Re: [OT] The Forking of OpenOffice.org

2015-01-16 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 16 January 2015 at 21:53, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > I'm sorry, the TDF did not do that. Sun Microsystems did that and > Oracle's eventual response was probably inevitable. > ​Indeed. More could be said on this matter but in many ways the writing was on the wall when Oracle acquired Sun. We

[OT] The Forking of OpenOffice.org

2015-01-16 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I promise to be more brief. Well, brief for me. I was startled to see, just the other day, part of the lamentation over LibreOffice being that The Document Foundation stole the livelihood of the Sun developers when OpenOffice.org was forked. I'm sorry, the TDF did not do that. Sun Microsystem

Re: buildbot notification issues, output page, etc

2015-01-16 Thread Kay Schenk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/16/2015 01:32 PM, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: > Hi Kay, > > On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 09:37:18AM -0800, Kay Schenk wrote: >> * We seem to again have lost notification from from buildbot on our builds. >> >> * The buildbot page for OpenOffice cu

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

2015-01-16 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
+1 -Original Message- From: Louis Suárez-Potts [mailto:lui...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 15:33 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] [VOTE] New Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair [ ... ] Casting Your Vote The notation used in voting is: +1 (means I vote positive)

Re: [DISCUSS] [VOTE] New Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair

2015-01-16 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 15 Jan 2015, at 03:57, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > > O.Felka wrote: >> Am 15.01.2015 um 09:04 schrieb Andrea Pescetti: >>> Procedural note: I didn't add it to my initial mail in order to keep it >>> short, but it is highly recommended that -1 votes be accompanied by a >>> brief motivation (1-2

PMC FAQs

2015-01-16 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hi I was going through the site pages and came across the PMC FAQ. It seems out of date…—? http://openoffice.apache.org/pmc-faqs.html -louis - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands

Re: Report 01 - scams and fraud "openoffice.org/ko"‏

2015-01-16 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
> On 16 Jan 2015, at 16:57, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > > Zemma Yun wrote: >> I am a Mac OS user. I am sending this email because I want to report >> Korean language website www.openoffice.org/ko > > Thanks for your report (and to Dennis for investigating). This is now fixed. > I confirm that the

Re: buildbot notification issues, output page, etc

2015-01-16 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
Hi > On 16 Jan 2015, at 16:32, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: > > Hi Kay, > > On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 09:37:18AM -0800, Kay Schenk wrote: >> * We seem to again have lost notification from from buildbot on our builds. >> >> * The buildbot page for OpenOffice currently has some issues -- >> see :

Re: http://www.openoffice.org/porting/index.html

2015-01-16 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 16/01/2015 Silvan Scherrer wrote: I just wanted to infor you, that the AOO 4.1.1 port for OS/2 is GA since some time now. Could anyone please change the above site to reflect that? This was already discussed on this list: http://markmail.org/message/cupmgf7vi6unxl4k Fact is, if you are in

Re: Report 01 - scams and fraud "openoffice.org/ko"‏

2015-01-16 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Zemma Yun wrote: I am a Mac OS user. I am sending this email because I want to report Korean language website www.openoffice.org/ko Thanks for your report (and to Dennis for investigating). This is now fixed. I confirm that the Korean pages at http://www.openoffice.org/ko were pointing to a d

Re: buildbot notification issues, output page, etc

2015-01-16 Thread Ariel Constenla-Haile
Hi Kay, On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 09:37:18AM -0800, Kay Schenk wrote: > * We seem to again have lost notification from from buildbot on our builds. > > * The buildbot page for OpenOffice currently has some issues -- > see : http://ci.apache.org/projects/openoffice/ > even though the buildbots have

Re: [VOTE] New Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair

2015-01-16 Thread Andrew Rist
[x] 0 Abstain On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 01:00:34AM +0100, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > On 31 December 2014 I wrote to this list that I would be available to resign > from the Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair position as soon as a successor could > be elected. We had nominations and long discussions and in

FW: Report 01 - scams and fraud "openoffice.org/ko"‏

2015-01-16 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
The http://openoffice.org/ko/ page is linked to when someone goes to the Native Language page (from the Download Page) and scrolls down to the support for Korean. This is the problem page. The link from the Native Language page might need to be removed for now, and the ko/ page definitely need

[OT] AOO in the World as It Is.

2015-01-16 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I'd like to point to something more positive that might be helpful here. It might not seem very positive. I think there is something positive to be gained, although I am not digging that deep here. The TL;DR: It is important to appreciate the ecosystem in which one chooses to operate in a nic

Re: svn commit: r1651396 - /openoffice/trunk/main/configure.in

2015-01-16 Thread Ariel Constenla-Haile
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 04:07:00PM -, p...@apache.org wrote: > Author: pfg > Date: Tue Jan 13 16:07:00 2015 > New Revision: 1651396 > > URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1651396 > Log: > Don't look for libwpd - we don't use it. This breaks the build in all platforms: http://ci.apache.org/builders/o

Triewes Keyboard

2015-01-16 Thread williameumstead
In the 1990's I developed a more user friendly and comprehensive keyboard that could better fill the needs of professionals and those who use expansive alphabets. To do this required new software and Microsoft who was totally dominate at the time refused to assist, primarily because Windows wa

Re: [VOTE] New Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair

2015-01-16 Thread Mechtilde
-1 (No) Am 15.01.2015 um 01:00 schrieb Andrea Pescetti: > On 31 December 2014 I wrote to this list that I would be available to > resign from the Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair position as soon as a > successor could be elected. We had nominations and long discussions and > in the end we have one can

http://www.openoffice.org/porting/index.html

2015-01-16 Thread Silvan Scherrer
Hi, I just wanted to infor you, that the AOO 4.1.1 port for OS/2 is GA since some time now. Could anyone please change the above site to reflect that? Also the link to os/2 is a bit outdated, as now bww bitwise works GmbH is responsible for the ongoing ports. See http://www.bitwiseworks.com/p

Re: [VOTE] New Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair

2015-01-16 Thread Marcus
+1 (binding) Marcus Am 01/15/2015 01:00 AM, schrieb Andrea Pescetti: On 31 December 2014 I wrote to this list that I would be available to resign from the Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair position as soon as a successor could be elected. We had nominations and long discussions and in the end we ha

Re: [VOTE] New Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair

2015-01-16 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
+1 On 01/16/2015 07:47 AM, Rob Weir wrote: On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 7:00 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 31 December 2014 I wrote to this list that I would be available to resign from the Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair position as soon as a successor could be elected. We had nominations and long dis

Re: [VOTE] New Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair

2015-01-16 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 7:00 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > On 31 December 2014 I wrote to this list that I would be available to resign > from the Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair position as soon as a successor could > be elected. We had nominations and long discussions and in the end we have > one can

Re: Website bug on : windows 7 > chrome v 39.0.2171.95 m

2015-01-16 Thread Marcus
I've tested this with Win7 and Chrome 39.0.2171.99 m but cannot see any problems with the website or downloading. The user mentioned "minitab.js" in the error message. If this is an installed extension she/he should deactivate/deinstall this and try again to download. Maybe it interfere negatively

Re: Panne

2015-01-16 Thread FR web forum
Bonjour, Vous avez posté sur une liste de diffusion internationale. Cela signifie que vous devez écrire en anglais. Pour ce genre de problème, allez directement sur le forum de support : https://forum.openoffice.org/fr Vous y trouverez de l'aide en français. --- Hello, You have posted on an interna