Re: Fwd: Application

2019-08-01 Thread Patricia Shanahan
OpenOffice is an all-volunteer project within the Apache Software Foundation. If you would like to contribute to OpenOffice we can always use C++ programmers, but we cannot employ them. On 8/1/2019 2:11 PM, Daniel Mobley wrote: To whom it may concern, this is a forwarded copy of a previous

Re: I would like to contibute to open office

2018-08-20 Thread Patricia Shanahan
I know building AOO is difficult. The first time a tried I gave up. The second time, I asked for help each time I got stuck, and succeeded in building it. The core problem is a combination of history, and the number of different supported platforms. On 8/20/2018 4:27 AM, Juan B. Rodriguez

Re: I would like to contibute to open office

2018-07-29 Thread Patricia Shanahan
You are, of course, free to choose any project you like, but I do have a suggestion. In general, AOO uses its own data structures rather than STL templates. I believe it could be made more flexible and more secure by refactoring towards using standard library classes. Specifically, AOO has

Re: Hello

2017-08-31 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Very glad to have you aboard. As an ASF member, I believe you have at least pony-mail access to our security mailing list. Could you meet me over there? On 8/31/2017 12:49 PM, David Meikle wrote: Hello, My name is Dave and I'm a long term user of OpenOffice, as well as Software Engineer, so

Re: Hello there

2017-08-25 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Instructions on managing Openoffice mailing list subscriptions are at https://openoffice.apache.org/mailing-lists.html#using-mailing-lists To unsubscribe from this list send e-mail to recruitment-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org, and reply to the confirmation e-mail. On 8/25/2017 12:28 PM,

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Availability of AOO-4.1.4 RC2

2017-08-16 Thread Patricia Shanahan
linux and windows. Some instruction for QA? Since now, thanks in advance. Regards, Claudio Ferreira 2017-08-16 6:07 GMT-03:00 Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org>: If you can do some testing, please do so and report any regressions relative to 4.1.3. Forwarded Message

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Availability of AOO-4.1.4 RC2

2017-08-16 Thread Patricia Shanahan
- From: Patricia Shanahan [mailto:p...@acm.org] Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2017 10:48 AM To: recruitment@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Availability of AOO-4.1.4 RC2 I am the very worst person to give any instructions for what to test - I wrote several of the patches that went

Re: OpenOffice Contribution !!!!

2017-08-16 Thread Patricia Shanahan
tm_medium=email_source=link_campaign=sig-email_content=webmail_term=link> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> 2017-08-13 6:30 GMT-07:00 Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org>: It is definitely not a prank - I proposed the list, so I should know. I'm an AOO committer and PMC member. Very unfor

Re: Introduction

2017-07-24 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Welcome to OpenOffice. On 7/24/2017 2:15 PM, Andrey Zhitnikov wrote: Dear OpenOffice crew. My name is Andrey. I'm an electrical engineer from Israel. I'm interested in helping to develop OpenOffice project. I think I have programming skills and can help with programming tasks in Java, C++,

Proposed refactoring project

2017-06-19 Thread Patricia Shanahan
I have proposed this refactoring project on the dev@ mailing list, with some positive and no negative feedback. The problem is that OpenOffice makes extensive use of primitive arrays. They have no option for automatic bounds checking, and we have had some problems due to failure to explicitly

Re: Hi

2017-06-06 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Hi Ariel, Welcome to OpenOffice. The main activity at the moment is preparing for the 4.1.4 release. It would be useful to check out the 4.1.4 branch of the source code, build it in whatever environments you have available, and test it by using it. You can find build instructions at

Re: Introduction and a project

2017-02-10 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 2/10/2017 11:02 AM, Simos Xenitellis wrote: ... LibreOffice has been translating those German comments as a multi-year effort and just recently they managed to complete the translation. For this purpose, the used the following script to identify if a comment is likely to be in German and flag

Introduction and a project

2017-02-10 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Introduction: I'm a member of the OpenOffice Project Management Committee. Some time ago, I pushed the creation of the recruitment@ mailing list, and offered to do some mentoring of new volunteers. The good news is that, although now retired, I am a very experienced developer. The bad news

A mission

2017-02-08 Thread Patricia Shanahan
I have a mission for someone with knowledge of C++ and file search tools. It does not require familiarity with the AOO source code. Any volunteers?