Re: expat upgrade patch needs testing

2016-08-09 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Kay Schenk wrote: On 08/09/2016 10:34 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Kay, me and a bunch of other people have access to ooo-extras and can give you upload access. I already have access. Sorry for the poor wording. I was addressing Don and I meant "Kay AND me and a bunch of other people

Re: Planning for emergency releases

2016-08-09 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Patricia Shanahan wrote: How do we go about getting trained as release manager? By making a release, or two. Documenting the process in more detail? You can see the whole process documented everywhere (ASF pages and CWiki for the 4.1.2 release), but it's a matter of tooling at this stage m

Re: [PACKAGING 4.1.2-patch1 Binaries] (was RE: [TESTING] Applying openoffice-4.1.2-patch1 for Windows)

2016-08-11 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Kay Schenk wrote: My openssl version on does NOT supply digest sha256. Is it OK to use sha1? MD5 already computed for each of these. Guidelines recommend SHA256. But it should not be difficult for you to get a sha256sum binary or a generic shasum binary to run as "shasum -a256 FILENAME". Re

Re: Planning for emergency releases

2016-08-15 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 10/08/2016 Patricia Shanahan wrote: On 8/9/2016 2:41 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Patricia Shanahan wrote: How do we go about getting trained as release manager? By making a release, or two. If we only do two or three releases a year, we will only be able to train release managers are a

Re: [Discuss] New template on cwiki for Release Notes

2016-08-15 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 03/08/2016 Keith N. McKenna wrote: Using the template facilities of the cwiki I have created a template for creating Release Notes for AOO. It utilizes variables to fill in repetitive entries, and instructive text to aid in writing. Tested. It's very helpful, thank you. Automatic variables h

Re: translating to faroese

2016-08-21 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 18/08/2016 rodi hansen wrote: We are many who want to have faroese language in OpenOffice Welcome! There are multiple levels of supporting a new language in OpenOffice. The best place for language-related discussions is the l10n list https://openoffice.apache.org/mailing-lists.html but we

Re: FOSDEM hacking

2016-08-21 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 19/08/2016 Patricia Shanahan wrote: Maybe simplifying the Windows build process for AOO could be a FOSDEM hacking challenge? If you mean something that must happen during FOSDEM, then this might be challenging due to restricted time (the conference lasts about 36 hours), unavailability of

Re: Ready to setup release build machines?

2016-08-21 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 19/08/2016 Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: I thought that the basic requirement is that the release manager(s) do any builds on a machine under their [exclusive] individual control. This way one would need to rely on individual volunteers to coordinate for a release. It is not impossible, of cour

Re: upgrading bundled openssl

2016-08-21 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 19/08/2016 Don Lewis wrote: The upcoming serf upgrade also has a new dependency issue. It has changed to using scons as its build system, which has its own dependencies, python and m4. I haven't yet decided what to do about that. I may have already given this information elsewhere, but ht

Support contact for Extensions

2016-08-21 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Like (I assume) the other PMC members who are moderators of the Extensions site, I received an e-mail from SourceForge asking what their "communityteam" address listed at http://extensions.openoffice.org/en/websitecontact should be replaced with. My understanding is that, no matter how clearly

Re: Release Manager for 4.2.0?

2016-08-21 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 19/08/2016 Patricia Shanahan wrote: On 8/19/2016 10:41 AM, Kay sch...@apache.org wrote: I am volunteering to be release manager for 4.2.0. I have been involved in all the AOO releases since 3.40, and I'm familiar with the process. Like all of us involved with the project, I am a volunteer. D

Re: Support contact for Extensions

2016-08-22 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 21/08/2016 Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: From: Andrea Pescetti My proposal: use a link "Apache OpenOffice dev list" as a replacement, linking it to https://openoffice.apache.org/mailing-lists.html#development-mailing- list-public ; and if/when we get an e-mail related to hosting of the

Re: [PROPOSAL] General Availability of ApacheOpenOffice 4.1.2-patch1 Hotfixes

2016-08-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Marcus wrote: I hope that this is just a silent consensus as I haven't seen a single comment to this. ;-) +1 from me. Tested README and process for Linux64, verified all hashes/signatures. SUB-PROPOSAL: Go online with the English-based hotfix (especially Readme's and Windows .bat files) and

Re: [DISCUSS] Release 4.2: General Topics

2016-08-25 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Resending to 3 lists... I suggest to have a "canonical" reply-to to the dev list for the next messages. Andrea Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 23/08/2016 Kay Schenk wrote: WARNING: This is quite long! And the discussion was even longer, but I'll start with answering this one. And

Re: [DISCUSS] Release 4.2: General Topics

2016-08-25 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 24/08/2016 Don Lewis wrote: * Updated bundled serf to fix a CVE and a WebDAV issue. The FreeBSD port has been using the system version of the latest and greatest. We've been discussing this separately. This will make the build system even more complex, but it does have advantages a

Re: Fwd: Re: Questions about buildbot internals

2016-08-25 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 24/08/2016 Kay Schenk wrote: Continuing discussion with infra due to EOL on both the systems we are currently using indicates we will probably be moving to Ubuntu 14.04 buildbots for Linux 32 and Linux 64. I'll keep you updated. For the same reason, wouldn't it be better to move to 16.04 LTS

Re: Forums not working?

2016-08-25 Thread Andrea Pescetti
JZA wrote: Wonder if there is something wrong wtih the forums? Everything works correctly for me at https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewforum.php?f=7 and no outage notifications were sent. I also see a recent message posted by you, so I assume this is fixed. Regards, Andrea. ---

Re: Fwd: Re: Questions about buildbot internals

2016-08-26 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Kay Schenk wrote: Do you really mean 16.04 LTS? Is there a buildbot setup with this? I am NOT a Ubuntu person. Yes, I did mean 16.04 LTS. But I see that end of life for 14.04 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases is April 2019, so 5 years and not 3 as it was for earlier Ubuntu LTS versions. This m

Re: Forums not working?

2016-08-26 Thread Andrea Pescetti
JZA wrote: Well the issue is actually on the forums.openoffice.org doing a google search to the direct site worked: https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/ but typing the url will forward it to the project pages, like this: forums.openoffice.org -> http://www.openoffice.org/projects/forums/ So I g

Re: [DISCUSS] Release 4.2: General Topics

2016-08-26 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Don Lewis wrote: On 25 Aug, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Is there a real reason for it? ... otherwise we can simply drop the requirement saying "we won't explicitly test compatibility with Java < 1.7"; but in that case we must provide ways to obtain a compatible JRE for all the 4 s

Re: [DISCUSS] Release 4.2: General Topics

2016-08-26 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Don Lewis wrote: I forgot to mention that the PDF Import extension is somewhat problematic to distribute. It relies on poppler, which has a GPLv2 license. Yes, this was the reason for removing the extension from the OpenOffice installers back at the time. We do bundle GPL dictionaries though,

Re: Googletest download failures

2016-08-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Don Lewis wrote: On 26 Aug, Kay Schenk wrote: All our buildbots are currently failing trying to download http://googletest.googlecode.com/files/gtest-1.7.0.zip ... I don't have any problems here with wget It is failing for me too at the moment. I have a copy of the file, with matching MD5 ha

Re: [DISCUSS] Release 4.2: General Topics

2016-08-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Kay Schenk wrote: On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 2:55 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Andrea Pescetti wrote: Last translations import were done in 4.1.0 and not 4.1.1 (if I recall correctly); but this is a minor detail. There are no new languages to be expected in 4.2.0: we have new languages in Pootle

Re: upgrading bundled openssl

2016-08-28 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 22/08/2016 Don Lewis wrote: On 21 Aug, Andrea Pescetti wrote: https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=126312 is the reference issue for the serf upgrade and I know there was more than what is written in the issue, so you can ask for clarifications directly there in the comments. I think

Re: Ready to setup release build machines?

2016-08-29 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 21/08/2016 Kay Schenk wrote: We REALLY REALLY NEED the CentOS5 32-bit and 64-bit VMS regardless of what we do for Windows. I now have a repeatable process to create a CentOS 5 VM from scratch and building OpenOffice with it, meaning that I've successfully built 4.1.2 on it. I also have a ~

Re: gstreamer

2016-08-30 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Gav wrote: "checking whether to build the GStreamer media backend... checking for GSTREAMER... no configure: error: requirements to build the GStreamer media backend not met. Do not use --enable-gstreamer or install the missing packages Hi Gavin, this won't help you with GStreamer since I check

Re: [DISCUSS] What Would OpenOffice Retirement Involve? (long)

2016-09-02 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: One option for remedy that must be considered is retirement of the project. ... There are those who fear that discussing retirement can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. This is becoming too much. There are other options. Namely, a new release will invalidate the p

Re: Resigning from Apache OpenOffice

2016-09-02 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Kay Schenk wrote: I'm resigning from Apache OpenOffice. Seeing your enthusiasm until yesterday, I think I can easily guess the reason. Rest assured, I am feeling bullied too. So, what can we, the people who actively work (as volunteers) on OpenOffice, and who plan releases, and who have com

Re: The AOO build system

2016-09-02 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Phillip Rhodes wrote: Forgive my level of ignorance here, but I haven't been a very active participant to this point, so there's a lot I don't know. Forgive my terseness, but I want to add as little as possible to today's traffic... but I appreciate this attitude a lot and just ask if you need

Re: What would OpenOffice NON-retirement involve?

2016-09-02 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Patricia Shanahan wrote: If you can send me a pointer to documentation on the correct moderator tools, I can also do that. How soon can we get the list started? Request form is here: https://infra.apache.org/officers/mlreq and requests are usually honored within 48 hours. You'll have to spec

Re: What would OpenOffice NON-retirement involve?

2016-09-02 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Jim Jagielski wrote: The issue, currently, is that the Mac OS X build requires, last I checked, an extremely old version of OSX, Xcode, et.al. No one has such a beast laying around. When did you check? And what does "extremely old" mean? OpenOffice 4.1.2 was built with a version of XCode relea

Re: What would OpenOffice NON-retirement involve?

2016-09-02 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Patricia Shanahan wrote: Any views on whether the archive should be private or public? We have no options here. Archives have to be public for this kind of lists (ASF archives are never really private, but this is another matter). Regards, Andrea. -

Presence at ApacheCon Europe, November

2016-09-03 Thread Andrea Pescetti
I had planned to send an exploratory mail to see who was considering, or even just available, to attend ApacheCon in November. We can't pretend that nothing happened in the last 36 hours, so this reflects in the current mail, but the question (and the tight deadline) still holds. ApacheCon Eur

Re: Presence at ApacheCon Europe, November

2016-09-03 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Pedro Giffuni wrote: I had already submitted a talk for this year's ApacheConEU Ah, nice! An OpenOffice-specific talk or a generic one? I mean, would it fit into a (hypothetical, of course; everything depends on reviewers) OpenOffice track or not? Regards, Andrea. ---

Re: What would OpenOffice NON-retirement involve?

2016-09-03 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Jim Jagielski wrote: According to https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide/Building_on_MacOSX o OSX 10.4 or 10.5 o Xcode 2.4.1 or 3 o OSX 10.4 SDK Ahem... Have you noticed that the title says "OpenOffice 3.x or Apache OpenOffice 4.0"? You should not build 4.0. You

Re: OOo extras

2016-09-03 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Pedro Giffuni wrote: On 09/03/16 11:07, Pedro Giffuni wrote: Someone with access, please upload the Python-2.7.12 tar ball for extra safety. And while there, the dejavu fonts version 2.37 may be a good idea too. Both uploaded. But you should join the OOoExtras admins too. If you have a Sourc

Re: Ready to setup release build machines?

2016-09-04 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 29/08/2016 Kay Schenk wrote: ​Thanks for all this work. I suggest trying builds on /trunk and I would bet the Perl problems go away. The new Java downloader is super! Seeing the situation, I would still prefer to be able to build 4.1.2 correctly (which works now, but JUnit and Perl modules

Re: Help Wanted

2016-09-04 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Eric Bastarache wrote: My name is Eric Bastarache and I have experience in both web design and development, and I am interested in contributing to improving the look of the website(s) for OpenOffice. Welcome! Both the web and the code areas of OpenOffice require a bit of patience; we can gui

Re: [DISCUSS] What Would OpenOffice Retirement Involve? (long)

2016-09-06 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote: I see the biggest point as missing from the list/plan posted by Dennis E. Hamilton: an easy upgrade path for current OpenOffice users It was not a plan. It was a what-if game that tried to analyze with an excessive level of detail how to execute one of the possible

Re: Help needed: Build error in bean and vcl

2016-09-06 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Marcus wrote: I've got a AOO 4.2.0m1 Build 9800 Rev. 1759138. Congratulations! Thank very much for your help. Of course, as a good contributor I'll collect all data and update [1] with a new Fedora 21 section. [1] https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO/Step_by_step

Re: The AOO build system

2016-09-06 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Phillip Rhodes wrote: On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 4:44 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Phillip Rhodes wrote: 1. What is the main problem with the build system as it is? It's ugly. I recall you once built OpenOffice, right? It is not the easy configure + make. Still, it works and the build system i

Re: [DISCUSS] What Would OpenOffice Retirement Involve? (long)

2016-09-07 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Dave Fisher wrote: I think that the appropriate place to keep this plan in whatever state it will be kept is on one of our wikis. Not without an appropriate disclaimer saying that this is not a determined course of action, but merely a description of steps that would have to be taken in the,

Re: [DISCUSS] What Would OpenOffice Retirement Involve? (long)

2016-09-07 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 06/09/2016 Jim Jagielski wrote: What has been obvious, from following the numerous threads in various places, as well as contributing to the 2 main ones, is just how much "damage" Rob Weir has either done or has been attributed to have done. There is no relation whatsoever between Rob Weir a

Re: [PROPOSAL] Consolidating all the build guides

2016-09-07 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Marcus wrote: As I have now some experience on building OpenOffice, I've also seen that there are alot of wikipages that describe to some degree of detail how to build. The most important fix would be to annotate all outdated ones properly. Search engines apparently love our outdated content a

Releasing OpenOffice 4.1.3 (reopening the AOO410 branch)

2016-09-07 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Recent events make it clear we will have to release OpenOffice 4.1.3 sooner or later, with some duplication of work with respect to 4.1.2-patch1 but with more clarity for those who couldn't see that we made a release last month. I'll thus consider the AOO410 branch to be open again for the nee

Re: Release manager for 4.1.3

2016-09-08 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Patricia Shanahan wrote: My objective is to complete 4.1.3 in November. Thank you for volunteering for the November release. I'll be available for anything I can help with. Regards, Andrea. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-u

Re: Presence at ApacheCon Europe, November

2016-09-08 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 03/09/2016 Roberto Galoppini wrote: If a bunch of us is willing to go I might join the party. The "bunch" is still small and the deadline for submissions is tomorrow. Anyone else from Europe interested in attending? Regards, Andrea. -

Re: [CWiki] Account Whitelisting - Jim Jagielski (jimjag)

2016-09-08 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Jim Jagielski wrote: subj sez it all Done. But if you are going to contribute build instructions/tips, you probably want the MWiki too. In that case, just supply your desired username and mail and we'll create an account for you there too. Regards, Andrea. ---

Re: Question about binary upload process

2016-09-08 Thread Andrea Pescetti
lmost) decommissioning people.apache.org 3) Only the final one must be uploaded to SourceForge; I copy/paste from https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.1.2 section "Upload builds to mirrors". "Volunteers: Andrea Pescetti - Copy requires just a few hours, with the norma

Re: [CWiki] Account Whitelisting - Jim Jagielski (jimjag)

2016-09-08 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Marcus wrote: yes, please don't split up the new build instructions from the olders. You can take one of the following and update with new data: https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide/Building_on_MacOSX https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Build_Instructions No, neit

Re: Release process and 4.1.3

2016-09-09 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Patricia Shanahan wrote: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Release+Planning+Template It is what I would want to do for a major release with user interface changes. Yes, that one is the template for a 4.2.0, not for a 4.1.3 release. We also need something far, far more agile

Re: Question about binary upload process

2016-09-09 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Marcus wrote: Am 09/09/2016 04:38 PM, schrieb Dave Brondsema: On 9/8/16 6:31 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: 2) Whoever is in the best position to do so, uploads the binaries to the ASF. This can be done also by multiple people, who upload to different subdirs here: https://dist.apache.org/repos

Re: Code signing available for OpenOffice

2016-09-09 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Mark Thomas wrote: The infrastructure team has regained access to the OpenOffice code signing account. If you would like to use it to sign releases please open an infra ticket and provide the Apache IDs of those committers that need access. May I ask if this is the same Symantec system that was

Re: Question about binary upload process

2016-09-09 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Patricia Shanahan wrote: I suspect if I try to personally push all the artifacts, it will take a lot longer because of the limitations of my home PCs, and cable supplier. I'm supposed to get "up to" 150 Mbps, but I don't think I get that all the time. If your upload speed is in that order of ma

Re: Status of ASF Ubuntu Buildbots

2016-09-10 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Gavin McDonald wrote: I’ve been working on creating replacement VMs for the deprecated Tethys Thanks a lot. This is really much appreciated. I reduced the frequency of some builds - I mean why spend 9 hours building and uploading language packs every single day, there is no need - especially

Re: Release process and 4.1.3

2016-09-10 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Patricia Shanahan wrote: On 9/9/2016 12:11 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Actually, 4.1.2 was exactly this. Your starting point should thus be https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.1.2 ; just copy the wiki page and edit/generalize accordingly. Can you give me a pointer to how

Re: Release process and 4.1.3

2016-09-10 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Patricia Shanahan wrote: I just created an account, user name "pats". Whitelisted. Andrea - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org

Re: Releasing OpenOffice 4.1.3 (reopening the AOO410 branch)

2016-09-10 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Patricia Shanahan wrote: On 9/10/2016 12:55 PM, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: only code with a bug and release blocker flag approved by the Release Manager can be checked in that branch; that is: if you want to include changes in the AOO413 branch: 1) open a bug 2) request releaser blocker status

Re: Releasing OpenOffice 4.1.3 (reopening the AOO410 branch)

2016-09-10 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Gavin McDonald wrote: Tags:- .. AOO340/ AOO341/ AOO400/ AOO401/

Re: Releasing OpenOffice 4.1.3 (reopening the AOO410 branch)

2016-09-10 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Patricia Shanahan wrote: I'm going to wait a few hours to see if someone claims to depend on us not changing the branch. Absent a specific issue, I plan to create a 4.1.3 branch, and expect the, not yet selected, 4.1.4 Release Manager to create a branch for it. OK. After all, I would assume tha

Re: Releasing OpenOffice 4.1.3 (reopening the AOO410 branch)

2016-09-10 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Patricia Shanahan wrote: My view on this is that we should check in the changes for 4.1.3, freeze its code, and then create AOO414 as a copy of AOO413. Sure, this will work too. Then when you really release 4.1.3 with any last-minute fixes, a single "svn merge" command will update the AOO414

Re: How do all the binaries get built?

2016-09-11 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Patricia Shanahan wrote: What has to be done, in what sorts of environments, to generate all the binaries? Does, for example, building all the language versions for OSX have to be done on a Mac, or can one take some language files and some OSX files and combine them on a Windows machine? The re

Re: How do all the binaries get built?

2016-09-11 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Patricia Shanahan wrote: Volunteers to do the building? I can help with linux-64 builds based on the information shared by Ariel about the existing setup of his CentOS 5 VMs (of course, Ariel himself could probably do it too; but it is good to split tasks so that the number of people capable

Re: Status of ASF Ubuntu Buildbots

2016-09-14 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Gavin McDonald wrote: What we do have is two (imho) useless ‘snapshot’ builds (based on openoffice/tags/SNAPSHOT - Which hasn’t had a commit in 10 months and never will have because its a ‘tag’. ...which would be true if we were using SVN the textbook way, but for historical reasons we aren'

Re: dmake

2016-09-14 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Jim Jagielski wrote: Tarballs are at: https://github.com/jimjag/dmake/releases My goal was to try to combine all the flavors of dmake into one "canonical" version we can use. Is there a reason for that? So far it has been enough for us to get a specific dmake tarball from a certain UR

Re: dmake

2016-09-15 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Jim Jagielski wrote: epm is required and not under our control. We have a copy under our control at https://sourceforge.net/projects/oooextras.mirror/files/epm-3.7.tar.gz and I would recommend that one over an external site. In fact, epm 4.3 is out and work much better for AOO That would b

Re: [NOMINATION REQUEST] Next Chair of AOO Project Management Committee

2016-09-15 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 14/09/2016 Marcus wrote: I will volunteer to take over the role as next Chair. Thank you! Andrea - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.o

Re: [VOTE] Recommend Marcus Lange (marcus) as the New Vice President for Apache OpenOffice

2016-09-15 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: RESOLUTION: That Marcus Lange (marcus) be recommended to the Apache Software Foundation Board to serve as Vice President for Apache OpenOffice. +1 Approve (let me thank both Dennis for the dedication he demonstrated during his one-year term, and Marcus

Re: 4.1.4 Release Manager?

2016-09-15 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Jim Jagielski wrote: Any real reason to name it 4.2.0 ? Two years of miscellaneous changes and fixes, a radically improved build system, unit tests at build time, updates of a lot of libraries, support for new languages, new translations, new dictionaries... if this is not 4.2.0 it should be

Re: [PROPOSAL] Consolidating all the build guides

2016-09-17 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 15/09/2016 John D'Orazio wrote: https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO I'm noticing that even in this page that is considered an official guide to building, the epm module is downloaded from msweet.org and not from the sourceforge oooextras mirror. Does it make any

Re: How do all the binaries get built?

2016-09-17 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 16/09/2016 Jim Jagielski wrote: I'm in the process of bringing up a new CentOS5 system as we speak Good news! The recipe on our MWiki https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO/Step_by_step#CentOS_5 is still incomplete (see the "Ready to setup release build machines?

Re: Fwd: [Issue 125147] CRASH applying styles to text

2016-09-19 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Matthias Seidel wrote: [ https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=125147 ] But the fix should be included in one of the next releases. As well as: https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=125762 Both should be nominated for 4.1.4. If you can check, on a trunk build from a buildbot, that they

Re: Tools for building and checking a release candidate

2016-09-20 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 18/09/2016 Marcus wrote: Am 09/17/2016 01:00 PM, schrieb Patricia Shanahan: Are there any tools to help put together an AOO release? If so, where are they? We don't have any. But I've provided a script that I've just used for a test 4.1.3 build. It will find packages in a build tree (after

Re: Ready to setup release build machines?

2016-09-20 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 04/09/2016 Andrea Pescetti wrote: https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO/Step_by_step#CentOS_5 Ideally, this would become a semi-scriptable recipe for preparing a "standard" CentOS 5 VM for building OpenOffice releases, at least for the 4.1.x series The

Re: How do all the binaries get built?

2016-09-20 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 19/09/2016 Jim Jagielski wrote: If useful, I can replace my 64bit CentOS5 vm with a 32bit one. It would be useful (to have more coverage) to test https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO/Step_by_step#CentOS_5 on a 32-bit VM, and adapting -it's trivial- the script at

Re: Tools for building and checking a release candidate

2016-09-20 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: From: Andrea Pescetti We are signing. ... Just, we do it in a way that Windows doesn't like. It is not about Windows not liking the PGP signatures. It never sees them. Sure. I wrote that Windows doesn't like the way we sign (detached), not that it doesn&

Re: Last call for 4.1.3 patches

2016-09-20 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 17/09/2016 Mechtilde wrote: Am 17.09.2016 um 07:25 schrieb Mechtilde: is there a first "nightly build for version 4.1.3 available? I forgot: my system is Debian 64-bit Buildbots aside (they were not working last time I checked), you can use the 4.1.3-dev builds at http://home.apache.org

Re: Fwd: 4.1.3_release_blocker requested: [Issue 127127] English dictionary included in 4.1.3 installer is outdated

2016-09-21 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Patricia Shanahan wrote: How would granting 4.1.3_release_blocker on this impact progress on the builds? It wouldn't have had a major impact, but in this case (as later clarified in the issue) the blocker request is simply a misunderstanding. As a general rule, we first apply fixes on trunk

Re: Ready to setup release build machines?

2016-09-21 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 12:10:29AM +0200, Andrea Pescetti wrote: (the way it is now; I haven't checked https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=127120 yet) it uses only packages from CentOS and EPEL repositories, plus custom Ant and Perl as the versions shi

Re: 4.1.3 building

2016-09-21 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Patricia Shanahan wrote: 1. My current policy for release blocker is to grant it immediately if it seems obvious to me that a fix is needed to build 4.1.3. I will also do so based on prior security@ discussion. Otherwise, I'll ask for input on dev@ before deciding. OK. 4.1.4 is a good fallback

Re: 4.1.3 building

2016-09-22 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Andrea Pescetti wrote: Sample builds (English, German, Italian) from a few hours ago -but not from my latest build- are at http://home.apache.org/~pescetti/openoffice-4.1.3-dev-r1761683/ Latest builds for all languages are now uploading (I'll do it in small batches, not as a whole) to

Re: 4.1.3 building

2016-09-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 25/09/2016 Marcus wrote: Finally I got a AOO 4.1.3 with release options - but only en-US. I used the following varaible + value in the build script: ... LANG="de en-US fr pt ja" the language option seems to be a problem with the build script: Not OK: --with-lang="${LANGS}" OK: --with-lang="de

Re: Bootstrap fails

2016-09-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 24/09/2016 Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: https://github.com/apache/openoffice It seems this repo isn't up-to-date, strange... I would have guessed this was synchronized I've reported this to INFRA months ago: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-11601 The answer they gave (see issue)

Re: Request for Nofollow or Removal of Links to My Site at Openoffice

2016-09-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 24/09/2016 Dave Fisher wrote: Someone of the DEV team may have access to templates and extensions sites which are hosted at sourceforge by agreement with the Apache OpenOffice PMC. Can someone help? As I wrote to the dev list last month, a number of PMC members have access as moderators. S

Re: Editing the release notes wiki

2016-09-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Patricia Shanahan wrote: Is the username "p...@apache.org" or just "pats"? This was probably a misunderstanding when I enabled your account. I've now swapped the two. Privileges had been given to pats at apache.org when I enabled the account. Try with just "pats" now. Regards, Andrea. --

Re: Testing 4.1.3

2016-09-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 25/09/2016 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 formal vote period until we have a complete release candidate. It seems that the message where I said the upload had completed was not

Re: Bootstrap fails

2016-09-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Patricia Shanahan wrote: I understand the attraction of having a Github mirror, but an out of date one is worse than useless. Who gets to decide to kill it? If there is agreement, we can ask Infra to remove it. This (once we do have agreement) can be done by reopening https://issues.apache.or

Re: 4.1.3 building

2016-09-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 23/09/2016 Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: it might be time to start building it ;) I'll start doing so on Windows, as Jim and Andrea seem to cover the other platforms. Sorry for the miscommunication, I see that the message where I was saying that http://home.apache.org/~pescetti/openoffice-4

Github mirror (Re: Bootstrap fails)

2016-09-28 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Gavin McDonald wrote: From: Andrea Pescetti https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-11601 How long has it been broken? I opened the above issue in April 2016. Has infra been asked to fix it? In the issue I say that the Github mirror is broken and I ask if there is a way to fix it. I

Re: 4.1.3 building

2016-09-28 Thread Andrea Pescetti
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. Yes, if you already started uploading Linux-64 I agree this is the best solution. If someone wants to build on CentOS 5 32 bit and upload th

Re: 4.1.3 building

2016-09-28 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Marcus wrote: Am 09/27/2016 11:13 PM, schrieb Andrea Pescetti: Possibly. But those files are generated during the build anyway, so the fact that RAT does not know about them is irrelevant. Sure, but the report is not green. But IMHO it should be green when we want to look at 4.1.3 as official

Re: 4.1.3 building

2016-09-29 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Marcus wrote: Am 09/29/2016 03:26 AM, schrieb Andrea Pescetti: RAT is a tool that we might even not want to use. The important thing is sometimes I really don't know why someone is coming to such a statement. This is one of this moments. Why shouldn't we use the RAT scan? Do you want

Re: Which source files in release?

2016-09-30 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: there is no need to reinvent the wheel, I guess ;) Indeed. I've bumped the bug report just to give visibility to the scripts we already had. you need to fix the ant build script first, see the bug report Fixing the script results in a commit. We agree that thi

Re: [DISCUSS] 4.1.4 Release Manager?

2016-09-30 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 03:58:11PM -0700, Patricia Shanahan wrote: There are now release blocker requests for 4.1.4, so we need a release manager to decide on them. If nobody steps in, and/or nobody has any objection, you can count with me. I would be very happy

Re: Which source files in release?

2016-10-01 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Patricia Shanahan wrote: The idea is to start from a clean check-out, not configured, move the LICENSE, NOTICE, and README files, and delete what is not needed. "what is not needed" should be a relatively short list, including the .svn files and also ext_sources. While I would have gone for Bas

Re: Which source files in release?

2016-10-01 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Patricia Shanahan wrote: For 4.1.3, I am in "Don't rock the boat" mode. Anything that gets us to release sooner is good. It looks as though you already have the packages we need, so please go ahead and SVN them. OK. Committed to https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/openoffice/4.1.3/source/ Th

Re: Bugzilla and User generated content

2016-10-02 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Peter Kovacs wrote: there is a Issue Report about adding more templates to Open Office 2.XX. Again something thats lingering from ancient times. I wonder how the Process is for such a thing. There is a technical trade-off between making more templates available in the download and not making t

Re: Testing 4.1.3 - source builds

2016-10-03 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Patricia Shanahan wrote: On 10/3/2016 12:45 PM, Marcus wrote: Am 10/03/2016 09:40 PM, schrieb Patricia Shanahan: PMC members please indicate when they have done that test, to help me decide when to start a vote. Done on Linux-64, successful. I've build today that branch with release options

Re: Testing 4.1.3 - source builds

2016-10-03 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Marcus wrote: wow, *all signed source code packages* ? I assume that this does not literally mean that you must test the .bz2, the .gz and the .zip. They are equivalent. This sentence is for when a project makes a release composed of different parts. For the record, trunk is already set to a

Re: Translate offline

2016-10-03 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 30/09/2016 Claudio Ferreia Filho wrote: i continue doing some translations to AOO, but I saw that translate.apache.org is offline. If someone can do something to warn the infra, is a good thing. It is one of the monitored services by Apache Infra, so notifications are sent out when it is of

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