Re: How do we want to announce new Committers/PPMC members

2011-09-30 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Personally, I'm in favor of a modest announcement to the ooo-dev list after a new committer has been elected and have submitted the iCLA. What do you think? +1 Juergen

Re: Editorial Calendar for the project Blog

2011-09-30 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 2:03 AM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: OK, I'll put a request in to Infrastructure. But first let's see if we have a batch of accounts to create. Do any other committers or PPMC members request an Apache Blog account? please include me jsc and jsc at

Re: hwpfilter/source/ksc5601.h - header from GNU c library

2011-09-30 Thread Oliver-Rainer Wittmann
Hi Pedro, thanks for the investigation. What you are proposing are exactly the changes which I have made locally to integrate the new header file and to prepare a corresponding patch. Additionally, I deleted everything in the header file which is not used in our source code. Thus, only the

Re: Editorial Calendar for the project Blog

2011-09-30 Thread Marcus (OOo)
Please add me marcus to the editors list. If there is still a need for more admins (e.g., to moderate comments) then please add me here, too. Thanks Marcus Am 09/30/2011 02:24 AM, schrieb Dennis E. Hamilton: A small number of us agreed to be editors for the blog. Now I wonder if that is

Re: hwpfilter/source/ksc5601.h - header from GNU c library

2011-09-30 Thread Oliver-Rainer Wittmann
Hi Pedro, On 29.09.2011 18:29, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: Hi Oliver; --- On Thu, 9/29/11, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote: ... Thanks for the input. Adding the URL for the origin of the copyright and license text is a good idea. I will add it and use it also to point to the origin of ksc5601.h.

Top posting is bad

2011-09-30 Thread Ross Gardler
At the risk of starting a flame-war I am going to state that top-posting is bad on publicly archived mailing lists. Can we please stop doing it? It is very difficult to understand what is going on in a mailing list, especially the archives, if it is common practice to top-post rather than reply

Re: [DISCUSS] Having New Committers also be on the PPMC

2011-09-30 Thread Ross Gardler
On 30 September 2011 03:04, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton orc...@apache.org wrote: It has been the practice, thus far, that all newly-invited committers are invited to also be on the Podling Project Management Committee (PPMC). Some

Re: Top posting is bad

2011-09-30 Thread floris v
Op 30-9-2011 10:46, Ross Gardler schreef: At the risk of starting a flame-war I am going to state that top-posting is bad on publicly archived mailing lists. Can we please stop doing it? It is very difficult to understand what is going on in a mailing list, especially the archives, if it is

Re: Top posting is bad

2011-09-30 Thread Ross Gardler
On 30 September 2011 10:45, floris v floris...@gmail.com wrote: Op 30-9-2011 10:46, Ross Gardler schreef: ... That was probably aimed at me. Not at all, it was aimed at what I observe is a generally increasing trend. Ross

Re: Build AOOo on Mac OS X 10.7

2011-09-30 Thread Rolf Eder
Am 28.09.2011 um 01:00 schrieb Raphael Bircher: Hi Chao Ok, you have only the 10.6 and 10.7 SDK on board. This explain, why you can't build OOo. We build OOo agentist the 10.4 SDK. Well, we should try to use a newer SDK anyway, but releases should be done with a mashine with 10.4 SDK.

RE: Top posting is bad

2011-09-30 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
The assumption behind this recommendation seems to be that all mail clients are the same and the list is read the same by everyone. I already *manually* truncate lines to match the line-width of the sender. I prefer text flow of paragraphing among those whose clients and list archives handle

Re: Top posting is bad

2011-09-30 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: The assumption behind this recommendation seems to be that all mail clients are the same and the list is read the same by everyone. Choosing to use inadequate tools is no excuse to be bad mannered. bad may be

Re: Top posting is bad

2011-09-30 Thread Ian Lynch
From: Ross Gardler [mailto:rgard...@opendirective.com] Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 01:47 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Top posting is bad At the risk of starting a flame-war I am going to state that top-posting is bad on publicly archived mailing lists. Can we please

Re: Top posting is bad

2011-09-30 Thread Ross Gardler
On 30 September 2011 13:18, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: bad may be unpleasant for you but how about looking at the interoperability challenges and not encouraging belief that there is a silver-bullet, one-size fits all fiat when the only thing that works is civility.

FYI: Forum back on the air!!!

2011-09-30 Thread Rory O'Farrell
The OpenOffice forum is back on the air. Thanks to whoever in Oracle worked the miracle. -- Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie

Re: Build AOOo on Mac OS X 10.7

2011-09-30 Thread Raphael Bircher
Am 30.09.11 12:49, schrieb Rolf Eder: Am 28.09.2011 um 01:00 schrieb Raphael Bircher: Hi Chao Ok, you have only the 10.6 and 10.7 SDK on board. This explain, why you can't build OOo. We build OOo agentist the 10.4 SDK. Well, we should try to use a newer SDK anyway, but releases should be

Re: Build AOOo on Mac OS X 10.7

2011-09-30 Thread Tor Lillqvist
Building against the 10.7 SDK will not succeed, as the MacOSX code at least in vcl uses some APIs that have been removed completely in the 10.7 SDK. (They were deprecated already in 10.4... which shows the state the Mac code is in.) So either some Mac expert need to really do some hard work on

Re: i18nregexp replaced with ICU regexp = heads up

2011-09-30 Thread tora - Takamichi Akiyama
Hi Herbert, Thank you for your efforts. On 2011/09/30 22:08, Herbert Duerr wrote: Please make sure to have the More Options - Regular Expressions checkbox activated for testing. I'm afraid the regexp replacement resulted in changes mostly for Japanese users, because there a lot of

Re: [DISCUSS] Having New Committers also be on the PPMC

2011-09-30 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 10:15:52 -0400 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: snip By my count we have 72 committers right now, almost all of them also PPMC members. With the new IBMers coming on board, as well as possibly forum admins/moderators/volunteers (at least according to one draft

Re: [DISCUSS] Having New Committers also be on the PPMC

2011-09-30 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:33 AM, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 10:15:52 -0400 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: snip By my count we have 72 committers right now, almost all of them also PPMC members.  With the new IBMers coming on board, as well as possibly

Re: [DISCUSS] Having New Committers also be on the PPMC

2011-09-30 Thread Simon Phipps
What is the actual current harm you are seeking to correct, Rob? I had assumed this sort of lock-down would wait until graduation from the incubator once it was clear what worked and what didn't. S.

Re: [DISCUSS] Having New Committers also be on the PPMC

2011-09-30 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: What is the actual current harm you are seeking to correct, Rob? I had assumed this sort of lock-down would wait until graduation from the incubator once it was clear what worked and what didn't. Simon, I'm a PPMC

Re: [DISCUSS] Having New Committers also be on the PPMC

2011-09-30 Thread Simon Phipps
On 30 Sep 2011, at 15:58, Rob Weir wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: What is the actual current harm you are seeking to correct, Rob? I had assumed this sort of lock-down would wait until graduation from the incubator once it was clear what

Re: [DISCUSS] Having New Committers also be on the PPMC

2011-09-30 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: On 30 Sep 2011, at 15:58, Rob Weir wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: What is the actual current harm you are seeking to correct, Rob? I had assumed this sort of lock-down

Re: [DISCUSS] Having New Committers also be on the PPMC

2011-09-30 Thread Simon Phipps
On 30 Sep 2011, at 16:06, Rob Weir wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: On 30 Sep 2011, at 15:58, Rob Weir wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: What is the actual current harm you are seeking to correct,

Re: Top posting is bad

2011-09-30 Thread Pedro Giffuni
--- On Fri, 9/30/11, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: ... At the risk of starting a flame-war I am going to state that top-posting is bad on publicly archived mailing lists. Can we please stop doing it? This was discussed on the early postings in this list and a mentor said

Re: [DISCUSS] Having New Committers also be on the PPMC

2011-09-30 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: On 30 Sep 2011, at 16:06, Rob Weir wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: On 30 Sep 2011, at 15:58, Rob Weir wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Simon Phipps

Re: [DISCUSS] Having New Committers also be on the PPMC

2011-09-30 Thread Dave Fisher
On Sep 30, 2011, at 8:06 AM, Rob Weir wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: On 30 Sep 2011, at 15:58, Rob Weir wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: What is the actual current harm you are seeking to

Re: [DISCUSS] Having New Committers also be on the PPMC

2011-09-30 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: On Sep 30, 2011, at 8:06 AM, Rob Weir wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: On 30 Sep 2011, at 15:58, Rob Weir wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Simon Phipps

Re: [DISCUSS] Having New Committers also be on the PPMC

2011-09-30 Thread Ross Gardler
On 30 September 2011 15:15, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 5:04 AM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: On 30 September 2011 03:04, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton orc...@apache.org wrote: It has

Re: Top posting is bad

2011-09-30 Thread Dave Fisher
On Sep 30, 2011, at 8:32 AM, Pedro Giffuni wrote: --- On Fri, 9/30/11, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: ... At the risk of starting a flame-war I am going to state that top-posting is bad on publicly archived mailing lists. Can we please stop doing it? This was

Re: hwpfilter/source/ksc5601.h - header from GNU c library

2011-09-30 Thread Pedro Giffuni
Hi; --- On Fri, 9/30/11, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote: Ok, I will reference the original URL [1] in the header file. Best regards, Oliver. [1] http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/xc/lib/X11/lcUniConv/#dirlist I don't like adding URLs to the headers as those can change or disappear. Just

Re: [DISCUSS] Having New Committers also be on the PPMC

2011-09-30 Thread Ross Gardler
Sent from my mobile device, please forgive errors and brevity. On Sep 30, 2011 4:35 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: ... I see no reason to stop offering PPMC membership with Committer status. If the person chooses not to be on the PPMC that is fine. It is not that I don't think

RE: Top posting is bad

2011-09-30 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Everyone replies with what works naturally for them and assumes that my world is the same. So, is the idea that all of should live in the one true silo, so long as it is not Microsoft. I have tools I am happy and effective with, and then I'm insulted for it. Why would I want to continue

Re: [DISCUSS] Having New Committers also be on the PPMC

2011-09-30 Thread Simon Phipps
On 30 Sep 2011, at 16:35, Rob Weir wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: What is the actual current harm you are seeking to correct, Rob? I had assumed this sort of lock-down would wait until graduation from the incubator once it was clear what

Re: Top posting is bad

2011-09-30 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 8:30 AM, Norbert Thiebaud nthieb...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 7:18 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: The assumption behind this recommendation seems to be that all mail clients are the same and the list is read the same by everyone.

Re: [DISCUSS] Having New Committers also be on the PPMC

2011-09-30 Thread Ross Gardler
Sent from my mobile device, please forgive errors and brevity. On Sep 30, 2011 4:40 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: ... I see no reason to stop offering PPMC membership with Committer status. If the person

Re: [DISCUSS] Having New Committers also be on the PPMC

2011-09-30 Thread Dave Fisher
On Sep 30, 2011, at 8:48 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: Sent from my mobile device, please forgive errors and brevity. On Sep 30, 2011 4:35 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: ... I see no reason to stop offering PPMC membership with Committer status. If the person chooses not to

Re: Top posting is bad

2011-09-30 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: When the questions and answers are deep in the bottom and get deeper and deeper then I tend to tune out and move on. That is because 'bottom post' is not just adding stuff at the end... it is adding stuff 'after' the

Re: Top posting is bad

2011-09-30 Thread Pedro Giffuni
--- On Fri, 9/30/11, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Norbert Thiebaud nthieb...@gmail.com wrote: Choosing to use inadequate tools is no excuse to be bad mannered. The interesting thing is that there may be people who don't know they are using the wrong tools. If someone has not

Re: Top posting is bad

2011-09-30 Thread Ross Gardler
On 30 September 2011 16:48, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: Who says what the average size is?  Who has measured it.  Where are the numbers? Common practice is what I refer to. I don;t have numbers but take a random dip into as many lists as you like on markmail which (at the

Re: [DISCUSS] Having New Committers also be on the PPMC

2011-09-30 Thread Ross Gardler
On 30 September 2011 16:48, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: Sent from my mobile device, please forgive errors and brevity. On Sep 30, 2011 4:35 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: ... I see no reason to stop offering PPMC membership with Committer status. If the

Re: Top posting is bad

2011-09-30 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 17:17:05 +0100 Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: I have no more to say on the matter. People will continue to post in the way that they prefer (or must as a result of their chosen clients). Those who are undecided and unrestricted will hopefully make a more

RE: Top posting is bad

2011-09-30 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Who says there are wrong tools? Turning this into right and wrong is just crazy. There are different tools. There are some protocols involved that are mainly invisible to us. The wonder that e-mail works at all is that it works well enough despite the fact that no sender can know what the

Re: Top posting is bad

2011-09-30 Thread Ian Lynch
On 30 September 2011 17:04, Pedro Giffuni p...@apache.org wrote: --- On Fri, 9/30/11, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Norbert Thiebaud nthieb...@gmail.com wrote: Choosing to use inadequate tools is no excuse to be bad mannered. The interesting thing is that there may be people

Re: [DISCUSS] Having New Committers also be on the PPMC

2011-09-30 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: BTW, LO/TDF has a steering committee of what?  13 people total?  Have you recommending to them that they put their entire elected membership into a flat leadership structure?  Or is that wisdom, by your grace, reserved for

Re: Top posting is bad

2011-09-30 Thread Simon Phipps
On 30 Sep 2011, at 17:27, Ian Lynch wrote: It's amazing how such small things can cause such controversy and angst. It's a sign of culture clash, in my view, rather than an issue in itself. There's probably a Godwin's-Law-type aphorism about it. S.

Re: [DISCUSS] Having New Committers also be on the PPMC

2011-09-30 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Norbert Thiebaud nthieb...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: BTW, LO/TDF has a steering committee of what?  13 people total?  Have you recommending to them that they put their entire elected membership into a

Re: [DISCUSS] Having New Committers also be on the PPMC

2011-09-30 Thread Simon Phipps
On 30 Sep 2011, at 18:28, Rob Weir wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Norbert Thiebaud nthieb...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: BTW, LO/TDF has a steering committee of what? 13 people total? Have you recommending to them that

Re: [DISCUSS] Having New Committers also be on the PPMC

2011-09-30 Thread Ross Gardler
May I observe that this thread should be about what is right for AOOo. What others do and whether that is right or wrong is irrelevant here unless we are using it to inform our decision. Lets not have yet another us and them argument. Sent from my mobile device, please forgive errors and brevity.

Re: Top posting is bad

2011-09-30 Thread Donald Whytock
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: On 30 Sep 2011, at 17:27, Ian Lynch wrote: It's amazing how such small things can cause such controversy and angst. It's a sign of culture clash, in my view, rather than an issue in itself. There's probably a

Re: [DISCUSS] Having New Committers also be on the PPMC

2011-09-30 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: May I observe that this thread should be about what is right for AOOo. What others do and whether that is right or wrong is irrelevant here unless we are using it to inform our decision. Lets not have yet another us

Re: [DISCUSS] Having New Committers also be on the PPMC

2011-09-30 Thread Simon Phipps
On 30 Sep 2011, at 18:47, Rob Weir wrote: I agree let's not make it adversarial. But I would be interested to know why Simon speaks up in favor of us have a congress-sized PMC, I said nothing of the kind, please stop putting words in my mouth. I simply asked why you felt the need for

Re: [DISCUSS] Having New Committers also be on the PPMC

2011-09-30 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: I agree let's not make it adversarial.  But I would be interested to know why Simon speaks up in favor of us have a congress-sized PMC, but has not made a similar recommendation for TDF/LO. Because there is no such thing as a

Re: [DISCUSS] Having New Committers also be on the PPMC

2011-09-30 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: On 30 Sep 2011, at 18:47, Rob Weir wrote: I agree let's not make it adversarial.  But I would be interested to know why Simon speaks up in favor of us have a congress-sized PMC, I said nothing of the kind, please stop

Re: i18nregexp replaced with ICU regexp = heads up

2011-09-30 Thread Pedro Giffuni
--- On Fri, 9/30/11, Herbert Duerr h...@apache.org wrote: Hi, for removing category X excluded licenses from Apache OpenOffice I replaced the formerly used LGPL licensed module i18nregexp with the regular expression engine of module ICU which is already widely use in OpenOffice. The

RE: [DISCUSS] Having New Committers also be on the PPMC

2011-09-30 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I'm quite satisfied with myself that I said my piece and stood by to see what discussion would unfold. I should have known it wouldn't have been so easy. Still, I promise not to post more than once per day on this thread, with the exception of responses to questions I have been asked directly.

Re: [DISCUSS] Having New Committers also be on the PPMC

2011-09-30 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: On 30 Sep 2011, at 19:15, Rob Weir wrote: We have never adopted a formal position of having everyone be a committer and PPMC member.  So if we did not change anything, we would still not have such a policy. I'm not

Re: [DISCUSS] Having New Committers also be on the PPMC

2011-09-30 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 2:31 PM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: On 30 Sep 2011, at 19:15, Rob Weir wrote: We have never adopted a formal position of having everyone be a committer and PPMC member.  So if we did not

Re: [DISCUSS] Having New Committers also be on the PPMC

2011-09-30 Thread Ross Gardler
Sent from my mobile device, please forgive errors and brevity. On Sep 30, 2011 7:15 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: On 30 Sep 2011, at 18:47, Rob Weir wrote: I agree let's not make it adversarial. But I would be

Re: Not new but under a new hat

2011-09-30 Thread Mathias Bauer
On 29.09.2011 09:56, Ian Lynch wrote: On 28 September 2011 16:51, Rob Weirrobw...@apache.org wrote: If everyone agreed that having a single project was best today, then we would have a single project tomorrow. Point is we have made little real effort to achieve any consensus on this. We

Re: handling of ext_sources - Juergen's suggestion [was: Re: A systematic approach to IP review?]

2011-09-30 Thread Mathias Bauer
On 28.09.2011 17:32, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: FWIW; I don't like the patches because I can't really examine well the code, besides this is something the VCS handles acceptably: commit the original sourcecode and then apply the patches in a different commit. If we start with up to date

Re: a question for #i117804# differentiate between ENABLE_CAIRO and ENABLE_CAIRO_CANVA

2011-09-30 Thread Mathias Bauer
Am 22.09.2011 10:35, schrieb Shao Zhi Zhao: hi, In the change of vcl340fixes: #i117804# differentiate between ENABLE_CAIRO and ENABLE_CAIRO_CANVA… in file of set_soenv.in there are 4 new lines added +ToFile( DISABLE_SAXON, @DISABLE_SAXON@, e ); +ToFile( DISABLE_HUNSPELL,

Re: Not new but under a new hat

2011-09-30 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Mathias Bauer mathias_ba...@gmx.netwrote: On 29.09.2011 09:56, Ian Lynch wrote: On 28 September 2011 16:51, Rob Weirrobw...@apache.org wrote: If everyone agreed that having a single project was best today, then we would have a single project tomorrow.

new committer: Pedro Giffuni

2011-09-30 Thread Rob Weir
The Apache OOo PPMC announces the addition of committer Pedro Giffuni: pfg @ apache.org. The list of all current podling committers is at: http://people.apache.org/committers-by-project.html#ooo Being a committer enables easier contribution to the project since there is no need to go via the

new committer: Hongyun An

2011-09-30 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
The Apache OOo PPMC announces the addition of initial committer AN Hongyun: hyan @ apache.org. The list of all current podling committers is at: http://people.apache.org/committers-by-project.html#ooo. Committers have a defined rôle in the workings of the Apache Software Foundation:

Re: Not new but under a new hat

2011-09-30 Thread Mathias Bauer
Am 30.09.2011 21:36, schrieb Alexandro Colorado: I dunno why this is such an issue really, we are both open source projects. Cooperating and working together doesnt really needs much, just commit to both projects and move on. I mean, what are we looking for here, do you want an explicit thank

Re: handling of ext_sources - Juergen's suggestion [was: Re: A systematic approach to IP review?]

2011-09-30 Thread Michael Stahl
On 30.09.2011 21:24, Mathias Bauer wrote: On 28.09.2011 17:32, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: Another advantage of unpacking the tarballs: the patches will become *real* patches that just contain changes of the original source code. Often the patches nowadays contain additional files that we just

RE: How do we want to announce new Committers/PPMC members

2011-09-30 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Rob and I put our heads together and have started announcing the addition of new committers to the list of those authorized for the Apache OOo Podling, http://people.apache.org/committers-by-project.html#ooo. That list has the benefit of being automatically-created. The announcement is being

Re: Not new but under a new hat

2011-09-30 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Mathias Bauer mathias_ba...@gmx.netwrote: Am 30.09.2011 21:36, schrieb Alexandro Colorado: I dunno why this is such an issue really, we are both open source projects. Cooperating and working together doesnt really needs much, just commit to both projects

time to stop that and look forward, not backwards (was Re: Not new but under a new hat)

2011-09-30 Thread Ross Gardler
Sent from my mobile device, please forgive errors and brevity. On Sep 30, 2011 8:24 PM, Mathias Bauer mathias_ba...@gmx.net wrote: ... Looking for parts in each others posts that could be *interpreted* negatively got more interest than praising the positive statements in them. I have a very

Re: [LINUX-BUILD] Details of Fedora 14 and 15 x68_64 build

2011-09-30 Thread Carl Marcum
On 09/30/2011 03:23 PM, Mathias Bauer wrote: On 29.09.2011 01:40, Carl Marcum wrote: On 09/28/2011 04:41 PM, Mathias Bauer wrote: On 27.09.2011 04:36, Carl Marcum wrote: As of Repo version 1175305 I can Build on Fedora 14 and 15 x86_64. Thank you Ariel for helping me get the first one