Re: Can't create pages in the Wiki

2024-01-11 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 09/01/24 Damjan Jovanovic wrote: I don't seem to have permission to create new pages in the Wiki ( wiki.openoffice.org). Can someone please give me access? I've given additional permissions to user "Damjan"; you should now be able to create pages. Regards, Andrea.

Re: Experimental AppImage available

2023-08-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 27/08/23 Matthias Seidel wrote: https://home.apache.org/~pescetti/AppImage/ I followed your instructions. When I try to start it I get ./ApacheOpenOffice-x86_64.AppImage /tmp/.mount_Apache9fEaNk/AppRun: 3: cd: can't cd to usr/program /tmp/.mount_Apache9fEaNk/AppRun: 4: ./soffice: not found

Experimental AppImage available

2023-08-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
After promising it quite some time ago, I managed to have the time to make an experimental AppImage available at last. It took a while... thank you for your patience! You can find it at https://home.apache.org/~pescetti/AppImage/ and any Linux user can download it and play with it. This is

Re: User Installation Process Feedback

2023-05-08 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 07/05/23 Dave Fisher wrote: For those just now looking into this here is a link: https://docs.appimage.org/ If we switch to this packaging it appears that we can significantly reduce the many Linux packages we create when we release. I've done a recent build to produce an AppImage a few

Re: [Wiki] Spam spam spam

2023-01-17 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 28/11/22 Matthias Seidel wrote: Am 28.11.22 um 20:04 schrieb Carl Marcum: I would also be for disabling inactive accounts and letting people request it to sysadmin@ or something like that if that would help. That would also be my proposal. But I have no idea what is possible. Andrea might

Re: Marketing Mailing List

2023-01-09 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 07/01/23 Dave wrote: The marketing mailing list has a deteriorating level of usefulness. ... I propose that, unless any member of the project can offer any clear and fully justifiable reason for doing otherwise, we shut down the "spam bait" marketing list. Yes, +1 for shutting it down; I

Re: T-DOSE 2023

2023-01-09 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 08/01/23 Damjan Jovanovic wrote: OpenOffice is Open-Source Software, not Free Software. There is a difference. Indeed there is a difference, but OpenOffice is both Open Source software and Free Software for all reasonable definitions of each category. So we are allowed into events of

Re: Open letter to @Dave Fisher and @Pescetti.

2023-01-06 Thread Andrea Pescetti
casa...@email.it wrote: For months I have been asking for help to fix a registration problem on the Italian AOO forum. You both promised me you'd step in, but so far you haven't. We are all volunteers and we do what we can. The fact that you didn't see anything doesn't mean that we did

Re: [Wiki] Access to update the main wiki page?

2022-12-31 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Damjan Jovanovic wrote: I have access to edit our wiki, but while trying to update our main main wiki page at https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Main_Page I saw it's been locked against changes. Can I please get access? Sure, but I'll need your username (in private is fine too). For starters,

No OpenOffice Devroom at FOSDEM 2023

2022-12-30 Thread Andrea Pescetti
You've often seen me spamming this list in the last week of the year in recent years calling for FOSDEM submissions, but I am not doing it this time... since there will be no OpenOffice devroom at FOSDEM 2023. With the return to physical events, rooms are limited and FOSDEM tries to rotate

Re: [Wiki] Spam spam spam

2022-11-09 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Bidouille wrote: https://wiki.openoffice.org/w/index.php?title=Special:RecentChanges=500 Somebody can ban Albryan @ comcast.net and remove his posts? User blocked. As for posts, I'll delete them later today or tomorrow, just the time to check recent and old activity in detail. Regards,

Happy birthday as an ASF Top Level Project!

2022-10-16 Thread Andrea Pescetti
I can't help noticing that Apache OpenOffice turns 10 as a top level project at the ASF today... Happy birthday everybody, and keep up the good work! Andrea - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For

Re: Let's replace expat with libxml2?

2022-10-16 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 15/10/22 Damjan Jovanovic wrote: We currently use 2 XML libraries in our C/C++ code, expat and libxml2. This is unnecessary, one of them can be removed, and I propose we remove expat. +1 from me; as you explain, keeping expat would need additional effort too due to the compiler issues, so

Re: [DISCUSS] In a few weeks 333 Mio. downloads

2022-09-02 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Marcus wrote: https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/300-million-downloads-of-apache - Insert the graphic via the normal way via "Insert Media File" - With the respective button change into the "Code View" - Search for the media URL - Delete the "?t=true" appendix   (I think it tells Roller to

Re: Templates Website Failure

2022-08-29 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 29/08/22 Peter Kovacs wrote: We have 3 servers. Maybe we can deploy the service there? Technically this would be possible, sure. But I think these sites were moved to external hosting since the ASF had concerns, at the time, with the many different licenses used by the Extensions and

Re: source release with MacOSx build.log

2022-08-28 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 27/08/22 Matthias Seidel wrote: Am 23.08.22 um 23:53 schrieb Peter Kovacs: I found a note that we package the build log (which is 20 Megabytes.) It is at least since 4.1.10 Part of the source release and in 4.1.13 it is the build log for MacOSx. That is most likely because Jim is doing

Re: Templates Website Failure

2022-08-28 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 21/08/22 Andrea Pescetti wrote: - Opened https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/INFRA/issues/INFRA-23610 to ask INFRA how we can use an ASF-owned resource instead of my server INFRA answered they won't help since they only cater for websites they maintain, while this one is externally

Re: Templates Website Failure

2022-08-21 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 20/08/22 Keith N. McKenna wrote: Andrea Pescetti wrote: 1) We get confirmation that this is fixed not only for me 2) Then I can apply the same fix to Templates and have a fix in place, where the only drawback is that it uses my server 3) Then I would create a new issue like the abandoned

Re: Templates Website Failure

2022-08-20 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 18/08/22 Dave wrote: But I would suggest a simpler approach now: we can try and configure an account to be used for sending mail (even a GMail account will do) and update the site configuration to use GMail as SMTP. And then, if it works, we replace it with a more reasonable sender, like an

Re: Templates Website Failure

2022-08-18 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Dave wrote: We are getting more and more complainants about Template and Extension authors being unable to access these sites. I'm catching up with mail and indeed I see this is a recurrent issue. To check the issue I tried register at the Templates site and received a totally garbage

Re: Check for English spelling extension updates broken?

2022-03-16 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 10/03/22 Pedro Lino wrote: Thanks to Andrea's clear instructions we now have one more trained "staff" to do this update ;) Thank you for taking over! I'll try to get the instructions posted to some "official" shared space by this weekend. Regards, Andrea.

Re: location of language data in code

2022-02-28 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 27/02/22 Mechtilde wrote: > Am 27.02.22 um 19:29 schrieb Keith N. McKenna: >> Is there information needed in the code itself to support >> a language, and if where in the code would I I look see if >> it is already there? Which language you are looking for? We have to extract it from the

Re: Check for English spelling extension updates broken?

2022-02-19 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 19/02/22 Pedro Lino wrote: no one opposes that I have permissions on the Extensions shell access? Done! You have it now. Who can handle this so you can teach me further steps? I've written extensive documentation with the aim of adding it to

Re: Check for English spelling extension updates broken?

2022-02-13 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 11/02/22 Pedro Lino wrote: Do you have time for this issue during this weekend? Hello Pedro, I had to try a lot of times since apparently the process changed since the last time I checked this, but I was able to login at last and it's still weekend! So, the first steps on your side,

Apache OpenOffice Devroom at FOSDEM 2022, Saturday 5 Feb (online)

2022-02-03 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Reminder: FOSDEM is coming this weekend and you don't even need to travel to Brussels this year, as everything will happen online. On Saturday we'll have a morning session and an afternoon session (European time) and you can find schedule details here:

Re: Check for English spelling extension updates broken?

2022-02-03 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Pedro Lino wrote: I found some odd results. If the user has an older than 2017 version of the dictionary, the Extension Update dialog will report that version 2017.05.01 is available. If the user has the 2017.05.01 version or newer it will always report that "No new updates are available."

Re: RV: locale oc-ES

2022-01-10 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Matthias Seidel wrote: it looks like the author is willing to release it also for OpenOffice. Can we help him? General information: https://archive.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/event/ode_localization/ Adding a new language or locale:

Re: Call for Proposals: Apache OpenOffice Devroom at FOSDEM 2022 (online)

2021-12-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
for information. Regards, Andrea. On 08/12/2021 Andrea Pescetti wrote: ## Call for Proposals We are happy to announce that we will be running an Apache OpenOffice Devroom again at FOSDEM 2022. The event will be held online on Saturday, 5 Feb 2022. Participation is free. No registration

Call for Proposals: Apache OpenOffice Devroom at FOSDEM 2022 (online)

2021-12-08 Thread Andrea Pescetti
## Call for Proposals We are happy to announce that we will be running an Apache OpenOffice Devroom again at FOSDEM 2022. The event will be held online on Saturday, 5 Feb 2022. Participation is free. No registration required. We are now open to receiving proposals for content for a day of

Re: MWiki account needed

2021-11-01 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 25/10/2021 MENGUAL Jean-Philippe wrote: Mail: jpmeng...@debian.org Nick: texou For adding scenari for QA test from a UI point of view I see this account request was still pending, so I've gone ahead and created it. You can set a password using

Re: Happy Anniversary (9 years as TLP)

2021-10-17 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 17/10/2021 Matthias Seidel wrote: On this day, 9 years ago Apache OpenOffice became an Apache Top Level Project (TLP). Thanks for the reminder... and a big thank you to those who still ensure the continued success of OpenOffice! Regards, Andrea.

Re: [VOTE] Release AOO 4.1.11-RC1 as GA

2021-10-03 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 30/09/2021 Jim Jagielski wrote: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/openoffice/4.1.11-RC1/ Please cast your vote: The Release Candidate is good for production/GA: [X] yes / +1 [ ] no / -1 My vote is based on [X] binding (member of PMC) [X] I have built and tested the RC from

Re: 500 error while building during bootstrap

2021-10-03 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Andrea Pescetti wrote: It is fixed by editing line 541 of main/solenv/bin/download_external_dependencies.pl so that it reads (add the middle line):     $agent->env_proxy;     $agent->ssl_opts(verify_hostname => 0);     my $response = $agent->get($URL); Additional note:

Re: 500 error while building during bootstrap

2021-10-03 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 02/10/2021 Pedro Lino wrote: I can confirm that bootstrapping works as expected on my Ubuntu 18.04.6 OS I've bumped into the same problem while building on an old CentOS 7 VM (but doing a clean build). It is fixed by editing line 541 of main/solenv/bin/download_external_dependencies.pl

Re: About discrimination...

2021-08-18 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Persy Morell Guerra wrote: I was trying to download form : https://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/files/4.1.10/binaries/es/Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.10_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_es.tar.gz/download Please check whether one of the following alternative mirrors works for you and let

Re: Ubuntu 21.04 / dark mode

2021-05-30 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Andrea Pescetti wrote: Pedro Lino wrote: On 05/29/2021 9:32 PM Andrea Pescetti wrote: https://remixicon.com/ This one is really interesting! Can you share the links to other projects that you have found? FontAwesome https://fontawesome.com/license/free is really popular and CC

Re: Ubuntu 21.04 / dark mode

2021-05-30 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Pedro Lino wrote: On 05/29/2021 9:32 PM Andrea Pescetti wrote: https://remixicon.com/ This one is really interesting! Can you share the links to other projects that you have found? FontAwesome https://fontawesome.com/license/free is really popular and CC-BY (but recent versions include

Re: Ubuntu 21.04 / dark mode

2021-05-29 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Pedro Lino wrote: On 05/28/2021 10:27 PM Andrea Pescetti wrote: In short, a possible explanation should be: we were carrying GPL icons and deleted them due to license incompatibility, but in the meantime, and independently, those icons had been relicensed to avoid excessive restrictions; so

Re: Ubuntu 21.04 / dark mode

2021-05-28 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 28/05/2021 Dave Fisher wrote: https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=119096 If the concern is a GPL build tool that we do not distribute (that is allowed) and what we distribute is PD w/ a Notice request then I don’t see any issue. The concern, by reading comment 3 in the issue,

Re: [Bugzilla] Increase Linux baseline to CentOS 6

2021-05-01 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Peter Kovacs wrote: https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=127513 Should this Issue not be adjusted? Yes, a few years passed in the meantime and indeed now CentOS 7 would be a better choice than CentOS 6, with maintenance guaranteed until June 2024. https://wiki.centos.org/About/Product

Apache OpenOffice FOSDEM devroom tomorrow (online)

2021-02-05 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Tomorrow (Saturday) we are at FOSDEM all day, European time. Full schedule and links (top right): https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/track/apache_openoffice/ Talks are pre-recorded but we have live Questions and Answers in Matrix; also, Dave had issues with recording his videos, so the web

Re: Keep issues@ in bug reports [Was: Request for Bugzilla karma]

2021-01-30 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Marcus wrote: Am 26.01.21 um 22:57 schrieb Andrea Pescetti: Maybe you can find something in the Bugzilla configuration that defines the default QA contact? ... Sorry, not in BZ itself. I've looked into the admin settings but cannot find a suitable option. I believe our old (and I don't know

[DISCUSS] Re: [VOTE] Release macOS community builds AOO 4.1.9-RC1 as GA

2021-01-28 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Jim Jagielski wrote: I am calling a VOTE on releasing the complimentary community builds of macOS Apache OpenOffice 4.1.9-RC1 as GA. I won't be able to test on a Mac but, in case I ask others to check, they should make sure the following bug is fixed, right?

Re: Keep issues@ in bug reports [Was: Request for Bugzilla karma]

2021-01-26 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Marcus wrote: IMHO we just ned to make sure that isues@ is either the assignee - this works as long as nobody is taking over the issue for working on it - or it's in the CC list. Then every update on the issue will be posted to issues@. Even though I can't really find it in older issues like

Re: Request for Bugzilla karma

2021-01-24 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 19/01/2021 Peter Kovacs wrote: On 18.01.21 21:24, Arrigo Marchiori wrote: I am subscribed with my own e-mail address and I would like to assign bug 128424 to myself. Is it possible to keep iss...@openoffice.apache.org in the loop? ... If you just assig the issue to you I think we will not

Re: Check for English spelling extension updates broken?

2021-01-21 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 21/01/2021 Pedro Lino wrote: Please let me know if it works; if it does, I will then revert it and republish only after 4.1.9 is out ... It is fixed indeed (although I get 2 notifications for that extension, but one problem at a time!). Thanks! OK, thank you for checking. I've now

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

2021-01-21 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 18/01/21 Jim Jagielski wrote: I am calling a VOTE on releasing the source and complimentary community builds of Apache OpenOffice 4.1.9-RC1 as GA. The Release Candidate is good for production/GA: [X] yes / +1 [ ] no / -1 My vote is based on [X] binding (member of PMC) [X] I have

Re: Check for English spelling extension updates broken?

2021-01-21 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 20/01/2021 Andrea Pescetti wrote: I think we can fix it. Let me give it a try tomorrow. I believe it's fixed now (limited to the specific case of the English dictionary; I had to find some workarounds so I enabled only that extension for testing). Please let me know if it works

Re: OS2 code

2021-01-20 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 18/01/2021 Steve Lubbs wrote: So it seems that OS2 is not supported by the AOO project. Correct. I assume that the AOO project is not updating the OS2 code. Wrong (well, kind of...). Yuri Dario is an Apache committer too; and we did incorporate the last changes he did into our source

Re: Check for English spelling extension updates broken?

2021-01-20 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 20/01/2021 Matthias Seidel wrote: Am 20.01.21 um 00:47 schrieb Pedro Lino: On 01/19/2021 5:38 PM Matthias Seidel wrote: In this case it looks for the feed on the SourceForge server. My guess is, that these feeds are not generated anymore. I don't know if this was an automatic

Re: AOO 4.1.9 Info

2021-01-17 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 13/01/2021 Carl Marcum wrote: On 1/10/21 4:09 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: and, still on the wiki, there is also a more complete dump of the former Testlink cases that I cannot find right now. Maybe these? https://www.openoffice.org/qa/testcase/ Indeed, thanks! To be precise, the first link

Re: [PROPOSAL] add an unsubscribe/help footer to recruitment ML

2021-01-17 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 10/01/2021 Peter Kovacs wrote: On 10.01.21 23:42, Andrea Pescetti wrote: But we should also be more proactive and remove people when they ask for it on the list: Whimsy https://whimsy.apache.org/ ... The moderators are Patricia, Andrea and Marcus. I confirm that indeed I use Whimsy

Re: [PROPOSAL] add an unsubscribe/help footer to recruitment ML

2021-01-10 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 09/01/2021 Carl Marcum wrote: It seems we get a lot of unsubscribe requests to the recruitment@ ML. I propose we add a unsubscribe footer to that list like we have with dev@ and some others. +1 and Infra can indeed add it. But we should also be more proactive and remove people when they

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

2021-01-10 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Keith N. McKenna wrote: https://www.apache.org/foundation/license-faq.html#GPL I was a bit confused myself when I first read it, but why post it on an ASF FAQ site if it doesn't grant reciprocity? Because, if I recall correctly, back at the time the two Foundations worked together in order

Re: AOO 4.1.9 Info

2021-01-10 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 05/01/2021 Arrigo Marchiori wrote: I tried to ask if there is a procedure to follow for testing [1]. Do we have any? I can follow it for the Italian builds. Things are very different depending on whether one is testing a dev build or a release candidate. A list of manual tests close to

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

2020-12-28 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 22/12/2020 Jörg Schmidt wrote: my personal opinion is very simple: for me it would be enough to archive a static copy of the current state of the web pages, a history is not needed (in my opinion). This is what we get by using SVN/GIT (for static content, like the main OpenOffice.org

Re: MWiki Developer Guide Blank Pages

2020-12-28 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 17/12/2020 Carl Marcum wrote: I think I've fixed the blank pages problem in the Developer Guide. ...and I think I've read all the MWiki-related mails sent to this list by now, so I'll answer! Thank you guys for fixing the long-standing bug. I documented, back at the time, the MWiki

Re: Call for Proposals: Apache OpenOffice Devroom at FOSDEM 2021 (online)

2020-12-28 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Last call: don't be shy! Let's take FOSDEM as an occasion for an overall "state of the project" where we inform each other on the current status and ways forward. All talks will be pre-recorded as Peter wrote, so no problem with timezones; but after each talk we will have a live "questions

Call for Proposals: Apache OpenOffice Devroom at FOSDEM 2021 (online)

2020-12-08 Thread Andrea Pescetti
## Call for Proposals We are happy to announce that we will be running an Apache OpenOffice Devroom again at FOSDEM 2021. The event will be held online on Saturday, February 6th, 2021. Participation is free. No registration required. We are now open to receiving proposals for content for a

FOSDEM 2021 Apache OpenOffice devroom (online)

2020-11-28 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Good news: FOSDEM organizers decided to allocate an entire day for Apache OpenOffice next year. https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/tracks/ It is now tentatively scheduled for February 6th, online, free attendance; talks will have to be pre-recorded. I see this as an opportunity for a

Re: Delete the mailing list general-es

2020-11-21 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 20/11/2020 Marcus wrote: the last mail seems to be from June 2020 [1]. Do you really think that deleting the mailing list is a disservice? ;-) For me it's obvious that there is no longer a purpose. [1] https://lists.apache.org/list.html?general...@openoffice.apache.org:2020-6 This is not

Re: Delete the mailing list general-es

2020-11-18 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 17/11/2020 Marcos Delgado wrote: Hello, I am in charge of the list and I want to remove it. 99% of emails are spam. And I see no case to continue maintaining it. Who are the other moderators of that list? Would you be fine with converting it to a "subscription required" list, i.e., any

Re: [LAZY CONSENSUS] Move to new Website Git Repositories

2020-11-18 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Dave Fisher wrote: www.openoffice.org is switched over! Thank you! I've taken a look at the Italian site and: - Redirect from http://it.openoffice.org is still handled correctly - Some CSS is broken in the Italian site menu (most notably for already clicked links); here it would be useful

Re: How to create a child page in Apache OpenOffice Community space (cwiki)?

2020-11-17 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Dave Fisher wrote: If you start here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.1.8 All you need to do is press Create child page Actually, what I usually do is to copy the page; the Copy function asks what page to use as parent and there one can specify the original page as

Re: [LAZY CONSENSUS] Move to new Website Git Repositories

2020-11-16 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 15/11/2020 Andrea Pescetti wrote: yes for openoffice-project, not yet for openoffice-org. I'm changing this to a "yes" for both sites after the recent changes. Both sites are now almost identical to their CMS counterpart. Well done! One thing I'd appreciate, but this goes

Re: downloads.html page is down?

2020-11-16 Thread Andrea Pescetti
John D'Orazio wrote: It's online again, I guess it was a temporary glitch. I had refreshed cache, in any case it's back now. Actually the entire site is down (intermittently) for me too. Note that I mean, exactly as in your mail, the project site https://openoffice.apache.org not the product

Re: [LAZY CONSENSUS] Move to new Website Git Repositories

2020-11-15 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Matthias Seidel wrote: Yes for openoffice-project. openoffice-org has some optical glitches that should be ironed out before. Same for me (both). So: yes for openoffice-project, not yet for openoffice-org. The staged layout for openoffice-org has clear issues. Also, openoffice-org is so

Re: Apache OpenOffice Project Information

2020-11-15 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Marcus ha scritto: Am 15.11.20 um 16:07 schrieb Matthias Seidel: Am 15.11.20 um 15:54 schrieb Andrea Pescetti: Matthias Seidel wrote: By the way: these were my first edits to the the project site after the migration and everything was smooth, thanks a lot Dave! It really looks good

Re: Apache OpenOffice Project Information

2020-11-15 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Matthias Seidel wrote: https://github.com/apache/openoffice-project/blob/main/content/doap_openoffice.rdf I'll regenerate it from the standard template, just in case something changed there too. Please update it in the new repository. Pushed. The template had indeed been updated (references

Re: Boring issue: Opening ODF document from LibreOffice 7 displays error

2020-11-15 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Matthias Seidel wrote: Implementing it in AOO takes time, so we should concentrate on making the "error" message more logical. Now: This document was created by a newer version of OpenOffice. It may contain features not supported by your current version. Suggested: This document uses an

Re: Apache OpenOffice Project Information

2020-11-14 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Dave Fisher wrote: The file in question is here: https://github.com/apache/openoffice-project/blob/main/content/doap_openoffice.rdf You can leave further updates to this file to me for this weekend. I'll regenerate it from the standard template, just in case something changed there too. I

Re: [OPINION VOTE] CentOS7 or Ubuntu 14.04

2020-11-10 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Damjan Jovanovic wrote: AppImage and Snap packages would be the best, as those are multi-distro, portable apps, do desktop integration, user friendly, standard uninstallation, etc. I'm singling this out as this is a different discussion, related to how we package rather than how we build. I

Re: [OPINION VOTE] CentOS7 or Ubuntu 14.04

2020-11-10 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Jim Jagielski wrote: Cast your vote: [X] CentOS7 [ ] Ubuntu 14.04 [ ] Something else: CentOS 7 builds will run under Ubuntu 13.x too. While CentOS 7 32-bit would be unsupported, the 64-bit version would receive maintenance until 2024; Ubuntu 14.04, instead, is already

Re: upgrade notifications once we release 4.2.0

2020-11-10 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Jim Jagielski wrote: I am 100% still supportive of my original decision to baseline CentOS7 for the 4.2.x community builds. I see no reason to change that. I fully agree. Building on CentOS 5 is extremely hard these times, and one would have to replace the system SSL libraries just to

Re: Pre-release commit messages

2020-11-06 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 05/11/2020 Matthias Seidel wrote: Am 05.11.20 um 22:55 schrieb Jim Jagielski: This is a restriction/limitation of 'svn'... you cannot move one dir to another between repos: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/308115/copy-folder-of-svn-repository-to-a-folder-in-another-repository

Pre-release commit messages

2020-11-05 Thread Andrea Pescetti
A request to improve readability of pre-release commit messages: would it be possible to svn mv a directory (or a set of directories) instead of the single files? Looking at https://lists.apache.org/list.html?comm...@openoffice.apache.org there are 33 pages of mails for Linux/Mac that make it

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

2020-11-05 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 02/11/20 Jim Jagielski wrote: Please cast your vote: The Release Candidate is good for production/GA: [X] yes / +1 [ ] no / -1 My vote is based on [ ] binding (member of PMC) [X] I have built and tested the RC from source on platform [Linux 64] [ ] I have tested the

Re: 4.1.8-RC3

2020-11-01 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Pedro Lino wrote: Then it makes sense to at least change the tutorial at oo.org or even switch to the apt command below? I always install with apt when I test on Ubuntu: $ sudo apt install ./*.deb ./desktop-integration/*.deb but I think apt is the recommended tool "only" since Ubuntu 16.04,

Re: 4.1.8-RC3

2020-10-31 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Pedro Lino wrote: On 10/30/2020 10:29 PM Andrea Pescetti wrote: $ sudo dpkg -i *.deb desktop-integration/*deb I don't see why that would have different results. Because the conflict you were seeing was due to a file being moved from a .deb to another one; with the 3 steps dpkg cannot

Re: 4.1.8-RC3

2020-10-30 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Pedro Lino wrote: Just recompiled AOO 4.1.8 on another Ubuntu 18.04.5 x64 without issues. Installing 4.1.8 over 4.1.7 end with error reported 2 years ago https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=127774 It might be hard to try again in the same conditions, but isn't this fixed by running the

Re: QA Automated Test coverage

2020-10-28 Thread Andrea Pescetti
to restart manual tests. Just for clarity, the subject refers to "automated" tests but I was replying to the items concerning manual tests. On the other hand, automated tests are definitely important; I'm just not familiar at all with automated tests in OpenOffice. Regards, Andre

Re: building from a source tarball

2020-10-28 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Don Lewis wrote: On 28 Oct, Jim Jagielski wrote: In particular, this is when building from the "official" SRC_RELEASE tarball we provide. Is the inc/reporevision.lst file not included? It is in one of the RCs that I looked at. I don't have full information, but as I was the one who reported

Re: Google Analytics and Download Count

2020-10-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Dave Fisher wrote: I will be doing the initial migration as quickly as I can. I think that metrics needs a specific discussion. Initially I’ll comment this out. Do I understand well that there is no technical reason whatsoever to get rid of Google Analytics, and that the discussion is purely

Re: QA Automated Test coverage

2020-10-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 24/10/2020 Carl Marcum wrote: Slightly off topic is the QA Intro page [1] discusses TestLink which I don't think we use anymore Well, it looks like Adfinis decided to kill it. That was set up in the recent era (Apache), so it should serve as a lesson: Adfinis contributed a server, got

Re: Google Analytics and Download Count

2020-10-21 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 20/10/2020 Matthias Seidel wrote: It seems that I am the only one interested in the data Google Analytics provides. I'm interested in keeping Google Analytics too. We have years of historic data there and they are useful right now, since we'll want to ensure that the top 30 pages are

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

2020-10-21 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Don Lewis wrote: On 21 Oct, Jim Jagielski wrote: so are YOU able to build HEAD of AOO418 on CentOS5 ?? I haven't tried to build today's HEAD, but I've built and tested all of my AOO418 commits on CentOS 5 before I made the commits. It looks like we are getting closer I mean, we have a

Re: Building 4.1.8-RC2 - packaging issues

2020-10-18 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 13/10/20 Carl Marcum wrote: Error: ERROR: More than one new package in directory Using the --with-epm-url=http://sourceforge.net/projects/oooextras.mirror/files/epm-3.7.tar.gz rather than the installed newer version worked for me. Thank you Jim and Carl, I've added a note to the wiki

Re: Just another Anniversaries Event

2020-10-17 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 17/10/2020 19:13, Matthias Seidel wrote: We are still open! ;-) Wow! I managed to be there for a short time this morning and it was nice to meet virtually. As I said, it's good to be equipped for these solutions as conferences (including our traditional yearly gathering at FOSDEM in

Re: Happy birthday OpenOffice

2020-10-15 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 12/10/2020 Jörg Schmidt wrote: Happy birthday OpenOffice, October 13th is the 20th anniversary of the founding of OpenOffice I haven't seen on this list the link to the official 20th anniversary announcement, so here it is: https://s.apache.org/86lex Happy birthday, now just in the

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

2020-10-14 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Matthias Seidel wrote: Am 14.10.20 um 21:19 schrieb Jim Jagielski: I'm just looking to see where the fix/patch is :-) The problem is... There was none. It just vanished at one point. ;-) If the bug is in code, I don't understand why my builds at

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

2020-10-13 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 13/10/2020 Peter Kovacs wrote: The switch SYSTEM_STDLIBS will decide if the systemlib used is packaged into the delivery or not. For me this option is most likely to cause Issues. I've rebuilt with options closer to the one Jim posted and I still don't see the problem with my builds.

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

2020-10-12 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Jim Jagielski wrote: Can you provide a copy of the config.log file? Sure, uploaded at http://people.apache.org/~pescetti/openoffice-4.1.8-rc2/ Just a remark about those builds: those are not release builds, I just build with flags that are good for me in general. All details in the log

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

2020-10-11 Thread Andrea Pescetti
I get the same on a (64-bit of course) Ubuntu 20.04 system that, for the record, had OpenOffice 4.1.7 installed. If I install Jim's RC2 binary from https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/openoffice/4.1.8-RC2/binaries/it/Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.8_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_it.tar.gz and then

Building 4.1.8-RC2 - packaging issues

2020-10-11 Thread Andrea Pescetti
I've built the 4.1.8-RC2 sources from https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/openoffice/4.1.8-RC2/source/ on a new CentOS 7 VM and generated "installed" (not packaged), RPM and DEB builds that I tested on a variety of Fedora and Ubuntu systems. All good, for the most part. I'm still catching

Re: Apache OpenOffice Project Information

2020-04-13 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 12/04/2020 Matthias Seidel wrote: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/openoffice/site/trunk/content/doap_openoffice.rdf I would like to have it updated, esp. for the repository change from Subversion to Git. There is a tool for creating such a file: https://projects.apache.org/create.html The

Re: Nameing in Calc

2020-04-13 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 12/04/2020 Peter Kovacs wrote: I feel attacked by your negativeness and I feel I have to defend myself for my action. The main topic in this discussion is about "renaming something that is not quite right but that has been the same for many years". This is always a complex discussion,

Re: Robots.txt impacting https://templates.openoffice.org/ on Bing

2020-04-07 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Peter Kovacs wrote: I found this on users mailing list. What do we do? Nothing. Obviously this is a clueless guy who is desperately trying to get our sites configured so that the Bing bots can index them faster... But our sites are very static and this would slow them down for real users,

Re: Patricia elected for ASF Board

2020-04-06 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Congratulations Patricia! And a big thank you to Dave, who served in the outgoing Board. Regards, Andrea. Keith N. McKenna wrote: On 4/5/2020 1:15 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: Thanks. I had hoped to get more active in AOO, but will be giving priority to board activities for my Apache time.

Re: Alias for extensions and templates website

2020-04-05 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 04/04/2020 Matthias Seidel wrote: http://www.openoffice.org/projects/extension/ That sounds good! Can you set up a simple page? Done yesterday, then I didn't publish as publish.pl is no longer working for me, but someone did the right thing. I've now committed a slightly improved

Re: Alias for extensions and templates website

2020-04-04 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Dave Fisher wrote: I plan to investigate what happens if we map those sub domains. I don't think we have an issue here. I mean, if someone writes "extension" instead of the proper "extensions" this is just a typo, right? By that metric, then we should also redirect "ww" to "www", typos like

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