On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Rob Weir <r...@robweir.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Raphael Bircher <r.birc...@gmx.ch> wrote: > > Am 30.08.11 21:24, schrieb Rob Weir: > >> > >> We're blessed to have experienced OOo hackers on the list who have > >> already jumped on the new code repository and started making > >> improvements. > > > > Pavel has already build AOOo succsfull on a Mac, and I tryed it... but > crash > > my Mac with a terrible command line typo ;-) I will reinstall it in the > next > > days, and try it again. > >> > >> But I see we have 214 people subscribed to the mailing list, including > >> many who were not previously working on OOo code. This is great. > >> Growing the community to bring in new developers is key to the success > >> of the project. > >> > >> Do any of you want to get an AOOo dev environment set up, so you can > >> build OpenOffice? If so, please respond to this note, and state what > >> operating system you are interested in building on. > >> > >> Based on this information, we can have a discussion on how best to get > >> you up to speed, whether via Q&A on this list, via IRC chat, a phone > >> conference or maybe even a virtual machine image. > > > > Virtual Image you can only use for Free OS. We use IRC to solve build > > problemes. In the last days there was also more traffic on > > #dev.openoffice.org on freenode. So it would be great to see more > developer > > there. > > > > I was thinking it might be good to put a focus on this. For example, > pick one day when everyone who wants to get started on Mac builds will > work on that. We coordinate in advance with Pavel, so he is available > on IRC that day. We have a thread so we can discuss and compare > notes. The end result of that day (or maybe 72 hours) is everyone who > wants to build with Mac has done it. And we have a set of > enhancements/corrections that we can feed back into the build > documentation, if anything was wrong or unclear. Then, on another > day, we do Debian, and on another day we do Windows, BSD, etc. > > This sounds like a good idea to me.
> > > Greetings Raphael > >> > >> > >> -Rob > >> > > > > > > -- > > My private Homepage: http://www.raphaelbircher.ch/ > > > -- --Matt
