On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not interested in the Linux builds -- lots of people handle that -- but I > have a question about IRC usage. And also time zone impacts. Will you > provide time windows in UTC so we can all see what that will take for us to > be there synchronously? >
Could you avoid changing the subject line when you haven't really changed the topic? A new thread for a new topic, yes, of course. But if we're already talking about IRC and building OpenOffice, it seems extravagant to make a new thread merely to mention timezones with IRC and building OpenOffice. > - Dennis > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Weir [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 09:02 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Who wants to build OpenOffice? > > 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? > > 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 >> > >
