Re: [discussion] Buildbot standard a.o or our own.

2013-01-01 Thread janI
I did know that we use the machines for building: http://ci.apache.org/projects/openoffice/ But it seemed to me we could integrate deeper using e.g. continum and sonar, to get better monitoring and reporting. I might be wrong but do we e.g. - get automatic mail when a build fails ? - have a

Re: 30 million downloads, year end blog post

2013-01-01 Thread Marcus (OOo)
Am 12/31/2012 08:00 PM, schrieb Rory O'Farrell: The download count on main D/L page ought be updated to show the 30+ million. I've done the update. Marcus

Re: Windows 8 compatibility

2013-01-01 Thread Marcus (OOo)
Am 12/30/2012 06:33 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 7:59 PM, F C. Costerofjcc.apa...@gmail.com wrote: There is a steady stream of questions on the Google Questions list about AOO compatibility with Windows 8. Some mention a problem with installation and others merely ask if AOO

Re: first look at a scrolling News column...

2013-01-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 9:56 PM, Kay.schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: Well...unfortunately, the scroll bars don't show up on my phone :( Better techniques needed. Another option is not to maintain news stories on the website. Instead we could use the blog for that, since it supports this

Re: Viewer for OpenOffice on iOS

2013-01-01 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Top Post: I wrote to the company—one guy—and politely asked him to abide by Apache's (and more particularly AOO's) provisions. I did this via LinkedIn, as a direct email to him didn't work. In my note, I cc'd the PMC private list. No news yet!—and I wrote him last year, too! :-) -louis On

Re: Calc user guide Chapter 6 - German translation READY NOW

2013-01-01 Thread Raphael Bircher
Hi It would be interesting to write this also to the German Mailing List users...@openoffice.apache.org Nice to see more german Native language speachers. Greetings Raphael Am 01.01.2013 13:54, schrieb 口 海: Hi Andrea and OOo-Team, happy New Year for the OOo - Project and best wishes ! As

Re: first look at a scrolling News column...

2013-01-01 Thread Carl Marcum
On 12/31/2012 06:06 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: Well, I have finally put up a mockup of what a scrolling News column on our home page would look like. This is in the test area on staging at the moment. http://ooo-site.staging.apache.org/test/ This required editing changes to the index page and a

Re: Calc user guide Chapter 6 - German translation READY NOW

2013-01-01 Thread TJ Frazier
On 1/1/2013 10:11, Raphael Bircher wrote: Hi It would be interesting to write this also to the German Mailing List users...@openoffice.apache.org Nice to see more german Native language speachers. Greetings Raphael Am 01.01.2013 13:54, schrieb 口 海: Hi Andrea and OOo-Team, happy New Year for

Re: [PROPOSAL] New Apache OpenOffice 4 logo proposals...

2013-01-01 Thread Dave Fisher
Hi Michael, I like the logo - a lot. I have a problem with the video that is significant. You are using the same music that Microsoft is using for its Surface Advertising on TV. Also, at the end you are using a non-standard Apache Software Foundation logo and feather placement. Although we

Re: 30 million downloads, year end blog post

2013-01-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Marcus (OOo) marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Am 12/31/2012 08:00 PM, schrieb Rory O'Farrell: The download count on main D/L page ought be updated to show the 30+ million. I've done the update. Thanks. And I've updated the charts now:

Starting Introduction to Contributing to Apache OpenOffice Module

2013-01-01 Thread MrGreen
Hi, I am Aamir, a 5th semester undergraduate student of Software engineering. As a student of Software Engineering I have made many toy programs as part of assignments, Now I want to work on some real world problems. From past two weeks, I was thinking about joining some open source project. So,

What does supported mean for us?

2013-01-01 Thread Rob Weir
When a commercial software vendor says a configuration is supported it means something, typically that to the extent the software license includes an entitlement to support, that the vendor will provide that service for that configuration. So saying something is supported is essentially an

Re: What does supported mean for us?

2013-01-01 Thread janI
+1 to your definition of supported, it is funny I just had somewhat the same discussion today. Regarding lifecycle, I would like to suggest that we only support the latest release, otherwise we stretch our resources pretty thin. We can of course have a statement that we in general will have a

Re: What does supported mean for us?

2013-01-01 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Tue, 1 Jan 2013 18:06:38 +0100 janI j...@apache.org wrote: +1 to your definition of supported, it is funny I just had somewhat the same discussion today. Regarding lifecycle, I would like to suggest that we only support the latest release, otherwise we stretch our resources pretty thin.

Re: [Mwiki] No CAPCHA images

2013-01-01 Thread janI
Tj. and right they are, something has happened, and I have no idea what it is...do we have a clue when it last worked (I find it amazing that you have found it on a talk page, where it has already been wrong for a week). I had a quick look, and there seems to be no reason why it should not work,

mwiki: HELP DynamicPageList.

2013-01-01 Thread janI
Hi Can anyone tell where DynamicPageList (DPL2) is used in our wiki ? It is flooding our error log, and slowly becomming a security problem. I would like to disable it, but before doing so I would like to know what depends on that extension. thx. in advance. Rgds jan I.

Re: [EXT] Dictionary extension for a Latin transcription of Persian

2013-01-01 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 31/12/2012 Hamid Farroukh wrote: I have made a dictionray extension for the transcription of Persian with Latin alphabet. That means, I have a way of writting Persian as I would write English or German. This should help joung Persians living in the US and Europe to learn Persian and write

Re: What does supported mean for us?

2013-01-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 12:06 PM, janI j...@apache.org wrote: +1 to your definition of supported, it is funny I just had somewhat the same discussion today. Regarding lifecycle, I would like to suggest that we only support the latest release, otherwise we stretch our resources pretty thin. We

Re: [EXT] Dictionary extension for a Latin transcription of Persian

2013-01-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: On 31/12/2012 Hamid Farroukh wrote: I have made a dictionray extension for the transcription of Persian with Latin alphabet. That means, I have a way of writting Persian as I would write English or German. This should

Re: What does supported mean for us?

2013-01-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 12:58 PM, janI j...@apache.org wrote: On 1 January 2013 18:50, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 12:06 PM, janI j...@apache.org wrote: +1 to your definition of supported, it is funny I just had somewhat the same discussion today. Regarding

Re: What does supported mean for us?

2013-01-01 Thread Dave Fisher
HI Rob, I like your emphasis here on Supported. Let's discuss support in terms of actual process and precisely what are official releases vs. user convenience releases. Both of which are VOTED, but only the source code release can be completely vetted by all of the project. The convenience

Re: [EXT] Dictionary extension for a Latin transcription of Persian

2013-01-01 Thread janI
On 1 January 2013 18:59, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: On 31/12/2012 Hamid Farroukh wrote: I have made a dictionray extension for the transcription of Persian with Latin alphabet. That means, I have a way

Re: What does supported mean for us?

2013-01-01 Thread janI
On 1 January 2013 19:03, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 12:58 PM, janI j...@apache.org wrote: On 1 January 2013 18:50, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 12:06 PM, janI j...@apache.org wrote: +1 to your definition of supported, it is

Re: first look at a scrolling News column...

2013-01-01 Thread Kay Schenk
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Carl Marcum cmar...@apache.org wrote: On 12/31/2012 06:06 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: Well, I have finally put up a mockup of what a scrolling News column on our home page would look like. This is in the test area on staging at the moment.

Re: What does supported mean for us?

2013-01-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 1:03 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: HI Rob, I like your emphasis here on Supported. Let's discuss support in terms of actual process and precisely what are official releases vs. user convenience releases. Both of which are VOTED, but only the source code

Re: [EXT] Dictionary extension for a Latin transcription of Persian

2013-01-01 Thread Hamid Farroukh
Thank you very much for your fast reaction. There is no official standard transliteration. All we have, are more or less standard proposals. The standard, I use (invented), is called Alefbâye 2om, which means 2nd alphabet. Soon I will publish materials about it in English, as they are in German

Re: mwiki: HELP DynamicPageList.

2013-01-01 Thread janI
So if I understand you correctly we need it and cannot just remove it. Then I hope the author will come with a fix, and the moment we get 10-15 error messages pr minute. Jan I. On 1 January 2013 20:29, tj t...@apache.org wrote: On 1/1/2013 12:37, janI wrote: Hi Can anyone tell where

Re: mwiki: HELP DynamicPageList.

2013-01-01 Thread TJ Frazier
A couple of the templates are giving user-error messages. (Are you seeing those in the error logs?) I was going to try to fix or disable those, but the wiki went down ... :/ /tj/ On 1/1/2013 14:37, janI wrote: So if I understand you correctly we need it and cannot just remove it. Then I hope

Re: mwiki: HELP DynamicPageList.

2013-01-01 Thread janI
Hi. no I see a php error in the DPL2 php files. Yes wiki is down, with kernel panic (I assume) and we (infra) are trying to get hold of someone with the needed karma to physically reboot it. jan. On 1 January 2013 21:26, TJ Frazier tjfraz...@cfl.rr.com wrote: A couple of the templates are

Re: Incompatible changes in AOO 4.0 ?

2013-01-01 Thread Pedro Giffuni
Hi again; - Messaggio originale - Da: Rob Weir  So there are two things here: 1) All the junk out to the 12th decimal place that might matter to a few people and which might be improved by moving to boost I think this will indeed be improved by boost. Boost is really cool in

Re: [discussion] Buildbot standard a.o or our own.

2013-01-01 Thread Andrea Pescetti
janI wrote: I might be wrong but do we e.g. - get automatic mail when a build fails ? - have a statistic over our build through time ? Notifications are sent to openoffice-commits, see for example

Re: Calc user guide Chapter 6 - German translation READY NOW

2013-01-01 Thread TJ Frazier
On 1/1/2013 16:20, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi Heiko, 口 海 schrieb: Hi Andrea and OOo-Team, happy New Year for the OOo - Project and best wishes ! As I had announced some months ago, I have translated several chapters of the Calc 3.2 - user guide into German. This chapter of the user guide is

Re: Boost, LAPACK and fortran

2013-01-01 Thread Pedro Giffuni
Hi Maho; - Messaggio originale - Da: Maho NAKATA  Hi all and Pedro, In 2012/12/30 I recieved an e-mail from Pedro (sorry if you want to keep this activity secret) that he want to use uBLAS http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_48_0/libs/numeric/ublas/doc/index.htm for

Re: mwiki: HELP DynamicPageList.

2013-01-01 Thread TJ Frazier
Hi, Jan, Researching the DPL extensions, I think that all our usage could be done with the old, stable DPL extension, rather than DPL2. AFAIK, the only sizable problem is the DPL tag itself, which would need to be DynamicPageList instead. Isn't that something a bot could do, working off of

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2013-01-01 Thread Robert Spotts
Can open office be downloaded and used on an iPad Sent from my iPad

Re: What does supported mean for us?

2013-01-01 Thread Ian C
A corollary to this is also the notion of End of Life, or when is a release no longer supported. In a volunteer framework that may be never, someone may always be fiddling with an older version? Are older releases archived forever? When do we say Sorry that will not be fixed, please upgrade to a

Re: [PROPOSAL] New Apache OpenOffice 4 logo proposals...

2013-01-01 Thread Michael Acevedo
Dave, The video as far as I know will never see the light of day beyond these mailing lists. Number two, the video was done for the purpose of showing the proposal logo so I was not being strictly official while making it. On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net