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On 9/11/2016 3:40 AM, Peter Kovacs wrote:
Hello Open Office Dev Community,
Dennis E. Hamilton forwarded my message to this list. Thank you for this
activity. I was in the opinion that I have no time and therefore can not
join the list or help.
However OpenOffice devlopment is on my mind for a complete week now. So
I decided I free up time and will focus on developing for Apache Open
Office.
The activity of freeing up time is not that easy, and I am still working
on it. So for starters I will use 4h per week for OO trying to move up
to 8h.
However I have to solve some other topics for this.
Whatever time you can spend will be useful and valued.
...
Long story short. I know
# a lot of languages badly
# a language that is itself a mess.
# how to development in crappy envoirments.
I value
# maintainability
# necessary documentation
# comments
# smart easy to use code.
I would privatly like to achieve to improve
# build times
# maintainability
In the long term, work on the build system would be extremely valuable.
That would make it easier to convert initial interest to long term
contributions.
In the short term, we are preparing release 4.1.3. We need to get all
the changes checked in. After than, the more building and testing the
better.
I made some changes recently to the step-by-step instructions for
Windows,
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO/Step_by_step#Windows_7.2C_Windows_8.1.
They should be tested by building on a machine that has not previously
been used to build OpenOffice.
There is an ongoing activity that needs good user skills without
requiring immediate programming: Monitoring bug tracking at
https://bz.apache.org/ooo/. Each new bug report needs to be tested to
see if it reproduces. If there is insufficient information to reproduce
it, the bug report needs a comment saying so and requesting additional
information. If you can reproduce a bug you can do as much analysis as
you have time for.
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