Re: What would OpenOffice NON-retirement involve?

2016-09-02 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Thanks. Any views on whether the archive should be private or public? Alternative volunteer for moderator? On 9/2/2016 3:22 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Patricia Shanahan wrote: If you can send me a pointer to documentation on the correct moderator tools, I can also do that. How soon can we get

Re: What would OpenOffice NON-retirement involve?

2016-09-02 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Do we understand the reason for the old version of OSX etc.? On 9/2/2016 3:48 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: The issue, currently, is that the Mac OS X build requires, last I checked, an extremely old version of OSX, Xcode, et.al. No one has such a beast laying around. I have tried creating a VMware

Re: What would OpenOffice NON-retirement involve?

2016-09-02 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 9/2/2016 10:37 AM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: On 9/2/2016 10:18 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: -Original Message- From: Patricia Shanahan [mailto:p...@acm.org] Sent: Friday, September 2, 2016 09:26 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: What would OpenOffice NON-retirement

Re: What would OpenOffice NON-retirement involve?

2016-09-02 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 9/2/2016 10:18 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: -Original Message- From: Patricia Shanahan [mailto:p...@acm.org] Sent: Friday, September 2, 2016 09:26 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: What would OpenOffice NON-retirement involve? On 9/2/2016 7:59 AM, Phillip Rhodes wrote

Re: What would OpenOffice NON-retirement involve?

2016-09-02 Thread Patricia Shanahan
, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote: On 9/2/2016 10:21 AM, Phillip Rhodes wrote: On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote: Looking at it the other way round, for under $500 I could have a Mac Mini with 500 GB hard disk and Mac OS Yosemite deliver

Re: What would OpenOffice NON-retirement involve?

2016-09-02 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 9/2/2016 10:21 AM, Phillip Rhodes wrote: On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote: Looking at it the other way round, for under $500 I could have a Mac Mini with 500 GB hard disk and Mac OS Yosemite delivered on Sunday. That is less than 10

Re: What would OpenOffice NON-retirement involve?

2016-09-02 Thread Patricia Shanahan
on another OS do they? Phil This message optimized for indexing by NSA PRISM On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 1:09 PM, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote: I looked at some of those services a few weeks ago. For the ones I found, the relatively inexpensive options did not have the capa

Re: What would OpenOffice NON-retirement involve?

2016-09-02 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 9/2/2016 10:09 AM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: I looked at some of those services a few weeks ago. For the ones I found, the relatively inexpensive options did not have the capability of building software, let alone the capacity for build a substantial body of software. The options

Re: What would OpenOffice NON-retirement involve?

2016-09-02 Thread Patricia Shanahan
I looked at some of those services a few weeks ago. For the ones I found, the relatively inexpensive options did not have the capability of building software, let alone the capacity for build a substantial body of software. The options with the capability and capacity would cost more than a Mac

Re: What would OpenOffice NON-retirement involve?

2016-09-02 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 9/2/2016 7:59 AM, Phillip Rhodes wrote: OK, counter-point to the other thread... let's talk specifically about what needs to happen next, given that some (plenty|most|all|???) of us want this project to continue moving forward. What has to happen next? What is the most important

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

2016-09-02 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 9/2/2016 5:52 AM, RA Stehmann wrote: Am 02.09.2016 um 14:14 schrieb Jim Jagielski: What is obvious is that the AOO project cannot support, at the present time, being an end-user focused effort. I would suggest we focus on not being one, but instead being a framework or library that can be

Re: compiler warnings when building OpenOffice

2016-09-01 Thread Patricia Shanahan
I need a problem to work on. Would you like me to take a particular compiler warning and try to sort it out? On 9/1/2016 3:29 PM, Don Lewis wrote: On 29 Aug, Don Lewis wrote: When building OpenOffice trunk revsion r1758161 as a FreeBSD port on FreeBSD 12.0-CURRENT with clang 3.8.0, I get the

Re: Putting Windows First ( was RE: null)

2016-08-31 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 8/31/2016 10:25 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: -Original Message- From: Patricia Shanahan [mailto:p...@acm.org] Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2016 12:57 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Putting Windows First ( was RE: null) [ ... ] [orcmid] I would like to suggest a way

Re: Putting Windows First ( was RE: null)

2016-08-31 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 8/31/2016 10:25 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: -Original Message- From: Patricia Shanahan [mailto:p...@acm.org] Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2016 12:57 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Putting Windows First ( was RE: null) [ ... ] [orcmid] I would like to suggest a way

Re: Attention: Courtney

2016-08-26 Thread Patricia Shanahan
of this is too advanced for me. I want to help but. I just still got lost trying to understand the emails everyone was sending. Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote: Courtney, I tried to reply directly to your email three days ago. Please check whether a message from me got

Re: [DISCUSS] Release 4.2: General Topics

2016-08-23 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 8/23/2016 12:14 PM, Kay sch...@apache.org wrote: ... 2. Update Java requirement from Java 1.5 to *at least* Java 1.7 I am rather adamant that we change our building requirement to Java 1.7 for all platforms. I will be changing that in our Building Guide today. Java 1.5 went out of support

Debug and gbuild

2016-08-21 Thread Patricia Shanahan
I am getting back into OpenOffice debug under Visual Studio. Last time I tried that, I needed to manually build the gbuild modules to get symbol generation. Has that been automated? If so, what configure and/or build flags should I be using? If not, any ideas on how to get it automated?

Re: configure error

2016-08-19 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 8/19/2016 2:57 PM, Don Lewis wrote: ... Hmn, I see that the error that you are seeing is coming from set_soenv and not configure. Did you rerun autoconf to regenerate configure after the update? ... A very good question. Reminder-to-self: Use the step-by-step instructions rather than

Re: configure error

2016-08-19 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 8/19/2016 12:51 PM, Don Lewis wrote: On 19 Aug, Patricia Shanahan wrote: I did an "svn update". Now configure is failing: * * * Setting up

configure error

2016-08-19 Thread Patricia Shanahan
I did an "svn update". Now configure is failing: * * * Setting up the build environment variables.* *

Re: Release Manager for 4.2.0?

2016-08-19 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 8/19/2016 10:41 AM, Kay sch...@apache.org wrote: On 01/28/2016 04:06 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: As I wrote a few day ago, in theory it would be good to release OpenOffice 4.2.0 in February. If it happens a bit later it wouldn't be a big issue, but I believe that, in the constant balance

FOSDEM hacking

2016-08-19 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Maybe simplifying the Windows build process for AOO could be a FOSDEM hacking challenge? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org

Re: Planning for emergency releases

2016-08-14 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 8/12/2016 2:14 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: -Original Message- From: Patricia Shanahan [mailto:p...@acm.org] ... Personally, I would like to treat the last stable release as the base for emergency fixes. I started out suggesting using the current patch as an exercise to work

Attention: Courtney

2016-08-12 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Courtney, I tried to reply directly to your email three days ago. Please check whether a message from me got caught in a spam filter etc. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional

Re: Planning for emergency releases

2016-08-12 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 8/12/2016 1:40 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: -Original Message- From: Patricia Shanahan [mailto:p...@acm.org] Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2016 11:07 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Planning for emergency releases [ ... ] Meanwhile, it is interesting for contemplating

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

2016-08-12 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 8/12/2016 12:22 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: ... [Anecdotal Side Note: I just discovered that the MD5 hash for the 4.1.2 Windows .exe fails to check on my Windows system because of a defect in the .md5 file. For reasons unknown, the md5sum tool that I have requires exactly two spaces

Re: Planning for emergency releases

2016-08-11 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 8/11/2016 10:45 AM, Marcus wrote: Am 08/10/2016 12:25 AM, schrieb Patricia Shanahan: On 8/9/2016 3:12 PM, Marcus wrote: ... we have a documented release process here [1]. Of course it's for a full release. But for a bugfix (or emergency) release it can be derived and then shortend. [1

Re: Planning for emergency releases

2016-08-09 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 8/9/2016 3:12 PM, Marcus wrote: ... we have a documented release process here [1]. Of course it's for a full release. But for a bugfix (or emergency) release it can be derived and then shortend. [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Release+Planning+Template That is the

Re: Planning for emergency releases

2016-08-09 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 8/9/2016 2:41 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Patricia Shanahan wrote: How do we go about getting trained as release manager? By making a release, or two. If we only do two or three releases a year, we will only be able to train release managers are a rate of about two a year. Is that fast

Re: Planning for emergency releases

2016-08-09 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 8/9/2016 8:52 AM, Kay sch...@apache.org wrote: On 08/08/2016 09:26 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: On 8/8/2016 11:14 AM, Marcus wrote: Am 08/08/2016 07:28 PM, schrieb Andrea Pescetti: On 07/08/2016 Marcus wrote: Maybe we are not that far aways from each other. What I want to to avoid

Re: Planning for emergency releases

2016-08-08 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 8/8/2016 11:14 AM, Marcus wrote: Am 08/08/2016 07:28 PM, schrieb Andrea Pescetti: On 07/08/2016 Marcus wrote: Maybe we are not that far aways from each other. What I want to to avoid is to provide hundreads of MBs for a single fix. Of course we can do a 4.1.3 with some collected fixes. As I

Special project for newcomers

2016-08-08 Thread Patricia Shanahan
There is a current project for which newcomers to the OpenOffice team may be able to make a particularly valuable contribution. The objective is to find out whether a set of instructions are usable and work. For this, being unfamiliar with the background is an advantage. To participate, you need

Re: branches/gbuild-reintegration merged

2016-08-07 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 8/7/2016 2:30 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 12:59 PM, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: Hi branches/gbuild-reintegration has been merged to trunk. It has > 136 patches and makes many changes throughout the code, so you probably need to "dmake clean" before

Re: [VOTE] Release apache-openoffice-4.1.2-patch1 Source

2016-08-07 Thread Patricia Shanahan
+1 Because of whitespace differences from the patch I had previously tests, I applied the patch to a clean 4.1.2 checkout, built from scratch, and tested the result. I have checked the signature and hashes. The signature file shows the web-of-trust issues previously discussed. On 8/2/2016

Re: Planning for emergency releases

2016-08-07 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 8/7/2016 10:16 AM, Marcus wrote: Am 08/07/2016 06:14 PM, schrieb Patricia Shanahan: ... but meanwhile work on getting competent at preparing a full release promptly if needed. Maybe we are not that far aways from each other. What I want to to avoid is to provide hundreads of MBs

Re: Planning for emergency releases

2016-08-07 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 8/7/2016 8:29 AM, Marcus wrote: Am 08/06/2016 12:57 AM, schrieb Patricia Shanahan: ... I don't agree with the car analogy - bits are relatively cheap, and I will personally promise to recycle any obsoleted bits that are returned to us, without taking up any landfill space. I would not do

Re: Planning for emergency releases

2016-08-07 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 8/7/2016 8:29 AM, Marcus wrote: ... I don't want to have it perfect. And we are already in this emergency situation. We have either a patch process nor a full-release process. We don't have what I consider to be the full emergency, a live exploit in the field. Why not both strategies? Go

Re: Building AOO for Windows 10

2016-08-07 Thread Patricia Shanahan
The instructions need clarifying - I'll look into it later. The final argument "aoo-trunk" is the destination folder for the checkout. If you want to checkout into a folder called "aoo-trunk" do a "mkdir aoo-trunk" first. If you want a different destination, replace "aoo-trunk" with the

Draft report

2016-08-06 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Here is a draft of the August 2016 board report. As always, suggested changes are welcome. == ## Description: - Apache River software provides a standards-compliant JINI service. ## Issues: - There are no issues

Re: Planning for emergency releases

2016-08-05 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 8/5/2016 2:20 PM, Marcus wrote: Am 08/05/2016 10:43 PM, schrieb Patricia Shanahan: This is mainly a summary of opinions I've already expressed on security@. The discussion does not actually involve anything that needs to be confidential, so it should be taking place on dev@ instead

Planning for emergency releases

2016-08-05 Thread Patricia Shanahan
This is mainly a summary of opinions I've already expressed on security@. The discussion does not actually involve anything that needs to be confidential, so it should be taking place on dev@ instead. This is controversial - I expect replies disagreeing with my views. The point of this thread is

Re: Help wanted

2016-08-02 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Free work only - no paid positions. If you are looking for programming experience, you will probably be most interested in development. What programming languages do you use? Build tools? Patricia On 8/2/2016 12:30 PM, Courtney wrote: Hello! My name is Courtney and I was working on a

Re: Interested in volunteering with Apache

2016-08-01 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Welcome. The current writing project is constructing instruction files for applying a patch. The process is fairly complicated, and needs to be explained clearly for end users with limited technical skills. Perhaps you could review the drafts and see if you can suggest any improvements? Can you

Re: Officially releasing a patch for CVE-2016-1513

2016-07-31 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 7/31/2016 5:17 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: -Original Message- From: Kay sch...@apache.org [mailto:ksch...@apache.org] Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2016 14:42 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Officially releasing a patch for CVE-2016-1513 OK, I think I'm done with the

Re: FW: buildbot success in on aoo-win7

2016-07-27 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Congratulations! On 7/27/2016 2:17 AM, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: 2 successful aoo-win7 builds in a row, so I think it's safe to conclude it works now :-). The build script still needs a bit of cleaning up, and we need to fix the snapshot buildbots. But how? Can we just randomly merge patches to

Re: Editing Download page

2016-07-25 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 7/24/2016 1:59 PM, JZA wrote: I would also suggest to revisit the intro programs for development which were put on hold indefinetly and at the momento there is really no good way to 'learn' the AOO sourcecode. Even if we were hiring full time programmers, AOO is too big for learning the

Re: Editing Download page

2016-07-23 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Marcus: Please add "Experienced lead technical writers" to the requested skills. See the "Is it time to shut down this effort?" thread. On 7/22/2016 1:14 PM, Marcus wrote: Am 07/22/2016 08:35 PM, schrieb Patricia Shanahan: On 7/22/2016 11:05 AM, Marcus wrote: Am

Re: Is it time to shut down this effort?

2016-07-23 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Should we add "Experienced lead technical writers" to the list for the download web page changes? On 7/23/2016 6:23 PM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: [BCC dev@ (really, this time)] -Original Message- From: Keith N. McKenna [mailto:keith.mcke...@comcast.net] Sent:

Re: Editing Download page

2016-07-22 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 7/22/2016 11:05 AM, Marcus wrote: Am 07/22/2016 07:45 PM, schrieb Patricia Shanahan: I am trying to edit www.openoffice.org/download/ to add a box for recruiting developers. It seems to be a rather complicated page, with internationalization. yes, to give the L10n groups the possibility

Editing Download page

2016-07-22 Thread Patricia Shanahan
I am trying to edit www.openoffice.org/download/ to add a box for recruiting developers. It seems to be a rather complicated page, with internationalization. If anyone is familiar with how to edit it, and has time to help me, please reply.

Re: Buildbots update

2016-07-22 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 7/22/2016 12:09 AM, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: ... I'll experiment a lot more over the weekend, but right now I think the problem could be that the buildbot runs VSVARS.BAT to set up the Visual Studio environment, which (presumably) contains the evil DEVENV that break the build and locks files

Re: Donations?

2016-07-21 Thread Patricia Shanahan
we have any funds at all at the end of the day, we used to have very clear reports: https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Community_Council/Funding_And_Budgets/B udget_2011 On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 4:55 PM, Marcus <marcus.m...@wtnet.de> wrote: Am 07/21/2016 09:26 PM, schrieb Patricia Shanahan:

Donations?

2016-07-21 Thread Patricia Shanahan
In looking at the web pages to see where to insert mentoring offers etc., I noticed that https://openoffice.apache.org/get-involved.html has a link to "make a small donation". Does that collect any money, and if so might it help with buildbot costs?

Re: Attracting new developers

2016-07-20 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 7/20/2016 12:03 PM, Marcus wrote: Am 07/20/2016 07:51 PM, schrieb Patricia Shanahan: OpenOffice really needs more developers, especially build experts but also programmers in general. We do have a web page, http://openoffice.apache.org/get-involved.html, but it it not very obvious

Attracting new developers

2016-07-20 Thread Patricia Shanahan
OpenOffice really needs more developers, especially build experts but also programmers in general. We do have a web page, http://openoffice.apache.org/get-involved.html, but it it not very obvious and tends to emphasize non-programming contributions. Those are very valuable, but we have far

Re: Putting Windows First ( was RE: null)

2016-07-17 Thread Patricia Shanahan
. Damjan On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 11:52 PM, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> wrote: On 07/13/2016 12:56 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: On 7/13/2016 10:38 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: -Original Message- From: Damjan Jovanovic [mailto:dam...@apache.org] .. By the way, AO

Re: Putting Windows First ( was RE: null)

2016-07-13 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 7/13/2016 10:38 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: -Original Message- From: Damjan Jovanovic [mailto:dam...@apache.org] .. By the way, AOO code and build process are very *nix-centric, leading to Windows being such a pain to develop for, that we would gain more by dropping Windows

Re: Smoke Test to run on a built office

2016-07-07 Thread Patricia Shanahan
at 1:08 AM, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote: How does one find out whether the tests have hung, or are just taking their time? I started them by running ant in the test folder using a cygwin shell that has the winenv.set.sh parameters for my AOO412 build. It started doing AOO thin

Re: Smoke Test to run on a built office

2016-07-06 Thread Patricia Shanahan
How does one find out whether the tests have hung, or are just taking their time? I started them by running ant in the test folder using a cygwin shell that has the winenv.set.sh parameters for my AOO412 build. It started doing AOO things, with windows appearing, changing, and disappearing,

Re: Interns?

2016-07-06 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Thanks. On 7/5/2016 11:48 PM, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: Hi Patricia I think you meant to this send this to the Apache River mailing list, where Bishnu Gautam asked the question? On Wed, Jul 6, 2016 at 4:39 AM, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote: Bishnu Gautam has suggested that we

Interns?

2016-07-05 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Bishnu Gautam has suggested that we should start taking interns, with assigned mentors, and might be able to steer some students our way. What do you think? Would the proposed projects be able to use students? To be fair to the students, they would need mentors they could learn from, not just

Re: Building on Windows

2016-07-01 Thread Patricia Shanahan
if it works for you as well. Damjan On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 7:51 PM, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote: I have already done some of this. The key difference between failing and non-failing is whether layoutex is built early or later in the build. See the attached files for sample build outpu

Building AOO412 on Windows

2016-06-30 Thread Patricia Shanahan
I am trying to build AOO412 on my Windows 8.1 system. Back in the previous "Building on Windows" thread I described a series of failures that were ultimately cured by adding "--disable-pch" to my configure parameters. Those problems have reappeared in the 4.1.2 build. Is there something

Re: Configure failure

2016-06-29 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Not Found) download failed On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 12:58 AM, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote: Full output: checking whether configure is up-to-date.

Re: Configure failure

2016-06-29 Thread Patricia Shanahan
ding external dependencies, please fix the previous problems and try again *** On 6/29/2016 3:49 PM, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: Please post the full output. The problem is earlier. On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 12:46 AM, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote: As part of my return-from-

Configure failure

2016-06-29 Thread Patricia Shanahan
As part of my return-from-vacation, I did an "svn update" on my trunk checkout followed by an attempt to configure with my usual parameters: SDK_PATH="/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft SDKs/Windows/v7.0" ./configure \ --with-frame-home="$SDK_PATH" \ --with-psdk-home="$SDK_PATH" \

Re: A Question about Open Office Password Protected Text Documenets

2016-06-10 Thread Patricia Shanahan
That said, if I had a set of business-critical documents, I would test some sample documents at each major OS, hardware, or office software upgrade. Before decommissioning the last instance of the old system, load and read a few sample documents on the new system. If there is a problem, use

Re: failed to build aoo420 dev on win32

2016-06-09 Thread Patricia Shanahan
he work, so thank you! Damjan On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 12:08 AM, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote: I decided to try to fix the underlying error/warning, by making the header file declaration complete. Unfortunately, I think my C++ rustiness is getting in the way. I get an error sugge

Re: failed to build aoo420 dev on win32

2016-06-08 Thread Patricia Shanahan
parse.cxx needed to have the declaration removed while leaving the constructor's definition. I've committed your patch in #1747439 with you as the author, then committed my fixes to it in #1747440. You did most of the work, so thank you! Damjan On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 12:08 AM, Patricia Shanahan

Blocked from AOO work: Re: failed to build aoo420 dev on win32

2016-06-07 Thread Patricia Shanahan
then? On 5/10/2016 3:08 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: I decided to try to fix the underlying error/warning, by making the header file declaration complete. Unfortunately, I think my C++ rustiness is getting in the way. I get an error suggesting a constructor is being treated as a function. I've attached

Re: Mentor

2016-05-25 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Hi Yacine, I'll do what I can to help you, though I'm relatively new to OpenOffice. I am a very experienced developer, just not on this program. Are you planning to use a Microsoft Windows system for building it? If so, you need to read

Re: Development updates

2016-05-13 Thread Patricia Shanahan
With the current instructions, it takes me a total of less than an hour to do the downloads, signature checks, build, and test the built software. On 5/13/2016 5:05 PM, Carl Marcum wrote: ... Hopefully I can get ONE more binding vote on the Groovy UNO Extension vote so I can finish up the

Re: failed to build aoo420 dev on win32

2016-05-10 Thread Patricia Shanahan
I decided to try to fix the underlying error/warning, by making the header file declaration complete. Unfortunately, I think my C++ rustiness is getting in the way. I get an error suggesting a constructor is being treated as a function. I've attached a diff in the hope that someone else can

Re: [VOTE] Release Groovy UNO Extension 0.1.5-RC1

2016-05-07 Thread Patricia Shanahan
+1 Approve On 4/23/2016 8:23 AM, Carl Marcum wrote: This is for a source release of Groovy UNO Extension 0.1.5 from Apache OpenOffice and binaries made available from Maven via Apache Nexus. Source packages for RC1 are available at: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/openoffice/devtools/

Re: failed to build aoo420 dev on win32

2016-04-25 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 4/25/2016 9:07 AM, Oliver Brinzing wrote: I checked out the latest, and tried to build it. My debug build also failed on sqliterator.cxx. I used exactly the same configure parameters as on previous successful debug builds. thanks for testing, hopefully i will find some time to do further

Re: failed to build aoo420 dev on win32

2016-04-23 Thread Patricia Shanahan
I checked out the latest, and tried to build it. My debug build also failed on sqliterator.cxx. I used exactly the same configure parameters as on previous successful debug builds. Patricia On 4/17/2016 12:34 PM, Oliver Brinzing wrote: Hi, this weekend i tried again and was able to build

Re: [DISCUSS][VOTE] Release Groovy UNO Extension 0.1.4-RC2

2016-04-21 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 4/21/2016 3:12 PM, Carl Marcum wrote: On 04/21/2016 02:09 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: The .class files in the uploaded .jar were compiled with Java 1.8: Patricia@Jan2014Desktop /cygdrive/c/Users/Patricia/.groovy/grapes/org.openoffice/guno-extension/jars $ !find find . -type f -name

Re: [DISCUSS][VOTE] Release Groovy UNO Extension 0.1.4-RC2

2016-04-21 Thread Patricia Shanahan
, Patricia Shanahan wrote: After some more testing: It works with JDK1.8 or JRE1.8, 32-bit or 64-bit in each case. However, it fails with the following output using jdk1.7.0_79. Patricia@Jan2014Desktop /cygdrive/c/OpenOfficeDev/GroovyUNO/test $ !gr groovy *.groovy Apr 21, 2016 10:03:31 AM

Re: [DISCUSS][VOTE] Release Groovy UNO Extension 0.1.4-RC2

2016-04-21 Thread Patricia Shanahan
After some more testing: It works with JDK1.8 or JRE1.8, 32-bit or 64-bit in each case. However, it fails with the following output using jdk1.7.0_79. Patricia@Jan2014Desktop /cygdrive/c/OpenOfficeDev/GroovyUNO/test $ !gr groovy *.groovy Apr 21, 2016 10:03:31 AM

Re: [DISCUSS][VOTE] Release Groovy UNO Extension 0.1.4-RC2

2016-04-21 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Like all sane Java-using programs, Groovy seems to be perfectly happy with a 64-bit JDK. In the shell I have been using for my UNO-testing: Patricia@Jan2014Desktop /cygdrive/c/OpenOfficeDev/GroovyUNO/test $ echo $JAVA_HOME C:/Program Files/Java/jdk1.8.0_71 which is a 64-bit release 8 JDK.

Re: [VOTE] Release Groovy UNO Extension 0.1.4-RC2

2016-04-20 Thread Patricia Shanahan
+1 Approve (binding) On 4/19/2016 7:35 PM, Carl Marcum wrote: This is for a source release of Groovy UNO Extension 0.1.4 from Apache OpenOffice and binaries made available from Maven via Apache Nexus. Source packages for RC2 are available at:

[DISCUSS][VOTE] Release Groovy UNO Extension 0.1.4-RC2

2016-04-20 Thread Patricia Shanahan
I did a signature check on the files. The md5 checks both passed. The tar.gz.asc check also passed, but the .zip.asc check failed: Patricia@Jan2014Desktop /cygdrive/c/OpenOfficeDev/GroovyUNO/signatures $ gpg --verify guno-extension-0.1.4-r1740035-src.tar.gz.asc gpg: WARNING: using insecure

Re: [DISCUSS][VOTE] Release Groovy UNO Extension 0.1.4 - PLEASE VOTE

2016-04-19 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 4/19/2016 3:22 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: On 4/19/2016 4:20 AM, Carl Marcum wrote: On 04/18/2016 07:04 AM, Carl Marcum wrote: ... I have the most of what I wanted to add to the release testing page [1] done. If you would like to review and make any changes or additions feel free. :) I

Re: [DISCUSS][VOTE] Release Groovy UNO Extension 0.1.4

2016-04-19 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 4/19/2016 4:20 AM, Carl Marcum wrote: On 04/18/2016 07:04 AM, Carl Marcum wrote: ... I have the most of what I wanted to add to the release testing page [1] done. If you would like to review and make any changes or additions feel free. :) I have added a process I devised for verifying

Re: [DISCUSS][VOTE] Release Groovy UNO Extension 0.1.4

2016-04-17 Thread Patricia Shanahan
a third PMC members to cast a binding +1 vote, but I'm hoping having step-by-step instructions will inspire someone. Patricia On 4/17/2016 4:27 PM, Carl Marcum wrote: On 04/15/2016 10:01 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: On 4/15/2016 6:52 PM, Carl Marcum wrote: On 04/15/2016 09:21 PM, Patricia

Re: [DISCUSS][VOTE] Release Groovy UNO Extension 0.1.4

2016-04-17 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 4/17/2016 5:48 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: On 4/17/2016 4:27 PM, Carl Marcum wrote: I'll try to work with these instructions, and go on asking questions whenever I get stuck. I have saved all the e-mails in this thread, and in any case they are in the archive. I think we should aim

Re: [DISCUSS][VOTE] Release Groovy UNO Extension 0.1.4

2016-04-17 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 4/17/2016 4:27 PM, Carl Marcum wrote: On 04/15/2016 10:01 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: On 4/15/2016 6:52 PM, Carl Marcum wrote: On 04/15/2016 09:21 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: ... Do I need to run it in any particular directory? How does it find the .jar I built? It doesn't need

Re: [DISCUSS][VOTE] Release Groovy UNO Extension 0.1.4

2016-04-15 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 4/15/2016 6:52 PM, Carl Marcum wrote: On 04/15/2016 09:21 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: ... Do I need to run it in any particular directory? How does it find the .jar I built? It doesn't need to find the jar you built. There is one pre-built from the RC and staged in Apache Nexus

Re: [DISCUSS][VOTE] Release Groovy UNO Extension 0.1.4

2016-04-15 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 4/15/2016 5:05 PM, Carl Marcum wrote: On 04/15/2016 07:12 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: On 4/15/2016 3:40 AM, Carl Marcum wrote: ... Did you have a chance to try the HelloTextTableShape.groovy test script that I placed in Bugzilla [3]? ... Instructions for running it? What do I need

Re: [DISCUSS][VOTE] Release Groovy UNO Extension 0.1.4

2016-04-15 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 4/15/2016 3:40 AM, Carl Marcum wrote: ... Did you have a chance to try the HelloTextTableShape.groovy test script that I placed in Bugzilla [3]? ... Instructions for running it? What do I need to set up? - To unsubscribe,

Re: [DISCUSS][VOTE] Release Groovy UNO Extension 0.1.4

2016-04-15 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 4/15/2016 3:40 AM, Carl Marcum wrote: On 04/14/2016 10:18 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: On 4/14/2016 6:29 PM, Carl Marcum wrote: On 04/14/2016 08:10 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: On 4/14/2016 3:28 AM, Carl Marcum wrote: On 04/14/2016 12:57 AM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: On 4/6/2016 3:27

Re: [DISCUSS][VOTE] Release Groovy UNO Extension 0.1.4

2016-04-14 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 4/14/2016 6:29 PM, Carl Marcum wrote: On 04/14/2016 08:10 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: On 4/14/2016 3:28 AM, Carl Marcum wrote: On 04/14/2016 12:57 AM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: On 4/6/2016 3:27 AM, Carl Marcum wrote: On 04/05/2016 09:57 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: I think you will get

Re: [DISCUSS][VOTE] Release Groovy UNO Extension 0.1.4

2016-04-14 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 4/14/2016 3:28 AM, Carl Marcum wrote: On 04/14/2016 12:57 AM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: On 4/6/2016 3:27 AM, Carl Marcum wrote: On 04/05/2016 09:57 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: I think you will get more votes with more instructions. I've never done a gradle build, and have no idea how

Re: [DISCUSS][VOTE] Release Groovy UNO Extension 0.1.4

2016-04-13 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 4/6/2016 3:27 AM, Carl Marcum wrote: On 04/05/2016 09:57 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: I think you will get more votes with more instructions. I've never done a gradle build, and have no idea how to do one. I'm sure I could find out, but that is going to take time. ... If you don't go

Re: [DISCUSS][VOTE] Release Groovy UNO Extension 0.1.4

2016-04-13 Thread Patricia Shanahan
For me, the delay has been the combination of some non-Apache projects and Apache River needing some attention (I'm the PMC Chair). I put away my Linux system to make more room for sewing for a couple of weeks. Unfortunately, I will need to use unfamiliar tools to do the Windows build. I'll

Re: failed to build aoo420 dev on win32

2016-04-10 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 4/10/2016 5:28 AM, Oliver Brinzing wrote: Hi Patricia, thanks for your build settings. Did you manage to build aoo420 debug version? I am building off the current Trunk. Is that a00420? yesterday i started a new aoo412 debug build with my settings. after 5 hours the build finished

[DISCUSS][VOTE] Release Groovy UNO Extension 0.1.4

2016-04-05 Thread Patricia Shanahan
I think you will get more votes with more instructions. I've never done a gradle build, and have no idea how to do one. I'm sure I could find out, but that is going to take time. On 4/5/2016 4:07 AM, Carl Marcum wrote: This is for a source release of Groovy UNO Extension 0.1.4 from Apache

Re: failed to build aoo420 dev on win32

2016-04-05 Thread Patricia Shanahan
For comparison, here is the debug version of my configure parameters: $ more run_configure.sh SDK_PATH="/cygdrive/c/Program Files/Microsoft SDKs/Windows/v7.0" ./configure \ --enable-dbgutil \ --enable-symbols \ --disable-unit-tests \ --with-frame-home="$SDK_PATH" \

Re: failed to build aoo420 dev on win32

2016-04-05 Thread Patricia Shanahan
How are you specifying debug? Any differences between what you are doing and https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO/Step_by_step#Windows_7.2C_Windows_8.1? I have been doing Windows 8.1 debug builds without any problems. I manually 'make debug=true' the gmake

Re: [HELP NEEDED] old Solaris related build issues

2016-04-04 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 4/4/2016 2:59 PM, Marcus wrote: Am 04/04/2016 11:30 PM, schrieb Kay Schenk: ... In any case, since we don't currently have "official" distros for Solaris -- I would be content changing all these issues to ENHANCEMENT rather than DEFECT. Thoughts? I think this wouldn't change the actual

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