[discuss] Re: Announcement: New Apache OpenOffice.org mail list to replace this list
On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Mike Scott m...@scottsonline.org.uk wrote: On 01/11/11 17:05, Rob Weir wrote: Please read this note in its entirety. It contains important information related to this mailing list, its migration to the Apache Software Foundation, and the steps you must take to ensure continuous access to the list. . Among the services hosted by Oracle on the legacy OOo servers are over 300 mailing lists, including the discuss@openoffice.org mailing list ^ you are reading now. In order to preserve your subscription to the list, you will need to resubscribe to the new list address, per the following instructions: 1. Send an email to ooo-users-subscr...@incubator.apache.org. This ^^ Does this mean 'discuss' is being merged with 'users' on the Apache system? Or is that an error in the new list name? That is correct. We're combining both lists into the ooo-users list. Although some people explained that the user and discuss list had different goals initially, when they were first created, none of us were able to discern any actually difference today in what topics were being discussed. Both lists ranged from project discussions, support questions, general chat, etc. The OpenOffice.org project had 300+ mailing lists. The Apache project will have far fewer lists, but hopefully higher energy, more active lists. So we hope to have no more than 10 or so lists in the end, mapping each of the legacy lists into a new list. You can see the proposed mapping, for the top 100 OOo lists here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Mailing+lists Regards, -Rob -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- - To unsubscribe send email to discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help -- - To unsubscribe send email to discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
[discuss] Re: Announcement: New Apache OpenOffice.org mail list to replace this list
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Mike Scott m...@scottsonline.org.uk wrote: On 02/11/11 12:23, Rob Weir wrote: ... You can see the proposed mapping, for the top 100 OOo lists here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Mailing+lists Thanks. That's an interesting page - first time I've seen the numbers of subscribers anywhere. Is anyone else concerned that the number of 'users' subscribers is only 1852? It seems remarkably few to me, especially as the 'dev' list has well over 600. Many more users participate via the Community Forums, at: http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/ There are also versions in other languages: http://user.services.openoffice.org/ The English-language support forum has over 45,000 members, for example. Based on the feedback I've received, some users hate email lists, while others hate forums. So we will continue to have both for user support questions and users can select to participate in either venues, or both. Regards, -Rob -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- - To unsubscribe send email to discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help -- - To unsubscribe send email to discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
[discuss] Announcement: New Apache OpenOffice.org mail list to replace this list
Please read this note in its entirety. It contains important information related to this mailing list, its migration to the Apache Software Foundation, and the steps you must take to ensure continuous access to the list. Background As you may have heard, Oracle contributed the OpenOffice.org (OOo) code to Apache in June. All new projects at Apache start in the Incubator, a special part of Apache where new projects (Podlings) and their communities are given special attention by Apache mentors as they learn about Apache, ensure that the source code meets Apache's license requirements, and work toward their initial Apache release. In parallel with the coding efforts needed before we can publish Apache OpenOffice.org 3.4.0, the Apache OpenOffice.org community, working with the Apache Infrastructure team, is migrating the many legacy OOo websites and other online services formerly hosted by Sun/Oracle onto Apache servers. This has been a huge effort and we are showing good progress in many areas. You can read more about the current status of the migration effort on this wiki page: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/OpenOffice.org+Migration+Status Additional relevant information is published in our project blog at: http://blogs.apache.org/OOO/ Resubscribing Among the services hosted by Oracle on the legacy OOo servers are over 300 mailing lists, including the discuss@openoffice.org mailing list you are reading now. In order to preserve your subscription to the list, you will need to resubscribe to the new list address, per the following instructions: 1.Send an email to ooo-users-subscr...@incubator.apache.org. This should be done from the email account where you want to receive the list messages. 2.This will generate a confirmation email which will be sent to your email address. You will need to reply to the confirmation email in order to complete your subscription to the new list. 3.To send posts to the new list, you will mail them to the following address: ooo-us...@incubator.apache.org 4.And if you ever want to unsubscribe to the new list, you can do so by sending an email to ooo-users-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org We invite and encourage you to follow the above steps and to participate in Apache OpenOffice.org project. If you have any questions, feel free to post as responses to this note, or send a question to ooo-...@incubator.apache.org. Notes 1. We recommend that you do not subscribe via a legacy openoffice.org email address. It is uncertain at this point whether these addresses will be supported in the future. 2. Archives of the legacy mailing lists are available here: http://openoffice.markmail.org/ 3. Archives of the new mailing lists will be available here: http://markmail.org/search/+list:org.apache.incubator.ooo-users -- The Apache OpenOffice.org (Incubating) Project Management Committee -- - To unsubscribe send email to discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
[discuss] Re: About save in Office 2007
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 8:27 AM, Lars Rostlund lars.rostl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! I wonder if it´s possible to save in new Office 2007 file? Ex .xlsx Just save as an .xsl file. Office 2007 understands them as well. -Roib Regards Lars R -- lars.rostl...@gmail.com -- - To unsubscribe send email to discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
[discuss] Re: [ANN] This list is migrating to ooo-us...@incubator.apache.org
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 10:49 PM, Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 19:55, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Are you familiar with http://openoffice.markmail.org/ ? All the posts are archived, for 332 mailing lists, nearly 1.7 million posts, going back to July 2000 and the very first post on this list: http://markmail.org/message/wxs7agx2kud36vlf What a great resource, Rob (I haven´t looked at it, but juding by what you describe :), thanks for the heads-up. I think that archive should be linked from the new Apache pages... so that newcomers can have an historical reference and source of old tech support data. I've added the link here, at that bottom: http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/mailing-lists.html Just my $0.02 FC -- - To unsubscribe send email to discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help -- - To unsubscribe send email to discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
[discuss] Re: [ANN] This list is migrating to ooo-us...@incubator.apache.org
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 2:28 AM, Mike Scott m...@scottsonline.org.uk wrote: On 07/09/2011 03:49, Fernando Cassia wrote: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 19:55, Rob Weirrobw...@apache.org wrote: Are you familiar with http://openoffice.markmail.org/ ? All the posts are archived, for 332 mailing lists, nearly 1.7 million posts, going back to July 2000 and the very first post on this list: http://markmail.org/message/wxs7agx2kud36vlf What a great resource, Rob (I haven´t looked at it, but juding by what you describe :), thanks for the heads-up. And when someone like Google takes a shine to that system? Remember Dejanews? (I know I've already mentioned this, but it's a real risk IMO) I think that archive should be linked from the new Apache pages... so that newcomers can have an historical reference and source of old tech support data. Why can't the existing OOo-owned archive be copied over as a fixed resource? This isn't a why? question. This is a who? question. If someone wants to wget the old archives and make a gzip available for us to upload to the website, then that may be possible. Or maybe there is a more elegant solution? If anyone has an idea and wants to volunteer, they should bring this up on the ooo-...@incubator.apache.org mailing list. -Rob Just my $0.02 FC -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- - To unsubscribe send email to discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help -- - To unsubscribe send email to discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
[discuss] Re: [ANN] This list is migrating to ooo-us...@incubator.apache.org
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 7:02 AM, David B Teague sr davidbtea...@comporium.net wrote: snip You know that Oracle inherited OO.o by way of their purchase of SUN. Oracle isn't going to provide support for OO.o as Sun did. They donated OpenOffice.org source and trademarks to the Apache foundation and will end their support for OO.o mailing lists and archives. There is far too much valuable information that was and is being passed in these mailing lists to let them and the archives just vanish. Apache will host new lists. Are you familiar with http://openoffice.markmail.org/ ? All the posts are archived, for 332 mailing lists, nearly 1.7 million posts, going back to July 2000 and the very first post on this list: http://markmail.org/message/wxs7agx2kud36vlf All of the new AOOo lists will also be archived, both by Apache, but also on MarkMail. -Rob -- - To unsubscribe send email to discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@openoffice.org with Subject: help
