Re: Wrongful information on the Wikipedia

On Wed, 16 Sep 2015 21:27:53 GMT, Rob Weir wrote: > Last word, in case the inference is unclear. We're dealing with a > sophisticated serial infringer on Wikipedia. Correcting erroneous > information, which is proper to do, is unlikely to be achieved via an > edit war. Don't bring a knife to

Re: Anything we can do about premature redistribution?

On 7 March 2014 22:30, Andrew Rist wrote: >"It is derived from the IBM Lotus Symphony suite of applications..." >- not correct https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/merging_lotus_symphony_allegro_moderato suggests this is not an unfair statement. Indeed, just rebasing on the Symphony code

Re: More annoying FUD

On 18 February 2014 22:30, Kazunari Hirano wrote: > I don't understand numbers on the table. > For example, Dzongkha. > Where does the number, 171,300, come from? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dzongkha says 171,000 native speakers as of 2006, sourced from Ethnologue. - d. ---

Re: Unused patches

On 22 December 2013 21:12, jan i wrote: > On 22 December 2013 21:13, Rob Weir wrote: >> We would probably want to confirm with the original author for any >> pre-Apache patches, to make sure that the patch is given under ALv2. >> The exception might be those who were Sun/Oracle/IBM employees at

Re: 80 million downloads

On 3 December 2013 21:12, jan i wrote: > I have (for ubuntu) tried to read through the policies which was a > nightmare. The first thing would be to get into Debian. I recall the steps there were set out (basically, have an install set that doesn't conflict in any way with LO - however fair or

Re: 80 million downloads

cool :-) Is that 4.x only, or 3.4.x as well? On 27 November 2013 19:23, Rob Weir wrote: > Yesterday we reached 80,072,389 downloads. > > Regards, > > -Rob > > - > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > Fo

Re: JIRA instead of Bugzilla?

On 7 November 2013 22:28, Rob Weir wrote: > So for argument's sake, and speaking purely hypothetically, what are > the pros and cons of moving to JIRA? It is worth at least discussing > whether this would be something worth looking into. Pro: works well in corporate environments. Con: closed-

Re: 69,982,501 downloads of AOO

How's AOO 4.x going? On 3 October 2013 14:37, Rob Weir wrote: > As of last night we have had 69,982,501 downloads of AOO, across all > versions. Sometime today we should hit 70 million. Maybe it happened > already! > > -Rob > > ---

Re: Where can I find the new AOO4-Logo as a vector format?

On 27 September 2013 09:23, Jörg Schmidt wrote: > But a note: > The "M" in "TM" is shown cut off and the representation of "TM" is different > in Internet Explorer and Firefox, once serifs, once without serifs, at an > official logo should not be. Display artifact in Firefox. It's fine in In

Re: Can we do this email thing (whatever it is called)?

On 17 September 2013 18:09, Donald Whytock wrote: > But a lot of products have a pop-up on startup with tips, which I assume > are packaged with the product. That can be made optional, it can cycle > through tips or select from them randomly, it can allow the users to page > through the tips if

Re: FYI: OpenOffice for Android

On 9 September 2013 17:44, Mr. Phan Anh wrote: > AS you mentioned about the source, we will get stuck in middle of > something that belongs to the "trademark". Which trademark are you talking about? The only mention of an Apache-owned trademark appears to be "AndrOpen Office is forked project

Re: Yet another flyer

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 is why the jobs website Monster.com can exist > along with Monster Cables, or Apple Records ca

Re: Yet another flyer

On 30 August 2013 18:53, David Gerard wrote: > Nice one! Though "OpenOffice" on its own is someone else's trademark, > so care should be taken in abusing it. I mean, *not* to abuse it. Sorry! - d. - T

Re: Yet another flyer

On 30 August 2013 18:46, Drew Jensen wrote: > I needed to get my head back into thinking AOO look and feel, so decided > why not work on a flyer or two - likely this is superfluous to what you > already have however > https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bx7ZNEXlmR0IT3JTSWZZSktzODQ Nice one! Though

Re: Regarding Rtf to PDF conversion using openoffice

We actually do DOC to PDF conversion at my work. This involves running the DOC through OOo 3.2 on the Ubuntu 10.04 server in question. (OOo 3.2 is the Ubuntu distro version, so actually Go-oo; we previously did the same thing in OOo 3.1 on a Solaris server using Sun OOo.) We wanted to go directly

Does AOO use the new SourceForge Windows installer?

http://www.gluster.org/2013/08/how-far-the-once-mighty-sourceforge-has-fallen/ Is AOO using the installer in question, or its own? - d. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-

Re: Microsoft Censors OpenOffice Download Links

On 16 August 2013 17:32, Rob Weir wrote: > On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Hagar Delest > wrote: >> If ASF does not want to do new things because no other ASF project has even >> tried, then I'm rather worried about the future. Especially when on the >> other side LibreOffice has a so effic

Re: Some thoughts on quality

On 14 August 2013 20:39, Rob Weir wrote: > Maybe we need to call an earlier build the "RC" so it will get more > attention? We had a complete test build that we were testing for > over a month. But maybe it is ignored unless we call it an "RC"? In > other words, there were many opportunities

Re: Proposal -- AOO 4.0.1 Release

On 5 August 2013 22:32, janI wrote: > When I consider what I hear in the "real" world, I would prefer a fast > release, solving the most important issues. We always have the possibility > to make a 4.02 if really needed. x.0.x releases monthly are the way to go. I think LibreOffice really got t

Re: OpenOffice Writer 4.0.0 crashes, Writer 3.4.1 works correctly

On 3 August 2013 14:31, Emanuele wrote: > Trying with smaller chunks, the problematic text seems to be: ਪੰਜਾਬੀ > > (the one before

Re: Use AOO under IBM AIX?

On 29 July 2013 21:25, Fernando Cassia wrote: > On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Marcus (OOo) wrote: >> Any AOO binary cannot be installed on AIX as it is not optimized and >> compiled for this operating system. That means first at least one developer >> has to port AOO to AIX. > I remember the

Re: Use AOO under IBM AIX?

On 29 July 2013 19:57, Marcus (OOo) wrote: > Joerg and me wrote about the *binaries* not the code. Of course the code can > be ported to other systems. Sorry, wasn't clear :-) Does AIX run S/390 binaries? - d. - To unsubscri

Re: Use AOO under IBM AIX?

On 29 July 2013 18:57, Marcus (OOo) wrote: > Am 07/29/2013 07:38 PM, schrieb Jörg Schmidt: >> Is it possible to install AOO on IBM AIX [1] and use? > No, the CPU architecture doesn't fit. Debian claims to run LO on S/390 LInux, so that shouldn't be an *impossibility*. http://packages.debian.or

Re: Pasting HTML not possible in AOO 4.0?

On 22 July 2013 15:10, Ricardo Berlasso wrote: > Copy-paste from web work without problems on native Linux binaries. Note > that Linux clipboard works different from windows clipboard: I think that > if you copy from a win firefox running on wine to the win AOO running on > wine you'll have no pr

Re: Pasting HTML not possible in AOO 4.0?

On 22 July 2013 15:10, Ricardo Berlasso wrote: > 2013/7/22 David Gerard >> Is this actually supposed to happen - no ability to c'n'p from a web >> page - or will it be a weirdness of my setup? Admittedly I'm running >> the Windows binary under Wine ... &g

Pasting HTML not possible in AOO 4.0?

Just preparing to update the Wikipedia article, and tried pasting from a web page into AOO 4.0.0 Writer. It gives "Requested clipboard format not available." (The paste works fine in LO 4.0 and is formatted as one would expect it to just work.) Is this actually supposed to happen - no ability to c

Re: question

On 28 June 2013 16:36, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 09:19:52 -0500 > Joann Mitchell wrote: >> Hello! Will your program read/open/work with WordPerfect files? > Versions 3.3 and before will, as far as I know. Later versions (3.4.x and > 4.0) won't, because of code licensing.

Re: Download stats per platform?

On 17 June 2013 21:45, Rob Weir wrote: > On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 2:32 PM, David Gerard wrote: >> In the first 1 million or so AOO downloads, the breakdown was 87% >> Windows, 11% Macintosh and 2% Linux. >> But, of course, there's been over 50 million. Do we have a &g

Download stats per platform?

In the first 1 million or so AOO downloads, the breakdown was 87% Windows, 11% Macintosh and 2% Linux. But, of course, there's been over 50 million. Do we have a per-platform breakdown of the numbers since then for AOO? - d. -

Re: Next steps for AOO 4.0 Logo Selection

On 28 May 2013 18:12, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > It never occurred to me that those were flying books. Taking another look, > it still doesn't work. If made more obviously as books, I'm not sure how > that will occur as indicative of an office productivity suite. (I have no > idea how bird

Re: OpenOffice vs Microsoft Office comparison chart...

On 9 April 2013 17:25, Kay Schenk wrote: > I came across this chart comparing LibreOffice vs Microsoft Office... > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Feature_Comparison:_LibreOffice_-_Microsoft_Office > Do we have anything similar/more recent than the information I found in: > http://www.openoff

OpenOffice blog planets all dead - is there a new one?

http://www.openoffice.org/editorial/blogs.html This page is seriously out of date. In particular, there's four blog planets listed there, none of which are operational. Is there a new blog planet? Should there be? - d. - To uns

Re: A question about existing practices

On 19 March 2013 01:21, Guenter Marxen wrote: > I always have accepted, that the lack of ressources/developers prevents to > solve some/many issues "in time", but I could hardly accept, that "old" > stuff in bugzilla is reset/deleted and hence forgotten. I think, that some > old users ("issuers")

Re: Wiki Accessibility

On 14 February 2013 16:05, janI wrote: > Hi you are quite right, our "create account" is not friendly towards blind > people, having said that we need something like that in order to fight > spam, and anybody who has a problem creating an account can mail this help > and will get help. rational

Re: Performance test comparisons

On 12 February 2013 12:42, Rob Weir wrote: > I just did a basic test, seeing how long it took to load a large text > document, in this case the ODF 1.2 specification. I looked at memory > consumed and the number of seconds to load. I loaded the document > once to reduce the impact of disk cachi

Re: Calc behavior: result of 0 ^ 0

On 10 February 2013 00:39, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > It is not clear that OpenOffice-lineage software has returned the same value > for POWER(0,0) over the years. It seems that a third-party library has been > relied upon for the implementation and there was apparently not much > attention

Re: Mwiki is moved into maintenance mode.

On 8 February 2013 21:52, Andrea Pescetti wrote: >> - Move cwiki to mwiki. >> this has been discussed/decided earlier, but might need a positive >> decision. > I agree, we can progressively move stuff by turning pages into redirects to > the MWiki. This may take time but could be the less pr

Re: Apache OpenOffice in Fedora 19?

On 8 February 2013 11:55, Rob Weir wrote: > On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 3:48 AM, David Gerard wrote: >> On 8 February 2013 08:45, RA Stehmann >> wrote: >>> It's not only Fedora, but also other GNU/Linux distributions using such >>> transitional packages.

Re: Apache OpenOffice in Fedora 19?

On 8 February 2013 08:45, RA Stehmann wrote: > It's not only Fedora, but also other GNU/Linux distributions using such > transitional packages. It's a common way supporting users to update > their system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominative_use - d.

Re: Apache OpenOffice in Fedora 19?

On 30 January 2013 23:10, Rob Weir wrote: > This is a great step, Andrea. Apache OpenOffice has many Linux users. > We see this in the download numbers. But today the install > experience is, like many things in Linux, more complicated than the > average immigrant from Windows-land is accustom

Re: Apache OpenOffice in Fedora 19?

On 30 January 2013 15:12, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > You can see this as a first step in getting back into the major Linux > distributions. Timing aside, Fedora is a very good choice for a number of > reasons. A question I was wondering (for the Wikipedia article): is there any Linux distribution

Re: adding a list of download managers to the download page....was Fwd: Re: Open Office CD

On 29 January 2013 21:55, Marcus (OOo) wrote: > Yes, great idea. To restart where the previous download stopped is not known > by the most people, I guess. How to do this actually could be described in a > little extra page in the download area. Torrents. The site still has torrent links for ol

Re: OpenOffice on Wikipedia (was: In case you missed it: The OpenOffice Wikipedia page was FUD'ed over the holidays)

On 22 January 2013 15:36, Rob Weir wrote: > So this does not suggest "good faith". In fact, it suggests a > profound ignorance of the project and what we've been doing, as well > as having an axe to grind. An opinion is not the same as a conflict of interest; I am of course open to persuasion.

Re: OpenOffice on Wikipedia (was: In case you missed it: The OpenOffice Wikipedia page was FUD'ed over the holidays)

On 22 January 2013 15:06, Rob Weir wrote: > I'm not going to do this on your timing or your terms. The other apposite Wikipedia policy page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Assume_good_faith (Compare: https://cwiki.apache.org/OOOUSERS/draftlist-conduct-policy.html ) > A look at th

OpenOffice on Wikipedia (was: In case you missed it: The OpenOffice Wikipedia page was FUD'ed over the holidays)

Rob Weir wrote: >Take a look at the lovely new page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice >Some choice bits of distortion: Thanks for publicising this. I really did mean I wanted more eyes on it. Useful pages in dealing with contentious topics (which is everything): https://en.wikipedia.o