[dev] Re: [ux-discuss] OpenOffice.org Product Development

2010-03-30 Thread André Schnabel
Hi Andreas, * first a disclaimer: my comments represent only my own views about the project - I'm not speaking for anybody else (esp. not for Torsten) Addition to the disclaimer: I have been a long-term contributor to the project but have never really contributed code (ok a ~10 LOC patch).

[dev] Re: [l10n-dev] Re: [dev] Spanish NL Community requests for funding help on acquiring a local build box

2010-03-16 Thread André Schnabel
Hi, not exactly on topic, but ... Santiago Bosio schrieb: As I said, we have been doing our own builds, patching the translations with the latest snapshot from Pootle, converted to OOo SDF format using po2oo, and gsichecking the resulting file. All of it can be done automatically, but

Re: [dev] Re: [council-discuss] election machinery (was Re: [council-discuss] Call for Nominations for Community Council Election)

2009-10-31 Thread André Schnabel
Hi Eric, eric b schrieb: Hi Andre, Le 31 oct. 09 à 10:19, André Schnabel a écrit : I think what will be retained is not what really happened, and I think this is not respecftull for Alexandro and me, and worse, does not provide a good image ot your 'elections process'. I don't get your

Re: [dev] Re: [OOoCon 2009] OOo4Kids and Education Project : presentations canceled

2009-10-29 Thread André Schnabel
Hi, Thorsten Behrens schrieb: Hi Andre, well, I guess matters are a bit more complicated here. From past years, it was quite customary to pay travel accomodation for volunteer contributors; in fact the conference submission site mentioned as much. So we seem to have different memories, what

Re: [dev] Import of Office-Dokuments, converting to PDF

2009-10-15 Thread André Schnabel
Hi Robert, Robert Einsle schrieb: The question is: May we approach problematic documents to the Open Office team or as possible to a german developer so that the import filter of ascertained document types (in this case .ppt and .doc) can be improved? But we have to mention that these

[dev] Re: [native-lang] Preparing the council elections - looking for observers

2009-05-04 Thread André Schnabel
Hi, something I forgot: Although there are no formal restrictions to this role, you should not apply as observer, if you are going to candidate for one of the council seats (just to prevent conflict of interests). André André Schnabel schrieb: Hi, you may have noticed that we

[dev] Preparing the council elections - verify project lead lists

2009-05-03 Thread André Schnabel
Hi, we (the council members) are preparing for the next (and overdue) council elections. According to our current charter [1], we have defined electorates (the people who are going to vote on the candidates). As we are going to elect Product Development Representatives and Lang

[dev] Preparing the council elections - looking for observers

2009-05-03 Thread André Schnabel
Hi, you may have noticed that we are are going to prepare the upcoming council elections. (See [1] for some rough notes.) According to our election process proposal [2] the election will be lead by a supervisor who is assisted by two observers. To spread the work we are looking for people who

[dev] Re: [ux-discuss] Re: Offering file associations when installing - or not?

2009-03-26 Thread André Schnabel
Hi, (taking d...@ooo in cc - mybe someone there can give mor input). Bill Stewart schrieb: André Schnabel wrote: In theory setting the property REGISTER_ALL_MSO_TYPES to 1 should do this. I tested with Microsoft Office 2003 and OOo 3.0.1, and it works; thanks for the tip. However

Re: [dev] Get list of top votes on QA site?

2009-03-25 Thread André Schnabel
HI, Bill Stewart schrieb: Hello all, I am looking for a way to list the issues with the largest number of votes on the QA site (qa.openoffice.org). I tried going to: qa.openoffice.org - Miscellaneous link - Issue Votes link The list at this location (http://qa.openoffice.org/iz_votes.html)

Re: [dev] Get list of top votes on QA site?

2009-03-25 Thread André Schnabel
Hi Niklas, Niklas Nebel schrieb: On 03/25/09 11:47, Niklas Nebel wrote: Oh, that's quite bad. Thanks for noticing it. As soon as Issue Tracker works again, I will submit an issue and try to get it into 3.1. http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=100538 Thanks! I did not have the

Re: [dev] amount of stopper / regressions for 3.1 release

2009-03-22 Thread André Schnabel
Hi Ingrid, Ingrid Halama schrieb: Mathias Bauer wrote: The problem is that the usual test runs obviously don't find the bugs That is not obvious to me. Too often the mandatory tests haven't been run. And if tests do not find an important problem, hey then the tests should be improved.

Re: [dev] amount of stopper / regressions for 3.1 release

2009-03-20 Thread André Schnabel
Hi again, Andre Schnabel schrieb: BTW, since there was the request for an automatic solution: anybody knows what became of the mirrorbrain offering (on d...@tools IIRC)? Yes .. I'm in contact with Christoph Noack on this, to provide at least a test environment. Sorry, I mixed up

Re: [dev] buildbot builds vs standard builds

2009-02-26 Thread André Schnabel
Hi, Thorsten Ziehm schrieb: *No* TestBots are *not* the solution for getting reliable builds. TestBots are the solution for running automated tests on reliable builds. For 'testing' you can take every build you want. I haven't seen builds of all build bots, but you can use that versions

Re: [dev] Re: buildbot builds vs standard builds

2009-02-26 Thread André Schnabel
Hi, Mechtilde schrieb: And today evening I started the buildbot ubuntu-7.10 to create a build OOO310_m3 to create a list of diferences between the HH-build and the build from the build bot. The first difference I found was that it was impossible to get a build. Nice one :) So I am a

Re: [dev] buildbot builds vs standard builds

2009-02-19 Thread André Schnabel
Hi Jörg, Jörg Jahnke schrieb: Is this really the answer to Thorstens older question? I guess not. I was just looking at one tree in the wood. Unfortunately this tree is in my way so that I cannot even enter the wood. And also to Mechtilde's initial question, which Stephan posted here,

Re: [dev] why ist the size of user dictionaries limited to 2000 entries

2009-01-22 Thread André Schnabel
Hi Christoph, Christoph Lutz schrieb: we want to import our word dictionaries into OOo. The test-macro below shows that user dictionaries in OOo seem to be limited to 2000 entries. Yes, Are other types of dictionaries (e.g. system wide dictionaries) also restricted to 2000 entries?

Re: [dev] Who can closes an issue[ was: Fwd: [l10n-dev] Spanish version : issue in OLH

2008-11-12 Thread André Schnabel
Hi, Nguyen Vu Hung schrieb: Hi all, I find it very abnormal that the person who shoots an issue can't close it. Any comment? This already works - see issue 96166 http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=96166 http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_activity.cgi?id=96166 The user

Re: [dev] Who can closes an issue[ was: Fwd: [l10n-dev] Spanish version : issue in OLH

2008-11-12 Thread André Schnabel
Hi, Nguyen Vu Hung schrieb: Does it working with existing issues? This is one of my issue. http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=95569 I am logging as vuhung but I cannot change the status of the issue. Maybe something special with the status Started. I set the issue to fixe -

[dev] Re: [discuss] Re: OpenOffice.org Community Mapping Project

2008-10-30 Thread André Schnabel
Hi, Zaheda Bhorat schrieb: :-( We have only six community entries so far in our attempt to create an OpenOffice.org community map. None of the entries include developers. Our goal was to get off to a great start to this project with many entries in time for OOoCon 2008 in Beijing next

Re: [dev] Re: [project leads] Re: [discuss] Re: OpenOffice.org Community Mapping Project

2008-10-30 Thread André Schnabel
Hi, eric b schrieb: Hi Andre, Just a question : what does mean Developer for you exactly ? *sigh* .. depends. Normally I'd say people who contribute code. Unfortunately many people claim, that communites consist of developers (somemayextend to and other less important contributors) I

Re: [dev] charter discussion ?

2008-09-16 Thread André Schnabel
Hi, Charles-H. Schulz schrieb: As said - all project memebers (including category leads) are eligible. The difference is in the electorate or constituency. Category leads are mentioned for the electorates: