Re: Hello world

[mikael englund]

Hi Regina
I'm still here, right now i have succeded to complete the first 3 hack
tutorials, and i'm trying to navigate the code base.
I have tried to debug with gdb, but i can only debug the asm code, not the
symbolic c++ source code, i think in gcc it is -g option.
I would love some ideas to push me in the right direction, this is my first
opensource involvement.
Thanks for all your help

On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 7:49 PM, Regina Henschel 
wrote:

> Hi Mikael,
>
> are you still around? Do you need some help or some ideas to start?
>
> Kind regards
> Regina
>
> Regina Henschel schrieb:
>
>> Hi Mikael,
>>
>> welcome to Apache OpenOffice.
>>
>> mikael englund schrieb:
>>
>>> Hello my name is Mikael and i'm a hobby programmer from sweden, i have a
>>> good foundation in programming, knows many languages, c, c++, java,
>>> python.
>>> usually works with oo paradigm, i know calc 1-3, linear algebra and
>>> discrete mathematics.  So i have allot of usable knowledge.
>>> But now i want to work in a real project to develop my skills. My goal is
>>> to become a professional programmer.
>>> I have been interested in programming for years, but my biggest block was
>>> not knowing what to program, no real ideas for big projects i could
>>> show to
>>> potential employers, so i collected allot of knowledge from books and
>>> courses, instead of working on big projects.
>>>
>>> My hope is to be able to contribute to a great opensource community and
>>> learn the skills to land my first programming job.
>>> by the way if anyone wonders, i'm 24.
>>>
>>>
>> I think, Apache OpenOffice will fit to your interests. You can start
>> with solving little problems and deepen as your time allows. The Apache
>> OpenOffice code has a wide area of aspects. We track the issues in
>> https://issues.apache.org/ooo/. From your background I think, you should
>> start in Calc or with charts. Please write if you need some suggestions.
>>
>> We communicate on the dev-mailinglist. So you need to subscribe to the
>> list.
>>
>> Kind regards
>> Regina
>>
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Re: Want to join the Apache Software Foundation Open Source Developer Community

[Ankit Tekriwal]

Hi Regina,

I have all the required tools present  at main/external.
The registry settings does not contain the key ProductDir at
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/VisualStudio/9.0/Setup/VC/
This is causing the issue.
Can you tell what can be done for this?

Thanks,
Ankit

On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 2:04 AM, Regina Henschel 
wrote:

> Hi Ankit,
> Ankit Tekriwal schrieb:
>
>> Hi Regina,
>>
>>
>> After making changes in the command and the PATH variable to point to
>> visual Studio 9.0, still I am getting the same error :(
>> Don't know how to proceed further. Please help.
>>
>>
> Just another question, have you copied all the stuff to main/external? It
> contains each a readme what is needed.
>
>
> Kind regards
> Regina
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Re: Reporting landing page needing update

[Drew Jensen]

Hi,

If you would like an updated video for use there I would be willing to put
one together - sorry I didn't offer sooner,  I haven't been following too
closely.

Anyway,  I could work on something this week.

//drew
On Sep 21, 2014 12:38 PM, "Kay Schenk"  wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Marcus  wrote:
>
> > Am 09/20/2014 08:02 AM, schrieb Qaz Wiz:
> >
> >> "working" is different from "touting"
> >>
> >> If i handed you a hot dog but at the same time said "Have a Hamburger"
> >> this is the same problem
> >>
> >
> > I'm sorry, I don't know what you mean. If you want to point to a problem,
> > please tell us the webpage.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Marcus
> >
>
> Maybe referring to the video clip  which says 4.0.1?
>
> from --
>
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/?source=directory-featured
>
>
> >
> >
> >
> >  On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Marcus  >> > wrote:
> >> Am 09/17/2014 05:20 AM, schrieb Qaz Wiz:
> >>
> >> http://sourceforge.net/__projects/openofficeorg.mirror/
> >> __?source=typ_redirect
> >>  >> ?source=typ_redirect>
> >>
> >> sends to a page still touting v4.0.1
> >>
> >> when clicking on the green download button I get 4.1.1. And
> >> furthermore I don't see a download link for 4.0.1.
> >>
> >> So, seems to work fine.
> >>
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Re: Want to join the Apache Software Foundation Open Source Developer Community

[Regina Henschel]

Hi Ankit,
Ankit Tekriwal schrieb:

Hi Regina,

After making changes in the command and the PATH variable to point to
visual Studio 9.0, still I am getting the same error :(
Don't know how to proceed further. Please help.



Just another question, have you copied all the stuff to main/external? 
It contains each a readme what is needed.


Kind regards
Regina


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Re: Student Project

[Regina Henschel]

Hi Deborah,

Deborah Digges schrieb:

Hi Regina,

I looked through the documentation you sent me, but I wasn't able to figure
out where exactly to start. Could you please help me out?


The code is indeed huge. But you can mimic the solutions you see for 
rectangles and ellipses. And therefore you should look how it is done 
for them.


You get an overview of the code in 
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Source_code_directories. It is not 
up-to-date, but in most parts are still valid. The sister project 
LibreOffice has some similar information in http://docs.libreoffice.org/ 
Although they made some changes in the structure most parts are still 
the same as in Apache OpenOffice.


Besides searching in your local copy of the code you can use OpenGrok
http://opengrok.adfinis-sygroup.org
Very useful is the 'File Path' field to restrict the search. You can 
enter a part of a path or you can exclude some paths from the search 
with a NOT before it.


===

Such new feature has several aspects, some are necessary, some are not 
needed in the beginning.


Necessary:
Read it from file.
Keep the information.
Write the information back to file.

Next step would be to show the shape on screen.

I'm not sure whether parts of the API are needed in the beginning.

Not necessary in the beginning:
- Making an UI to generate the shape. For example OpenOffice has no UI 
to generate a custom shape. To test a new shape you can always easily 
write it into the file manually, using an editor.

- Having an import and export filter to foreign formats like pptx.
- Implementing the API for using the shape in macros (not sure, see above).

===

Reading and writing to file is done in code part 'xmloff'. Most methods 
there are generic and will do the right things automatically. You will 
find some specific parts in e.g. classes SdXML..ShapeContext.


Shapes are implemented as "Primitive". Such primitive can decompose 
itself into polylines, which can be drawn directly. Please look, how it 
is done for rectangle and ellipse in modul svx, e.g in 
main/svx/inc/svx/sdr/primitive2d and main/svx/source/sdr/primitive2d/.


The lower parts of this decomposition is done in module basegfx, e.g. in 
b2dpolygontools.cxx
Shapes are defined as Unitshapes and scaled to the desired size by using 
a transformation.
There you will actually define the outline of the shape. Do you know the 
involved mathematics?


The shape related classes are organized hierarchical. This hierarchy 
determines, where an attribute is introduced. Find a diagram in 
http://docs.libreoffice.org/svx/html/classSdrObject.html Or look at 
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/openoffice/branches/alg/aw080/main/svx/inc/svx/svdobj.hxx?view=markup 
around line 285.
[The branch aw080 contains ongoing improvement work in Draw, for example 
change from integer to double and change to always use transformation 
matrices. The owner of this branch is Armin, our Draw expert.]


I hope this will help you to find relevant parts.

Kind regards
Regina




On Sep 21, 2014 11:01 PM, "Regina Henschel"  wrote:


Hi Deborah,

Deborah Digges schrieb:


Hi Regina,

I am very much interested in this task . I'd love to go over the details
with you, at your convenience. I'm not exactly sure what this means, but
it
sounds really interesting! I've started reading the chapter on the docs.

I'll reach out to you with questions as I get them :)



We will surely help you if necessary.

Do you have made any progress? For example identify the areas where work
is needed in the code? Do you have already an idea where to start?

Kind regards
Regina




Thanks,
Deborah



On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 6:20 PM, Regina Henschel 


wrote:

  Hi Deborah,


Deborah Digges schrieb:

  I'll get in touch with the QA team right away. Thanks for all your help.

I've uploaded the patches and set the appropriate flags for review
request,  as indicated by Regina Henschel :)
If there are any more such issues, I'd be glad to work on them,to
familiarize myself with the whole process. Meanwhile,  I'll scout for
issues on bugzilla.



I think you can start a larger project. Here is my proposal: Implement a
regular polygon. The request [1] is very old. In the meantime we have got
ODF1.2 specification [2] which defines the element
.
The shape belongs to the primitive shapes, same as  or
 or . To see such shape, you can use the
application Karbon from the Calligra suite and therein the shape "Star".
Calligra should be available from your Linux distributor.

Apache OpenOffice has not yet implemented this kind of shape. Are you
interested in this task? If yes, we can speak about details.

Kind regards
Regina

[1] https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=18381
[2] http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.2/os/OpenDocument-
v1.2-os-part1.html chapter 10.3.6


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Re: Hello world

[Regina Henschel]

Hi Mikael,

are you still around? Do you need some help or some ideas to start?

Kind regards
Regina

Regina Henschel schrieb:

Hi Mikael,

welcome to Apache OpenOffice.

mikael englund schrieb:

Hello my name is Mikael and i'm a hobby programmer from sweden, i have a
good foundation in programming, knows many languages, c, c++, java,
python.
usually works with oo paradigm, i know calc 1-3, linear algebra and
discrete mathematics.  So i have allot of usable knowledge.
But now i want to work in a real project to develop my skills. My goal is
to become a professional programmer.
I have been interested in programming for years, but my biggest block was
not knowing what to program, no real ideas for big projects i could
show to
potential employers, so i collected allot of knowledge from books and
courses, instead of working on big projects.

My hope is to be able to contribute to a great opensource community and
learn the skills to land my first programming job.
by the way if anyone wonders, i'm 24.



I think, Apache OpenOffice will fit to your interests. You can start
with solving little problems and deepen as your time allows. The Apache
OpenOffice code has a wide area of aspects. We track the issues in
https://issues.apache.org/ooo/. From your background I think, you should
start in Calc or with charts. Please write if you need some suggestions.

We communicate on the dev-mailinglist. So you need to subscribe to the
list.

Kind regards
Regina







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Re: Student Project

[Deborah Digges]

Hi Regina,

I looked through the documentation you sent me, but I wasn't able to figure
out where exactly to start. Could you please help me out?
On Sep 21, 2014 11:01 PM, "Regina Henschel"  wrote:

> Hi Deborah,
>
> Deborah Digges schrieb:
>
>> Hi Regina,
>>
>> I am very much interested in this task . I'd love to go over the details
>> with you, at your convenience. I'm not exactly sure what this means, but
>> it
>> sounds really interesting! I've started reading the chapter on the docs.
>>
>> I'll reach out to you with questions as I get them :)
>>
>
> We will surely help you if necessary.
>
> Do you have made any progress? For example identify the areas where work
> is needed in the code? Do you have already an idea where to start?
>
> Kind regards
> Regina
>
>
>
>> Thanks,
>> Deborah
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 6:20 PM, Regina Henschel > >
>> wrote:
>>
>>  Hi Deborah,
>>>
>>> Deborah Digges schrieb:
>>>
>>>  I'll get in touch with the QA team right away. Thanks for all your help.
 I've uploaded the patches and set the appropriate flags for review
 request,  as indicated by Regina Henschel :)
 If there are any more such issues, I'd be glad to work on them,to
 familiarize myself with the whole process. Meanwhile,  I'll scout for
 issues on bugzilla.


>>> I think you can start a larger project. Here is my proposal: Implement a
>>> regular polygon. The request [1] is very old. In the meantime we have got
>>> ODF1.2 specification [2] which defines the element
>>> .
>>> The shape belongs to the primitive shapes, same as  or
>>>  or . To see such shape, you can use the
>>> application Karbon from the Calligra suite and therein the shape "Star".
>>> Calligra should be available from your Linux distributor.
>>>
>>> Apache OpenOffice has not yet implemented this kind of shape. Are you
>>> interested in this task? If yes, we can speak about details.
>>>
>>> Kind regards
>>> Regina
>>>
>>> [1] https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=18381
>>> [2] http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.2/os/OpenDocument-
>>> v1.2-os-part1.html chapter 10.3.6
>>>
>>>
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Re: Student Project

[Regina Henschel]

Hi Deborah,

Deborah Digges schrieb:

Hi Regina,

I am very much interested in this task . I'd love to go over the details
with you, at your convenience. I'm not exactly sure what this means, but it
sounds really interesting! I've started reading the chapter on the docs.

I'll reach out to you with questions as I get them :)


We will surely help you if necessary.

Do you have made any progress? For example identify the areas where work 
is needed in the code? Do you have already an idea where to start?


Kind regards
Regina




Thanks,
Deborah



On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 6:20 PM, Regina Henschel 
wrote:


Hi Deborah,

Deborah Digges schrieb:


I'll get in touch with the QA team right away. Thanks for all your help.
I've uploaded the patches and set the appropriate flags for review
request,  as indicated by Regina Henschel :)
If there are any more such issues, I'd be glad to work on them,to
familiarize myself with the whole process. Meanwhile,  I'll scout for
issues on bugzilla.



I think you can start a larger project. Here is my proposal: Implement a
regular polygon. The request [1] is very old. In the meantime we have got
ODF1.2 specification [2] which defines the element .
The shape belongs to the primitive shapes, same as  or
 or . To see such shape, you can use the
application Karbon from the Calligra suite and therein the shape "Star".
Calligra should be available from your Linux distributor.

Apache OpenOffice has not yet implemented this kind of shape. Are you
interested in this task? If yes, we can speak about details.

Kind regards
Regina

[1] https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=18381
[2] http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.2/os/OpenDocument-
v1.2-os-part1.html chapter 10.3.6


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Re: Reporting landing page needing update

[Kay Schenk]

On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Marcus  wrote:

> Am 09/20/2014 08:02 AM, schrieb Qaz Wiz:
>
>> "working" is different from "touting"
>>
>> If i handed you a hot dog but at the same time said "Have a Hamburger"
>> this is the same problem
>>
>
> I'm sorry, I don't know what you mean. If you want to point to a problem,
> please tell us the webpage.
>
> Thanks
>
> Marcus
>

Maybe referring to the video clip  which says 4.0.1?

from --

http://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/?source=directory-featured


>
>
>
>  On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Marcus > > wrote:
>> Am 09/17/2014 05:20 AM, schrieb Qaz Wiz:
>>
>> http://sourceforge.net/__projects/openofficeorg.mirror/
>> __?source=typ_redirect
>> > ?source=typ_redirect>
>>
>> sends to a page still touting v4.0.1
>>
>> when clicking on the green download button I get 4.1.1. And
>> furthermore I don't see a download link for 4.0.1.
>>
>> So, seems to work fine.
>>
>
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Re: New Student Volunteer

[Andrea Pescetti]

On 18/09/2014 Pedro Vasconcelos Maciel De Lima wrote:

I'm a 1st year Masters student (Informatics: Design, Use and
Interaction) and one of my assignments is to participate in an open
source project. As I've been using OpenOffice I thought I could
contribute in some way and was hoping you could recommend something I
can work on?
I have 3 years experience with PHP, Javascript and HTML but as I only
have 2 weeks to complete this I was hoping I could do some testing/QA
or help with translating the product to Portuguese (I'm from
Portugal).


Welcome to OpenOffice! I'm putting our localization list in CC in case 
there is some Portuguese translation pending, but I think that at the 
moment we don't need immediate help there since the program, the online 
help and the website are fully translated to Portuguese.


So your other option, QA, seems to be the best. Just to start, you could 
help verifying unconfirmed issues. It is not too complex and it helps in 
making issues more visible to developers. You can find a list of 
unconfirmed issues at 
http://openoffice.apache.org/orientation/intro-qa.html (I recommend 
reading the whole page, but if you scroll down to "Easy QA Task: Confirm 
New Defect Reports" you will see the query). That query returns a huge 
number of issues, but if you limit it to, e.g., the Draw issues you get 
down to 89 issues at the moment, which should be feasible in two weeks. 
If you like the idea, please write to the QA mailing list (see the link 
above for all relevant information) and ask that we grant CANCONFIRM 
privileges to you. Of course, we hope you'll be around for longer than 
two weeks, but this seems an appropriate task for your current assignment.


Regards,
  Andrea.

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