University student looking for experience in contributing to Open Office.

Hi, As I have said previously, I am a 3rd year university student. I have more than 2 years experience with Java, C and Python and brief experience with C++ (although I believe I can pick up fairly easily). I also have very good knowledge of git and agile methodology and have done an internship

Re: Remembering Ian Lynch in 4.1.2 announcement

On 27/10/2015 Andrea Pescetti wrote: I was wondering whether we should remember Ian Lynch at the end of the 4.1.2 Release announcement ... I have no idea on whether this is appropriate or not. I'm rather neutral on the issue. Feedback welcome. Seeing all feedback so far, I think the best

Re: Remembering Ian Lynch in 4.1.2 announcement

Well said JZA, yet a mention in the release announcement is appropriate only if the deceased worked on it directly. That's my 2 cents. On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 10:41 AM, JZA wrote: > On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 2:00 AM, Jürgen Schmidt > wrote: > > > On

Re: Remembering Ian Lynch in 4.1.2 announcement

On 28/10/15 09:41, JZA wrote: > On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 2:00 AM, Jürgen Schmidt > wrote: > >> On 27/10/15 23:52, Andrea Pescetti wrote: >>> I was wondering whether we should remember Ian Lynch at the end of the >>> 4.1.2 Release announcement, with a sentence like >>> >>>

Re: Remembering Ian Lynch in 4.1.2 announcement

On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 2:00 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > On 27/10/15 23:52, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > > I was wondering whether we should remember Ian Lynch at the end of the > > 4.1.2 Release announcement, with a sentence like > > > > "The OpenOffice community dedicates

Re: Remembering Ian Lynch in 4.1.2 announcement

On 27/10/15 23:52, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > I was wondering whether we should remember Ian Lynch at the end of the > 4.1.2 Release announcement, with a sentence like > > "The OpenOffice community dedicates version 4.1.2 to the memory of Ian > Lynch, a member of the OpenOffice Project Management

Re: Remembering Ian Lynch in 4.1.2 announcement

+1 my personal opinion is that we should keep the release announcement focused on the product. People behind and/or involved the project can be addressed in a separate blog where we can also remember project members who passed away. People leave the project or became less active (including me)

Re: Remembering Ian Lynch in 4.1.2 announcement

Dear Andrea, I am Ian's wife Rosemary, I monitor his emails regularly so I have just seen your message. It is nice for me to know that people remember Ian and appreciate the contribution he made over the many years he was committed to the OpenOffice Project. It is only through individuals from

Re: Remembering Ian Lynch in 4.1.2 announcement

Am 10/28/2015 01:27 PM, schrieb Jürgen Schmidt: On 28/10/15 09:41, JZA wrote: On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 2:00 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: On 27/10/15 23:52, Andrea Pescetti wrote: I was wondering whether we should remember Ian Lynch at the end of the 4.1.2 Release

Re: Pending release tasks

On 27/10/2015 Andrea Pescetti wrote: OK, 20:00 CET will work too. So we aim at releasing Wednesday 20:00 CET, or http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20151028T20=37 Here's a status update. The following resources have been updated (not by me! there are at least 10 people

Re: Remembering Ian Lynch in 4.1.2 announcement

+1. While it is not specifically related to the release, it is a gesture that builds community empathy and this is the first opportunity to make the gesture. On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 10:52 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > I was wondering whether we should remember Ian Lynch at

Re: Pending release tasks

Am 10/28/2015 07:46 PM, schrieb Andrea Pescetti: On 27/10/2015 Andrea Pescetti wrote: OK, 20:00 CET will work too. So we aim at releasing Wednesday 20:00 CET, or http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20151028T20=37 Here's a status update. The following resources have been

Re: Thinking of joining OpenOffice as a developer

On 10/28/2015 8:18 PM, F C. Costero wrote: On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 7:37 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 6:22 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: I am a very experienced programmer and computer architect, now retired. My current strongest

Re: Thinking of joining OpenOffice as a developer

On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 6:22 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: > I am a very experienced programmer and computer architect, now retired. My > current strongest language is Java, but I have programmed in many languages > and can learn them as needed. My last professional C++ work was in

Re: University student looking for experience in contributing to the Open Office project

Hi, I have built OpenOffice successfully and have been looking at patches and comparing the with the codebase that I cloned, So now is it ok to ask what unfinished projects people are available to mentor? Thanks

Re: Is AOO 4.1.2 notably faster?

On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 7:24 PM, Pedro Giffuni wrote: > Just wondering … > > Are people noticing a faster startup in AOO 4.1.2? In the BSDs we generally > prefer to use calloc over malloc + memset when it makes sense. A relatively > small change that I did, and was safe enough

Re: Thinking of joining OpenOffice as a developer

On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 7:37 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 6:22 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: > > > I am a very experienced programmer and computer architect, now retired. > My > > current strongest language is Java, but I have programmed in

Re: Pending release tasks

On 28/10/2015 20:00, Marcus wrote: http://www.openoffice.org/download/ This is now serving AOO 4.1.2 as default download. Great, we released exactly at 20:00 as planned then! Announcement is now posted to the blog at http://s.apache.org/announcing-openoffice-412 and sent to users,

Re: Pending release tasks

Am 10/28/2015 01:04 AM, schrieb Andrea Pescetti: A very basic announcement is now available at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.1.2+Announcement For a complete list of available languages and language packs see: http://www.openoffice.org/download/other.html first of

Re: Pending release tasks

Am 10/28/2015 11:14 PM, schrieb Andrea Pescetti: Marcus wrote: IMHO we should stop to promote this old "other.html" webpage and also delete it from the blog post. Done. I still see it useful to have a list of languages in table format, OK, ACK. Do you think a ordered list of languages and

Re: Pending release tasks

Am 10/28/2015 09:46 PM, schrieb Andrea Pescetti: On 28/10/2015 20:00, Marcus wrote: http://www.openoffice.org/download/ This is now serving AOO 4.1.2 as default download. Great, we released exactly at 20:00 as planned then! Announcement is now posted to the blog at

Re: Pending release tasks

Marcus wrote: IMHO we should stop to promote this old "other.html" webpage and also delete it from the blog post. Done. I still see it useful to have a list of languages in table format, but if this simplifies the site management I won't oppose for sure! Updated post (same URL):

Re: Pending release tasks

That last URL does announce 4.1.2 but the url itself points to https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/announcing_apache_openoffice_4_11 ... On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 11:14 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Marcus wrote: > >> IMHO we should stop to promote this old "other.html" webpage

Re: Pending release tasks

John D'Orazio wrote: That last URL does announce 4.1.2 but the url itself points to https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/announcing_apache_openoffice_4_11 ... Well, the URL is a URL. It is automatically generated by our not-so-modern blogging platform, the _11 at the end is a mere coincidence.

Re: Pending release tasks

Am 10/28/2015 11:12 PM, schrieb Marcus: Am 10/28/2015 09:46 PM, schrieb Andrea Pescetti: On 28/10/2015 20:00, Marcus wrote: http://www.openoffice.org/download/ This is now serving AOO 4.1.2 as default download. Great, we released exactly at 20:00 as planned then! Announcement is now posted

RE: Pending release tasks

I haven't seen anything via announce@ oo.a.o, which I will be using later too. It looks like we need some diversification of moderation. Do we need Infra JIRA issues to add more admins? - Dennis > -Original Message- > From: Andrea Pescetti [mailto:pesce...@apache.org] > Sent:

Re: Remembering Ian Lynch in 4.1.2 announcement

On 28.10.2015 09:41, JZA wrote: > > Also the last line doesn't really make sense, how can we 'focus on the new > fresh blood' exactly? You mean dedicating the release after some n00b who > just got in the project, or writing a blog post about them... How can we > focus on fresh blood if they

Re: Remembering Ian Lynch in 4.1.2 announcement

>​I disagree with that view. To focus on the product, well we already have >companies for that. We are not a company, we are a community. And we dont >have 'products' we have 'projects'. The difference? well to start a project >is something that people can participate, not only purchase. So people

Re: Remembering Ian Lynch in 4.1.2 announcement

I think it is worthy to remember a deceased member of the community and note that he made a valued contribution to the project. -- Rory O'Farrell - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Thinking of joining OpenOffice as a developer

I am a very experienced programmer and computer architect, now retired. My current strongest language is Java, but I have programmed in many languages and can learn them as needed. My last professional C++ work was in the 1980's. Although I am Chair of the Apache River PMC, the types of work

Is AOO 4.1.2 notably faster?

Just wondering … Are people noticing a faster startup in AOO 4.1.2? In the BSDs we generally prefer to use calloc over malloc + memset when it makes sense. A relatively small change that I did, and was safe enough to be merged to the release, might have had an effect there. It’s too easy to be