Hello Oliver-Rainer Wittmann I'm very happy to work with you, again, and congratulations for new position at IBM. Do you still use PPC based Mac? Recently I bought MacBookAir and it is really nice laptop.
Regards, Nakata Maho 2011/9/20 Oliver-Rainer Wittmann <orwittm...@googlemail.com>: > Hi, > > I am Oliver-Rainer Wittmann, living in a small town near Hamburg, Germany, > and I want to join Apache OpenOffice. > > In the last nine years I was working in Sun's/Oracle's OpenOffice.org > development team as a software developer. My main focus was on the word > processing component Writer and on the OpenDocument support for this > component. > May be you know me from one of the last OpenOffice.org conferences (OOoCons) > which I attended since 2008 as a speaker. > May be you know me as o...@openoffice.org as the Co-Lead of the OpenOffice.org > Writer project. > May be you know me from the OASIS ODF TC - the technical committee which is > responsible for the OpenDocument file format - on which I have been an > active member since December 2006 until this early summer. > > After same change acceptance in the last months I have got the possibility > to continue my engagement in OpenOffice, now under the Apache Foundation, as > an employee of IBM. I am aiming to be a valuable contributor to this > project. > > I will start working on a consolidation of the Windows Build software > requirements as given on > http://ooo-wiki.apache.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide/Building_on_Windows: > - get rid of dependence on unicows.dll > -- take over issue 88652 > (https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=88652) from Mathias and > perform the given tasks. > - get rid of dependence on instmsiw.exe and instmsia.exe > -- I did not find any reference to these files in the sources. On my system > (Windows 7) I have done a build without them and successfully installed this > built version. Thus, I will provide a corresponding patch which only removes > the check for the existence of these files in the configure script. I will > ask others for verification on their Windows system, if a build and a > following installation is still possible. > Please let me know, if somebody else is already working on these things or > if you have any remarks, pros, cons, ... > > Afterwards, I will have a closer look at > http://ooo-wiki.apache.org/wiki/ApacheMigration. I will work on certain > items of it starting with: > - A lot of stuff is mentioned (and marked as solved) on this page which only > needs to be done as proposed and discussed on this list, but as far as I can > see not yet been done. > Please let me know your remarks or objections. > > > I am looking forward to good collaboration and building close relationships. > > Best regards, Oliver. >
