Re: Enquiry
Thanks Simon. On Wednesday, May 27, 2015, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: Dear Naomi, Following Internet norms, my reply to your message is below. On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 5:00 PM, Naomi naomiobine...@yahoo.co.uk javascript:; wrote: Hi there, I googled my name to find that your company has saved my messages to two mail archives without my consent. Could you please remove my messages from the public archive as strangers are able to obtain my email address by searching for my name? I'm not personally familiar with the messages you refer to, but you have reached a public mailing list read by hundreds of individuals who like me are all volunteers. The mailing list is not managed by a company, but belongs to a US non-profit called The Apache Software Foundation (the ASF). The mailing list is also read by automated systems outside the control of the ASF which then create public archives. It is safe to say that, once your e-mail has been sent to an ASF mailing list, it is impossible to remove it from the Internet. Please visit the ASF's policy page on this subject for more information -- http://apache.org/foundation/public-archives.html Please be aware that this e-mail thread is also being archived publicly. Best regards, Simon
Re: [NOMINATION] Dennis Hamilton for Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair
Dennis, Thank you for this... the project will be well served. +1 On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 7:48 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton orc...@apache.org wrote: It's my birthday and it just seemed a good idea to move the needle on Priority #1. I'm rather uncomfortable about self-nomination yet I figure the conversations and discussion are of value. I hereby nominate myself as the replacement for Andrea Pescetti as Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair. RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE CHAIR My promise, if selected, is to faithfully deliver on the responsibilities of a PMC Chair as required of an Officer of the Foundation. APPROACH TO APACHE OPEN OFFICE With regard to the PMC, which I am not a member of, my promise is to serve as an effective member of that community and with particular attention to PMC responsibilities to the Foundation but also to the cultivation of a sustainable, thriving project. As an AOO committer, my personal itch is around intake of new developers and reducing the friction and learning curve that goes with that. I am also personally committed to furthering the interoperability among ODF-supporting products of all kinds in whatever ways that works for Apache OpenOffice. I have been training to become more involved in the code, as slow as I am at that. I am also interested in how user support can be broadened and materials brought current and highly-available. WHERE'S DENNIS BEEN? Folks who've been here since OpenOffice came to the ASF will recall that I was a member of the PPMC and did not continue after graduation to a Top Level Project. On the PPMC I was an initial committer and I contributed to administrative activities for some mailing lists, intake of new committers and PPMC members. I was particularly pleased to participate in the preservation of the OpenOffice Forums. I have no difficulty with administrative, procedural, and policy matters. My departure was more from recognition that I was not equipped to work on the code and that I did not just want to continue as an administrative resource. I also left the OASIS ODF TC around the same time. Meanwhile, I engaged in some training, including in security and cryptography, an interest of mine with respect to document privacy. Last year I became interested in change-tracking and I'm currently putting the final touches on two workshop papers I presented last September. I also did some course-work in software development and I am continuing that. It was renewed interest in tracked changes and other aspects of ODF interoperability that brought me back to following AOO lists. My participation has increased to the current level over the past few months. I also joined the Apache Corinthia Incubator as an initial committer and PPMC member of that newborn podling. NO REALLY, WHERE HAS DENNIS BEEN? I wrote my first line of code when I was 19. That was in May, 1958. I went through the usual progression of development from programmer to becoming a lead developer on what we called systems software, including assemblers, compilers and utilities for the machines of the time. I also did some programming-language design work. I had the good fortune to work at Sperry Univac, in Seattle, New York City, and Blue Bell Pennsylvania during the peak of Grace Hopper's presence there. Although she knew me, I did not do much directly with her (although I graded papers for her once when she was teaching a course in the Wharton School). Later I became a consultant, and after two tours at Xerox Corporation, serving as a software architect and technical-staff member, first in Rochester, New York, and finally in Palo Alto, I retired at the end of 1998. I recommend retirement as a career. I began working in industry standards when ASCII was a new-born and ALGOL 60 was expected to revolutionize programming. Document formats became of interest while I was at Xerox and I participated in development of consortium agreements for document management. Most of my internal work in my later Xerox years was around interoperability provisions of various kinds. I dug into OOXML and ODF only after my retirement when those standardization efforts were moving along. There are words of mine in both of those specifications. SO WHAT? Most of us are only acquainted on the Internet and, while I have met others on AOO, those occasions are rare and fleeting. More than that, I want to offer, in my nomination, an opportunity to say what doesn't work with regard to me personally. I welcome that. And please express more of what is wanted from the Project that is not happening and how any contributors are expected, not just the PMC and its Chair, to make a difference with respect to the expectations this community has. I respect all feedback and discussion and I will still be here whatever the outcome of this Priority #1 activity happens to be. I am not attached to being PMC Chair. I am offering to
Re: Nominations for a new PMC Chair
On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 11:44 AM, Rob Weir r...@robweir.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 6:03 AM, Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com wrote: Sounds a bit like the Marcons for marketing in the original OO.o project. Right. But I hope it is clear to everyone that the main difference between OOo and AOO is not the lack of titles. The main difference is the lack of a large number full-time, professional developers and QA from Sun. Adding or subtracting titles, or swapping them around, does not change that. Adopting the Apache License or the MPL does not change that. Having a PMC or an Advisory Board does not change that.This is not to say that the PMC Chair is not an important role. It is. But it does not change the basic facts on the ground. So let's get this election over with and get on to dealing with the critical tasks ahead. +1 Regards, -Rob On 13 January 2015 at 09:45, RA Stehmann anw...@rechtsanwalt-stehmann.de wrote: On 12.01.2015 23:22, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: Of course, the community could create such roles—Marketing Leads, say. Done that before, and it works fine. But I’m also keen—and I think others are, too—in keeping to a minimum bureaucratic structures. (Not because I dislike bureaucracy—I don’t, in theory, as a means of resolving differences—but because titles and roles tend to calcify, and that I don’t think anyone likes.) In the historic germanophone community we have roles called Ansprechpartner. That means a person, to whom topics can be addressed. We have Ansprechpartner (contact persons) for marketing, QA; Mac-port, website, translation etc.. So it was clear, that these persons had adopted a special responsbility, but there was no special power given to them. I think, it might be a first step, if some of the PMC members would tell, for what topic they can be a contact person. Maybe we can add this in the list of the PMC members on the website, improving transparency, like we do it for mailinglists, blog, svn, bugzilla, wiki and social media. Kind regards Michael -- Ian Ofqual Accredited Qualifications https://theingots.org/community/index.php?q=qualifications Headline points in the 2014, 2015, 2016 school league tables Baseline testing and progress measures https://theingots.org/community/Baseline_testing_info The Learning Machine Limited, Reg Office, Unit 4D Gagarin, Lichfield Road Industrial Estate, Tamworth, Staffordshire, B79 7GN. Reg No: 05560797, Registered in England and Wales. +44 (0)1827 305940 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: [VOTE] New Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair
Voting Yes (binding). Louis definitely has the passion. Whomever takes the reins, the project has much to improve. A re-energized PMC and community is critical. On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 7:00 PM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: On 31 December 2014 I wrote to this list that I would be available to resign from the Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair position as soon as a successor could be elected. We had nominations and long discussions and in the end we have one candidate available to be the next OpenOffice PMC Chair: Louis Suárez-Potts. It's now time to vote. Do you approve that, in his capacity as the Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair, Andrea Pescetti submits a resolution to the Board asking to be replaced by Louis Suárez-Potts as the Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair? [X] +1 Yes [ ] 0 Abstain [ ] -1 No Vote opens now and it will last one week (and a few hours), until 22 January 2015 10:00 AM GMT, to give all community members the opportunity to participate. If vote passes, the resolution will be submitted to the Board in time for the February meeting (18 February 2015). Regards, Andrea. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Apache OpenOffice - Best Free Software 2014
Best free software of 2014: OpenOffice http://www.techradar.com/us/news/software/best-free-software-of-2014-openoffice-1277669#null Wishing everyone volunteering in Apache OpenOffice a Happy New Year! /don
Re: Concerns about the AOO community
On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 6:01 PM, Dave Barton d...@tasit.net wrote: Chuck Davis wrote: I've seen quite a number of new people show up here lately indicating interest coming from someplace. If one out of 10 of them sticks and becomes a regular contributor the project is in a very good position I think. Agreed. My observations regarding LO: 1) They've copied some features from MS Office that make it equally difficult to useIt's not as pleasant to use as AOO. Can you please give some specific examples of what you mean by copied some features from MS Office? I have been an OOo user since Sun (theoretically) open sourced the code and today I use/test both AOO and LO. Can you please enlighten me in what way LO is more difficult to use than AOO? I am obviously missing something, because I find them equally pleasant to use. It's very unfortunate the distributions have adopted LO in lieu of AOO. That's mainly because a number of the distros were already unhappy about the control Sun/Oracle held over the code. When TDF/LO was formed some of code from the (distro driven) Go-OO fork was merged into LO. This happened well before Oracle gave the OOo trademark and domain name to the ASF. 2) Their constant AOO bashing is a real turn-off for me and I hope others as well. I don't think I want their people in our camp. Sorry, but this is just FUD. Ignoring the Weir - Vignoli blog battle and other external sources, please give examples of Their constant AOO bashing on any the TDF/LO controlled sources (eg. website, mailing lists, etc.). For every instance you can sight, I can match two for one the near vitriol I have seen poured out on this list alone. In another part of this thread there is talk of better cooperation between the two projects. Comments such as I don't think I want their people in our camp. only serve to further promote the silly negative us them attitude. It is not a competition, because neither project is selling anything. Reality Check: Other than the occasional defector :)) (in both directions) you don't have to concern yourself about their people moving into your camp. There is no possibility that TDF is going give up years of hard work and expense and hand LO over to the ASF, any more than there is of the ASF handing AOO over to TDF. 3) They seem to be very proud of getting rid of Java and replacing it with Python. I've looked at Python a little and it seems to me any language dependent on indentation rather than syntax is justdumb! There is nothing wrong with Java -- especially now that OpenJDK is the reference implementation and is being worked on by every major player except MS. The movement to get rid of Java has been around even before Sun sold out to Oracle. There are developers working on AOO code today who are on record promoting the removal or reduced reliance on Java. Python is also supported by AOO. 4) LO seems to have major QC issues. The quality is definitely several notches below where AOO rests in my experience. Is this just fan-boy talk, or can you sight anything to substantiate this (apparently ill-informed) claim. I closely follow the development of both projects and my experience is very different to yours. These are just my observations as a long time OpenOffice user. And Apache has some very interesting related projects (i.e. ODF Toolkit) that can propel ODF as a standard reporting framework as well as the new project to read and write OOXML for document exchange. True. Hopefully it will not be too long before the fruits of these projects are incorporated into AOO. The TDF has been closely involved with external projects working on improvements to the ODF - OOXML document compatibility. I don't have the details to hand right now, but IIRC the code improvements are, or will be, made available under Apache License, Version 2.0 Not so sure this is practical, but a noble goal, nonetheless; i.e. spirit of genuine open source cooperation. My advice: stay the course. Emphasize quality and dependability over glitz. If developers are not attracted to AOO on those terms they're not developers the project needs. Those of us in business just need a tool to get our work done and it doesn't need to be fancy -- just dependable. LO falls on it's face at this point. Please, please, please can we stop this childish nonsense. +1, let's move on from unproductive bashing. Pls. There is no reason why we should care, one way or the other, if LO is worse or better than AOO. Our only interests should be: 1. Making AOO as good as we can possibly make it. 2. Where possible work cooperatively with TDF and others in the interest of promoting and improving ODF. We already do this on matters of security. Indeed. It is highly unlikely that AOO is going to die or disappear in the foreseeable future and the same holds true for LO. If, for whatever
Re: [VOTE]: Release Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 (RC4)
+1 Onwards! On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, this is a call for vote on releasing the available release candidate (RC4) as Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0. Apache OpenOffice 4.1 is a minor update with many bugfixes and at least 2 major improvements. It's the first version where we have the iAccessibility2 support integrated and available. A very huge step forward to reach and better support disabled users especially on Windows. The second improvement is the switch to 64 bit on MacOS. A long and overdue must do shift forward to support newer APIs (replace deprecated APIs) and platforms on MacOS. And we can provide again more complete UI translations and have now support for 38 languages. New languages for this release compared to 4.0.1 are Bulgarian, Danish, Hebrew, Hindi, Norwegian Bokmal and Thai. Apache OpenOffice 4.1 will be a further key milestone to continue the success of OpenOffice. An overview of the integrated release issues can be found under: http://people.apache.org/~jsc/milestones/4.1.0-rc4/AOO4.1.0_RC4_fixes.html The RC4 fixed 2 further problems: https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124682 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124701 RC3: https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124617 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124639 RC2: https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124599 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124607 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124509 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124394 The release candidate artifacts (source release, as well as binary releases for 38 languages) and further information how to verify and review Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 can be found on the following wiki page: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Development+Snapshot+Builds (alternative directly via http://ci.apache.org/projects/openoffice/milestones/4.1.0-rc4) *.dmg files are currently not recognized as binaries and have to be saved manually (save link as ...). The RC is based on the release branch AOO410, revision 1589052! And a fresh and clean RAT scan output of this revision can be found under http://people.apache.org/~jsc/milestones/4.1.0-rc4/AOO4.1.0_RAT_Scan.html Please vote on releasing this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 The vote starts now and will be open until: Monday, 28 April: 2014-04-28 10:00pm UTC+2. But we invite all people to vote (non binding) on this RC. We would like to provide a release that is supported by the majority of our project members. [ ] +1 Release this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 [ ] 0 Don't care [ ] -1 Do not release this package because... - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: AOO 4.0 Release Feedback
+1 (!) Great job everyone, and especially to our Release Manager. On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 6:51 AM, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, I wanted to say some words to our release because of some private stuff I wasn't able to participate live in the end phase. But I tried at least to catch up some press coverages ;-) First of all I think we did all together a good job and we can be proud of what we have achieved. And that is the key message we should be proud and should enjoy the moment a little bit. A new 1 day download record, yeah! And that on the first full 24 hour day after the release. That is impressive and I like it! I am really proud to be part of this community and I hope we will release many more version and will provide together the best free office productivity suite. Congratulation to our complete community. It's only possible together and by working hand in hand. It was a pleasure to see the translation process, the growing sidebar feature over several weeks, the logo work, the other improvements in areas that will often not be noticed by our users. I means the infra work, the wiki maintenance, the forum etc. We have some further good stuff in the pipeline, iAccessibilty2, the improved translation process, the 64bit port of MacOS ... We have patches from the OSBA for better OOXML support that is from my point f view important and we should work on the integration. Any I am sure many other things will come up over time ... Well we can always make things better and I am sure we will improve over time but that is normal and make the whole thing so interesting. I noticed an increasing interest of new volunteers in different areas. And I believe we can do better to support newcomers and help where necessary and guide them ... I know this is time consuming but it's necessary to grow our community. And here we should try to grow especially the developer community and we should think together what we can change or improve to make this possible. Anyway I am proud to be part of this project and I am looking forward to more positive feedback for AOO 4.0 that will motivate us for the next version ... Thank you to all of you and wish all a nice weekend Juergen - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Coverage of 4.0 Release
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 3:10 AM, Hagar Delest hagar.del...@laposte.netwrote: Le 26/07/2013 01:50, Peter Junge a écrit : On 7/26/2013 12:18 AM, Rob Weir wrote: On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Pavel Janík pa...@janik.cz wrote: Rob, On Jul 25, 2013, at 3:21 PM, Rob Weir wrote: This is the advantage of writing innovative code, not just copying it. can you please stop writing such stupid sentences? Notice that I do not talk at all about the particular license issue. I'm not talking about license issues either. I'm just saying that if you are the originator of a feature then you get press coverage twice: the 1st time when you initially release it and then a 2nd time when another project copies it. We're seeing that now. A specific example, Ars Technica, on the LO 4.1 release: http://arstechnica.com/**information-technology/2013/** 07/libreoffice-4-1-is-**released-borrows-new-sidebar-**from-openoffice/http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/07/libreoffice-4-1-is-released-borrows-new-sidebar-from-openoffice/ Your comment there doesn't help anyone. This discussion is not for helping anyone. Since we thought that all the developers had switched to LibreOffice, we are pleased to see that there are some left who even fix LibO bugs and implement new features. :-) For the record, I'm aggregating the links here: http://forum.openoffice.org/**en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5t=**63026http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5t=63026 Thank you Hagar. Nice to see the aggregation so easily visible to visitors of the forum. Many more I/T leaders from large businesses are investigating Apache OpenOffice 4 now. Making it easy to see the wave of positive coverage is very helpful for them as they do their evaluation work. We may also want to consider providing a link to this page from the http://openoffice.org home page related to the AOO4.0 Available for Download section. Hagar --**--**- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@openoffice.**apache.orgdev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Starting Introduction to Contributing to Apache OpenOffice Module
Scott, Welcome! There's always a need for great documentation. Check out our Community wiki here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Help+Wanted You will see the link to the Documentation wiki http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation Feel free to ask any questions you have. We have volunteers in many timezones. /don On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Scott Robert rscott...@gmail.com wrote: I am Robert Scott I was an IT Project manager for the US Department of Justice and now retired. I enjoy writing technical documentation and would like to volunteer for this task.
Re: [VOTE]: Release OpenOffice 4.0 (RC2)
+1 (!) On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 7:20 PM, Andrew Rist andrew.r...@oracle.com wrote: +1Release this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.0 On 7/17/2013 12:40 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: [ ] +1 Release this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.0 [ ] 0 Don't care [ ] -1 Do not release this package because... --**--**- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@openoffice.**apache.orgdev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: New Extensions website goes live!
Great stuff and perfect timing... thanks Roberto and SF! On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 1:26 AM, Roberto Galoppini roberto.galopp...@gmail.com wrote: 2013/7/9 Roberto Galoppini roberto.galopp...@gmail.com 2013/7/8 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Roberto Galoppini roberto.galopp...@gmail.com wrote: We are updating http://extensions.openoffice.org to tturn on all enhancements previously made available at the test website. This is great news, Roberto! Indeed! Are you planning a blog post related to this at SourceForge? Or should we plan something for the AOO blog? (Or both?) I'll cover that at the SF blog as usual, open to do something that makes sense for AOO blog too, sure. Give me a day or two, I want to finalize the migration before. AOOE has been successfully migrated, below a concise list of improvements, a blog post on SF will follow next week (possibly coordinating that with the new AOO release). 1. The whole platform has been upgraded to a web 2.0ish style. Adding more content, serve developers' needs as well as scale with end-users' growth is easier now. 2. The lookfeel has been updated and aligned with the new AOO 4 look. We put the word 'beta' in the header, to be removed once the new release will go out. 3. The search has been improved and it provides the autocomplete functionality (try it out writing 'dr' for example). 4. The auto-update for Extensions has been reactivated. 5. A new feature allows devs to report AOO 4.0 compatibility for their extensions, and by default we set all to 'unknown'. Have a look at http://extensions.openoffice.org/upgrade/400/abcdef+754758+df418f+a81383to get an example. Note that to take full advantage of this new feature we need authors to set properly the compatibility field, and to crack a new Extension to check extensions compatibility or changes (it should check which extensions are installed, e.g. A, B, C and then call http://extensions.openoffice.org/upgrade/400/A+B+C). Maybe we can discuss further option once AOO 4 will be released. 6. Finally Extensions authors have full control over comments and spam. Roberto Roberto Do you have a list of changes that we can reference? Regards, -Rob All users accounts will be migrated, along with associated passwords and users content. http://extensions.openoffice.org may be temporarily unavailable or slow down. Once the migration will be completed update notifications will be activated. Roberto
Re: [VOTE]: Release OpenOffice 4.0 (RC)
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 5:11 AM, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, this is a call for vote on releasing the following release candidate as Apache OpenOffice 4.0. This will be an important release for Apache OpenOffice with bigger visible UI changes. It is a key milestone to continue the success of OpenOffice. This release candidate provides the following important changes compared to former OpenOffice releases: (1) a major UI change/improvement by introducing a new sidebar concept where the idea is the comes from IBM's Symphony. It's the combination of reimplementing a complete new framework for sidebars and merging the existing sidebar in impress and code of various content panels from the Symphony grant in OpenOffice. (2) 190 fixes from Symphony are merged and integrated, mainly interoperability issues (3) 600 defects are fixed (4) many more features and improvements are integrated For a detailed feature overview please see the release notes under https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0+Release+Notes . But keep in mind that the release notes are not yet final and will be updated and polished ... The release candidate artifacts (source release, as well as binary releases for 23 languages) and further information how to verify and review Apache OpenOffice 4.0 can be found on the following wiki page: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Development+Snapshot+Builds#DevelopmentSnapshotBuilds-AOOSnapshot The related RAT scan for this RC can be found under http://people.apache.org/~jsc/aoo-4.0.0_rat/aoo-4.0.0_rat-output.html The RC is based on the release branch AOO400, revision 1502185! Please vote on releasing this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.0. The vote starts now and will be open until: UTC at noon on Monday, 15 July: 2013-07-15 12:00 UTC. But we invite all people to vote (non binding) on this RC. We would like to provide a release that is supported by the majority of our project members. * [ +1 ] +1 Release this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.0* [ ] 0 Don't care [ ] -1 Do not release this package because... - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
Re: Proposal: pr...@openoffice.apache.org alias
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Currently we point press inquires to priv...@openoffice.apache.org. I think it would be more professional to use an address like pr...@openoffice.apache.org or even me...@openoffice.apache.org. But I don't think we want to maintain another mailing list. So, if there are no concerns, I'd like to request an mailing address alias, so emails directed to pr...@openoffice.apache.org get sent to priv...@openoffice.apache.org. +1 -Rob
Re: [Call For QA Volunteers] AOO UI IAccessible2 testing work
Hi Steve Yin, Steve Lee from OpenDirectives is keen to help get the testing started. He's new to AOO, but an old hand with A11Y work. He's very well connected to the accessibility community and will be able to help us connect with experts for the testing process. Take it away Steve (Lee), /don On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 1:46 AM, Steve Yin steve.yin@gmail.com wrote: Hi Diego Valle, Welcome to join AOO IAccessible2 QA work. We will prepare QA cases and assign some of them to you. And I hope we can work together at the beginning. On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 6:44 AM, Diego Valle Rosado diegogvalleros...@gmail.com wrote: Hello My name is diego valle.At the moment I study the career IT in Quintana Roo, Mexico. I'm interested in AOO IAccessible2 testing work and I'd like to be a QA volunteer. Would be a great way to learn how to get started programming OpenOffice and to help bring the benefits of OpenOffice to my country and the region where I live. Regards Diego Valle 2013/1/25 Steve Yin steve.yin@gmail.com Hi all, The UI part of the AOO IAccessible2 migration dev work will be done in a few days. We need QA volunteers to join the testing work and ensure the migration quality. This work will be started on the branch ia2. https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/openoffice/branches/ia2 If you are interested in AOO IAccessible2 testing work, please reply this mail. Thanks. -- Best Regards, Steve Yin -- Best Regards, Steve Yin
Re: [VOTE]: Release Apache OpenOffice 3.4.1 respin to support 8 new languages
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 4:13 AM, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@gmail.comwrote: Hi all, this is a call for vote on releasing a minor respin of Apache OpenOffice 3.4.1 to support 8 new languages (Danish, Swedish, Norwegian Bokmal, Polish, Korean, Basque, Asturian, Scottish Gaelic). The Hungarian version is repackaged and a Hungarian dictionary is now included. This release is a minor update to support further languages but no bug fixes. We decided to keep the effort minimal and updated only the new languages and no further minor bug fixes. It is the last minor update including incubating in the name and we do that to integrate smoothly in the naming scheme of the current release and to keep the download simple. The source release for AOO 3.4.1 will be renewed and is based now on revision 1435053 from branch AOO34. For our broad user base we built and provide convenience binary packages on the same revision for all new languages. The source release candidate can be found under https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Development+Snapshot+Builds#DevelopmentSnapshotBuilds-AOO341srcrelease The convenience binary full install sets for the new languages can be found under https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Development+Snapshot+Builds#DevelopmentSnapshotBuilds-AOO341fullsets The convenience binary language packs for the new languages can be found under https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Development+Snapshot+Builds#DevelopmentSnapshotBuilds-AOO341languagepacks Please vote on releasing this respin package as a complement to our already released Apache OpenOffice 3.4.1 (incubating). The vote starts now and will be open for 72 hours until: Saturday, 26 January: 2013-01-26 10:00am UTC+1. The vote of PMC members is binding but we invite all people to vote (non binding) on this RC. We would like to provide a release that is supported by the majority of our project members. +1 [ ] +1 Release this respin package as complement Apache OpenOffice 3.4.1 (incubating) [ ] 0 Don't care [ ] -1 Do not release this package because...
Re: Ask OpenOffice -- The Apache OpenOffice project invites your questions
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 11:56 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Do you have a question about Apache OpenOffice? Something you always wondered about the product? Or a question about the OpenOffice open source project? Great idea! Ask OpenOffice -- The Apache OpenOffice project invites your questions. Technical questions, questions about the open source project, questions about where we see things going in 5 years, all are good candidates. You submit your questions and help rate questions submitted by others. We'll then collect the top 10 questions and respond to them in a future project blog post (http://blogs.apache.org/ooo/). We're using Google Moderator to collection questions. To submit your question, and to view and rate questions already submitted, go to this page and click on Submit a question: http://www.google.com/moderator/#16/e=2033e8 Note: support questions should still go to our community support forums (http://forum.openoffice.org/) for faster response. Ask OpenOffice is intended for questions of broader interest to users and the community. Regards, -Rob
