Re: 4.1.3_release_blocker denied: [Issue 126622] Base 4.1.2 does not open Tables and Queries in Mac OSX

2016-10-04 Thread Larry Gusaas
Is this approved or not approved as a release blocker??? I thought there was a fix for this. It is essential that this is fixed for Mac users. On 2016-10-04, 4:20 PM bugzi...@apache.org wrote: Patricia Shanahan has denied 4.1.3_release_blocker: Issue 126622: Base 4.1.2 does not

Ready to Vote on 4.1.3?

2016-10-04 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Please post only objections to calling a vote on 4.1.3 tomorrow. I will treat silence as consent. As far as I can tell, we are ready to go. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional

Re: Re: In regards to Open Office

2016-10-04 Thread Xen
Hagar Delest schreef op 04-10-2016 22:04: My fear is: if AOO exports in OOXML (as LibO does), what will happen to ODF? Most users would just use OOXML since it would be compatible with AOO and MS Office. It may lead to frustration because of the glitches from the conversions. OTOH, it may

Re: In regards to Open Office

2016-10-04 Thread Xen
Hagar Delest schreef op 03-10-2016 22:57: Even if it came from a previous format, the goal was to make a documented format to allow compatibility with other applications. So not designed from scratch, agreed, but changes made for interoperability. That's how I understand the target of ODF. I

Testing 4.1.3

2016-10-04 Thread Patricia Shanahan
I have done some basic testing for the following environments and language versions: Windows 7 en_GB Windows 8.1 en_GB, fr Windows 10 en_GB Ubuntu 16.04 en_GB - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For

Re: In regards to Open Office

2016-10-04 Thread Xen
Jörg Schmidt schreef op 03-10-2016 12:14: From: Hagar Delest [mailto:hagar.del...@laposte.net] I think that ODF was designed to be a fully open standard to give the users back the property of their own data. No, that's not correct. ODF was written this it was compatible with the

Re: In regards to Open Office

2016-10-04 Thread Xen
Hagar Delest schreef op 03-10-2016 0:27: In fact, I came to OOo in 2006 because I used to use MS Word to compile data and one day a file got corrupted for an unknown reason. I discovered that there was no way to recover the file because it was proprietary. I think that at that time the .doc

Re: Testing 4.1.3 - release notes

2016-10-04 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Could people working on the bugzilla entries check the status and update as appropriate? Note that I did not include the Mac Tables and Queries issue, https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=126622, in the release notes because I did not see enough confirmation that it is fixed. I have now

4.1.4_release_blocker requested: [Issue 126622] Base 4.1.2 does not open Tables and Queries in Mac OSX

2016-10-04 Thread bugzilla
Patricia Shanahan has asked for 4.1.4_release_blocker: Issue 126622: Base 4.1.2 does not open Tables and Queries in Mac OSX https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=126622 - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

4.1.3_release_blocker denied: [Issue 126622] Base 4.1.2 does not open Tables and Queries in Mac OSX

2016-10-04 Thread bugzilla
Patricia Shanahan has denied 4.1.3_release_blocker: Issue 126622: Base 4.1.2 does not open Tables and Queries in Mac OSX https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=126622 - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: Question about spell check

2016-10-04 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Tue, 4 Oct 2016 13:17:49 -0700 Patricia Shanahan wrote: > > > On 10/4/2016 1:15 PM, Marcus wrote: > > Am 10/04/2016 09:44 PM, schrieb Patricia Shanahan: > >> I downloaded and installed > >> Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.3_Win_x86_install_en-GB.exe. To my distress, when > >> I first

Re: Testing 4.1.3 - source builds

2016-10-04 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Patricia Shanahan wrote: I have built and run from the zip. I have also decompressed and extracted each of the tarballs, and used "diff -r" to confirm they are each identical to the zip. I do plan to do the signature and hash checks for each of the three files. You may want to add your own

Re: 4.1.3 building

2016-10-04 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Jim Jagielski wrote: Once built and tested, how does one upload? I'm assuming the prepare-download-tree.sh in aoo-devtools?? All builds have already been uploaded by Ariel for this RC. No need to upload anything else. I did upload a full set of Linux-64 builds to

Re: Question about spell check

2016-10-04 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 10/4/2016 1:15 PM, Marcus wrote: Am 10/04/2016 09:44 PM, schrieb Patricia Shanahan: I downloaded and installed Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.3_Win_x86_install_en-GB.exe. To my distress, when I first started it, it accepted "color" (US spelling) and rejected "colour" (English spelling). I thought

Re: Question about spell check

2016-10-04 Thread Marcus
Am 10/04/2016 09:44 PM, schrieb Patricia Shanahan: I downloaded and installed Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.3_Win_x86_install_en-GB.exe. To my distress, when I first started it, it accepted "color" (US spelling) and rejected "colour" (English spelling). I thought perhaps it picked up my previous use of

Re: Re: In regards to Open Office

2016-10-04 Thread Hagar Delest
Le 04/10/2016 à 06:50, Peter Kovacs a écrit : ODF has a better trancperency then OOXML. But beeing open we need to embrace and value both formats. This is the key point for AOO now IMHO. I think there is a point having import filters to give users a way to open the files. Then the natural

Re: Testing 4.1.3 - source builds

2016-10-04 Thread Marcus
Am 10/04/2016 06:39 PM, schrieb Patricia Shanahan: On some of my Windows builds, I get a failure, but doing a new "build --all", without cleaning, works. That may be worth trying while you are waiting for more expert advice. I think there may be problems in whatever is supposed to be enforcing

Re: 4.1.3 building

2016-10-04 Thread Jim Jagielski
> On Sep 27, 2016, at 11:03 PM, Ariel Constenla-Haile > wrote: > > > IMO providing different builds for same arch will make it difficult to > QA, so I will go on with the Linux 64-bit builds. If someone wants to > build on CentOS 5 32 bit and upload the binaries, please

Question about spell check

2016-10-04 Thread Patricia Shanahan
I downloaded and installed Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.3_Win_x86_install_en-GB.exe. To my distress, when I first started it, it accepted "color" (US spelling) and rejected "colour" (English spelling). I thought perhaps it picked up my previous use of en-US from my profile, but I got the same

Re: 4.1.3 building

2016-10-04 Thread Jim Jagielski
Once built and tested, how does one upload? I'm assuming the prepare-download-tree.sh in aoo-devtools?? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail:

Re: Testing 4.1.3 - source builds

2016-10-04 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 10/4/2016 4:24 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: On Oct 3, 2016, at 3:49 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: On 10/3/2016 12:45 PM, Marcus wrote: Am 10/03/2016 09:40 PM, schrieb Patricia Shanahan: Testing seems to be going well, but there is a very specific requirement for a release.

Re: Testing 4.1.3

2016-10-04 Thread Jim Jagielski
Sorry for the delay: Building OSX as we speak. A build the week-before-last had no regressions. > On Sep 25, 2016, at 10:33 AM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: > > I suggest that people start downloading and testing 4.1.3 as soon as there > are binaries they can run. I can't start the

Re: Testing 4.1.3 - source builds

2016-10-04 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On some of my Windows builds, I get a failure, but doing a new "build --all", without cleaning, works. That may be worth trying while you are waiting for more expert advice. I think there may be problems in whatever is supposed to be enforcing dependency order, so that a module gets built too

Re: Testing 4.1.3 - source builds

2016-10-04 Thread Marcus
Am 10/04/2016 10:04 AM, schrieb Andrea Pescetti: Marcus wrote: @Andrea: Can you please check the "apache-openoffice-4.1.3-r1761381-src.tar.gz.sha256" file? It's in binary mode and not useable for checksum comparsion. It can be used if you download it. sorry, no. That's the reason why I

Re: Testing 4.1.3 - source builds

2016-10-04 Thread Jim Jagielski
> On Oct 3, 2016, at 3:49 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: > > > On 10/3/2016 12:45 PM, Marcus wrote: >> Am 10/03/2016 09:40 PM, schrieb Patricia Shanahan: >>> Testing seems to be going well, but there is a very specific requirement >>> for a release. >>> >>> A PMC member, to cast a

Re: Testing 4.1.3 - source builds

2016-10-04 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Marcus wrote: @Andrea: Can you please check the "apache-openoffice-4.1.3-r1761381-src.tar.gz.sha256" file? It's in binary mode and not useable for checksum comparsion. It can be used if you download it. But I've now forced all checksum files to be treated as text, which should allow you to

Re: Testing 4.1.3 - source builds

2016-10-04 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Testing the reference builds is indeed extremely important, and should be most of the testing. The significance of the builds from source is that a PMC member can only cast a binding +1 vote if they have done one, and we need at least three binding +1 votes to release. They also need to have

Re: Infra notification?

2016-10-04 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Patricia Shanahan wrote: According to http://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy.html#heads-up, infra needs to be notified in advance of releases of more than 1GB. This used to be important to avoid flooding the mirrors. The mirrors that had disk space issues are now in a separate list which

Re: In regards to Open Office

2016-10-04 Thread Damjan Jovanovic
On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Jörg Schmidt wrote: > > > and a very little bit is my opinion also: > MS is one of our "Platinum sponsors" and it is not a good style blindly to > grumble about MS > > Maybe, but sponsoring the ASF also shouldn't undermine contributors'