Re: [PROPOSAL] Initiate a Contest for Branding of 4.0

2012-11-16 Thread Alexandro Colorado
We do need more communication channels specially with external entities. Linux Journal blog, sourceforge newsletters, prominent news channels like Lxer http://lxer.com/ and others. This is what marketing should be focused on at the moment. That way initiatives like this grasp major notoriety in

Request to provide windows install-arc zip download on buildbot.

2012-11-16 Thread Zhe Liu
Hi, Who can help to make buildbot to provide windows install-arc zip download? I can't find the package in the links. http://ci.apache.org/projects/openoffice/install/win/ http://ci.apache.org/projects/openoffice/install/winsnap/ It's very useful for automated test. Just one command to copy the

Fwd: Re: Request for a stand - Apache OpenOffice - FOSDEM

2012-11-16 Thread RA Stehmann
Hello, we've ask for a stand on FOSDEM. Regards Michael Original-Nachricht Betreff: Re: Request for a stand - Apache OpenOffice Datum: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 18:52:51 +0100 Von: Wynke Stulemeijer wy...@fosdem.org An: Dr. Michael Stehmann anw...@rechtsanwalt-stehmann.de CC:

Re: New committer: Jan Iversen

2012-11-16 Thread jan iversen
Thanks for the promotion. CMS / Pootle works, and I am trying hard to make a correct loaf file. Any idea when SVN will be relocated ? Jan On 15 November 2012 23:58, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: The Apache OpenOffice PMC announces the addition of committer Jan Iversen, jani@

Re: [BUILD] New gmake branch

2012-11-16 Thread Andre Fischer
On 16.11.2012 02:38, Andrew Rist wrote: Andre, I have updated the gmake branch (branches/gbuild) and changed all the headers. A couple of quick fixes are added. At this point the branch is trunk + CWS patches. make -di takes me pretty far in, but I get: GNUmakefile:35: *** Corrupted

Re: [PROPOSAL] Initiate a Contest for Branding of 4.0

2012-11-16 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 3:18 AM, Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote: We do need more communication channels specially with external entities. Linux Journal blog, sourceforge newsletters, prominent news channels like Lxer http://lxer.com/ and others. This is what marketing should be focused

Re: New committer: Jan Iversen

2012-11-16 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 5:05 AM, jan iversen j...@apache.org wrote: Thanks for the promotion. Congratulations! CMS / Pootle works, and I am trying hard to make a correct loaf file. Any idea when SVN will be relocated ? You can see the latest status on the JIRA issues here:

Re: Apache OO program crashes

2012-11-16 Thread Oliver-Rainer Wittmann
Hi, On 14.11.2012 16:43, tj wrote: On 11/14/2012 09:52, Fan Zheng wrote: +1. A reproduce-able frequently crash issue should be considered as the NO. 1 issue anyway, whatever it is or not a well-known one. Especially for the crash cases happen in the startup period. and I agree with Rob that

RE: Symphony IP Cleanup

2012-11-16 Thread Pedro Giffuni
--- Gio 15/11/12, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org ha scritto: ... So there is flexibility so long as no code appears in releases, but as you point out, code is leaking from the Symphony base into releases under the table.  That is not healthy. I wouldnt put it like that. We

Let's think about a Call for Dev Volunteers

2012-11-16 Thread Rob Weir
As you have probably seen, we're currently doing a call for QA volunteer, supported by a blog post, the website and social media. They all direct users to an Introduction to QA page: http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/orientation/intro-qa.html We've been promoting this for a week now and

Re: Request to provide windows install-arc zip download on buildbot.

2012-11-16 Thread Andrew Rist
On 11/16/2012 12:18 AM, Zhe Liu wrote: Hi, Who can help to make buildbot to provide windows install-arc zip download? I can't find the package in the links. http://ci.apache.org/projects/openoffice/install/win/ http://ci.apache.org/projects/openoffice/install/winsnap/ It's very useful for

Re: [PROPOSAL] Initiate a Contest for Branding of 4.0

2012-11-16 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 7:01 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 3:18 AM, Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote: We do need more communication channels specially with external entities. Linux Journal blog, sourceforge newsletters, prominent news channels like

Apache mailing list archives

2012-11-16 Thread Larry Gusaas
The new addresses for the mailing lists appear on http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/mailing-lists.html But the links to the Apache archives still point to the incubator mailing lists. Non of the recent posts are in those archives. -- - Larry I. Gusaas Moose Jaw,

Re: Best practices for contributing code to both Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice

2012-11-16 Thread Jörg Schmidt
-Original Message- From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] This should be possible. Right now I'm mainly gathering ideas and feedback. Then I can propose some specific wording. If that is good, then we can think about translations. Rob, I would really like to to help, but

Re: [UX] Desoign Exploration - Dockable Task Pane Content Design

2012-11-16 Thread RGB ES
2012/11/16 Kevin Grignon kevingrignon...@gmail.com On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Kevin Grignon kevingrignon...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 9:28 PM, RGB ES rgb.m...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/11/15 Kevin Grignon kevingrignon...@gmail.com Hello All, I've been

[Mwiki] Spam Attack in progress!

2012-11-16 Thread TJ Frazier
Since 05:00 (UTC+5) this morning, I have blocked over 150 spammers; the deleted-pages count is higher. Normal would be about half a dozen. And still they come. In the short run, I can probably handle it, though help from any committer sysops would be useful. In the long run, some

Re: Editing needed on BZ footer -- remove podling reference

2012-11-16 Thread Kay Schenk
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: On Nov 15, 2012, at 3:08 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: On 11/14/2012 05:06 PM, TJ Frazier wrote: On 11/14/2012 18:47, Kay Schenk wrote: HI -- Could one of our BZ admins please remove the podling reference in the

Re: Editing needed on BZ footer -- remove podling reference

2012-11-16 Thread Dave Fisher
On Nov 16, 2012, at 5:40 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: On Nov 15, 2012, at 3:08 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: On 11/14/2012 05:06 PM, TJ Frazier wrote: On 11/14/2012 18:47, Kay Schenk wrote: HI -- Could one of our BZ

Re: Editing needed on BZ footer -- remove podling reference

2012-11-16 Thread TJ Frazier
On 11/16/2012 22:04, Dave Fisher wrote: On Nov 16, 2012, at 5:40 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: On Nov 15, 2012, at 3:08 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: On 11/14/2012 05:06 PM, TJ Frazier wrote: On 11/14/2012 18:47, Kay Schenk

Re: Apache and ODF

2012-11-16 Thread Alki Nea
Greetings, I wrote a free converter that takes an OpenOffice document (well, LibreOffice) and converts it to Kindle format. It's impossible to handle everything from the ODT format, as kindles are more restrictive, so don't expect a 100% perfect conversion. You can get it here: