Re: Starting a conversation on AOOo 4.0

2011-09-24 Thread floris v
Op 25-9-2011 8:05, Alexandro Colorado schreef: On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 12:53 AM, Tor Lillqvist wrote: So, Tor, what is your point of view on UI changes? I am all in favour of changing the UI, but I am fully aware that I am not an expert in UI issues, and don't claim to know how it should be c

Re: Starting a conversation on AOOo 4.0

2011-09-24 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 12:53 AM, Tor Lillqvist wrote: > > So, Tor, what is your point of view on UI changes? > > I am all in favour of changing the UI, but I am fully aware that I am > not an expert in UI issues, and don't claim to know how it should be > changed. (Also, I am a programmer, not a

Re: Starting a conversation on AOOo 4.0

2011-09-24 Thread Tor Lillqvist
> So, Tor, what is your point of view on UI changes? I am all in favour of changing the UI, but I am fully aware that I am not an expert in UI issues, and don't claim to know how it should be changed. (Also, I am a programmer, not an office software user; I actually use LibreOffice (or OOo) for re

Re: ooo-myspell at apache-extras.org

2011-09-24 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
--- On Sat, 9/24/11, Rob Weir wrote: ... > > HunSpell code is tri-licensed under GPL/LGPL/MPL. > That particular licensing scheme is rather weird: LGPL implies that it can become GPL so you could just say dual licensed LGPL/MPL, and then, once you make something pluggable, the GPL basically bec

Re: ooo-myspell at apache-extras.org

2011-09-24 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
+1 I don't want to send Apache back to the spell checker in OOo 2.x, and the LO guys have made a nice job creating independent Hunspell+lang dictionaries already. What I am doing with MySpell is just making sure it doesn't disappear so that if someone needs an alternative he/she/them won't have t

Re: ooo-myspell at apache-extras.org

2011-09-24 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: > Hi Gianluca; > Is your work related to this version? > http://members.xoom.it/trasforma/ispell/ > Just wondering if we have to contact them too. > With respect to Hunspell vs. Myspell, there is still no decision and I > thinkthat will ha

Re: [LINUX-BUILD] problem with unoxml

2011-09-24 Thread Carl Marcum
Ariel, I will test it on my build. Thanks, Carl On 09/24/2011 07:36 PM, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 08:57:26AM -0400, TJ Frazier wrote: Hi, Carl, Ariel, This looks like a recent change by hdu (on CC). He may have some good words on the subject. --/tj/ I guess he rea

Re: [LINUX-BUILD] problem with unoxml

2011-09-24 Thread Ariel Constenla-Haile
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 08:57:26AM -0400, TJ Frazier wrote: > Hi, Carl, Ariel, > This looks like a recent change by hdu (on CC). He may have some > good words on the subject. --/tj/ I guess he read this list, no need to CC him > >If I got it right, the problem is in solenv/inc/unxlngx.mk > >http:

Re: Updating the status page

2011-09-24 Thread Carl Marcum
Hi Rob, I think the svn co should be "https" instead of "http" for committers. I just went through the steps and added links to the monthly incubator status reports in that section. They are links to the page that includes all projects for the month [1]. The project page updated after about 30

Re: ooo-myspell at apache-extras.org

2011-09-24 Thread RGB ES
2011/9/24 Andrea Pescetti > > But we need to open, at due time, a dedicated discussion on writing aids > before saying that GPL dictionaries cannot be used. Shipping an older > Italian dictionary (or no Italian dictionary at all) would be a huge > regression and it would definitely lead to users

Re: Updating the status page

2011-09-24 Thread Christian Grobmeier
> One that is done you need to check out the changed html into the > production website: > > ssh people.apache.org > cd /www/incubator.apache.org > svn update > > When I did that the changes were not evident immediately on the > website.    Maybe there is some caching involved. All steps correct,

Re: ooo-myspell at apache-extras.org

2011-09-24 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 22/09/2011 Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: Hi Gianluca; Is your work related to this version? http://members.xoom.it/trasforma/ispell/ Just wondering if we have to contact them too. Whatever this is, it is widely unrelated to the dictionary currently included in OpenOffice.org 3.3. The best startin

Re: Mailing lists we don't seem to be using

2011-09-24 Thread Dave Fisher
Hi Rob, Thanks for this review. On Sep 24, 2011, at 12:34 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > I noticed that we have three project mailing lists that have received > zero posts. > > > ooo-issues @ incubator.apache.org --- This list has been around for > 103 days, and has 46 subscribers. But no posts. Shou

Mailing lists we don't seem to be using

2011-09-24 Thread Rob Weir
I noticed that we have three project mailing lists that have received zero posts. ooo-issues @ incubator.apache.org --- This list has been around for 103 days, and has 46 subscribers. But no posts. Shouldn't our Bugzilla notifications be going there? Are we not generating notifications? Or ar

Updating the status page

2011-09-24 Thread Rob Weir
I finally got around to figuring out how to update our podling status page: http://incubator.apache.org/projects/openofficeorg.html It isn't really too difficult. Not as easy as updating a wiki or a web page via the CMS. But is certainly doable, especially with a Linux install. My short summary

Editorial Calendar for the project Blog

2011-09-24 Thread Rob Weir
I've added a wiki page to track this. I'd like to see if can develop a cadence of a new post every two weeks. This should not be too hard if we have a few volunteers to draft the posts. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Project+Blog The target audiences are generally externa

Re: Starting a conversation on AOOo 4.0

2011-09-24 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Tor Lillqvist wrote: >> many people >> most of the userbase >> We know > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word > So, Tor, what is your point of view on UI changes? -Rob > --tml >

Re: Starting a conversation on AOOo 4.0

2011-09-24 Thread Tor Lillqvist
> many people > most of the userbase > We know http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word --tml

Re: Starting a conversation on AOOo 4.0

2011-09-24 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Shao Zhi Zhao wrote: > hi, > > IBM symphony will contribute to Apache, it has good UI,it will be > fit to your requirement. > I wouldn't want to have AOOo with a Symphony UI, part of the reason that OOo has got so popular is because their familiar UI. There were m

Re: Starting a conversation on AOOo 4.0

2011-09-24 Thread floris v
I have no problem with some changes in the interface where they are helpful. For instance: The way that page styles are applied is very counter-intuitive. We get dozens of posts in the forums about how to make a document with a heading on all pages except the first, and

Re: [LINUX-BUILD] problem with unoxml

2011-09-24 Thread TJ Frazier
Hi, Carl, Ariel, This looks like a recent change by hdu (on CC). He may have some good words on the subject. --/tj/ On 9/24/2011 00:33, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 01:12:18AM -0300, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: I can see that error too. This is the problem: * the sax

Re: [DISCUSSION] start collecting the correct content for a NOTICE.txt file

2011-09-24 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 3:04 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > I find it is interesting that NOTICE is the preference and there are > objections to adding an extension. > > It doesn't let SVN line-ends be dealt with in accord with the local system > though.  That is why I use LICENSE.txt and NOTIC

RE: [DISCUSSION] start collecting the correct content for a NOTICE.txt file

2011-09-24 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I find it is interesting that NOTICE is the preference and there are objections to adding an extension. It doesn't let SVN line-ends be dealt with in accord with the local system though. That is why I use LICENSE.txt and NOTICE.txt in places where I have a say in the matter. It is also rath