Re: Problmes useing changes with Writer

2021-04-14 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 2021-04-14 17:36, Marcus wrote: > Am 14.04.21 um 23:11 schrieb Keith N. McKenna: >> Greetings all; >> >> I am currently having problems with accepting changes with AOO Writer >> 4.1.9 on both Windows 10 Pro and Windows 7, both 64 bit. This is >> current

Problmes useing changes with Writer

2021-04-14 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Greetings all; I am currently having problems with accepting changes with AOO Writer 4.1.9 on both Windows 10 Pro and Windows 7, both 64 bit. This is currently having an impact on being able to properly edit the New 4.1.x documentation. When I highlight and a change and press Accept in the edit

Re: Language versions

2021-03-15 Thread Keith N. McKenna
.html. The first two levels will give you an overview of how ASF works and how OpenOffice fits into that structure and level 2 gives you background on decision making and the projects infrastructure. Regards Keith N. McKenna signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: photo by text ....

2021-02-24 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 2/24/2021 12:26 AM, Storm Gill wrote: > Hello. > I want to insert a photo next to text. as is seen .  All efforts separate the > text and insert the photo in the middle of it.  I have tried a 2 section > table, local columns, inserting a photo after editing format, making a pdf > with the

Re: Priority Issues: (was: How to cope with duplicate attributes in XML tags )

2021-02-21 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 2/20/2021 7:40 PM, Peter Kovacs wrote: > I would like to answer the priority list first. > > Currently I have following Issues on my mind. The list may not be > complete or others may have other Opinions, which is fine. > > > On 07.02.21 21:51, Arrigo Marchiori wrote: >> If we approve it, I

Re: Contribution to open office development

2021-02-19 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 2/19/2021 12:34 PM, F Campos Costero wrote: > Hi Juan, > I am not a developer but I have often seen the suggestion that new > developers try to build OpenOffice from the source so they can begin to > contribute. The build process could be politely described by "nontrivial" > from what I have

Re: How to cope with duplicate attributes in XML tags

2021-02-07 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 2/7/2021 10:22 AM, Arrigo Marchiori wrote: > Hello all, > > re-replying to Jim's message. > > On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 02:25:16PM -0500, Jim Jagielski wrote: > >> Funny that you bring this up... I'm been tracking down some bugs and they >> all seem to be XML related...

Re: [Discussion] Would we enable volunteers that develop extensions

2021-02-05 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 2/5/2021 3:53 PM, Steve Lubbs wrote: > Just a thought. > > As part of an effort to enable volunteer extension authors would it make > sense to selectively approve extension functionality for inclusion into > AOO on a case by case basis? If it provides a level of new functionality > that is

Re: [VOTE] Release AOO 4.1.9-RC1 as GA

2021-01-19 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 1/18/2021 8:47 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: Release Candidate is good for production/GA: [X] yes / +1 [ ] no / -1 My vote is based on [X] binding (member of PMC) [ ] I have built and tested the RC from source on platform [ ] [X] I have tested the binary RC on platform [Windows 10] > >

Re: [discussion] rename the recruitment list

2021-01-13 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 1/13/2021 1:05 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: > > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Jan 13, 2021, at 9:55 AM, Marcus wrote: >> >> Am 13.01.21 um 09:25 schrieb Peter Kovacs: >>> I wonder if we can rename the recruitment list to something else. My theory >>> is that a lot of people do not understand

Re: AOO 4.1.9 Info RC! verification Report

2021-01-11 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 1/3/2021 7:25 PM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: > . >>>>> That may be the problem, you have to change the bootstrap.ini, otherwise >>>>> you use the wrong AOO profile. >>>>>>> I will do some more tests (next year) with multi install on Window

Re: [proposal} Trying to re-generate the Documentation effort

2021-01-11 Thread Keith N. McKenna
The only question is how we structure it. I am very new to GitHub so that I could use some help on what would be the most appropriate method would be.I had envisioned doing it by software version with a Review and Published branch under each. Regards Keith > >> On Jan 10, 2021, at 2:12 PM, An

Re: [proposal} Trying to re-generate the Documentation effort

2021-01-09 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 1/9/2021 6:20 PM, Carl Marcum wrote: > Hi Keith, > > On 1/9/21 4:40 PM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: >> On 1/9/2021 12:16 PM, Dennis Hamilton wrote: >>> I think it is clear, from a continuing doc@oo.a.o thread, that there >>> is no cheese to be found developing

Re: [proposal} Trying to re-generate the Documentation effort

2021-01-09 Thread Keith N. McKenna
> itself. > > I wonder if a more vibrant and experienced avenue might be found by > consulting the Apache OpenOffice Community Forum, > <https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/>. > > - Dennis > > -----Original Message- > From: Keith N. McKenna &g

Re: AOO 4.1.9 Info

2021-01-05 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 1/5/2021 12:46 PM, Arrigo Marchiori wrote: > Hello All, > > On Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 02:42:47PM +0100, Matthias Seidel wrote: > >> Hi Jim, >> >> Am 05.01.21 um 14:29 schrieb Jim Jagielski: >>> On Jan 5, 2021, at 7:51 AM, Matthias Seidel wrote: Hi Jim, Am

Re: AOO 4.1.9 Info

2021-01-05 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 1/5/2021 7:29 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: > Should we try for a RC1 early next week? > It appears that we are ready and should go ahead and plan for next week. regards Keith >> On Dec 27, 2020, at 8:49 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: >> >> The AOO419 branch has been created. >> The version numbers,

Re: Linux virtual machines for release builds

2021-01-04 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 1/4/2021 11:57 AM, Marcus wrote: > Am 04.01.21 um 16:27 schrieb Arrigo Marchiori: >> On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 04:03:35PM +0100, Arrigo Marchiori wrote: >> >>> first of all, thank you to Mechtilde, Carl, and Jim. >>> >> [...] >>> >>> I am trying to re-organize the page to make the official

Re: AOO 4.1.9 Info

2021-01-03 Thread Keith N. McKenna
. That may be the problem, you have to change the bootstrap.ini, otherwise you use the wrong AOO profile. >> I will do some more tests (next year) with multi install on Windows 10. > Thank you Matthias. I will boot up my old windows 7 machine and try > testing it there as

Re: AOO 4.1.9 Info

2021-01-02 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 1/2/2021 11:07 AM, Matthias Seidel wrote: > Hi Keith, > > Am 31.12.20 um 04:43 schrieb Keith N. McKenna: >> On 12/30/2020 7:17 PM, Matthias Seidel wrote: >>> Hi Keith, >>> >>> Just did a quick test with AOO 4.1.9 on Windows 7. >>> >&g

Re: Policy to deal with old web content - Archiving pages?

2020-12-31 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 12/31/2020 4:38 AM, Jörg Schmidt wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: Keith N. McKenna [mailto:keith.mcke...@comcast.net] >> Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2020 9:42 PM >> To: dev@openoffice.apache.org >> Subject: Re: Policy to deal with old web content -

Re: AOO 4.1.9 Info

2020-12-30 Thread Keith N. McKenna
t installed it with the profile in the same folder. > > I will do some more tests (next year) with multi install on Windows 10. Thank you Matthias. I will boot up my old windows 7 machine and try testing it there as sell Regards Keith > > Regards, > >    Matthias > > Am

Re: AOO 4.1.9 Info

2020-12-30 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 12/28/2020 5:11 AM, Matthias Seidel wrote: > Hi all, > > Am 27.12.20 um 14:49 schrieb Jim Jagielski: >> The AOO419 branch has been created. >> The version numbers, et.al. have been bumped. >> The Release Status page has been cloned: >>

Re: Policy to deal with old web content - Archiving pages?

2020-12-30 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 12/30/2020 10:46 AM, Dave Fisher wrote: > > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Dec 30, 2020, at 2:06 AM, Peter Kovacs wrote: >> >>  >>> On 30.12.20 00:08, Dave Fisher wrote: >>> > On Dec 29, 2020, at 11:50 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Tue., 29 Dec. 2020, 05:55 Jörg Schmidt,

Re: Policy to deal with old web content - Archiving pages?

2020-12-30 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 12/30/2020 7:29 AM, Carl Marcum wrote: > Hi Jörg, > > On 12/30/20 1:42 AM, Jörg Schmidt wrote: >>> -Original Message- >>> From: Carl Marcum [mailto:cmar...@apache.org] >>> Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2020 7:55 PM >>> To: dev@openoffice.apache.org >>> Subject: Re: Policy to deal with

Re: Policy to deal with old web content - Archiving pages?

2020-12-30 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 12/30/2020 2:18 AM, Jörg Schmidt wrote: > > >> -Original Message----- >> From: Keith N. McKenna [mailto:keith.mcke...@comcast.net] >> Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2020 2:29 AM >> To: dev@openoffice.apache.org >> Subject: Re: Policy to deal wi

Re: Test of AOO-dev 4.19

2020-12-30 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 12/30/2020 7:11 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > On Wed, 30 Dec 2020 06:37:18 -0500 > Jim Jagielski wrote: (Off topic: A "Good Thing", in capital letters, is a normally reference to a > comic history of England "1066 and All That", by WC Sellar and RJ Yeatman, > [London 1930], which boiled all

Re: Policy to deal with old web content - Archiving pages?

2020-12-29 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 12/29/2020 6:40 AM, Marcus wrote: > Am 29.12.20 um 09:54 schrieb Jörg Schmidt: >> >>> -Original Message- >>> From: Andrea Pescetti [mailto:pesce...@apache.org] >>> Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2020 1:24 AM >>> To: dev@openoffice.apache.org >>> Subject: Re: Policy to deal with old web

Re: New Committer: Arrigo Marchiori

2020-12-26 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 12/26/2020 4:19 PM, Marcus wrote: > The Apache OpenOffice project is happy to have a new committer on board: > > Arrigo Marchiori > > Please give him a warm welcome. :-) > > Marcus > (on behalf of the Apache OpenOffice PMC) Welcome and congratulations Arrigio. Regards Keith

Re: [CWiki] Account Whitelisting

2020-12-24 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 12/24/2020 12:46 AM, marcia wilbur wrote: > > Hi. > Pls whitelist me. > > username: aicra > Real Name: Marcia Wilbur > > aka - sleepless in Arizona > > Thanks > Account whielisted. Regards Keith signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [CWiki] Account Whitelisting

2020-12-23 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 12/21/2020 5:50 PM, Eric Tian wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to add my name into the “Directory of Volunteers” page. Could you > please whitelist my account? Thank you. > > Name: Tian, Eric > Username: eric0892 > > > Account whitelisted Regards Keith signature.asc Description:

Re: Policy to deal with old web content - Archiving pages? (was: Old build Documentation)

2020-12-20 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On Sun, 20 Dec 2020 11:03:17 -0800, Dave Fisher wrote: > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Dec 20, 2020, at 9:58 AM, Keith N. McKenna >> wrote: >> >> Greetings Peter, comments are inline. >>> On Sun, 20 Dec 2020 00:32:15 +0100, Peter Kovacs wrote: >>&g

Re: Policy to deal with old web content - Archiving pages? (was: Old build Documentation)

2020-12-20 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Greetings Peter, comments are inline. On Sun, 20 Dec 2020 00:32:15 +0100, Peter Kovacs wrote: > I change subject since I venture to more generic topic. > > > On 19.12.20 22:15, Keith N. McKenna wrote: >> The Policy for the mwiki is and has been since the days of >>

Re: Old build Documentation

2020-12-19 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On Sat, 19 Dec 2020 13:11:10 -0500, Carl Marcum wrote: Comments inline > Hi Peter, > > On 12/19/20 12:09 PM, Peter Kovacs wrote: >> >> On 19.12.20 14:38, Carl Marcum wrote: >>> Hi Peter, >>> >>> On 12/19/20 8:13 AM, Arrigo Marchiori wrote: Hello Peter, On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at

Re: Fwd: Broken_Link: "https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/DevGuide/Basic/Accessing_Libraries_from_Basic"-rm201208-

2020-12-11 Thread Keith N. McKenna
> >> It is ready to add our MWiki extensions. >> >> >> On 10.12.20 20:35, Keith N. McKenna wrote: >>> On 12/9/2020 5:38 PM, Marcus wrote: >>>> Am 09.12.20 um 18:35 schrieb Peter Kovacs: >>>>> How about we create a OpenOffice-Mwiki-ext

Re: Fixing not showing pages of DevGuide

2020-12-11 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 12/11/2020 5:50 AM, Dick Groskamp wrote: > > > On 2020/12/10 19:13:38, "Keith N. McKenna" wrote: >> On 12/9/2020 11:42 AM, Dick Groskamp wrote: >>> Started this morning to fix the pages that are not showing in the DevGuide. >>> Due to a broken ext

Re: Fwd: Broken_Link: "https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/DevGuide/Basic/Accessing_Libraries_from_Basic"-rm201208-

2020-12-10 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 12/9/2020 5:38 PM, Marcus wrote: > Am 09.12.20 um 18:35 schrieb Peter Kovacs: >> How about we create a OpenOffice-Mwiki-ext Repo in gitbox? >> >> We could do the same for the forums customizations. >> >> So we have more control over our support code. > > +1 > This increases the chance that

Re: Fixing not showing pages of DevGuide

2020-12-10 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 12/9/2020 11:42 AM, Dick Groskamp wrote: > Started this morning to fix the pages that are not showing in the DevGuide. > Due to a broken extension tags , and prevent pages from > displaying content. > > However, content is there. > Content is editable by tweaking the URL of the not showing

Re: [discussion] future embedded DB in AOO

2020-12-07 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 12/7/2020 1:38 PM, Peter Kovacs wrote: > Hi all, > > I would like to know how you guys feel we should move on with our base > Database. Our current strategy is a small sized embedded DB using HSQLDB > (BSD). There are 2 other options in the same weight class, that is H2 > (EPL1 or MPL2) and

Re: Product Pages - was Re: Flyer for AOO

2020-11-18 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 11/17/2020 7:02 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: > > Keith - I just noticed the French product page is broken and the German > one is not used. Should there be an effort to translate and normalize > those? I took the confusing extra markup off in the CMS migration. I > wonder if

Re: Product Pages - was Re: Flyer for AOO

2020-11-17 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 11/17/2020 1:43 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: > > >> On Nov 17, 2020, at 9:54 AM, Keith N. McKenna >> wrote: >> >> On 11/17/2020 11:54 AM, Dave Fisher wrote: >>> Hi - >>> >>> Thanks Emilie! >>> >>> Please use the updated AO

Re: Flyer for AOO

2020-11-17 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 11/17/2020 11:54 AM, Dave Fisher wrote: > Hi - > > Thanks Emilie! > > Please use the updated AOO logo that shows ® instead of ™ > > Keith - I just noticed the French product page is broken and the German one > is not used. Should there be an effort to translate and normalize those? I >

Re: Flyer for AOO

2020-11-17 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Durand > Emile; I did not realize that you were a native speaker of both. I am very happy to play editor. Regards Keith > From: Keith N. McKenna<mailto:keith.mcke...@comcast.net> > Sent: mardi 17 novembre 2020 17:33 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org<mailto:dev@openoffice.apache

Re: Flyer for AOO

2020-11-17 Thread Keith N. McKenna
good idea. I am quite willing to collaborate on that as English is my native tongue. Regards Keith N, McKenna signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [VOTE] Release AOO 4.1.8-RC2 as GA

2020-11-03 Thread Keith N. McKenna
[X] yes / +1 [ ] no / -1 My vote is based on [X] binding (member of PMC) [ ] I have built and tested the RC from source on platform [ ] [X] I have tested the binary RC on platform [windows 10 Home] Verified .asc and sha 256, and 512 and multiple issues tagged as Milestone

Re: Wiki Publisher

2020-10-27 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 10/26/2020 10:52 AM, Matthias Seidel wrote: > Hi Joost, > > Am 26.10.20 um 13:19 schrieb Joost Andrae: >> Hi Matthias, >> >> I've just tried it out against a different MediaWiki and I can confirm >> it is running well ! > > Thanks, that's great news! > > @Keith: Is this useful for your

Re: AOO418-RC2: General Error on opening files on Ubuntu

2020-10-17 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 10/17/2020 8:23 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: > Let's go ahead and pull those in. I will then bump up to RC3. I'll provide a > quick Linux64 build for people to test w/ some configure changes to better > match Andrea's and if they look OK, I'll do a full suite of Rc3 builds. > > Sound like a

Re: AOO 4.1.8 Release Notes - draft

2020-10-15 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 10/15/2020 7:25 AM, Dick Groskamp wrote: > Fixed the entries mentioned bij Czeslaw > Thanks Dick. I had seen the request but got tied up with the grand kids and forgot to set a reminder to fix it. Regards Keith > On 2020/10/12 14:49:01, Matthias Seidel wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Am 12.10.20 um

Re: Verification Report for AOO 4.1.8 RC2

2020-10-10 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 10/10/2020 7:20 PM, Matthias Seidel wrote: > Hi Keith, > > Am 11.10.20 um 01:06 schrieb Keith N. McKenna: >> On 10/10/2020 6:25 PM, Matthias Seidel wrote: >>> Hi Keith, >>> >>> Am 11.10.20 um 00:06 schrieb Keith N. McKenna: >>>> As I have

Re: Verification Report for AOO 4.1.8 RC2

2020-10-10 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 10/10/2020 6:25 PM, Matthias Seidel wrote: > Hi Keith, > > Am 11.10.20 um 00:06 schrieb Keith N. McKenna: >> As I have seen no mention of a formal cancellation >> of 4.1.8 RC2 My final QA Report can be downloaded from: >> https://1drv.ms/f/s!AsMYmStvrJNJinVnnJWlYCHr

Verification Report for AOO 4.1.8 RC2

2020-10-10 Thread Keith N. McKenna
As I have seen no mention of a formal cancellation of 4.1.8 RC2 My final QA Report can be downloaded from: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AsMYmStvrJNJinVnnJWlYCHrxzmc Regards Keith signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: potential problem with version 4.1.8 RC2

2020-10-09 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 10/9/2020 4:25 PM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: > On 10/9/2020 2:56 PM, Matthias Seidel wrote: >> Hi Keith, >> >> Am 09.10.20 um 20:51 schrieb Keith N. McKenna: >>> When I install 4.1.8 RC2 on windows 10: System Configuration: >>> Processor: Intel Pentium

Re: potential problem with version 4.1.8 RC2

2020-10-09 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 10/9/2020 2:56 PM, Matthias Seidel wrote: > Hi Keith, > > Am 09.10.20 um 20:51 schrieb Keith N. McKenna: >> When I install 4.1.8 RC2 on windows 10: System Configuration: >> Processor: Intel Pentium CPU 4450U @2.10GHz >> Installed Memory: 8.00 GB >> System

Re: potential problem with version 4.1.8 RC2

2020-10-09 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 10/9/2020 2:53 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: > Do you get similar with DOA RC1? Just installed 4.1.8 RC1 and opened with no problem. > >> On Oct 9, 2020, at 11:51 AM, Keith N. McKenna >> wrote: >> >> When I install 4.1.8 RC2 on windows 10: System Configuration: &g

potential problem with version 4.1.8 RC2

2020-10-09 Thread Keith N. McKenna
When I install 4.1.8 RC2 on windows 10: System Configuration: Processor: Intel Pentium CPU 4450U @2.10GHz Installed Memory: 8.00 GB System Type 64-bit Operating System X64-based processor Operating System: Windows 10 Version 1909 (OS Build 18363.1016) I get the following error message:

Results of QA testing on 4.1.8 0c0e82a55d

2020-10-05 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Attached is the QA report for my testing on AOO 4.1.8 0c0e82a55d. Regards Keith Verification of Apache OpenOffice 4.1.8 Rev 0c0e82a55d System Configuration: Processor: Intel Pentium CPU 4450U @2.10GHz Installed Memory: 8.00 GB System Type 64-bit Operating System X64-based processor Operating

Re: Results of 4.1.8 QA Testing on rev. 5e8bc5703f for Windows 10

2020-09-26 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 9/26/2020 2:54 PM, Matthias Seidel wrote: > Hi Keith, > > I just did an administrative install on Windows 10. > > Extract the package, open cmd.exe move to the OpenOffice folder and do > "setup.exe /a" > Unless you are talking about something different? > > Regards, > >    Matthias > Hi

Re: Results of 4.1.8 QA Testing on rev. 5e8bc5703f for Windows 10

2020-09-26 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 9/24/2020 11:43 AM, Matthias Seidel wrote: > Hi Keith, > > Am 24.09.20 um 17:33 schrieb Keith N. McKenna: >> On 8/23/2020 1:35 PM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: >>> The results of my testing can be downloaded from the following link: >>> https://1drv.ms

Re: Results of 4.1.8 QA Testing on rev. 5e8bc5703f for Windows 10

2020-09-24 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 9/24/2020 11:43 AM, Matthias Seidel wrote: > Hi Keith, > > Am 24.09.20 um 17:33 schrieb Keith N. McKenna: >> On 8/23/2020 1:35 PM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: >>> The results of my testing can be downloaded from the following link: >>> https://1drv.ms

Re: Results of 4.1.8 QA Testing on rev. 5e8bc5703f for Windows 10

2020-09-24 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 8/23/2020 1:35 PM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: > The results of my testing can be downloaded from the following link: > https://1drv.ms/t/s!AsMYmStvrJNJixd-w2GbfJt6h9S5 > > Regards > Keith > Attached pleas find the results of my QA testing for version 4.1.8 Revision 2b2dfb98

Re: AOO 4.1.8 release

2020-09-16 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 9/15/2020 7:01 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: > Are we ready for us to start coordinating an AOO418 release in earnest? > > Do we need a RM? If so, I can volunteer... > +1 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Help Wanted Inquiry

2020-09-13 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 9/7/2020 9:34 PM, Philip Parzygnat wrote: > Dear Open Office, > I am a computer scientist with MA in the field. I have limited professional > experience in open source projects. I would like to assist the Open Office > team in some way. I reviewed the Easy section of the help wanted posting.

Re: About 20th anniversary plans

2020-09-07 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 9/7/2020 5:52 AM, Pedro Lino wrote: > Hi Jörg > >> On 09/07/2020 9:24 AM Jörg Schmidt wrote: > >> I had recently suggested replacing the yellow (at 20 years) with a color >> that would be more recognizable. >> >> I mentioned orange as an alternative color, but I can't say if this would be

Re: Results of 4.1.8 QA Testing on rev. 5e8bc5703f for Windows 10

2020-08-23 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Hi Matthias; On 8/23/2020 1:51 PM, Matthias Seidel wrote: > Hi Keith, > > Am 23.08.20 um 19:35 schrieb Keith N. McKenna: >> The results of my testing can be downloaded from the following link: >> https://1drv.ms/t/s!AsMYmStvrJNJixd-w2GbfJt6h9S5 > > Thanks for testi

Results of 4.1.8 QA Testing on rev. 5e8bc5703f for Windows 10

2020-08-23 Thread Keith N. McKenna
The results of my testing can be downloaded from the following link: https://1drv.ms/t/s!AsMYmStvrJNJixd-w2GbfJt6h9S5 Regards Keith signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Tech writer

2020-08-21 Thread Keith N. McKenna
/Documentation/UserGuide. I have also started investigating ways to transform the current process to make it more attractive to volunteers that may not be tech writers, but are familiar with Write to be able to contribute. All the time that you can contribute to this effort is very welcome

Re: Dev-m2 on macOS

2020-08-06 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 7/15/2020 12:01 PM, Matthias Seidel wrote: > Hi Keith, > > Am 15.07.20 um 17:24 schrieb Keith N. McKenna: >> On 7/8/2020 3:15 PM, Peter wrote: >>> Maybe we have a general issue with extensions on 4.2.0? I mean other >>> extensions crash AOO. And if hunsp

Re: Reporting broken links

2020-07-27 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 7/27/2020 1:50 PM, Charlie Smith wrote: > After download and repairing openoffice for windows 10, I was unable to: > check for updates failed > after setting java, help find failed. > > Thank you for *all *your excellent work! > Most respectfully, > Charlie Smith > San Francisco north bay >

Re: Dev-m2 on macOS

2020-07-15 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 7/8/2020 3:15 PM, Peter wrote: > > Am 08.07.20 um 20:50 schrieb Larry Gusaas: >> On 2020-07-06 3:03 a.m., Rory O'Farrell wrote: >>> On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 02:41:00 -0600 >>> Larry Gusaas wrote: >>> On 2020-07-06 12:15 a.m., Rory O'Farrell wrote: > On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 17:33:54 -0600 >

Re: 4.2.0 on the 20th Anniversary? (was Re: Website Migrations)

2020-07-12 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Hi Pedro, Matthias, and all; Please see comments in line On 7/12/2020 6:08 PM, Matthias Seidel wrote: > Hi Pedro, > > Am 13.07.20 um 00:04 schrieb Pedro Lino: >> Hi Matthias, all >> >>> What we must not forget is that on October 13th we have the 20 >>> anniversary of OpenOffice.org. >>> >>> One

Re: Trying to re-generate the Documentation effort

2020-07-11 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Greetings Detlaf; See comments in-line On 7/10/2020 7:00 AM, Detlef Nannen wrote: > Hi, > > so far I only have experience with documentation written in AOO itself. > I've been experimenting with Markdown and Pandoc from time to time, and > wasn't always happy with the results and the

Re: should we conduct a 20 year anniversary online conference / meetup?

2020-07-05 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 7/5/2020 7:39 AM, Carl Marcum wrote: > Hi Matthias, > > On 7/4/20 5:52 PM, Matthias Seidel wrote: >> Hi Carl, >> >> Am 04.07.20 um 18:16 schrieb Carl Marcum: >>> Hi Matthias, >>> >>> On 7/4/20 11:32 AM, Matthias Seidel wrote: Hi all, Bumping up this one again...

Re: Trying to re-generate the Documentation effort

2020-07-04 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Hi Carl see comments in-line On 7/4/2020 5:32 PM, Carl Marcum wrote: > Hi Keith, > > On 7/2/20 11:18 AM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: >> On 5/30/2020 8:41 PM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: >>> I should probably have my head examined but I am thinking of one more >>> time t

Re: New Committer: Detlef Nannen

2020-07-02 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 6/30/2020 6:10 PM, Marcus wrote: > The Apache OpenOffice project is happy to have a new committer on board: > > Detlef Nannen > > Please give him a warm welcome. > > Marcus > (on behalf of the Apache OpenOffice PMC) Welcome to the ranks of the committers Detlef. Regards Keith

Re: Trying to re-generate the Documentation effort

2020-07-02 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 5/30/2020 8:41 PM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: > I should probably have my head examined but I am thinking of one more > time trying to revive the documentation effort for AOO. One of the > drawbacks is that most people that have started to help have left as > there has been

Re: New Committer: Czesław Wolański

2020-07-02 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 6/30/2020 6:10 PM, Marcus wrote: > The Apache OpenOffice project is happy to have a new committer on board: > > Czesław Wolański > > Please give him a warm welcome. > > Marcus > (on behalf of the Apache OpenOffice PMC) Greetings Czeslaw and welcome to the ranks of committers for OpenOffice.

Re: New Committer: Pedro Lino

2020-06-19 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 6/17/2020 6:44 PM, Marcus wrote: > The Apache OpenOffice project is happy to have a new committer on board: > > Pedro Lino > > Please give him a warm welcome. > > Marcus > (on behalf of the Apache OpenOffice PMC) Welcome Pedro; Nice to see you have joined the committer ranks and thank you

Re: Trying to re-generate the Documentation effort

2020-06-14 Thread Keith N. McKenna
See inline On 6/14/2020 4:41 AM, Peter wrote: > I want to remind you on the talk I posted earlier, which refers to a > toolchain on docbook, and which talks on Issues and chances there are > (the editor has been mentioned as use what you want.) > > I also would like to suggest to check if an

Re: Trying to re-generate the Documentation effort

2020-06-13 Thread Keith N. McKenna
t;>> "Apace" should be "Apache" >>> >>> "Anaysis" should be "Analysis" (in file properties) >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>>Matthias >> >> Thanks Matthias; >> >> Thought I had got all

Re: Trying to re-generate the Documentation effort

2020-06-13 Thread Keith N. McKenna
>    Matthias Thanks Matthias; Thought I had got all those in the source. Keith > Am 13.06.20 um 01:42 schrieb Keith N. McKenna: >> On 6/3/2020 9:11 AM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: >>> On 5/30/2020 8:41 PM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: >>>> I should probably have my

Re: Trying to re-generate the Documentation effort

2020-06-12 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 6/3/2020 9:11 AM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: > On 5/30/2020 8:41 PM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: >> I should probably have my head examined but I am thinking of one more >> time trying to revive the documentation effort for AOO. One of the >> drawbacks is that most people that

Re: Trying to re-generate the Documentation effort

2020-06-11 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 6/11/2020 2:48 PM, F Campos Costero wrote: > Keith, > I understand you may be busy with other things. Did you get the documents I > sent? I would be interested to hear your thoughts on how to proceed. > Francis > Francis; Sorry for not replying sooner. I did get them. The second one that you

Re: Trying to re-generate the Documentation effort

2020-06-08 Thread Keith N. McKenna
ur help. Keith > On Mon, Jun 8, 2020 at 11:55 AM Keith N. McKenna > wrote: > >> Francis; >> If you have some time try the XML file from this location >> https://1drv.ms/f/s!AsMYmStvrJNJinVnnJWlYCHrxzmc just right click on the >> XML file and chose download on the fly ou

Re: Trying to re-generate the Documentation effort

2020-06-08 Thread Keith N. McKenna
understand what >> that is, it will not be a big deal. Getting to that understanding may be >> painful if no one knows DocBook any better than me. >> >> How is your knowledge of XSL? I can look at the code and guess what some >> of it does but I cannot write anything

Re: Trying to re-generate the Documentation effort

2020-06-08 Thread Keith N. McKenna
o create multiple different formats. Regards Keith > > On Wed, Jun 3, 2020 at 7:11 AM Keith N. McKenna > wrote: > >> On 5/30/2020 8:41 PM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: >>> I should probably have my head examined but I am thinking of one more >>> time trying to re

Re: should we conduct a 20 year anniversary online conference / meetup?

2020-06-06 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Czesław and Mathias, Comments in-line On 6/6/2020 6:29 AM, Czesław Wolański wrote: > Hi, > >> I would like to have the release of AOO 4.1.8 around that time. What >> about a customized "About" graphic like this? [1] > > 1. > Sound choice of colour. Have checked this customized "About" graphic of

Re: Trying to re-generate the Documentation effort

2020-06-03 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 5/30/2020 8:41 PM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: > I should probably have my head examined but I am thinking of one more > time trying to revive the documentation effort for AOO. One of the > drawbacks is that most people that have started to help have left as > there has been

Re: Trying to re-generate the Documentation effort

2020-06-03 Thread Keith N. McKenna
;> list and that might be the place for further discussions about how to get >> the documentation work active again. >> Francis >> >> On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 10:40 AM Keith N. McKenna >> >> wrote: >> >>> On 6/1/2020 10:51 PM, F Campos Cost

Re: Trying to re-generate the Documentation effort

2020-06-02 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 6/1/2020 10:51 PM, F Campos Costero wrote: > Peter - I regret that my suggestion came across as wanting to "boss people > around". I was responding really to this comment earlier in the thread >> Because all people who expressed interest expected they are told what >> needs to be done where.

Re: Trying to re-generate the Documentation effort

2020-06-02 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 6/1/2020 6:23 PM, F Campos Costero wrote: > I am not sure that this part of the process has to remain as it is. >> Unfortunately that is not going to change a whole lot. Just as the >> development effort is self directed so is the Documentation effort and >> all volunteers are advised of that.

Re: Trying to re-generate the Documentation effort

2020-06-01 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 5/31/2020 10:41 PM, Peter Kovacs wrote: > > Am 31.05.20 um 02:41 schrieb Keith N. McKenna: > >> Another would be to use Docbook, though this is not as appealing as I >> have no familiarity with it and it appears that there is a steep >> learning curv

Re: Trying to re-generate the Documentation effort

2020-06-01 Thread Keith N. McKenna
adding them to the Website but as we already have much of the documentation on the wiki this would need to be discussed further. Regards Keith > >> On May 30, 2020, at 5:42 PM, Keith N. McKenna >> wrote: >> >> I should probably have my head examined but I am thinkin

Re: Trying to re-generate the Documentation effort

2020-05-31 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 5/31/2020 7:38 AM, Carl Marcum wrote: > Hi Keith, > > On 5/30/20 8:41 PM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: >> I should probably have my head examined but I am thinking of one more >> time trying to revive the documentation effort for AOO. One of the >> drawbacks is that mo

Trying to re-generate the Documentation effort

2020-05-30 Thread Keith N. McKenna
I should probably have my head examined but I am thinking of one more time trying to revive the documentation effort for AOO. One of the drawbacks is that most people that have started to help have left as there has been very limited availability of mentoring. I do not see this changing but I am

Re: AOO Product page - ambiguous wording?

2020-05-27 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Pedro; Comments in-line On 5/26/2020 5:18 PM, Pedro Lino wrote: > >> Plus your your phrasing >> leaves it wide open for people to complain about PDF files same as they >> already do. > > PDF is not an editable format and it is not from any of the "major > competitor" suites. In any case you

Re: AOO Product page - ambiguous wording?

2020-05-26 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 5/26/2020 2:36 PM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > On Tue, 26 May 2020 19:30:04 +0100 (WEST) > Pedro Lino wrote: > >> Hi Rory >> >> I believe it would have more impact (and still be correct) if you replaced it with "the software reads all current file types of major competitors."

Re: Karma management (Was Re: Wiki Account)

2020-05-21 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 5/16/2020 1:47 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: > I would like the following as a general system, with exceptions for > particular resources if there is a good reason: > > The PMC chair is always an admin. Making the PMC chair an admin should > be part of the hand over process when we change

Re: [PROPOSAL] fix broken dev guide pages

2020-05-18 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 5/18/2020 6:31 AM, Carl Marcum wrote: > > > On 5/17/20 4:41 PM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: >> On 5/17/2020 10:27 AM, Carl Marcum wrote: >>> >>> On 5/17/20 9:59 AM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: >>>> On 5/17/2020 8:15 AM, Carl Marcum wrote: >>>>

Re: macOS and AOO42X

2020-05-17 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 5/17/2020 5:56 AM, Marcus wrote: > Am 12.05.20 um 03:47 schrieb Keith N. McKenna: >> As promised here is a draft for a high level blog post. It is rough so >> please feel free to edit to your hearts content or to make any >> suggestions. >> >> Would you

Re: [PROPOSAL] fix broken dev guide pages

2020-05-17 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 5/17/2020 10:27 AM, Carl Marcum wrote: > > > On 5/17/20 9:59 AM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: >> On 5/17/2020 8:15 AM, Carl Marcum wrote: >>> >>> On 5/17/20 6:18 AM, Marcus wrote: >>>> Am 13.05.20 um 16:07 schrieb Carl Marcum: >>>>> Hi A

Re: [PROPOSAL] fix broken dev guide pages

2020-05-17 Thread Keith N. McKenna
On 5/17/2020 8:15 AM, Carl Marcum wrote: > > > On 5/17/20 6:18 AM, Marcus wrote: >> Am 13.05.20 um 16:07 schrieb Carl Marcum: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> There are quite a few pages in the developer guide that display as >>> blank. >>> I believe this problem goes back to an upgrade that was done to the

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