Re: [DOWNLOAD][PROPOSAL] How to download another version than offered in the green box?
On 4/28/14 12:29 AM, Kay Schenk wrote: On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Marcus (OOo) marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Hi all, while enjoying the Easter time I made some progress about a long-term problem: - Downloading the offered file via the green box is fast and easy - Downloading a different file than the offered is not Via the big table on the other.html is now easy to maintain for us but has no improvement for the user as it is large and complex. Therefore I've thought of making another offer directly on the main download webpage: http://ooo-site.staging.apache.org/download/test/index_droplist.html Please don't look too close to look feel - sure the grey color is not the best one ;-) - this can and will be improved for sure. For now please have a look for the functionality via the drop-down boxes and the then created links below them. What do you think? is this a direction we can/should go in general? Thanks. I do like this idea. It's very straightforward. I think this might be better integrated if this new area could be placed directly under the found version in the green box. Maybe with some slightly smaller styling. And, looking at what else we have going on here, and the information in the lower lighter green box, I would suggest we move Release Notes as the top item under Documentation and move Source Code and SDK, Portable and USB ports and Legacy versions to Additional Resources. (well some of these items are already there really but maybe need to be reworded.) This way the top darker green box would display the version found for the user along with the new drop down and the lighter box underneath would only contain signature and hashes info. I like the idea in general as well and Kay provided some good ideas already to improve the structure. We should use the drop down boxes to for older releases as well. Means a further drop down box where the user can select the version, default is always the latest and greatest. For example for 4.1 we can drop the 32 bit version for Mac to avoid confusion. The link 'Get all platforms, languages, language packs' can be potentially removed completely if we allow the selection of the product. Juergen What do others think? Or do you have complete different thoughts? Thanks in advance. Marcus - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
FYI - CMS is working again
Hello, I just want to inform the change of web sites, works again by the CMS. I was just able to successfully publish changes (commit was 907128) to the page http://www.openoffice.org/de/. Thanks to all who were involved in the repair of the server or the CMS. Greetings, Jörg - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [VOTE]: Release Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 (RC4)
On 25.04.2014 17:11, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: Hi, Did three installs and played around, all worked well - Installed de version over RC3 on my dev machine, all good - Installed de version over 3.4.0 de on my private win7 machine, all good - Installed de DEB 64bit fresh on a virtual Xubuntu64, all good Played with all apps, checked presentation mode, looks good Thus: +1! Sincerely, Armin But we invite all people to vote (non binding) on this RC. We would like to provide a release that is supported by the majority of our project members. [ ] +1 Release this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 [ ] 0 Don't care [ ] -1 Do not release this package because... - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org -- ALG - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [DOWNLOAD][PROPOSAL] How to download another version than offered in the green box?
Hi, On 28.04.2014 10:38, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: On 4/28/14 12:29 AM, Kay Schenk wrote: On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Marcus (OOo) marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Hi all, while enjoying the Easter time I made some progress about a long-term problem: - Downloading the offered file via the green box is fast and easy - Downloading a different file than the offered is not Via the big table on the other.html is now easy to maintain for us but has no improvement for the user as it is large and complex. Therefore I've thought of making another offer directly on the main download webpage: http://ooo-site.staging.apache.org/download/test/index_droplist.html Please don't look too close to look feel - sure the grey color is not the best one ;-) - this can and will be improved for sure. For now please have a look for the functionality via the drop-down boxes and the then created links below them. What do you think? is this a direction we can/should go in general? Thanks. I do like this idea. It's very straightforward. I think this might be better integrated if this new area could be placed directly under the found version in the green box. Maybe with some slightly smaller styling. And, looking at what else we have going on here, and the information in the lower lighter green box, I would suggest we move Release Notes as the top item under Documentation and move Source Code and SDK, Portable and USB ports and Legacy versions to Additional Resources. (well some of these items are already there really but maybe need to be reworded.) This way the top darker green box would display the version found for the user along with the new drop down and the lighter box underneath would only contain signature and hashes info. I like the idea in general as well and Kay provided some good ideas already to improve the structure. We should use the drop down boxes to for older releases as well. Means a further drop down box where the user can select the version, default is always the latest and greatest. For example for 4.1 we can drop the 32 bit version for Mac to avoid confusion. The link 'Get all platforms, languages, language packs' can be potentially removed completely if we allow the selection of the product. +1 from my side for the general idea of the proposal. Kay's and Jürgen's suggestions also make sense. Best regards, Oliver. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Open Office Writer
I already have Open Office calculator operating on Windows 7 . It is very good. Can I download WRITER onto what I already have. I don't like Microsoft word. Please advise how to. Thank you for your help. Thomas Carter - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Open Office Writer
On Mon, 28 Apr 2014 14:34:05 +1000 Thomas Carter thomc...@bigpond.net.au wrote: I already have Open Office calculator operating on Windows 7 . It is very good. Can I download WRITER onto what I already have. I don't like Microsoft word. Please advise how to. Thank you for your help. Thomas Carter As OpenOffice is so tightly integrated, it is best to download the entire package. You may then be able to do a Custom install, but general opinion is that this saves little space and may lose some functionality with other OpenOffice modules. Download only from www.openoffice.org/download This will redirect you to Sourceforge whose servers handle the storage and downloads. The download will start in five seconds. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [VOTE]: Release Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 (RC4)
+1. No critical issue has been found in RC4 until now. On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 11:11 PM, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, this is a call for vote on releasing the available release candidate (RC4) as Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0. Apache OpenOffice 4.1 is a minor update with many bugfixes and at least 2 major improvements. It's the first version where we have the iAccessibility2 support integrated and available. A very huge step forward to reach and better support disabled users especially on Windows. The second improvement is the switch to 64 bit on MacOS. A long and overdue must do shift forward to support newer APIs (replace deprecated APIs) and platforms on MacOS. And we can provide again more complete UI translations and have now support for 38 languages. New languages for this release compared to 4.0.1 are Bulgarian, Danish, Hebrew, Hindi, Norwegian Bokmal and Thai. Apache OpenOffice 4.1 will be a further key milestone to continue the success of OpenOffice. An overview of the integrated release issues can be found under: http://people.apache.org/~jsc/milestones/4.1.0-rc4/AOO4.1.0_RC4_fixes.html The RC4 fixed 2 further problems: https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124682 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124701 RC3: https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124617 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124639 RC2: https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124599 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124607 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124509 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124394 The release candidate artifacts (source release, as well as binary releases for 38 languages) and further information how to verify and review Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 can be found on the following wiki page: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Development+Snapshot+Builds (alternative directly via http://ci.apache.org/projects/openoffice/milestones/4.1.0-rc4) *.dmg files are currently not recognized as binaries and have to be saved manually (save link as ...). The RC is based on the release branch AOO410, revision 1589052! And a fresh and clean RAT scan output of this revision can be found under http://people.apache.org/~jsc/milestones/4.1.0-rc4/AOO4.1.0_RAT_Scan.html Please vote on releasing this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 The vote starts now and will be open until: Monday, 28 April: 2014-04-28 10:00pm UTC+2. But we invite all people to vote (non binding) on this RC. We would like to provide a release that is supported by the majority of our project members. [ ] +1 Release this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 [ ] 0 Don't care [ ] -1 Do not release this package because... - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org -- Best Regards, Steve Yin
OpenOffice Weekly News #2
The new issue is out and you can find it here: https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/apache_openoffice_weekly_news_2 Remember, this is powered by your submissions. So be sure to add new stories to the wiki, so we have material ready for next week: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=40508638 Regards, -Rob - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: OpenOffice Weekly News #2
On Mon, 28 Apr 2014 08:24:55 -0400 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: The new issue is out and you can find it here: https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/apache_openoffice_weekly_news_2 Remember, this is powered by your submissions. So be sure to add new stories to the wiki, so we have material ready for next week: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=40508638 Regards, -Rob For the next newsletter, Rob, I suggest a cautionary note on care in downloading (only from www.openoffice.org?), with mention of download verification by MD5sum and a warning of the Horrible Things that can happen with downloads from other sites. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: OpenOffice Weekly News #2
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 8:30 AM, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: On Mon, 28 Apr 2014 08:24:55 -0400 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: The new issue is out and you can find it here: https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/apache_openoffice_weekly_news_2 Remember, this is powered by your submissions. So be sure to add new stories to the wiki, so we have material ready for next week: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=40508638 Regards, -Rob For the next newsletter, Rob, I suggest a cautionary note on care in downloading (only from www.openoffice.org?), with mention of download verification by MD5sum and a warning of the Horrible Things that can happen with downloads from other sites. Sure. If you have a suggested paragraph, go ahead and add it to the CWiki. When I post the weekly news I clear out that wiki page so it is open for adding new content for the next week. -Rob -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [RELEASE]: final preparation ....
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 5:56 AM, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, assuming the vote for AOO 4.1 will pass successful today we should be prepared to have the final release bits in place. Pre release 1. upload the files to SF (I will take care of it) 2. prepare announcement email (I will take care of it) 3. update the download mechanism 4. wait until the official go for the release ;-) (all) Post release 1. release blog post 2. feeding social media 3. update the update mechanism Juergen +1 In ApacheOO RC4, automatically detects GNU/Linux Debian's Mozilla/Iceweasel/Firefox certificate to digitally sign documents, in particular. Overall operates smooth. Thanks for fixing issue: https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124701 . Best Professional Regards. -- Jose R R http://www.metztli-it.com - NEW Apache OpenOffice 4.0.1! Download for GNU/Linux, Mac OS, Windows. - Daylight Saving Time in USA Canada ends: Sunday, November 02, 2014 - - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [VOTE]: Release Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 (RC4)
this is a call for vote on releasing the available release candidate (RC4) as Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0. +1 It is a very short time vote, but I didn't found any reason against the release. Greetings, Mathias - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [VOTE]: Release Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 (RC4)
+1 Onwards! On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, this is a call for vote on releasing the available release candidate (RC4) as Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0. Apache OpenOffice 4.1 is a minor update with many bugfixes and at least 2 major improvements. It's the first version where we have the iAccessibility2 support integrated and available. A very huge step forward to reach and better support disabled users especially on Windows. The second improvement is the switch to 64 bit on MacOS. A long and overdue must do shift forward to support newer APIs (replace deprecated APIs) and platforms on MacOS. And we can provide again more complete UI translations and have now support for 38 languages. New languages for this release compared to 4.0.1 are Bulgarian, Danish, Hebrew, Hindi, Norwegian Bokmal and Thai. Apache OpenOffice 4.1 will be a further key milestone to continue the success of OpenOffice. An overview of the integrated release issues can be found under: http://people.apache.org/~jsc/milestones/4.1.0-rc4/AOO4.1.0_RC4_fixes.html The RC4 fixed 2 further problems: https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124682 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124701 RC3: https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124617 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124639 RC2: https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124599 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124607 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124509 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124394 The release candidate artifacts (source release, as well as binary releases for 38 languages) and further information how to verify and review Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 can be found on the following wiki page: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Development+Snapshot+Builds (alternative directly via http://ci.apache.org/projects/openoffice/milestones/4.1.0-rc4) *.dmg files are currently not recognized as binaries and have to be saved manually (save link as ...). The RC is based on the release branch AOO410, revision 1589052! And a fresh and clean RAT scan output of this revision can be found under http://people.apache.org/~jsc/milestones/4.1.0-rc4/AOO4.1.0_RAT_Scan.html Please vote on releasing this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 The vote starts now and will be open until: Monday, 28 April: 2014-04-28 10:00pm UTC+2. But we invite all people to vote (non binding) on this RC. We would like to provide a release that is supported by the majority of our project members. [ ] +1 Release this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 [ ] 0 Don't care [ ] -1 Do not release this package because... - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
[DISCUSS][VOTE]: Release Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 (RC4)
On 4/28/14 3:37 PM, Mathias Röllig wrote: this is a call for vote on releasing the available release candidate (RC4) as Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0. +1 It is a very short time vote, but I didn't found any reason against the release. it is a little longer (few hours) than the normal 72 hours vote. The changes are limited compared to earlier RC's. What are you expecting to find what you couldn't found before? Don't get me wrong, I am just interested to learn what we can improve in the future. When the release is out and we have relaxed a little we should reflect what was good and where can we improve ... Juergen - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Download RC4 MacOS content type problem
Hello! Today I want to download RC4 for MacOS (seems all languages). Click onto the entry for the download let Firefox load it into itself as plain text instead of showing a Save to-box. This occurs with Firefox on MacOS and also on Ubuntu. Save target as works. With previous versions (before the server crash) there wasn't a problem, so it seems to be a misconfiguration of the server for *.dmg. This should be changed before the final release is promoted for download. Greetings, Mathias - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Download RC4 MacOS content type problem
On 4/28/14 5:04 PM, Mathias Röllig wrote: Hello! Today I want to download RC4 for MacOS (seems all languages). Click onto the entry for the download let Firefox load it into itself as plain text instead of showing a Save to-box. This occurs with Firefox on MacOS and also on Ubuntu. Save target as works. With previous versions (before the server crash) there wasn't a problem, so it seems to be a misconfiguration of the server for *.dmg. This should be changed before the final release is promoted for download. This is a known problem on this server as reported in my initial email and shouldn't be a problem later on. The server where the RC is hosted is not the final server where the downloads come from. It's annoying yes and I have reported it and can't change it. Juergen Greetings, Mathias - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [DISCUSS][VOTE]: Release Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 (RC4)
It is a very short time vote, but I didn't found any reason against the release. it is a little longer (few hours) than the normal 72 hours vote. The changes are limited compared to earlier RC's. What are you expecting to find what you couldn't found before? Don't get me wrong, I am just interested to learn what we can improve in the future. Maybe it is only my impression, but people like me, which use AOO more then (only) test it and do it (tests) not in full time and (mostly) not at weekends haven't any chance to review all needs and possibilities. (Don't know if this is and understandable english sentence.) And remember that we have to download and test the version before we can and should vote. [RELEASE]: RC4 available - 25.04.2014 15:27 [VOTE]: Release Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 (RC4) - 25.04.2014 17:11 Greetings, Mathias - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [VOTE]: Release Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 (RC4)
On 25/04/2014 Jürgen Schmidt wrote: this is a call for vote on releasing the available release candidate (RC4) as Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0. +1 Release this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 Andrea - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [DISCUSS][VOTE]: Release Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 (RC4)
On 4/28/14 5:16 PM, Mathias Röllig wrote: It is a very short time vote, but I didn't found any reason against the release. it is a little longer (few hours) than the normal 72 hours vote. The changes are limited compared to earlier RC's. What are you expecting to find what you couldn't found before? Don't get me wrong, I am just interested to learn what we can improve in the future. Maybe it is only my impression, but people like me, which use AOO more then (only) test it and do it (tests) not in full time and (mostly) not at weekends haven't any chance to review all needs and possibilities. (Don't know if this is and understandable english sentence.) And remember that we have to download and test the version before we can and should vote. [RELEASE]: RC4 available - 25.04.2014 15:27 [VOTE]: Release Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 (RC4) - 25.04.2014 17:11 sure but we had RC's before and the changes are minimal. I would expect that this testing was already done but maybe this exactly is the problem. If people see that new problems were found they stop testing and wait for the next RC. And keep in mind that we had a Beta as well where exactly this kind of testing is expected and where feedback is welcome. Juergen Greetings, Mathias - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [VOTE]: Release Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 (RC4)
+1 for releasing this release candidate as Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 Best regards, Oliver. On 25.04.2014 17:11, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: Hi all, this is a call for vote on releasing the available release candidate (RC4) as Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0. Apache OpenOffice 4.1 is a minor update with many bugfixes and at least 2 major improvements. It's the first version where we have the iAccessibility2 support integrated and available. A very huge step forward to reach and better support disabled users especially on Windows. The second improvement is the switch to 64 bit on MacOS. A long and overdue must do shift forward to support newer APIs (replace deprecated APIs) and platforms on MacOS. And we can provide again more complete UI translations and have now support for 38 languages. New languages for this release compared to 4.0.1 are Bulgarian, Danish, Hebrew, Hindi, Norwegian Bokmal and Thai. Apache OpenOffice 4.1 will be a further key milestone to continue the success of OpenOffice. An overview of the integrated release issues can be found under: http://people.apache.org/~jsc/milestones/4.1.0-rc4/AOO4.1.0_RC4_fixes.html The RC4 fixed 2 further problems: https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124682 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124701 RC3: https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124617 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124639 RC2: https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124599 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124607 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124509 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124394 The release candidate artifacts (source release, as well as binary releases for 38 languages) and further information how to verify and review Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 can be found on the following wiki page: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Development+Snapshot+Builds (alternative directly via http://ci.apache.org/projects/openoffice/milestones/4.1.0-rc4) *.dmg files are currently not recognized as binaries and have to be saved manually (save link as ...). The RC is based on the release branch AOO410, revision 1589052! And a fresh and clean RAT scan output of this revision can be found under http://people.apache.org/~jsc/milestones/4.1.0-rc4/AOO4.1.0_RAT_Scan.html Please vote on releasing this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 The vote starts now and will be open until: Monday, 28 April: 2014-04-28 10:00pm UTC+2. But we invite all people to vote (non binding) on this RC. We would like to provide a release that is supported by the majority of our project members. [ ] +1 Release this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 [ ] 0 Don't care [ ] -1 Do not release this package because... - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [VOTE]: Release Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 (RC4)
+1 from me. I did my standard testing on 3 platforms, build the src release and think it will be a very solid and good version. I used a snapshot build (later the Beta, RC's) since weeks for my daily work ... Juergen On 4/25/14 5:11 PM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: Hi all, this is a call for vote on releasing the available release candidate (RC4) as Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0. Apache OpenOffice 4.1 is a minor update with many bugfixes and at least 2 major improvements. It's the first version where we have the iAccessibility2 support integrated and available. A very huge step forward to reach and better support disabled users especially on Windows. The second improvement is the switch to 64 bit on MacOS. A long and overdue must do shift forward to support newer APIs (replace deprecated APIs) and platforms on MacOS. And we can provide again more complete UI translations and have now support for 38 languages. New languages for this release compared to 4.0.1 are Bulgarian, Danish, Hebrew, Hindi, Norwegian Bokmal and Thai. Apache OpenOffice 4.1 will be a further key milestone to continue the success of OpenOffice. An overview of the integrated release issues can be found under: http://people.apache.org/~jsc/milestones/4.1.0-rc4/AOO4.1.0_RC4_fixes.html The RC4 fixed 2 further problems: https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124682 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124701 RC3: https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124617 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124639 RC2: https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124599 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124607 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124509 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124394 The release candidate artifacts (source release, as well as binary releases for 38 languages) and further information how to verify and review Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 can be found on the following wiki page: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Development+Snapshot+Builds (alternative directly via http://ci.apache.org/projects/openoffice/milestones/4.1.0-rc4) *.dmg files are currently not recognized as binaries and have to be saved manually (save link as ...). The RC is based on the release branch AOO410, revision 1589052! And a fresh and clean RAT scan output of this revision can be found under http://people.apache.org/~jsc/milestones/4.1.0-rc4/AOO4.1.0_RAT_Scan.html Please vote on releasing this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 The vote starts now and will be open until: Monday, 28 April: 2014-04-28 10:00pm UTC+2. But we invite all people to vote (non binding) on this RC. We would like to provide a release that is supported by the majority of our project members. [ ] +1 Release this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 [ ] 0 Don't care [ ] -1 Do not release this package because... - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: OpenOffice Weekly News #2
on Monday, April 28, 2014 2:25 PM Rob Weir wrote: The new issue is out and you can find it here: https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/apache_openoffice_weekly_news_2 Remember, this is powered by your submissions. So be sure to add new stories to the wiki, so we have material ready for next week: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?page Id=40508638 The German translation of the weekly news is in the wiki, and linked to the German homepage (http://www.openoffice.org/de/). @Rob: Please You can put the blog again a link to the de-translation. I think it's easiest if you always points in the future to the overview page, then the link target is always same: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=40509513 Greetings, Jörg - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: OpenOffice Weekly News #2
on Monday, April 28, 2014 5:36 PM Rob Weir wrote: @Rob: Please You can put the blog again a link to the de-translation. I think it's easiest if you always points in the future to the overview page, then the link target is always same: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?page Id=40509513 Done. Thanks Jörg - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: OpenOffice Weekly News #2
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Jörg Schmidt joe...@j-m-schmidt.de wrote: on Monday, April 28, 2014 2:25 PM Rob Weir wrote: The new issue is out and you can find it here: https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/apache_openoffice_weekly_news_2 Remember, this is powered by your submissions. So be sure to add new stories to the wiki, so we have material ready for next week: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?page Id=40508638 The German translation of the weekly news is in the wiki, and linked to the German homepage (http://www.openoffice.org/de/). @Rob: Please You can put the blog again a link to the de-translation. I think it's easiest if you always points in the future to the overview page, then the link target is always same: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=40509513 Done. -Rob Greetings, Jörg - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [VOTE]: Release Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 (RC4)
On 28.04.2014 17:23, Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 25/04/2014 Jürgen Schmidt wrote: this is a call for vote on releasing the available release candidate (RC4) as Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0. +1 Release this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 +1 for releasing this package as AOO 4.1.0 also from me after building the source package from scratch, checking the source code signature, checking the repository revision vs. the source tarball, checking the built and downloaded binaries on Mac and Linux/AMD64, running tests, reviewing the RAT output, etc. Sorry for the mis-threading of my vote, but due to a problem [1] with the Apache mail server acting as a spam relay it was blacklisted by a couple of Email providers, so the original vote invitation mail never reached my inbox. Getting into the voting thread is now only possible by replying to another mail of the voting thread. [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-7594 Herbert - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [DOWNLOAD][PROPOSAL] How to download another version than offered in the green box?
On Sun, Apr 27, Marcus wrote: [...] I made some progress about a long-term problem: - Downloading the offered file via the green box is fast and easy - Downloading a different file than the offered is not [...] Therefore I've thought of making another offer directly on the main download webpage: http://ooo-site.staging.apache.org/download/test/ index_droplist.html Please don't look too close to look feel [...] this can and will be improved for sure. What do you think? is this a direction we can/should go in general? Or do you have complete different thoughts? Looks nice and more compact, Marcus. In addition to Kay's suggestions, I'd like to suggest to drop the [redundant] line Click here to download for: in the green box, and the line Choose an OS, then the language in the gray box, which you suggested; we can solve it at a programmable way (e.g. disable 2nd drop-down until 1st drop-down has a valid selection). Also, the gray box could appear only after clicking Get a different version, which stands for other version, language, or OS. Great work :)
Re: [DOWNLOAD][PROPOSAL] How to download another version than offered in the green box?
On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 2:19 PM, Marcus (OOo) marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Hi all, while enjoying the Easter time I made some progress about a long-term problem: - Downloading the offered file via the green box is fast and easy - Downloading a different file than the offered is not Via the big table on the other.html is now easy to maintain for us but has no improvement for the user as it is large and complex. Therefore I've thought of making another offer directly on the main download webpage: http://ooo-site.staging.apache.org/download/test/index_droplist.html Please don't look too close to look feel - sure the grey color is not the best one ;-) - this can and will be improved for sure. For now please have a look for the functionality via the drop-down boxes and the then created links below them. What do you think? is this a direction we can/should go in general? Or do you have complete different thoughts? I like it. In fact, I wonder if we could just replace the green box with this UI, pre-populating the drop down list boxes with our best guess of what the user wants? -Rob Thanks in advance. Marcus - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [DOWNLOAD][PROPOSAL] How to download another version than offered in the green box?
On Mon, 28 Apr 2014 12:19:20 -0400 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 2:19 PM, Marcus (OOo) marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Hi all, while enjoying the Easter time I made some progress about a long-term problem: - Downloading the offered file via the green box is fast and easy - Downloading a different file than the offered is not Via the big table on the other.html is now easy to maintain for us but has no improvement for the user as it is large and complex. Therefore I've thought of making another offer directly on the main download webpage: http://ooo-site.staging.apache.org/download/test/index_droplist.html Please don't look too close to look feel - sure the grey color is not the best one ;-) - this can and will be improved for sure. For now please have a look for the functionality via the drop-down boxes and the then created links below them. What do you think? is this a direction we can/should go in general? Or do you have complete different thoughts? I like it. In fact, I wonder if we could just replace the green box with this UI, pre-populating the drop down list boxes with our best guess of what the user wants? -Rob Thanks in advance. Marcus The grey box should have an explicit reference to the version number (4.0.1 in this case) -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [VOTE]: Release Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 (RC4)
Jürgen Schmidt wrote: [X] +1 Release this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 [ ] 0 Don't care [ ] -1 Do not release this package because... Only problem I have found is with send as e-mail though this appears only to effect Windows XP. Still not anywhere near a reason not to release. Keith signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: FYI - CMS is working again
Am 04/28/2014 10:45 AM, schrieb Jörg Schmidt: I just want to inform the change of web sites, works again by the CMS. I was just able to successfully publish changes (commit was 907128) to the page http://www.openoffice.org/de/. Thanks to all who were involved in the repair of the server or the CMS. FYI ;-) This was already stated on Friday (CEST afternoon) in the thread Server status: What's Up; What's Down?. Marcus - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Where to download Open Office for Mac OS ?
Am 04/28/2014 05:10 AM, schrieb Thanh Ngo: I would like to ask you for a favor and to show me how to install the Open Office package for Mac. Basically, I have successfully downloaded the Open Office package for Mac from the information provided in your last email. Then, when I double-click on the package on my iMac, it shows a big folder with the title like this Open Office or some thing with a similar name. That big folder has some sub-folders and other files. But, I don't think I know how to install that software on my iMac because I can't successfully launch it at all. My iMac has the latest Mac OS and it was purchased in Dec 2013. Thank you very much for your help. I'm very sorry but I don't know how to install software on a Mac. But this should help you: http://www.openoffice.org/download/common/instructions.html#apple Marcus On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Marcus (OOo) marcus.m...@wtnet.de mailto:marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Am 04/08/2014 10:26 PM, schrieb Thanh Ngo: I am trying to download Open Office for Mac OS , but don't know where it is on your website. There is this link on your website: http://www.openoffice.org/__download/ http://www.openoffice.org/download/ But that link is for the Windows version only and not for the Mac OS version. Very likely is that you browse to this webpage via a Windows PC. The green box reads the browser data and presents a suitable install file - mostly this works as expected. ;-) Would you please tell me where I can download the Mac OS version ? In the green box you have the link Get all platforms, languages, language packs to see all files on a separate file - or click this link: http://www.openoffice.org/__download/other.html http://www.openoffice.org/download/other.html HTH Marcus - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [RELEASE]: final preparation ....
Am 04/28/2014 02:56 PM, schrieb Jürgen Schmidt: assuming the vote for AOO 4.1 will pass successful today we should be prepared to have the final release bits in place. Pre release 1. upload the files to SF (I will take care of it) 2. prepare announcement email (I will take care of it) 3. update the download mechanism I'll take care of point #3. 4. wait until the official go for the release ;-) (all) Any idea when this will be? I'm (always) interesting in knowing the time, not only the date. Post release 1. release blog post 2. feeding social media 3. update the update mechanism Thanks Marcus - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [RELEASE]: final preparation ....
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, assuming the vote for AOO 4.1 will pass successful today we should be prepared to have the final release bits in place. Pre release 1. upload the files to SF (I will take care of it) 2. prepare announcement email (I will take care of it) 3. update the download mechanism 4. wait until the official go for the release ;-) (all) Post release 1. release blog post 2. feeding social media I have 1 and 2 ready to go. -Rob 3. update the update mechanism Juergen - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: FYI - CMS is working again
on Monday, April 28, 2014 8:48 PM Marcus (OOo) wrote: Am 04/28/2014 10:45 AM, schrieb Jörg Schmidt: I just want to inform the change of web sites, works again by the CMS. I was just able to successfully publish changes (commit was 907128) to the page http://www.openoffice.org/de/. Thanks to all who were involved in the repair of the server or the CMS. FYI ;-) This was already stated on Friday (CEST afternoon) in the thread Server status: What's Up; What's Down?. Sorry that I have not noticed on Friday, but only now. Jörg - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [DOWNLOAD][PROPOSAL] How to download another version than offered in the green box?
Am 04/28/2014 06:25 PM, schrieb Rory O'Farrell: On Mon, 28 Apr 2014 12:19:20 -0400 Rob Weirrobw...@apache.org wrote: On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 2:19 PM, Marcus (OOo)marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Hi all, while enjoying the Easter time I made some progress about a long-term problem: - Downloading the offered file via the green box is fast and easy - Downloading a different file than the offered is not Via the big table on the other.html is now easy to maintain for us but has no improvement for the user as it is large and complex. Therefore I've thought of making another offer directly on the main download webpage: http://ooo-site.staging.apache.org/download/test/index_droplist.html Please don't look too close to look feel - sure the grey color is not the best one ;-) - this can and will be improved for sure. For now please have a look for the functionality via the drop-down boxes and the then created links below them. What do you think? is this a direction we can/should go in general? Or do you have complete different thoughts? I like it. In fact, I wonder if we could just replace the green box with this UI, pre-populating the drop down list boxes with our best guess of what the user wants? -Rob Thanks in advance. Marcus The grey box should have an explicit reference to the version number (4.0.1 in this case) Right, for the moment I've added this into the headline. Lets see how this can be kept after some redesigns. Marcus - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [DOWNLOAD][PROPOSAL] How to download another version than offered in the green box?
Am 04/28/2014 06:19 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 2:19 PM, Marcus (OOo)marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Hi all, while enjoying the Easter time I made some progress about a long-term problem: - Downloading the offered file via the green box is fast and easy - Downloading a different file than the offered is not Via the big table on the other.html is now easy to maintain for us but has no improvement for the user as it is large and complex. Therefore I've thought of making another offer directly on the main download webpage: http://ooo-site.staging.apache.org/download/test/index_droplist.html Please don't look too close to look feel - sure the grey color is not the best one ;-) - this can and will be improved for sure. For now please have a look for the functionality via the drop-down boxes and the then created links below them. What do you think? is this a direction we can/should go in general? Or do you have complete different thoughts? I like it. In fact, I wonder if we could just replace the green box with this UI, pre-populating the drop down list boxes with our best guess of what the user wants? And I like this idea. However, I would like to finish first a separate color box to have something working - as I expect some difficulties to combine both. But I will keep this great idea for version 2.0. Thanks Marcus - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [DOWNLOAD][PROPOSAL] How to download another version than offered in the green box?
Am 04/28/2014 12:29 AM, schrieb Kay Schenk: On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Marcus (OOo)marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Hi all, while enjoying the Easter time I made some progress about a long-term problem: - Downloading the offered file via the green box is fast and easy - Downloading a different file than the offered is not Via the big table on the other.html is now easy to maintain for us but has no improvement for the user as it is large and complex. Therefore I've thought of making another offer directly on the main download webpage: http://ooo-site.staging.apache.org/download/test/index_droplist.html Please don't look too close to look feel - sure the grey color is not the best one ;-) - this can and will be improved for sure. For now please have a look for the functionality via the drop-down boxes and the then created links below them. What do you think? is this a direction we can/should go in general? Thanks. I do like this idea. It's very straightforward. I think this might be better integrated if this new area could be placed directly under the found version in the green box. Maybe with some slightly smaller styling. You mean to combine both boxes, like suggested by Rob? And, looking at what else we have going on here, and the information in the lower lighter green box, I would suggest we move Release Notes as the top item under Documentation and move Source Code and SDK, Portable and USB ports and Legacy versions to Additional Resources. (well some of these items are already there really but maybe need to be reworded.) For sure, the many links below the green box need a clean-up. I'll note this for doing after the drop-boxes are ready. This way the top darker green box would display the version found for the user along with the new drop down and the lighter box underneath would only contain signature and hashes info. What do others think? Yes, sounds good. Marcus - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [DOWNLOAD][PROPOSAL] How to download another version than offered in the green box?
Am 04/28/2014 10:38 AM, schrieb Jürgen Schmidt: On 4/28/14 12:29 AM, Kay Schenk wrote: On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Marcus (OOo)marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Hi all, while enjoying the Easter time I made some progress about a long-term problem: - Downloading the offered file via the green box is fast and easy - Downloading a different file than the offered is not Via the big table on the other.html is now easy to maintain for us but has no improvement for the user as it is large and complex. Therefore I've thought of making another offer directly on the main download webpage: http://ooo-site.staging.apache.org/download/test/index_droplist.html Please don't look too close to look feel - sure the grey color is not the best one ;-) - this can and will be improved for sure. For now please have a look for the functionality via the drop-down boxes and the then created links below them. What do you think? is this a direction we can/should go in general? Thanks. I do like this idea. It's very straightforward. I think this might be better integrated if this new area could be placed directly under the found version in the green box. Maybe with some slightly smaller styling. And, looking at what else we have going on here, and the information in the lower lighter green box, I would suggest we move Release Notes as the top item under Documentation and move Source Code and SDK, Portable and USB ports and Legacy versions to Additional Resources. (well some of these items are already there really but maybe need to be reworded.) This way the top darker green box would display the version found for the user along with the new drop down and the lighter box underneath would only contain signature and hashes info. I like the idea in general as well and Kay provided some good ideas already to improve the structure. We should use the drop down boxes to for older releases as well. Means a further drop down box where the user can select the version, default is always the latest and greatest. Sounds good. A more comfortable selector for archived versions. But then we need a strong commitment to keep the download structure and naming unique - to avoid to script exceptions just because versions are named and placed slightly different. ;-) For example for 4.1 we can drop the 32 bit version for Mac to avoid confusion. The link 'Get all platforms, languages, language packs' can be potentially removed completely if we allow the selection of the product. Absolutely, should be the main target for this new UI. Marcus - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [DOWNLOAD][PROPOSAL] How to download another version than offered in the green box?
Am 04/28/2014 06:00 PM, schrieb Tal Daniel: On Sun, Apr 27, Marcus wrote: [...] I made some progress about a long-term problem: - Downloading the offered file via the green box is fast and easy - Downloading a different file than the offered is not [...] Therefore I've thought of making another offer directly on the main download webpage: http://ooo-site.staging.apache.org/download/test/ index_droplist.html Please don't look too close to look feel [...] this can and will be improved for sure. What do you think? is this a direction we can/should go in general? Or do you have complete different thoughts? Looks nice and more compact, Marcus. In addition to Kay's suggestions, I'd like to suggest to drop the [redundant] line Click here to download for: in the green box, and the line Choose an OS, then the language in the gray box, which you This sounds like you suggest to combine the green and grey box. Do I understand it right? suggested; we can solve it at a programmable way (e.g. disable 2nd drop-down until 1st drop-down has a valid selection). Yes, will try to do this. Also, the gray box could appear only after clicking Get a different version, which stands for other version, language, or OS. This link was not often seen in the past - at least we got several questions how to get other builds. So, to be honest, I would doubt that the grey box would be then seen by all users. ;-) Great work :) Thanks Marcus - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Quote requested-Open Office 3
Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 14/04/2014 Rob Weir wrote: https://www.openoffice.org/faq.html There is also these FAQ's on the wiki: https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/FAQ Why do we have two places for FAQs? I'm sure there was a good reason once... Back at the time only a few people had write access to the website. So it was easier to maintain stuff on the wiki, since everybody could contribute there. The FAQ page on openoffice.org has a nice URL but it's totally outdated (the latest changes were done by me, but just to add an outdated notice for people who came from search engines). Ideally, the FAQ section on the wiki should be reviewed, even though it's already much better than the one on the site, and then maybe moved to the site. Regards, Andrea. Andrea; The FAQ section on the wiki is more up to date as I took on the task a year ago to update it with the relevant FAQ's from the website. I thought I had sent a mail to the list to have the relevant one's from the website redirected, but I apparently never sent that. Obviously the whole question is opened again as to where they should reside. I have categories all ready for the Developer FAQ's. I did not touch them as part of the original clean-up as I do not have enough knowledge in that area to pick and choose which are still relevant. If the decision is to move them to the wiki I will be more than glad to do the grunt work of rewording them, I just need some assistance from the developer community as to which ones are still relevant. Regards Keith signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: My Introduction
Jupiter Weinman wrote: Hello Members of Apache OpenOffice, My name is Matthew Weinman. I am interested in gaining knowledge and experience in the field of technical writing. I am a published author of fiction, which I know is much different, and have recently graduated from a small college with an English degree. I know very little about the field of technical writing, but feel with my background I would be able to develop the skills necessary to make a career in tech-writing. Since I've never been in a group such as this, I'm wondering, How do I even get started? The, 'Introduction to Contributing,' page advised me to send an email to this account, then, I would be on the mailing list. I'm excited to start and any information on the field of technical writing would be much appreciated. Thank you. Sincerely, Matthew Weinman Welcome Matthew; First let me apologize for the lateness of this reply. Unfortunately your original got lost in the fairly hi volume traffic of this list. If you are interested in joining the documentation team I would suggest the following page as a starter. http://openoffice.apache.org/orientation/intro-doc.html. This is the orientation page for the Documentation team. I also highly recommend the level One and Two pages from http://openoffice.apache.org/orientation/index.html. They give a good overview of how the project is structured and the infrastructure that it utilizes. Your background in English will be a great help as we need editors to review and make changes in grammatical structure and the like. Some of our writers do not have English as a first language, and some of us, mostly myself, are native speakers, but are not always expert grammarians. I look forward to working with you. Regards Keith N. McKenna signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [DOWNLOAD][PROPOSAL] How to download another version than offered in the green box?
On Mon, Apr 28, Marcus wrote: Am 04/28/2014 06:00 PM, schrieb Tal Daniel: [...]Looks nice and more compact, Marcus. [...] I'd like to suggest to drop the [redundant] line Click here to download for: in the green box, and the line Choose an OS, then the language in the gray box, which you added ... This sounds like you suggest to combine the green and grey box. Do I understand it right? No, just thought to remove texts that are too trivial/obvious. Combining the boxes, as others suggest, could work too, if you're afraid that people won't find the download other versions link. Tal
Re: [DOWNLOAD][PROPOSAL] How to download another version than offered in the green box?
Am 04/28/2014 10:30 PM, schrieb Tal Daniel: On Mon, Apr 28, Marcus wrote: Am 04/28/2014 06:00 PM, schrieb Tal Daniel: [...]Looks nice and more compact, Marcus. [...] I'd like to suggest to drop the [redundant] line Click here to download for: in the green box, and the line Choose an OS, then the language in the gray box, which you added ... This sounds like you suggest to combine the green and grey box. Do I understand it right? No, just thought to remove texts that are too trivial/obvious. Combining the boxes, as others suggest, could work too, if you're afraid that people won't find the download other versions link. Ah, understood, I added this because I thought of the opposite. ;-) And to make clear to first choose an OS, then a language because it didn't worked the other way around. But I've removed it for now. As suggested I can try to activate the next droplist only when the previous one is filled. Then the text is indeed no longer needed. Regarding the text in the green box, this should be kept as I've recently added (hosted by Sourceforge.net) [1]. This is to make sure that the users know that the download finally comes not from an OpenOffice or Apache server but by our hosting partner Sourceforge. I would like to give this a try for some weeks to see if we still get complains or not. [1] See the mail tread Adding from SourceForge to download page a few days ago) Marcus - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [DOWNLOAD][PROPOSAL] How to download another version than offered in the green box?
Thanks a lot for your input. A few of them (delete some obviously not needed text, make the choice order of the drop-dwn boxes irrelevant) are already committed. But the most need more time. Please don't expect to have this full-featured for the AOO 4.1.0 release. I need more time to do all this. Luckily the need work-free days are coming. :-) Marcus Am 04/27/2014 08:19 PM, schrieb Marcus (OOo): Hi all, while enjoying the Easter time I made some progress about a long-term problem: - Downloading the offered file via the green box is fast and easy - Downloading a different file than the offered is not Via the big table on the other.html is now easy to maintain for us but has no improvement for the user as it is large and complex. Therefore I've thought of making another offer directly on the main download webpage: http://ooo-site.staging.apache.org/download/test/index_droplist.html Please don't look too close to look feel - sure the grey color is not the best one ;-) - this can and will be improved for sure. For now please have a look for the functionality via the drop-down boxes and the then created links below them. What do you think? is this a direction we can/should go in general? Or do you have complete different thoughts? Thanks in advance. Marcus - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [RELEASE]: final preparation ....
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, assuming the vote for AOO 4.1 will pass successful today we should be prepared to have the final release bits in place. Pre release 1. upload the files to SF (I will take care of it) 2. prepare announcement email (I will take care of it) 3. update the download mechanism 4. wait until the official go for the release ;-) (all) Post release 1. release blog post 2. feeding social media I have 1 and 2 ready to go. -Rob 3. update the update mechanism Juergen - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org ...and final editing of Release Notes https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.1+Release+Notes -- - MzK Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. -- Helen Keller
we need help from Mac users on digital certificate instructions
Some recent findings primarily dealing with *nix users have caused us to make changes to the instructions on the wiki for digital certificates (inline instructions will need to be changed as well after this release)-- https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/How_to_use_digital_Signatures https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Certificate_Detection If you are a Mac user, please let us know your experience in this regard. If you have a wiki account, feel free to make changes. Thanks. -- - MzK Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. -- Helen Keller
Re: [RELEASE]: final preparation ....
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, assuming the vote for AOO 4.1 will pass successful today we should be prepared to have the final release bits in place. Pre release 1. upload the files to SF (I will take care of it) 2. prepare announcement email (I will take care of it) 3. update the download mechanism 4. wait until the official go for the release ;-) (all) Post release 1. release blog post 2. feeding social media I have 1 and 2 ready to go. -Rob 3. update the update mechanism Juergen - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org ...and final editing of Release Notes https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.1+Release+Notes ummm.. .the BZ fixed bug search seems to be missing at this point (??) -- - MzK Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. -- Helen Keller -- - MzK Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. -- Helen Keller
Re: [VOTE]: Release Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 (RC4)
+1 Tested on 2 platforms and build from scratch. Let's get this out there... A. On 4/28/2014 8:30 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: +1 from me. I did my standard testing on 3 platforms, build the src release and think it will be a very solid and good version. I used a snapshot build (later the Beta, RC's) since weeks for my daily work ... Juergen On 4/25/14 5:11 PM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: Hi all, this is a call for vote on releasing the available release candidate (RC4) as Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0. Apache OpenOffice 4.1 is a minor update with many bugfixes and at least 2 major improvements. It's the first version where we have the iAccessibility2 support integrated and available. A very huge step forward to reach and better support disabled users especially on Windows. The second improvement is the switch to 64 bit on MacOS. A long and overdue must do shift forward to support newer APIs (replace deprecated APIs) and platforms on MacOS. And we can provide again more complete UI translations and have now support for 38 languages. New languages for this release compared to 4.0.1 are Bulgarian, Danish, Hebrew, Hindi, Norwegian Bokmal and Thai. Apache OpenOffice 4.1 will be a further key milestone to continue the success of OpenOffice. An overview of the integrated release issues can be found under: http://people.apache.org/~jsc/milestones/4.1.0-rc4/AOO4.1.0_RC4_fixes.html The RC4 fixed 2 further problems: https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124682 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124701 RC3: https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124617 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124639 RC2: https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124599 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124607 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124509 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124394 The release candidate artifacts (source release, as well as binary releases for 38 languages) and further information how to verify and review Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 can be found on the following wiki page: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Development+Snapshot+Builds (alternative directly via http://ci.apache.org/projects/openoffice/milestones/4.1.0-rc4) *.dmg files are currently not recognized as binaries and have to be saved manually (save link as ...). The RC is based on the release branch AOO410, revision 1589052! And a fresh and clean RAT scan output of this revision can be found under http://people.apache.org/~jsc/milestones/4.1.0-rc4/AOO4.1.0_RAT_Scan.html Please vote on releasing this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 The vote starts now and will be open until: Monday, 28 April: 2014-04-28 10:00pm UTC+2. But we invite all people to vote (non binding) on this RC. We would like to provide a release that is supported by the majority of our project members. [ ] +1 Release this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 [ ] 0 Don't care [ ] -1 Do not release this package because... - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org -- Andrew Rist | Interoperability Architect OracleCorporate Architecture Group Redwood Shores, CA | 650.506.9847
Re: [VOTE]: Release Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 (RC4)
Not sure if the poll is still open but ... it's still monday here. ;). +1 Release this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [RELEASE]: final preparation ....
Kay Schenk wrote: On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, assuming the vote for AOO 4.1 will pass successful today we should be prepared to have the final release bits in place. Pre release 1. upload the files to SF (I will take care of it) 2. prepare announcement email (I will take care of it) 3. update the download mechanism 4. wait until the official go for the release ;-) (all) Post release 1. release blog post 2. feeding social media I have 1 and 2 ready to go. -Rob 3. update the update mechanism Juergen - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org ...and final editing of Release Notes https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.1+Release+Notes ummm.. .the BZ fixed bug search seems to be missing at this point (??) -- - MzK Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. -- Helen Keller Kay; I just checked the Release Notes and both links to the Bugzilla search resolve fine for me. Which one was giving you the problem? Keith signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [RELEASE]: final preparation ....
On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 6:54 PM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, assuming the vote for AOO 4.1 will pass successful today we should be prepared to have the final release bits in place. Pre release 1. upload the files to SF (I will take care of it) 2. prepare announcement email (I will take care of it) 3. update the download mechanism 4. wait until the official go for the release ;-) (all) Post release 1. release blog post 2. feeding social media I have 1 and 2 ready to go. -Rob 3. update the update mechanism Juergen - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org ...and final editing of Release Notes https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.1+Release+Notes I thought the Kazakh translation did not make it into this release? -Rob -- - MzK Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. -- Helen Keller - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [RELEASE]: final preparation ....
Rob Weir wrote: On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 6:54 PM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, assuming the vote for AOO 4.1 will pass successful today we should be prepared to have the final release bits in place. Pre release 1. upload the files to SF (I will take care of it) 2. prepare announcement email (I will take care of it) 3. update the download mechanism 4. wait until the official go for the release ;-) (all) Post release 1. release blog post 2. feeding social media I have 1 and 2 ready to go. -Rob 3. update the update mechanism Juergen - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org ...and final editing of Release Notes https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.1+Release+Notes I thought the Kazakh translation did not make it into this release? -Rob Rob; I checked the Bugzilla issue and indeed it never got completed enough to be released. I have removed it from the release notes. Keith -- - MzK Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. -- Helen Keller signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
