Summary

2016-10-06 Thread Patricia Shanahan
This thread has morphed a bit, and I think a summary may be useful at this time. It started with Keith pointing out, correctly, that I was taking a short cut by starting the vote before all the relevant bugs had been marked "Fixed", although after I was sure they were all fixed in reality.

Question about spell check

2016-10-04 Thread Patricia Shanahan
I downloaded and installed Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.3_Win_x86_install_en-GB.exe. To my distress, when I first started it, it accepted "color" (US spelling) and rejected "colour" (English spelling). I thought perhaps it picked up my previous use of en-US from my profile, but I got the same

Re: Question about spell check

2016-10-04 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 10/4/2016 1:15 PM, Marcus wrote: Am 10/04/2016 09:44 PM, schrieb Patricia Shanahan: I downloaded and installed Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.3_Win_x86_install_en-GB.exe. To my distress, when I first started it, it accepted "color" (US spelling) and rejected "colour" (English s

Re: Testing 4.1.3 - source builds

2016-10-04 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 10/4/2016 4:24 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: On Oct 3, 2016, at 3:49 PM, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote: On 10/3/2016 12:45 PM, Marcus wrote: Am 10/03/2016 09:40 PM, schrieb Patricia Shanahan: Testing seems to be going well, but there is a very specific requirement for a r

Re: Testing 4.1.3 - release notes

2016-10-04 Thread Patricia Shanahan
denied it 4.1.3 release blocker, but added a request for 4.1.4. On 10/4/2016 2:47 PM, Marcus wrote: Am 10/04/2016 10:31 PM, schrieb Patricia Shanahan: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.1.3+Release+Notes ah, thanks. I've updated some text (e.g., separated the sec

Re: Testing 4.1.3 - source builds

2016-10-04 Thread Patricia Shanahan
at dist.apache.org. 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. Otherwise support becomes hell. Kind regards Am 04.10.2016 um 01:58 schrieb Patricia Shanahan: On 10/3/2016 3:30 PM, Marcus wrote: Am 10/03

Vote status

2016-10-08 Thread Patricia Shanahan
With about three hours to go on the vote, I've prepared a spreadsheet based on the [VOTE] thread. The current situation is 10 votes, one [0], nine [+1]. Of the +1 votes, five are binding. The comments indicate a range of different approaches to testing, which is good. Please check the

Re: 4.1.3_release_blocker granted: [Issue 127045] Enforce Polygon API contracts at run-time

2016-10-07 Thread Patricia Shanahan
I would not have granted a release blocker request for this one, because it was already fixed in source in the previous release, 4.1.2-patch1. All 4.1.3 does for it is include it in a binary distribution, worth indicating in the release notes, but not a reason to revive the bug. On 10/7/2016

Re: Post vote release actions

2016-10-07 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 10/7/2016 3:55 AM, Marcus wrote: Am 10/07/2016 12:43 AM, schrieb Patricia Shanahan: ... Thanks. Would you like to be the point person working with Sally on the press release? It would be smooth to coordinate themes between press release and blog post. I don't see a problem to create

Re: 4.1.3_release_blocker granted: [Issue 127045] Enforce Polygon API contracts at run-time

2016-10-07 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 10/7/2016 4:06 AM, Marcus wrote: Am 10/07/2016 01:03 PM, schrieb Patricia Shanahan: I would not have granted a release blocker request for this one, because it was already fixed in source in the previous release, 4.1.2-patch1. All 4.1.3 does for it is include it in a binary distribution

Re: {Dicuss] [Vote]

2016-10-06 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 08:10:40PM -0700, Patricia Shanahan wrote: Ariel; In all the builds that I have been involved in with AOO we have included a link to a Bugzilla query for all bugs fixed by that release.My concern was 2 fold. One that it would give a wrong impr

Re: Post vote release actions

2016-10-06 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 10/6/2016 5:42 AM, Marcus wrote: Am 10/05/2016 06:27 PM, schrieb Andrea Pescetti: Patricia Shanahan wrote: RM: Update https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.1.3 to show vote result etc. The only important thing to update is that the release is available, since

Testing 4.1.3

2016-10-04 Thread Patricia Shanahan
I have done some basic testing for the following environments and language versions: Windows 7 en_GB Windows 8.1 en_GB, fr Windows 10 en_GB Ubuntu 16.04 en_GB - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For

Ready to Vote on 4.1.3?

2016-10-04 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Please post only objections to calling a vote on 4.1.3 tomorrow. I will treat silence as consent. As far as I can tell, we are ready to go. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional

Re: Testing 4.1.3 - source builds

2016-10-04 Thread Patricia Shanahan
:11 AM, Marcus wrote: Am 04.10.2016 um 00:30 schrieb Marcus: Am 10/03/2016 11:26 PM, schrieb Patricia Shanahan: On 10/3/2016 2:02 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Marcus wrote: wow, *all signed source code packages* ? I assume that this does not literally mean that you must test the .bz2,

[VOTE] Release Apache OpenOffice 4.1.3 RC1

2016-10-05 Thread Patricia Shanahan
The Apache OpenOffice 4.1.3 source and binaries, https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/openoffice/4.1.3-rc1/, contain several bug fixes. See the draft release notes at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.1.3+Release+Notes Please vote on releasing it as 4.1.3 by

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache OpenOffice 4.1.3 RC1

2016-10-05 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 10/5/2016 2:07 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: The Apache OpenOffice 4.1.3 source and binaries, https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/openoffice/4.1.3-rc1/, contain several bug fixes. See the draft release notes at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.1.3+Release+Notes

Re: Signature verification for 4.1.3-RC1

2016-10-08 Thread Patricia Shanahan
I had to make a change in the key preferences to meet the release signing requirements. I uploaded to a couple of servers, including MIT, and waited a few days. I didn't think we were supposed to update KEYS directly? On 10/8/2016 6:08 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: This is not a blocker for the

Re: New AOO414 branch?

2016-10-09 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 10/9/2016 5:13 AM, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 11:37:38PM +0200, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Can we open the AOO414 branch? Everything seems to show that 4.1.3 will be coming in a week or so and for sure there is no further code work to do on it. So I'd like to have an

Re: Fwd: [Issue 125147] CRASH applying styles to text

2016-09-21 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 9/19/2016 9:20 AM, Pedro Giffuni wrote: ... Given this is already late you should probably reconsider bringing in some fixes to known bugs. If the idea is just that 4.1.3 = 4.1.2 + CVE-2016-15-13, then it seems to be a huge waste of bandwidth for both mirrors and end users. All just IMHO,

Fwd: [Issue 125147] CRASH applying styles to text

2016-09-19 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Recently, we have only been adding changes for 4.1.3 if they are necessary to building it. If you request 4.1.3 release blocker for a general bug fix, please discuss the reasons for putting the particular change in. Forwarded Message Subject: [Issue 125147] CRASH applying

Re: Windows 10 ./bootstrap failure

2016-09-21 Thread Patricia Shanahan
I missed a couple of configure parameter changes I need. On 9/21/2016 10:03 AM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: I believe I have done all the preliminary steps. configure appeared to work, but I have a persistent bootstrap failure: ... all external libraries present downloading dmake-4.12.tar.bz2

Windows 10 ./bootstrap failure

2016-09-21 Thread Patricia Shanahan
I believe I have done all the preliminary steps. configure appeared to work, but I have a persistent bootstrap failure: ... all external libraries present downloading dmake-4.12.tar.bz2 downloading to C:/OpenOfficeDev/AOO413/ext_sources/dmake-4.12.tar.bz2.part download from

Fwd: 4.1.3_release_blocker requested: [Issue 127127] English dictionary included in 4.1.3 installer is outdated

2016-09-21 Thread Patricia Shanahan
How would granting 4.1.3_release_blocker on this impact progress on the builds? Forwarded Message Subject: 4.1.3_release_blocker requested: [Issue 127127] English dictionary included in 4.1.3 installer is outdated Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 18:37:17 + From:

4.1.3 building

2016-09-21 Thread Patricia Shanahan
1. My current policy for release blocker is to grant it immediately if it seems obvious to me that a fix is needed to build 4.1.3. I will also do so based on prior security@ discussion. Otherwise, I'll ask for input on dev@ before deciding. 2. I would like to get a list of environments in

Re: 4.1.4 Release Manager?

2016-09-18 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 9/18/2016 12:14 AM, Marcus wrote: Am 09/18/2016 07:45 AM, schrieb Peter Kovacs: Hmm, does anyone know an artist that has some time and can draw a splash screen? I would love to see the next edition Called 4.1.3 Phoenix addition, And I would love to see a Splashscreen that shows an Phönix

Re: Building 4.1.3: Error while building module icu on windows

2016-09-18 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Do you happen to know the bugzilla issue for that? It needs 4.1.3 release blocker status. On 9/18/2016 10:02 AM, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: This was fixed in trunk, but commit r1729921 still needs to be ported to the 4.1.3 branch. Damjan On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 12:46 PM, Oliver Brinzing

Re: building on Windows 10 breaks at guistdio.exe

2016-09-18 Thread Patricia Shanahan
files/dmake-4.12.tar.bz2" --with-epm-url="http://www. msweet.org/files/project2/epm-3.7-source.tar.gz" --disable-pch --disable-atl --disable-activex --without-junit On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 9:39 PM, John D'Orazio <john.dorazio@ cappellaniauniroma3.org> wrote: So I've take

Re: [Release 4.1.3] Overview of issues that are relevant

2016-09-18 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 9/18/2016 1:21 PM, Marcus wrote: I've created a list of all issues for the 4.1.3 release: Show all issues that include the flag "4.1.3_release_blocker" [1]. The list includes granted issues for 4.1.3 but also ones that are still open (4.1.3_release_blocker?) and not included

Re: [Release 4.1.3] Overview of issues that are relevant

2016-09-18 Thread Patricia Shanahan
There are two types of issue. There is a very small set of issues that motivated 4.1.3. In addition, we are paying off technological debt due to not have routinely done point releases, mainly copying fixes for build issues from the trunk into the 4.1.3 branch. On 9/18/2016 1:21 PM, Marcus wrote:

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

2016-09-16 Thread Patricia Shanahan
This is a binding vote. On 9/15/2016 4:21 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: +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

Re: building on Windows 10 breaks at guistdio.exe

2016-09-19 Thread Patricia Shanahan
rface if installing them from the cygwin interface. I think installing the packages from the cygwin interface should be indicated as the first step to take when first installing cygwin, adding all the necessary packages along with the first install. The only package I couldn't find from the cygwin i

Re: building on Windows 10 breaks at guistdio.exe

2016-09-19 Thread Patricia Shanahan
the cygwin interface was the Perl LWP::UserAgent package, so I installed that using "cpan -i LWP::UserAgent". On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 12:25 AM, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote: Congratulations! I'm about to do a Windows 10 build on a new machine, so please make sure the ste

Re: Fwd: [Issue 125147] CRASH applying styles to text

2016-09-19 Thread Patricia Shanahan
in the trunk for 1 1/2 year? But I am only a user and leave those decisions to the developers... ;-) Am 19.09.2016 um 15:10 schrieb Patricia Shanahan: Recently, we have only been adding changes for 4.1.3 if they are necessary to building it. If you request 4.1.3 release blocker for a general bug

Re: building on Windows 10 breaks at guistdio.exe

2016-09-19 Thread Patricia Shanahan
I had installed 64-bit Cygwin installed here before I started on compiling AOO. I hit problems, and had to go to the recommended 32-bit Cygwin. However, things have changed a bit since then, so it may be worth seeing if it works. On 9/19/2016 8:59 AM, John D'Orazio wrote: ... I also read

Re: Tools for building and checking a release candidate

2016-09-20 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 9/20/2016 2:37 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 18/09/2016 Marcus wrote: Am 09/17/2016 01:00 PM, schrieb Patricia Shanahan: Are there any tools to help put together an AOO release? If so, where are they? We don't have any. But I've provided a script that I've just used for a test 4.1.3 build

Re: building on Windows 10 breaks at guistdio.exe

2016-09-20 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 9/20/2016 12:56 AM, John D'Orazio wrote: On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 7:50 AM, Ariel Constenla-Haile <arie...@apache.org> wrote: On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 07:12:29PM -0700, Patricia Shanahan wrote: 4.1.3 does have changes to the language library URLs. Has anyone else done a build that in

Tools for building and checking a release candidate

2016-09-17 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Are there any tools to help put together an AOO release? If so, where are they? In particular, the binaries for each language for e.g. Windows will result from a build in a Windows environment. The release candidate groups the binaries by language, a transposition of the build matrix. Each

Re: building on Windows 10 breaks at guistdio.exe

2016-09-19 Thread Patricia Shanahan
changing the install path of NSIS to one without spaces, packaging also completed successfully. I have added "Windows 10" alongside "Windows 7" and "Windows 8.1" in the Step by Step guide. On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 7:50 PM, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote: I h

Re: Attention: Courtney

2016-08-26 Thread Patricia Shanahan
of this is too advanced for me. I want to help but. I just still got lost trying to understand the emails everyone was sending. Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote: Courtney, I tried to reply directly to your email three days ago. Please check whether a message from me got

Re: [DISCUSS] Release 4.2: General Topics

2016-08-23 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 8/23/2016 12:14 PM, Kay sch...@apache.org wrote: ... 2. Update Java requirement from Java 1.5 to *at least* Java 1.7 I am rather adamant that we change our building requirement to Java 1.7 for all platforms. I will be changing that in our Building Guide today. Java 1.5 went out of support

Re: Editing the release notes wiki

2016-09-27 Thread Patricia Shanahan
THANK YOU! I need to get my confluence problems sorted out, but it is much better not to let that delay getting the text into the Wiki. On 9/27/2016 6:24 AM, Dick Groskamp wrote: Added Patricia's draft text to the template for Release notes 4.1.3.

Test planning for 4.1.3

2016-09-28 Thread Patricia Shanahan
I am currently thinking about testing, and test result collection, for 4.1.3. Is there an OpenOffice QA person in the house? If so, I would like to let you take charge of organizing testing, and just provide some suggestions.

Fwd: 4.1.3_release_blocker requested: [Issue 127140] Installer includes VC package than 4.1.2

2016-09-27 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Opinions on this release blocker request? Forwarded Message Subject: 4.1.3_release_blocker requested: [Issue 127140] Installer includes VC package than 4.1.2 Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 12:57:14 + From: bugzi...@apache.org Reply-To: iss...@openoffice.apache.org To:

Re: Editing the release notes wiki

2016-09-27 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 9/27/2016 5:01 AM, Jörg Schmidt wrote: From: Patricia Shanahan [mailto:p...@acm.org] I look at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.1.3 +Release+Notes, and don't see any option to edit, other than the Firefox edit menu. Technically, the icon is not in Confluence

Re: Testing 4.1.3

2016-09-28 Thread Patricia Shanahan
any on the web site or even in the mail... Or should we wait for the RC (there used to be links on the website for the RCs). Hagar Le 26/09/2016 à 22:51, Marcus a écrit : Am 09/25/2016 08:33 PM, schrieb Marcus: Am 09/25/2016 04:33 PM, schrieb Patricia Shanahan: I suggest that people start

Re: Bootstrap fails

2016-09-27 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 9/27/2016 3:37 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 24/09/2016 Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: https://github.com/apache/openoffice It seems this repo isn't up-to-date, strange... I would have guessed this was synchronized I've reported this to INFRA months ago:

Re: Editing the release notes wiki

2016-09-27 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 9/27/2016 5:20 PM, Gavin McDonald wrote: -Original Message- From: Patricia Shanahan [mailto:p...@acm.org] Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2016 9:51 AM To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Editing the release notes wiki Is the username "p...@apache.org" or just &q

Re: Editing the release notes wiki

2016-09-27 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 9/27/2016 8:26 AM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: Patricia Shanahan wrote: On 9/27/2016 5:01 AM, Jörg Schmidt wrote: From: Patricia Shanahan [mailto:p...@acm.org] I look at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.1.3 +Release+Notes, and don't see any option to edit, other

Re: Hello

2016-09-28 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Welcome. I used to go to Beaverton quite often when I was working for FPS and its successors. We are currently testing a 4.1.3 release candidate. You can download many different binaries from https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/openoffice/4.1.3/binaries/ On 9/27/2016 5:04 PM, R. Mark Aldrich

Re: Testing 4.1.3

2016-10-03 Thread Patricia Shanahan
/2016 08:33 PM, schrieb Marcus: Am 09/25/2016 04:33 PM, schrieb Patricia Shanahan: I suggest that people start downloading and testing 4.1.3 as soon as there are binaries they can run. I can't start the formal vote period until we have a complete release candidate. thanks for the pointer, I'll wait

Re: Testing 4.1.3 - source builds

2016-10-03 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 10/3/2016 12:45 PM, Marcus wrote: Am 10/03/2016 09:40 PM, schrieb Patricia Shanahan: Testing seems to be going well, but there is a very specific requirement for a release. A PMC member, to cast a binding +1 vote approving a relese, needs to have built the software from source and tested

Testing 4.1.3 - source builds

2016-10-03 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Testing seems to be going well, but there is a very specific requirement for a release. A PMC member, to cast a binding +1 vote approving a relese, needs to have built the software from source and tested it on a machine under the PMC member's control. See

Re: Testing 4.1.3 - source builds

2016-10-03 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 10/3/2016 2:02 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Marcus wrote: wow, *all signed source code packages* ? I assume that this does not literally mean that you must test the .bz2, the .gz and the .zip. They are equivalent. This sentence is for when a project makes a release composed of different

Re: Testing 4.1.3 - source builds

2016-10-03 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 10/3/2016 3:30 PM, Marcus wrote: Am 10/03/2016 11:26 PM, schrieb Patricia Shanahan: On 10/3/2016 2:02 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Marcus wrote: wow, *all signed source code packages* ? I assume that this does not literally mean that you must test the .bz2, the .gz and the .zip

Re: Which source files in release?

2016-09-30 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 9/30/2016 9:59 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: there is no need to reinvent the wheel, I guess ;) Indeed. I've bumped the bug report just to give visibility to the scripts we already had. you need to fix the ant build script first, see the bug report Fixing

Re: [DISCUSS] 4.1.4 Release Manager?

2016-09-30 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 9/30/2016 10:15 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 03:58:11PM -0700, Patricia Shanahan wrote: There are now release blocker requests for 4.1.4, so we need a release manager to decide on them. If nobody steps in, and/or nobody has any objection

Re: [Noob] Code question

2016-10-02 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Here's an answer to part of your question. On 10/2/2016 9:49 AM, Peter Kovacs wrote: ... What does SAL NO VTABLE mean? Is it macro code? ... It's time to start using the OpenOffice OpenGrok at http://opengrok.adfinis-sygroup.org/source/ (Or use find and grep in combination, but that takes

Re: In regards to Open Office

2016-10-02 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Can this get to e.g. the Wiki? It is excellent advice for users deciding whether to use AOO. On 10/2/2016 9:17 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: +1 Rory's point is all that matters. The user wants to know how things will work *now* in choosing between different products. Hypotheticals and

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

2016-09-26 Thread Patricia Shanahan
https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/openoffice/4.1.3/binaries/ On 9/25/2016 10:29 PM, Mechtilde wrote: Hello Do we have a test build for MacOSX 64 bit? Then I will check it Mechtilde Am 25.09.2016 um 23:30 schrieb Marcus: Am 09/25/2016 11:05 PM, schrieb Patricia Shanahan: What

Re: svn commit: r15519 - in /dev/openoffice/4.1.2: ./ binaries/ binaries/ast/ binaries/ast/Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.3_MacOS_x86-64_install_ast.dmg.asc

2016-09-24 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 9/24/2016 7:55 PM, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 07:37:41PM -0700, Patricia Shanahan wrote: It looks as though these commits are going under 4.1.2, not 4.1.3. Is that deliberate? Yes ;) See my other mail, I want to test svn mv with my spare-dirs checkout. If it works

Re: svn commit: r15519 - in /dev/openoffice/4.1.2: ./ binaries/ binaries/ast/ binaries/ast/Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.3_MacOS_x86-64_install_ast.dmg.asc

2016-09-24 Thread Patricia Shanahan
It looks as though these commits are going under 4.1.2, not 4.1.3. Is that deliberate? On 9/24/2016 7:25 PM, arie...@apache.org wrote: Author: arielch Date: Sun Sep 25 02:25:41 2016 New Revision: 15519 Log: Prepare 4.1.3 release Added: dev/openoffice/4.1.2/

Re: [DISCUSS] Draft 4.1.3 release notes

2016-09-26 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 9/26/2016 2:01 AM, Matthias Seidel wrote: Am 26.09.2016 um 05:58 schrieb Patricia Shanahan: [Comments, suggestions, improvements welcome.] Only some nitpicking... ;-) Apache OpenOffice 4.1.3 is a maintenance release incorporating security fixes, updated dictionaries, and build fixes

Testing 4.1.3

2016-09-25 Thread Patricia Shanahan
I suggest that people start downloading and testing 4.1.3 as soon as there are binaries they can run. I can't start the formal vote period until we have a complete release candidate. - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: Request for Nofollow or Removal of Links to My Site at Openoffice

2016-09-25 Thread Patricia Shanahan
We do need to get control of templates.openoffice.org, either direct control or a SourceForge contact to whom we can pass this sort of request. On 9/25/2016 7:51 AM, Formsbirds wrote: Dear Webmaster, I'm writing to ask for adding "Nofollow" tag to the links that pointed to my site -

Re: Request for Nofollow or Removal of Links to My Site at Openoffice

2016-09-25 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 9/25/2016 9:04 AM, Simon Phipps wrote: On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 4:54 PM, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote: We do need to get control of templates.openoffice.org, either direct control or a SourceForge contact to whom we can pass this sort of request. More than that, the site

Re: Editing the release notes wiki

2016-09-26 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 9/26/2016 8:01 PM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: Patricia Shanahan wrote: 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. Pa

Re: Editing the release notes wiki

2016-09-26 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 9/26/2016 8:26 PM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: Patricia Shanahan wrote: On 9/26/2016 8:01 PM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: Patricia Shanahan wrote: 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

Re: Editing the release notes wiki

2016-09-26 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 9/26/2016 8:37 PM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: Patricia Shanahan wrote: On 9/26/2016 8:26 PM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: Patricia Shanahan wrote: On 9/26/2016 8:01 PM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: Patricia Shanahan wrote: I had foolishly assumed that editing the Wiki would be reasonably easy

Re: Which source files in release?

2016-09-30 Thread Patricia Shanahan
> On Sep 30, 2016, at 07:00, Ariel Constenla-Haile <arie...@apache.org> wrote: > >> On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 06:28:01AM -0700, Patricia Shanahan wrote: >> I just saw the bug report https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=126605, >> "Make sure the source p

Re: Which source files in release?

2016-10-01 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 10/1/2016 9:24 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Patricia Shanahan wrote: The idea is to start from a clean check-out, not configured, move the LICENSE, NOTICE, and README files, and delete what is not needed. "what is not needed" should be a relatively short list, including the

[DISCUSS] 4.1.4 Release Manager?

2016-09-29 Thread Patricia Shanahan
There are now release blocker requests for 4.1.4, so we need a release manager to decide on them. I am reluctant to be release manager for 4.1.4, because I will have limited Internet access, and no access to my home computers, from December 15th to January 8th. I will be packing immediately

Re: Good time to rename the release candidate?

2016-10-01 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 10/1/2016 2:55 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: Is this a good time to rename https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/openoffice/4.1.3/? It should change to "4.1.3-rc1" before final testing and vote. Since I really want to do this when the most involved people are not very active,

Good time to rename the release candidate?

2016-10-01 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Is this a good time to rename https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/openoffice/4.1.3/? It should change to "4.1.3-rc1" before final testing and vote. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For

Release candidate repository renamed.

2016-10-01 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Done. On 10/1/2016 2:55 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: Is this a good time to rename https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/openoffice/4.1.3/? It should change to "4.1.3-rc1" before final testing and vote. - To unsu

Apache OpenOffice release notification

2016-10-03 Thread Patricia Shanahan
The Apache OpenOffice project is currently preparing and testing a release candidate, 4.1.3-rc1. The total size of the artifacts, including the binary files, exceeds a gigabyte, so the release policy calls for notifying Infrastructure. I do not expect significant Infrastructure impact because

Infra notification?

2016-10-03 Thread Patricia Shanahan
According to http://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy.html#heads-up, infra needs to be notified in advance of releases of more than 1GB. What is the total size of our binaries? Do our releases really count for this, because most downloading will be from SourceForge, not ASF mirrors.

Re: Post vote release actions

2016-10-09 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 10/5/2016 8:26 AM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: 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. Just in case anyone missed it, the vote passed so it is time to execute the post

Re: Post vote release actions

2016-10-09 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 10/9/2016 8:56 PM, Don Lewis wrote: On 9 Oct, Patricia Shanahan wrote: On 10/9/2016 10:52 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Marcus wrote: - Change the RC1 into the real release This one takes a few seconds and is best done close to the release. - Uploading to the Sourceforge mirrors

Re: Post vote release actions

2016-10-09 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 10/9/2016 10:52 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Marcus wrote: - Change the RC1 into the real release This one takes a few seconds and is best done close to the release. - Uploading to the Sourceforge mirrors This one takes a few hours. I've already prepared a full svn export of

Re: Two release notes?

2016-10-10 Thread Patricia Shanahan
It's an artifact of editing the release notes page - I wanted to be able to compare two slightly different approaches. At this point, the "Alternative" should have been deleted, but I have not yet found out how to do it, or maybe don't have the Confluence karma to do so. It will be fixed

Comments in German

2016-11-08 Thread Patricia Shanahan
I trying to read some AOO source code. There are few comments, and several of the ones I have found are in German, which I don't know. I have tried running some through Google Translate, but the results do not make much sense. Is there a translation tool that works better on source code

Re: Comments in German

2016-11-09 Thread Patricia Shanahan
try to translate it Regards Mechtilde Am 08.11.2016 um 19:35 schrieb Patricia Shanahan: I trying to read some AOO source code. There are few comments, and several of the ones I have found are in German, which I don't know. I have tried running some through Google Translate, but the results do not

Re: Comments in German

2016-11-09 Thread Patricia Shanahan
they are reading. On 11/9/2016 5:17 AM, Matthias Seidel wrote: That sounds like a good idea! At the times, when StarOffice was a German product no one imagined, that the code would be open-sourced... ;-) Am 09.11.2016 um 14:01 schrieb Patricia Shanahan: As a compromise between doing individual

Re: [Issue 39199] Translate German comments in source codes into English

2016-11-10 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Thanks, Marcus. I just updated and reread doc.cxx, the file I'm trying to understand today. Several of the German comments contained useful information that I had not been able to guess from automatic translation. I think we have a good process now. On 11/10/2016 6:14 AM, bugzi...@apache.org

Writing up the release process

2016-10-12 Thread Patricia Shanahan
First, congratulations to everyone on releasing 4.1.3. If this were a conventional, co-located project I'd like to take you all out for a drink after work. Now back to work :-) At this moment, I hope everyone remembers exactly what they did, what karma and tools they used, to make the

Re: [RELEASE COOKBOOK] Adding and structuring the content

2016-10-15 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 10/15/2016 1:43 AM, Marcus wrote: Am 10/14/2016 12:11 AM, schrieb Keith N. McKenna: Marcus wrote: Am 10/13/2016 09:34 PM, schrieb Keith N. McKenna: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/How+to+Cook+a+Release You just need to add some text. Don't care about formatting or

Re: BSD/Mac-only crash on throwing unspecified exceptions?

2016-10-18 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 10/18/2016 11:41 AM, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: Hi On FreeBSD, and (according to 1 bug reporter) MacOS X, throwing an exception from a method which isn't specified by that method's exception specifier, eg. "throw Exception();" when the specifier was "throw(RuntimeException)", ends up calling

Re: [Issue 127176] Java not recognized after update to AOO 4.1.3

2016-10-25 Thread Patricia Shanahan
If this was a known issue before 4.1.3, please list it under the prior bug report, not 127176. 127176 was created after 4.1.3 was released, and describes the problem as a regression relative to 4.1.2. On 10/25/2016 9:23 AM, bugzi...@apache.org wrote:

Re: recruitment@

2016-10-21 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 10/21/2016 5:30 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: Methinks that the creation of recruitment@ was ill-advised... Most new people are joining dev@ which makes recruitment@ look like a dismal failure. With 20/20 hindsight, it does not seem to have been useful. The question was whether dev@'s high

Re: Failure to build on Windows 10

2016-10-19 Thread Patricia Shanahan
lps any? John R. D'Orazio On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 12:58 AM, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote: I tried to build AOO413 on Windows 10, and got a failure: /MAP /OPT:NOREF -safeseh -nxcompat -dynamicbase -NODEFAULTLIB -RELEASE -DEBUG -INCREMENTAL:NO /SUBSYSTEM:CONSOLE /BASE:0x1b00 -

Re: Hash values of downloaded files

2016-11-26 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 11/26/2016 4:22 AM, Brian Barker wrote: ... As I explained, the user quite properly derived the hash value of the installation file. He then - understandably but wrongly - performed the same process to derive the hash value *of* the hash file - instead of inspecting the value provided in that

Re: svn commit: r1770427 - /openoffice/trunk/main/sfx2/source/appl/linkmgr2.cxx

2016-11-18 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Thanks. On 11/18/2016 11:25 AM, mar...@apache.org wrote: Author: marcus Date: Fri Nov 18 19:25:19 2016 New Revision: 1770427 URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1770427=rev Log: Translated comments from German to English Modified: openoffice/trunk/main/sfx2/source/appl/linkmgr2.cxx

Re: Need urgent Confluence help

2016-10-11 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 10/11/2016 9:23 AM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: I need to delete a page, and do not have the karma to do it. I either need an addition to my confluence permissions, or for someone who can do so to delete https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Alternative+AOO+4.1.3+Release+Notes

Need urgent Confluence help

2016-10-11 Thread Patricia Shanahan
I need to delete a page, and do not have the karma to do it. I either need an addition to my confluence permissions, or for someone who can do so to delete https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Alternative+AOO+4.1.3+Release+Notes

Re: This can not be true

2016-10-13 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 10/12/2016 11:55 PM, Jörg Schmidt wrote: Hello Apache, Hello OpenOffice-PMC, Hello Community, I am absolutely horrified that in a situation where we have to overcome problems together, no reasonable planning takes place. I have started a Wiki page on "How to Cook a Release",

Re: Writing up the release process

2016-10-12 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 10/12/2016 2:55 PM, Marcus wrote: Am 10/12/2016 11:49 PM, schrieb Patricia Shanahan: First, congratulations to everyone on releasing 4.1.3. If this were a conventional, co-located project I'd like to take you all out for a drink after work. Now back to work :-) At this moment, I hope

Re: Is there still someone who build for Solaris/Openindiana

2016-12-06 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 12/6/2016 1:55 AM, Raphael Bircher wrote: Hi all I'm going to the configure script and I recognize that there are still parts for solaris. As far as I know, the last version who build with solaris was the AOO 3.4.x. My question is, if we should ride off the Solaris stuff or we should keep

Re: [discussion] Roadmap for Open Office

2016-12-06 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 12/5/2016 12:35 PM, Peter Kovacs wrote: ... # Concerning 12h period. (did not find who brought this up :) ) What I mean is that it would be great if we could devide all activities in good estimate able chunks. Agile methology claims everything that an experienced developer estimates beyond

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