Hi Nakata Maho,
thanks for the welcome.
Until last Friday I had a 21" iMac PowerPC on my home desk, but now it
has been replaced by a new 27" iMac Intel.
Thus, my PPC iMac is more or less retired, but if needed I can wake this
machine up ;-)
Best regards, Oliver.
On 20.09.2011 13:39, Maho NAKATA wrote:
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<[email protected]>:
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 [email protected] 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.
