On 1/16/13 10:30 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
> Jürgen Schmidt wrote:
>> On 1/15/13 11:31 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
>>> I extracted from the 3.3.0
>>> packages the dictionaries (already packaged as OXT) that we used in
>>> 3.3.0. You can find them at
>>> http://people.apache.org/~pescetti/ooo-330-dictionaries/
>> I think the place is not appropriate and I would prefer to bundle
>> dictionaries from the extension repo
> 
> Yes, obviously. Actually, if you see the URL where we download the
> English dictionary from, it's clear we are not enforcing this rule...

external servers are ok, I meant I don't want to download it from the
people server. If we can make it available on extras it is different.

> 
> But we should also keep in mind that most users of these versions will
> be upgrading from 3.3.0, so bundling different extensions than 3.3.0
> could (and I totally don't know if it does or not!) expose to higher
> risk of corrupted spellchecker due to conflicting extensions.

I agree and I am not happy with the current situation. QA is necessary
or at least feedback from native speakers who have tried the dictionaries.

> 
>> Maybe it's possible for our native speakers to review the dictionaries
>> that are available in the repo. And maybe it somebody is interested to
>> maintain the Swedish one and upload it in the repo.
> 
> So Swedish would be a combination of:
> 1) http://extensions.openoffice.org/en/node/5732
> 2) http://extensions.openoffice.org/en/project/SweThes
> 3) http://extensions.openoffice.org/en/project/Swedish_hyph_patterns
> 
> (I found the first one with search engines since apparently this
> extension, but not its releases, has been retired from the Extensions
> site too; the last one was updated yesterday, good sign)

yes it is a good signal but doesn't really solve our current problem.

I hope we will see ones soon that can be included as supported, bundled
in the future versions

I am at the moment not sure how to proceed best.

Juergen

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