Re: [PROPOSAL] Initiate a Contest for Branding of 4.0

Feel free to hack at it Kevin, all input welcomed. I'll get more time this weekend, although I've been called in for Saturday, just a minor job so hopefully it won't turn into a major, then I can dedicate some effort to it. Cheers G On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Kevin Grignon wrote: > KG01 -

Re: buildbot success in ASF Buildbot on aoo-w7snap

On 13/11/2012 Andrew Rist wrote: That makes all flows 'green'. Including this new build that builds from the SNAPSHOT tag. Great news! Working buildbots are a prerequisite to proper QA. What changes need to be made to these install bits usable as our dev snapshot? Localization on non-Window

Re: [UX] Desoign Exploration - Dockable Task Pane Content Design

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Kevin Grignon wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 9:28 PM, RGB ES wrote: > >> 2012/11/15 Kevin Grignon >> >> > Hello All, >> > >> > I've been exploring the information design (content) for the dockable >> task >> > pane. I've analyzed the current content in both L

Fw: QA Volunteer

Hi All, This is Manju from INDIA. Interested in QA, Automated Testing, Looking forward to join Apache team :-) Regards, Manju - Forwarded by Manju2 M/TVM/TCS on 11/16/2012 11:43 AM - From: Manju2 M/TVM/TCS To: q...@openoffice.apache.org. Date: 11/16/2012 11:35 AM Subje

Re: [UX] Desoign Exploration - Dockable Task Pane Content Design

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 9:28 PM, RGB ES wrote: > 2012/11/15 Kevin Grignon > > > Hello All, > > > > I've been exploring the information design (content) for the dockable > task > > pane. I've analyzed the current content in both LS and AOO, and captured > > some thoughts on future design directio

Re: [PROPOSAL] Initiate a Contest for Branding of 4.0

KG01 - see comments On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Graham Lauder wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 6:03 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Graham Lauder > > wrote: > > > 5 days is about up and we have no -1so I've started a page for creating > > of > > > the proposed R

Re: Compiling Symphony

There are some code deliveries into Symphony's trunk since I made a build test on **r1351216**. There are also several changes on AOO340's branch (for example, ext_source/commons-codec, ext_library/hunspell). So I tried to make a new full build with Symphony's source code **r1377558** on Windows X

[BUILD] New gmake branch

Andre, I have updated the gmake branch (branches/gbuild) and changed all the headers. A couple of quick fixes are added. At this point the branch is trunk + CWS patches. make -di takes me pretty far in, but I get: GNUmakefile:35: *** Corrupted module targetstack! . Stop also, there is a wa

Re: Editing needed on BZ footer -- remove "podling" reference

On 12-11-15, at 19:47 , Dave Fisher wrote: > > On Nov 15, 2012, at 3:08 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > >> >> >> On 11/14/2012 05:06 PM, TJ Frazier wrote: >>> On 11/14/2012 18:47, Kay Schenk wrote: HI -- Could one of our BZ admins please remove the "podling" reference in the foo

Research Help

Hi Andre: Im a PhD student in Information Systems Department at Univesity of Maryland Baltimore county USA. Im interested in designing virtual collaborative software. Im doing a study on virtual team to explore the factors for designing a social interaction based collaborative software for the v

Re: Editing needed on BZ footer -- remove "podling" reference

On Nov 15, 2012, at 3:08 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > > > On 11/14/2012 05:06 PM, TJ Frazier wrote: >> On 11/14/2012 18:47, Kay Schenk wrote: >>> HI -- >>> >>> Could one of our BZ admins please remove the "podling" reference in the >>> footer area for Apache OOo Bugzilla? Thanks. >>> >> Hi, Kay, >

Re: Proposal: "Ask OpenOffice" promotion

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 3:00 PM, F C. Costero wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Rob Weir wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 7:44 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: >>> Rob Weir wrote: This is mainly a community-relations / public outreach idea. I noticed that when we do a blog p

Re: Editing needed on BZ footer -- remove "podling" reference

On 11/14/2012 05:06 PM, TJ Frazier wrote: On 11/14/2012 18:47, Kay Schenk wrote: HI -- Could one of our BZ admins please remove the "podling" reference in the footer area for Apache OOo Bugzilla? Thanks. Hi, Kay, A little research in the BZ Help [1] reveals in Section 6.3.5 that the global

Re: bugzilla.

On 11/15/2012 17:28, Jan iversen wrote: Hi. I have a new mail account, which I have created in bugzilla. Is there a way to move the bugs I have reported with my old e-mail to the new e-mail (in bugzilla) ? Jan. Hi, Jan, If you changed your email address in an existing BZ account ("preferen

Re: bugzilla.

On 15/11/2012 jan iversen wrote: I have a new mail account, which I have created in bugzilla. Is there a way to move the bugs I have reported with my old e-mail to the new e-mail (in bugzilla) ? Regina is right, the right way is: update your e-mail address in the old account. Creating a new on

Re: bugzilla.

Hi Jan, jan iversen schrieb: Hi. I have a new mail account, which I have created in bugzilla. Why? Is there a way to move the bugs I have reported with my old e-mail to the new e-mail (in bugzilla) ? If you have logged in with your old account, you will find the link 'Preferences' at th

New committer: Jan Iversen

The Apache OpenOffice PMC announces the addition of committer Jan Iversen, jani@ apache.org The list of all current podling committers is at: . [ Not updated in real time; it might not reflect the new addition ] Committers have a defined r

Re: Proposal: "Ask OpenOffice" promotion

On 11/14/2012 08:58 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: actually we do had faqs, many of them actually, the main issue is mantaining such FAQs. this remind me of a xkcd http://xkcd.com/927/ :) and I hear ya on the maintenance front. On 11/14/12, Kay Schenk wrote: On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 3:42 PM

Re: Symphony IP Cleanup

On 11/15/2012 12:38 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: All that is required to clean up the headers is to have some sort of official permission from IBM to ASF that allows it to be done. That or an IBM-employed committer needs to be identified as authorized to do it. The basic requirement is under

bugzilla.

Hi. I have a new mail account, which I have created in bugzilla. Is there a way to move the bugs I have reported with my old e-mail to the new e-mail (in bugzilla) ? Jan.

Re: Editing needed on BZ footer -- remove "podling" reference

On 11/14/2012 05:06 PM, TJ Frazier wrote: On 11/14/2012 18:47, Kay Schenk wrote: HI -- Could one of our BZ admins please remove the "podling" reference in the footer area for Apache OOo Bugzilla? Thanks. Hi, Kay, A little research in the BZ Help [1] reveals in Section 6.3.5 that the global

Re: Draft Introduction to Marketing modules

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Rob Weir wrote: >> I'm not sure if I ever mentioned this on the marketing list, but I've >> been working on some "new volunteer" orientation modules, essentially >> webpages that we can point new volunteers to, so

Re: Look at the pretty branches

On 15 November 2012 22:16, Rob Weir wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 4:00 PM, jan iversen > wrote: > > +1 to move. > > > > But please help me out with a simple question, if I delete a > file/directory > > in SVN, I assume it is only deleted from that version, so if I do a > > checkout of an old

Re: Best practices for contributing code to both Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice

Rob Weir wrote: The problem: Many (most?) open source contributors are not opposed to AOO or LO. They are just interested in helping out. If they produce a patch, or documentation, fix a bug or add a translation, they want to maximize the public good that comes from that work. You are writin

Re: Look at the pretty branches

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 4:00 PM, jan iversen wrote: > +1 to move. > > But please help me out with a simple question, if I delete a file/directory > in SVN, I assume it is only deleted from that version, so if I do a > checkout of an old version it is included ?? > If you check out a tree you get

Re: Look at the pretty branches

+1 to move. But please help me out with a simple question, if I delete a file/directory in SVN, I assume it is only deleted from that version, so if I do a checkout of an old version it is included ?? If I am correct, why do we keep these things in trunk ? rgds jan I. On 15 November 2012 21:57

Re: Look at the pretty branches

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 3:09 PM, jan iversen wrote: > Apart from the branches it seems we have a directory called "trunk-orig", > that only seems to contain 3 files, are they important ?? > > +1 to remove branches when they are integrated, it gives a lot better > overview. > These were some scrip

RE: Symphony IP Cleanup

All that is required to clean up the headers is to have some sort of official permission from IBM to ASF that allows it to be done. That or an IBM-employed committer needs to be identified as authorized to do it. The basic requirement is under "Source File Headers for Code Developed at the ASF"

Re: Look at the pretty branches

Apart from the branches it seems we have a directory called "trunk-orig", that only seems to contain 3 files, are they important ?? +1 to remove branches when they are integrated, it gives a lot better overview. Jan. On 15 November 2012 13:19, Rob Weir wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 7:03 PM,

Re: Proposal: "Ask OpenOffice" promotion

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 7:44 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: >> Rob Weir wrote: >>> >>> This is mainly a community-relations / public outreach idea. I >>> noticed that when we do a blog post we get a lot of unrelated >>> questions, some of them qui

Re: Proposal: "Ask OpenOffice" promotion

On 11/15/12, Rob Weir wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 1:13 AM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Alexandro Colorado >> wrote: >> >>> actually we do had faqs, many of them actually, the main issue is >>> mantaining such FAQs. >>> this remind me of a xkcd >>> http://x

Re: Proposal: "Ask OpenOffice" promotion

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 7:44 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Rob Weir wrote: >> >> This is mainly a community-relations / public outreach idea. I >> noticed that when we do a blog post we get a lot of unrelated >> questions, some of them quite good. So I'm thinking -- there must be >> a lot of goo

RE: Symphony IP Cleanup

Hi Dennis; I am afraid that what we are doing is exactly cherry picking code and creating patches. AFAICT there is no one actively working on the symphony code. If I notice something I like, I open a bugzilla issue and try to get someone from IBM to look at it. The code still has unacceptable

Re: New stats script: platform.py

Interesting result. I know what you guys saying, that it only means people downloading AOO from android devices, but not using AOO from android devices. In my opinion, such number would at least means that, there do exist thousands of AOO customers, who prefer using mobile devices on their cyber

RE: Symphony IP Cleanup

It has nothing to do with whether anything from the Symphony donation is ever released in AOO. The code has been donated and it should have its IP cleaned up. Also, the history is not needed. It is simply the headers and notices on the code as donated that is a problem. There are simple rule

Re: Open sources days denmark.

On 15 November 2012 15:13, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: > Hi, > On 12-11-15, at 08:07 , jan iversen wrote: > > > Is this a place we want to show up ? > > > > http://www.opensourcedays.org/2012/ > > > > It is pretty big in scandinavia. > > > > Jan. > > I have attended prior versions of this event, r

Re: New stats script: platform.py

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Herbert Duerr wrote: > On 15.11.2012 15:35, Rob Weir wrote: >> >> I just checked in a new script (platform.py) that queries the >> SourceForge REST API to get a platform breakdown for downloads. >> >> For example, looking at 3.4.1 downloads from November 1st until

Re: New stats script: platform.py

On 15.11.2012 15:35, Rob Weir wrote: I just checked in a new script (platform.py) that queries the SourceForge REST API to get a platform breakdown for downloads. For example, looking at 3.4.1 downloads from November 1st until today, we see: Windows: 1615741 (87.55%) Macintosh: 176417 (9.56%) L

Re: Apache OO program crashes

On 11/15/2012 04:47 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 13:33:52 -0500 Rob Weir wrote: On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 6:23 AM, Rob Weir wrote: On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 3:08 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 13/11/2012 Painius wrote: then

New stats script: platform.py

I just checked in a new script (platform.py) that queries the SourceForge REST API to get a platform breakdown for downloads. For example, looking at 3.4.1 downloads from November 1st until today, we see: Windows: 1615741 (87.55%) Macintosh: 176417 (9.56%) Linux: 27512 (1.49%) Android: 7193 (0.39

Re: Best practices for contributing code to both Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 4:16 AM, Jörg Schmidt wrote: > Hello, > >> I've heard some discussion and interest in this topic off-list. There >> has been some practical experience, but nothing that we've written >> down or promoted. I'd be interested in seeing if we can come up with >> some solid bes

Re: Open sources days denmark.

Hi, On 12-11-15, at 08:07 , jan iversen wrote: > Is this a place we want to show up ? > > http://www.opensourcedays.org/2012/ > > It is pretty big in scandinavia. > > Jan. I have attended prior versions of this event, run by Peter Toft; the last time I went was, I think, in 2010, prior to th

Re: Open sources days denmark.

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 8:07 AM, jan iversen wrote: > Is this a place we want to show up ? > > http://www.opensourcedays.org/2012/ > > It is pretty big in scandinavia. > Maybe add it here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Events+Calendar Certainly would be a good place to pre

Re: [UX] Desoign Exploration - Dockable Task Pane Content Design

2012/11/15 Kevin Grignon > Hello All, > > I've been exploring the information design (content) for the dockable task > pane. I've analyzed the current content in both LS and AOO, and captured > some thoughts on future design direction. > See: > > http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/AOO_UX_Design_Expl

Re: desktop publishing

On 14/11/2012 Phillip Zadro wrote: hi Is there any likelihood that OpenOffice will one day include a desktop publisher? Hi Phillip, since you are not subscribed you missed several answers. Please find them at http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/openoffice-dev/201211.mbox/browser on page

Re: Apache OpenOffice at FOSDEM 2013

On 14/11/2012 Andrea Pescetti wrote: copied and pasted into an e-mail, see other announcements ... https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/FOSDEM+2013+CFP is just for writing/reviewing this text. Link won't be published. Reminder: in slightly more than 24 hours, that page will be c

Re: Proposal: "Ask OpenOffice" promotion

Rob Weir wrote: This is mainly a community-relations / public outreach idea. I noticed that when we do a blog post we get a lot of unrelated questions, some of them quite good. So I'm thinking -- there must be a lot of good questions out there. They could range from "How do I..." to 'Why did

Re: Look at the pretty branches

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Andrew Rist wrote: > > On 11/14/2012 3:10 PM, Rob Weir wrote: >> >> I see that our project is growing new branches. Would it make sense >> to start documenting these on a wiki page, so it is clear what each >> one is, and who is maintaining it? >> >> Current bran

Re: [DISCUSS] Do we want download links for Dev Builds on a usual webpage?

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 2:44 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > On 11/11/2012 Kay Schenk wrote: >> >> On 11/11/2012 04:22 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: >>> >>> >>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Development+Snapshot+Builds >>> (they are also called "with/without system integration" re

Re: Proposal: "Ask OpenOffice" promotion

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 1:13 AM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > >> actually we do had faqs, many of them actually, the main issue is >> mantaining such FAQs. >> this remind me of a xkcd >> http://xkcd.com/927/ >> >> On 11/14/12, Kay Schen

Re: Proposal: "Ask OpenOffice" promotion

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 3:00 AM, Mohammad Nour El-Din wrote: > We used Google Moderator before and it is really nice thing to use. I like > the base of the idea, but I have one question what about the questions > coming from users through the user(s)@ mailing list ? Would that make them > feel iso

Re: Look at the pretty branches

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 7:02 AM, Herbert Duerr wrote: > On 15.11.2012 10:33, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote: >> >> On 15.11.2012 00:10, Rob Weir wrote: >>> >>> I see that our project is growing new branches. Would it make sense >>> to start documenting these on a wiki page, so it is clear what eac

Re: Look at the pretty branches

On 15.11.2012 10:33, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote: On 15.11.2012 00:10, Rob Weir wrote: I see that our project is growing new branches. Would it make sense to start documenting these on a wiki page, so it is clear what each one is, and who is maintaining it? Current branches are: [...] writer

Re: Symphony IP Cleanup

Taking a little break from my vacations ... - Is there anything in particular that you want to see "cleaned up"? Extracting code without the history is not exactly easy so we basically have to check wth the IBM guys anyways. There is also the issue that we only release code through the project r

Re: Look at the pretty branches

On 15.11.2012 00:10, Rob Weir wrote: I see that our project is growing new branches. Would it make sense to start documenting these on a wiki page, so it is clear what each one is, and who is maintaining it? Current branches are: AOO34/ --- Our 3.4.x branch, would be used if we ever need a 3.

Re: [UX] Desoign Exploration - Dockable Task Pane Content Design

Thanks, Kevin! And I added your Content Design page to the sidebar planning wiki: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0+sidebar - Shenfeng (Simon) 2012/11/15 Kevin Grignon > Simon, > > Indeed, I think we should keep it simple for the initial implementation. > > Context

Re: Apache OO program crashes

On Wed, 14 Nov 2012 13:33:52 -0500 Rob Weir wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 6:23 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > > > >> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 3:08 AM, Andrea Pescetti > >> wrote: > >> > On 13/11/2012 Painius wrote: > >> >> > >> >> then I should n

Re: Helping

KG01 - See comments inline. On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Ian C wrote: > Hi David, > > welcome aboard. Getting involved kind of depends on you and what you > want to do. Development, testing, documentation, internationalisation, > web site? > KG01 - plus user interface design, interaction de

Re: Templates

Kori, We'd love your feedback on the templates. Does it meet your needs, anything missing? Regards, Kevin On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 6:25 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > Hi Kori, > > Our templates website is here: http://templates.openoffice.org/ > > If you type "recipe" in the search box you'll see a few

Re: [UX] Desoign Exploration - Dockable Task Pane Content Design

Simon, Indeed, I think we should keep it simple for the initial implementation. Contextual properties is a must have. I'll prep some interaction design mockups. Regards, Kevin On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Shenfeng Liu wrote: > Kevin, > The proposal is very good! > I suggest we start f

Re: Look at the pretty branches

Hi, On 15.11.2012 00:10, Rob Weir wrote: I see that our project is growing new branches. Would it make sense to start documenting these on a wiki page, so it is clear what each one is, and who is maintaining it? Current branches are: AOO34/ --- Our 3.4.x branch, would be used if we ever need

Re: [UX] Desoign Exploration - Dockable Task Pane Content Design

Kevin, The proposal is very good! I suggest we start from the Content Properties and ClipArt, and add more release by release. - Shenfeng (Simon) 2012/11/15 Kevin Grignon > Hello All, > > I've been exploring the information design (content) for the dockable task > pane. I've analyzed the c

Re: Best practices for contributing code to both Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice

Hello, > I've heard some discussion and interest in this topic off-list. There > has been some practical experience, but nothing that we've written > down or promoted. I'd be interested in seeing if we can come up with > some solid best practices. > > The problem: Many (most?) open source cont

[UX] Desoign Exploration - Dockable Task Pane Content Design

Hello All, I've been exploring the information design (content) for the dockable task pane. I've analyzed the current content in both LS and AOO, and captured some thoughts on future design direction. See: http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/AOO_UX_Design_Exploration_-_Task_Pane_Content_-_Information_

Re: desktop publishing

Alexandro , On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 11:24 PM, Phillip Zadro wrote: hi Is there any likelihood that OpenOffice will one day include a desktop publisher? There is only one thing that is stopping me from migrating completely from Microsoft Office to either OpenOffice or LibreOffice and it is t

Re: Proposal: "Ask OpenOffice" promotion

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: > Joining a mailing list means signing up and wading through lots of emails > one is not interested in. This proposal is a way to reach out to people who > have a question but not the desire to engage with the community. There is > no risk of is

Re: Hello from Acrolinx

Hi Robert, On 14.11.2012 09:55, Robert Barbey wrote: Hi everyone, since my colleagues and I started writing a plug-in for OpenOffice Writer I wanted to let you guys know what we're trying to achieve with it. My company's main product is a client-server-based tool that assists authors in editin

Re: Proposal: "Ask OpenOffice" promotion

Joining a mailing list means signing up and wading through lots of emails one is not interested in. This proposal is a way to reach out to people who have a question but not the desire to engage with the community. There is no risk of isolation since these people wont come to those chanels. Note th

Re: Proposal: "Ask OpenOffice" promotion

We used Google Moderator before and it is really nice thing to use. I like the base of the idea, but I have one question what about the questions coming from users through the user(s)@ mailing list ? Would that make them feel isolated in case some of them would not like to use Google Moderator for

Re: Draft Blog Post: You Can Help Us Improve OpenOffice by Helping Us Test

On 06/11/2012 Rob Weir wrote: https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=you_can_help_us_improve Thanks, the final version at https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/you_can_help_us_improve is very good and useful to the project, like everything else you've published on the OpenOffice blog