On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Kay Schenk <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 08/31/2011 09:01 AM, Rob Weir wrote: >> >> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Rob Weir<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> We're blessed to have experienced OOo hackers on the list who have >>> already jumped on the new code repository and started making >>> improvements. >>> >>> 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. >>> >> >> A lot of good feedback on this idea. Thanks! >> >> From the responses I've read, it sounds like the most popular choice >> is Linux. So let's start there. >> >> Could we start on Wed September 7th? And run this "event" through the >> weekend? > > sounds good...I will work on this as well. > > Is everything on this page > > http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/source.html > > including the Building Guide at -- > http://ooo-wiki.apache.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide > > still current? >
Probably not. One of the goals of this exercise is to make updated instructions. -Rob >> >> Goals would be: >> >> 1) Enable volunteers who want to build under Linux >> >> 2) Create build instructions that are under ALv2, so we can include >> them in the release. This is a good thing to draft on the "dev" wiki. >> >> I'd like to do a put a post in the AOOo blog on this, to maybe attract >> some additional developers who may want to participate >> >> In the blog post I'd put the link to the SVN tree, the IRC channel, >> and the pre-reqs. >> >> BTW, what should say the pre-reqs are for storage? Source, including >> /main and /extras is around 4GB. Matthias suggested 70 GB for >> building, which could be done on fast external storage. So 75 GB free >> space total is reasonable? >> >> Do we have any RAM guidance? is 1GB sufficient? 2 GB? >> >> -Rob >> >> >> >>> >>> -Rob >>> > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > MzK > > "Music expresses that which cannot be said and > on which it is impossible to be silent." > -- Victor Hugo >
