Re: [DISCUSS] RE: SVN and bringing the total end-to-end OOo project under Configuration Management

2011-08-29 Thread Andy Brown
Rob Weir wrote: Much clipped to save space. Look at http://www.oooforum.org They get tons of traffic though they are independent of the OOo and get no advantage from the URL or any official relationship to the project. If you look on the support page at OOo you will find the oooforum

Re: [DISCUSS] RE: SVN and bringing the total end-to-end OOo project under Configuration Management

2011-08-29 Thread Andy Brown
Rob Weir wrote: On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 8:15 PM, Andy Browna...@the-martin-byrd.net wrote: Rob Weir wrote: Much clipped to save space. Look at http://www.oooforum.org They get tons of traffic though they are independent of the OOo and get no advantage from the URL or any official

Re: [code] builds, runs, but doesn't fly yet

2011-08-29 Thread Andy Brown
Eike Rathke wrote: Hi, On Tuesday, 2011-08-30 01:24:28 +0200, Eike Rathke wrote: The current tree builds using unxlngx6.pro with gcc 4.6.1 amd64 Applications run, smoketest is good. Same for --enable-dbgutil unxlngx6 One thing that caught my eye because I usually set macro security to

Re: Building Guide

2011-08-29 Thread Andy Brown
Eike Rathke wrote: Hi Andy, On Monday, 2011-08-29 18:08:01 -0700, Andy Brown wrote: Do we have a wiki page that shows a non-programmer to build AOOo? Also a list of needed programs would be really helpful, Windows7 and Ubuntu 11.04 here. I would like to help and think this is something I can

Re: [migration] Decision making

2011-08-25 Thread Andy Brown
Donald Whytock wrote: On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Rob Weirrobw...@apache.org wrote: But again, objections must be from committers, backed with technical arguments and the willingness to implement alternatives. The Apache voting policy page you linked agrees that binding votes are from

Re: [Introduction] Getting involved with Apache OOo

2011-08-25 Thread Andy Brown
Matt Richards wrote: Greetings, I have been using OOo for quite some time (its been my fall back if I'm not able to use Microsoft's suite [mostly on Linux and Mac]) and am very pleased seeing it become an Apache project. While, I've not really been part of the OOo community until I heard it has

Re: OOo Bugzilla data import available for review

2011-08-25 Thread Andy Brown
Thanks for doing this for us. Mark Thomas wrote: 3. All usernames and passwords remain unchanged with one exception: users with system administration rights have been removed from the admin group. Access to this group will be limited to members of the ASF infrastructure team (new volunteers

Re: OOo Bugzilla data import available for review

2011-08-25 Thread Andy Brown
TJ Frazier wrote: On 8/25/2011 19:24, Andy Brown wrote: Thanks for doing this for us. Mark Thomas wrote: 3. All usernames and passwords remain unchanged with one exception: users with system administration rights have been removed from the admin group. Access to this group will be limited

Re: u...@openoffice.org on mail_list.html

2011-08-23 Thread Andy Brown
Dave Fisher wrote: Hi Marcus, Starting a new thread so that there is no confusion. You removed all links to an existing us...@openoffice.org from the mail_list.html. (I like the ooo-dev part of what you did.) Please return these links to the page until the time we create ooo-users@i.a.o.

Re: [Repo][Proposal]After the code is checked in to SVN

2011-08-23 Thread Andy Brown
Stephan Bergmann wrote: On Aug 21, 2011, at 6:48 PM, Rob Weir wrote: 1) Initially, only changes are made to make SVN to more perfectly match the Hg tip. We know there are 10 or so files that need to be checked in, with attention to EOL style. And there was a suggestion to update the memo of

Re: us...@openoffice.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] d...@openoffice.org]

2011-08-23 Thread Andy Brown
Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Marcus (OOo)marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: snip At the end it seems the best solution is still to go 2 ways: ML and forum. Best in what way? If half of us want pizza for dinner, and the other half want sushi, is the best solution to have

Can someone verify this?

2011-08-23 Thread Andy Brown
http://studio-no.net/openoffice.php seems to be selling OOo, not illegal I know. Is this something like PortableApps? Andy

Re: Can someone verify this?

2011-08-23 Thread Andy Brown
Marcus (OOo) wrote: Let me try: - I've downloaded the file without that someone wanted to have money or a registration from me. - The mirror http://mirrors.fe.up.pt/; where the download comes from is an officoal mirror of the (old) OOo project. - The MD5 sum is exactly the same as if you

Re: us...@openoffice.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] d...@openoffice.org]

2011-08-23 Thread Andy Brown
Jean Weber wrote: Idle curiosity: I wonder how many people who offer support do it in both places: mailing list and forum, or more or exclusively in one or the other. Personal observation (not intended as a generalization): my preferences vary with whether I'm a consumer or a provider of

Re: Can someone verify this?

2011-08-23 Thread Andy Brown
Marcus (OOo) wrote: Thanks for watching out. Is what I do. :) Maybe there is a dependency from where, how, etc. you try to download. However, it doesn't seen to be a general thing. I did not think of that. I downloaded the file from their link and looks like the right size for the

Re: us...@openoffice.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] d...@openoffice.org]

2011-08-23 Thread Andy Brown
Gavin McDonald wrote: From: Marcus (OOo) [mailto:marcus.m...@wtnet.de] Maybe, but they are still not subscribed. So the moderator has to let the posts through; again and again until the user is subscribed. ew,, no that does not have to happen at all. the moderator can do a reply-all ,

Re: users-jnqqrfibojom4zkihc2...@public.gmane.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] dev-jnqqrfibojom4zkihc2...@public.gmane.org]

2011-08-23 Thread Andy Brown
Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2011-08-23 7:28 PM Andy Brown wrote: The OOo user and discuss list use to have the Delivered-to contain moderator and it was easy to see when a message was from a person that was not subscribed to the list, the way that Apache does it. When the mail system changed

Re: ooo-wiki going offline

2011-08-23 Thread Andy Brown
Terry Ellison wrote: I've now finished the upgrade to add the Apache Traffic Server front end to the community MediaWiki service at http://ooo-wiki.apache.org/ and the service is back online. We need to do some further tuning of the system cache optimisation, but even with the first-cut

Re: id@openoffice.org

2011-08-22 Thread Andy Brown
Mathias Bauer wrote: On 21.08.2011 19:32, Andy Brown wrote: Watching the discussions here I have a question. How hard would it be to find out which forwarding addresses are in active use, last six months, last year? Seems to me if an address is active' then it should be maintained

Re: id@openoffice.org

2011-08-22 Thread Andy Brown
TJ Frazier wrote: +1 I volunteer to help with the long-range problems (karma and fu assumed). --/tj/ I am willing to help as well. The only question is how do we get access to the OOo bugzilla to clean it up before moving it to the ASF? Andy

Re: id@openoffice.org

2011-08-22 Thread Andy Brown
TJ Frazier wrote: On 8/22/2011 15:31, Andy Brown wrote: TJ Frazier wrote: +1 I volunteer to help with the long-range problems (karma and fu assumed). --/tj/ I am willing to help as well. The only question is how do we get access to the OOo bugzilla to clean it up before moving it to the ASF

Re: [Discussion] d...@openoffice.org

2011-08-22 Thread Andy Brown
Marcus (OOo) wrote: @all: If there is somewhere else a place that should be updated (and I've write access) please let me know. Marcus If you have access, maybe on the mailing list page on the OOo site [1] or [2]. If not then post a message to the list that your on. [1]

Re: [Discussion] d...@openoffice.org

2011-08-22 Thread Andy Brown
Dave Fisher wrote: On Aug 22, 2011, at 3:38 PM, Marcus (OOo) wrote: Am 08/22/2011 11:45 PM, schrieb Andy Brown: Marcus (OOo) wrote: @all: If there is somewhere else a place that should be updated (and I've write access) please let me know. Marcus If you have access, maybe on the mailing

Re: us...@openoffice.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] d...@openoffice.org]

2011-08-22 Thread Andy Brown
Dave Fisher wrote: The changes are good at showing where we are as developers. The unfortunate point is that us...@openoffice.org is still a functional list with several posts in a day and the change is hiding that list. Until there is ooo-users@i.a.o we shouldn't hide users@ooo. Does anyone

Re: [Discussion] dev-jnqqrfibojom4zkihc2...@public.gmane.org

2011-08-22 Thread Andy Brown
Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2011-08-22 5:09 PM Marcus (OOo) wrote: Am 08/23/2011 12:50 AM, schrieb Dave Fisher: On Aug 22, 2011, at 3:38 PM, Marcus (OOo) wrote: Am 08/22/2011 11:45 PM, schrieb Andy Brown: Marcus (OOo) wrote: @all: If there is somewhere else a place that should be updated

Re: [What?] Why and How did this reach my inbox?

2011-08-22 Thread Andy Brown
Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: And why should we accept newsgroup posts the same as posts from subscribers to this list? This list is not a newsgroup, but the gmane newsgroup creates the effect of subscribers without they're being subscribed here. Why should we be interested in that? Especially

id@openoffice.org

2011-08-21 Thread Andy Brown
Watching the discussions here I have a question. How hard would it be to find out which forwarding addresses are in active use, last six months, last year? Seems to me if an address is active' then it should be maintained for that user as that is where some contacts expect to find that

Re: [Discussion] d...@openoffice.org

2011-08-21 Thread Andy Brown
Marcus (OOo) wrote: I've updated the text on http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html; (with borrowed text from Mathias). Marcus I like it. :) Andy

Re: [Discussion] d...@openoffice.org

2011-08-19 Thread Andy Brown
Rob Weir wrote: As my preceding forwards indicate, we're getting some interesting posts to d...@openoffice.org, including offers of help, but they are not getting adequate responses. We're missing opportunities here to grow the project. Is there anything we can do to improve this? 1) Continue

Re: [Discussion] d...@openoffice.org

2011-08-19 Thread Andy Brown
Eike Rathke wrote: Hi Andy, On Friday, 2011-08-19 06:37:49 -0700, Andy Brown wrote: I liked the one reply that was sent to someone offering to help: [...] If no one objects I will monitor the list and reply with something like the above and point people to the AOOo with page. That's

Re: openoffice.org domains transferred to ASF

2011-08-17 Thread Andy Brown
Dave Fisher wrote: Some have no dns or the DNS is non-functional openoffice2009.com openoffice-gratuit.com openoffice-pt.com openoffice-pl.com openoffice-nl.com openoffice-fr.com openoffice09fr.com Have these Authoritative servers. NS63.1AND1.ES NS64.1AND1.ES

Re: [Repo][Proposal] OOO340 SVN Dump file import

2011-08-15 Thread Andy Brown
Pedro Giffuni wrote: On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 22:27:29 +0200, Ingrid von der Mehden ingrid...@gmx-topmail.de wrote: Am 15.08.2011 21:13, schrieb Pedro F. Giffuni: --- On Mon, 8/15/11, Rob Weirapa...@robweir.com wrote: [..] ooo/trunk/core --- all the OOO340 stuff ooo/trunk/l10n -- all the language

Re: [www] Ext / Temp repository stability ( was Extensions and templates site down )

2011-08-14 Thread Andy Brown
Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 1:06 PM, drewd...@baseanswers.com wrote: [from out of left field] Would members consider transferring ownership of the current repository hosted on the OSUOSL server to a third party, perhaps created specifically to take this over, and then working with

Re: [www] Ext / Temp repository stability ( was Extensions and templates site down )

2011-08-14 Thread Andy Brown
Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Andy Browna...@the-martin-byrd.net wrote: Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 1:06 PM, drewd...@baseanswers.comwrote: [from out of left field] Would members consider transferring ownership of the current repository hosted on the

Re: [www] Ext / Temp repository stability ( was Extensions and templates site down )

2011-08-14 Thread Andy Brown
Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Andy Browna...@the-martin-byrd.net wrote: Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Andy Browna...@the-martin-byrd.net wrote: Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 1:06 PM, drewd...@baseanswers.com wrote: [from out of

Re: Fundraising

2011-08-13 Thread Andy Brown
Simon Phipps wrote: I don't follow that reasoning. If (hypothetically) I want to pay for you to go to Bermuda for a vacation, it's between you and me and no business of the Bermuda Tourist Commission. So while I can see the hardware donations will have to end, why is it anything to do with

Re: registration

2011-08-11 Thread Andy Brown
genevieve Berthault wrote: Hello! I would like to subscribe to this mailing list please. All the best, Genny You will have to subscribe yourself. Go to http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/mailing-lists.html and click the link. Just so that your

Re: [www] OOo Website Conversion

2011-08-08 Thread Andy Brown
Thanks for the work, Dave. Dave Fisher wrote: Hi - Progress. On Aug 8, 2011, at 8:38 AM, Kay Schenk wrote: On 08/08/2011 08:29 AM, Dave Fisher wrote: Hi Kay, I was able to get HTML wrapped using the Apache CMS last night. I'm not ready to commit anything yet. I'll summarize where I am

Re: An example of what's wrong up with the wiki

2011-08-07 Thread Andy Brown
Joe Schaefer wrote: All: stop talking on this thread. This juvenile conversation needs to end, and we need to get back to making progress on both the service migration and the source code repository. Re service migration: the people who currently admin the existing wiki would be welcome to

Re: The VM for the Wiki is online

2011-08-05 Thread Andy Brown
Raphael Bircher wrote: Hi at all Gav, the Admin from the ASF has setup the VM for the MediaWiki. It's a Ubuntu 10.4.3 LTS VM. At the Moment Gav and I has admin access to this machine. First we have to install all the needed software, Then we will make a test migration with a older Dump, then we

Re: How to handle the downloads?

2011-08-03 Thread Andy Brown
Marcus (OOo) wrote: I've created a little diagram how I think the download has to work: http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/docs/download_process.png As it seems we cannot go on like we did with OOo the JS magic has to change a bit, how to recognize the language, OS and country to

Re: How to handle the downloads?

2011-08-03 Thread Andy Brown
Marcus (OOo) wrote: Am 08/03/2011 04:54 PM, schrieb Andy Brown: Marcus (OOo) wrote: I've created a little diagram how I think the download has to work: http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/docs/download_process.png As it seems we cannot go on like we did with OOo the JS magic has

Re: Refactoring the brand: Apache ooo + OpenOffice.org? (was re:OpenOffice.org branding)

2011-08-03 Thread Andy Brown
). This is going way over the edge past JFDI and/or lazy consensus. -Original Message- From: Andy Brown [mailto:a...@the-martin-byrd.net] Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 09:00 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Refactoring the brand: Apache ooo + OpenOffice.org? (was re:OpenOffice.org

Re: Refactoring the brand: Apache ooo + OpenOffice.org? (was re:OpenOffice.org branding)

2011-08-02 Thread Andy Brown
Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Andy Browna...@the-martin-byrd.net wrote: If you talking the wiki, instead of requiring an ICLA as a person has to create an account, why not make it part of that process that All submitted contributions are under AL2 license. Would that not

Re: Refactoring the brand: Apache ooo + OpenOffice.org? (was re:OpenOffice.org branding)

2011-08-02 Thread Andy Brown
Rob Weir wrote: I poked around and found this page: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Special:Statistics Good find. This lists some additional roles (with counts) Administrators (26) Bureaucrats (4) Editors (20) Reviewers (5) Those are in addition to 35,020 User accounts.

Re: OOo Trademark

2011-07-20 Thread Andy Brown
Danese Cooper wrote: Well, after a policy is decided on, I'd suggest we publish it along with a request for permission link that goes to a special list in this PPMC of people willing to moderate the OOo trademark policy. That's how OSI, Mozilla, Wikimedia and a few other projects I can think

Re: OOo Trademark

2011-07-20 Thread Andy Brown
Shane Curcuru wrote: Thanks for the info. Note that it would be helpful if people interested in working with trademarks read the Apache policies, as well as our growing list of FAQs: http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/ http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/faq/ Part of my

Re: Before Symphony contribution

2011-07-18 Thread Andy Brown
imacat wrote: Dear all, I welcome the contribution from the Symphony team. But before the Symphony contribution, shouldn't it be the first task to move the source onto Apache SVN or something, instead of the current mercurial hg? Not only IBM would like to contribute back to

Re: A first try to remove some copyleft components from the build

2011-07-18 Thread Andy Brown
David McKay wrote: On 18/07/11 20:50, Andy Brown wrote: Mathias Bauer wrote: On 18.07.2011 20:21, Mathias Bauer wrote: 1) xpdf (GPL'd) is a run dependency, this is linux/unix specific. PDFBox may be a replacement. This component is used for the pdf import extension, not for OOo itself

Re: OCR (was Re: A first try to remove some copyleft components from the build)

2011-07-18 Thread Andy Brown
Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: FWIW; --- On Mon, 7/18/11, Andy Brown wrote: ... I agree with you that it is the expectations that cause the real problem. For me it is a waste as it does not do as most people expect. An OCR import would be a better option, if we can find one. I haven't

Re: A first try to remove some copyleft components from the build

2011-07-18 Thread Andy Brown
Marcus (OOo) wrote: Am 07/18/2011 10:04 PM, schrieb David McKay: On 18/07/11 20:50, Andy Brown wrote: Mathias Bauer wrote: On 18.07.2011 20:21, Mathias Bauer wrote: 1) xpdf (GPL'd) is a run dependency, this is linux/unix specific. PDFBox may be a replacement. This component is used

Re: 2011-07-15 PPMC Status: Bringing Initial Committers On-Board

2011-07-15 Thread Andy Brown
Wolf Halton wrote: What do I have to do to get in the PPMC? -Wolf Halton Your listed as one but not joined the mailing list yet. See http://incubator.apache.org/projects/openofficeorg.html . Your name and id are there. You should have received an email with the link to join the ooo-private

Re: Commiters list

2011-07-14 Thread Andy Brown
eric b wrote: I meant, when we compare : http://incubator.apache.org/projects/openofficeorg.html (1) with http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenOfficeProposal (2) We retrieve people in (1) who did not sign the ICLA as stated in (1). But maybe the list on the wiki is not up to date ...

Re: Commiters list and the students

2011-07-14 Thread Andy Brown
Dave Fisher wrote: Sorry, but this is a better thread: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-general/201106.mbox/%3CBANLkTi=gBok7Q0bCfVzwxh+FZTw-o=a...@mail.gmail.com%3E I agree Dave. It was interesting watching this unfold and see how things work. I stayed connected to the

Re: Extensions and templates site down

2011-07-12 Thread Andy Brown
Pedro Giffuni wrote: On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 22:43:10 +0100, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: ... As it happens I'd already started exploring this one with the Document Is the intent to host all of the extensions currently at the OOo site? Or a subset? Or a different set? They

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-11 Thread Andy Brown
Kay Schenk wrote: On 07/11/2011 04:06 AM, Graham Lauder wrote: On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 11:12 +0100, David McKay wrote: snip On 09/07/11 07:58, eric b wrote: The .org is and was always essential to the community. Why? Out of the folk on the OOo forum who expressed an opinion to me, no

Re: Blog Created

2011-07-09 Thread Andy Brown
Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: Dang! Well, I just jumped right in. So, we want the blog to be the official voice of the project in some way? Is that a requirement? Is that what we want? I thought that is what web sites are for. Blogs have a different kind of voice in my experience.

Re: ooo blog (was: RE: ooo-dev list subscriber stats?)

2011-07-08 Thread Andy Brown
Gavin McDonald wrote: -Original Message- From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamil...@acm.org] Sent: Saturday, 9 July 2011 6:06 AM To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: RE: ooo-dev list subscriber stats? +1: - introduce an AOOo blog so that the Community can follow our

Re: ooo blog

2011-07-08 Thread Andy Brown
Dave Fisher wrote: Yes. When I volunteer to admin, but not publish, I am saying that I am not going to be a blogger (if I can avoid it.) I would only correct obvious errors and omissions. There should be at least one other admin as well. I will offer to assist Dave with the admin part. I

Re: OOO and LibreOffice.

2011-07-03 Thread Andy Brown
Simon Phipps wrote: It's certainly worth asking, although I believe their current LGPLv3+MPL policy is more a suggestion than a requirement so it would ultimately be up to each contributor. Perhaps you could ask on the steering-discuss list[1]? S. [1]

Re: How do I get an Apache ID for OOo?

2011-06-30 Thread Andy Brown
Ted Rolle, Jr. wrote: I'd like to participate in the OOo project. I'm a programmer and documentation editor. Ted A person does not request an id. Anyone can contribute to OOo by sending patches to code or the web sites to this list. When the committers see the patches they include them in

Re: Is the OOo Source on the Apache SVN Now?

2011-06-30 Thread Andy Brown
imacat wrote: Dear all, I'm wondering, is the OOo source on the Apache svn now? If not, will it be moved onto the Apache svn? I would like to check some of the old issues reported from our local community. I guess working on the hg source is not a good idea. The actual source code

Re: Some more strange files in the OOo code

2011-06-30 Thread Andy Brown
Greg Stein wrote: On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 14:27, Pedro F. Giffuni giffu...@tutopia.com wrote: ... I think the first Apache release it will be a good opportunity to do all the big API/ABI changes, including this. I think we should also use lucene 3.2, etc.. For my own education... what API

Re: Scope of Apache license: what needs to be covered?

2011-06-28 Thread Andy Brown
Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Alexandro Colorado j...@openoffice.org wrote: Sorry for jumping in but it seems there is an missunderstading between Rob and the ODFAuthor project. I think the ODFAuthor was in the position of many quasi-independent groups like the OOo NGOs

Re: Scope of Apache license: what needs to be covered?

2011-06-28 Thread Andy Brown
Jean Hollis Weber wrote: On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 19:22 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: It might help to be explicit about what you want to do with the user guides. Are you: 1) Looking to have a link from the Apache OOo web site to the user guides? 2) Having the publication form of the user guides

Re: Scope of Apache license: what needs to be covered?

2011-06-28 Thread Andy Brown
Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Jean Hollis Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 20:44 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Jean Hollis Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 19:22 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: It might help

Re: Source format for user guides

2011-06-26 Thread Andy Brown
Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 9:17 PM, Andy Brown a...@the-martin-byrd.net wrote: Rob Weir wrote: I like the idea of using ODF, for the reasons you state. I assuming this implies ODF files in the SVN repository. If so, we're going to have three pain points: 1) Since ODF

Re: migration stuff, wiki page

2011-06-24 Thread Andy Brown
Raphael Bircher wrote: Hi at all For preparation of the big migration we plane to make same thing similar as http://kenai.com/projects/ooo-migration/pages/Home unfortunaly we have three space for it atm. We should reduce them to one.

Re: Files for wiki/web links

2011-06-24 Thread Andy Brown
Wolf Halton wrote: Why not have it be an actual wiki page with option to download pdf? I hate odds when I am reading sites from the droid. :-) I am willing to give it a try if someone can point me to instructions on what to do. Excuse my lack of knowledge, but what is odds? Andy

Re: Files for wiki/web links

2011-06-24 Thread Andy Brown
Dave Fisher wrote: On Jun 24, 2011, at 6:48 AM, Andy Brown wrote: Wolf Halton wrote: Why not have it be an actual wiki page with option to download pdf? I hate odds when I am reading sites from the droid. :-) I am willing to give it a try if someone can point me to instructions on what

Re: Contributors versus Committers versus PMC members - AND USERS

2011-06-24 Thread Andy Brown
Rob Weir wrote: Does anyone see a difference other than the obvious difference of technology, between the OOo user list and the forums? Are they being used for different kinds of things? Or are they just different ways of doing the same things? -Rob There is a big difference from the

Re: Contributors versus Committers versus PMC members - AND USERS

2011-06-24 Thread Andy Brown
Rob Weir wrote: On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Andy Brown a...@the-martin-byrd.net wrote: There is a big difference from the users stand point. If you want to see how hot this topic can get go to [1] and search for forum . As an individual I prefer mailing list but I understand why some

Re: SGA and a grant

2011-06-24 Thread Andy Brown
Kazunari Hirano wrote: Hi all, I am translating http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenOfficeProposal into Japanese. :) I have just come up to Initial Source. -- Initial Source The initial source will consist of a collection of

Re: Sending Wiki Notifications to Mailing Lists

2011-06-23 Thread Andy Brown
Dave Fisher wrote: In light of this conversation I am changing the proposal to this: For both the Community Forum (OOOUSER) and the Developer Forum (OOODEV) I now propose sending an email with a daily digest to ooo-commits@incubator.a.o. This way those who want to oversee changes can do

Files for wiki/web links

2011-06-23 Thread Andy Brown
Hi All, I am working on a how to be put on the User wiki site and have a question on the license wording, how much is required? Would This document is released under AL2 license. be proper? Or do I need to copy the entire license? TIA Andy

Re: Files for wiki/web links

2011-06-23 Thread Andy Brown
the Apache license as well, and may apply it in their own way(s), so you may have seen other styles of NOTICES and the like elsewhere. Separately, there is an Apache RAT (Release Audit Tool) podling: http://incubator.apache.org/rat/ - Shane On 6/23/2011 8:09 PM, Andy Brown wrote: Hi

Re: Files for wiki/web links

2011-06-23 Thread Andy Brown
Tool) podling: http://incubator.apache.org/rat/ - Shane On 6/23/2011 8:09 PM, Andy Brown wrote: Hi All, I am working on a how to be put on the User wiki site and have a question on the license wording, how much is required? Would This document is released under AL2 license. be proper

Re: Sending Wiki Notifications to Mailing Lists

2011-06-22 Thread Andy Brown
Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: I personally would prefer not to receive them. Please make sure they are easy to filter: some header like [Wiki digest] ..., at least. cheers, Pedro. Agreed. Andy

Re: Some more strange files in the OOo code

2011-06-21 Thread Andy Brown
Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: --- On Tue, 6/21/11, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: From: Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com ... On 21 Jun 2011, at 15:13, Mathias Bauer wrote: ... I opt for dropping OS/2 support completely. I agree, but it would still be better to get that code under AL

Re: Oh, let's not forget @openoffice.org too

2011-06-20 Thread Andy Brown
Alexandro Colorado wrote: On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Rob Weir apa...@robweir.com wrote: I'm having difficulty reconciling the openoffice.org email forwarding service with how Apache projects work. Having such an address appears to suggest that the person is representing the

Re: OOo User Registrations and Improvement Program

2011-06-17 Thread Andy Brown
Dave Fisher wrote: Hi All, I was curious about both the OpenOffice.org User Registration and the Oracle Improvement Program. Is this something that Oracle is willing to share? If only snapshots. (1) At some point we'll need to ask Oracle to redirect registrations. (2) Is there any interest

Re: User facing web items

2011-06-17 Thread Andy Brown
Hi Ross, Ross Gardler wrote: On 17 June 2011 00:00, Andy Browna...@the-martin-byrd.net wrote: I have seen references to user facing web items, web pages, wiki and mailing list. What will happen to the forum at http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/ ? It is an very useful user facing

Re: User facing web items

2011-06-17 Thread Andy Brown
Dave Fisher wrote: On Jun 17, 2011, at 2:59 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: On 17 June 2011 00:00, Andy Browna...@the-martin-byrd.net wrote: I have seen references to user facing web items, web pages, wiki and mailing list. What will happen to the forum at

User facing web items

2011-06-16 Thread Andy Brown
I have seen references to user facing web items, web pages, wiki and mailing list. What will happen to the forum at http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/ ? It is an very useful user facing asset that I would hate to see lost. If it is transfered what will be require from those that

Re: Bootstrapping a build

2011-06-15 Thread Andy Brown
Pedro Giffuni wrote: On Wed, 15 Jun 2011 18:17:30 +0200, Martin Hollmichel martin.hollmic...@googlemail.com wrote: On 06/15/2011 05:00 PM, Mathias Bauer wrote: [...] As far as I'm concerned that would be fine for dmake. I never liked to have it in the OOo code base and I know that others

Re: Introducing myself

2011-06-15 Thread Andy Brown
Jean Hollis Weber wrote: I've been away for the past 2 weeks, so I've missed all the happenings. I'm now catching up on the list archives and hope to be confirmed soon as a committer. Meanwhile, I thought I would introduce myself, because I've seen several topics where I think I can contribute

Re: Opinions (was: Subversion - Seeding incubator/openofficeorg/ please)

2011-06-14 Thread Andy Brown
Greg Stein wrote: I wanted to raise this query to the surface for input: the name in the repository. This is easily changed, so it's really just about ongoing perception. * I used ooo to match the mailing list names and to keep URLs short * Christian used openofficeorg to match some podling