Re: LanguageTool - place link on AOO site
On Mon, 29 Jun 2015 15:47:16 +0100 Marco A.G.Pinto marcoagpi...@mail.telepac.pt wrote: Hello! Just wondering if you place a link to the grammar checker, LanguageTool, somewhere in the area of the AOO downloads: https://languagetool.org I am involved on the Portuguese rules for it. LanguageTool is an important add-on for AOO since it supports over 20 languages and it suggests grammar corrections, which is something missing in AOO but which MS Office has by default. Thanks! Kind regards, Marco A.G.Pinto -- -- There is already a link from the Extensions repository, at http://extensions.openoffice.org/en/project/languagetool Perhaps this should be linked also to the sadebar on the download page? -- 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
LanguageTool - place link on AOO site
Hello! Just wondering if you place a link to the grammar checker, LanguageTool, somewhere in the area of the AOO downloads: https://languagetool.org I am involved on the Portuguese rules for it. LanguageTool is an important add-on for AOO since it supports over 20 languages and it suggests grammar corrections, which is something missing in AOO but which MS Office has by default. Thanks! Kind regards, Marco A.G.Pinto -- --
Re: LanguageTool - place link on AOO site
On 29 June 2015 at 16:53, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: On Mon, 29 Jun 2015 15:47:16 +0100 Marco A.G.Pinto marcoagpi...@mail.telepac.pt wrote: Hello! Just wondering if you place a link to the grammar checker, LanguageTool, somewhere in the area of the AOO downloads: https://languagetool.org I am involved on the Portuguese rules for it. LanguageTool is an important add-on for AOO since it supports over 20 languages and it suggests grammar corrections, which is something missing in AOO but which MS Office has by default. Thanks! Kind regards, Marco A.G.Pinto -- -- There is already a link from the Extensions repository, at http://extensions.openoffice.org/en/project/languagetool Perhaps this should be linked also to the sadebar on the download page? I would be a bit careful with that, if done (and I am not against it being done) it must be 100% clear that this is not coming from apache, and not part of our release schedule. rgds jan I. -- 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: Background to Cooperation: ASF/AOO Principles, Policies, Practices
Thanks Jan, it is valuable to comprehend just how narrow individual exceptions are. Comment in-line -Original Message- From: jan i [mailto:j...@apache.org] Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2015 14:53 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org; orc...@apache.org Subject: Re: Background to Cooperation: ASF/AOO Principles, Policies, Practices On 28 June 2015 at 19:49, Dennis E. Hamilton orc...@apache.org wrote: [ ... ] An example of an exception that is specific to the Apache OpenOffice project is the distribution of convenience binaries that have writing-aid plug-ins bundled with them that are not themselves under a license that is acceptable for source-code releases. There are a number of specific, delimited provisions under which this action is found consistent with Apache principles although it is an exception to a general policy. This practice was only introduced after obtaining review and eventual concurrence via the list on which legal and license questions are discussed. orcmid The narrowness of the exception for these plug-ins is that they contain no code, they deliver data in a general format that can be used in a well-defined technique, and that they are completely replaceable. Users can also install additional ones of their choosing and remove/disable the ones that are provided in the binary distributions as a convenience. It is also the case that, if one inspects the plug-in (using a form of Zip package), one would encounter all applicable license information and there would be no confusion over the license that is specific to them material conveyed by a given plug-in. /orcmid I would be very careful about interpreting the above extract. The plugins do contains quite a lot of code, and some of them like the dictionaries are not really optional. We actually deliver plugins as part of our own exe, so we do distribute some of the plugins without a special license. But legal has looked at what we deliver and accepted it, so no need to detail that further. You also use the word narrowness, as if these exceptions are written in stone, that is not the case, we can always ask for other exceptions if needed (whether we get them is a different matter). orcmid The specific *individual* exception is very narrow. That is what I meant. And exceptions always apply to specific cases. For example, the one I linked to is about a situation with Apache OpenOffice and it was asked with respect to writing aids, GPL dictionaries in particular. The title of the issue is Aggregation of GPL dictionaries with Apache OpenOffice, https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-117, and the question is, specifically can Apache OpenOffice include GPL spell-checking dictionaries with its binary releases?. Of course there can be more exceptions, each reviewed and approved or disallowed with respect to individual cases. And the exception granted to AOO for the particular case is not an extension of policy. That is the point of my remarks here. On reflection, I also think that is why Sam Ruby did not discuss the prospect of other licenses being comingled in those [dictionary] plug-ins. That was not part of the request and legal was not about to expand the scope of LEGAL-117 scope beyond what was asked for. My observations about other mingled licenses at the time would best have gone back to the [P]PMC (the origin of the exception request). PS: I don't think legal has looked at what AOO delivers. They considered the request and assume that the [P]PMC requested what it actually needed and only what it actually needed and proposed to do. This is not a blanket exception for all manner of plug-ins having GPL licenses and it applies specifically to AOO binary distributions. /orcmid rgds jan i. [ ... ] - 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 Stats
On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 10:42 AM, jan i j...@apache.org wrote: On Saturday, June 27, 2015, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/26/2015 11:27 AM, Marcus wrote: Am 06/26/2015 12:40 PM, schrieb Rory O'Farrell: Just to note that the OO download statistics haven't been updated in a long time. I remember that Rob has taken care about updating these numbers. Unfortunately, I don't know where it is decribed how it is done. Marcus I think Rob's python scripts are in: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/openoffice/devtools/aoo-stats/ using the csv file you see there (?0 but I don't know where THAT comes from. This was a nice feature but we need instructions. I don't think Rob has abandoned the ship, just busy doing other thing. I'm still around. But I have been moving to a new home in New Hampshire, so had a few days without internet and another one before I found what box had my computer mouse in it! rob@ would be nice if you could add a little explanation. I've been updating every month or so. It was last updated mid May. I'll do it again at the end of June. At one point we talked about hooking the code up to the CMS and have it generate automatically, but I don't know if that is still feasible. If someone wanted up-to-the-minute numbers I think that would look better as a live counter graphic on the download page, or something like that. The script on /devtools/aoo-stats does much more than produce the data for that chart. It also does daily breakdowns by version, OS and language, data that is useful for other things. So I'd encourage maintaining that script and the full underlying data set. Regards, -Rob rgds jan i - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org javascript:; For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org javascript:; -- MzK We can all sleep easy at night knowing that somewhere at any given time, the Foo Fighters are out there fighting Foo. -- David Letterman - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org javascript:; For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org javascript:; -- Sent from My iPad, sorry for any misspellings.
English Dictionaries updated - 1-JUL-2015
Hello! I have released a new version of the English dictionaries for OpenOffice: - en_GB (British) (updated: 2015-07-01)* * en_GB has 634 new words. You canwait a few days until AOO triggers it or download it from the Extension site: http://extensions.openoffice.org/en/project/english-dictionaries-apache-openoffice Also, the Mozilla en_GB: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/british-english-dictionary-2 And the Proofing Tool GUI project site: http://marcoagpinto.cidadevirtual.pt/proofingtoolgui.html (please notice the new link at the top: Get Involved) PS-I know it is still not officially the 1st of July but I have the update ready/packed for a couple of days or so. Thanks! Kind regards from your friend, Marco A.G.Pinto -- --
Re: Help needed with config, PKG_CHECK_MODULES macro
[top posting] Well no responses but no need for a response. No, I did not get this solved -- yet! Autoconf on my new setup is, as we say here in the US, weirding things out quite a bit, and, an autotools guru I am not, so LOTS of research. :( later... On 06/22/2015 03:56 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: I am up on a new CentOS 6 OS (32 bit). Mostly OK except I can NOT get PKG_CHECK_MODULES used in configure.in to work. It fails on the first occurrence looking for cppunit. It's been so long since I first started building AOO that I don't remember if I had to do something special to my autoconf setup to make this work correctly. So, I will keep looking but if anyone has any ideas I would love to hear them. In the past when I've had issues with this the '.pc' files were missing for libraries we check, but that is not the case here. I do notice that the syntax used for PKG_CHECK_MODULES kind of varies -- not that I particularly think this is the problem. I have autoconf 2.6.3 Thanks. for any help. -- MzK We can all sleep easy at night knowing that somewhere at any given time, the Foo Fighters are out there fighting Foo. -- David Letterman - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
