Re: 4.0.1 release and distribution.

2013-09-16 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 4:44 AM, Henk P. Penning wrote: > On Sat, 14 Sep 2013, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > >> Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 17:19:32 +0200 >> From: Andrea Pescetti >> To: Henk P. Penning >> Cc: dev@openoffice.apache.org >> >> Subject: Re: 4.0.1 release and distribution. > > >> Everything w

Re: [PROPOSAL] Admin mailing list

2013-09-16 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 9:42 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > I'd like to propose a new mailing list: ad...@openoffice.apache.org > > It would serve a few primary purposes: > > 1) A focused mailing list to help our volunteer admins coordinate > maintenance of our project infrastru

Re: Be Bugzilla (email) account seems broken, Bug 123259 - No mails from Bugzilla

2013-09-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Rainer Bielefeld wrote: > Hi, > > can someone please check and repair my BZ mail account? For details please > see above mentioned Bug > > All notification emails from OpenOffice's BZ are currently disabled.

Re: Uyghur language is missing in Bugzilla

2013-09-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 3:36 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Uyghur (ug) is missing in Bugzilla as a component of Native-Lang. > > In general, we should be able to report bugs against any language that we > have in the sources, so the languages listed in > http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/openoffice/trun

Re: [WWW]Forum not delivering e-mails

2013-09-13 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 2:00 PM, F C. Costero wrote: > On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Ricardo Berlasso wrote: > >> There is a problem with the automated emails on the forums: >> >> http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=102&t=64264 >> >> I checked on the ES forum by sending a PM fr

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

2013-09-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Ta, Linh wrote: > Hello, > > The "download templates" link on this page > (http://www.openoffice.org/product/writer.html) seems to be broken. > Thanks for the report. I've fixed it. The correct URL is: http://templates.openoffice.org/ Regards, -Rob > -

Re: Mails from iss...@openoffice.apache.org

2013-09-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Mechtilde wrote: > Hello > > What happens? I get nearly 6500 mails today with date 07.08.2013. > > My mail provider ask me, if all things are right ;-) > > Kind regards > I haven't been hacked. These issues were changed back in August as you can see from their m

Re: Mails from iss...@openoffice.apache.org

2013-09-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 2:33 PM, sebb wrote: > On 12 September 2013 18:53, Rob Weir wrote: >> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Mechtilde wrote: >>> Hello >>> >>> What happens? I get nearly 6500 mails today with date 07.08.2013. >>> >>

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

2013-09-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Larry Gusaas wrote: > On 2013-09-11 3:00 PM Rob Weir wrote concerning "Re: Reporting a problem > with the OpenOffice website": >> >> On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Dean Sample >> wrote: >>> >>> I need info

Re: Reporting a problem with the OpenOffice website

2013-09-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Dean Sample wrote: > I need info regarding Openoffice. You or somebody has me really confused. > > I have Apache OpenOffice 3 Listed as OpenOffice.org 3.4.1. > > I also have Apache OpenOffice 4 Listed as only OpenOffice without the .org. > I assume you have done aw

Re: Wanting to contribute

2013-09-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 1:47 AM, phillip brown wrote: > Hello, my name is Phillip Brown, I am a university student and am required to > contribute to an open source project. > I was interested in contributing by submitting problem reports about the > product/website and am wondering where I shou

Re: Interface problems 32 bit AOO/64 bit Windows

2013-09-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 12:01 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > > On en-Forum there have been a number of reports of printing problems, > usually manifesting as not printing from AOO although printing correctly from > other applications. Sometimes (rarely) such problems can be solved by > reinstalli

Re: Common theme for AOO web assets moving forward

2013-09-10 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > There has been a lot of discussion on the way the website is being used, > many users don't have the knowledge from the original theme of OOo. When > oracle came in, it broke the common theme across different websites, using > the one we

Re: Does our "Decision Making" information need additional instructions?

2013-09-10 Thread Rob Weir
r actually intend to do something. >> > > Not sure I understand you here. Why would anyone discuss anything for just > the fun of discussing it? > Something we do see: Someone talk about an idea, but it is not something that they are wiling/able to do. They just think it is a good

Re: University Student Promotional Flyer ( was: Re: Yet another flyer)

2013-09-10 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 8:21 AM, Guy Waterval wrote: > Hi Rob, > Hi all, > > > 2013/9/9 Rob Weir > >> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Drew Jensen >> wrote: >> > Howdy, >> > >> > No the problem was I forgot my password and reset it, then

Re: svn commit: r1521243 - in /openoffice/ooo-site/trunk/content/xx/product: calc.mdtext draw.mdtext impress.mdtext math.mdtext writer.mdtext

2013-09-09 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: > On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 4:00 PM, wrote: >> Author: robweir >> Date: Mon Sep 9 19:00:23 2013 >> New Revision: 1521243 >> >> URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1521243 >> Log: >> Pull images from /product rather than from /xx/product > > The

Re: University Student Promotional Flyer ( was: Re: Yet another flyer)

2013-09-09 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Drew Jensen wrote: > Howdy, > > No the problem was I forgot my password and reset it, then I couldn't get > past the cpatcha - today, I'm in...so it likely was fat fingers on my part. > > As for where to put this stuff. I don't know, it doesn't do much good if > fo

Re: Another test of the download page on Browsershots.com

2013-09-09 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Marcus (OOo) wrote: > Am 09/09/2013 07:50 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: > >> On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 3:33 AM, Marcus (OOo) wrote: >>> >>> Am 09/06/2013 03:18 AM, schrieb Rob Weir: >>> >>>> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 4:32 PM,

Re: Another test of the download page on Browsershots.com

2013-09-09 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 3:33 AM, Marcus (OOo) wrote: > Am 09/06/2013 03:18 AM, schrieb Rob Weir: > >> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Marcus (OOo) wrote: >>> >>> Am 09/05/2013 10:20 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: >>> >>>> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 6:46 PM,

Re: [PROPOSAL] Admin mailing list

2013-09-09 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 12:17 AM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > Rob Weir wrote on Sun, Sep 08, 2013 at 22:14:13 -0400: >> On Sep 8, 2013, at 10:06 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: >> >> > Rob Weir wrote on Sun, Sep 08, 2013 at 21:42:17 -0400: >> >> I'

Re: [PROPOSAL] Admin mailing list

2013-09-09 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 1:53 AM, janI wrote: > > On Sep 9, 2013 6:17 AM, "Daniel Shahaf" wrote: >> >> Rob Weir wrote on Sun, Sep 08, 2013 at 22:14:13 -0400: >> > On Sep 8, 2013, at 10:06 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: >> > >> > > Rob Weir wrot

contact_us.html: new clues

2013-09-09 Thread Rob Weir
When we get a misdirected email sent to the dev list with a subject reporting a website error, it is coming from a user who is reading http://www.openoffice.org/contact_us.html. We've been doing some fine tuning of the language on that page to try to make it more clear to the user that they should

Re: [PROPOSAL] Admin mailing list

2013-09-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Sep 8, 2013, at 10:06 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > Rob Weir wrote on Sun, Sep 08, 2013 at 21:42:17 -0400: >> I'd like to propose a new mailing list: ad...@openoffice.apache.org > > Public archives or private archives? I was assuming it would be public. If something ne

[PROPOSAL] Admin mailing list

2013-09-08 Thread Rob Weir
I'd like to propose a new mailing list: ad...@openoffice.apache.org It would serve a few primary purposes: 1) A focused mailing list to help our volunteer admins coordinate maintenance of our project infrastructure, or at least that portion of it maintained by the project. 2) It would give a si

Re: Open office

2013-09-08 Thread Rob Weir
I say that this was not us. Regards, Rob Weir, Apache OpenOffice Project Management Committee This is a very underhanded stunt as you well know; to allow users to build > huge information units and then tell them to pay or go somewhere else, thus > having to move and try to save all thei

Re: Does our "Decision Making" information need additional instructions?

2013-09-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > The information we currently have on Decision Making can be found in our > Orientation section: > > http://openoffice.apache.org/orientation/decision-making.html > > On that page, there are explanations for types of decision making used in > this

Re: requirements for vm-admins of forum/translate/wiki

2013-09-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > On 04/09/2013 Rob Weir wrote: >> >> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 12:36 PM, janI wrote: >> >> I assume we want well-maintained servers that help us get our >> project-related tasks done, and also help serve our

Re: Has anyone tried AOO with Windows 8.1 Preview?

2013-09-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > The ISOs for Win 8.1 are available here: > > http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/preview-iso > > I'm wondering if anyone has tried AOO 4.0 with it yet? If there are > any new critical issues there it would be go

Re: requirements for vm-admins of forum/translate/wiki

2013-09-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 5:24 AM, janI wrote: > On 6 September 2013 19:49, Rob Weir wrote: > >> On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 12:14 PM, janI wrote: >> > On 6 September 2013 15:27, Dave Fisher wrote: >> > >> >> >> >> On Sep 4, 2013, at 11:37 PM,

Re: requirements for vm-admins of forum/translate/wiki

2013-09-06 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 12:14 PM, janI wrote: > On 6 September 2013 15:27, Dave Fisher wrote: > >> >> On Sep 4, 2013, at 11:37 PM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: >> >> > On 9/4/13 10:17 PM, Rob Weir wrote: >> >> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 12:36 PM, janI wrote: >

Has anyone tried AOO with Windows 8.1 Preview?

2013-09-06 Thread Rob Weir
The ISOs for Win 8.1 are available here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/preview-iso I'm wondering if anyone has tried AOO 4.0 with it yet? If there are any new critical issues there it would be good to know and possibly fix in 4.0.1. -Rob -

Re: Question to all developers and translators: How integrated should translation be ?

2013-09-06 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 12:33 PM, janI wrote: > On 6 September 2013 16:53, Dick Groskamp wrote: > >> Op 6-9-2013 14:30, janI schreef: >> >> Hi >>> >>> I am copying this mail to the l10n list, in order to involve the >>> translators that do not follow dev@. But lets please keep the discussion >>>

Re: [CONF] Apache OpenOffice Community > Louis Vuitton Evora 100% Authentic 80% Off Free Shipping

2013-09-06 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 12:54 PM, janI wrote: > On 6 September 2013 18:48, sebb wrote: > >> On 6 September 2013 17:07, Alexandro Colorado wrote: >> > We are getting some spam attacks on the cWiki, wonder if we can do >> > some scanning to detect similar pages, and also remove this nick. >> >> On

Re: Question to all developers and translators: How integrated should translation be ?

2013-09-06 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 8:54 AM, Armin Le Grand wrote: > I see translators working at the same level as developers, not as something >>> >>> /extras, and therefore the work should be treated as such. >> >> >> It is not ;-) My wife is a translator, I can tell you... > > Upps... Before anyone may get

Re: Question to all developers and translators: How integrated should translation be ?

2013-09-06 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 8:30 AM, janI wrote: > Hi > > I am copying this mail to the l10n list, in order to involve the > translators that do not follow dev@. But lets please keep the discussion on > dev@. > > As its hopefully known, I have been working on a new workflow for the whole > translation

Re: User questions on dev mailing list

2013-09-06 Thread Rob Weir
uot;? Make the forums sound like the most attractive option. We know they are the best place for questions, of course. But we ought to describe it equally attractively. -Rob > Marcus > > > > >>>> I assume there must be a mailto: link somewhere that is producing this.

Re: Another test of the download page on Browsershots.com

2013-09-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Marcus (OOo) wrote: > Am 09/05/2013 10:20 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: > >> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Marcus (OOo) wrote: >>> >>> Am 09/05/2013 12:20 AM, schrieb Rob Weir: >>> >>>> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 5:37 PM,

Re: Another test of the download page on Browsershots.com

2013-09-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Marcus (OOo) wrote: > Am 09/05/2013 12:20 AM, schrieb Rob Weir: > >> On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 5:37 PM, Marcus (OOo) wrote: >>> >>> Am 09/04/2013 10:47 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: >>> >>>> http://browsershots.org/http://

Re: Spell check

2013-09-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 7:11 AM, ChuckMary V wrote: > the word, > > *AUHTORITIES* > was not caught with spell check. Hi Chuck, By default OpenOffice does not spell check words that are in all caps. This is because they are typically acronyms, company names or similar that are not in spell checki

Re: User questions on dev mailing list

2013-09-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 5:24 AM, sebb wrote: > The dev list sees the occasional thread which IMO really belongs on > the user list/forum > > Although it is convenient for the poster to have the question answered > on the dev list, I wonder if that is the best approach overall. > > The disadvantages

Re: Latest update fucked my spread sheets

2013-09-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 2:16 AM, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote: > Hi, > > > On 05.09.2013 02:49, Krynock Construction wrote: >> >> Just to let you dicks know, I updated the program with the latest >> update and all my text documents are fine. However, ALL my spread >> sheets that I use to estimate

Re: Component "shs" in Bugzilla (Native-Lang)

2013-09-04 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 7:02 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Rob Weir wrote: >> >> I'm reading the "sh" is deprecated and "sr" is for Serbian IANA >> recommends sr-Latn for Serbian with Latin script. ... >> >> Are we not able to use subtags

Re: Component "shs" in Bugzilla (Native-Lang)

2013-09-04 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Marcus (OOo) wrote: >> >> The following is maybe a good indication that it is indeed belonging to >> the language: >> http://www.openoffice.org/shs/ >> Maybe already available in Bugzilla but not yet (or for a point of time >> in the past) a

Re: Another test of the download page on Browsershots.com

2013-09-04 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 5:37 PM, Marcus (OOo) wrote: > Am 09/04/2013 10:47 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: > >> http://browsershots.org/http://www.openoffice.org/download/ >> >> I'm not sure anyone else can read that. It might be tied to a cookie. >> But I ran a test

Another test of the download page on Browsershots.com

2013-09-04 Thread Rob Weir
http://browsershots.org/http://www.openoffice.org/download/ I'm not sure anyone else can read that. It might be tied to a cookie. But I ran a test to render the download page on 135 browser/os combinations. It returns a PNG screenshot for each rendering. I looked for which combinations did not

Re: requirements for vm-admins of forum/translate/wiki

2013-09-04 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 12:36 PM, janI wrote: > Hi. > > We have had some longer discussions on different ML/IRC about how a > vm-admin should behave and which level of service we expect for our servers. > > We need new admins, so this is also a request for anyone interested to chip > in. > > We hav

Re: FYI: Wiki posting

2013-09-03 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > On Tue, 3 Sep 2013 16:03:51 -0400 > Rob Weir wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Hagar Delest >> wrote: >> > Le 03/09/2013 20:51, Rob Weir a écrit : >> > >> >> Maybe on

Re: FYI: Wiki posting

2013-09-03 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 3:57 PM, Hagar Delest wrote: > Le 03/09/2013 20:51, Rob Weir a écrit : > >> Maybe one approach is to split this into two pages, one with the >> simpler core content, and a linked page that has all of the tutorial >> links? > > > What do

Re: FYI: Wiki posting

2013-09-03 Thread Rob Weir
Sounds like an editing disagreement wrapped in a conspiracy theory. As far as I know there is no conspiracy here. If there was I'd surely know about it ;-) Who is Eschmenk? Does he or she know about DACM? Have they actually discussed the issue? If not they should probably start a discussion o

Re: Service Unavailable error when trying to visit wiki.openoffice.org

2013-09-03 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 1:13 PM, janI wrote: > Hi > > I have filed INFRA-6714, wiki has simply run out of resources. > > Our popularity is "killing" us, so what on one hand is positive (many users > asking for information) is on the other hand causing problems with the > infrastructure. > We saw a

Re: Removing JavaScript from other.html

2013-09-03 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 9:22 PM, sebb wrote: > AFAICT, there is *already* a really good candidate for the > download/other.html page: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Development+Snapshot+Builds > > The tables in the middle are easy to follow and AFAIK contain all the > requ

Re: [announce] genLang extract is ready.

2013-09-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 1:07 PM, janI wrote: > Hi > > I am pleased to inform you, that I have reached a major milestone with > genLang. > > genLang is now integrated in the build system (for extraction), and I have > carefully tested that "genLang extract" (generation of .pot template files) > is

Re: 4.0.1 release and distribution.

2013-09-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Sep 1, 2013 at 5:42 AM, janI wrote: > On 1 September 2013 11:27, janI wrote: > >> Hi. >> >> I had a talk on #asfinfra today, regarding our upcomming 4.0.1 release. >> >> Sync on mirrors takes about a week, and the mirror can in general not hold >> 4.0 and 4.0.1 >> Is this a change? The

Re: Yet another flyer

2013-08-30 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 7:16 PM, David Gerard wrote: > On 30 August 2013 23:17, Rob Weir wrote: > >> Trademarks apply to a specific class of product. There is no other >> OpenOffice, Apache OpenOffice or OpenOffice.org that is a software >> application.This

Re: Yet another flyer

2013-08-30 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Donald Whytock wrote: > No, but Apache cares about legal issues, and therefore might not want > someone else's trademarks (however valid or frivolous) infringed upon in > the context of presenting Apache's own valid ones. > Trademarks apply to a specific class of

Re: IBM Connections Connector for Apache OpenOffice

2013-08-30 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Jörg Schmidt wrote: >> From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] > >> > I and some of my clients (You know I offering professional >> support for OpenOffice), regret that there is no specific AOO >> version for business user. &g

Re: template troubles in "xx" pseudo NL website

2013-08-30 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: > On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 08:26:51AM -0400, Rob Weir wrote: >> But one question: what is the strategy on locale detection on the >> download page for NL pages? It looks like you are hardcoding it to >> "

Re: KEYS

2013-08-30 Thread Rob Weir
Moving conversation over to the dev list... On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 8:18 PM, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: > On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 05:31:35PM -0400, Rob Weir wrote: >> > I wanted to verify the >> > Apache_OpenOffice_4.0.0_Linux_x86-64_install-rpm_en-US.tar.gz.asc >>

Re: IBM Connections Connector for Apache OpenOffice

2013-08-30 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 8:27 AM, Jörg Schmidt wrote: > Hello, > >> From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] > >> So what does this mean? > > Thanks for the information. > >> 1. We're *not* promoting a separate version of OpenOffice. There

Re: template troubles in "xx" pseudo NL website

2013-08-30 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: > On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 09:49:33AM -0400, Rob Weir wrote: >> As I mentioned earlier I'm trying to make a self-contained English >> language website that can copied and translated to make new (or >> ref

IBM Connections Connector for Apache OpenOffice

2013-08-29 Thread Rob Weir
A few quick words, wearing my IBM hat. I'd like to draw your attention to a new extension that we (IBM) have published, and what this means: http://extensions.openoffice.org/en/project/ibm-connections-connector-apache-openoffice We sell a popular social business platform called Connections, whic

template troubles in "xx" pseudo NL website

2013-08-29 Thread Rob Weir
As I mentioned earlier I'm trying to make a self-contained English language website that can copied and translated to make new (or refreshed) NL websites. This includes the 25 or so core pages that should be translated for every language. You can see the site here in: https://svn.apache.org/repo

Re: Slashdot Article

2013-08-29 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 8:02 AM, Armin Le Grand wrote: > Hi Keith, > > > On 29.08.2013 01:37, Keith Curtis wrote: >> >> I believe it matters how much code comes from IBM. Code coming from >> anywhere is good, but diversity of community is a good measure of health. >> LibreOffice, the Linux ker

Re: Slashdot Article

2013-08-29 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 2:34 AM, Larry Gusaas wrote: > On 2013-08-28 10:44 PM Simple Good wrote: >> >> BTW how can I unsubscribe from these mailings to my account. > > > Send an email to dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > Reply to the confirmation email you will receive. > Since the user was

Re: Example of spreadsheet formula testing

2013-08-28 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Herbert Duerr wrote: > On 28.08.2013 14:30, Rob Weir wrote: >> >> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 4:51 AM, Herbert Duerr wrote: >>> >>> On 27.08.2013 15:29, Rob Weir wrote: >>>> >>>> &

Re: Slashdot Article

2013-08-28 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 12:45 AM, Keith Curtis wrote: > One of the points I would like some clarification on is in the article > defending ASF by Andrew C. Oliver: http://www.infoworld.com/print/22 > > In it, he wrote: "Nearly all of the very active Apache OpenOffice > developers work for IBM

Re: Example of spreadsheet formula testing

2013-08-28 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 4:51 AM, Herbert Duerr wrote: > On 27.08.2013 15:29, Rob Weir wrote: >> >> On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Herbert Duerr wrote: >>> >>> [...] >>> >>> A good idea. I just wrote a task [1] and a script [2] that takes a &

Re: open office book writing in native language

2013-08-27 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 11:25 AM, wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to ask if i am allowed to write an open office tutorial > (commercial book) in Greek language. Am i,as a writer, under any > obligation to the Apache Foundation? Are there any restrictions? > Yes, it is permitted to write tutoria

Re: Example of spreadsheet formula testing

2013-08-27 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Herbert Duerr wrote: > On 25.08.2013 16:12, Andrea Pescetti wrote: >> >> On 19/08/2013 Herbert Duerr wrote: >>> >>> An example of a test case where a formula ("addition") is checked is in >>> [1]. This file is clean and easy enough that it could be used as a >>> te

Re: Article on Slashdot

2013-08-27 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 5:29 AM, Andre Fischer wrote: > For your information, > > There is an article on slashdot [1] "Has the Apache Software Foundation Lost > Its Way?" but most comments are about AOO/LO. > Didn't we read essentially the same article last year, and the year before? If I wanted

Re: Actual list of supported languages is where ?

2013-08-27 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 6:54 AM, Regina Henschel wrote: > Hi all, > > http://www.openoffice.org/l10n/team.html links to > OpenOffice.org languages > http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Languages > > But that Wiki-page is of state "Oracle". > > Is http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Languages intended to t

Re: Brainstorming: Can we refactor the website to make translation easier?

2013-08-26 Thread Rob Weir
> Dave > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Aug 26, 2013, at 8:45 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > >> On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 5:12 PM, janI wrote: >>> On 23 August 2013 21:11, Rob Weir wrote: >>> >>>> On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 12:21 PM, janI wrote: &

Re: Brainstorming: Can we refactor the website to make translation easier?

2013-08-26 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 8:58 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > >> (Responses to dev@openoffice.apache.org, please) >> >> Obviously our website is quite large. Google reports 21207 pages >> indexed in the www subdomain, an

Re: Brainstorming: Can we refactor the website to make translation easier?

2013-08-26 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 5:12 PM, janI wrote: > On 23 August 2013 21:11, Rob Weir wrote: > >> On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 12:21 PM, janI wrote: >> > On 23 August 2013 17:58, Rob Weir wrote: >> > >> >> (Responses to dev@openoffice.apache.org, please) >&g

Re: Font galleries facelift

2013-08-26 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Ricardo Berlasso wrote: >> >> Is it possible to install fonts as extensions? > > > This is the key question. I suspect that the answer is "no", or at least I > don't see any "font extensions" searching http://extensions.openoffice.org . > B

Re: Font galleries facelift

2013-08-25 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Ricardo Berlasso wrote: > 2013/8/25 Andrea Pescetti > >> Alexandro Colorado wrote: >> >>> I wonder if OpenOffice could get a facelift on the fonts it comes up with. >>> I have seen quite a few of Apache license fonts that are pretty nice >>> >> >> Within reason (w

Re: Mercurial repository at hg.services.openoffice.org

2013-08-24 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Simon Phipps wrote: >> >> For the legacy Mercurial repository Andrea mentioned to be useful to >> future >> developers I would expect the copyright status of the repo to thus need >> clarifying, and I don't recall seeing a definitive statem

Re: Mercurial repository at hg.services.openoffice.org

2013-08-24 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Simon Phipps wrote: > On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 6:23 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > >> On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Simon Phipps wrote: >> > On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Rob Weir wrote: >> > >> >> On Sat, Aug 2

Re: Mercurial repository at hg.services.openoffice.org

2013-08-24 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Simon Phipps wrote: > On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > >> On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 8:23 AM, Simon Phipps wrote: >> > Was the licensing status of the CWSes in this repository every resolved? >> > >> >> T

Re: Mercurial repository at hg.services.openoffice.org

2013-08-24 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 8:23 AM, Simon Phipps wrote: > Was the licensing status of the CWSes in this repository every resolved? > The authorship is varied. What CWS did you have in mind specifically? -Rob > S. - To unsubscrib

Re: Brainstorming: Can we refactor the website to make translation easier?

2013-08-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 12:21 PM, janI wrote: > On 23 August 2013 17:58, Rob Weir wrote: > >> (Responses to dev@openoffice.apache.org, please) >> >> Obviously our website is quite large. Google reports 21207 pages >> indexed in the www subdomain, and a f

Brainstorming: Can we refactor the website to make translation easier?

2013-08-23 Thread Rob Weir
(Responses to dev@openoffice.apache.org, please) Obviously our website is quite large. Google reports 21207 pages indexed in the www subdomain, and a further 48075 pages in the wiki subdomain. But for purpose of this post, when I talk about the "home page" I'm talking about the contents of our

Re: Where do I download Open Office 4.0?

2013-08-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > Hi Kit, > > Rory gave you another link that should work. But so we can debug > things more on our end, could you let us know was operating system you > are using, and what browser version? > Response, off list, was that she

Re: [IDEA] "Back to School with AOO" blog post

2013-08-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 7:36 AM, sebb wrote: > On 22 August 2013 18:54, Rob Weir wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Rob Weir wrote: >>> It is that time of year now: back to school. >>> >>> I wonder if this could make a good blog post. Of course, AO

Re: Where do I download Open Office 4.0?

2013-08-23 Thread Rob Weir
Hi Kit, Rory gave you another link that should work. But so we can debug things more on our end, could you let us know was operating system you are using, and what browser version? Thanks! -Rob On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 7:52 AM, Kit Spackman wrote: > Hello there, > > I've been a satisfied user

Re: Does AOO use the new SourceForge Windows installer?

2013-08-22 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 5:36 PM, David Gerard wrote: > http://www.gluster.org/2013/08/how-far-the-once-mighty-sourceforge-has-fallen/ > > Is AOO using the installer in question, or its own? > The program is called DevShare. It was announced almost two months ago [1] by SourceForge and discussed

Re: [IDEA] "Back to School with AOO" blog post

2013-08-22 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > It is that time of year now: back to school. > > I wonder if this could make a good blog post. Of course, AOO being > free is core part of the story. But even better would be if we had a > "top 10" list of ways

Re: Mercurial repository at hg.services.openoffice.org

2013-08-22 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Rob Weir wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Andrea Pescetti >> wrote: >>> >>> The Mercurial repository at http://hg.services.openoffice.org/ is no >>> longer >>> c

Re: [RELEASE]: propose snapshot build for AOO 4.0.1

2013-08-22 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 9:27 AM, Michal Hriň wrote: > Dňa Thu, 22 Aug 2013 14:00:17 +0200 Jürgen Schmidt > napísal: > > >> On 8/22/13 1:29 PM, Michal Hriň wrote: >>> >>> Dňa Thu, 22 Aug 2013 12:02:09 +0200 Jürgen Schmidt >>> napísal: >>> On 8/22/13 11:51 AM, Michal Hriň wrote: > > D

Re: Pootle User Guide progress

2013-08-22 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Regina Henschel wrote: > Hi, > > my draft on http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Talk:Pootle_User_Guide > progresses. It is not completed, but I have integrated all still relevant > parts from http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Pootle_User_Guide. > > I now want to move t

Is anyone using Apple Pages?

2013-08-21 Thread Rob Weir
If possible I'd like to get two test files saved from Pages: 1) An Empty document 2) A document that has a simple string, like "hello world" Both saved in DOC format. I'm seeing some reports claiming that DOC exports from Pages crashes AOO 4.0. I have a complicated example file. But I'd like

Re: Should download pages *require* Javascript?

2013-08-20 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Marcus (OOo) wrote: > >> Am 08/20/2013 10:23 PM, schrieb Donald Whytock: >> >> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Marcus (OOo) >>> wrote: >>> >>> Am 08/20/2013 09:45 PM, schrieb Donald Whytock: On T

Re: Where can I find the new logo (svg) usable in AOO

2013-08-20 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 9:09 AM, Kay Schenk wrote: > >> >> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Kay Schenk wrote: >> >>> >>> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 5:57 AM, Jürgen Schmidt >>> wrote: >>

Re: Websites headers (forum, wiki, main site, ...)

2013-08-20 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 4:36 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > >> >> >> >> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 2:33 AM, Larry Gusaas wrote: >> >>> >>> >>> On 2013-08-20 12:34 AM Jürgen Schmidt wrote: >>> On 8/19/13 10:56 PM, Ricardo Berlasso wro

Re: Poor user experience with update of extensions

2013-08-20 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > sorry for top posting > > I would like to continue the discussion on this topic because the user > experience is quite important here. > > What do others think and would it be possible to change it into a direct > download instead of the ex

Re: Where can I find the new logo (svg) usable in AOO

2013-08-20 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 8:36 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > Hi, > > sorry for the stupid question but where can I find a svg version of the > new logo that I can use (load) in OpenOffice? > > The versions under > marketing/content/marketing/art/galleries/logos/aoo-working are all > broken when I load

Re: Usability: dictionary updates and profile migration

2013-08-20 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 8:04 AM, Roberto Galoppini wrote: > 2013/8/19 Roberto Galoppini > >> >> >> >> 2013/8/19 sebb >> >>> On 19 August 2013 16:39, Rob Weir wrote: >>> > On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Andrea Pescetti >>> wr

Re: Websites headers (forum, wiki, main site, ...)

2013-08-20 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Ricardo Berlasso wrote: > 2013/8/19 Jürgen Schmidt > >> On 8/19/13 1:43 PM, Rob Weir wrote: >> > On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Ricardo Berlasso >> wrote: >> >> (top posting) >> >> >> >> Use

Re: Should download pages *require* Javascript?

2013-08-19 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 6:39 PM, Marcus (OOo) wrote: > Am 08/19/2013 09:51 PM, schrieb sebb: > >> On 19 August 2013 20:27, Rob Weir wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Andrea Pescetti >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> On 1

Re: Should download pages *require* Javascript?

2013-08-19 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > On 19/08/2013 sebb wrote: >> >> Note that the page http://www.openoffice.org/download/other.html also >> requires Javascript! > > > This is not so good. The noscript option should direct the user to > http://www.apache.org/dyn/aoo-closer.cg

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