Re: AOO build system upgrades
On Wednesday, 23 September 2015, Damjan Jovanovic <dam...@apache.org> wrote: > Hi > > I see there was a historical attempt to upgrade the build environment > to gbuild which migrated some modules > (https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Build_Environment_Effort), and a > more recent attempt, Capstone 2013, to get AOO to build in Visual > Studio. > > Have we chosen a final build system yet? > > The reason I ask is that I became quite familiar with gbuild in the > course of migrating our unit tests to Google Test, and have already > successfully migrated one dmake module (formula) to gbuild, so if > there are no objections, I am going commit those changes and carry on > migrating other modules. > > Our current hybrid build.pl + dmake/gbuild system is complex, ugly, > slow, unreliable, and hard to maintain, and I believe it's also a > barrier of entry for new developers > (https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Build_System_Analysis). LO has > already migrated their build system to pure gbuild. Shouldn't we? ?? Not sure why I am copied on this mail not being committer I have no saying in what to choose. I do not see any specific questions for me, so please do not fill my inbox (I read dev@ from time to time). rgds jan i > > Regards > Damjan > -- Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings.
Re: Maintenance of AOO Wiki and Forum
I see this mail goes public on dev@ which seems to have changed a lot into a single person deciding what happens (or at least what is communicated outside the project). This is of course only my opinon as one who do not follow the project closely, but I respond accordingly. If the AOO project finds it easier to define "ordinary maintenance" then please do so, there are lots of references in the archives as to what that means, written by myself and other PMC members. If you have specific questions I am happy to help. Your description sounds ok (at least for a sales brochure), reality might be a bit more complicated but not that much. However you avoid the real problem, the upgrade, in my private opinion the servers need an makeover for security reasons, but that is my personal opinion (to any hackers: the servers are currently well protected from the outside due to the https structure that infra prefers to use) I understand from other lists, which I cannot refer to, that the AOO chair (I have not seen it confirmed anywhere from the PMC) is talking with infra, so I do not understand the background for your question, nor do I want to interfere in talks between the AOO chair and Infra. As I have said many times I am part of Infra and part of apache, so naturally I am available for help when needed, but please do not use me as a go-between infra and the project. rgds jan i On Friday, September 11, 2015, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> wrote: > On 14/08/2015 jan i wrote: > >> this might be a good time for a new maintainer to step up. >> The actual maintenance is about 1 hour pr month. >> > > Coming back to this, it is likely to be easier to find someone if we > define this "ordinary maintenance" better. I mean, updating the application > takes surely more than 1 hour but that is "extraordinary maintenance". > > What falls in the "ordinary maintenance"? Login to the VM, say, every few > days, apt-get upgrade, taking a look at the logs and basic system health > indicators? If these are the tasks then expanding the team with one extra > volunteer will look less daunting than upgrading the forum to the latest > version, which is made very complex by the extremely complicated setup we > inherited from the pre-Apache era. > > Note: I did read the companion thread too, but still it didn't get into > concrete maintenance tasks. > > By the way, Jan let me thank you in public for the infrastructure work: > unfortunately, like all sysadmin tasks, if one does a good job it doesn't > show since everything just keeps working and people forget that this is due > to someone properly administering them. > > Regards, > Andrea. > -- Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings.
Re: Maintenance of AOO Wiki and Forum
On Friday, September 11, 2015, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> wrote: > On 14/08/2015 jan i wrote: > >> this might be a good time for a new maintainer to step up. >> The actual maintenance is about 1 hour pr month. >> > > Coming back to this, it is likely to be easier to find someone if we > define this "ordinary maintenance" better. I mean, updating the application > takes surely more than 1 hour but that is "extraordinary maintenance". > > What falls in the "ordinary maintenance"? Login to the VM, say, every few > days, apt-get upgrade, taking a look at the logs and basic system health > indicators? If these are the tasks then expanding the team with one extra > volunteer will look less daunting than upgrading the forum to the latest > version, which is made very complex by the extremely complicated setup we > inherited from the pre-Apache era. > > Note: I did read the companion thread too, but still it didn't get into > concrete maintenance tasks. > > By the way, Jan let me thank you in public for the infrastructure work: > unfortunately, like all sysadmin tasks, if one does a good job it doesn't > show since everything just keeps working and people forget that this is due > to someone properly administering them. > > Regards, > Andrea. > -- Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings.
Mentor hat and advice
Hi folks We should be celebrating our first release, it is getting close and we have the IPMC votes we need, so now we just need to avoid -1 (binding).. One of our core developers wrote to me privately asking for advice, instead of responding privately I respond in here, so it becomes public knowledge. Wearing my Mentor hat. I do not want to interfere in any way with who mails what to whom, but at least one core developer has been offended by a private (offlist) email and asked me how to handle it. As mentor, my recommendation is, that if you recieve private emails about corinthia that you do not want, reply politely to the email, asking the sender to direct the email to one of our mailing lists (Motto: If it did not happen on a mailing list, it did not happen). You should not send the email to any ML because it was sent to you in private, if you want to prevent further private emails you can write, that emails will in the future be forwarded to e.g. private@, that way the sender has received a fair warning. REMARK, the above is only an advice I give because I was asked, this is not something you need to follow in any way. Rgds jan I. Ps. Could this day please be a day where we think positive. -- Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings.
Fwd: Mentor hat and advice
wrong list sorry. rgds jan i -- Forwarded message -- From: *jan i* j...@apache.org Date: Monday, August 24, 2015 Subject: Mentor hat and advice To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Hi folks We should be celebrating our first release, it is getting close and we have the IPMC votes we need, so now we just need to avoid -1 (binding).. One of our core developers wrote to me privately asking for advice, instead of responding privately I respond in here, so it becomes public knowledge. Wearing my Mentor hat. I do not want to interfere in any way with who mails what to whom, but at least one core developer has been offended by a private (offlist) email and asked me how to handle it. As mentor, my recommendation is, that if you recieve private emails about corinthia that you do not want, reply politely to the email, asking the sender to direct the email to one of our mailing lists (Motto: If it did not happen on a mailing list, it did not happen). You should not send the email to any ML because it was sent to you in private, if you want to prevent further private emails you can write, that emails will in the future be forwarded to e.g. private@, that way the sender has received a fair warning. REMARK, the above is only an advice I give because I was asked, this is not something you need to follow in any way. Rgds jan I. Ps. Could this day please be a day where we think positive. -- Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings. -- Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings.
[RESULT][VOTE] Dennis Hamilton as new AOO Chair.
Congratulations Dennis. The following resolution has been added to the september board meeting: A. Change the Apache OpenOffice Project Chair WHEREAS, the Board of Directors heretofore appointed Jan Iversen to the office of Vice President, Apache OpenOffice, and WHEREAS, the Board of Directors is in receipt of the resignation of Jan Iversen from the office of Vice President, Apache OpenOffice, and WHEREAS, the Community of the Apache Openoffice project has chosen to recommend Dennis Hamilton as the successor to the post; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Jan Iversen is relieved and discharged from the duties and responsibilities of the office of Vice President, Apache OpenOffice, and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Dennis Hamilton be and hereby is appointed to the office of Vice President, Apache OpenOffice, to serve in accordance with and subject to the direction of the Board of Directors. and the Bylaws of the Foundation until death, resignation, retirement, removal or disqualification, or until a successor is appointed. = I will in a moment resign from the project as such and unsubscribe from the lists. I wish the project all the best in the future. Even considering all the bad discussion, I still look back on some nice memories. rgds jan i. On 20 August 2015 at 12:53, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@gmail.com wrote: [X] +1, Dennis Hamilton as new Chair On 16/08/15 08:57, jan i wrote: This is a call for a formal vote among the 1 candidate for the AOO Chair role. Due to the fact that there are only 1 candidate we could use lazy consensus, but since some persons might be against that, we will use majority vote, as if there was multiple candidates. Voting rules are as follows: - Only PMC votes are binding, but everybody are welcome to vote - The nominee with the most +1 (deducted -1) gets elected - VOTE runs until Sunday August 23th - As outgoing Chair, I will send resolution to Board August 23th. Please vote [ ] +1, I want Dennis Hamilton as new Chair [ ] +0, I do not care if Dennis Hamilton becomes new Chair [ ] -1, I am against Dennis Hamilton becomes new chair (out of curtesy, please add another suggestion). Have fun voting. rgds jan i. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: QUESTIONS RE: Maintenance of AOO Wiki and Forum
On 17 August 2015 at 23:23, Dennis E. Hamilton orc...@apache.org wrote: Thanks Tony, this reminds me of some questions that would help us understand what is involved. These questions are anyone knowledgable of the current arrangements: I see four levels of support to wikis and forums: 1. User Account and Content Administration I believe this is handed. Does anyone believe it is not? this is done by the wiki administrators. 2. Administering the Running Service That is, a server administrator for the service (not necessarily the host) Is this done? Do we need a replacement or an expansion here? What are prerequisite qualifications for being able to do this. I do that at the moment. I would strongly suggest at least an expansion. 3. Administrating the Server that hosts the Service I assume this is where one deals with Ubuntu upgrades and such, whether the server is real or virtual. Is this provided by the project? Do we need a replacement/expansion here from within the project? Again, what are prerequisite qualifications? Yes it is provided by the project, and actually it is extremely hard to divided 2 and 3, they are interconnected. I strongly suggest at least an expansion, also because the project might have wishes which I would not see, are be able to facilitate (e.g. change the login configuration). Sysadm experience brings you a long way, otherwise it is not hard to read up on Mediawiki, mysql, ATS and Ubuntu. 4. I assume hardware IT support is not the business of the project, and changing boxes is a different deal. Yes? It is vm´s and not physical boxes. At the moment one of the biggest problems is how to recreate them if they break. Infra nowadays use Puppet for that purpose. The Vms are defined in puppet2 but not puppet3. I suspect this is known. I don't know if the necessary information is anywhere in project materials (haven't looked). It is in the mail archives and on the vms themself. This is an area of ignorance for me. I am not raising my hand. I just want to ensure that the necessary requirements are understood and we know what is and is not adequately covered. - Dennis -Original Message- From: Tony Stevenson [mailto:t...@pc-tony.com] Sent: Monday, August 17, 2015 12:54 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Maintenance of AOO Wiki and Forum On Fri, 14 Aug 2015, at 01:31 PM, jan i wrote: Hi. The AOO Forum vm could do with an upgrade to Ubuntu 14.04 and be defined in the new puppet structure. Defining it in the new puppet structure has the advantage that Infra can roll a new vm in case of problems, and thereby reducing downtime. The AOO Wiki vm is in strong need of a reconfiguration and update (Ubuntu 14.04 see above). Currently there is a ATS running on the same vm in front of the mediawiki (django) application. The ATS veersion is no longer supported by the traffic server project. Running it on a separate vm (or even as the HTPPS proxy) has a lot of merit, but it has not been done. As I am reducing my engagement in the project, this might be a good time for a new maintainer to step up. The actual maintenance is about 1 hour pr month. Can I take this opportunity to remind the community that if this service fails to be maintained appropriately it will be turned off, or made unavailable by Infra until such time it is brought up to date and managed. Tony@ I assume you by maintained really think of security, Infra do not care which version of e.g. mediawiki the project uses, as long as there are no known security risks. AIUI this was the agreement that we had with the project when it was handed over to enable you to manage yourselves. I can confirm, that is what I have been told when I started, and how I handled it. rgds jan i. Many thanks, -- Tony - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [DISCUSS] Would you like to be the new chair of AOO ?
Hi. Today is end of nominations, we have received 1 nomination and Dennis has accepted the nomination. I do not see a need for a further discussion period, since the last entry on this thread was 13 days ago (not counting the private mails I have received). I will start the VOTE Thread shortly. rgds jan I. On 3 August 2015 at 20:34, Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.com wrote: On 31 Jul 15, at 17:40, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 11:03 AM, Rob Weir r...@robweir.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Roberto Galoppini roberto.galopp...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I would like to nominate Dennis Hamilton (orcmid), for a number of reasons we already discussed here, and more important to say because of his very positive attitude towards collaboration within the PMC. He proved to be an excellent mediator and advisor to the group, always respectful of the Apache Way and willing to help. +1. I think Dennis would be a great choice, if he is willing. I've known him for almost a decade now, from his volunteer work on the ODF standard and with ODF interoperability. He was one of the few true volunteer members of the ODF TC, not working for any of the large commercial vendors, but gained the respect of all with his technical knowledge and experience, but also his willingness to work with all. He's a gentleman, something we don't see much anymore. I met him once in Seattle at an ODF Plugfest and he made me appreciate the importance of thanking public bus drivers. My mentioning all this will surely embarrass Dennis a little, but that's the kind of guy he is, and I want to make sure you know that. Regards, -Rob and my +1 for Dennis Hamilton as chair I think Dennis would be an excellent choice. For what it's worth, he was also one of the original endorsers (well I don't know the proper term is here) for bringing OpenOffice into the ASF: http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenOfficeProposal I think this says a lot about his interest and enthusiasm for OpenOffice +1 nomination for DH, too. Note, DH also ran for Chair last time we went through this. And given the abundance of reminders by Rich and others as to what a chair is and is not and given also that DH has been involved with Apache since …? (ages)… As well as active with ODF (in numerous loci, despite his claims to be slightly less engaged), and also Corinthia…. Cheers, louis - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [VOTE] Dennis Hamilton as new AOO Chair.
+0 (binding) No need for a vote. not even having discussed multiple candidates shows quite accurate the state of the project. rgds jan i On 16 August 2015 at 08:57, jan i j...@apache.org wrote: This is a call for a formal vote among the 1 candidate for the AOO Chair role. Due to the fact that there are only 1 candidate we could use lazy consensus, but since some persons might be against that, we will use majority vote, as if there was multiple candidates. Voting rules are as follows: - Only PMC votes are binding, but everybody are welcome to vote - The nominee with the most +1 (deducted -1) gets elected - VOTE runs until Sunday August 23th - As outgoing Chair, I will send resolution to Board August 23th. Please vote [ ] +1, I want Dennis Hamilton as new Chair [ ] +0, I do not care if Dennis Hamilton becomes new Chair [ ] -1, I am against Dennis Hamilton becomes new chair (out of curtesy, please add another suggestion). Have fun voting. rgds jan i.
[VOTE] Dennis Hamilton as new AOO Chair.
This is a call for a formal vote among the 1 candidate for the AOO Chair role. Due to the fact that there are only 1 candidate we could use lazy consensus, but since some persons might be against that, we will use majority vote, as if there was multiple candidates. Voting rules are as follows: - Only PMC votes are binding, but everybody are welcome to vote - The nominee with the most +1 (deducted -1) gets elected - VOTE runs until Sunday August 23th - As outgoing Chair, I will send resolution to Board August 23th. Please vote [ ] +1, I want Dennis Hamilton as new Chair [ ] +0, I do not care if Dennis Hamilton becomes new Chair [ ] -1, I am against Dennis Hamilton becomes new chair (out of curtesy, please add another suggestion). Have fun voting. rgds jan i.
Maintenance of AOO Wiki and Forum
Hi. The AOO Forum vm could do with an upgrade to Ubuntu 14.04 and be defined in the new puppet structure. Defining it in the new puppet structure has the advantage that Infra can roll a new vm in case of problems, and thereby reducing downtime. The AOO Wiki vm is in strong need of a reconfiguration and update (Ubuntu 14.04 see above). Currently there is a ATS running on the same vm in front of the mediawiki (django) application. The ATS veersion is no longer supported by the traffic server project. Running it on a separate vm (or even as the HTPPS proxy) has a lot of merit, but it has not been done. As I am reducing my engagement in the project, this might be a good time for a new maintainer to step up. The actual maintenance is about 1 hour pr month. I would like to help a new maintainer understand the setup, and also have no problem continuing having access to the vm´s so I can help as backstopper in case of problems. I believe it is better for the project to have a person that is active in the project, and participates on the mailing lists than one who do not read the ML. thoughts (or volunteers) ? rgds jan i.
Re: Can't access to people with SSH (was: [NOTICE] Windows build machine setted up)
On Sunday, August 9, 2015, Michal Hriň h...@apache.org wrote: you wrote you had uploaded the SSH keys to id.apache.org, that is a good first step.Next a couple of questions: - which terminal program do you use ? I use putty, and had to generate the keys with puttygen, you also have to remember to configure the terminal program to use SSH (not telnet) and give a path to your part of the key. - What exactly happens ? is your key rejected or do you get some kind of key error ? hrin I am using graphical terminal emulator xfce-terminal, bash and openssh 6.9p1 ... so I need to generate keys : ssh-keygen -t rsa Done. Now I need to start agent and give to it keys: ssh-agent ssh-add I can check if the agent has keys with: ssh-add -L ssh-add -l Now I am going to id webadmin and copy paste here public ssh-key. I am awiting that I can connect: ssh myid@people... or ssh -2 myid@people... to force v2 protocol. The output is: -- Note: logging in to this server with a password has been disabled. Please see : https://blogs.apache.org/infra/entry/committer_shell_access_to_people Remember to load your ssh key:- See: http://linux.die.net/man/1/ssh-add ; See: http://linux.die.net/man/1/ssh-agent Permission denied (publickey). -- I remembered that, I had setted up keys connection some years ago, nowadays I do not have old keys. In that time I had to copy my public key, to .ssh/authorized_keys file on people machine. Now I am not able to do this. Maybe this is the problem. no now ldap is used (id.apache.org), but I wonder if the problem could be that you have old keys on people. This would normally give you a key invalid error. Since you get the note it seems key is rejected and it therefore falls back to the password, which is blocked. Fastest solution for you is to jump on hip chat with infra, they have the karma to e.g. remove your old keys. rgds jan i Regards, Michal Hriň /hrin - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org javascript:; For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org javascript:; -- Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings.
Re: [NOTICE] Windows build machine setted up
On 8 August 2015 at 20:21, Michal Hriň h...@apache.org wrote: BTW: Do you still have the access problem with your people@a.o account? If so, we (maybe together with Infra) should solve this. Then you can save the binaries there to indicate that the work comes from an AOO committer and not from somewhere else. hrin Yes, I have still this problems. Solving this will be great. Thanks ! you wrote you had uploaded the SSH keys to id.apache.org, that is a good first step. Next a couple of questions: - which terminal program do you use ? I use putty, and had to generate the keys with puttygen, you also have to remember to configure the terminal program to use SSH (not telnet) and give a path to your part of the key. - What exactly happens ? is your key rejected or do you get some kind of key error ? rgds jan i. /hrin - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
[NOTICE] Windows build machine setted up
On Friday, August 7, 2015, Rich Bowen rbo...@rcbowen.com javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','rbo...@rcbowen.com'); wrote: On 08/07/2015 04:00 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: On 07/08/15 09:50, Michal Hriň wrote: Thanks for providing a binary, but I am a bit concerned that a version is made public, before the PMC have even spoken about being ready to make a release candidate or started voting on a release candidate. Is this coordinated with the release manager for 4.1.2 ? Please do not misunderstand me, I think it is great that work is being done, I am just surprised we are ready to go public with 4.1.2 even as a pre-view. hrin OK. Binary is deleted. This was not coordinated, that was only snapshot .. not release candidate. All in all Linux 32bit builds from AOO410 branch are on buildbots, so everybody can downlaod it, this is not secret. Sorry, that I was excited and want to show it publically. no problem you did a good job and I don't see any problem, you did not publish anything official and just provided a new fresh binary for preview and testing if your build env is working as expected and can be used for a Windows release build. Please continue your tests and keep us informed. I'm would be happy if I don't have to prepare windows builds. I'm finding this conversation perplexing, and, no doubt, I lack some back-story. Surely it's wonderful that someone is producing binaries for folks to try out, right? Why would we want them to be deleted, and not publicized? Binaries are not (as has been discussed DOZENS of times) official releases. And anyone is free to take our code and push out binaries. Can someone explain to me what the problem is here? We should be encouraging the work that Michal is doing, celebrating it, tweeting it, and encouraging everyone and their grandmothers to try out this new build. What am I missing? Since I was the cause, let me explain what I tried to write, I think the work done is very good, and wrote so, and I do not think anybody asked for it to be deleted. My concern was the naming 4.1.2 early preview. Thats sounds official (not as an apache release, but you know that for AOO the binary is downloaded factors more than the release source tar ball) and I do not want a confusion to arise between what the release manager does and what individual committers does. I think Michael is doing a very important job with preparing builds for the upcomming release, his work is known here, so much more reason to be carefull when naming intermidiate builds. Andrea wrote it more direct, this is a michael build based on the 4.1.0 branch, this is totally correct and something a lot of people should test. So I do not think you missed a lot, but as always it is real difficult to write something without getting misinterpreted or misunderstood. rgds jan i. -- Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org -- Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings.
New committer
Hi. Welcome to Manik Malhotra who just accepting being openoffice committer. rgds jan i.
[NOTICE] Windows build machine setted up
On Thursday, August 6, 2015, Michal Hriň h...@apache.org javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','h...@apache.org'); wrote: V Štvrtok, 6. august 2015 o 10:22 +0200, Michal Hriň napísal(a): Hi all, finally I setted up Windows machine for dev builds. I have compiled build from AOO410 branch, for this time only in US and sk language. If nobody have better solution, I can prepare test builds. The only problem is that I cannot access people.a.o machine, I have generated ssh keys and uploaded public key to my id, but connection is still refused. I can upload builds to OneDrive or to our own server, but it has limitted bandwith so somebody need to copy it, to Apache machines (it can't be used for massive downloading). If somebody would like to try en-US 4.1.2 Early Preview https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=9CF40FA60FBDCD!293authkey=!AP86Q 1h_P__6LjIithint=file%2cexe https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=9CF40FA60FBDCD!293authkey=!AP86Q1h_P__6LjIithint=file%2cexe Thanks for providing a binary, but I am a bit concerned that a version is made public, before the PMC have even spoken about being ready to make a release candidate or started voting on a release candidate. Is this coordinated with the release manager for 4.1.2 ? Please do not misunderstand me, I think it is great that work is being done, I am just surprised we are ready to go public with 4.1.2 even as a pre-view. rgds jan i Jan - could you sent to me in private step-by-step guide for dummy about digital signing ? I can play a little with it. (for example with self generated certificate) Thanks everybody! Regards wih wishing good day, Michal Hriň - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org -- Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings.
Re: [NOTICE] Windows build machine setted up
On Thursday, August 6, 2015, Michal Hriň h...@apache.org wrote: Hi all, finally I setted up Windows machine for dev builds. I have compiled build from AOO410 branch, for this time only in US and sk language. If nobody have better solution, I can prepare test builds. The only problem is that I cannot access people.a.o machine, I have generated ssh keys and uploaded public key to my id, but connection is still refused. I can upload builds to OneDrive or to our own server, but it has limitted bandwith so somebody need to copy it, to Apache machines (it can't be used for massive downloading). Jan - could you sent to me in private step-by-step guide for dummy about digital signing ? I can play a little with it. (for example with self generated certificate) I wrote it in an earlier email, search for digital signing. You need a verisign account and only andrea has a AOO account and you need a simple modification of the build procedure. Andrea wanted to add me earlier but due to I believe some complications it never happened. Anyhow the way I suggested digital signing, was an idea which I tested, but others might have different ideas about how to do it. First step would be to agree on what should be signed (only the setup exe, the runtime exe, the runtime dll and jars). A good digital signing (like my proposal) contain it all. rgds jan i Thanks everybody! Regards wih wishing good day, Michal Hriň - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org javascript:; For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org javascript:; -- Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings.
Re: [DISCUSS] RE: [DISCUSS] Calendar for New chair of AOO
Hi it seems there are different opinions on how to handle the rest of the chair election process. I suggested a timeline, in the beginning, but I cannot see consensus, so I will not change the timeline, however if any other PMC member wants to do it, then I am positive as long as we have a solution no later than the september board meeting. An alternative (not my preference) could be to start the vote now until e.g. september 15th, in the understanding that if a second (or more) candidate turns up, the vote is restarted. rgds jan i. On 4 August 2015 at 01:36, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: [top posting] Despite the apparent lack of nominees, I would urge us to continue with the originally announced date of Aug. 16 as the closing. On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 3:50 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton orc...@apache.org wrote: The August Board meeting is on August 19 and I suspect that a resolution to the Board must be provided on or before August 17. (I couldn't find a different deadline other than 2 days before.) My sense is that it is very important to be consistent and deliberate. For me, August 16 closing of nominations is an established, public date. There might be some generous lazy consensus period for reaching a different nomination-closing date so long as there are no further nominations or any request for the full time to accept nominations. Apart from concern that we demonstrate care in making any alterations, I am neutral with regard to the change of the closing date. As the only current nominee, it is awkward for me to say any more than that. - Dennis -Original Message- From: jan i [mailto:j...@apache.org] Sent: Monday, August 3, 2015 11:25 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] RE: [DISCUSS] Calendar for New chair of AOO On 3 August 2015 at 19:59, Rich Bowen rbo...@rcbowen.com wrote: On 08/03/2015 12:48 PM, Roberto Galoppini wrote: It seems to me that so far we have only one candidate. Given the actual situation I'd prefer us to consider the option to speed this up. We have many things to do, ranging from the Digital signing to go out with a new release, if we can close this we could probably focus on technical matters only. Does anyone have a problem to speed up this process? A big +1 from me, although I'm neither a committer nor a PMC member, I am a director, and would love to see AOO move past this road block, and potential source of controversy, and on to doing what the project was chartered to do. +1 from me, provided the PMC is in agreement on it. Please remember the original date was 16 August, so there might be candidates out there waiting (just like Dennis was not nominated the first day). In case the PMC decides to close for more candidates, I suggest a 72 hour (+weekend if needed) lazy consensus, and then I can make the needed resolution to board, we might even make it to the August board meeting. rgds jan i. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org -- - MzK “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” --Lao Tzu
Re: [DISCUSS] RE: [DISCUSS] Calendar for New chair of AOO
On 3 August 2015 at 19:59, Rich Bowen rbo...@rcbowen.com wrote: On 08/03/2015 12:48 PM, Roberto Galoppini wrote: It seems to me that so far we have only one candidate. Given the actual situation I'd prefer us to consider the option to speed this up. We have many things to do, ranging from the Digital signing to go out with a new release, if we can close this we could probably focus on technical matters only. Does anyone have a problem to speed up this process? A big +1 from me, although I'm neither a committer nor a PMC member, I am a director, and would love to see AOO move past this road block, and potential source of controversy, and on to doing what the project was chartered to do. +1 from me, provided the PMC is in agreement on it. Please remember the original date was 16 August, so there might be candidates out there waiting (just like Dennis was not nominated the first day). In case the PMC decides to close for more candidates, I suggest a 72 hour (+weekend if needed) lazy consensus, and then I can make the needed resolution to board, we might even make it to the August board meeting. rgds jan i. --Rich Roberto 2015-08-03 2:07 GMT+02:00 Dennis E. Hamilton orc...@apache.org: Let me correct my clumsy wording. Here's another try. I think a full week of discussion with all known candidates can occur by having the discussion end on August 16, when nominations close, or 7 days after the last accepted-/self- nomination, whichever is later. Another way to say this is Discussion will end 7 days after the last accepted-/self- Nomination, and no earlier than August 16. Since August 16 is already on the books, that would not change, but we might find some slack post-August 16. - Dennis -Original Message- From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamil...@acm.org] Sent: Sunday, August 2, 2015 15:27 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: RE: [DISCUSS] RE: [DISCUSS] Calendar for New chair of AOO Good point concerning closing nominations with time remaining for discussion of the candidates prior to any [VOTE]. Perhaps that can just be 7 days from the last accepted-/self-nomination or August 16, whichever is later. I think it is prudent to find some slack in the process, in case there is anything unexpected. - Dennis -Original Message- From: jan i [mailto:j...@apache.org] Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2015 15:38 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org; orc...@apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] RE: [DISCUSS] Calendar for New chair of AOO On Thursday, July 30, 2015, Dennis E. Hamilton orc...@apache.org wrote: It looks like two mileposts are the same, with August 16 (17 days from now) including Discuss. they are only partly the same. new candidates ends august 16th, giving the PMC tine to discuss. I suggest that the Discussion ends August 23 be removed. If you do that candidates entering the last days have hardly time to be discussed. I suggest that we can then have Voting ends backed up to August 28, 12 days from August 16. ok with me, if there is PMC consensus. [ ... ] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org -- Rich Bowen - rbo...@rcbowen.com - @rbowen http://apachecon.com/ - @apachecon - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [DISCUSSION] ODF Plugfest, September 2015 (was RE: [NOMINATION] Dennis Hamilton ... )
On 1 August 2015 at 19:23, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: jan i wrote: On Saturday, August 1, 2015, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Well, the project does have funds to spend on events and they have to be spent, so funding is only a matter of a discussion/vote/consensus here. Don't worry about this. We used to have a rule of 250eur if I remember right, travelling from US is likely to be 1000+ We've never had generic provisions, since all events are specific. I think that limit was for FOSDEM. Moreover, we never got to the step of actually reimbursing anyone, since nobody ever (me, you, anybody else) asked for travel reimbursement in the end... If we set some guidelines, it would make sense to have at least a recommendation to prefer short-range travel. I saw the 250EUR as generic, we briefly discussed it for at least another event, but you are right it never came to payment time. I would like to have guidelines, but not really event specific, but a max. pr person pr event and that is how I saw the 250EUR. We do not need strong guidelines, but something should be made, to ensure fairness (e.g. the 250EUR would not have paid in full my last trip to FOSDEM) and I totally agree with short-range travel. rgds jan i Regards, Andrea. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [DISCUSSION] ODF Plugfest, September 2015 (was RE: [NOMINATION] Dennis Hamilton ... )
On Saturday, August 1, 2015, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: On 01/08/2015 Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: I think if we create a portfolio of tests and a few slides on the status of AOO by mid-September, anyone could be present as an AOO participant. So in terms of tests we would need, for example, ODF documents exported by Google Docs (or IBM Docs, or whatever claims to produce ODF) that do not render as expected in OpenOffice? I assume this interoperability (seeing the type of event) is meant exclusively in ODF format, right? I.e., nothing related to OOXML for example. I do not have the means to travel to The Netherlands for this event. Well, the project does have funds to spend on events and they have to be spent, so funding is only a matter of a discussion/vote/consensus here. Don't worry about this. We used to have a rule of 250eur if I remember right, travelling from US is likely to be 1000+ I am willing to go, although it would be valuable to at least have someone more technically involved around interoperability testing. I don't think it is necessary to have someone be an official Sure, any properly skilled contributor can do. Is there a limit on the number of attendees? You could also be 2 people, Amsterdam is easily reachable by anyone in Europe. I find this to be an interesting event, especially as I am preparing an ApacheCon talk somewhat related to this; but it overlaps with another event and I won't be able to attend. I trust Roberto will continue to participate on the calls I haven't understood if Roberto is going to attend too, but a stronger presence at technical and non-technical events can only be beneficial. +1 rgds jan i Regards, Andrea. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org -- Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings.
Re: T-Dose 2015 - Helpers wanted
Hi Super to hear we will have presence at one more event, thanks for making it happen. I cannot participate, but I can offer - Apache stickers (if you are running low) - A big Apache feather poster to hang behind the booth (lending not to keep) We are finally getting the big apache feather poster available here in europe (big thanks to Sally for sponsoring this from the marketing budget). If you want I can get it sent to you after ACEU, and you either return it or keep it to FOSDEM. Please also remember AOO still have an account with money, to be spent for marketing, so if you need AOO related material it is possible. rgds jan i. On 31 July 2015 at 07:02, Dr. Michael Stehmann anw...@rechtsanwalt-stehmann.de wrote: Hello, T-DOSE is a free and yearly event held in The Netherlands to promote use and development of Free Software. This years event will be held on 28 and 29 November 2015 at the Fontys University of Applied Science in Eindhoven. Like in the last years Apache OpenOffice will have a booth there. Mechtilde und I will organize that booth. Helpers wanted! Kind regards Michael
Re: [DISCUSS] RE: [DISCUSS] Calendar for New chair of AOO
On Thursday, July 30, 2015, Dennis E. Hamilton orc...@apache.org wrote: It looks like two mileposts are the same, with August 16 (17 days from now) including Discuss. they are only partly the same. new candidates ends august 16th, giving the PMC tine to discuss. I suggest that the Discussion ends August 23 be removed. If you do that candidates entering the last days have hardly time to be discussed. I suggest that we can then have Voting ends backed up to August 28, 12 days from August 16. ok with me, if there is PMC consensus. This allows some slack time in case there is more to figure out before submitting the resolution to the board by Saturday, September 5. (Also, please note that this is on a major Holiday weekend in the United States, with Monday September 7 being the US Labor Day celebration.) board meeting is later, september 5th is my deadline for personal reasons. Rgds jan i - Dennis -Original Message- From: jan i [mailto:j...@apache.org javascript:;] Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2015 03:39 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org javascript:; Subject: [DISCUSS] Would you like to be the new chair of AOO ? Hi. I will resign at the board meeting in September, so the current schedule looks like: Accept/Nominate/Discuss candidates until August 16th Discussion ends August 23th Voting ends September 4th Resolution send to board September 5th. New chair takes over immediately after the board meeting. [ ... ] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org javascript:; For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org javascript:; -- Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings.
Re: [DISCUSS] Would you like to be the new chair of AOO ?
Hi Dennis I have absolutely no problem with your changes as long as September 5th remain unchanged. however as we both know, the opinion thst I should follow the idea of a single persone have been raised quite direct in private, do could you please endure PMC consensus to the proposal. With consensus I willchabfe it imidiatly. rgds jan i On Thursday, July 30, 2015, Dennis E. Hamilton orc...@apache.org wrote: This is not a nomination statement. It is a comment and a procedural suggestion. COMMENT Jan, I am certain that you gave deep consideration to your decision to resign. I trust that you have other pursuits that are more satisfying and that you can now provide full devotion to. I wish you good fortune in all endeavors that you commit your considerable energies to. For me, your continued participation on the PMC, at whatever level you choose, will be welcome. PROPOSAL Two things, 1. If there is only one nominee at the end of discussion, I suggest that a (5-day or 7-day) lazy consensus period, not a [VOTE], be conducted for that candidate. This allows discussion on the specific candidate, including response to any objections, and the achievement of consensus without the awful situation that Louis Suarez-Potts endured in the previous determination of a Chair recommendation. 2. I think candidates should be current PMC members (although that could simply be a matter of stated qualifications in the process we are starting now). I base that on neither of the previous candidates being current PMC members. I found, for myself, on joining the PMC after the previous election, that I was definitely missing background and understanding of the status of the PMC and issues it was being faced with. I also missed seeing the way the outgoing Chair (i.e., Andrea Pescetti) provided examples as a PMC Chair. For those who consider this role, please consult and embrace the definition of PMC Chair responsibilities at https://www.apache.org/dev/pmc.html#chair. - Dennis -Original Message- From: jan i [mailto:j...@apache.org javascript:;] Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2015 03:39 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org javascript:; Subject: [DISCUSS] Would you like to be the new chair of AOO ? Hi. I will resign at the board meeting in September, so the current schedule looks like: Accept/Nominate/Discuss candidates until August 16th Discussion ends August 23th Voting ends September 4th Resolution send to board September 5th. New chair takes over immediately after the board meeting. [ ... ] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org javascript:; For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org javascript:; -- Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings.
[DISCUSS] Would you like to be the new chair of AOO ?
Hi. I will resign at the board meeting in September, so the current schedule looks like: Accept/Nominate/Discuss candidates until August 16th Discussion ends August 23th Voting ends September 4th Resolution send to board September 5th. New chair takes over immediately after the board meeting. The reason for my resignation is an ongoing disagreement between part of the PMC and myself. I expected the PMC to be willing to make changes when I was elected, but at least my way seems to be counterproductive. The 2 main discrepancies are: - the board reports which, even though discussed publicly, have been the cause of negative discussions after being sent to board - the attempt to make a cooperation with LO, caused many discussions, but ended with adding restrictions, that made it impossible for me to continue the attempt. I do not want to go deeper into details, since it does not help finding a new chair. As a volunteer I want to work, where the work makes a positive difference, and not cause endless negative discussions. I hope a new chair can help unite the PMC and help drive the project forward. The PMC was informed about this July 24th, and after some discussions, the time has come to find new candidates. Please use this mail thread to announce yourself as a candidate, or to nominate someone else (remark that person must state whether or not the nomination is accepted). There are no formal limits to being a nominee, apart from committer status. The rules for the vote, will depend on the number of candidates but is basically a majority vote, with PMC votes being binding. rgds jan i.
Welcome to Gavin Mcdonald.
We welcome Gavin Mcdonald as a new committer. Gavin, it would be nice if you could write a few lines about yourself. on behalf of the openoffice PMC jan i.
Re: Buildbot: buildslave aoo_mac-mini was lost
Isn´t it about time we got it configured with the AOO stuff. Once we have that configured, then the buildbots cover our releases, and we need no longer depend on local machines. rgds jan i. On 22 July 2015 at 18:38, build...@apache.org wrote: The Buildbot working for 'ASF Buildbot' has noticed that the buildslave named aoo_mac-mini went away It last disconnected at Wed Jul 22 16:33:02 2015 (buildmaster-local time) The admin on record (as reported by BUILDSLAVE:info/admin) was 'Apache OpenOffice dev@openoffice.apache.org '. Sincerely, The Buildbot http://ci.apache.org/ http://ci.apache.org/buildslaves/aoo_mac-mini - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [RELEASE] Availability of machines for binary builds
On Friday, July 24, 2015, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: On 18/07/2015 Davide Dozza wrote: I have a vm with visual studio express 2008 I use to build AOO for win7. It is accessible from Internet. I can support the building process. I expected this thread to yield much more detailed information on what systems we used for 4.1.1 and the exact build options we used, and if those systems are still available to use (or to be ported to buildbots, or whatever). I still hope that someone can provide all details. Feel free to send them to me personally if they are in an attachment that would be rejected by the list. In the meantime, Davide, my best advice would be to try a build of https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/openoffice/branches/AOO410/ with the configuration options listed at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Development+Snapshot+Builds (they are not 100% up-to-date, probably, but they should be quite close). The next step would be to bring this within Apache somehow (dedicated VM, buildbot...) and then the much more challenging problem of digital signing can be tackled. Note that I haven't checked the current buildbot configuration since I'm not sure at all that our 4.1.1 Windows builds came from a buildbot (actually I believe that was NOT the case). None was done with buildbot. I do however have no idea what you would do on a dedicated vm. The buildbots can be reconfigured in a single file. You basically just need to update the configure statement, I do not know where we store the release config, I have asked that question in here several times. Digital signing, can be done from any machine (apache or private). One way is to follow the steps I outlined in here a year ago. rgds jan i Regards, Andrea. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org -- Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings.
Re: [BUILD] Error comphelper module
On Friday, July 24, 2015, Michal Hriň h...@apache.org wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to build AOO on Windows (7) and I still have problem with comphelper module. Error: = Building module comphelper = Entering /home/community/aoo-4.1.1/main/comphelper/prj cd .. make -s -r -j1make -s -r deliverlog [ info ALL ] LinkTarget Library/isal.lib not defined: Assuming headers to be there! [ info ALL ] LinkTarget Library/icppuhelper.lib not defined: Assuming headers to be there! [ info ALL ] LinkTarget Library/icppu.lib not defined: Assuming headers to be there! [ info ALL ] LinkTarget Library/iucbhelper.lib not defined: Assuming headers to be there! [ info ALL ] LinkTarget Library/ivos.lib not defined: Assuming headers to be there! [ info ALL ] LinkTarget Library/msvcprt.lib not defined: Assuming headers to be there! [ info ALL ] LinkTarget Library/uwinapi.lib not defined: Assuming headers to be there! [ info ALL ] LinkTarget Library/kernel32.lib not defined: Assuming headers to be there! [ info ALL ] LinkTarget Library/msvcrt.lib not defined: Assuming headers to be there! [ info ALL ] LinkTarget Library/oldnames.lib not defined: Assuming headers to be there! [ build PKG ] comphelper_inc [ build DEP ] LNK:Library/icomphelp.lib [ build RES ] comphelper/default [ build RES ] awk: fatal: can't open source file `C:/cygwinc:/cygwin/home/community/aoo -4.1.1/main/solenv/gbuild/processdeps.awk' for reading (No such file or directory) C:/cygwin/home/community/aoo -4.1.1/main/solenv/gbuild/WinResTarget.mk:59: recipe for target '/home/community/aoo -4.1.1/main/solver/411/wntmsci12.pro/workdir/WinResTarget/comphelper/de fault.res' failed make: *** [/home/community/aoo -4.1.1/main/solver/411/wntmsci12.pro/workdir/WinResTarget/comphelper/de fault.res] Error 2 dmake: Error code 2, while making 'all' Here is configure options: ./configure --with-dmake-url= http://dmake.apache-extras.org.codespot.com/files/dmake-4.12.tar.bz2; - -with-ant-home=/cygdrive/c/apache-ant-1.9.6 --with-frame -home=/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft SDKs/Windows/v6.1 --with -psdk-home=/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft SDKs/Windows/v6.1 - -with-midl-path=/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft SDKs/Windows/v6.1/Bin --with-cl-home=/cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0/VC --with-mspdb -path=/cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0/Common7/IDE --with-asm-home=/cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0/VC/bin --with-csc -path=/cygdrive/c/Windows/Microsoft.NET/Framework/v3.5 --with-jdk -home=/cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/Java/jdk1.7.0_80 --with-nsis -path=/cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/NSIS --with-directx -home=/cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft DirectX SDK (June 2010) --disable-atl --with-package-format=installed msi --enable-win -x64-shellext --with-lang=sk --without-stlport --without-junit - -disable-odk --with-mfc-include-dir=C:/WinDDK/7600.16385.1/inc/mfc42 --with-mfc-lib-dir=C:/WinDDK/7600.16385.1/lib/Mfc/i386 I am trying more versions of Windows SDK (6.1, 7.0 or 7.0A), I have C++ Compiler bundled with SDK, this means MSVC++ 2008. I have no more ideas. Can sombody help me ? at least your LIBPATH to gcc is not correct. I guess you cannot link a simple hello world program. Kernel32 as well as the ms* is system libraries. rgds jan i Thanks! Regards, Michal Hriň - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org javascript:; For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org javascript:; -- Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings.
Fwd: Time to propose a CS Capstone Project!
Hi. I have just received this, do we want to participate ? I have participated earlier with mixed results. rgds jan I. -- Forwarded message -- From: D. Kevin McGrath dmcgr...@eecs.oregonstate.edu Date: 22 July 2015 at 18:10 Subject: Time to propose a CS Capstone Project! To: j...@apache.org Colleagues -- Have you always wanted a particular software tool developed for your use, but have never had the time to do it yourself? Well then, read on. Have I got a deal for you! My name is Kevin McGrath. I am the instructor who runs the OSU Computer Science Senior Capstone class. The Capstone class is a 3-quarter (Fall, Winter, Spring) career preparation experience. The major piece of this is doing a significant 3 member team project. When the students come to the first class on September 24, I want to present them with a list of exciting, creative, and real-experience software engineering project possibilities. This is where you come in. I am looking for you to use your needs and experience to propose those project possibilities. A web site has been setup to give you more information, and let you enter and edit your project proposals: http://eecs.oregonstate.edu/capstone/submission/ You have until September 24 to get yours in. That is the date the students will see them, and will start the selection process. In that process, I ask the students to bid on their top 5 choices. I ultimately make the final project assignments, but I try to take their preferences into account. I find I get better results that way. There will likely be more projects proposed than students teams to do them. *So, really sell your project.* Definitely don't understate its cool-ness factor! The more excited you sound in the description, the more excited they are likely to be when doing it. Excitement is contagious! After projects have been selected, we will follow a client-contractor model in which I run the software contract company and you are one of our valued clients. The students report to me, but you, as client, work directly with them to design the requirements, set the timeline, approve the progress. You also get to help assign grades. This year I'm asking you to explicitly distinguish the projects that are research oriented vs. those that are more software engineering focused. If you would like to propose a research project for the students, please indicate this using the Additional Comments field. Given the nature of a research oriented project, I find that better results are had if the students are initially aware of the type of project. If you are unsure, that is not a problem. I'm happy to work with you on the details of your project -- just submit it, and then we can chat about any changes that might be necessary. Any project can be proposed from anybody. I don't care where you are from, just that your project represents an excellent software engineering experience for the students. Do remember, however, that these are seniors. They have taken the core classes so far, but most have not taken some of the electives that would really help in some projects, such as graphics, AI, computer vision, etc. Keep that in mind when proposing. If you have questions or want to discuss project possibilities, feel free to contact me at: D. Kevin McGrath Instructor, Computer Science Oregon State University 2109 Kelley Engineering Center 541-737-1420 dmcgr...@eecs.oregonstate.edu Thanks for your time -- I look forward to working with you! -- Kevin McGrath
Re: [RELEASE] AOO 4.1.2
On 19 July 2015 at 08:20, Mechtilde o...@mechtilde.de wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello, Do you also wnat to upgrade the localisation files. When do you need the translation ready. I myself die some more translations in the help files. If we have updates, we should include them, is there any reason not to ? rgds jan i. Kind regards - --- Mechtilde Stehmann ## Apache OpenOffice.org ## Freie Office Suite für Linux, MacOSX, Windows ## Loook, calender-exchange-provider, libreoffice-canzely-client ## PGP encryption welcome ## Key-ID 0x141AAD7F -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJVq0GdAAoJEPKHe7oUGq1/5A4QAJ1yF/E48LyZvFLjzvYV9k0E cEbXoKQAQtkUyiPNFPFIGLheVt9BUizNw4kn4xjCz29ZXpy13onOKyVfEOMjjG/6 1tiqCKQg0CFqDPbaIFmnsKVxUDcWal3xm135tE2/N9Jo1iySy/lJtGpyHIZx6D1y VcI/0yX55VNrcv58CzrOoc/gXYRmIaDc1HBH38e65/sINSdOiIRMpTnGlb1AV+xj KwZRRgUZ6fTf416m2NADMVfZEnJsPnaJzSK0eHyMUjFQrpnwvespZEaabHXDq7+7 rdxVKmBJEftW6j8FggAzpEI82KaIhOhW8Hn2MfgKWHwC6Xc//7CWMVIMnQyi/kQz xy769yuuapOPOho1MarrRpl9CcP8g5nUubBspHyTEdmEI5/gcD9kA2yab9/b/Dif gNMkjWm7yQuF/gZMHI6l7OVWaPHZ2PHxjNbWQC7BNO8kWsCWF6A5EnfunRvvwAQx ykmCUrao8zUmhkeFKiU14epk+L+6ddCHkmzZ58oZoloRY0vjTv1R5JohXvDGBmjG hQUZIDWVQZZdIQxbLi11vEUUo+yxK1U7LEyNSVFbyOA5tMCd3aZ6j2WdKk+9B2+2 4MJ2QwOpZFtJbDVD5lBKWfChKcoG5n9IY7UGNe/qQnFRJvWi7WRezjMmjMPa4pxB Jb8TC3oYKf/Km63JkejM =1KXa -END PGP SIGNATURE- - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: 4.1.2_release_blocker requested: [Issue 122712] PDF Export dialog too tall for some monitor screens
On 18 July 2015 at 00:53, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: On 15/07/2015 bugzi...@apache.org wrote: bmarcelly has asked for 4.1.2_release_blocker: Issue 122712: PDF Export dialog too tall for some monitor screens https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=122712 We have a patch by Hanya available for this. I've temporarily posted screenshots, before and after applying the patch, at http://people.apache.org/~pescetti/tmp/2015-07-i122712/ (I used the Italian version since strings tend to be longer and some localization issues may appear) Everything looks fine to me. We usually don't want to change the interface in a x.y.2 release, but here all strings and options remain exactly the same, they are just moved around for better visibility at some resolutions. Shall we use this rearranged layout for 4.1.2? +1 rgds jan i Regards, Andrea. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: RAT Build on AOO410 branch
On 18 July 2015 at 20:03, Gavin McDonald gmcdon...@apache.org wrote: Hi All, Apologies for the initial build failures, but we now have a successful RAT build on the AOO410 branch in addition to the normal RAT build on trunk. See: https://ci.apache.org/projects/openoffice/AOO410/rat-output.html And yes we have a clean RAT pass! (as expected I guess, but nice to know.) thanks a lot, and you are right believing is one thing, knowing is far better. rgds jan i. This RAT report will run and update on every commit to that branch. I have added a link to this report on the https://ci.apache.org/projects/openoffice/ page. HTH Gav…
Re: [RELEASE] Availability of machines for binary builds
On 17 July 2015 at 09:19, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: We will have to release OpenOffice 4.1.2 as source and as binaries for Windows, Mac, Linux 32 and Linux 64. I don't know exactly what we used to build 4.1.1, but I believe that we relied on individual developers' hardware. Leaving digital signing aside for a while, what environments do we have available at the moment? Who else (other volunteers) can help with building (on their machines or even with a buildbot setup on the Apache Software Foundation servers), especially for Windows and Mac? I would really prefer we use the buildbots, it has a couple of advantages: - We are 100% sure about the environment and that we can reproduce the exact same build if needed - Our buildbot get our release configuration, which means in future we build a release candidate every night (of course not to be released) - It is simple to switch the SVN pointer from trunk to branch, and then we should have all platforms covered. - we can save a lengthy upload, because the buildbot generate exe on apache disks. rgds jan i. Regards, Andrea. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: ODF 1.2 and AOO ?
On 17 July 2015 at 15:23, Regina Henschel rb.hensc...@t-online.de wrote: Hi Jan, jan i schrieb: Hi Can someone please help me understand the implications of this: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/2015/07/17/open-document-format-odf-1-2-published-as-international-standard-263002015-by-isoiec/ Do we also support ODF 1.2 ? if yes, then we should also tell it, if not what are the implications ? I thought ODF 1.2 was relative old, but I might be wrong. thanks for any information. In regard to marketing, read http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/announce/msg00240.html ODF 1.2 is not old, but the current version of the standard. Work has started for an errata to 1.2 and for a version 1.3, but both are in a very early stage. There are currently only about ten active members in the Technical Committee and they do not work on the standard in full time [in my case all is in my spare time], therefore the progress is very slow. ODF 1.2 is the native format for documents generated by AOO, but there exists still some elements in ODF 1.2, which AOO does not support. ODF 1.2 is an implementer driven standard. You should not think, that there is a group of people, who invents the standard, and then application developers will implement it. That is not the way standardization works. What really happens is, that the application developers implement features to satisfy their customers. And when this feature is not only implemented in one application, but in others too, then this feature is considered to go into the next version of the standard. Currently those features are of interest, which improve interoperability with OOXML, and change tracking is of special interest. Therefore the file format is not ODF 1.2 but ODF 1.2 extended. AOO writes always ODF 1.2. extended, LO has an option to write pure ODF 1.2. The ODF 1.2 standard uses the mechanism of namespaces to make such extensions possible. When such feature goes into the standard, then the code has to be changed to read and write the new standardized element. On reading a document, the element in AOO namespace will then be mapped to the corresponding element from the standard. Such change is not really difficult, because AOO does not work on the file format directly but has its own internal model. thanks a lot for taking time to explain it in an understandable way. To be honest I had the wrong impression of how these standards come to be. rgds jan I. Kind regards Regina - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
ODF 1.2 and AOO ?
Hi Can someone please help me understand the implications of this: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/2015/07/17/open-document-format-odf-1-2-published-as-international-standard-263002015-by-isoiec/ Do we also support ODF 1.2 ? if yes, then we should also tell it, if not what are the implications ? I thought ODF 1.2 was relative old, but I might be wrong. thanks for any information. rgds jan i.
Re: 4.1.2_release_blocker requested: [Issue 126401] Add ASF license headers to files
On 18 July 2015 at 00:00, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: On 16/07/2015 bugzilla wrote: Kay has asked for 4.1.2_release_blocker: Issue 126401: Add ASF license headers to files https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=126401 Unless I'm really mistaken this does not apply to AOO410: those files do not exist in AOO410, as I wrote yesterday. But Kay is the third person mentioning this issue after Jan and Marcus, so if I am the one who is wrong just show me the path on AOO410 where the patch should be applied and I'll definitely take a look. What I see is: https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/openoffice/trunk/main/ contains an ooxml directory with the problematic files; https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/openoffice/branches/AOO410/main/ does not contain that subdirectory at all, so it does not contain the problem. Well, fortunately we now have a buildbot that performs a nightly RAT scan on AOO410 at https://ci.apache.org/builders/openoffice-linux64-rat-aoo410/ so (after some initial setup issues are fixed: they are responsible for the failures you see) we will all have the RAT output visible on the web and we will agree! If RAT scan passes on AOO410, then the patch does not need porting to AOO410 and can't be a blocker for 4.1.2. Any problems found by RAT on AOO410 are, instead, blockers for 4.1.2 and need to be reported and nominated. I'll wait for a RAT output that we can all see and agree upon before commenting in the issue. I am lost in all these branches and tags, but I have one position, we run rat scan on the release candidate and any problems is the same as a no-go for release. If rat-scan is clean, whether or not these files are includes I am happy and so it the legal side of apache. rgds jan I. Regards, Andrea. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: First bugs fixed for OpenOffice 4.1.2
On 15 July 2015 at 02:35, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: I can't expect people to read all lists, so a short update to say that the first small batch of release blockers for 4.1.2 was integrated. Thanks for the status, nice to see that we are moving on 4.1.2, I look forward to write the next board report. rgds jan I. This includes: Issue 125519 CRASH when step through document from page to page Affects mainly Draw. Fixes a crash. Discussed by Regina and Armin, fixed by Armin on trunk October 2014, now copied by Armin to the OpenOffice 4.1.2 branch. Issue 126281 Remove HWP (Hangul Word Processor) filter Enjoyed some popularity outside the OpenOffice lists. Fixed by Andrea on trunk May 1st, related cosmetic refinements by Kay on trunk in June, reviewed by the Apache OpenOffice Security Team, now copied by Andrea and Kay respectively to the OpenOffice 4.1.2 branch. The Release Notes will need to mention that OpenOffice no longer supports files created with old (pre-1997) versions of HWP, Hangul Word Processor: discussion on the l10n list concluded that virtually no users use this file format any longer. Issue 105098 Inserting files (e.g. images) into a document by dragdrop isn't possible Affects Mac systems. Patch contributed by Manik Malhotra on June 21st, reviewed by Herbert and fixed on trunk on June 24th, now copied by Andrea to the OpenOffice 4.1.2 branch. What's next? If you have any favorite (and preferably fixed, or with patch available!) bugs that you would like to see corrected in 4.1.2 just open their Bugzilla page and nominate them as 4.1.2 Release Blockers (or simply send a link here, which will happen automatically if you suggest them as blockers). Regards, Andrea. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: First bugs fixed for OpenOffice 4.1.2
I am not sure how the procedure works, but we need to secure that the rat-scan patches (gavin) are in 4.1.2 In my opinion, we also need to run a rat-scan on the final release candidate. how do we remember this? rgds jan i On Wednesday, July 15, 2015, Marcus marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Am 07/15/2015 07:29 PM, schrieb jan i: On 15 July 2015 at 02:35, Andrea Pescettipesce...@apache.org wrote: I can't expect people to read all lists, so a short update to say that the first small batch of release blockers for 4.1.2 was integrated. Thanks for the status, nice to see that we are moving on 4.1.2, I look forward to write the next board report. yes, thanks a lot for taking the first steps. I've not yet checked, but I don't expect that all BZ issues are clearly visible as 4.1.2 candidates (more than you have mentioned in your mail), right? So, we have to find and cleanup these issues to make them more visible? Marcus This includes: Issue 125519 CRASH when step through document from page to page Affects mainly Draw. Fixes a crash. Discussed by Regina and Armin, fixed by Armin on trunk October 2014, now copied by Armin to the OpenOffice 4.1.2 branch. Issue 126281 Remove HWP (Hangul Word Processor) filter Enjoyed some popularity outside the OpenOffice lists. Fixed by Andrea on trunk May 1st, related cosmetic refinements by Kay on trunk in June, reviewed by the Apache OpenOffice Security Team, now copied by Andrea and Kay respectively to the OpenOffice 4.1.2 branch. The Release Notes will need to mention that OpenOffice no longer supports files created with old (pre-1997) versions of HWP, Hangul Word Processor: discussion on the l10n list concluded that virtually no users use this file format any longer. Issue 105098 Inserting files (e.g. images) into a document by dragdrop isn't possible Affects Mac systems. Patch contributed by Manik Malhotra on June 21st, reviewed by Herbert and fixed on trunk on June 24th, now copied by Andrea to the OpenOffice 4.1.2 branch. What's next? If you have any favorite (and preferably fixed, or with patch available!) bugs that you would like to see corrected in 4.1.2 just open their Bugzilla page and nominate them as 4.1.2 Release Blockers (or simply send a link here, which will happen automatically if you suggest them as blockers). Regards, Andrea. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org -- Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings.
Re: Rat Patch take 2
Hi Gavin. I am sorry you are experiencing a delay in getting the patch committed. I have had a look at the patch, and to me it looks perfect. I would commit the patch if I could, but I am currently limited to my ipad (my development system, decided to take a heat holiday). I am convinced when one of the others get a couple of spare cycles they will commit the patch. Thanks for taking time to make the correction. rgds jan i. On 14 July 2015 at 12:34, Gavin McDonald gmcdon...@apache.org wrote: Just bumping this, anyone want to apply it? Thanks Gav… On 11 Jul 2015, at 7:54 pm, Gavin McDonald gmcdon...@apache.org wrote: HI All, So two issues with the last patch: 1. I missed two pref file for excluding 2. Four files are treated as binaries (.project and .classpath) and so the diff never showed. I’ve forced the diff in those files so should be good now. I’ll talk about why those .project and .classpath have mime-types set in the first place in another thread. Please find attached a patch to resolve the 6 remaining RAT license issues. HTH Gav… rat_patch.txt
Re: [RELEASE] Contents of OpenOffice 4.1.2
On 13 July 2015 at 10:19, Gavin McDonald ga...@16degrees.com.au wrote: With regards to digital signing, we have ‘test’ credits that can be used to practice on. I understood earlier on David, that the credits infra bought last year would expire this august and he was in doubt how much he would buy going forward. Do you have more recent information ? rgds jan i. Gav… On 13 Jul 2015, at 9:04 am, jan i j...@apache.org wrote: Hi I agree to use this as the overall plan, which of course needs to detailed. I do have a comment about digital signing. It is correct than I do not have spare cycles before mid october. Digital signing means in reality white listing the content, which are both our exe as well as many third part DLLs (some of the libraries are statically linked and not exposed outside the exe). Most of our third party libraries are pretty old (but works well for our purpose), and some of them have known security isses (not in the parts AOO uses). We need to upgrade the libraries that uses a DLL, otherwise we might whitelist a DLL with known security issues. This process is something we should do ahead of every release, and is not as such part of the digital signing, but digital signing makes it much more important. rgds jan I. On Sunday, July 12, 2015, Marcus marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Am 07/12/2015 03:57 PM, schrieb Andrea Pescetti: It's time to decide what goes into 4.1.2 and what doesn't. Not in terms of specific bugfixes (we have the standard process of nominating release blockers for this and I don't plan to change it), but in terms of categories. The following is a realistic list of what we can have in 4.1.2. Shall we take it as the overall plan for 4.1.2? In general I see it the same way. Some comments inline. 2. Features * Windows 10: Millions of our users will run Windows 10 within a few weeks. OpenOffice is reported to work smoothly on Windows 10 pre-releases. Should any major Windows 10 incompatibilities appear, they should be fixed in 4.1.2. When we want to react on specific bug reports (we should do this in any case as Windows is still the most favorite platform) then we create automatically a release schedule of a few weeks after that date - which is for me late summer. Just to be sure we understand the same. BTW: Release date of Win10 is July, 29th. 3. Localization * Existing translations: Pootle is now tracking the 4.2.0 release, so translators do not have an immediate way to fix translations for 4.1.2. There is a possibility to check whether we can reuse the 4.2.0 strings for 4.1.2, but due to the version clash I would prefer to fix strings upon request, in the SDF files directly and only in the case of major, well-defined bugs (example: the Italian version has a typo in a main menu item; it is fixed in Pootle for 4.2.0 AND we can edit the SDF file manually to fix it for the 4.1.x line). This has also the advantage (when we don't get too many change requests) that we know in detail what is changing. Marcus - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org -- Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings. Gav... (( ( ( )\ ) )\ ) )\ ) ( ) ) )\(()/((()/( (()/( )\ ) ( ) ( /( ( ( ( /( ( ( ( _)( /(_))/(_)) /(_)) ( (()/( )( ( /( ( )\()))())\ ( )\()) ))\ )())\ )\ _ )\ (_)) (_))_| (_)) )\ ) /(_))(()\ )(_)) )\ (_))/(()\ /((_) )\ (_))/ /((_)(()\ /((_) (_)_\(_)/ __|| |_ |_ _| _(_/((_) _| ((_)((_)_ ((_)| |_ ((_)(_))( ((_)| |_ (_))( ((_)(_)) / _ \ \__ \| __| | | | ' \))| _|| '_|/ _` |(_-| _|| '_|| || |/ _| | _|| || || '_|/ -_) /_/ \_\ |___/|_||___||_||_| |_| |_| \__,_|/__/ \__||_| \_,_|\__| \__| \_,_||_| \___|
Re: [RELEASE] Contents of OpenOffice 4.1.2
Hi I agree to use this as the overall plan, which of course needs to detailed. I do have a comment about digital signing. It is correct than I do not have spare cycles before mid october. Digital signing means in reality white listing the content, which are both our exe as well as many third part DLLs (some of the libraries are statically linked and not exposed outside the exe). Most of our third party libraries are pretty old (but works well for our purpose), and some of them have known security isses (not in the parts AOO uses). We need to upgrade the libraries that uses a DLL, otherwise we might whitelist a DLL with known security issues. This process is something we should do ahead of every release, and is not as such part of the digital signing, but digital signing makes it much more important. rgds jan I. On Sunday, July 12, 2015, Marcus marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Am 07/12/2015 03:57 PM, schrieb Andrea Pescetti: It's time to decide what goes into 4.1.2 and what doesn't. Not in terms of specific bugfixes (we have the standard process of nominating release blockers for this and I don't plan to change it), but in terms of categories. The following is a realistic list of what we can have in 4.1.2. Shall we take it as the overall plan for 4.1.2? In general I see it the same way. Some comments inline. 2. Features * Windows 10: Millions of our users will run Windows 10 within a few weeks. OpenOffice is reported to work smoothly on Windows 10 pre-releases. Should any major Windows 10 incompatibilities appear, they should be fixed in 4.1.2. When we want to react on specific bug reports (we should do this in any case as Windows is still the most favorite platform) then we create automatically a release schedule of a few weeks after that date - which is for me late summer. Just to be sure we understand the same. BTW: Release date of Win10 is July, 29th. 3. Localization * Existing translations: Pootle is now tracking the 4.2.0 release, so translators do not have an immediate way to fix translations for 4.1.2. There is a possibility to check whether we can reuse the 4.2.0 strings for 4.1.2, but due to the version clash I would prefer to fix strings upon request, in the SDF files directly and only in the case of major, well-defined bugs (example: the Italian version has a typo in a main menu item; it is fixed in Pootle for 4.2.0 AND we can edit the SDF file manually to fix it for the 4.1.x line). This has also the advantage (when we don't get too many change requests) that we know in detail what is changing. Marcus - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org -- Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings.
Re: How to commit changes to 410 branch?
Heh you noted it yourself, wrong list. In my opinion we should change branch, I dont like reusing 410 because if we want to make a 4101 (security issues) it will be close to impossible. rgds jan i. On 9 July 2015 at 21:47, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: It seems we are still using the 410 branch for the 4.1.2 release. There have been quite a number of changes to trunk since the 4.1.1 release that I feel ALL these should be incorporated into 4.1.2. How do we get the changes from trunk into the 410 branch easily? It seems we could use -- svn copy my changes https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/openoffice/branches/AOO410/trunk/my changes and do a commit on https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/openoffice/branches/AOO410/my changes once this is done? If not, how do we do this without actually making the 410 branch local? Wouldn't it be easier just to tag when we're ready to do the release instead of all this back porting? -- MzK We can all sleep easy at night knowing that somewhere at any given time, the Foo Fighters are out there fighting Foo. -- David Letterman - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Release Manager for 4.1.2
On Monday, July 6, 2015, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: On 24/06/2015 Andrea Pescetti wrote: I can volunteer as Release Manager for 4.1.2. Of course, if anybody else is available to do it, please speak up! So, judging from the feedback, we have several +1s and no other volunteers available for the task. I obviously can't fulfill the role completely ... a limited Release Manager like I could be is probably better than nothing if we want to make 4.1.2 a reality. This paragraph was written in a confusing way. Let me restate it so that there is no possible confusion: - I volunteer as Release Manager for the 4.1.2 release (a Release Manager is always for a specific release; this says nothing about the future). - By limited I simply meant that I won't do all the work alone; this is an accordance with the Release Manager role, a release is the work of a community and not of an individual. - I plan to fully respect the role of Release Manager as described in http://www.apache.org/dev/release-publishing.html#release_manager Shall we start a [VOTE]? Shall we need further discussion? Shall we simply go forward? Up to you. I dont think we need a vote, we have consensus, nobody said anything against you volunteering. Gratulations on your new role. We need to find out fir which parts you need what type of help. rgds jan i Regards, Andrea. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org -- Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings.
Re: ApacheCon (ACEU) submissions due today
On 1 July 2015 at 08:22, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: On 24/06/2015 Rony G. Flatscher (Apache) wrote: hmm, just submitted a proposal yesterday evening Deadline is tonight European time. I will submit a talk about the OpenOffice/ODF ecosystem. It will be enough to get one or two more talks to build an OpenOffice track, so (as Jan already suggested multiple times) if you plan to attend make sure you submit a talk proposal and we can then coordinate and avoid overlapping. Deadline was last midnight, as said in several mails, but as usual the apacheCON team accept late entries to a degree. Nobody from OpenOffice stepped up to build a track, or to help review, so there are no OpenOffice track planned. That said, I do hope (and are pretty sure) the reviewers will point at some AOO talks so we will be represented. rgds jan i. Useful links at https://wiki.apache.org/apachecon/FrontPage and remember to submit for Apache Conference Europe 2015 (not US!) and for ApacheCon Core (not the Big Data event). Regards, Andrea. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: ApacheCon (ACEU) submissions due today
On Wednesday, July 1, 2015, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: jan i wrote: Deadline was last midnight, as said in several mails, but as usual the apacheCON team accept late entries to a degree. OK, thanks for being flexible. Nobody from OpenOffice stepped up to build a track, or to help review, so there are no OpenOffice track planned. That said, I do hope (and are pretty sure) the reviewers will point at some AOO talks so we will be represented. Is there a difference between having N talks and calling it a (full or half) track? I know that for a track the selection process is the opposite (one proposes a track and volunteers to solicit talks), but if N (means: a sufficient number) of talks get in I don't see the difference. the difference is the selection process, once we have schedule there are no difference. The people who build tracks select the talks with little influence from other reviewers, whereas the rest of the talks are in one big group, giving a single talk more competition. In case of AOO it means that without a track it is less likely that all talks will be accepted (remark, I only talk theory here, the selection process is just starting). hope that explains the difference rgds jan i Regards, Andrea. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org -- Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings.
July board report.
Hi. It is again time to make a board report, you can find my proposal at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/2015+July comments and changes are welcome. disclaimer: if you make changes directly in the report, the wording might be changed. I intent to submit the report with changes sunday 5th july. rgds jan i.
Re: July board report.
On 30 June 2015 at 13:54, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 12:51 PM, jan i j...@apache.org wrote: Hi. It is again time to make a board report, you can find my proposal at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/2015+July comments and changes are welcome. Should the fact CVE-2015-1774 is still unresolved in the released version be mentioned? It is kind of obvious, no new release so of course it is still unresolved. However we have provided a work around description, which seems to be sufficient. rgds jan i. Best regards Simon
Re: July board report.
On 30 June 2015 at 14:45, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 1:38 PM, jan i j...@apache.org wrote: On 30 June 2015 at 13:54, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 12:51 PM, jan i j...@apache.org wrote: Hi. It is again time to make a board report, you can find my proposal at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/2015+July comments and changes are welcome. Should the fact CVE-2015-1774 is still unresolved in the released version be mentioned? It is kind of obvious, no new release so of course it is still unresolved. The previous Board report was issued just before the CVE was made public, and is thus not mentioned. Given it's been unresolved for four months, two public, shouldn't it be mentioned this time? Allow me to correct your statement, it is not unresolved. We discussed it on this list and a workaround has been provided. That is the important part, had we not issued a workaround (and please do remember the theoretical nature of the problem), then it would have been escalated through other channels. But apart from that it is not custom to mention CVE in board reports, independent of their status. I have nothing against mentioning it, if the community at large feels it is needed, even though it would be exceptional. rgds jan i. Thanks, Simon
Re: July board report.
On 30 June 2015 at 17:44, Marcus marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Am 06/30/2015 01:51 PM, schrieb jan i: It is again time to make a board report, you can find my proposal at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/2015+July comments and changes are welcome. just a spontaneous suggestion for the moment: Release 4.1.2: I would move the we have a release manager part down to the release section as IMHO it belongs there. good catch, will do that. rgds jan i. Marcus - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: LanguageTool - place link on AOO site
On 29 June 2015 at 16:53, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: On Mon, 29 Jun 2015 15:47:16 +0100 Marco A.G.Pinto marcoagpi...@mail.telepac.pt wrote: Hello! Just wondering if you place a link to the grammar checker, LanguageTool, somewhere in the area of the AOO downloads: https://languagetool.org I am involved on the Portuguese rules for it. LanguageTool is an important add-on for AOO since it supports over 20 languages and it suggests grammar corrections, which is something missing in AOO but which MS Office has by default. Thanks! Kind regards, Marco A.G.Pinto -- -- There is already a link from the Extensions repository, at http://extensions.openoffice.org/en/project/languagetool Perhaps this should be linked also to the sadebar on the download page? I would be a bit careful with that, if done (and I am not against it being done) it must be 100% clear that this is not coming from apache, and not part of our release schedule. rgds jan I. -- 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: Background to Cooperation: ASF/AOO Principles, Policies, Practices
On 28 June 2015 at 19:49, Dennis E. Hamilton orc...@apache.org wrote: I want to be very clear about the narrowness of the exemplary Apache OpenOffice exception. See the remark below. And to see how one wends through the deliberations around obtaining an exception, https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-117 is exemplary. A general exploration of https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL/ reveals more cases as well as how rare exceptions are. - Dennis -Original Message- From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:orc...@apache.org] Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2015 16:56 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Background to Cooperation: ASF/AOO Principles, Policies, Practices [ ... ] PRACTICES AND EXCEPTIONS There are many practices that support how the ASF pursues its mission. The use of mailing lists is one example. The use of services supported on Apache infrastructure is another. There can be exceptions to policy and deviations among practices. Exceptions tend to be very specific and not generalized. (I suspect a generalization would be a change/amendment of policy and a serious review of any conflicts with established principles.) An example of an exception that is specific to the Apache OpenOffice project is the distribution of convenience binaries that have writing-aid plug-ins bundled with them that are not themselves under a license that is acceptable for source-code releases. There are a number of specific, delimited provisions under which this action is found consistent with Apache principles although it is an exception to a general policy. This practice was only introduced after obtaining review and eventual concurrence via the list on which legal and license questions are discussed. orcmid The narrowness of the exception for these plug-ins is that they contain no code, they deliver data in a general format that can be used in a well-defined technique, and that they are completely replaceable. Users can also install additional ones of their choosing and remove/disable the ones that are provided in the binary distributions as a convenience. It is also the case that, if one inspects the plug-in (using a form of Zip package), one would encounter all applicable license information and there would be no confusion over the license that is specific to them material conveyed by a given plug-in. /orcmid I would be very careful about interpreting the above extract. The plugins do contains quite a lot of code, and some of them like the dictionaries are not really optional. We actually deliver plugins as part of our own exe, so we do distribute some of the plugins without a special license. But legal has looked at what we deliver and accepted it, so no need to detail that further. You also use the word narrowness, as if these exceptions are written in stone, that is not the case, we can always ask for other exceptions if needed (whether we get them is a different matter). rgds jan i. [ ... ] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Download Stats
On Saturday, June 27, 2015, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/26/2015 11:27 AM, Marcus wrote: Am 06/26/2015 12:40 PM, schrieb Rory O'Farrell: Just to note that the OO download statistics haven't been updated in a long time. I remember that Rob has taken care about updating these numbers. Unfortunately, I don't know where it is decribed how it is done. Marcus I think Rob's python scripts are in: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/openoffice/devtools/aoo-stats/ using the csv file you see there (?0 but I don't know where THAT comes from. This was a nice feature but we need instructions. I don't think Rob has abandoned the ship, just busy doing other thing. rob@ would be nice if you could add a little explanation. rgds jan i - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org javascript:; For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org javascript:; -- MzK We can all sleep easy at night knowing that somewhere at any given time, the Foo Fighters are out there fighting Foo. -- David Letterman - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org javascript:; For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org javascript:; -- Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings.
Re: [Q] Question about Mailarchive
Hi see inline please. On 25 June 2015 at 12:03, Mathias Röllig mroellig.n...@gmx.net wrote: Hello! Mailing lists intend to be a little private; only subsribers should read the messages. This isn't the case since mailing list will be mirrored at the internet. Apache mailing lists are pr. definition public, we try to make as much as possible public. We do have a few private mailings (each project has one), but they are to be used for matters involving people. Most mirrors hide the email addresses of senders and inside the message text. But not all. correct. A special case is bugzilla. Bugzilla not intends to be a mailing list. It seems it is a closed forum which shows sender addresses only for people who are logged in. Bugzilla posts will be streamed into a mailing list - and there is the problem. We do it with bugzilla and also with subversion. I actually do not see the problem, bugzilla/subversion are as such is also public, and anybody can go in and read the content, even without a user. Look at http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/openoffice-issues/ There is the address of the (always same) sender hidden: bugzi...@apache.org But all other email addresses are free readable. Do you think it is OK? I do. We believe in being totally open, that includes mailing addresses. If you do not want your mail address exposed, then create and use an alias. rgds jan i. Regards Mathias - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: AOO Principles for Cooperation among ODF Projects
On 25 June 2015 at 22:58, Dennis E. Hamilton orc...@apache.org wrote: In April, Andrea Pescetti provided a great blog post on prospects for cooperative work among users with shared interest in the OpenOffice code base, Collaboration is in our DNA: https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/collaboration_is_in_our_dna. That topic and related matters have been discussed from time-to-time in private discussions of the Apache OpenOffice PMC. There is agreement that it is best, and timely, to have this discussion in the entire Apache OpenOffice community. That means discussing collaboration and cooperation prospects here on dev@ openoffice.apache.org. I propose to kick that off now. - Dennis BACKGROUND AND SKETCH I am a member of the AOO PMC and also an ASF Committer. This note and the others I will offer are my personal opinions and analysis. I am *not* speaking for the PMC in any manner. I am simply expressing my suggestions on how to articulate a foundation for collaboration. This is to bootstrap a discussion that matters to the PMC, I trust, and that will be valuable to the AOO community and other on-lookers. I want to address what the aspirations of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) are in terms of its principles and policies, and how they arise in the character of Apache projects. When I appeal to principles that are bedrock for the Apache Software Foundation, I will provide references and locations where those are presented and discussed already. The idea is to identify fundamental principles behind the framework which AOO and all ASF Projects operate within and which cooperative activities are expected to be consistent with. The idea is to use that as a basis for exploring and bootstrapping some actual cooperative activities. Here's what I see in a progression of discussions about principles and areas for action. 1. The ASF Principles on how code of others is accepted into ASF Projects and how it is respected. 2. The ASF Principles on source code and what kind of licenses are required on source code that is part of a release. 3. The possibilities for cooperation on source code that cannot be used directly in an ASF Project release and how that can be handled in distribution of binaries. The preferences for optional dependency as opposed to essential dependencies and where they apply. Dependencies that are disallowed on principle (and for which only very specific, narrow exceptions are considered, if ever). I can follow your other points but not this one. Apache does pr rule not do binary releases. If a binary is provided it is a convenience NOT a release. Single PMC members (or others) might provide binary releases on their own behalf. This is actually a point where the AOO PMC walk on a very sharp sword, so the wording here is extremely important. I find your other point very good discussions point, so maybe we should leave the binary release for a moment. 4. Other forms of cooperation that are mutually beneficial and provide important reduction of duplicate efforts, magnified impact of contributor efforts, etc. These include security, incident reporting (bug reports) and analysis, and QA for starters. There is also one that is important to me personally and that is cooperation on interoperability assessment and documentation that expands the quality of support for ODF (and, potentially, OOXML). End-user-facing support is also a gigantic opportunity for improved support of users here and elsewhere. Developer-facing support such as hackathons, plugfests, and interop demos and cross-pollination at organized events is also opportune. This of course signals that the other part is interested in a partial cooperation. 5. The prospect for some sort of federation around the openoffice.org code base and perhaps interoperable/reference ODF implementation. That's my thinking. and good thinking it is, let us how others react, I am not a average community member in this respect. rgds jan i. I offer this overall sketch as context for the initial introduction of topics to follow. - Dennis - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Release Manager for 4.1.2
On Wednesday, June 24, 2015, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: It seems that on one hand we all agree that we should release 4.1.2 reasonably soon, but on the other hand nobody volunteered to be a Release Manager so far. After several months of traveling, I expect to have more free time that I can allocate to OpenOffice in the next weeks. So if people who would better than me at the task (just to name some: Juergen and team, Ariel...) are still unavailable, I can volunteer as Release Manager for 4.1.2. Of course, if anybody else is available to do it, please speak up! I obviously can't fulfill the role completely, since there are skills that I miss, but I can help with coordination of tasks, integration/testing of patches and some building (for sure there will be need of help with Windows/Mac builds, especially considering digital signing). Still, a limited Release Manager like I could be is probably better than nothing if we want to make 4.1.2 a reality. +1. With ACEU around the corner I do not have spare cycles before end of october. rgds jan i Regards, Andrea. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org -- Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings.
Re: Release Manager for 4.1.2
On Wednesday, June 24, 2015, Michal Hriň h...@apache.org wrote: If needed, I can try to set-up Windows machine for builds. But I'm not very familiar with digital singing (and to be honest I never finish Windows build, but I tried to build it with MSVC2012). We do have a windows buildbot that could be configured to generate the executable. In general we should use buildbots for generating releases since it is a known environment, whereas a private setup is more difficult to verify. Maybe I can help with patch integration but I lack knowleage in this area too. What about ACEU hackaton ? :) rooms are available, so it is a simple matter of getting people to come. Nobody has volunteered to make a openoffice track, and looking at cfp, it seems we might end up without any aoo talks. rgds jan i - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org javascript:; For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org javascript:; -- Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings.
Re: ad ACEU submissions (Re: Release Manager for 4.1.2
On 24 June 2015 at 18:28, Rony G. Flatscher (Apache) r...@apache.org wrote: On 24.06.2015 11:01, jan i wrote: On Wednesday, June 24, 2015, Michal Hriň h...@apache.org wrote: ... cut What about ACEU hackaton ? :) rooms are available, so it is a simple matter of getting people to come. Nobody has volunteered to make a openoffice track, and looking at cfp, it seems we might end up without any aoo talks. hmm, just submitted a proposal yesterday evening, which sounds simliar to last year's, but is quite different: it will introduce (once more) a bird-eyes view of the AOO Java based scripting framework. Unlike last year it will concentrate on JSR-223 scripting languages (which implement the respective javax.script classes, introduced with Java 6) and introduce and demonstrate a reusable implementation for a Java bridge between a JSR-223 language (this time NetRexx) with the AOO Java bridge. The implementation will be in a way that practically everything can be re-used for any other JSR-223 language, by merely adapting a few locations of the introduced implementation. (The proposal is attached FYI.) If accepted, maybe it would be interesting to also offer a hackathon session for interested Java programmers who wish to integrate their favored JSR-223 scirpting engine with AOO (and thereby making it available as an AOO macro language)? thanks for the submission, I actually looked at an extract from friday. A hachathon or at least a meetup would be a nice thing. It is sure I will be there, but I do not know who else. If you (or others) want to reserve space for a hackathon, please put it on https://wiki.apache.org/apachecon/FrontPage or mail me the information, then I can add it. official hackathon will be added to the scheduler. rgds jan i. ---rony One prooposal for an AOO talk on this year's ACEU: A Java Bridge between javax.script (JSR-223) and the AOO Scripting Framework, or: Turn Your Favorite Java Scripting Language into an AOO Macro Language Event ApacheCon Core Europe Submission Type Presentation Category Developer Biography Rony G. Flatscher has been working as an Information System (Wirtschaftsinformatik) professor at the WU Vienna (with 25,000 business students one of the largest of its kind) where he has been trying to empower the students with IT and IS skills to help them be more productive in a business world that functions more and more on IT and IS. He has been an active promoter and creator of many different open source software, including the (end-user suited) programming language http://www.ooRexx.org. His work on ASF's Bean Scripting Framework (BSF) helped him to serve as an expert on the Java Specification Request 223 (JSR-223) group which defined the Java scripting framework, which got introduced with Java 6 (package javax.script). Abstract Apache OpenOffice (AOO) implements a scripting framework in Java. Building a bridge to a Java 'javax.script' (aka JSR-223) scripting language allows making it directly available as a macro language to AOO. This presentation gives a bird eyes view of the AOO scripting framework, what a bridge for a 'javax.script' scripting language needs to support, introduces and demonstrates one such implementation making the NetRexx programming language available to AOO. As a result it becomes very easy for any Java programmer to add her favorite Java scripting language to AOO (a list of such programming languages can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_JVM_languages) by adapting the introduced bridge. The necessary adaptations will be highlighted such that every Java programmer attending should become able to create a functional bridge to another Java scripting language within an hour. Audience The audience is interested in the Apache OpenOffice (AOO) scripting framework and/or adding programming languages to Apache OpenOffice as macro languages. Experience Level Any Benefits to the Ecosystem AOO may be enhanced by many new programming languages that can be used and dispatched as macro languages. Status New
Re: [RAT REPORT] - 30 files with an unknown or no License Header
Hi. Newest rat report still shows the same 6 files as being a problem. http://ci.apache.org/projects/openoffice/rat-output.html rgds jan i. On 18 June 2015 at 20:19, jan i j...@apache.org wrote: Thanks for applying the patch. I will check the next RAT-Scan to see if the files sill appear. rgds jan I. On 18 June 2015 at 19:36, Regina Henschel rb.hensc...@t-online.de wrote: Hi Jan, jan i schrieb: HI. did anybody note the rat-scan output, seems we have 6 files still that are a problem (a probably should be deleted): Unapproved Licenses: /home/buildslave19/slave19/openofficeorg-nightly-rat/build/main/ooxml/source/framework/JavaOOXMLParser/.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs /home/buildslave19/slave19/openofficeorg-nightly-rat/build/main/ooxml/source/framework/JavaPartManager/.classpath /home/buildslave19/slave19/openofficeorg-nightly-rat/build/main/ooxml/source/framework/JavaPartManager/.project /home/buildslave19/slave19/openofficeorg-nightly-rat/build/main/ooxml/source/framework/JavaPartManager/.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs /home/buildslave19/slave19/openofficeorg-nightly-rat/build/main/ooxml/source/framework/OOXMLViewer/.classpath /home/buildslave19/slave19/openofficeorg-nightly-rat/build/main/ooxml/source/framework/OOXMLViewer/.project I had submitted the patch from Gavin McDonald. But that patch contains the lines Index: main/ooxml/source/framework/JavaPartManager/.classpath === Cannot display: file marked as a binary type. svn:mime-type = application/xml Index: main/ooxml/source/framework/JavaPartManager/.project === Cannot display: file marked as a binary type. svn:mime-type = application/xml and Index: main/ooxml/source/framework/OOXMLViewer/.classpath === Cannot display: file marked as a binary type. svn:mime-type = application/xml Index: main/ooxml/source/framework/OOXMLViewer/.project === Cannot display: file marked as a binary type. svn:mime-type = application/xml so for those no change exists in the patch. I read that, but did not notice the consequence. The files main/ooxml/source/framework/OOXMLViewer/.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs +main/ooxml/source/framework/SchemaParser/.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs should have entries in rat-excludes, at least I see that in the commit message of r1684976. Kind regards Regina rgds jan i. On 16 June 2015 at 08:27, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/06/15 18:23, jan i wrote: On 8 June 2015 at 16:58, Regina Henschel rb.hensc...@t-online.de wrote: Hi Jürgen, is it OK to commit the patch? if it not ok to commit the patch, then I wonder how the files was committed in the first place. If it is not ok, then the files should be deleted. We cannot have files in trunk without the proper ALv2 license. Furthermore we cannot make a release with these files. I recommend applying the patch. Deleting the files might have sideeffects. No it have no sideeffect and yes it is ok to apply the patch. As I explained before these files are part of the started but currently stopped new OOXML framework. It's part of the parser generator ... Anyway it is a eclipse project in Java and the license headers were simply forgotten in the first shot. If you want a Java tooling that would have created C++ stubs and parser for doing the ground work for OOXML parsing ... Again these files should not be part of y source release and can be filtered out as some other things as well. Applying the patch and adding the license header is even better and more clean for future purpose. Juergen - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [RAT REPORT] - 30 files with an unknown or no License Header
HI. did anybody note the rat-scan output, seems we have 6 files still that are a problem (a probably should be deleted): Unapproved Licenses: /home/buildslave19/slave19/openofficeorg-nightly-rat/build/main/ooxml/source/framework/JavaOOXMLParser/.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs /home/buildslave19/slave19/openofficeorg-nightly-rat/build/main/ooxml/source/framework/JavaPartManager/.classpath /home/buildslave19/slave19/openofficeorg-nightly-rat/build/main/ooxml/source/framework/JavaPartManager/.project /home/buildslave19/slave19/openofficeorg-nightly-rat/build/main/ooxml/source/framework/JavaPartManager/.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs /home/buildslave19/slave19/openofficeorg-nightly-rat/build/main/ooxml/source/framework/OOXMLViewer/.classpath /home/buildslave19/slave19/openofficeorg-nightly-rat/build/main/ooxml/source/framework/OOXMLViewer/.project rgds jan i. On 16 June 2015 at 08:27, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/06/15 18:23, jan i wrote: On 8 June 2015 at 16:58, Regina Henschel rb.hensc...@t-online.de wrote: Hi Jürgen, is it OK to commit the patch? if it not ok to commit the patch, then I wonder how the files was committed in the first place. If it is not ok, then the files should be deleted. We cannot have files in trunk without the proper ALv2 license. Furthermore we cannot make a release with these files. I recommend applying the patch. Deleting the files might have sideeffects. No it have no sideeffect and yes it is ok to apply the patch. As I explained before these files are part of the started but currently stopped new OOXML framework. It's part of the parser generator ... Anyway it is a eclipse project in Java and the license headers were simply forgotten in the first shot. If you want a Java tooling that would have created C++ stubs and parser for doing the ground work for OOXML parsing ... Again these files should not be part of y source release and can be filtered out as some other things as well. Applying the patch and adding the license header is even better and more clean for future purpose. Juergen - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [RAT REPORT] - 30 files with an unknown or no License Header
Thanks for applying the patch. I will check the next RAT-Scan to see if the files sill appear. rgds jan I. On 18 June 2015 at 19:36, Regina Henschel rb.hensc...@t-online.de wrote: Hi Jan, jan i schrieb: HI. did anybody note the rat-scan output, seems we have 6 files still that are a problem (a probably should be deleted): Unapproved Licenses: /home/buildslave19/slave19/openofficeorg-nightly-rat/build/main/ooxml/source/framework/JavaOOXMLParser/.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs /home/buildslave19/slave19/openofficeorg-nightly-rat/build/main/ooxml/source/framework/JavaPartManager/.classpath /home/buildslave19/slave19/openofficeorg-nightly-rat/build/main/ooxml/source/framework/JavaPartManager/.project /home/buildslave19/slave19/openofficeorg-nightly-rat/build/main/ooxml/source/framework/JavaPartManager/.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs /home/buildslave19/slave19/openofficeorg-nightly-rat/build/main/ooxml/source/framework/OOXMLViewer/.classpath /home/buildslave19/slave19/openofficeorg-nightly-rat/build/main/ooxml/source/framework/OOXMLViewer/.project I had submitted the patch from Gavin McDonald. But that patch contains the lines Index: main/ooxml/source/framework/JavaPartManager/.classpath === Cannot display: file marked as a binary type. svn:mime-type = application/xml Index: main/ooxml/source/framework/JavaPartManager/.project === Cannot display: file marked as a binary type. svn:mime-type = application/xml and Index: main/ooxml/source/framework/OOXMLViewer/.classpath === Cannot display: file marked as a binary type. svn:mime-type = application/xml Index: main/ooxml/source/framework/OOXMLViewer/.project === Cannot display: file marked as a binary type. svn:mime-type = application/xml so for those no change exists in the patch. I read that, but did not notice the consequence. The files main/ooxml/source/framework/OOXMLViewer/.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs +main/ooxml/source/framework/SchemaParser/.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs should have entries in rat-excludes, at least I see that in the commit message of r1684976. Kind regards Regina rgds jan i. On 16 June 2015 at 08:27, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/06/15 18:23, jan i wrote: On 8 June 2015 at 16:58, Regina Henschel rb.hensc...@t-online.de wrote: Hi Jürgen, is it OK to commit the patch? if it not ok to commit the patch, then I wonder how the files was committed in the first place. If it is not ok, then the files should be deleted. We cannot have files in trunk without the proper ALv2 license. Furthermore we cannot make a release with these files. I recommend applying the patch. Deleting the files might have sideeffects. No it have no sideeffect and yes it is ok to apply the patch. As I explained before these files are part of the started but currently stopped new OOXML framework. It's part of the parser generator ... Anyway it is a eclipse project in Java and the license headers were simply forgotten in the first shot. If you want a Java tooling that would have created C++ stubs and parser for doing the ground work for OOXML parsing ... Again these files should not be part of y source release and can be filtered out as some other things as well. Applying the patch and adding the license header is even better and more clean for future purpose. Juergen - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [RAT REPORT] - 30 files with an unknown or no License Header
On 8 June 2015 at 16:58, Regina Henschel rb.hensc...@t-online.de wrote: Hi Jürgen, is it OK to commit the patch? if it not ok to commit the patch, then I wonder how the files was committed in the first place. If it is not ok, then the files should be deleted. We cannot have files in trunk without the proper ALv2 license. Furthermore we cannot make a release with these files. I recommend applying the patch. Deleting the files might have sideeffects. rgds jan i. Kind regards Regina Jürgen Schmidt schrieb: On 06/05/15 14:45, jan i wrote: On 6 May 2015 at 14:14, Gavin McDonald gmcdon...@apache.org wrote: Hi All, http://ci.apache.org/projects/openoffice/rat-output.html shows 30 files that need attention in getting valid license headers adding. A quick look shows to me that we should probably insert ASF license Headers in all of those files. If nobody gets to it before me I’ll provide a patch to that effect. I just had a look, all the files should really have ALv2 added. I wonder what happened, because I know a couple of these files used to have ALv2. I will take a look at svn log later. The archives however is covered by the general LICENSE file, when we make a distribution. Patches are welcome. rgds jan I. the files were from a new project that is currently stalled, I believe the headers were simply forgotten. They are not part of the office yet and if they are in the source tarball it is just a mistake. Juergen - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Apache@ OSCON 2015 - Booth Goodies
On Saturday, June 6, 2015, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: OSCON 2015 is near upon us. I am offering to do booth duty again this year. I had a great time and am happy to do it again. I have one request. Can we have bigger Apache OpenOffice buttons? The little ones are nice, but I find they are difficult to put one. The design need not change, but it would be good to have bigger ones. Is that easy to accomplish? It is a good idea and we have the budget to make it happen. All we need is someone doing it. rgds jan i - Dennis -Original Message- From: Melissa Warnkin [mailto:missywarn...@yahoo.com.INVALID javascript:;] Sent: Friday, June 20, 2014 08:29 To: d...@community.apache.org javascript:;; ksch...@apache.org javascript:; Subject: Re: Apache@ OSCON question Hi Kay, What kind of project giveaways are you thinking of? Let me know - I'll be more than happy to accommodate this if I can. Please be sure to contact brand management if approval is needed!!! As Ross mentioned, I'm the primary booth staffer, but there are always a handful of volunteers that help at the booth (staffing during breaks/lunch and help with the setup/teardown). Shane will be my sidekick at the booth this year. If you or others from your project will be attending OSCON and would like to be present at the booth at a specific time to talk to the attendees, just let me know. We could always send out a broadcast via social media about stop by the ASF's booth at XXX to speak with the reps from Project XXX. That goes for the other projects as well!! It's always great to have someone from the community at the booth to answer technical questions!! Please let me know if you have any further questions. Have a great day - speak soon, ~Melissa From: Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com javascript:; To: d...@community.apache.org javascript:;; ksch...@apache.org javascript:; Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2014 11:07 PM Subject: Re: Apache@ OSCON question We have foundation giveaways but generally not specific projects (the table isn't big enough;-) Usually we just have Melissa staff it and answer general questions about the ASF. Wherever possible she connects people asking about specific projects to attendees at the conference. In theory we could be more organized giving specific projects a time slot for example. But we would someone to help Melissa manage this. If there is something you would like to do let us know. On 19 June 2014 17:08, k...@apache.org javascript:; ksch...@apache.org javascript:; wrote: I just saw in the May Board minutes that Apache has applied for a booth at OSCON. Can we get a small update on this? Should projects provide give-aways of some sort if we have them? What's typically handled at the Apache booth at OSCON. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org javascript:; For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org javascript:; -- Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings.
Re: Source signed by someone not on your list
Hi Juergen Schmidt was the release manager for the latest AOO releases so the key is valid. If you use our official mirror through www.openoffice.org you should see that the key is legal. but thanks for being observant and reporting your findings. rgds jan i v.p. apache openoffice On Wednesday, June 3, 2015, tensizes tensi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, This is a security heads-up. After downloading the latest release of Apache Open Office and checking the key, I found it was signed by someone not on your published KEYS file list of contributors, someone named Jeurgen Schmidt His/her pgp key id is 51B5FDE8 The release file is from mirror http://mirrors.gigenet.com Filename: apache-openoffice-4.1.1-r1617669-src.tar.bz2 Either Jeurgen Schmidt has been left off of your list, or they have been signing sources without permission. Thanks for your development efforts, tensizes -- Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings.
Re: [BUILDBOT] - Status of the Buildbot builds
hi Gav. Super job, thanks a lot ! rgds jan i. On 3 June 2015 at 17:28, Gavin McDonald gmcdon...@apache.org wrote: Hi All, After going through all the builds we are now in a much healthier position. See: http://ci.apache.org/projects/openoffice/ Only ONE failing build as of writing (fbsd-nighty) and that is being looked into. I have also added the mac-mini to that status page as is is on and ready for building. HTH Gav…
Re: Mac buildbot [was: Re: CentOS build box.]
On 3 June 2015 at 16:00, Ariel Constenla-Haile arie...@apache.org wrote: Hi jan, * On Mon, Jun 01, 2015 at 09:09:30AM +0200, jan i wrote: Looking at other threads, it seems our Mac buildbots are in the process of being configured, does anybody have a planned ETA ? I have now access to the machine (thanks a lot to Gavin!), but cannot give you an ETA, though I'll try to do my best this weekend, at least starting with a simple setup. Super. Are you still thinking of using vms, as originally discussed, so we can make different versions ? rgds jan i. Regards -- Ariel Constenla-Haile La Plata, Argentina
Re: [BUILDBOT] - AOO Mac Mini
On Tuesday, June 2, 2015, Gavin McDonald gmcdon...@apache.org wrote: Hi All, The Mac Mini for OpenOffice (slavename aoo_mac-mini) is now online. I installed the Buildbot slave software, configured the slave and the master and the slave is now currently connected and awaiting instructions for a build. Use the slave name ‘aoo_mac-mini’ when configuring the Buildbot Build. I have NOT installed any dependent software that the build(s) may require, Andrew and Ariel currently have SSH access to the box. Let me know if more are needed. thanks a lot. rgds jan i Thanks Gav… -- Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings.
Re: CentOS build box.
On 31 May 2015 at 18:43, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/30/2015 05:29 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 30/05/2015 Kay Schenk wrote: On 05/30/2015 01:57 PM, Pedro Giffuni wrote: Assuming AOO builds on CentOS 6, is there any reason to insist on CentOS 5? There was a dissension. I did ask about the ramifications -- what specifically IS the issue to moving to CetnOS 6 -- but got no reply. I think it was already explained by Ariel and me at the time. But in short, OpenOffice 4.x has CentOS 5.x (or the equivalent Red Hat 5.x) as a baseline distribution: in a certain sense, we commit to keeping sources buildable on CentOS 5 and to distributing binaries that run on distributions as old as CentOS 5. In order to change our baseline distribution we would normally need a compelling technical reason or a major version change (say, OpenOffice 5.x). I understand this but from a technical standpoint, what are the show stoppers with ver 6 vs 5? Or, put another way, what would be impacted in AOO if this change were made today? Then for the buildbots we already use more modern distributions, but a CentOS buildbot would best be setup with CentOS 5 for the reasons explained above: a CentOS 5 buildbot would even allow us to build releases directly on it. Sure, in fact, this is what Juergen suggested in his resignation as Release Manager, and for some reason, I thought (maybe?) we had agreed on: http://markmail.org/message/qh6uzkfjcya647sb I'm not saying this is a prerequisite for releasing 4.1.2, I'm simply explaining why the current situation makes it much more useful to have a CentOS 5 buildbot than a CentOS 6 one. Regards, Andrea. OK, thanks. In summary, we seem to agree that establishing buildbots for our actual binary release candidates is more than just important, but necessary. I do admit that maybe this wasn't clear to everyone. +1, and I am convinced that as soon as we get what we already have operational, infra will not be a release-blocker if we need additional buildbots. Looking at other threads, it seems our Mac buildbots are in the process of being configured, does anybody have a planned ETA ? Who can/will look at the windows buildbot, it seems svn is not working ? We also need to reconfigure all buildbots to run with release config. I am quite busy with a couple of other things, so I do not have spare cycles at the moment. rgds jan i. -- MzK We can all sleep easy at night knowing that somewhere at any given time, the Foo Fighters are out there fighting Foo. -- David Letterman - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: CentOS build box.
On Tuesday, June 2, 2015, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/01/2015 12:09 AM, jan i wrote: On 31 May 2015 at 18:43, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com javascript:; wrote: On 05/30/2015 05:29 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 30/05/2015 Kay Schenk wrote: On 05/30/2015 01:57 PM, Pedro Giffuni wrote: Assuming AOO builds on CentOS 6, is there any reason to insist on CentOS 5? There was a dissension. I did ask about the ramifications -- what specifically IS the issue to moving to CetnOS 6 -- but got no reply. I think it was already explained by Ariel and me at the time. But in short, OpenOffice 4.x has CentOS 5.x (or the equivalent Red Hat 5.x) as a baseline distribution: in a certain sense, we commit to keeping sources buildable on CentOS 5 and to distributing binaries that run on distributions as old as CentOS 5. In order to change our baseline distribution we would normally need a compelling technical reason or a major version change (say, OpenOffice 5.x). I understand this but from a technical standpoint, what are the show stoppers with ver 6 vs 5? Or, put another way, what would be impacted in AOO if this change were made today? Then for the buildbots we already use more modern distributions, but a CentOS buildbot would best be setup with CentOS 5 for the reasons explained above: a CentOS 5 buildbot would even allow us to build releases directly on it. Sure, in fact, this is what Juergen suggested in his resignation as Release Manager, and for some reason, I thought (maybe?) we had agreed on: http://markmail.org/message/qh6uzkfjcya647sb I'm not saying this is a prerequisite for releasing 4.1.2, I'm simply explaining why the current situation makes it much more useful to have a CentOS 5 buildbot than a CentOS 6 one. Regards, Andrea. OK, thanks. In summary, we seem to agree that establishing buildbots for our actual binary release candidates is more than just important, but necessary. I do admit that maybe this wasn't clear to everyone. +1, and I am convinced that as soon as we get what we already have operational, infra will not be a release-blocker if we need additional buildbots. Looking at other threads, it seems our Mac buildbots are in the process of being configured, does anybody have a planned ETA ? Who can/will look at the windows buildbot, it seems svn is not working ? We also need to reconfigure all buildbots to run with release config. I don't understand the above sentence. I am quite busy with a couple of other things, so I do not have spare cycles at the moment. OK, I will at least followup on the infra ticket to see why the 64-bit CentOS 6 machine seems to now be offline. I do hope in the next few weeks, I will be able to help with a 32-bit CentOS box. You should be aware that the centos 64bit vm never got a full installation it was an experiment to see if we (infra) could get puppet to work. rgds jan i rgds jan i. -- MzK We can all sleep easy at night knowing that somewhere at any given time, the Foo Fighters are out there fighting Foo. -- David Letterman - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org javascript:; For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org javascript:; -- Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings.
Re: ODF Explorer
Hi. I have had the chance of testing your tool earlier, and I see it as a handy tool. With my AOO hat on, I do not think it fits in the project. I do think it is a nice add-on for odf toolkit (which I am not involved in) and Corinthia. I will respond further on the corinthia dev list. rgds jan i. On 24 May 2015 at 06:53, Ian C i...@amham.net wrote: Hi All (cross posting to AOO and ODF Toolkit) I have, as part of a research project, created a tool named the ODF Explorer which is available for initial feedback. The thing is aimed at projects like Corinthia or any other ODF consumer/producer. It allows a user to see what is in an ODF document in terms of its structure. And it looks at a form of coverage analysis called production coverage. In short it ticks of which elements and attributes of the ODF schema have been used. It also shows the changes between documents as things are added. An example graph is attached. It is a filtered view of the headers.odt that Gabriela created. It processes text, spreadsheet, and presentation documents. It should be available via my dropbox account here https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5407897/odfe.zip I intend to make the thing available as an open source once I get some feedback to confirm it at least does not go hugely wrong. Not quite sure how to go about that though. It is built around the Java Apache ODF Toolkit, and will require a 64 bit Java. I've not tried on 32 I'm just assuming it won't work ?? It is a Java program wrapped in Javascript to provide a user interface and so runs on both Linux (where it was developed) and Windows. If anyone picks it up and tries it on a Mac let me know. Before you can run it however, you need a couple of external things. Graphiz available via http://www.graphviz.org/Download.php this is used to draw graphs. It needs to be available on your command line. Confirm it is via dot -V (note the capital) And Node.JS available via https://nodejs.org/download/ It too needs to be available on your command line. npm -v to confirm. I have seen on Windows installs that you may need to create an npm directory in your AppData/Roaming directory before node.js works. And on other machines it installs just fine. I have a Linux system here. Once you have the two externals then unzip the odfe.zip to a directory of your choice. Open a command line and change to your selected odfe install directory (should see a package.json and an odfe.jar file there) And type npm start - it should say an http server has started on port 3000. Then open Firefox or Chrome - I tend to use Chrome. Not IE, it doesn't handle things well. And the url http://localhost:3000/app/index.html; should do the business for you. Each page has a green box in the top left hand corner to open a help page. Open the one on the first page and it should explain the beast. If it does not I have failed. And since I have been working on this beast for so long now there are probably so many things I am taking for granted. This initial release is pretty much to check it can be run outside of my little world and to get whatever comments I can. Let me know how it goes and hopefully you can see the use/relevance of such a tool. I will try to figure out how make it (and the source) more generally available to a wider audience once I am happy users can get it up and running. And if there is any interest in it. If you can think of others who would be able to comment then feel free to forward it to them. Many thanks for any and all feedback, which is gratefully accepted. -- Cheers, Ian C - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Coverity Scan update
Hi. I am very confused. I have not used, nor do I use coverity scan ! Is this an unrequested Advertisement ? I know that Apache OpenOffice used to use these scans, but I have no idea if they are still being used. I have asked to be removed from your mail database before, please make it happen, I do NOT like unconsolidated emails. I have copied dev@o.a.o so the community can judge your email. rgds jan I. On 18 May 2015 at 16:24, Dakshesh Vyas dv...@coverity.com wrote: Hello jani, Thank you for using Coverity Scan. With more than 4000 open source projects now registered at Coverity Scan, we are committed to help the open source community find quality and security issues early in development. We would like to inform you that you can now nominate your favorite defect! Tell us which defects you are glad were found using Coverity Scan and get special gifts like a Samsung Gear 2 Smartwatch, Code Black Drone or Tile for iOS and Android. Gifts will be distributed every month based on defect nomination! We recently added new hardware resource and upgraded our Scan server to our latest 7.6 version, which includes great new features: * New security and quality checkers with version 7.6. * You can now setup automatic approval for viewing defects in read-only mode for everyone. * See charts showing defects outstanding vs. fixed over a period of time, and sort high impact defects by category. * Support for standard SSL port 443 instead of 8443. * Subscribe to email notifications for your entire open source project or for specific components or modules within your project. * You can now submit builds more frequently. * Please download the latest Coverity Build tool from https://scan.coverity.com/download * The old Coverity Build tool will still continue to work, but it may not be able to find some security and quality defects that could be found using our new and improved checkers as a part of 7.6 upgrade. * Important note for projects that uses automation or a script to submit build to Coverity Scan: The old URL to upload build on scan5.coverity.com is no longer supported. It is applicable to and used by some of the old projects on Coverity Scan. * Please sign-in to Coverity Scan to find the updated URL under automation section of Submit Build. * Finally, don't forget to nominate your favorite defects to receive special gifts like a Samsung Gear 2 Smartwatch, Code Black Drone or Tile for iOS and Android every month! Post your technical questions at https://communities.coverity.com/community/scan-(open-source)/content Please email us at scan-ad...@coverity.com if you have any question or concerns, and we would be happy to help you. Thanks Dakshesh Vyas | Technical Manager - Coverity Scan Office: 415.935.2957 | dv...@coverity.com https://scan.coverity.com/ Coverity by Synopsys To manage Coverity Scan email notifications, click https://scan.coverity.com/subscriptions/edit?email=jani%40apache.orgtoken=162a176f33258f0edd05c1e56a7fd72f
Re: Draft Blog Post: Authoring e-Books in Apache OpenOffice: An Interview with Jon Holdsworth
On 11 May 2015 at 14:57, Rob Weir r...@robweir.com wrote: https://blogs.apache.org/roller-ui/authoring/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=authoring_e_books_in_apache That requires an editor account for the blog to read. I though there was an easy way to rewrite the URL so the preview was public, but that does not seem to be working for me. no the preview function is only for the selected few. In any case, this is an interview with an author who used AOO for a book he recently wrote and has some nice technical hints on how to accomplish this with OpenOffice. This should be of interest to many of our users/ +1 go for publish. rgds jan I. -Rob - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [BUILDBOT] - Linux 32bit Nightly (openoffice-linux32-nightly)
On 8 May 2015 at 10:03, Gavin McDonald gmcdon...@apache.org wrote: Hi All, So this build was ‘flapping’, i.e. passing/failing nearly every other build. http://ci.apache.org/builders/openoffice-linux32-nightly?numbuilds=50 This was mainly due to the use of the method=‘copy’ way of updating the source tree. The SVN step performs two things when in ‘copy’ mode, it does a checkout to a ‘source’ directory and then does a copy from there to the ‘build’ directory. The first has a default timeout of 1200 whilst the latter has a (currently) unconfigurable timeout of 120. It is the latter 120 timeout during copy that makes the build fail, about 50% of the time it hits the timeout limit before the copy is complete and so the build fails. I have changed from using mode=‘full', method=‘copy’” to using mode=‘incremental’” which basically means use ‘svn update’ directly on the build directory. I believe this will stabilise this particular build. (I can’t remember why mode=copy was used originally.) years ago, there was a problem with svn up, that some files were not correctly updated (something to do with the filesystem, if I remember right). In my opinion svn up should do just fine now (I use it on ubuntu and windows without problems). rgds jan I. All the other builds also still use mode=copy but I haven’t spotted a failing pattern with those so far because of it. HTH Gav…
Re: {BUILDBOT] - Linux 32bit Snapshot (openoffice-linux32-snapshot)
On Thursday, May 7, 2015, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: jan i wrote: do you happen to have the config options we use for releases on the different platforms? I think the closest resource we have is https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Development+Snapshot+Builds (bottom of page); there you find options for all operating systems, even if they might be slightly outdated. I did not recommend those, mainly because they did not work for me. I was sure we had documented exactly how the 4.1.1 binaries was made, but cannot find it. rgds jan i Regards, Andrea. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org -- Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings.
Re: Opinions about Open Office
On Thursday, May 7, 2015, Remigiusz Fajfer aspagn...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, My name is Remigiusz Fajfer and I am Polish. I am curently using Open Office and Libre Office at the same time. I must say that Libre Office is a little bit better right now, but I believe that it is good to support both projects, because one can always be a little better than the other and competition is something good. One thing that drives me mad about open source programmers is that they mostly do not listen to suggestions. I am curently speaking mostly about blender project. Suggestions to you: 1. The icons are too small. It's nice to look at the softness of them, but they are too small. The best optical reference is that their size should be the upper top of the middle. When you look at them, they just shouldn't be the middle size, but a little bumpy.. 2. The color of the panel is light blue, which is a Microsoft standard. Well, the Microsoft standard is wrong, and this should be a light rotten yellow, rotten means it should be with the little of grey, green and red. 3. The panel needs to be optimised. It's just along the process of programming lots of people put important functions somewhere they do not fit and the users have problems finding them and remembering where they are. That does not mean the panel should be somehow minimalised. The only way to do this is to find someone with vision to work as giving opinions about it. That's all. Thank you for giving me the oportunity to share. Thank you for the comments. It is funny having worked with big closed source companies I have always found that the openSource world is more open to changes. However there is an important point which you might have missed. OpenSource is a world of doers, we are not told what to do (like in companies), so if you really want to change things you need to involve yourself. In your case you could e.g. - write specific design changes as bugzilla issues - offer to help with testing - maybe do some of the design and not forgetting documenting it. rgds jan i Best Regards Remigiusz Fajfer -- Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings.
Re: Buildbot Builds
On 6 May 2015 at 11:26, Gavin McDonald gmcdon...@apache.org wrote: On 4 May 2015, at 7:49 am, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: snip I will test stuff on the Linux version only. Our buildbots are not in great shape http://ci.apache.org/projects/openoffice/ so (without reopening a discussion on installing new ones, please) we should also look at fixing them to be able to find regressions quickly. I’ll do what I can wrt to the Buildbot builds and setup so expect some mails from me on this. Note that this is my ‘volunteer time’ so although my infra karma will help I’m not wearing that hat. Thanks a lot for helping out, I actually think your buildbot experience is more important than your infra hat for this. rgds jan I. Gav…
Re: forum.opnoffice.org
Hi. I could not see any problems, can someone please check if there are problems in e.g. a single Forum thanks in advance jan i. On 6 May 2015 at 09:56, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: On Wed, 6 May 2015 09:36:12 +0200 Carlo Salvagno casa...@email.it wrote: He, today there is a new problem, the forum does not work. rgds Carlo Salvagno En-Forum has been working OK, as far as I can tell. I don't see any error message on the status server. Rory O'Farrell Il giorno 02/apr/2015, alle ore 18:47, jan i ha scritto: Just got confirmation from infra, they have had a server problem today, that has affected a large number of vms. We might still see shorter periods with prolonged responses, while infra get all systems normalized. rgds jan I. On 2 April 2015 at 18:18, casa...@email.it wrote: After hours of problems, seems normal now. Carlo Salvagno - Original Message Da: Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie To: dev@openoffice.apache.org dev@openoffice.apache.org Cc: jan i j...@apache.org Oggetto: Re: forum.opnoffice.org Data: 02/04/15 14:16 Forum site still running very slowly. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie ZE-Light e ZE-Pro: servizi zimbra per caselle con dominio email.it, per tutti i dettagli clicca qui Sponsor: Idee regalo classiche o alternative? Trova l'offerta migliore in un click Clicca qui -- ZE-Light e ZE-Pro: servizi zimbra per caselle con dominio email.it, per tutti i dettagli Clicca qui http://posta.email.it/caselle-di-posta-z-email-it/?utm_campaign=email_Zimbra_102014=main_footer/f Sponsor: Caselle con tuo dominio su piattaforma Zimbra, fino a 30 GB di spazio, sincronizzazione dati e backup Clicca qui: http://adv.email.it/cgi-bin/foclick.cgi?mid=13324d=6-5 -- 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: using the correct mailing list
On 6 May 2015 at 11:28, Gavin McDonald gmcdon...@apache.org wrote: Hi All, I notice that appoximatly half of the mails to this development list are user queries. Rather than answer those user questions here can we maybe not answer them but redirect them to the correct mailing list ? I think it is a good idea, and I do also see that happen quite often. Maybe the procedure should be, redirect the mail (with a copy to the sender), and then respond to the mail on users@ This will help stop the dilution of this list and eventually we’ll end up with development discussion without having to weed out the user queries. While I agree wit your POW, please be aware that this list is also used for general discussions, so from time to time the line between a user question and things we discuss here are very thin (e.g. problems with download). i.e. - Im on this list for dev stuff only. It is nice to have you here. rgds jan i. Gav...
Re: [RAT REPORT] - 30 files with an unknown or no License Header
On 6 May 2015 at 14:14, Gavin McDonald gmcdon...@apache.org wrote: Hi All, http://ci.apache.org/projects/openoffice/rat-output.html shows 30 files that need attention in getting valid license headers adding. A quick look shows to me that we should probably insert ASF license Headers in all of those files. If nobody gets to it before me I’ll provide a patch to that effect. I just had a look, all the files should really have ALv2 added. I wonder what happened, because I know a couple of these files used to have ALv2. I will take a look at svn log later. The archives however is covered by the general LICENSE file, when we make a distribution. Patches are welcome. rgds jan I. HTH Gav…
Re: {BUILDBOT] - Linux 32bit Snapshot (openoffice-linux32-snapshot)
On Thursday, May 7, 2015, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/06/2015 06:51 AM, Gavin McDonald wrote: Hi All, Last build for this was way back in October last year: http://ci.apache.org/builders/openoffice-linux32-snapshot/builds/19 and failed due to disconnecting with the master, the slave itself has been turned off for a while. I’ve re-enabled the slave VM and started a new build. It will take several hours to complete so I’ll report back when thats complete. Gav… I've noticed as well when it first happened but didn't know what to do exactly. Thank you SO much for helping with the buildbots! Maybe we can this one figured out without too much effort. - -- - - - MzK “What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?” -- John Green, An Abundance of Katherines -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJVSqKXAAoJEJ8zlgVF1GcunvkH/iXXVPZzL49WMMyv3CBraZhf Vuz1yicAz7VajsM9MzFiz7kFm/y5Wm1bA9IY07XLOuWlYWvrLMoBu/RZ0MEDDqKw uC7x/nm5b4Xf1uMFivI13viGANlyDJoZj4IPXtkKFgPa3FmvednyrWvjXyTigBgO UssEnzTgtdWMrYcY+ndUFAxvoQ2/9EID9zzrf5p3t0Q8Jge0ytHANsoXuaDBfUwG JL4qzfuhfs1NCmsRcsH45Xk+gj26ZWgzzieouTOxlxHZGiOugt0lATFLaOSV5dL9 A+jMg7D/IH2mezqkdn6wBVgus+UgWWM3s7mfEfIjlueDbWMaeoYxsYXT9tmDwu8= =qGXI -END PGP SIGNATURE- - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org javascript:; For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org javascript:; -- Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings.
Re: {BUILDBOT] - Linux 32bit Snapshot (openoffice-linux32-snapshot)
On Thursday, May 7, 2015, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/06/2015 06:51 AM, Gavin McDonald wrote: Hi All, Last build for this was way back in October last year: http://ci.apache.org/builders/openoffice-linux32-snapshot/builds/19 and failed due to disconnecting with the master, the slave itself has been turned off for a while. I’ve re-enabled the slave VM and started a new build. It will take several hours to complete so I’ll report back when thats complete. Gav… I've noticed as well when it first happened but didn't know what to do exactly. Thank you SO much for helping with the buildbots! Maybe we can this one figured out without too much effort. kay@ do you happen to have the config options we use for releases on the different platforms? Changing the builddbots to use our release configuration, will help with the other problems gav sees (I think). More importantly doong sowould mean we could use the binaries in our releases. rgds jan i - -- - - - MzK “What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?” -- John Green, An Abundance of Katherines -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJVSqKXAAoJEJ8zlgVF1GcunvkH/iXXVPZzL49WMMyv3CBraZhf Vuz1yicAz7VajsM9MzFiz7kFm/y5Wm1bA9IY07XLOuWlYWvrLMoBu/RZ0MEDDqKw uC7x/nm5b4Xf1uMFivI13viGANlyDJoZj4IPXtkKFgPa3FmvednyrWvjXyTigBgO UssEnzTgtdWMrYcY+ndUFAxvoQ2/9EID9zzrf5p3t0Q8Jge0ytHANsoXuaDBfUwG JL4qzfuhfs1NCmsRcsH45Xk+gj26ZWgzzieouTOxlxHZGiOugt0lATFLaOSV5dL9 A+jMg7D/IH2mezqkdn6wBVgus+UgWWM3s7mfEfIjlueDbWMaeoYxsYXT9tmDwu8= =qGXI -END PGP SIGNATURE- - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org javascript:; For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org javascript:; -- Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings.
Re: Forum administrators alias / mailing list
On Saturday, May 2, 2015, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: Our latest Board report contained an automatically generated section with all available mailing lists. One of them, named forum-admin AT openoffice.apache.org, is currently unused. It was created as a more official replacement for the current e-mail address used by forum administrators, aoo.forum.en AT gmail.com. What shall we do with it? 1) We subscribe all forum moderators (I mean: the people who now have access to the Gmail address) to it individually, aiming at replacing the Gmail address. 2) We forward it to the Gmail address, thus keeping all current processes in place but giving users the reassurance that they are contacting admins through a recognizable channel. This is my favorite solution since it won't modify any existing workflow. 3) We simply drop the mailing list and we continue using the Gmail address. +1 rgds jan i The list is configured to let all messages through, so moderators of the list merely manage subscribers. Regards, Andrea. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org -- Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings.
Re: CVE-2015-1774: OpenOffice HWP Filter Remote Execution and DoS Vulnerability
On 29 April 2015 at 15:07, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 2:00 PM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: Simon Phipps wrote: Given this problem is not fixed in the current download, should the project suspend downloads until it can be addressed? This looks like a very extreme measure to take. The severity of the issue would not justify it. Can you explain that please? The CVE says Severity: Important and the effects are a denial of service or possibly execution of arbitrary code by preparing specially crafted documents in the HWP document format. The fact we are unaware of current exploits does not mitigate the risk arising from distributing the software, and the rarity of the file format does not reduce the likelihood of it being used in an exploit. Maybe I am missing some of the context from the private security list? It seems to be an extremely seldom used feature, that makes the exploit unlikely. I am with Andrea, stopping downloads would not be right in this case. rgds jan I. Thanks, S.
Moving forward.
Hi all. Board report for Q1 is behind us now and the negative articles (which we knew would be the consequence of being honest) are probably also behind us. Time to think on the near future. Our next report is due in a little more than 2 Months, I sure hope we can make that positive and show that we are not dying (albeit having difficulties). I see a couple of items that need immediate attention: - Define (in BZ) which incidents goes into version 4.1.2 - Make a patch, resolving the latest security issue which we published - Appoint a release manager - Get the test team ready to test a release candidate - Prepare a meeting of openOffice projects (independent of their relation to AOO) Considering how long we have been talking about 4.1.2, it should be possible to have the release out before start of July. Is anybody volunteering to head one or more of the above items ? I am exploiting possibilities to fast forward our source code, but this a not a short term action. rgds jan i.
Re: Hacking probability
Version 4.1.1 has been out for a while, so updating to that will help you with a lot a of the issues. rgds jan i On 26 April 2015 at 16:28, Keith Stephens aj...@hotmail.com wrote: When is version 4.1.2 due out? I received your warning letter dated April 25/15. I presently have version 3.1.1 and was unable to understand your instructions. Should I just wait for 4.1.2 to solve my dilemma?
Re: Two current articles
On 23 April 2015 at 17:52, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: I have been sent these URLs for two current articles predicting doom and gloom for OpenOffice. I echo them here for information. News articles http://www.datamation.com/open-source/is-openoffice-dying.html http://www.extremetech.com/computing/203979-is-openoffice-dying Thanks, being open has it´s drawbacks. The whole community participated in making the report, something I strongly prefer, and he used (against advice) not the final version, which is significantly different, but the version that fitted his message best. I do not believe being secret about our challenges is the right way, even though such articles are not pleasant reading. We will always have people who misuse drafts, but I am not prepared to make reports with only a little circle of people. We are an open community and I for one am proud that we dare discuss openly. The facts of the report are correct, they can be found by studying this ML. Instead of discussion how unfair life is, let us all, use this as a turning point, to get the activity levels up where they belong. I had a lot of positive input at apacheCON Austin, and it is my hope that some of it turn into realities. rgds jan I. -- 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: open source on mobile [WAS: Re: Apache open office on Anroid
On Tuesday, April 21, 2015, Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.com wrote: Hm. I think the issue below is serious. And one we can address. But do others think that way or believe otherwise? Not sure how we can really address this, considering our challenges making a new desktop release. Rgds jan i louis On 20 Apr 2015, at 13:25, Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.com javascript:; wrote: On 20 Apr 2015, at 13:06, Guy Waterval waterval@gmail.com javascript:; wrote: Or have you not noticed that there are precious few native (as opposed to virtualised) open-source productivity tools to be found ready for the enterprise? to rephrase: productivity software, especially for enterprise, is overwhelmingly dominated by proprietary apps sold by very large multinational corporations. The apps available are often free, as in beer but not free as in speech. They are not open source. It does not matter if the operating system is Android or iOS or whatever, though there are some differences, at least in the marginal OSs, which represent a minute fraction of the total used. What this means is that as tablets (however imagined) are brought into the enterprise (public or private sector), open source is almost entirely absent. Yes, many apps use open source languages but so what? The UX model promoted by the smart, mobile device shuts out user intervention, with some exception, and there seems to be nothing organised that I can see that’s trying to change this arrangement and make it easier to create, distribute and even promote open source productivity apps on mobile devices. Yes, I am aware that tablets are falling out of popularity, but I also am aware that the tablet as imagined by Apple and incarnated in the iPad, was designed and is still envisioned as a consumer entertainment device, not as a work device (though that is changing) and that efforts to insinuate the tablet form factor into enterprise, as Microsoft has tried, have not succeeded. However, the mobile device is succeeding in areas where investment capital is less visible and it is likely to be the preferred mode for the billions that will be coming fresh to school, work, and other areas where computing devices are de rigeur (now or soon). And these users, in Africa, Latin America, and the rest of the world, rich or poor, will be using… proprietary software. So, although the situation on the desktop (and by this one means also the laptop, of course; one refers here to the UX not hardware) is generally not bad for open source, that’s not so for the mobile UX. I doubt very much that Ubuntu or Moz. will put a dent into hard proprietary wave. What would, however, would be mobile apps that can work smoothly with existing desktop productivity software installations. Like Corinthia. best louis -- Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings.
Re: Clarification on Translation policy
Hi On 17 April 2015 at 08:38, FR web forum ooofo...@free.fr wrote: Here is the link to the issue in Bugzilla: https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=126243 Other report for Thai translation: https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=125934 Looking at the comments in the above issues scares me a bit. Two things: - I thought 4.1.2 would be used to release non-released languages that was ready, why wait for 4.2 - We aligned pootle with trunk preparing for 4.2, but honestly have anybody looked at whether or not these files are directly useable (or with minor corrections) for 4.1.2. We do not have a lot of development patches for 4.1.2, so let us at least release languages that are ready. Of course this is only my opinion. rgds jan i. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
ApacheCON Austin status.
Hi all. ApacheCON Austin is now history, but what a conference. I actually got to see and touch the original feather. The keynotes was as usual of high quality, the videos will be uploaded on youtube. There was especially one keynote, that addressed behavior on the mailing lists, it talked (in good US terminology) about grouping the mails in DEFCON1-5 based on the tone used. I admit that I learned a couple of simple things how not to escalate a situation.. AOO did not have presentations, but I talked with many about AOO. I had short a talk with Danese Cooper, who gave me some interesting input, but far too short. I had a long and interesting talk with Zaheda Bhorat, who filled some of my gaps around the period of the split and the beginning of OpenOffice. She has worked with the British Government, who then selected the odf standard. She had some real interesting user views, about the split between AOO and TDF/LO. She had ideas on how the future should look like, and to me, it was very interesting to get a non-technical user opinion. I also had the opportunity to talk with several board members about our current status. The current board report triggered an awareness that we (AOO) need to move faster in changing our situation. I also got a confirmation, that such decisions come from the community and not the board, the board observe and help (if requested). I had hoped to meet other AOOers, but hope I will see a lot of you in Budapest (september 28 - october 1). rgds jan I.
Re: Apache open office on Anroid
On Saturday, April 18, 2015, Guy Waterval waterval@gmail.com wrote: 2015-04-18 10:08 GMT+02:00 Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org javascript:;: On 17/04/2015 Guy Waterval wrote: http://www.multiracio.com/index.php?lang=enstyle=euroofficepage=eo_android EuroOffice for Android is based on Calligra code. Thanks. Well, then it's clearly not an OpenOffice derivative and my question of whether to list it (the Android one, I mean) does not hold any longer. No problem. The purpose of my post was solely informative. thanks information is always nice to get. rgds jan i Regards -- gw -- Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings.
Re: Clarification on Translation policy
On Wednesday, April 15, 2015, Keith N. McKenna keith.mcke...@comcast.net wrote: A recent translation task in Bugzilla to ready a language for translation was set as resolved not an issue because the help was not 100% translated. As memory serves me correctly only the UI needed to be 100% translated to qualify for a release. The help did not need to be. Is this still correct? yes this is still the policy. rgds jan i Regards Keith - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org javascript:; For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org javascript:; -- Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings.
Re: MediaWiki missing new account icon/Link?
On Sunday, April 12, 2015, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all -- I know we're basically whitelisting both CWiki and MWiki accounts, but currently I do not find a Register link on any OpenOffice Wiki (https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Main_Page) pages. Was this removed and I didn't notice? If some alternate means of account registration is used, shouldn't this be mentioned on the main page? +1 The cwiki is a 2 step, The user creates an account, then the admin whitelist it. we used to have a page in wiki.o.a.o (register) that asked you to send an email to dev@ rgds jan i -- - MzK “What is the point of being alive if you don't at least try to do something remarkable?” -- John Green, An Abundance of Katherines - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org javascript:; For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org javascript:; -- Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings.
Re: Office Application BoF @ OSTC, Beijing 2015/3/28
On 5 April 2015 at 17:31, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: Peter Junge wrote: it was a pleasure meeting you at the Office Apps BoF in Beijing. Although we were a small group we certainly had an interesting discussion. Thanks again for having organized the event. ...and be sure that I will ask you to consider writing a blog post! Really, https://blogs.apache.org/ooo/ needs some new content and I've been the only one putting something there lately. If we don't publish new content there, we reduce the visibility of our activities. A double post English/Chinese (two texts in one post) is of course OK if this is more suitable in this case. the BoF is mentioned in the board report, but if other projects was present I would like to mention that ? rgds jan i Regards, Andrea. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [EXT] NetBeans Plugin Promotion and Code Signing
On 7 April 2015 at 12:55, Carl Marcum cmar...@apache.org wrote: Hi all, I submitted the NetBeans plugin to netbeans.org and I received the following email from the NetBeans Community Manager. quote we have noticed your Apache OpenOffice API plugin [1] and because we think it could be a useful plugin I would like to ask if you agree to promoting your plugin on the main page of the NetBeans Plugin Portal. Do you give us a permission to publish your plugin as featured on our site? [1] http://plugins.netbeans.org/plugin/57917 However, in order to promote your plugin you would have to first make sure the plugin is signed. [2] [2] http://wiki.netbeans.org/DevFaqSignNbm Let me please know what you think about this opportunity and if you can sign the plugin in a timely manner. Thanks for your answer! /quote The next available 2 week slot is mid-June. Is this promotion okay? I see no reason why it should not be ok. Plugins are part of our eco system, and promoting a plugin is good promotion. If so, would I use my key or does the project have a special key for this? We do not have a special key, for that purpose. Congratulations in making a plugin that make the front page, job well done ! rgds jan i. Thanks, Carl - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: IMPORTANT: Board report second version.
Hi Sorry for top posting. I have just been made aware, that my understanding of chair role was wrong. The Chair has the responsibility to make the board report: The report is mainly about the status of the project, together with any community and legal issues or other general impediments. If there are issues requiring board assistance, then make that apparent, separate from any general project news. You can seek input from your PMC, but it is mainly your report to the board. The chair does not report to the PMC- the chair reports to the board (i.e. ultimately to the ASF membership). Therefore I have updated the report, based on the comments I have received so far, by making sure it still highlight our problems, but also what we do to counter them. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/2015+Apr The report timing is: April 8, the report must be in the board agenda (I will add it today, to stop discussion in another ML) April 13, last chance to update the report in the board agenda (this is likely to change to 22th) As the quote above says You can seek input from the PMC; and I would like to hear comments which I can incorporate in the report. thanks in advance, and sorry for the confusion. jan I.
Re: IMPORTANT: Board report second version.
On 6 April 2015 at 21:56, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: On 06/04/2015 jan i wrote: I have just been made aware, that my understanding of chair role was wrong. The Chair has the responsibility to make the board report: That is a technicality not worth talking about. In the end, it's important to understand what can be improved and improve it by still keeping faithful to the facts (and this is all I'm going to say about the many messages related to style and tone). https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/2015+Apr This is very good. Really. Not because it contains good words towards me (actually, I'll ask to remove that part, see below)! But because it makes the effort to consider all the possible audiences that will see this report. I fixed some typos at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/diffpagesbyversion.action? pageId=55152414selectedPageVersions=19selectedPageVersions=18 (nothing to discuss: apart from obvious typos, I replaced 4.1.2 reached a beta state with comes closer, since there won't be a beta for a 4.1.x release; about FOSDEM 2016 I changed will to may but simply to say that this is work in progress, nothing else). comes closer can be seen as tomorrow, but you are also right about beta, so it is changed to 4.1.2 is ready for internal testing may changed to want to. As the quote above says You can seek input from the PMC; and I would like to hear comments which I can incorporate in the report. Well, I'm not dead, so let's replace (it's about me after all, so I feel I have a say on this) the epitaph with something more sober like: --- Andrea Pescetti resigned as Chair after 2 years in order to enable a rotating Chair role (i.e., a change every 1-2 years) for OpenOffice. Andrea remains active in the project. Jan Iversen was elected as new Chair and the transition was smooth. --- updated, but changed to Andrea remains an active PMC member. You are more than just active in the project. Then: A major issue for AOO is... should be under Issues and not under Activity (probably a copy/paste problem). No error, the board cannot do anything about it, therefore it is not a board issue. I had to consult on this one, but issues are for things the board should take action on. Last: I suggest (but this is not crucial) to add a paragraph about support since many community members are active mainly in user support and that area needs to be monitored closely: --- The support channels (users mailing list and official forums) are very active as usual, thanks to the work of dozens of volunteers. --- added rgds jan i Regards, Andrea. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Board report proposal, please comment before April 5.
On Sunday, April 5, 2015, jonathon toki.kant...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/04/15 00:37, jan i wrote: felt that I as new AOO chair, had formulated the report too negative and against the wishes of the community I'm going to suggest that said PMC Member was simply shocked at the radical difference in reporting styles. Just to clarify, this did not come from a AOO PMC! It came from a ASF Member who read the board mailing list. No AOO PMC has at this point in time, written that I have acted against the interest of the community. You (Jan) do not like negative surprises. Consequently, your reports reflect that POV. Andrea is more surprise-tolerant, and consequently reports reflect that POV. Both reports are accurate. The difference is simply one of managerial style --- mention potential risks, or only mention documented risks. Both styles have their virtues. Both styles have their vices. The people kicked upstairs can be traumatized by the difference in reporting styles, during the transition process. Agreed, I will however, due to pressure, from non AOO PMC, change the report, and have a new discussion start on this mailing list. I have asked the people in question to come forward in here and explain their opinions. I apologize to the community, for not having realized that consensus in AOO, is not enough, when making a board report. rgds jan i jonathon * English - detected * English * English javascript:void(0); -- Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings.
IMPORTANT: Board report second version.
HI. I am starting a new thread where we can hopefully concentrate on making a final board report. Just to sum up, I have replaced the original report in the board agenda, with a dummy report. The original board report sits untouched in https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/2015+Apr Whatever the community finds consensus about should go in there (I will only have very limited time to make edits, because I am already overloaded), and tthe 12th (or maybe 22th, if the board meeting is postponed) I will take the content reformat it, and submit it for board approval. For once I can sit back and relax, because I feel the report is a good compromise, made by many people. As a note to the PMC, I will drop the private, unless the PMC ask me to include something. Let us stop bashing each other, and get some work done !!! rgds jan I.
Re: Board report proposal, please comment before April 5.
On 5 April 2015 at 12:35, Greg Stein gst...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Apr 05, 2015 at 11:49:44AM +0200, jan i wrote: ... I have never thought or said this was about my person, it has nothing to do with my person. It has to do with the free will of a community versus discussions on private list outside the reach of the community. As the AOO VP, it is your responsibility to bring concerns from those private lists, back to this public list/community. The Foundation does not participate on this mailing list, but it *does* have concerns and feedback. Thus, the Foundation appoints VP to act as the go-between, and expects the VP to perform that role as a liaison. Fact is, that I have received multiple suggestions on the private board list to implement some of your wording or similar wording, these mails (not from you, but a reaction to your mail) ignores the fact, that there was consensus in the community to submit the report. Incorrect. None of the responses even implied such a problem. Absent such, and as *usual* for the board mailing list, it was absolutely recognized this was the AOO report submitted by the PMC and its community. Some edits/suggestions were made. That is all. Nothing more. For reference, your wording was in a mail to a private list, so only the PMC has seen the content. Yes. I have on the private board list rejected to change the wording, without a public discussion on this list. That's your prerogative. For myself, I have great concern about how you *carried* those concerns back to the community. Your job as VP is to bring concerns from the Foundation to the community, and to bring community concerns to the Foundation. Doing a full-reset on the report isn't constructive. I simply do not get it !!! I replaced the original board report in the agenda, with a dummy report, to prevent the original report from accidentally go to the board meeting. The original report still sits untouched in our cwiki, where it belongs as long as we discuss it. Please do not escalate this into something it is not. Replacing the report in the board agenda is a protective action, where a full-reset would be a highly offensive action, which I have NOT done, nor had intention of doing. rgds jan i. Please lets not over-react to what was just some helpful notes. I actually took your mail positively, and based on your mail started a discussion with the PMC, if we should change the wording. I would have wished you had participated in the original public discussion. The Foundation does not participate on all dev@ lists. You should expect feedback from all corners, and from people who do not participate here. Again: your job is to bring *that* feedback back here for further contemplation. It is not reasonable to expect all Directors and ASF Members and others to participate here, to formulate your report to the Board. But you *should* expect those others to respond to a submitted report. They will see it when the report gets submitted, and will review it at that time. But the mails that followed suggesting that I should change the report are an, to me, unacceptable attempt to bypass the community. Nobody suggested you change it unilaterally. Stop mischaracterizing the suggestions. Again, as VP your job is to bring those concerns, suggestions, and edits to the community if you feel that is proper. Nobody told you what to do. You made the choices on pulling the report, and (mis)characterizing the feedback. Thanks for presenting your very relavant views in public, and let us get consensus on a text acceptable both to this community and the readers of the board list. You do not have to do anything for the readers of the board list. That is your mistake. And it was only a few people. The board list has over a hundred people on it. Your report needs to come from the community, and be reported to the Board. That is quite simple. The Board accepts 99% of the reports submitted. There are some that get rejected (like the one you've left in the agenda right now). But there are also MANY that receive feedback and get updated before the Board reviews/discusses them. So. Be like those other folks. Take some feedback. Discuss it. Update. -g - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Board report proposal, please comment before April 5.
On Sunday, April 5, 2015, Gavin McDonald ga...@16degrees.com.au wrote: On 5 Apr 2015, at 7:20 am, jan i j...@apache.org javascript:; wrote: On Sunday, April 5, 2015, jonathon toki.kant...@gmail.com javascript:; wrote: On 05/04/15 00:37, jan i wrote: felt that I as new AOO chair, had formulated the report too negative and against the wishes of the community I'm going to suggest that said PMC Member was simply shocked at the radical difference in reporting styles. Just to clarify, this did not come from a AOO PMC! It came from a ASF Member who read the board mailing list. Yep, that was me. No AOO PMC has at this point in time, written that I have acted against the interest of the community. And neither did I — in fact you couldn’t act against the interest of the community because you posted a report created by the community , correct? I cannot quote your enail, but there is a sentence in there suggesting very directly, that the wording used, was not what the community wanted. I am sure your suggestions was sent with a positive attitude, but we should not discuss what the comnunity want on a list the community cannot read. So I made ‘suggestions’ based on a community based board report. In other words, none of this is an attack on you Jan, or an attack of any kind. I have never thought or said this was about my person, it has nothing to do with my person. It has to do with the free will of a community versus discussions on private list outside the reach of the community. Fact is, that I have received multiple suggestions on the private board list to implement some of your wording or similar wording, these mails (not from you, but a reaction to your mail) ignores the fact, that there was consensus in the community to submit the report. For reference, your wording was in a mail to a private list, so only the PMC has seen the content. I have on the private board list rejected to change the wording, without a public discussion on this list. Please lets not over-react to what was just some helpful notes. I actually took your mail positively, and based on your mail started a discussion with the PMC, if we should change the wording. I would have wished you had participated in the original public discussion. But the mails that followed suggesting that I should change the report are an, to me, unacceptable attempt to bypass the community. Thanks for presenting your very relavant views in public, and let us get consensus on a text acceptable both to this community and the readers of the board list. rgds jan i Gav… You (Jan) do not like negative surprises. Consequently, your reports reflect that POV. Andrea is more surprise-tolerant, and consequently reports reflect that POV. Both reports are accurate. The difference is simply one of managerial style --- mention potential risks, or only mention documented risks. Both styles have their virtues. Both styles have their vices. The people kicked upstairs can be traumatized by the difference in reporting styles, during the transition process. Agreed, I will however, due to pressure, from non AOO PMC, change the report, and have a new discussion start on this mailing list. I have asked the people in question to come forward in here and explain their opinions. I apologize to the community, for not having realized that consensus in AOO, is not enough, when making a board report. rgds jan i jonathon * English - detected * English * English javascript:void(0); -- Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org javascript:; For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org javascript:; -- Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings.
