Re: Broken Bugzilla link in Release Notes

2014-05-01 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Our 4.1 release notes > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.1+Release+Notes > > contain a link to Bugzilla for a list of fixed bugs > > https://issues.apache.org/ooo/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=dorem&remaction=run&namedcmd=AOO_410_Resolved > > > but th

Re: Misleading Mac message

2014-04-30 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: > Hi Keith, > > On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 02:14:00PM -0400, Keith N. McKenna wrote: >>> Another broken thing in MacOSX are C++ extensions, I have seen any >>> mention of this in the release notes. >>> >>> >> Ariel; >

Re: Misleading Mac message

2014-04-30 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Keith N. McKenna wrote: >> will also start another thread here as to whether we should add it to >> the 4.1 notes. > > No need to discuss it. The Mac OS X C++ extensions compatibility is > clearly something that must be added to the 4.1 Releas

Re: Misleading Mac message

2014-04-30 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: > Hi Keith, > > On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 02:14:00PM -0400, Keith N. McKenna wrote: >>> Another broken thing in MacOSX are C++ extensions, I have seen any >>> mention of this in the release notes. >>> >>> >> Ariel; >

Re: Misleading Mac message

2014-04-30 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: > On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 01:48:38PM +0200, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: >> On 4/30/14 1:42 PM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: >>> A User on en-Forum has posted this: >>> >>> After receiving notification of the availability of Open Office 4.1.0 > > Where did he get the no

Re: [PROPOSAL][RELEASE]: remove 4.1.0 beta from Sourceforge and from Aapche dist

2014-04-30 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > Hi, > > removing 4.1 Beta from dist is natural but I would like to propose that > we drop remove the 4.1 beta from the SF server as well. > > Any opinions?he usefulness of the beta has exop > > Juergen > +1 The usefulness of the Beta has expired so there is no reason to

Re: need wiki help

2014-04-29 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Marcus (OOo) wrote: > Am 04/29/2014 12:18 PM, schrieb Andrea Pescetti: >> On 29/04/2014 Jürgen Schmidt wrote: our release notes are under https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.1+Release+Notes but the download page generates a link based on the complete

Re: [RELEASE]: final preparation ....

2014-04-28 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Rob Weir wrote: > On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 6:54 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Rob Weir wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Jürgen Schmidt >>> wrote: Hi, assuming the vote for AOO 4.1 will pass successful today we should be prepared to ha

Re: [RELEASE]: final preparation ....

2014-04-28 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Kay Schenk wrote: > On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > >> >> On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Rob Weir wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Jürgen Schmidt >>> wrote: Hi, assuming the vote for AOO 4.1 will pass successful today we should be prepar

Re: My Introduction

2014-04-28 Thread Keith N. McKenna
sh as a first language, and some of us, mostly myself, are native speakers, but are not always expert grammarians. I look forward to working with you. Regards Keith N. McKenna signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Quote requested-Open Office 3

2014-04-28 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Andrea Pescetti wrote: > On 14/04/2014 Rob Weir wrote: >>> https://www.openoffice.org/faq.html >> There is also these FAQ's on the wiki: >> https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/FAQ >> Why do we have two places for FAQs? I'm sure there was a good reason >> once... > > Back at the time o

Re: [VOTE]: Release Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 (RC4)

2014-04-28 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > >[X] +1 Release this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 >[ ] 0 Don't care >[ ] -1 Do not release this package because... > Only problem I have found is with send as e-mail though this appears only to effect Windows XP. Still not anywhere near a reason not to

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

2014-03-30 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Charlotte Tuengen wrote: > Hello > > I live in Norway and speak Norwegian. The OpenOffice Apache 4.0.1 > isn’t released in Norwegian yet, so I’m trying to download it in > English. That is not possible at all. It just says that “Apache > OpenOffice 4.0.1 for Windows (EXE) and Norwegian (bokmal) is

Re: stupid program

2014-03-21 Thread Keith N. McKenna
.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0.1+Release+Notes#AOO4.0.1ReleaseNotes-KnownIssues. Apache OpenOffice is not a company it is open source software that is developed by volunteers under the auspices of the Apache Software Foundation a charitable foundation dedicated to creatin

[Release Notes] Is Java 7 still a known issue with 4.1.0

2014-03-19 Thread Keith N. McKenna
The Release Notes for 4.1.0 still list a potential problem with Java 7 being reported as defective and a recommendation to install Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable or fall back to Java 6 if that dos not solve the problem. Is this still a problem or can that section be removed from the Rel

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice Wiki

2014-02-16 Thread Keith N. McKenna
shiko wrote: > Hello, my name is Shiko Mstoyan > > I want to write some extensions but i can't get to wiki i always got > "Service temporarily unavailable" error. > > Hope for reply) Hi Shiko; One of the Apache servers has been experiencing technical difficulties a good part of the day. Our infr

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

2014-02-04 Thread Keith N. McKenna
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roberto Bernardin wrote: > I USED THE 4.0.0 version for several months and it was a good > experience. Some days ago appears a dialog window I cannot close > it, and I cannot save anymore the hold files with a new name, I > cannot print in PDF FORMAT

Re: OOXML support in AOO

2014-01-28 Thread Keith N. McKenna
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote: > Hi, > > the OSBA OOXML improvement use case 4 - comments/annotations on text > ranges - had been addressed for AOO 4.1. > For further details have a look at the draft of the release notes for > next planned release. >

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

2014-01-06 Thread Keith N. McKenna
ete the file "org.openoffice.script.savedState". It is in the "Saved Application State" folder in your User/Library. See this post on the user forum for detailed instructions: https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=55755#p244931 Regards Keith N. McKenna -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: Performance measurements on Mac vs others

2013-12-31 Thread Keith N. McKenna
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexandro Colorado wrote: > On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 12:04 PM, Raphael Bircher > wrote: > >> Am 31.12.13 18:48, schrieb Alexandro Colorado: >> >> Hi I am in a disucussion with a friend about how slow is >> OpenOffice for >>> Mac since it relies on X1

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

2013-12-30 Thread Keith N. McKenna
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Southwest Media wrote: > I cannot find an acceptable contact for my problem with open > office and I HATE forums they are for lazy companies who do not > want to service customers.. > > I have a question who at this organization can I e mail my > ques

Re: Newbie documentation volunteer introduction

2013-12-17 Thread Keith N. McKenna
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 swh...@frontier.com wrote: > My name is Steven Hupp. I would like to help out with > documentation. My aim is to get more experience with technical > writing. I have subscribed to the dev, doc, user and announce > mailing lists. I am making my way thro

Re: draft blog post: Call for Comments: Apache OpenOffice Distributor Best Practices

2013-12-04 Thread Keith N. McKenna
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rob Weir wrote: > https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=call_for_comments_apache_openoffice > > This idea has been in my queue for a while. I'd like to push it > out now for public comment, and based on that try to get a new > distributo

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: Building comphelper

2013-12-02 Thread Keith N. McKenna
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steele, Raymond wrote: > Herbert, > > Let me know if you did not get the attachment. > > -Original Message- From: Steele, Raymond Sent: Monday, > December 02, 2013 3:29 PM To: 'Herbert Duerr'; > dev@openoffice.apache.org Cc: Meffe, David K Su

Re: Updated migration guide?

2013-11-12 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Rob Weir wrote: > On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 6:58 PM, Keith N. McKenna > wrote: > Graham Lauder wrote: >>>> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 8:24 AM, Rob Weir >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Keith N. McKenna >>>

Re: Updated migration guide?

2013-11-12 Thread Keith N. McKenna
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Graham Lauder wrote: > On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 8:24 AM, Rob Weir > wrote: > >> On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Keith N. McKenna >> wrote: > Rob Weir wrote: >>>>> I'm thinking of starting to create an u

Re: Updated migration guide?

2013-11-11 Thread Keith N. McKenna
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rob Weir wrote: > I'm thinking of starting to create an updated migration guide for > AOO. If you have any thoughts on this, or want to help, let me > know. > > Target audience includes: > > 1) Individual Microsoft Office users, where such users prov

Re: Time to think about a "Language Update" release?

2013-11-03 Thread Keith N. McKenna
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Comparing http://www.openoffice.org/download/other.html and > https://translate.apache.org/projects/aoo40/ I see that we have: - > Two unreleased languages that are now 100% translated (Bulgarian > and Danish) - One language wi

Re: Apache

2013-10-29 Thread Keith N. McKenna
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Humpherys wrote: > Hi, > > My name is Mike and I'm interested in getting involved with the > Apache Foundation projects. I'm currently leaving in eastern Iowa. > I've got some experience in C++ and I'm interested in doing some > work in progra

Re: [PROPOSAL] End-of-Life for OpenOffice.org 3.3.0

2013-10-29 Thread Keith N. McKenna
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rob Weir wrote: > On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Rob Weir > wrote: >> I'd like to move forward now with this proposal from July. >> >> I've updated the EOL page here to say that OOo 3.3.0 and earlier >> are no longer supported. That page also exp

Re: Skills, Resources and Mentors

2013-10-01 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Raphael Bircher wrote: Am 02.10.13 00:14, schrieb Kay Schenk: On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Ricardo Berlasso wrote: 2013/10/1 Oliver-Rainer Wittmann Hi, On 01.10.2013 17:57, Keith N. McKenna wrote: Herbert Duerr wrote: On 01.10.2013 14:03, Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at

Re: Skills, Resources and Mentors

2013-10-01 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Herbert Duerr wrote: On 01.10.2013 14:03, Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 7:24 AM, Herbert Duerr wrote: On 01.10.2013 07:14, Rainer Bielefeld wrote: Tal Daniel schrieb: But I couldn't edit the wiki page (I'm logged in to as Talchu). Hi, I can confirm that problem. I am not famil

Re: draft 4.0.1 announcement blog post

2013-09-29 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Marcus (OOo) wrote: Am 09/26/2013 10:12 PM, schrieb Marcus (OOo): Am 09/26/2013 05:02 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=announcing_apache_openoffice_4_0 Short and direct. Is there anything else worth mentioning, from a project perspective? I tried to a

Re: [RELEASE] finishing release notes

2013-09-25 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Rob Weir wrote: On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote: Hi, our vote for releasing AOO401rc3 as AOO 4.0.1 went well and we are about to release this version. Hereby I request everybody to have a look at the current draft release notes for AOO 4.0.1 [1] in order to comp

Re: [RELEASE]: preparation for AOO 4.0.1

2013-08-13 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Kay Schenk wrote: On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 6:26 AM, janI wrote: On 13 August 2013 15:14, Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 5:24 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: Hi, first if all I volunteer to act as the release manager for AOO 4.0.1 if that is wanted but I am also open to let somebody els

Re: User Guide area on CWiki

2013-08-03 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Kay Schenk wrote: Is there any problem with moving the CWiki User Guide area -- https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/User+Guides to the Archive area? https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Archive This User Guide area is not current and may confuse interested docu

Re: Starting Introduction to Contributing to Apache OpenOffice Module

2013-07-24 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Scott Robert wrote: I am Robert Scott I was an IT Project manager for the US Department of Justice and now retired. I enjoy writing technical documentation and would like to volunteer for this task. Hello Robert and welcome to the Apache OpenOffice community. We are currently preparing the Us

Re: [DISCUSS] added security to avoid changes in artifacts.

2013-07-24 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Rob Weir wrote: On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 12:03 PM, janI wrote: Hi. I have followed the discussions in here, and have seen a number of not wanted changed in our important artifacts happen. I think it is important, that items like our logos, release notes etc. cannot be changed by accident. I be

Re: [VOTE]: Release OpenOffice 4.0 (RC2)

2013-07-18 Thread Keith N. McKenna
janI wrote: +1 rgds jan I On 17 July 2013 09:40, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: Hi all, this is a call for vote on releasing the following release candidate (RC2 revision 1503704) as Apache OpenOffice 4.0. This will be an important release for Apache OpenOffice with bigger visible UI changes. It is

Re: Cwiki: use pictures attached on a different page

2013-07-18 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Keith N. McKenna wrote: Ricardo Berlasso wrote: I started a translation for the release notes as a child page of the release notes itself https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=33295326 But pictures attached to the main release notes page are not displayed on the

Re: Cwiki: use pictures attached on a different page

2013-07-18 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Ricardo Berlasso wrote: I started a translation for the release notes as a child page of the release notes itself https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=33295326 But pictures attached to the main release notes page are not displayed on the child page. Is there any easy

Re: [Discuss}{Release Notes 4.0.0]

2013-07-15 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Rob Weir wrote: On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: Given the negative press we have received in some quarters about having dropped language translations, would it make sense to add a notice in the Release Notes for 4.0.0 about languages that were available for 3.4.x but

[Discuss}{Release Notes 4.0.0]

2013-07-15 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Given the negative press we have received in some quarters about having dropped language translations, would it make sense to add a notice in the Release Notes for 4.0.0 about languages that were available for 3.4.x but not available for 4.0.0. My personal feeling is that it would be good sinc

Re: Where to keep release notes?

2013-07-14 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Kay Schenk wrote: On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Rob Weir wrote: On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 7:54 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 4:45 PM, Rob Weir wrote: On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Rob Weir wrote: On Jul 12, 20

Re: Question about message on wiki "archived" pages...???

2013-07-11 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Kay Schenk wrote: On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 12:52 PM, janI wrote: On 11 July 2013 21:47, janI wrote: On 11 July 2013 18:47, Kay Schenk wrote: I have a question about the archived message on this page: http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Porting_to_x86-64_%28AMD64,_EM64T%29 *"This page is

Re: Proposal for sidebar help

2013-05-20 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Regina Henschel wrote: Hi all, I'm going to write a new help page for the bundled help for the new sidebar window. From a technical point of view it works already. But I'm no native English speaker and therefore my English sounds strange sometimes. So I need your help. I have copied the page in

Re: draft blog post

2013-05-15 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Rob Weir wrote: https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=apache_openoffice_one_year_50 I'd like to get this out today. -Rob Rob; Along with the things mentioned by Don: This information is gleamed from the IP address. -> This information is gleaned from the IP address. Otherwi

Re: [mwiki]Pictures are not displaying

2013-04-29 Thread Keith N. McKenna
RGB ES wrote: If you pick any page on the wiki, pictures are not displayed, not even those from the templates: an error message is displayed instead. See for example here: http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/UserGuide http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/UserGuide/UI but it'

Re: Sidebar merged into trunk

2013-04-10 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Jürgen Schmidt wrote: On 4/10/13 3:45 PM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: janI wrote: On 10 April 2013 11:48, Andre Fischer wrote: A small question is someone looking at documenting this new feature, including online doc ? rgds jan I. Best regards, Andre

Re: Sidebar merged into trunk

2013-04-10 Thread Keith N. McKenna
janI wrote: On 10 April 2013 11:48, Andre Fischer wrote: Hi community, the first phase of the sidebar development is complete. The sidebar is now feature complete, ie all panels that are planned for the 4.0 release are now available. More importantly: we have just merged the sidebar branch

Re: questions about Base---do we need an embedded DB?

2013-03-27 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Kay Schenk wrote: On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Donald Whytock wrote: Just tossing this out...It seems Apache Derby is the one SQL-based DBMS in the Foundation. It's actively maintained, and, while it's written in Java, it still works in a client/server model and is therefore probably lau

Re: Starting Introduction to Contributing to Apache OpenOffice Module

2013-03-20 Thread Keith N. McKenna
lts of the documentation. Regards Keith N. McKenna - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org

Re: A question about existing practices

2013-03-20 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Hagar Delest wrote: if the votes are reset, I'll take it as a huge setback for the users decisions Resetting votes does not make sense. There is a limit on how many bugs a user can vote for and votes can be reallocated

Re: Fact checks for FQ consolidation

2013-03-08 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Rob Weir wrote: On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 3:28 PM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: I have 2 questions around Bugzilla for the rewrite of the FAQ's. 1: Are we currently using a vanilla instance of Mozilla's Bugzilla, or are we still using the IssueTracker from Collabnet? We are using Bug

Fact checks for FQ consolidation

2013-03-08 Thread Keith N. McKenna
I have 2 questions around Bugzilla for the rewrite of the FAQ's. 1: Are we currently using a vanilla instance of Mozilla's Bugzilla, or are we still using the IssueTracker from Collabnet? 2: What is the current limit on attachment size for Our instance of Bugzilla? Thanks in Advance Keith

Re: [Problem with Mwiki] Link to list catagories not working

2013-03-07 Thread Keith N. McKenna
janI wrote: On 6 March 2013 22:38, Keith N. McKenna wrote: At the bottom of all Create and Edit pages in mwii there is a note to categorize all pages with a link that calls a special page that lists the category tree. It is preset to look at: Category:Manindex Mode: Categories only

[Problem with Mwiki] Link to list catagories not working

2013-03-06 Thread Keith N. McKenna
At the bottom of all Create and Edit pages in mwii there is a note to categorize all pages with a link that calls a special page that lists the category tree. It is preset to look at: Category:Manindex Mode: Categories only Namespace: all When called instead of returning the category tree i

[Discuss] Should this old FAQ around distribution of a JRE with AOO b migrated?

2013-03-05 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Greetings all; I find myself in need of the collected wisdom of the community on whether to prune one of the FAQ's from the web site or to take the axe to it completely. The FAQ in question is located here; http://www.openoffice.org/FAQs/faq-overview.html#11, and has to do with the distribu

Re: Update to merge of FAQ's from web site to mwiki

2013-03-04 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Keith N. McKenna wrote: Keith N. McKenna wrote: Based on extended discussions on this list at: http://markmail.org/search/+list:org.apache.incubator.ooo-dev#query:%20list%3Aorg.apache.incubator.ooo-dev+page:1+mid:pkyogj4m45anxuxg+state:results. I propose to start merging and updating the User

Re: CMS diff: Community FAQs

2013-02-05 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Rob Weir wrote: Thanks for the patch, Keith. I've checked it in and published it to the website. -Rob My pleasure sir. Thanks for the quick action on it Regards Keith On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 5:37 PM, Keith McKenna wrote: Clone URL (Committers only): https://cms.apache.org/redirect?new=ano

Re: Hi

2013-01-24 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Keith N. McKenna wrote: Doug Lee wrote: Please disregard. My dyslexic fingers hit send before it was ready. Also have cc'd Doug on the actual reply. Regards Keith

Re: Hi

2013-01-24 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Doug Lee wrote: Hi guys, My name's Doug.I'm a first year computing student from Australia interested in getting involved in the Open Office project. I've learnt how to program in C and SQL and a bit of Java and was hoping to use these skills or pick up new ones to contribute to the project.I lov

Re: Hi

2013-01-24 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Doug Lee wrote: Hi guys, My name's Doug.I'm a first year computing student from Australia interested in getting involved in the Open Office project. I've learnt how to program in C and SQL and a bit of Java and was hoping to use these skills or pick up new ones to contribute to the project.I l

Re: [VOTE]: Release Apache OpenOffice 3.4.1 respin to support 8 new languages

2013-01-23 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Jürgen Schmidt wrote: Hi all, this is a call for vote on releasing a minor respin of Apache OpenOffice 3.4.1 to support 8 new languages (Danish, Swedish, Norwegian Bokmal, Polish, Korean, Basque, Asturian, Scottish Gaelic). The Hungarian version is repackaged and a Hungarian dictionary is now in

Re: Interested in writing documentation

2013-01-22 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Rakesh Thakoordyal wrote: Hello, I'd like to join the Apache organization writing documentation for the Open Office suite, or other Apache products. In my day job I write developer's documentation, use cases, step-wise instructions, respond to questions from users, and maintain an internal wi

Re: [RELEASE]: AOO 3.4.1 respin

2013-01-09 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Jürgen Schmidt wrote: On 1/8/13 6:02 PM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: On 1/7/13 1:35 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Rob Weir wrote: On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 5:32 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: I plan now with the following 8 languages for our upcoming AOO 3.4 1 respin: Danish (da), Swedish (sv), Norwegian Bokm

Re: Calc user guide Chapter 6 - German translation READY NOW

2013-01-01 Thread Keith N. McKenna
TJ Frazier wrote: On 1/1/2013 10:11, Raphael Bircher wrote: Hi It would be interesting to write this also to the German Mailing List users...@openoffice.apache.org Nice to see more german Native language speachers. Greetings Raphael Am 01.01.2013 13:54, schrieb 口 海: Hi Andrea and OOo-Team,

Re: New documentation list active

2012-12-23 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Andrea Pescetti wrote: Keith N. McKenna wrote: Is there any objection to my submitting a subscribe request to Gmane or this list? Please go on. As you see at http://openoffice.apache.org/mailing-lists.html some of our lists are carried by Gmane and some are not (or not yet), but this just

Re: Update to merge of FAQ's from web site to mwiki

2012-12-23 Thread Keith N. McKenna
janI wrote: On 23 December 2012 19:31, Keith N. McKenna wrote: Keith N. McKenna wrote: Based on extended discussions on this list at: http://markmail.org/search/+**list:org.apache.incubator.ooo-** dev#query:%20list%3Aorg.**apache.incubator.ooo-dev+page:** 1+mid:pkyogj4m45anxuxg+state

Re: Update to merge of FAQ's from web site to mwiki

2012-12-23 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Alexandro Colorado wrote: On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Keith N. McKenna < keith.mcke...@comcast.net> wrote: Keith N. McKenna wrote: Based on extended discussions on this list at: http://markmail.org/search/+**list:org.apache.incubator.ooo-** dev#query:%20list

Update to merge of FAQ's from web site to mwiki

2012-12-23 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Keith N. McKenna wrote: Based on extended discussions on this list at: http://markmail.org/search/+list:org.apache.incubator.ooo-dev#query:%20list%3Aorg.apache.incubator.ooo-dev+page:1+mid:pkyogj4m45anxuxg+state:results. I propose to start merging and updating the User FAQ's from the we

Re: New documentation list active

2012-12-23 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Andrea Pescetti wrote: The documentation mailing list is now active. It took a while this time, but Infra was experimenting with the new tools, it should get better in future. The mailing list address is d...@openoffice.apache.org To subscribe, as usual, send a message to doc-subscr...@openoffi

Re: [Documentation] What gives the most bang for the buck?

2012-12-19 Thread Keith N. McKenna
other hand, some just want to write, and not worry about a more complicated document preparation workflow. Regards, -Rob On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Keith N. McKenna < keith.mcke...@comcast.net> wrote: Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: D

Re: [Documentation] What gives the most bang for the buck?

2012-12-18 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: Donald Whytock wrote: Hotkey reference pages? My personal preference for documentation is usually immediate-answer stuff like reference pages and very specific how-tos, as opposed to general guides and introductions

Re: [Documentation] What gives the most bang for the buck?

2012-12-18 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Rob Weir wrote: As we wait, patiently, for the new doc list to be created, it might be worth having a quick discussion about priorities. I know there has been talk about "getting started" guides, perhaps done on the wiki. Another idea I had was a very targeted version of that, thinking specific

Re: [Documentation] What gives the most bang for the buck?

2012-12-18 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Donald Whytock wrote: Hotkey reference pages? My personal preference for documentation is usually immediate-answer stuff like reference pages and very specific how-tos, as opposed to general guides and introductions. Perhaps that's just me coming from a programming perspective. Don Don; Im

Re: Starting Introduction to Contributing to Apache OpenOffice Module (Documentation)

2012-12-12 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: On 12/10/2012 09:17 PM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: Travis Tyler wrote: Hi, My name is Travis Tyler and I'm hoping to volunteer. I'm a student from Austin, at the University of Texas. I love to write and solve problems and I'm looking for a way to e

Re: Starting Introduction to Contributing to Apache OpenOffice Module

2012-12-10 Thread Keith N. McKenna
ume list. We are at the moment taking a fresh look at how we do documentation and your skills at writing and problem solving would definitely be of help. Welcome to Apache OpenOffice and I look forward to seeing more of your posts and working with you. Regards Keith N. McKenna

Re: Draft Board report for December

2012-12-10 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Andrea Pescetti wrote: I started drafting the Board report for December, due on December 12. You can find the current draft at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/2012+Dec Please complete/improve it directly on the wiki page, or send comments here. The report should cover, more

Re: [Proposal] Update and merge User FAQ's from Web ite and mwiiki

2012-12-10 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Keith N. McKenna wrote: Based on extended discussions on this list at: http://markmail.org/search/+list:org.apache.incubator.ooo-dev#query:%20list%3Aorg.apache.incubator.ooo-dev+page:1+mid:pkyogj4m45anxuxg+state:results. I propose to start merging and updating the User FAQ's from the we

Re: not accessible; violation of ADA

2012-12-10 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Aleksei wrote: you are in violation of my civil rights as defined by US law. have i got you attention? i recently upgraded from open office 3.3 to open office Apache 3.4.1. it is an absolute disaster. i am visually disabled and Dyslexic. i ABSOLUTELY NEED a functional spelling check to do my work

Re: [Proposal] Update and merge User FAQ's from Web ite and mwiiki

2012-12-09 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Alexandro Colorado wrote: On 12/7/12, Keith N. McKenna wrote: Rob Weir wrote: On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: Based on extended discussions on this list at: http://markmail.org/search/+list:org.apache.incubator.ooo-dev#query:%20list%3Aorg.apache.incubator.ooo-dev

Re: [Proposal] Update and merge User FAQ's from Web ite and mwiiki

2012-12-07 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Rob Weir wrote: On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 3:03 PM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: Based on extended discussions on this list at: http://markmail.org/search/+list:org.apache.incubator.ooo-dev#query:%20list%3Aorg.apache.incubator.ooo-dev+page:1+mid:pkyogj4m45anxuxg+state:results. I propose to start

[Proposal] Update and merge User FAQ's from Web ite and mwiiki

2012-12-07 Thread Keith N. McKenna
cture on the mediawiki (mwiki) and updating the FAQ's already there by eliminating outdated references to version 1 and version 2 and any duplications. If there are no objections in 72 hours I will start merging the entries from the website into the mwiki. Regards Keith N. Mckenna

Re: FAQ page (Re: IPAD)

2012-12-07 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Marcus (Ono) wrote: Am 12/03/2012 11:11 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Marcus (OOo) wrote: Am 12/03/2012 09:19 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote

Re: FAQ page (Re: IPAD)

2012-12-03 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Rob Weir wrote: On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: Rob Weir wrote: On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 26/11/2012 Rob Weir wrote: [Can I install Openoffice on my

Re: FAQ page (Re: IPAD)

2012-12-03 Thread Keith N. McKenna
inable set of FAQ's across all languages. Regards Keith On 3 December 2012 22:49, Marcus (OOo) wrote: Am 12/03/2012 09:19 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: On

Re: FAQ page (Re: IPAD)

2012-12-03 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Rob Weir wrote: On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 26/11/2012 Rob Weir wrote: [Can I install Openoffice on my IPAD?] I nominate this for an FAQ. I agree. But where is our FAQ page

Re: [User Docs] End of effort to get AOO v3.4 Getting Started Guide finished

2012-12-03 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Rob Weir wrote: On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: After 3 months of frustration it is time to end the effort to get The Getting Started Guide that had been started for AOO 3.4 completed. Despite repeated requests for help on the ODFAuthors list it is apparent that either

Re: Documentation Recruitment (was: Please add me to The OpenOffice.org Documentation Project list)

2012-12-03 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Kay Schenk wrote: On 12/01/2012 12:52 PM, Guy Waterval wrote: Hi Rob, Hi all, 2012/12/1 Rob Weir On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 7:55 AM, Guy Waterval wrote: Hi Rob, Hi all, 2012/11/30 Rob Weir [...] That would be the point of a call for volunteers then, wouldn't it? Bring in more volunteer

Re: FAQ page (Re: IPAD)

2012-12-03 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 26/11/2012 Rob Weir wrote: [Can I install Openoffice on my IPAD?] I nominate this for an FAQ. I agree. But where is our FAQ page currently? Unfortunately, there's an "OpenOffice FAQ" easily reachable by search engine

Re: [User Docs] End of effort to get AOO v3.4 Getting Started Guide finished

2012-12-03 Thread Keith N. McKenna
is at least a Getting Started Guide available or the lateset 3.x version. If you are interested we can discuss this further in a separate thread. Regards Keith On 12/1/2012 10:12 PM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: After 3 months of frustration it is time to end the effort to get The Getting Started

Re: My mwiki account appears to have vanished

2012-12-02 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: On 12/02/2012 09:31 PM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: Evening; I just tried to log in to my mwiki account and was informed by a very polite error message that I no longer exist.(See Below) Login error There is no user by the name "KNMcKenna". Check your spe

My mwiki account appears to have vanished

2012-12-02 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Evening; I just tried to log in to my mwiki account and was informed by a very polite error message that I no longer exist.(See Below) Login error There is no user by the name "KNMcKenna". Check your spelling. I know that I logged in last week. Could this account have been deleted in the r

Re: [User Docs] End of effort to get AOO v3.4 Getting Started Guide finished

2012-12-02 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Alexandro Colorado wrote: On 12/1/12, Keith N. McKenna wrote: After 3 months of frustration it is time to end the effort to get The Getting Started Guide that had been started for AOO 3.4 completed. Despite repeated requests for help on the ODFAuthors list it is apparent that either the

[User Docs] End of effort to get AOO v3.4 Getting Started Guide finished

2012-12-01 Thread Keith N. McKenna
time. I will continue to contribute where I can, but that is difficult or someone who is not a developer. Regards Keith N. McKenna

Re: Please add me to The OpenOffice.org Documentation Project list

2012-12-01 Thread Keith N. McKenna
RGB ES wrote: 2012/12/1 Guy Waterval Hi Rob, Hi all, 2012/11/30 Rob Weir [...] That would be the point of a call for volunteers then, wouldn't it? Bring in more volunteers with the skills needed to create an outline, etc. There are independent books written on OpenOffice and certainly M

Re: Documentation Recruitment (was: Please add me to The OpenOffice.org Documentation Project list)

2012-12-01 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Rob Weir wrote: On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 7:55 AM, Guy Waterval wrote: Hi Rob, Hi all, 2012/11/30 Rob Weir [...] That would be the point of a call for volunteers then, wouldn't it? Bring in more volunteers with the skills needed to create an outline, etc. There are independent books written

Re: Please add me to The OpenOffice.org Documentation Project list

2012-12-01 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Mark Roest wrote: Please add me to The OpenOffice.org Documentation Project list Regards, Mark Roest Since this seems to be going in the direction of on-line documentation I will bow out and close down the effort on ODFAuthors. Regards Keith

Re: Please add me to The OpenOffice.org Documentation Project list

2012-11-30 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Rob Weir wrote: On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: Rob Weir wrote: On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: Kay Schenk wrote: On 11/29/2012 12:34 PM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: Mark Roest wrote: At the moment most of my energies have been

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