FW: FW: NOT EDITABLE ON WINDOWS 10: The Lingering-Lock Case

2015-08-13 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
and clicked off the child permission blockage which gave the administrator full control and so far it seems to be working. regards Janet On 12 August 2015 at 18:22, Dennis E. Hamilton orc...@apache.org mailto:orc...@apache.org wrote: Janet, Thank you for your follow-up. Are you saying

RE: FW: NOT EDITABLE ON WINDOWS 10: The Lingering-Lock Case

2015-08-12 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
, Dennis E. Hamilton orc...@apache.org mailto:orc...@apache.org wrote: Here is the procedure for you to try. I have more questions: 1. I don't know if this will work as described for a file in a OneDrive folder. Let us know if it works. 2. I don't know about .odb files either. Let us know

NOT EDITABLE ON WINDOWS 10: The Lingering-Lock Case - Update

2015-08-10 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Corrections to the wording in IF YOU DON'T SUCCEED -Original Message- From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:orc...@apache.org] Sent: Sunday, August 9, 2015 13:46 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: NOT EDITABLE ON WINDOWS 10: The Lingering-Lock Case After upgrading to Windows 10, some

RE: Simple code practice to get started

2015-08-09 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Jason, use the more-comprehensive advice from Regina. - Dennis -Original Message- From: Jason Marshall [mailto:j_k_marshall_2...@live.com] Sent: Sunday, August 9, 2015 11:20 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: RE: Simple code practice to get started Dear Dennis Thank you for

FW: REPORTING Windows 10 Upgrade Issues: BASIC SITUATION

2015-08-09 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Janet Monk sent her response directly to me. I am forwarding it to the list with permission. I have a response for the *.odt files that I will post at once. The *.odb files may be trickier. [ … ] From: Janet Monk [mailto:janm...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, August 9, 2015 02:05 To:

NOT EDITABLE ON WINDOWS 10: The Lingering-Lock Case

2015-08-09 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
After upgrading to Windows 10, some users notice that they have files OpenOffice reports as not editable. There is a report that the named file is locked for editing. (This is slightly different than saying the files are read-only.) WHEN THIS IS HAPPENING TO YOU ... If you followed the

REPORTING Windows 10 Upgrade Issues: BASIC SITUATION

2015-08-08 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
We are reading reports of some users being able to edit in OpenOffice after upgrading to Windows 10. We have not been able to reproduce the situation from that information alone. Many of us have upgraded to Windows 10 without difficulty. If you or someone you know is having this problem

REPORTING Windows 10 Upgrade Issues: BASIC SITUATION - Correction

2015-08-08 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
We are reading reports of some users *not* being able to edit in OpenOffice after upgrading to Windows 10. We have not been able to reproduce the situation from that information alone. Many of us have upgraded to Windows 10 without difficulty. If you or someone you know is having this

RE: REPORTING Windows 10 Upgrade Issues: BASIC SITUATION

2015-08-08 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
only. Seems like the likeliest thing to me. Max Am 08.08.2015 um 19:28 schrieb Dennis E. Hamilton: We are reading reports of some users being able to edit in OpenOffice after upgrading to Windows 10. We have not been able to reproduce the situation from that information alone. Many of us

RE: STATE OF AOO: Overall Bugzilla Activity through July 2015

2015-08-06 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Marcus, the queries I did for identification of open issues found only issues with no resolution of any kind. That automatically excluded issues with any of DUPLICATE, ..., WON'T FIX, and CLOSED status. Older open issues, some from long before Apache OpenOffice was established, continue to

RE: [DISCUSS] RE: [DISCUSS] Calendar for New chair of AOO

2015-08-04 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
, August 4, 2015 11:05 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Cc: Dennis E. Hamilton orc...@apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] RE: [DISCUSS] Calendar for New chair of AOO Hi it seems there are different opinions on how to handle the rest of the chair election process. I suggested a timeline, in the beginning

RE: For Information: Reported Windows 10 problems

2015-08-04 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
These accounts don't provide enough information to nail anything down to root causes, and some of the forum cases are not resolved one way or the other yet. My main desktop machine upgraded (with my permission) to Windows 10 Pro x64 on the evening of July 29. I already had AOO 4.1.1 and

RE: [DISCUSS] RE: [DISCUSS] Calendar for New chair of AOO

2015-08-03 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
The August Board meeting is on August 19 and I suspect that a resolution to the Board must be provided on or before August 17. (I couldn't find a different deadline other than 2 days before.) My sense is that it is very important to be consistent and deliberate. For me, August 16 closing of

RE: [DISCUSS] RE: [DISCUSS] Calendar for New chair of AOO

2015-08-02 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
there is anything unexpected. - Dennis -Original Message- From: jan i [mailto:j...@apache.org] Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2015 15:38 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org; orc...@apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] RE: [DISCUSS] Calendar for New chair of AOO On Thursday, July 30, 2015, Dennis E

RE: [DISCUSS] RE: [DISCUSS] Calendar for New chair of AOO

2015-08-02 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
to say this is Discussion will end 7 days after the last accepted-/self- Nomination, and no earlier than August 16. Since August 16 is already on the books, that would not change, but we might find some slack post-August 16. - Dennis -Original Message- From: Dennis E. Hamilton

RE: [DISCUSSION] ODF Plugfest, September 2015

2015-08-01 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Message- From: Andrea Pescetti [mailto:pesce...@apache.org] Sent: Saturday, August 1, 2015 07:29 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSSION] ODF Plugfest, September 2015 (was RE: [NOMINATION] Dennis Hamilton ... ) On 01/08/2015 Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: I do not have the means

[NOMINATION] Dennis Hamilton (was [DISCUSS] Would you like to be the new chair ...)

2015-07-31 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I am gratified by the endorsements made to me on this thread. I accept nomination for recommendation as the next Chair for Apache OpenOffice. Jan's August 16 milestone should give us time to identify other's willing to serve as Chair and address any questions that the AOO community may have for

[DISCUSSION] ODF Plugfest, September 2015 (was RE: [NOMINATION] Dennis Hamilton ... )

2015-07-31 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Roberto mentions the forthcoming ODF Plugfest to be held September 15-16 at the Hague. WHAT THE ODF PLUGFEST IS Information about the Plugfest is on this Wiki page: http://plugtest.opendocsociety.org/doku.php?id=plugfests:201509_thehague:info. To see how these have operated, it is useful to

[DISCUSS] RE: [DISCUSS] Would you like to be the new chair of AOO ?

2015-07-30 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
This is not a nomination statement. It is a comment and a procedural suggestion. COMMENT Jan, I am certain that you gave deep consideration to your decision to resign. I trust that you have other pursuits that are more satisfying and that you can now provide full devotion to. I wish you

RE: [DISCUSS] RE: [DISCUSS] Calendar for New chair of AOO

2015-07-30 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
It looks like two mileposts are the same, with August 16 (17 days from now) including Discuss. I suggest that the Discussion ends August 23 be removed. I suggest that we can then have Voting ends backed up to August 28, 12 days from August 16. This allows some slack time in case there is more

RE: 4.1.2_release_blocker requested: [Issue 122712] PDF Export dialog too tall for some monitor screens

2015-07-18 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
+1 also -Original Message- From: jan i [mailto:j...@apache.org] Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2015 05:17 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: 4.1.2_release_blocker requested: [Issue 122712] PDF Export dialog too tall for some monitor screens On 18 July 2015 at 00:53, Andrea Pescetti

RE: Open office Calc crashing

2015-07-17 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
It need not be the same bug. An SEH Exception: Access Violation usually means that the hardware detected an invalid access. See https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms679329(v=vs.85).aspx. In general, an Access Violation is not recoverable, which is how it shows up as an

RE: How to commit changes to 410 branch?

2015-07-09 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I saw this on dev@ a.o and have not read later things here. Forgive me if there are other recommendations. I trust any solution Kay comes up with. My suggestion: Copy 4.1.0 to a 4.1.2 branch. Staunch the problems of difficulty synchronizing source to distributions and also allow a way to

RE: [Q] Question about Mailarchive

2015-07-02 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
With regard to the disclosure of email addresses in various ways via Apache Software Foundation Services, the disclosure of email addresses is rather widespread. It appears that the MBox option for obscuring e-mail addresses applies only to the From: field of an archived post. There is no

RE: July board report [and CVE-2015-1774].

2015-06-30 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
THE TL;DR: I agree. The extensive lag to availability of 4.1.2 is far more pertinent at the level of the Board Report. The existence of CVE-2015-1774 does not change that and should not overshadow it. I think featuring CVE-2015-1774 in the report exaggerates its importance and ignores the

RE: Background to Cooperation: ASF/AOO Principles, Policies, Practices

2015-06-29 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
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

RE: ODF 1.2 is published ISO standard since 2015-06-17

2015-06-27 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Thanks Regina, that is great news. A few somewhat serious items: 1. It is not necessary to pay the ISO/IEC Swiss Franks tax for those documents. They are available as Publicly Available standards at http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/index.html. (Scroll way down to

Background to Cooperation: ASF/AOO Principles, Policies, Practices

2015-06-27 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
to find a way to operate without any exceptions. That will come up when specific opportunities for cooperation and collaboration are considered. -Original Message- From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:orc...@apache.org] Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2015 13:58 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org

AOO Principles for Cooperation among ODF Projects

2015-06-25 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
In April, Andrea Pescetti provided a great blog post on prospects for cooperative work among users with shared interest in the OpenOffice code base, Collaboration is in our DNA: https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/collaboration_is_in_our_dna. That topic and related matters have been discussed

RE: [Q] Question about Mailarchive

2015-06-25 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
The email addresses of submitters and those who have CC'd themselves are certainly visible to anyone who creates a Bugzilla account (there are no limitations), just as to anyone who subscribes to an issues@ list or accesses an issues@ list archive. People should understand that there is no

RE: [Q] Question about Mailarchive

2015-06-25 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I don't recall seeing a privacy policy as part of creating a Bugzilla account. If you look at the home page at https://bz.apache.org/ooo/ and are logged in, notice that it shows your email address as who is logged in and who you would be logging out. On a bug page, if you click to see who

RE: AOO Principles for Cooperation among ODF Projects

2015-06-25 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Thanks Jan, - Commenting inline to - From: jan i [mailto:j...@apache.org] Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2015 15:40 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org; orc...@apache.org Subject: Re: AOO Principles for Cooperation among ODF Projects On 25 June 2015 at 22:58, Dennis E. Hamilton orc...@apache.org

RE: DChanges 2014 Papers and ODF Conformance/Compliance Assurance

2015-06-13 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
for such interchange working properly with change-tracking in the files. Conditions on which such an envelope can be established and change-tracking accomplished in a dependable way are sketched. - Dennis -Original Message- From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamil...@acm.org] Sent

RE: Apache@ OSCON 2015 - Booth Goodies

2015-06-08 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
[mailto:kay.sch...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, June 8, 2015 13:23 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Apache@ OSCON 2015 - Booth Goodies On 06/06/2015 04:30 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: Um, 1.5 diameter, as asked. Silly keyboard. Bad keyboard. Bad. OK, fine. (those dang keyboards

RE: [Discuss] Review and improve graphics memory handling

2015-06-08 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I've never understood this business of having multiple releases as progressions on the same code branch. It seems far more confusing than having a branch or tag that corresponds to the release identifier. It also helps if there is a need for a patch release at a particular branch. It also

RE: Apache@ OSCON 2015 - Booth Goodies

2015-06-06 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Um, 1.5 diameter, as asked. Silly keyboard. Bad keyboard. Bad. -Original Message- From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamil...@acm.org] Sent: Saturday, June 6, 2015 15:34 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: RE: Apache@ OSCON 2015 - Booth Goodies Kay, 1.4 diameter for the AOO

RE: Apache@ OSCON 2015 - Booth Goodies

2015-06-06 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
...@apache.org wrote: On Saturday, June 6, 2015, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: OSCON 2015 is near upon us. I am offering to do booth duty again this year. I had a great time and am happy to do it again. I have one request. Can we have bigger Apache OpenOffice

Apache@ OSCON 2015 - Booth Goodies

2015-06-05 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
OSCON 2015 is near upon us. I am offering to do booth duty again this year. I had a great time and am happy to do it again. I have one request. Can we have bigger Apache OpenOffice buttons? The little ones are nice, but I find they are difficult to put one. The design need not change, but

DChanges 2014 Papers and ODF Conformance/Compliance Assurance

2015-06-04 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
of my DChanges 2014 papers on-line yet. I will do so in the coming week. - Dennis -Original Message- From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamil...@acm.org] Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 10:50 To: d...@corinthia.incubator.apache.org Subject: DChanges 2014 Papers Available The final

RE: Forum administrators alias / mailing list

2015-05-02 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I favor option (2) but I think that may be confusing from an administrative perspective. In that case, I join Jan in favoring option (3) An advantage of option (2) is that it can always be retargeted as necessary. - Dennis -Original Message- From: Andrea Pescetti

RE: Moving forward.

2015-04-27 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
+1 Thanks Andreas, -Original Message- From: Andrea Pescetti [mailto:pesce...@apache.org] Sent: Monday, April 27, 2015 04:11 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Moving forward. [ ... ] So I'm volunteering for the part Identify what we want (and can have) in 4.1.2 and update

RE: CVE-2015-1774: OpenOffice HWP Filter Remote Execution and DoS Vulnerability

2015-04-27 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Andreas, Simply wait, for now, I think. It sometimes takes quite a while for updates to be placed at the Mitre CVE entry. - Dennis -Original Message- From: Andrea Pescetti [mailto:pesce...@apache.org] Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2015 09:23 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re:

RE: MediaWiki missing new account icon/Link?

2015-04-12 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I think it happens by specifying login and there is an avenue to account creation then. I however, don't want to logout and remove my account to see if that is it [;). -Original Message- From: Kay Schenk [mailto:kay.sch...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2015 10:18 To: OOo Apache

RE: ruby uno to control openoffice

2015-04-09 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
.Maybe something else wrong? -Brick On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 2:52 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: Yes, the (#define OPTIONAL OPTIONAL) will break many things, even if it removes a parser error message. Where the error occurred the first time, there are many lines

RE: Need help with strings

2015-04-09 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Hi! You are digging into my favorite subject. I am assuming you are talking about strings within the MathML and that it is in some form of XML. In that case: If it is XML, the encoding can be specified in the ? ... ? XML prologue. Sniffing for this prologue will determine such things as

RE: ruby uno to control openoffice

2015-04-02 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
by preprocessor. cl /P yields module.i OPTIONAL was disappeard in module.i But i have not found where is #define OPTIONAL . I will search again tomorrow. -brick On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: You cannot disable the preprocessor

RE: ruby uno to control openoffice

2015-03-31 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Subject: Re: ruby uno to control openoffice But with the same PropertyAttribute.hdl i had built c++ sample DocumentLoader.cxx,and it works . How can i disable this feature of pre-processor -Brick On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 11:56 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: It appears

RE: Please join me in congratulating Marcus.

2015-03-31 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
+1 Congratulations, Marcus! -Original Message- From: Andrea Pescetti [mailto:pesce...@apache.org] Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 04:51 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Please join me in congratulating Marcus. jan i wrote: Marcus is now member of Apache Software Foundation.

RE: ruby uno to control openoffice

2015-03-29 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
It appears that OPTIONAL is defined to empty string in a pre-processor definition. This is probably a conflict with use of OPTIONAL as a way of controlling code inclusion and not as name of a feature in a bit flag [;). - Dennis -Original Message- From: Brick Ma

RE: Source code build help

2015-03-24 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Hello Buddhi, I think Regina or Ariel may have the information you require. Also, see https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO, https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO/Step_by_step#Windows_7, and

FW: ACNA Presentation Template

2015-03-18 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Any replies should go to d...@community.apache.org - Dennis -Original Message- From: Rich Bowen [mailto:rbo...@rcbowen.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2015 07:44 To: dev Subject: Fwd: ACNA Presentation Template Hey, OpenOffice folks, any chance you can update last year's presentation

RE: [DISCUSS] Java 8 and AOO

2015-03-18 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
-Original Message- From: Larry Gusaas [mailto:larry.gus...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2015 20:54 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Java 8 and AOO On 2015-03-17, 6:41 PM Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: The problems I've seen reported are apparently all on MacOS

RE: Google Summer of Code for Apache OpenOffice

2015-03-17 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Submission of applications by students opened on March 16 and the student's proposed statement of work must be finalized by March 27. It appears that there is not much opportunity to have identified areas for AOO and also establish mentors so that students have something to apply for and make

RE: [DISCUSS] Java 8 and AOO

2015-03-17 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamil...@acm.org] Sent: Tuesday, March 17, 2015 17:42 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: RE: [DISCUSS] Java 8 and AOO The problems I've seen reported are apparently all on MacOS. Something about needing a legacy Java 6 to work and there is no way for the user

RE: [DISCUSS] Java 8 and AOO

2015-03-17 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
The problems I've seen reported are apparently all on MacOS. Something about needing a legacy Java 6 to work and there is no way for the user to accomplish that, apparently. Are there others? Do you think the message is from AOO instead of the OS? There is also a crasher in Base, apparently,

[DISCUSS] #2 Organization around Capacity/Accountability

2015-03-17 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Since resolving Priority #1, we have not returned to Andrea's list of priorities. The #2 from the list seems critical to everything else. 2) Internal reorganization: people say what they are going to do to drive the project forward (so an active approach rather than the I don't

RE: Some old OOo SVN dumps, of use to anyone?

2015-03-14 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I received the SDCard with the 150GB SVN dump from Rob in yesterday's postal delivery. Herbert Duerr has also provided some tips on using the Zipped git repo that he created. I will set up a notebook for keeping track of everything I (attempt to) do. It will be interesting to watch that SVN

RE: Information

2015-03-13 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Thanks for the information. It is not clear what can be done about this. There will be some investigation to determine what can be done. - Dennis I notice that Yahoo has already determined that they cannot recommend the site. It is interesting what http://us.com has as a business model

RE: Need to integrate OpenOffice writer in java project

2015-03-13 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Apache OpenOffice is written primarily in C++. There are means to integration with Java. There is an API that is available as part of the OpenOffice SDK. See this information: http://www.openoffice.org/api/SDK/. Note that this page has not been updated since 2008 and there may be difficulties

RE: Need help on bookmark writter

2015-03-13 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
openoffice sdk for this. Regards, Purushottam On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 10:48 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: Please say more. Are you saying you want the bookmark to be on an image so it can be referred to using the bookmark? Is the problem that the bookmark exists

FW: [Issue 95672] Look and feel of the education website

2015-03-13 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
More spam on the Bugzilla. -Original Message- From: bugzi...@apache.org [mailto:bugzi...@apache.org] Sent: Friday, March 13, 2015 04:37 To: iss...@openoffice.apache.org Subject: [Issue 95672] Look and feel of the education website https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=95672

RE: Double licence ALv2.0 and CC-BY-SA 3.0

2015-03-12 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Is it correct to assume that we are speaking of documentation and, specifically, material for the OpenOffice.org wiki and web site? If the idea is to maintain the core material on only one place, you need to decide what is the upstream source. It seems to me that means the place with the

RE: Need help on bookmark writter

2015-03-12 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Please say more. Are you saying you want the bookmark to be on an image so it can be referred to using the bookmark? Is the problem that the bookmark exists already and you want to replace the text with an image? Did you place the bookmark on a range of text or just at a point in the text?

RE: community communication versus private PMC communication, WAS: PMC FAQ update

2015-03-07 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I am not certain exactly what issue is proposed to be discussed here. If you mean the over-use of private@ by the PMC, is there an issue to discuss? Those of us on the PMC need to be attentive to minimizing private@ discussions and bring to dev@ every discussion that is not one of the special

RE: community communication versus private PMC communication, WAS: PMC FAQ update

2015-03-07 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
@openoffice.apache.org; dennis.hamil...@acm.org Subject: Re: community communication versus private PMC communication, WAS: PMC FAQ update On Saturday, March 7, 2015, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: I am not certain exactly what issue is proposed to be discussed here. If you mean the over

RE: PMC FAQ update

2015-03-06 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
-- replying below to -- From: jan i [mailto:j...@apache.org] Sent: Friday, March 6, 2015 06:03 To: dev Subject: Re: PMC FAQ update On 6 March 2015 at 14:36, Dave Barton d...@tasit.net wrote: [ ... ] OK! One last attempt to clarify and resolve a trivial issue, that has become clouded in

RE: PMC FAQ update

2015-03-05 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I am aligned with Simon and Louis on this. Part of the reason for knowing who moderators and administrators are is for transparency. Civil names (sometimes pseudonyms, such as RGB-ES) could be used, although (optional?) Apache IDs are very handy too. Another reason is so if someone goes

RE: [DISCUSS] Inappropriate Compliance Costs

2015-03-02 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
+1 Yes, that is pretty clean, especially with regard to the tone. -Original Message- From: marcus [mailto:mar...@apache.org] Sent: Monday, March 2, 2015 14:10 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Cc: Jim Jagielski Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Inappropriate Compliance Costs Am 03/01/2015 01:31 PM,

RE: Some old OOo SVN dumps, of use to anyone?

2015-03-02 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
for the Computer History Museum. It seems that there may be a meaningful check with the materials that Herbert Duerr have collected as well. - Dennis -Original Message- From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamil...@acm.org] Sent: Sunday, March 1, 2015 12:51 To: dev

RE: [PROPOSAL] move repo to Git.

2015-03-01 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I'm going to add my +1 to this proposal. It occurred to me, when looking into the old OOo SVN dumps that Rob has, that there may be many more downstream users that are on Git and that our being on Git would facilitate accepting appropriately-offered pull requests to the AOO repository. It

RE: Some old OOo SVN dumps, of use to anyone?

2015-03-01 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
-Original Message- From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamil...@acm.org] Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2015 14:11 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: RE: Some old OOo SVN dumps, of use to anyone? -- replying inline to -- From: Rob Weir [mailto:r...@robweir.com] Sent: Saturday

RE: Some old OOo SVN dumps, of use to anyone?

2015-03-01 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
). - Dennis -Original Message- From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamil...@acm.org] Sent: Sunday, March 1, 2015 12:29 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: RE: Some old OOo SVN dumps, of use to anyone? orcmid Is the source code in this SVN identified as LGPL, along with any

RE: Some old OOo SVN dumps, of use to anyone?

2015-02-28 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
-- replying inline to -- From: Rob Weir [mailto:r...@robweir.com] Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2015 12:38 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Some old OOo SVN dumps, of use to anyone? On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 7:22 PM,

[DISCUSS] Making Users Awesome

2015-02-28 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
of interest at the same time. -- Dennis E. Hamilton orc...@apache.org dennis.hamil...@acm.org+1-206-779-9430 https://keybase.io/orcmid PGP F96E 89FF D456 628A X.509 certs used and requested for signed e-mail

RE: [DISCUSS] Inappropriate Compliance Costs

2015-02-26 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Thanks for the analysis Jonathon, 1. The edge case I was thinking of was being able to obtain a bounty of up to $1 million USD. It is actually a formula based on the amount obtained in a settlement that is obtained *without* litigation. The edge case is that happening where the settlement

RE: [DISCUSS] Inappropriate Compliance Costs

2015-02-24 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
that redistribution of AOO within an organization was acceptable. - Dennis -Original Message- From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamil...@acm.org] Sent: Monday, February 23, 2015 07:55 To: 'dev@openoffice.apache.org' Cc: 'Jim Jagielski' Subject: RE: [DISCUSS] Inappropriate Compliance Costs Please

RE: [DISCUSS] Inappropriate Compliance Costs

2015-02-23 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Please note that I have also included Jim Jagielski in this reply, although he has reported that he does not follow dev@ here. I suspect continuing to do this is an intrusion on him, yet providing a BCC or separate forward seems inappropriate as well. I have not seen a [Vote][Result] on the

RE: OpenOffice for Firefox OS

2015-02-22 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
-- replying below to -- From: Kay Schenk [mailto:kay.sch...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2015 09:56 To: OOo Apache Subject: Re: OpenOffice for Firefox OS On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 7:56 AM, Marcus marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Hi, the German news service Heise Online has reported

RE: recent BZ changes -- some custom fields missing?

2015-02-20 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
+1 nicely done, Kay and Herbert -Original Message- From: Herbert Duerr [mailto:h...@apache.org] Sent: Friday, February 20, 2015 04:23 To: d...@community.apache.org Cc: qa Subject: Re: recent BZ changes -- some custom fields missing? Hi Kay, We had an update to our BZ instance about a

RE: Keith McKenna as CWiki admin

2015-02-20 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
+1 and kudos to Keith (Side question: Is there some location where it is known who has the keys/karma to administration various services under AOO?) -Original Message- From: Andrea Pescetti [mailto:pesce...@apache.org] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 23:47 To:

RE: [Vote] What should we do with the Why Compliance? page on the website

2015-02-20 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
-Original Message- From: Rob Weir [mailto:r...@robweir.com] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 11:58 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: [Vote] What should we do with the Why Compliance? page on the website The page in question is here:

RE: [VOTE][DISCUSS] What should we do with the Why Compliance? page on the website

2015-02-19 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I favor the option proposed by Tim Williams. I think a good interim maneuver is to remove the sidebar link and then we can fuss about the page ad lib. I haven't checked on the notice that Marcus put up just yet. If that stays, it needs to ripple through the translations too. If I have to

RE: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice Wiki

2015-02-19 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I think you are not seeing anything about Unicode because ODF is fully Unicode and so is Apache OpenOffice and it is taken for granted. It came with being based on XML. I think you are asking something not about use of Unicode but perhaps having fonts the support the characters you are

Re: Proposal to change or remove a web page that seems to cause unfruitful discussions.

2015-02-19 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
PROPOSAL: Remove the page link from the sidebar, so that the controversial page is no longer reachable from other pages on the site. Do this in all languages having the page. We can then continue this discussion about the page itself, whether it is to be recast in some manner, whether the

RE: Proposal to change or remove a web page that seems to cause unfruitful discussions.

2015-02-19 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
+1 on change or removal It is perhaps more useful to follow the thread view of the conversation that resumed today on the legal-discuss mailing list, http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-legal-discuss/201502.mbox/thread. Some suggestions have been voiced there too. Anyone can also

RE: [RESULT] [VOTE] New Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair

2015-02-19 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
1 Andrea -Original Message- From: Rony G. Flatscher (Apache) [mailto:r...@apache.org] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 06:15 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: [RESULT] [VOTE] New Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair On 18.02.2015 20:46, Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 08/02/2015 Andrea

RE: Updating the wiki theme.

2015-02-19 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
+1 Nice idea and great attention to progressive staging. - Dennis -Original Message- From: acolor...@gmail.com [mailto:acolor...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Alexandro Colorado Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 14:41 To: dev Subject: Updating the wiki theme. I would like to update the

RE: [PROPOSAL] move repo to Git.

2015-02-18 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
We use Git on the Corinthia incubator. For Apache committers, there is not much difference in how one makes commits and it is much easier to work on branches for anyone. Using clones does add a step between change and commits at the Apache origin repo, as Yuri observes. Users of SVN who have

RE: website security certificate

2015-02-18 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I just checked https://openoffice.org and https://www.openoffice.org and saw no certificate problems. I also did a Google search on Open Office and saw no suspicious links in the first results. All the ones to Apache OpenOffice locations work just fine. Your search will also produce results

RE: [RESULT] [VOTE] New Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair

2015-02-18 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
+1 and Hip, Hip, Hooray! -Original Message- From: Andrea Pescetti [mailto:pesce...@apache.org] Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2015 11:47 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: [RESULT] [VOTE] New Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair On 08/02/2015 Andrea Pescetti wrote: I will send a

RE: website security certificate

2015-02-18 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
of the warning. Normally, I wouldn't go on a website if I got that warning (b/c the warning screen from google recommended NOT continuing to the site) but since I've used Open Office before I did. Brenda -Original Message- From: Dennis E. Hamilton Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2015 1:12 PM To: dev

RE: Moving code from oooforum to mwiki

2015-02-17 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Of Alexandro Colorado Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 13:58 To: dev; Dennis Hamilton Subject: Re: Moving code from oooforum to mwiki On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: It seems to me that the mwiki is the best place, based on the origin

RE: OOo4Kids OOoLight Status

2015-02-17 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
-- replying in-line to -- From: jan i [mailto:j...@apache.org] Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2015 14:27 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org; dennis.hamil...@acm.org Subject: Re: OOo4Kids OOoLight Status On Tuesday, February 17, 2015, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: +1, Nice

RE: OOo4Kids OOoLight Status

2015-02-17 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
+1, Nice thinking, Guy. Perhaps a bit more work and resource to make this customizable, and a great idea. This also matters for enterprise deployments and such. That, along with customized template sets can be very important in certain areas of application. We still have the original

RE: OOo4Kids OOoLight Status

2015-02-16 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I recommend something more neutral such as Starter, Intermediate, and Full or some equivalent, so it is about the interface, not the user of it. The default on an install could be Starter in the absence of an existing user configuration. Should we consider having the skins simply be options on

RE: Bugzilla on mailing list

2015-02-16 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Do you mean that you do not receive a direct copy of the Bugzilla notice where you are the creator or on the CC list for an issue? I just submitted a Bugzilla comment. I received two copies: the list copy and a direct copy on [Issue 126098]. Perhaps there was a change that interferes with

RE: [PROPOSAL] move repo to Git.

2015-02-16 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
-- replying in-line to -- From: Kay Schenk [mailto:kay.sch...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 16, 2015 10:01 To: OOo Apache Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] move repo to Git. [ ... ] I'm just curious about these statements. Have potential new developers remarked on this to you? Since most IDEs

RE: [PROPOSAL] move repo to Git.

2015-02-15 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Got it. Sorry for wasting everyone's time. - Dennis -Original Message- From: Andrea Pescetti [mailto:pesce...@apache.org] Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2015 04:49 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] move repo to Git. Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: OK. Then what

RE: [PROPOSAL] move repo to Git.

2015-02-15 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
-- replying in-line to -- From: jan i [mailto:j...@apache.org] Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2015 13:36 To: dev; Dennis Hamilton Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] move repo to Git. On 14 February 2015 at 22:27, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: Corinthia has its code tree (not web site

RE: [PROPOSAL] move repo to Git.

2015-02-14 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
are read-only or my pairing is not working. I am not certain how to tell the difference. - Dennis -Original Message- From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamil...@acm.org] Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 10:41 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: RE: [PROPOSAL] move repo to Git

<    1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   >