Re: Documentation Recruitment
+1 librement, *Sylvain DENIS* /Expert TIC, FLOSS WEB Conseiller en sécurité de l'information Formateur, conférencier/ Le 02/12/12 11:10, Guy Waterval a écrit : Hi Louis, I just wanted to say that the situation in which were Keith and Prabha was not sustainable in the long term, they merit to be recognized for their efforts and not to be frustrated. So, perhaps a group here is a better way to support the efforts in the documentation area. There is no attack against odf authors. I just wanted to say that if you are favorable to the creation of a doclist here, it's a good thing for us. The reason to support an online doc under ALv2.0 is the necessity to have an official documentation easy to update and allowing derivated works (printed documentation, ebooks, ). So, such a documentation appears to me as a priority and has to be absolutely supported, because we have already an existing work and a competent team working on it. But actually the great challenge seems to me how to help this team in a productive manner, avoiding that the help becomes a lost of time for them.
Re: An official Git-Mirror?
On 30/11/2012 Herbert Duerr wrote: It would all be much simpler if we had an official git-mirror [1] of our svn-repository. OK, this will also make contributing easier for the new developers who know only git, since they will be able to checkout (clone) only trunk, branches and tags and submit patches with git format-patch. So they won't need to learn (or endure, depending on the individual inclinations) SVN to help. Regards, Andrea.
Re: Forums and Wiki Scheduled to Reboot
2012/12/2 imacat ima...@mail.imacat.idv.tw Dear all, The forums and wiki hosts are scheduled to reboot on 2012/12/3 0:00am GMT+0, 21 hours from now. Thanks, Imacat. I put a note on ES, EN and IT forums about this. Regards Ricardo -- Best regards, imacat ^_*' ima...@mail.imacat.idv.tw PGP Key http://www.imacat.idv.tw/me/pgpkey.asc Woman's Voice News: http://www.wov.idv.tw/ Tavern IMACAT's http://www.imacat.idv.tw/ Woman in FOSS in Taiwan http://wofoss.blogspot.com/ OpenOffice http://www.openoffice.org/ EducOO/OOo4Kids Taiwan http://www.educoo.tw/ Greenfoot Taiwan http://greenfoot.westart.tw/
CMS diff:
Clone URL (Committers only): https://cms.apache.org/redirect?new=anonymous;action=diff;uri=http://ooo-site.apache.org/stats%2Fdefects.txt Yan Ji Index: trunk/content/stats/defects.txt === --- trunk/content/stats/defects.txt (revision 1416085) +++ trunk/content/stats/defects.txt (working copy) @@ -17,3 +17,4 @@ 2012-09-01,2161,597 2012-10-01,2444,718 2012-11-01,2576,756 +2012-12-01,2680,780 \ No newline at end of file
Re: [User Docs] End of effort to get AOO v3.4 Getting Started Guide finished
Alexandro Colorado wrote: On 12/1/12, Keith N. McKenna keith.mcke...@comcast.net wrote: After 3 months of frustration it is time to end the effort to get The Getting Started Guide that had been started for AOO 3.4 completed. Despite repeated requests for help on the ODFAuthors list it is apparent that either the Authors that had been working on Open Office docs are either no longer interested or are working strictly on the LO books. Alexandro Colorado made an attempt at getting the Base Guide done but was not able to get any responses to his requests for comments on his markups and changes and decided to put it on hold until he did. As far as I know he is still waiting. For the record I pause my contribution to Base based on real life things I needed to take care of. However on the other side, I have been succesfully mentoring students on contributing to the spanish version of this guide. Have been releasing new chapters every other day and hope to finish all the chapters and guide quite soon. I descided to help on Base because I had some paid work on developing courseware for a corporate training but the course got cancelled and the funds with it. :( Hopefully new opportunities will come and would be able to re-start my involvement and bill my hours to the client. One other volunteer stepped up from an inquiry on this list and gave valuable help. Prabha again thank you very much for your work and I hope that you will get involved with the defining of a new documentation project. With only 2 people actively working it is not possible to give the work the quality review and editing that it deserves to have the Open Office name attached to it. Reluctantly unless someone with the requisite skills in technical writing and publishing that I do not have can lend a hand I feel it is best to end the effort and not waste anymore of anyone's time. I will continue to contribute where I can, but that is difficult or someone who is not a developer. Regards Keith N. McKenna Alexandro; My most sincere apologies for any unintended misrepresentation on my part. My comments were based on the last conversation that I had with you here on the list. You had stated then that you had the base efforts on hold waiting for feedback on your previous comments. Again my apologies for my inadvertent misrepresentation. I wish you the best with your efforts on the Spanish versions. Regards Keith
Re: [QA] Python version late for MacOS
Thank you Tsutomu-san! I am currently busy with other stuff but I am aware of what's needed in our pyuno layer so I will examine your code soon. Pedro. - Original Message - From: Tsutomu Uchino Hi, 2012/12/2, Pedro Giffuni : FWIW; After updating Python to 2.7.3 I started working on updating pyuno so that it works with Python3 and Python2. I didn't finish and I don't really have much time for that lately but I will be glad to point someone else in the right direction. I modified pyuno to support Python 3.3 with new functions added on 3.3. But it does not support Python from 3.0 to 3.2. If someone interested in it: https://github.com/hanya/pyuno3 I will make a patch and attach to issue if required. -Tsutomu Adding support for Python3 in pyuno is important and people that make their own packages will need it but in general I would advice against doing the update to 3.x by default now. Let others deal with the migration issues first ;). Pedro. - Original Message - On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Rob Weir wrote: On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 7:11 AM, Andre Fischer wrote: On 30.11.2012 12:02, FR web forum wrote: In trunk we currently have version 2.7.3. Would that be OK? Python 2.7.3 is in end of life. It will be better to directly include Python 3.3. Compatibility for extensions will be more easy with future LibO 4 that use already this version. I thought that 2.x is incompatible from 3.x. Would existing extensions still work with 3.3? Moving to 3.x would be an incompatible change. But 2.7.x is on extended maintenance but no new features are being done there. So the future is certainly with 3.x. But we would need to communicate very carefully with extension authors if we want to make this move. We want to avoid this: 1) AOO 4.0 comes out with broken extensions and unhappy users 2) Extension authors have insufficient time to test with Python 3.x support, leading to 1 3) Extension authors are not aware that we are switching to Python 3.x, leading to 1 So if we want to do this we would need to notify extension authors ASAP and give them a way to test their extensions with Python 3.x. So maybe integrate the new Python early and have a developer preview version that they can test with? -Rob -Andre
Re: Documentation Recruitment (was: Please add me to The OpenOffice.org Documentation Project list)
On 12-12-02, at 05:10 , Guy Waterval waterval@gmail.com wrote: Hi Louis, I just wanted to say that the situation in which were Keith and Prabha was not sustainable in the long term, they merit to be recognized for their efforts and not to be frustrated. So, perhaps a group here is a better way to support the efforts in the documentation area. There is no attack against odf authors. I just wanted to say that if you are favorable to the creation of a doclist here, it's a good thing for us. The reason to support an online doc under ALv2.0 is the necessity to have an official documentation easy to update and allowing derivated works (printed documentation, ebooks, ). So, such a documentation appears to me as a priority and has to be absolutely supported, because we have already an existing work and a competent team working on it. But actually the great challenge seems to me how to help this team in a productive manner, avoiding that the help becomes a lost of time for them. You seem to be misunderstanding what I am writing. But, not matter. I am not by any means nor have I ever been opposed to the establishment of what is being proposed here; quite the contrary. Louis A+ -- gw 2012/12/2 Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.com Hi Guy, On 12-12-01, at 19:35 , Guy Waterval waterval@gmail.com wrote: Hi Louis, 2012/12/1 Louis Suárez-Potts lui...@gmail.com Hi On 12-12-01, at 15:52 , Guy Waterval waterval@gmail.com wrote: A new doc mailing list is absolutely necessary. It could offer an alternative to the odf authors solution, as this group is the documentation area of LibreOffice. Even if people are totally correct there, we have to be realistic, the conditions are not good there for people working on an apache documentation project. From prior experience and also from current, I'd submit that a new list for this purpose is needed. I'd also see if former OO documentation writers want to participate. Of course, to hit my usual refrain, I'm also as always interested to learn if we can work with other implementations of ODF based on OO code. FWIW, when Sun was sponsoring OOo, the Doc project gained productive vigour under Frank Peters, of Sun/Oracle. He brought to bear his professional abilities. He also sought out non-Sun/Oracle community members. It was a good, multilingual project. Clayton worked with him on it. Happy to see that you support the creation of a doclist. By the way, it's not my intention to criticize the work accomplished by Keith and Prabha on the odf authors website. My personal preference is also definitly a printed documentation, but I think that an online doc under ALV2.0 is obligatory, we have no choice, and if we support and help the team of Ricardo, we have a real chance to get it. If we had a dedicated list for the documentation, it would be also more easy to support a printed variant with people who as me are interested by this way. A+ -- gw I think you are responding to things I did not write nor intend. My fault. Let me clarify…. First, my connection with OOo and the documentation project, which I initiated with Scott Carr back in 2002, giving it to him upon his request, is of long standing. Second, I quite support the current license regime and structure. My point about former doc. writers was not to reach out to Authors; I actually had not considered that construal. I did not really think of them as being part of the Documentation project in the same way that Frank was, or earlier, Scott—or as many others were. But of course, I'm an idiot, as there were many who very happily worked with Authors, and they had by far the greater shine, so I can see where you are coming from. However…. Neither Frank nor Clayton had anything to do with Authors group; nor did I. In fact, I had a long historical friction with them for reasons of license and approach. But that's ancient history and in the sum, I was happier to see them contribute and to add to the OOo ecosystem; so was Frank and so was, I believe, Clayton. The Authors group did not include anyone from Sun or Oracle. But again, this is ancient history best left done. Frank was quite committed to online work, too, and there was, in fact, a lot of done by Oracle under his leadership. It's Oracle property. I asked when AOO was just newborn—last year—if Oracle, my former employer, would have those files available for us. My hope was that as the work was proprietary and owned by Oracle, it might be made open and donated to the OO community. Or bought. But nothing came of that entreaty. Louis
Re: Sidebar
On 30/11/2012 Andre Fischer wrote: I will be working on the implementation of the sidebar. In the hope of motivating others (you) to join me, I have created a wiki page that gives a first and rough outline of the work that has to be done and the API and code that already exists and (hopefully) can be reused or adapted: http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Sidebar Thanks Andre, it seems that tasks are still very broad, so I guess that this call is mainly aimed at existing or full-time developers, but if you identify small self-contained tasks where new developers could be involved please advertise them, since they might be useful in a future call for developers or for FOSDEM. Regards, Andrea.
Re: L10n tools is no longer needed.
thanks rob for clarifying it. It just shows how wrong my thought were, but I have been searching to find documentation on the split, reasons why, person conflicts etc...that seems buried quite deep (maybe for good reasons), and the IBM approach to LO also seems quite hard to find, so please understand why I had the impression that we are more talking than doing. Being new, it is really hard to understand, and asking people from LO, just gives the answer that they want to be independent of companies. I just want to do my job, and make it available to as many as possible...so now I will continue with a little AOO project that I have defined. Jan. On 2 December 2012 16:03, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 1:02 PM, janI j...@apache.org wrote: On 1 December 2012 18:01, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: On 28/11/2012 janI wrote: I have had a look, and the tool does with a few exceptions, what genLang was supposed to do. There are no reason to make parallel developments so the l10n development has been stopped. Reading the description it seems it can be used as a basis to improve the Apache OpenOffice localization process too. As others already pointed out in this discussion, there are some good arguments for making a stand-alone project out of this tool, and this seems a reasonable solution. Would it not be a wonderful world, if openSource was truly open and we could share ... why are we as volunteers not trying harder to reach that goal. How much harder? I think it's hard to try harder. Three recent examples, all coming from the official Apache blog or consensus on mailing lists: - our FOSDEM offer to share a devroom: http://mail-archives.apache.**org/mod_mbox/incubator-ooo-** dev/201210.mbox/%3C50904023.**6050...@apache.org%3E http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-ooo-dev/201210.mbox/%3c50904023.6050...@apache.org%3E - my ApacheCon presentation http://s.apache.org/**openoffice-aceu2012-day-1 http://s.apache.org/openoffice-aceu2012-day-1 - code contributions Apache OpenOffice is making to LibreOffice https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/**entry/good_news_libreoffice_** is_integrating https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/good_news_libreoffice_is_integrating So the Apache OpenOffice side did show willingness to cooperate. But cooperation needs willingness on both sides. When you say FOSDEM...did anyone actually talk with LO, or did we just offer it to FOSDEM ? Your presentation was very nice and open but it is far to easy, to sit down and say we have said we are willing to cooperate, actually you can hear the same kind of voices from LO. About contributions, I must have written something wrong... - to me it is a problem when we take/deliver code from each other, that is not sharing, that is copying, and do not help with bug fixes, translatations etc.. But I still think that developers developing for both LO and AOO are one a right track. - We cannot take anything from LO, due to the license problems. E.g. the l10ntools. If we could agree on a common codebase we could really share. If I were PMC I would have one high priority on my list I quite disagree on two points here: 1) You seem to believe Apache OpenOffice is not seeing this as high priority, while I believe Apache OpenOffice is really the only active party in this discussion. you might be right, but to me it seems we are discussing more with ourselves than with LO. I might be completely wrong here, but until now I have not heard about any contact directly with LO about cooperation, code base etc. There might be some historical perspectives I do not know about at least it was implied to me. 2) You imply that only PMC members can make a change. This is not true. Not being a committer may prevent a contributor from getting things done, but not being a PMC member does not prevent anyone from being heard or influential. I agree with you on that...my little contribution to the discussion has for sure got response and not only here. I try to move things on my scale...but let me put my PMC imply more directly...does any of the key persons (to me PMC) have a contact with LO, and if not has it been tried to make contact directly ? or are we just assuming LO do not want to cooperate, because they do not react. Yes. I can say for example that we (IBM) have contacted the company that employees two TDF Directors, and in discussions that included their LibreOffice lead, offered to discuss ways of collaborating on code between LO and AOO. Specifically we discussed ways of collaborating on interoperability and accessibility. At first they said this could not be discussed, for political reasons, until AOO graduated. I then pushed for us to graduate the very next day. But now we're told that this collaboration is not
FAQ page (Re: IPAD)
On 26/11/2012 Rob Weir wrote: [Can I install Openoffice on my IPAD?] I nominate this for an FAQ. I agree. But where is our FAQ page currently? Unfortunately, there's an OpenOffice FAQ easily reachable by search engines at http://www.openoffice.org/faq.html and quite outdated (I don't know whether it's reachable from the home page, but it doesn't seem so). Time to make a new FAQ available or update the old one and link to it from the current site? Regards, Andrea.
AOO nominated for PortalProgramas awards
PortalProgramas is a Spanish site for free software and every year runs the Premios PortalProgramas al software libre (PortalProgramas Awards for Free Software). AOO is nominated on two categories, most popular free software and essential for business http://www.portalprogramas.com/software-libre/premios/proyecto/openoffice.org The site users will vote from December the 6th. Regards Ricardo
Re: AOO nominated for PortalProgramas awards
Small correction, as far as I can see on http://www.portalprogramas.com/software-libre/premios Nominations end december 17, and voting runs december 17 to december 31. Everybody can nominate a free software, so it is not a selection. BUT it is good that we are on the front page with a description ! (I will of course vote as december 17). Jan I. On 2 December 2012 20:59, RGB ES rgb.m...@gmail.com wrote: PortalProgramas is a Spanish site for free software and every year runs the Premios PortalProgramas al software libre (PortalProgramas Awards for Free Software). AOO is nominated on two categories, most popular free software and essential for business http://www.portalprogramas.com/software-libre/premios/proyecto/openoffice.org The site users will vote from December the 6th. Regards Ricardo
Re: AOO nominated for PortalProgramas awards
Well not all is mañana here in spain. People who are motivated get things done :-) and thanks for writing them, I still think in terms of openoffice.org. Jan I. On 2 December 2012 21:19, RGB ES rgb.m...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/12/2 janI j...@apache.org Small correction, as far as I can see on http://www.portalprogramas.com/software-libre/premios Nominations end december 17, and voting runs december 17 to december 31. Everybody can nominate a free software, so it is not a selection. BUT it is good that we are on the front page with a description ! (I will of course vote as december 17). Jan I. On 2 December 2012 20:59, RGB ES rgb.m...@gmail.com wrote: PortalProgramas is a Spanish site for free software and every year runs the Premios PortalProgramas al software libre (PortalProgramas Awards for Free Software). AOO is nominated on two categories, most popular free software and essential for business http://www.portalprogramas.com/software-libre/premios/proyecto/openoffice.org The site users will vote from December the 6th. Regards Ricardo You are right, on one page it says 6th December but on the rest of the site the date is the 17th. The site admins are really accessible. There was a nomination for most popular software for OpenOffice.org so I wrote to them asking to correct the name and suggested to add the essential for business category and they answered on less than an hour: too fast for a Sunday evening! Regards Ricardo
Re: FAQ page (Re: IPAD)
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: On 26/11/2012 Rob Weir wrote: [Can I install Openoffice on my IPAD?] I nominate this for an FAQ. I agree. But where is our FAQ page currently? Unfortunately, there's an OpenOffice FAQ easily reachable by search engines at http://www.openoffice.org/faq.html and quite outdated (I don't know whether it's reachable from the home page, but it doesn't seem so). Time to make a new FAQ available or update the old one and link to it from the current site? The current location of the FAQ is prominent in search results. That is valuable and worth preserving. But the current FAQ contents are out of date. They would need a lot of work to update/correct them. Although the FAQ's are presented in a way that is OK for the user, the static HTML source is structured in a way that will be painful to maintain. Getting a cleaner structure, for example using HTML definition lists (dl) would be easier and could be maintained via the CMS web interface. There is another set of FAQ's on the documentation wiki: http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/FAQ These also appear to be unmaintained. But I think the wiki version would be easier to maintain. So one possible resolution could be: 1) Take anything of use from the FAQ's at http://www.openoffice.org/faq.html and copy them into new FAQ items on the wiki 2) Update the other FAQ's on the wiki 3) Add new items to the wiki FAQ (like the iPAD question) 4) Delete the old FAQ directory and replace with a single page that directs the reader to the wiki FAQ's. -Rob -Rob Regards, Andrea.
Re: help panel desk tab bar.
On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 4:19 PM, janI j...@apache.org wrote: Help. One of the danish translators, just asked me what is panel desk tab bar. I think I found where it is used, but is there a precise definition ?? panel desk tab bar doesn't even make sense to me, a native English speaker. Do you have the context? -Rob Jan I.
Re: help panel desk tab bar.
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 3:57 PM, janI j...@apache.org wrote: It is in the files that are translated to danish: da/accessibility/source/helper.po #: accessiblestrings.src#RID_STR_ACC_DESC_PANELDECL_TABBAR.string.text msgid Panel Deck Tab Bar msgstr Panel Deck Tab Bar and in the sdf file: accessibilitysource\helper\accessiblestrings.src0string RID_STR_ACC_DESC_PANELDECL_TABBAR0en-USPanel Deck Tab Bar20121104 17:36:07 Sorry I wrote desk instead of deck, but I am still equally confused. I see this discussion on this term here: http://openoffice.2283327.n4.nabble.com/Need-you-help-on-a-string-Panel-Deck-Tab-Bar-td2746154.html -Rob Jan I. On 2 December 2012 21:49, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 4:19 PM, janI j...@apache.org wrote: Help. One of the danish translators, just asked me what is panel desk tab bar. I think I found where it is used, but is there a precise definition ?? panel desk tab bar doesn't even make sense to me, a native English speaker. Do you have the context? -Rob Jan I.
Re: Gallery extension from Symphony ressources
Agreed. Homepage elements are web 1.0. Let's remove them. Kevin On Dec 1, 2012, at 5:12 AM, Marcus (OOo) marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Am 11/30/2012 01:50 PM, schrieb Armin Le Grand: Hi List, to keep you up-to date (also in #121407#): I have the first working version. Added themes are: arrows (merged with existing) bullets computers diagrams education environment finance gallery_sound gallery_system people sounds symbols transportation txtshapes Install set sizes (Windows): original: 122 MB (128.229.180 bytes) modified: 142 MB (149.436.536 bytes) Thus, it costs currently ca. 20 MB. I am right now using pngcrush to reduce all contained *.png's old and new ones. Lets see what we can do. It will get smaller. I also check if the ressources are available as vector format (this would be optimal), but it does not look good up to now. Let's see, I will report on reduced sizes when achieved... Suggested from Kevin: remove theme 'rulers'. Comments on that? Maybe they look really like from the past century. It's always somewhat a kind of taste. But then we should also look at the Homepage theme. When reducing the pictures in themes or deleting some completely would give some additional reducing. Marcus
My mwiki account appears to have vanished
Evening; I just tried to log in to my mwiki account and was informed by a very polite error message that I no longer exist.(See Below) Login error There is no user by the name KNMcKenna. Check your spelling. I know that I logged in last week. Could this account have been deleted in the recent maintenance to clear up the spam attack? Regards Keith
Re: [proposal/question] wiki.openoffice.org future: mediaWiki or Apache JSPWiki.
On 2012/12/03 06:35, janI said: JSPwiki just announced a new version: http://incubator.apache.org/jspwiki/ since it is a apache project, should we consider upgrading to jspwiki instead of continuing with mediawiki ? The upgrade will almost for sure be harder, but to me it seems beneficial to use products from our own family, that way we help them and they hopefully help us. I am also confident that it can be done without data loss, which is an absolute no-go to me, we will not accept data loss. If it is decided to go down this path, I will contact jspWiki and get involved with their work so we have a real influence on how the wiki software evolves (especially in regard of spam control). If the only benefit is our own family, I do not see this as a strong reason to risk for either data loss or hard work. Actually, the previous admin Terry may have made some tweak on the MediaWiki. The most concern for me is not data loss (we have backup), but if the wiki can still run as before. Also there are at least four questions that I see immediately. 1. You said there will be no data loss. Could we assume JSPWiki is a successor of MediaWiki? 2. Are the currently-enabled plugins have their corresponding plugins in JSPWiki? 3. Could there be a test machine that we can test first before change? 4. What will be changed on the user side? Jan I. -- Best regards, imacat ^_*' ima...@mail.imacat.idv.tw PGP Key http://www.imacat.idv.tw/me/pgpkey.asc Woman's Voice News: http://www.wov.idv.tw/ Tavern IMACAT's http://www.imacat.idv.tw/ Woman in FOSS in Taiwan http://wofoss.blogspot.com/ OpenOffice http://www.openoffice.org/ EducOO/OOo4Kids Taiwan http://www.educoo.tw/ Greenfoot Taiwan http://greenfoot.westart.tw/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: CMS diff:
I've updated the defect.txt file with latest defect status including open and fixed in last month. Could anybody help commit it? thx On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 9:41 PM, Yan Ji anonym...@apache.org wrote: Clone URL (Committers only): https://cms.apache.org/redirect?new=anonymous;action=diff;uri=http://ooo-site.apache.org/stats%2Fdefects.txt Yan Ji Index: trunk/content/stats/defects.txt === --- trunk/content/stats/defects.txt (revision 1416085) +++ trunk/content/stats/defects.txt (working copy) @@ -17,3 +17,4 @@ 2012-09-01,2161,597 2012-10-01,2444,718 2012-11-01,2576,756 +2012-12-01,2680,780 \ No newline at end of file -- Thanks Best Regards, Yan Ji
Re: My mwiki account appears to have vanished
On 12/02/2012 09:31 PM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: Evening; I just tried to log in to my mwiki account and was informed by a very polite error message that I no longer exist.(See Below) Login error There is no user by the name KNMcKenna. Check your spelling. I know that I logged in last week. Could this account have been deleted in the recent maintenance to clear up the spam attack? Regards Keith I cannot comment on where your account went, but in case new account creation is still disabled, I went ahead and created an account for you. You should receive a randomly generated password (if I did everything correctly, Helen gave me a bit of a tutorial on that)... Let me know if your account does not come through! -- Andrew Pitonyak My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php
Re: Request MWiki Account.
On 12/03/2012 12:59 AM, kevin le wrote: Hello! I am new here to this Open Office and would like to have a MWilki Account. Please have my user name as kevinle...@gmail.com. Thank you so much. Kevin Keven, I just created the account for you with the name kevinle277. I was not allowed to use your full email address in the creation. A randomly generated password was sent to you by the system. Be sure to connect and change it. -- Andrew Pitonyak My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php
Re: [proposal/question] wiki.openoffice.org future: mediaWiki or Apache JSPWiki.
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 11:49 PM, C smau...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 11:35 PM, janI j...@apache.org wrote: JSPwiki just announced a new version: http://incubator.apache.org/jspwiki/ since it is a apache project, should we consider upgrading to jspwiki instead of continuing with mediawiki ? -1 I agree that this is not enough reason just to migrate. Also bad sysadmin could inherit the same security problems we are encountering. Not keeping up with project versions and vulnerabilities will just come back to hunt us in the end, regardless of the platform we are at. The upgrade will almost for sure be harder, but to me it seems beneficial to use products from our own family, that way we help them and they hopefully help us. I am also confident that it can be done without data loss, which is an absolute no-go to me, we will not accept data loss. If it is decided to go down this path, I will contact jspWiki and get involved with their work so we have a real influence on how the wiki software evolves (especially in regard of spam control). While certainly possible to convert from one wiki syntax to another, it's no small feat... and that's if the source wiki uses only standard syntax for the source Wiki. The current MediWiki implementation has a significant number of pages that rely on extensions for their content. To have a successful conversion, you are looking at needing to rewrite thousands of Wiki pages. Not necessarily to have 1:1 conversion, but simply to ensure that the information is still presented in a logical manner (I'm thinking of the documentation pages for example). Before anyone should really consider this, you need to gather up a sizable collection of dedicated volunteers who are willing to sift through every wiki page and validate the content, fix the broken content, correct conversion errors, and reconnect the information flow. You also will need to account for custom written extensions and the functionality (although simple) they provide. It's a very big job to convert even a small number of pages Clayton -- Alexandro Colorado Apache OpenOffice Contributor http://es.openoffice.org
Re: My mwiki account appears to have vanished
Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: On 12/02/2012 09:31 PM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: Evening; I just tried to log in to my mwiki account and was informed by a very polite error message that I no longer exist.(See Below) Login error There is no user by the name KNMcKenna. Check your spelling. I know that I logged in last week. Could this account have been deleted in the recent maintenance to clear up the spam attack? Regards Keith I cannot comment on where your account went, but in case new account creation is still disabled, I went ahead and created an account for you. You should receive a randomly generated password (if I did everything correctly, Helen gave me a bit of a tutorial on that)... Let me know if your account does not come through! Thank you Andrew the account came through with flying colours. Profile, talk and contribs pages all as they were before. Regards Keith
