Re: [Discussion] Would we enable volunteers that develop extensions

2021-02-06 Thread Steve Lubbs
Hi Jörg Overall I like your suggestion. Steve On 2/6/21 1:50 AM, Jörg Schmidt wrote: Hello, -Original Message- From: Steve Lubbs [mailto:stevelu...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, February 05, 2021 9:54 PM To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: [Discussion] Would we enable volunteers

Re: [Discussion] Would we enable volunteers that develop extensions

2021-02-04 Thread Steve Lubbs
My concern is related to security. Consider a bad actor who creates an extension that, for instance, harvests personal info. It's one thing if they are listed on a web page. It's a completely different thing if they are sanctioned by the AOO project by being more tightly associated with the AOO

Re: OS2 code

2021-01-23 Thread Steve Lubbs
wish to discuss how the Apache OpenOffice project may be able to help with your port please check here: . <<<<<<<< End Verbiage >>>>>>>> Regards, Steve On 1/23/21 2:51 AM, Marcus wrote: Am 22.01.21 um 20:22 schrieb Steve Lubbs: Thanks Andrea f

Re: OS2 code

2021-01-22 Thread Steve Lubbs
Thanks Andrea for the additional clarification. I understand better now. As for gitbox link, I don't have visibility yet beyond the HEAD which is completely understandable. But I can see the list is long! Steve On 1/20/21 3:49 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 18/01/2021 Steve Lubbs wrote: So

Re: OS2 code

2021-01-19 Thread Steve Lubbs
On 1/18/21 6:03 PM, Peter Kovacs wrote: The Project does accept bug reports. And Code testing and bug fixing is done by bitworks. That's the part I was missing. Maybe it is that there is a Fuzziness on who is the Project? Who releases the Community binary version? Who releases the binary

Re: OS2 code

2021-01-18 Thread Steve Lubbs
Hi Michael, Comments inline in red. On 1/18/21 2:03 AM, Dr. Michael Stehmann wrote: Hi, I think we have to differ between responsibility and merit and support. To my mind responsibility implies support. Support implies ongoing coding, testing, and bug fixing efforts involving not only the

Re: OS2 code

2021-01-17 Thread Steve Lubbs
he impression that AOO for OS/2 is dead maybe something with the wording is wrong. So, please let us rethink to update the webpage to eleminate this impression. [1] https://www.openoffice.org/porting/index.html Thanks Marcus Am 10.01.21 um 01:25 schrieb Steve Lubbs: Thanks for correcting me.

Re: OS2 code

2021-01-09 Thread Steve Lubbs
/ Regards,    Matthias Am 09.01.21 um 23:40 schrieb Steve Lubbs: According to this page, https://www.openoffice.org/porting/index.html, OS2 is no longer supported. Isn't it time we remove the OS2-specific code from the code base? BTW, OS2 was my favorite OS back in the day. Steve Lubbs

OS2 code

2021-01-09 Thread Steve Lubbs
According to this page, https://www.openoffice.org/porting/index.html, OS2 is no longer supported. Isn't it time we remove the OS2-specific code from the code base? BTW, OS2 was my favorite OS back in the day. Steve Lubbs

Re: Documenting what I'm learning

2021-01-05 Thread Steve Lubbs
On Dec 30, 2020, at 17:02, Steve Lubbs wrote: Hi All, I've been spending quite a bit of time reverse engineering the threading and concurrency implementation and with an eye towards possible errors. I'm documenting what I find as I go with the hope that it'll be useful to others as well

Documenting what I'm learning

2020-12-30 Thread Steve Lubbs
but I think I can use it well enough so it'll be useful. So if you don't here from me for a while it's not because I've left. I just have my head down. BTW, I'm going to see if Umbrello is useful for this. Steve Lubbs

Re: Big Sur 4.1.x core dumps

2020-12-30 Thread Steve Lubbs
and is the same JRE used at runtime? Just my long 2 cents. Enough rambling on, Steve Lubbs On 12/26/20 10:19 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: I've confirmed that my 4.2.0 builds work fine on BigSur but the 4.1.8 builds, even using Xcode10 and the 10.13SDK still result in core on macOS11. Below you'll find

Re: Apple Dumping Intel.

2020-12-23 Thread Steve Lubbs
from the PowerPC to Intel, many many moons ago. In fact, there was a time when you could have *3* versions: x86 32bit, PowerPC, and x86-64 64bit, all in 1 single bundle/binary. On Dec 23, 2020, at 2:00 PM, Matthias Seidel wrote: Hi Steve, Am 22.12.20 um 02:33 schrieb Steve Lubbs: Has there been

Apple Dumping Intel.

2020-12-21 Thread Steve Lubbs
Has there been any thought given to moving/creating an OSX port to Apple's up coming Apple Silicon RISC CPU? Steve

Re: Apple Developer Program

2020-12-21 Thread Steve Lubbs
On 12/20/20 12:50 AM, Peter Kovacs wrote: On 20.12.20 01:37, Steve Lubbs wrote: Do we have any access to the Apple Developer Program? Sure would be handy. I think we have access. Can anyone provide the particulars of how to use the Apple Developer Program, assuming we have a membership? I

Apple Developer Program

2020-12-19 Thread Steve Lubbs
Do we have any access to the Apple Developer Program? Sure would be handy. Steve

Where I think I'll be of the most use.

2020-12-19 Thread Steve Lubbs
After spending a few hours poking around I have some ideas on where I can make the biggest impact given my background. Multi-threading/Concurrency: This is one of my bailiwicks. Correct me if I'm wrong but it appears that concurrency support was removed when Mac OSX dropped support for

Re: Design Docs?

2020-12-19 Thread Steve Lubbs
Thanks Dick. That does help, even if it's a little outdated. Every little bit helps. On 12/19/20 3:48 AM, Dick Groskamp wrote: On 2020/12/19 01:06:29, Steve Lubbs wrote: Hi All, I asked this question in recruitment but this may be the proper place for it. Is there any design documentation

Design Docs?

2020-12-18 Thread Steve Lubbs
through the code? I'm hoping to avoid reverse engineering the code. If the answer to my query is available somewhere I should have seen it, I apologize. Thanks in advance, Steve Lubbs