Re: MLA Format for students

2016-02-27 Thread V Stuart Foote
MLA is one of thousands of referencing formats. Unreasonable to push one over another for ODF support. Instead, *Zotero* or *Mendeley* projects or even Thompson-Reuters *EndNote* provide functional support for both Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice ODF documents. http://www.zotero.org/

Re: Markmail archives discontinued

2015-09-05 Thread V Stuart Foote
Andrea Pescetti-2 wrote > ... > > This is a pity because Markmail offered a nice interface and good > statistics. Some lists, like the users list, are unaffected and still > archived properly. For the discontinued lists, the mail-archive.com copy > still works well. As does the Nabble hosting

Re: [VOTE] Dennis Hamilton as new AOO Chair.

2015-08-17 Thread V Stuart Foote
Please vote [X] +1, I want Dennis Hamilton as new Chair Non-binding, but Dennis is a sound choice for AOO's PMC Chair -- View this message in context: http://openoffice.2283327.n4.nabble.com/VOTE-Dennis-Hamilton-as-new-AOO-Chair-tp4675509p4675554.html Sent from the Development mailing list

Re: [VOTE] New Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair

2015-01-30 Thread V Stuart Foote
Andrea Pescetti-2 wrote Who of the two candidates do you prefer to replace Andrea Pescetti as the OpenOffice project PMC Chair? [ ] Dennis E. Hamilton (orcmid) [ ] Jan Iversen (jani) Both excellent candidates, thank you both! but, my vote--non-binding-- is: [X] Dennis E. Hamilton (orcmid)

Re: [VOTE] New Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair

2015-01-20 Thread V Stuart Foote
Andrea Pescetti-2 wrote 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? [ ] +1 Yes [ ] 0 Abstain [ ] -1 No -1 No (non-binding) with

Re: Java 32 Redux

2015-01-08 Thread V Stuart Foote
I've added a background color and icon. The text was also It certainly won't be missed now... -- View this message in context: http://openoffice.2283327.n4.nabble.com/Java-32-Redux-tp4670709p4670758.html Sent from the Development mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Java 32

2014-12-19 Thread V Stuart Foote
jonathon-3 wrote On 11/12/14 11:13, Andreas Säger wrote: A Java runtime environment (JRE) is required to use the following functionality: *Wizards*, namely: *Macros* *Extensions* Finding keywords in the F1 help depends on Java. *Database access* Doesn't a11y

RE: Can open Open office add?

2014-10-31 Thread V Stuart Foote
@Darren, *, On Windows 7 sp1, 64-bit en-US with the 4.1.1 release AOO411m6(Build:9775) - Rev. 1617669 2014-08-13 09:06:54 (Mi, 13 Aug 2014) Simply not having any issues with a newly created Calc sheet and =sum() ranges that skip rows as you describe. I've uploaded the .ods file for review on

Stale static text on AOO download page

2014-06-28 Thread V Stuart Foote
The downloads landing page ( http://openoffice.apache.org/downloads.html ) has some rather stale text, see stale_AOO_download_text http://openoffice.2283327.n4.nabble.com/file/n4664843/stale_AOO_download_text.JPG . Could someone with permissions touch it up. Regards, Stuart -- View this

Re: [VOTE]: Release Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 (RC4)

2014-04-27 Thread V Stuart Foote
Jürgen Schmidt-3 wrote [ ] +1 Release this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 [ ] 0 Don't care [ ] -1 Do not release this package because... AOO410m18(Build:9764) - Rev. 1589052 2014-04-22 11:43:54 (Di, 22 Apr 2014) +1 Release this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 -- View

Re: [VOTE]: Release Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 (RC)

2014-04-06 Thread V Stuart Foote
This is my official (non-binding) -1 vote for a release build based on r1583666 --Justification-- Since the r1583666 based spin, several substantial issues have been corrected on trunk only r1583671 -- affects apparent quality of the IAccessible2 based AT tools support (i125573)

RE: [VOTE]: Release Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 (RC)

2014-04-04 Thread V Stuart Foote
-Original Message- From: Andre Fischer Sent: Friday, April 04, 2014 8:57 AM On 03.04.2014 09:56, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: Hi all, this is a call for vote on releasing the available release candidate (RC) as Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0. Another problem came up that looks serious

Re: R: the right Accessibility configuration

2014-03-25 Thread V Stuart Foote
Deyla, Actually Windows accessibility in Apache OpenOffice no longer makes any use of the Java Accessibility Bridge to interface to the Java Accessibility API installed with a JRE. A native accessibility bridge for Windows has been implemented based on the IAccessible2 API. Apparently JAWS and

RE: [VOTE]: Release Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 Beta (RC)

2014-03-07 Thread V Stuart Foote
+1 Please vote on releasing this package as Apache OpenOffice 4.1.0 Beta The vote starts now and will be open until: Sunday evening, 9 March: 2014-03-09 11:00pm UTC. But we invite all people to vote (non binding) on this RC. We would like to provide a release that is supported by

Bugzilla: User Sam Jennings

2014-02-15 Thread V Stuart Foote
@Rainer, From: Rainer Bielefeld rainerbielefeld_ooo...@bielefeldundbuss.de Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2014 9:54 AM Subject: Bugzilla: User Sam Jennings may be someone feels able to explain to above mentioned user how to use Bugzilla in an appropriate way? Or wants to block user Sam Jenning's

Re: Speech recognition with openoffice

2014-02-14 Thread V Stuart Foote
This has been addressed multiple times by the development community. https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=6104 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=70567 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=71542 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=84997

RE: New SNAPSHOT available (based on r1560772)

2014-01-29 Thread V Stuart Foote
Put it in the 'doesn't it figure' category, but can I solicit support for another build cycle for the all language feature freeze SNAPSHOT. There is a major flaw in the IAccessible2 code, i124095, that got patched by Mick Curran and Steve Yin with revision 1561587, and is available in en-US

RE: Web accessibility guidelines -- which ones?

2014-01-09 Thread V Stuart Foote
Rob, *, ... However, there was a confusing (to me) number of authorities for accessibility standards. It is really pretty simple--WCAG 2.0 is the gold standard for Web content, and is applicable to Non-Web Information and Communications Technologies (ICT). National and International

Issue of Key events being handled twice, impacting accessibility with loss of object focus

2014-01-06 Thread V Stuart Foote
The errant double handling of cursor key events is a problem for Accessibility support of assistive technologies where program focus is being shifted away from the active object; e.g. writer - selected text for formatting, calc - cell being formated, etc. Current issues in BZ: bug 122363

ia2 branch sucessfully integrated with trunk as rev 1542312

2013-11-16 Thread V Stuart Foote
Steve Yin's ia2 branch has been successfully merged into trunk as rev 1542312, nightly Windows buildbot build for 16 Nov #837 is functional with a native Windows bridge provided by IAccessible2. Please report any issues against AOO bugzilla issues i107914 and winA11y for any Windows

Re: ia2 branch sucessfully integrated with trunk as rev 1542312

2013-11-16 Thread V Stuart Foote
Sorry, those links are: i107914 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=107914 winA11y https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=121767 and i123643 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=123643 Stuart -- View this message in context:

Re: Apache OpenOffice 4.1 to Bring Enhanced Accessibility Support

2013-11-15 Thread V Stuart Foote
Rob, Great news! Great blog post--subtle ;-) On a side bar, I see that Herbert and Oliver are hard at work correcting build issues for Steve's rev 1541847 integration done yesterday, getting the new IAccessible2 bridge to build cleanly on trunk is obviously now the priority. But when someone

Re: [Accessibility] IA2 Integration proposal

2013-11-11 Thread V Stuart Foote
Jean-Phillipe, Removal of earlier revisions of the ia2 branch may have corrupted the MSAA libraries. Have you unregistered UAccCOM.dll with a regsvr32.exe /U command, and have you tried re-registering the oleacc.dll and oleaut32.dll? Additional notes in issue aoo#123640

Re: ia2 Buildbot needs attention

2013-11-10 Thread V Stuart Foote
Steve, Herbert We've got another hang-up on the ia2 branch--3 days with no build of r1539225. Looks like this might be related to removal of SeaMonkey http://openoffice.2283327.n4.nabble.com/the-Seamonkey-has-left-the-building-tt4655461.html . From the ia2 297 build error logs: Stuart

Re: Re : [Call For QA Volunteers][Accessibility] AOO IAccessible2 testing work

2013-11-06 Thread V Stuart Foote
@Jean-Philippe The ia2 branch builds are on the daily Buildbot, current is rev 1539225 http://ci.apache.org/projects/openoffice/install/w7ia2/Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.0_Win_x86_install_en-US.exe_1539225.exe . Issues are being recorded and worked withing AOO Bugzilla and for the branch are being

ia2 Buildbot needs attention

2013-11-04 Thread V Stuart Foote
The ia2 branch buildbot hung on initial build of the rev 1538382 build today---Failed build.pl --all It needs some attention. Looked at the logs something in the ioctl. -- View this message in context: http://openoffice.2283327.n4.nabble.com/ia2-Buildbot-needs-attention-tp4655304.html Sent

Re: ia2 Buildbot needs attention

2013-11-04 Thread V Stuart Foote
Actually, looked a little further in the log, and this may need the dev's attention. Errors are in the most recently modified modules of the branch. Steve? -- View this message in context: http://openoffice.2283327.n4.nabble.com/ia2-Buildbot-needs-attention-tp4655304p4655305.html Sent from

Re: [Accessibility] Calc and Impress got complete ia2 support -- looking forware to an (aoo-w7ia2) Buildbot build of r1527279

2013-09-29 Thread V Stuart Foote
Steve, Steve Yin wrote The compile errors of the branch ia2 were fixed. And the branch was synchronized with the latest trunk. -- Best Regards, Steve Yin Wow, excellent that for your r1527279 build of the branch you've again synchronized with AOO trunk! With any luck we'll have a clean

Re: [Accessibility] Calc and Impress got complete ia2 support -- (aoo-w7ia2) Buildbot currently failing

2013-09-27 Thread V Stuart Foote
Steve, Great news! Once we have a useable build... I just checked and the current r1526782 based ia2 branch is failing snapshot Buildbot for svn under cygwin So the (aoo-w7ia2) Buildbot for the ia2 branch again needs some attention. Stuart -- View this message in context:

Re: IA2 Branch r1519381 IAccessible2 testing - failed Buildbot

2013-09-11 Thread V Stuart Foote
Andrew, Steve Look to again have a clean and installable build of the IA2 branch -- r1519381 (wef 2013-09-02)-- to start working against. Thanks! Stuart -- View this message in context:

IA2 Branch r1519381 IAccessible2 testing - failed Buildbot

2013-09-08 Thread V Stuart Foote
Steve Y. has merged the AOO TRUNK into the IA2 branch SVN as r1519381. Anxious to resume QA work on IAccessibile2 implementation. Unfortunately, while it looks like the IA2 Buildbot job picked up the change, it is failing with this error: 2 module(s): apr curl need(s) to be

RE: Bug 121014 - Fidelity issues

2013-08-30 Thread V Stuart Foote
Do you like a title of Fidelity issues - incorrect rendering of ODF or MS formats for the task? From: Rainer Bielefeld rainerbielefeld_ooo...@bielefeldundbuss.de Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2013 11:25 PM To: q...@openoffice.apache.org Cc:

Re: IA2 branch testing of r1484083 merege with trunk

2013-08-05 Thread V Stuart Foote
Jamie, James Teh wrote I've since discovered that I can only reproduce this if I run Writer directly; i.e. via the icon named OpenOffice Writer in the Start Menu or by running swriter.exe. If I run the main OpenOffice application (i.e. the icon named OpenOffice in the Start Menu or

RE: Updating BZ versions for next releases

2013-08-05 Thread V Stuart Foote
All reasonable changes that should improve the QA process using BZ, especially the last confirmed on 4.0.0--just will need to be kept up going forward. My +1 ps.s thanks for asking this time ;-) p.p.s a special CC for you Rainer so you are aware, here is the thread link in Nabble

Re: IA2 branch testing of r1484083 merege with trunk

2013-08-01 Thread V Stuart Foote
Jamie, I'll post an archived IA2 branch build of r1484083 up, and send you a PM for the ftp link a little latter. Getting the Buildbot to start running to completion, even if with the 1484083 revision would be useful. Meanwhile, for Steve Yin, any chance of pushing the current ia2 branch back

Re: IA2 branch testing of r1484083 merege with trunk

2013-08-01 Thread V Stuart Foote
janI wrote On 1 August 2013 17:49, V Stuart Foote lt; VStuart.Foote@ gt; wrote: Meanwhile, for Steve Yin, any chance of pushing the current ia2 branch back out to SVN, or better perfrom a merge with trunk and posting it. Having the buildbot binaries are nice, but at some point we need

Support for Windows 7 (and 8) Jump list

2013-07-23 Thread V Stuart Foote
Windows 7 (and now 8) have WPF support for Start menu and Task bar feature commonly know as Jump lists. They allow organization of frequent and recent tasks and documents into Jump lists associated with applications when pinned to the Start menu or the Task bar. Apache OpenOffice 4.0 does not

RE: [VOTE]: Release OpenOffice 4.0 (RC2)

2013-07-17 Thread V Stuart Foote
+1 From: Jürgen Schmidt [jogischm...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2013 2:40 AM this is a call for vote on releasing the following release candidate (RC2 revision 1503704) as Apache OpenOffice 4.0. ... [ ] +1 Release this package as Apache

Re: [VOTE]: Release OpenOffice 4.0 (RC)

2013-07-12 Thread V Stuart Foote
+1 -- buildbot nightlys have been solid for some time. Still a number of resolved showstoppers ought to be verified, if anyone is inclined to help knock a few out:

Re: Blog about sidebar

2013-05-31 Thread V Stuart Foote
Andre, Reads really well and I like your treatment of sidebar decks panels as alternatives to toolbars dialogs--you don't hammer the old GUI, just describe benefits of implementing the sidebar GUI. Only editorial feedback would be that in your We need your input segment, as a branding issue,

Buildbot and Unofficial Developer Builds -- whats up?

2013-05-13 Thread V Stuart Foote
Sorry for the cross post, but this rubs on both the QA and Dev sides of the project. So, I understand that we are mid-way through, a full regression testing of the 4.0 branch at Rev 1478648. But has the project actively stopped the building of dailys, and have the cognizant developers been

RE: Start AOO 4.0 Full Regression Test - missing keyboard navigation and accelerators in test cases

2013-05-07 Thread V Stuart Foote
Shenfeng, Yuzhen, Liuping, Rob Took a moment and browsed through the TestLink test cases for the Full Regression and earlier test plans against the trunk and sidebar branch. Unless I completely missed seeing it, one noticeable omission from the test cases in general is a lack keyboard based

Re: Apache Open Office IAccessible2 QA ia2 branch builds

2013-02-11 Thread V Stuart Foote
Jamie, Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 05:21:02 +1000 From: James Teh ja...@nvaccess.orgmailto:ja...@nvaccess.org To: NVDA screen reader development Subject: Re: [NVDA-dev] Apache Open Office IAccessible2 QA ia2 branch builds Hi Stuart, Thanks for letting us know. Initial testing is very

RE: [Call For QA Volunteers] AOO UI IAccessible2 testing work

2013-02-09 Thread V Stuart Foote
Steve, Nothing substantive yet in working through the Windows build of the ia2 branch. Should we build against Linux and OSX and be testing for impact on ATK/AT-SPI and NSAccessibility User Interface? And, with QA and testing of the ia2 branch proceeding what mechanism should folks use for

RE: [Call For QA Volunteers] AOO UI IAccessible2 testing work

2013-02-09 Thread V Stuart Foote
From: V Stuart Foote Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2013 12:05 PM And here is a generic BZ search for accessibility issues https://issues.apache.org/ooo/buglist.cgi?query_format=advancedresolution=---short_desc=msaa%20accessible%20iaccessible%20iaccessible2%20accessibilityshort_desc_type

RE: [Call For QA Volunteers] AOO UI IAccessible2 testing work

2013-02-06 Thread V Stuart Foote
From: V Stuart Foote Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2013 8:25 PM Going to try removing JRE 1.7u11 and backing up to 1.6u39 to see if that has an impact, but if IAccessibile2 is functional--should not need a JRE, right? So an uninstall of JRE 1.7u11 did set everything right with this initial build

RE: [Call For QA Volunteers] AOO UI IAccessible2 testing work

2013-02-05 Thread V Stuart Foote
Steve, Ariel Installed Ariel's posted ia2 branch build Run as Administrator, and also captured a verbose install log. AOO350m1(Build:9611) - Rev. 1441343 2013-02-04 20:38:26 -0300 (lun, 04 feb 2013) Windows 7 sp1 64-bit Oracle Java JRE 1.7u11 Verified the UaccCOM.dll is registered at:

Re: [Call For QA Volunteers] AOO UI IAccessible2 testing work

2013-02-04 Thread V Stuart Foote
Steve, Great work! Hope to be able to get to work on QA of the ia2 branch soon. From: Steve Yin [mailto:steve.yin@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, February 3, 2013 7:10 PM snip Yes, the branch ia2 is ready for QA now. The earlier the power users involve, the faster project progress we can expect.

No Accessibility API support with the Java SE 7 Accessibility API, problem with JAB 2.0.3 and passing event focus

2013-01-10 Thread V Stuart Foote
Have an open, but unconfirmed, bug against Apache OpenOffice 3.4.1 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=121510 Can confirm it, but unable to edit the Bugzilla status. Also, I just verified it remains an issue with the 4.0 Developer builds, r1400866 Probably related to Oracle's work