[OFF-LIST] RE: Digital signing release for windows.

2014-12-25 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
It occurs to me that nagging the list about things is not moving the ball forward. I suggest that is not useful and it would be valuable to stay constructive or even request assistance. Your offer is interesting. Andrea has the key for AOO. Don't forget that all of the languages need to be

RE: [OFF-LIST] RE: Digital signing release for windows. - APOLOGY

2014-12-25 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I screwed up big time. My carelessness in not correcting the To: address is inexcusable. Jan, I am very sorry. In the future, I will not use any Reply buttons to move off-list. That way I'll have to get the address correct. - Dennis -Original Message- From: Dennis E. Hamilton

RE: Digital signing release for windows.

2014-12-25 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
-- in reply below -- From: jan i [mailto:j...@apache.org] Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2014 10:13 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org; dennis.hamil...@acm.org Subject: Re: Digital signing release for windows. On Thursday, December 25, 2014, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote

RE: location of libraries/library/module/script DTDs?

2014-12-25 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
The files listed below are not conventional files used in ODF packages. The basic ODF files do not use DTDs and files by those names are not part of the standard ODF document structure. While there might be other files in an ODF package, usually XML files are expected to conform to

RE: Digital signing release for windows.

2014-12-25 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Thanks Jan, It would be a great help to have links to the posts that document your findings so that someone else could follow in your footsteps and especially figure out what the problem is with Windows 8.1 rejecting unsigned files. May I impose on you for that, please? I see your 2014-12-09

RE: Explaining Java (was RE: Java 32)

2014-12-26 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
-- replying to this below -- From: Andrea Pescetti [mailto:pesce...@apache.org] Sent: Friday, December 26, 2014 15:44 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Explaining Java (was RE: Java 32) On 25/12/2014 Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: A. Is this a potential way to do it? 1. Create an ooo

RE: location of scripting.dtd?

2014-12-27 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
-- replying below to -- From: Lee Fisher [mailto:l.office.fis...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2014 17:34 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: location of scripting.dtd? [...] The files listed below are not conventional files used in ODF packages. The basic ODF files do not

RE: Need help in the code jungle of starmath

2014-12-28 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
-- replying below to -- From: Regina Henschel [mailto:rb.hensc...@t-online.de] Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2014 09:00 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Need help in the code jungle of starmath Hi Dennis, Dennis E. Hamilton schrieb: [ ... ] orcnote I'm not clear what

RE: Explaining Java (was RE: Java 32)

2014-12-28 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
+1 -- replying below to -- From: Marcus [mailto:marcus.m...@wtnet.de] Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2014 10:06 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Explaining Java (was RE: Java 32) Am 12/27/2014 12:44 AM, schrieb Andrea Pescetti: On 25/12/2014 Dennis E. Hamilton wrote

RE: Explaining Java (was RE: Java 32)

2014-12-28 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
-- reply below to -- From: Marcus [mailto:marcus.m...@wtnet.de] Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2014 11:13 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Explaining Java (was RE: Java 32) Am 12/28/2014 07:38 PM, schrieb Dennis E. Hamilton: [ ... ] I am a bit wary of live links in dialog boxes

RE: Need help in the code jungle of starmath

2014-12-28 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Nice experiments! -- reply below to -- From: Regina Henschel [mailto:rb.hensc...@t-online.de] Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2014 11:46 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Need help in the code jungle of starmath Hi Dennis, Dennis E. Hamilton schrieb: [ ... ] orcmid Ah! Character

RE: Fwd: Warning from dev@openoffice.apache.org

2014-12-28 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
The fact of receiving the warning message is a fair indication that the problem, whatever it is, has dissipated. I see these from time to time. I shrug them off as some sort of list system weirdness, although it could also be that my affinity account (@acm) is not responding somehow and I am

RE: I have lost all my Word 2013 documents

2014-12-30 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
There is good news: Your documents were not removed. It is just that there is no default program setting as the result of the installation and removal of Open Office as the default. (Apache OpenOffice does not automatically make itself the default for Microsoft Office Documents unless

RE: Explaining Java (was RE: Java 32)

2014-12-30 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
[fuzzy-headed with the flu] -- replying below to -- From: Marcus [mailto:marcus.m...@wtnet.de] Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2014 03:35 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Explaining Java (was RE: Java 32) Am 12/29/2014 10:30 AM, schrieb Andrea Pescetti: On 28/12/2014 Marcus wrote: Am

RE: I have lost all my Word 2013 documents

2014-12-30 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=74t=12918 -Original Message- From: Rory O'Farrell [mailto:ofarr...@iol.ie] Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2014 06:27 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Cc: Moira Dempsey Subject: Re: I have lost all my Word 2013 documents [ ... ] All you

RE: Celebrating 15 years of open source success -- ApacheCon NA!

2014-12-30 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I received the message below from the announce list. - Dennis From: Kay Schenk [mailto:ksch...@apache.org] Sent: Monday, December 29, 2014 12:21 To: OOo Apache; annou...@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Celebrating 15 years of open source success -- ApacheCon NA! [ … ]

RE: problems......

2015-01-03 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Help us understand your situation more closely so that someone might volunteer a solution. 1. Tell us about your existing computer. What version of operating system does it have? If Windows, what version - 95, XP, 7, ? What version of Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel does it have?

RE: Short-term priorities for OpenOffice

2015-01-24 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
+1 on the 5 points from Andrea (non-binding, [;). Concerning ##3-4, I agree with Kay these are agreements on direction and perhaps identification of the desired state. I can see identification of initial steps, rather than static, completed activities in February. It might be useful to

RE: Short-term priorities for OpenOffice

2015-01-24 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Because of its tangible nature, I would move #5 (AOO 4.1.2to #3), sliding #3 and #4 down to #4 and #5. I think releasing AOO 4.1.2 is tangible work. I can see steps on Re-alignment with Community and External Organization moving along at the same time, and Community Re-alignment might matter

RE: PMC Chair nominations

2015-01-26 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I think the language is for the PMC Chair to make a motion to the Board using the prescribed form for that. I think invitation to the PMC should not be bundled with that. It would be strange to not have that handled by the PMC, although Andrea has the power to appoint someone to the PMC

RE: [NOMINATION] Dennis Hamilton for Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair

2015-01-26 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
replacement and said, who is that old guy? Must be PhotoShop! The renewal is for 6 years. It was startling to think how old I will be then. And I intend to be active even longer than that. -- dh -Original Message- From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:orc...@apache.org] Sent: Sunday, January

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

2015-02-06 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
: Who of the two candidates do you prefer to replace Andrea Pescetti as the OpenOffice project PMC Chair? [ ] Dennis E. Hamilton (orcmid) [ ] Jan Iversen (jani) Vote opens now and it will last one week, until 6 February 2015 7:00 PM GMT, to give all community members the opportunity to participate

RE: [DISCUSS] Inappropriate Compliance Costs

2015-02-03 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Thanks Michael, -- Original Message -- From: RA Stehmann [mailto:anw...@rechtsanwalt-stehmann.de] Sent: Tuesday, February 3, 2015 07:07 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Inappropriate Compliance Costs [ ... ] All licenses with a copyleft, even with the weakest, force

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

2015-02-08 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
For the record, I am in complete accord with the outcome and how Andrea is moving his recommendation for new Chair forward to the ASF Board. I shall continue as a contributor. I look forward to our moving forward on Andrea's Priority #2 proposal. I have no interpretation to offer concerning

RE: Request for future [UTC datetimes]

2015-02-02 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Hello Bill, That's an interesting idea for working in Universal Time Coordinates and adjusting for values entered in a local civil time. I think there are two cases. 1. Allowing Calc to record UTC so that it stays UTC even when interchanged with someone in a different timezone (or when local

RE: [DISCUSS] Qt as a replacement for VCL

2015-01-14 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I resonate with these remarks (two extracts below). I particularly want to acknowledge all of the work that Kay Schenk and several others have put into making AOO more approachable by new developers. -- Extract #1 -- From: Kay Schenk [mailto:kay.sch...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January

RE: [DISCUSS] Qt as a replacement for VCL

2015-01-15 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
at 2:27 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: Maintaining the independently-developed VCL GUI framework is an important concern. (Then there's UNO as a cross-platform COM derivative.) There's two possible approaches that I could see, long-term. #1 Separating the VCL GUI

[OT] RE: [DISCUSS] Qt as a replacement for VCL

2015-01-15 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Qt as a replacement for VCL On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 5:42 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: I resonate with these remarks (two extracts below). I particularly want to acknowledge all of the work that Kay Schenk and several others have put into making AOO

RE: Compiling sal in cygwin references missing include folder

2015-01-15 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
The VC\include\ folder of my Visual Studio installations all have unordered_map and unordered_set C++ header files. My versions are later than Visual Studio 9 though. It may be that Microsoft Visual Studio 9 does not have the desired library file in VC\include\ by default since adding Boost

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

2015-01-15 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Although Andrea had made clear what the timeline is, hindsight suggests that, once the fact of an unopposed candidate emerged, there probably was need for a [DISCUSS] about that singular situation, with more time before calling a vote or perhaps not even requiring a [VOTE]. Instead, we have

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

2015-01-15 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
-- replying below to -- From: Michal Hriň [mailto:michal.h...@yahoo.com.INVALID] Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2015 01:48 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Re: [VOTE] New Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair V Štvrtok, 15. január 2015 o 09:04 +0100, Andrea Pescetti napísal(a): [ ... ]

RE: [OT] RE: [DISCUSS] Qt as a replacement for VCL

2015-01-15 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
as a replacement for VCL On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 2:05 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: The sales success of Microsoft Office and Office 365 suggest that (almost) everyone is inaccurate IMHO for me this is not (and has never been) an valid argument. People Buy MS Office

[OT] AOO in the World as It Is.

2015-01-16 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
is determined to be a disruptor, AOO is probably not in the right place and certainly this is not the right time. -Original Message- From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamil...@acm.org] Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2015 18:42 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: RE: [OT] RE: [DISCUSS] Qt

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

2015-01-16 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
needs to be adjusted or removed. On the English download page, the selection for Korean downloads of 4.x works correctly. -Original Message- From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:orc...@apache.org] Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 12:35 To: us...@openoffice.apache.org Subject: RE: Report 01

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

[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

RE: [VOTE] New Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair

2015-01-14 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
+1 (non-binding) -Original Message- From: Andrea Pescetti [mailto:pesce...@apache.org] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 16:01 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: [VOTE] New Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair On 31 December 2014 I wrote to this list that I would be available to resign from

RE: [DISCUSS] Qt as a replacement for VCL

2015-01-14 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: [ ... ] PS: I thought there was a LGPL case where you could run QT as a DLL underneath an application, but I don't see how that can work with an ASF Project for a number of reasons. I also don't see anything about that featured

RE: [DISCUSS] Qt as a replacement for VCL

2015-01-14 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Maintaining the independently-developed VCL GUI framework is an important concern. (Then there's UNO as a cross-platform COM derivative.) The problem with much of the complexity of AOO, it seems to me, is that it is difficult to find improvements that can be achieved with progressions of small

RE: [CODE] keyboard shortcut definitions

2015-01-22 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I think Louis has found all of the keyboard actions and then some. -- replying below to -- From: Louis Suárez-Potts [mailto:lui...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 16:34 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: [CODE] keyboard shortcut definitions Kay, On 22 Jan 2015, at 17:58,

RE: [DISCUSS] Qt as a replacement for VCL

2015-01-22 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
@openoffice.apache.org; Dennis E. Hamilton Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Qt as a replacement for VCL [ ... ] orcmid I'm just using this to stay on the thread. /orcmid - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org

RE: Question about partial build with debug

2015-01-20 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
it exposes. Writing some sort of test or demonstration program would do that. That is always my first thought. I should have asked what you were up to first. Sorry. /orcmid 2015-01-21 12:21 GMT+09:00 Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org: You probably need to build an .exe

RE: Question about partial build with debug

2015-01-20 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
You probably need to build an .exe that uses that DLL. You need something that will call entry points in the DLL so you can debug into them. Do you already have something for that? You will need to somehow tie that to the sourcecode of the DLL and whatever debug information was provided when

RE: Apache Community List

2015-01-20 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
+1 and also, there is this great page at https://www.apache.org/dev/. - Dennis, who must have been asleep while this great consolidation was created -Original Message- From: Louis Suárez-Potts [mailto:lui...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 08:07 To:

RE: [DISCUSS] Qt as a replacement for VCL

2015-01-20 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Louis asks about a dependency on LGPL. -- replying below to -- From: Louis Suárez-Potts [mailto:lui...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2015 07:05 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Qt as a replacement for VCL [ ... ] Indeed, thanks. But let me get this straight. The Qt

RE: Explaining Java (was RE: Java 32)

2015-01-18 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
, December 30, 2014 07:28 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Explaining Java (was RE: Java 32) Am 12/30/2014 03:54 PM, schrieb Dennis E. Hamilton: [ ... ] orcmid I thought the idea was to create openoffice.org/java/index.htm and seed the xx structure from that. Have I

RE: [DISCUSS] Qt as a replacement for VCL

2015-01-18 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Yuri, That is an useful perspective. Have you looked at this enough to be satisfied the VCL maps to QT well enough for what AOO does? I have shied away from QT (and VCL which I suppose I can't avoid eventually) because I would not adopt it myself. So my question may be useless, and certainly

RE: Explaining Java (was RE: Java 32) - BASE Questions

2015-01-22 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
? This isn't going to matter with regard to immediately cleaning up the messages and the explanation on the web site. I'm just curious because Base is a place that might have some relatively isolatable maintenance work (or maybe not). - Dennis -Original Message- From: Dennis E. Hamilton

RE: annotations to [Issue 4914] normal view option needed

2015-02-11 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Mathias asks, concerning [Issue 4914], Can any developer tell whether there is any progress since 2007 or explain, if there are technical limitations for it? +1 on that question. -- replying below to -- From: Mathias Röllig [mailto:mroellig.n...@gmx.net] Sent: Wednesday, February

RE: annotations to [Issue 4914] normal view option needed

2015-02-11 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
@Kay, Why [Issue 4914] is not fixed: People still want to see the breaks (usually as horizontal rules), they just don't require columnar layout and some other provisions and they very much want smooth scrolling with no space between pages, no headings and footers, etc. They also want text

RE: [REQUEST] Bugzilla User Error Reports

2015-02-11 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
-- replying below to -- From: Kay Schenk [mailto:kay.sch...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 09:24 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: [REQUEST] Bugzilla User Error Reports On 02/11/2015 01:05 AM, Mathias Röllig wrote: On 11/02/2015 Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 10/02/2015

RE: GSoC 2015 - very little interest so far

2015-02-10 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
: jan i [mailto:j...@apache.org] Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2015 16:54 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org; dennis.hamil...@acm.org Subject: Re: GSoC 2015 - very little interest so far On Wednesday, February 11, 2015, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: It appears to have possible work

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

2015-02-16 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.

2015-02-18 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: OOo4Kids OOoLight Status

2015-02-13 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
My recollection is that OOo4Kids was intended to remain downstream and under LGPL in any case. The OOo4Kids developer participated on the AOO Podling. There was a complicated disagreement (not about licensing and more about AOO's unwillingness to arbitrate a conflict between third parties)

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: 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: Open office Calc crashing

2015-01-29 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Please provide more information about your experience with Calc crashing. 0. Had Help worked previously in your installation and use of Calc, or is this the first time you employed help with 4.0.1 while in Calc? 1. Can you upgrade to Apache OpenOffice 4.1.1 and confirm that the same

[DISCUSS] Inappropriate Compliance Costs

2015-01-29 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
claims of some patent are infringed, and they also need to read the Disclaimer in the License? -- 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 PS: I

RE: [DISCUSS] Inappropriate Compliance Costs

2015-01-29 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
. -Original Message- From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:orc...@apache.org] Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2015 10:20 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: [DISCUSS] Inappropriate Compliance Costs I didn't even know about this page, http://www.openoffice.org/why/why_compliance.html, until I saw

RE: AOO340M Build 9590 Ver. 3.4.0. How or what ver. fo I download for Kindle Fire HD

2015-01-29 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
The Apache OpenOffice project does not currently provide a version for Android devices and mobile devices. The recommended way to download apps for the Amazon Fire HD is through whatever marketplace or app store is provided on the device or on the Amazon site. You might be able to find a

RE: [DISCUSS] Inappropriate Compliance Costs

2015-01-30 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
on Apache Projects that do not share that broad view. And some of the constraints on ASF Projects do not apply to projects elsewhere, even when the Apache License is used. - Dennis -Original Message- From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:orc...@apache.org] Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 14

RE: [DISCUSS] Inappropriate Compliance Costs

2015-01-30 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
. I don't follow the remark about when the tone could affect business operations. Sorry. - Dennis -Original Message- From: Louis Suárez-Potts [mailto:lui...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 13:30 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org; Dennis E. Hamilton Subject: Re: [DISCUSS

[DISCUSS] [VOTE] New Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair

2015-01-30 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
candidates: Dennis E. Hamilton (orcmid) and Jan Iversen (jani). [ ... ] - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org

RE: [DISCUSS] Inappropriate Compliance Costs

2015-01-30 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Pedro and Jürgen, It is important to be concerned about false contrasts and comparisons. There is a risk, when we are essentially preaching to the choir, that we sink into some sort of fundamentalist hyperbole as well. It is satisfying, it is credible to us, and it can be a mistake. Facts

RE: [DISCUSS] Inappropriate Compliance Costs

2015-01-31 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
: Friday, January 30, 2015 12:58 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org; orc...@apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Inappropriate Compliance Costs On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 3:36 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton orc...@apache.org wrote: Pedro and Jürgen, It is important to be concerned about false contrasts and comparisons

RE: Keeping Playlist Sequence.

2015-01-31 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Hello Gerald, From your description, below, it does not appear that the situation you describe has much to do with Apache OpenOffice (or Microsoft Office). Perhaps some basic details of what you have done will help us to see better how OpenOffice can be useful. When you say you have copied

[DISCUSS] #1 New PMC Chair (was RE: Short-term priorities for OpenOffice)

2015-01-24 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Andrea proposes election of a new PMC Chair as the #1 short-term priority. Here are some discussion points. 1. TIMING Once the AOO Project has selected a candidate to be the AOO PMC Chair, a motion must be taken to the ASF Board for their election of the proposed Chair. That

RE: [DISCUSS] #1 New PMC Chair (was RE: Short-term priorities for OpenOffice)

2015-01-25 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
we take another run at a [VOTE], and [potential] candidates need to work on that with the community so we can get the job done this 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

RE: Short-term priorities for OpenOffice

2015-01-25 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Yes, #1 and #2 in order. Then we'll deal with ##3-5 (whatever the ordering) -Original Message- From: Andrea Pescetti [mailto:pesce...@apache.org] Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2015 00:26 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Short-term priorities for OpenOffice [ ... ] Taking into

HTC One m8 (was RE: Reporting broken download link)

2015-01-25 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Bob, images aren’t forwarded to this list. The error message is apparently misleading. The problem is that you are running Windows *Phone* 8.1 on an ARM processor (of the HTC One m8). The Apache OpenOffice project does not provide a version for Windows Phone and attempting to download

RE: Krista Watkins - Introduction

2015-01-31 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Hello Krista, Yes, welcome and thank you for introducing yourself. The combination of C++, Java, and SQL can come in handy as you get deeper into Apache OpenOffice. We do have some Java dependencies and the OpenOffice Base application uses JDBC and Java-based database services. There are

RE: [DISCUSS] #1 New PMC Chair (was RE: Short-term priorities for OpenOffice)

2015-01-26 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I just saw a very crisp statement that applies here too: Apache Chairs are not Executives. The Incubator Project is in the process of taking nominations and discussing replacement of their current Chair, which their practice is to have on a 12-month cycle. You can see the quote in

RE: html code generated from Open Office

2015-01-05 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
You need to download and read the OASIS ODF Specification. Since you are interested specifically in Writer, you might as well start with ODF 1.1 (a single document). You can get all of the bits at http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.1/OS/. The ODT file is a Zip file that has multiple parts

RE: HELP - LABELS

2015-01-10 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
The Avery label products 5160, 5260, 5660, 5960, 5979, 8160, and 18660 all have essentially the same template. You can obtain an Avery 5160 template by opening Apache OpenOffice directly, clicking on Templates and then clicking on Get more templates online ... and then search. Or just try

RE: Problem with open office data

2015-01-09 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Your attached file consists of 16,346 nul (00) bytes. There is no recoverable data in it. It is not a valid ODF Text (OpenOffice Writer) document. It was apparently saved in a corrupted form. This can happen when OpenOffice is closed improperly or there was a problem with interruption of

RE: html code generated from Open Office

2015-01-06 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Just a short note about tables in paragraphs, ... -- replying below to -- From: Howard Morris (aka Col Boogie) [mailto:howard_cary_mor...@hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 6, 2015 11:41 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org; dennis.hamil...@acm.org Subject: Re: html code generated from Open Office [

RE: [DISCUSS] Qt as a replacement for VCL

2015-01-13 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I think the licensing situation is very clear. There are two licensing arrangements. The free license is standard GPL3/LGPL3. There is a commercial license for proprietary, closed source work. That license has to be purchased and there are flavors of it, such as Indie Mobile, Professional,

RE: [PROPOSAL] move repo to Git.

2015-02-13 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Hamilton Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] move repo to Git. On 13 February 2015 at 13:13, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org mailto:dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: Isn't having the mirror on GitHub an effective way to push changes to the SVN, especially for Apache committers who have project rights

RE: [PROPOSAL] move repo to Git.

2015-02-13 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Message- From: jan i [mailto:j...@apache.org] Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 09:04 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org; dennis.hamil...@acm.org Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL] move repo to Git. On Friday, February 13, 2015, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: I don’t understand the response

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

[REQUEST] Bugzilla User Error Reports

2015-02-10 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
disposition and close them as appropriate (assuming that I have the karma to do that). Use orcmid @apache.org for the assignments. -- 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

RE: [PROPOSAL] move repo to Git.

2015-02-13 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Isn't having the mirror on GitHub an effective way to push changes to the SVN, especially for Apache committers who have project rights to the GitHub repo? Non-committer pull requests are as complicated either way, it seems to me, and the GitHub mirror might be superior for that. I assume the

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

FW: GSoC 2015 - very little interest so far

2015-02-10 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
It appears to have possible work included in a compilation of potential GSoC projects is (1) use JIRA and (2) use label gsoc2015. I don't know what is to be done when a project uses Bugzilla instead. -- Dennis E. Hamilton orc...@apache.org dennis.hamil...@acm.org+1-206-779-9430

RE: [REQUEST] Bugzilla User Error Reports

2015-02-10 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I would prefer --- as less judgmental. @Mathias, Say more about how the different karma cases for AOO Bugzilla are handled. Where can I find a description for that? - Dennis -Original Message- From: Mathias Röllig [mailto:mroellig.n...@gmx.net] Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2015

RE: Voting if More Than One Accepted Nomination for a new PMC Chair

2015-01-07 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Can you explain STV please. (What do the letters mean?) Are folks required to rank all of the candidates in their ballots? - Dennis -Original Message- From: Andrea Pescetti [mailto:pesce...@apache.org] Sent: Wednesday, January 7, 2015 00:12 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re:

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

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