Re: Apache OO General Questions

2012-10-22 Thread Michael Meeks
On Thu, 2012-10-18 at 16:05 -0500, Alexandro Colorado wrote: Recently i reported a 7yr old bug on memory management, i am sure LibO also inherit that bug and they haven't fix it mainly because of the low level technical knowledge to devote to the performance project. I seem to

Re: Apache OO General Questions

2012-10-22 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Alexandro, On Mon, 2012-10-22 at 03:17 -0500, Alexandro Colorado wrote: On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 2:39 AM, Michael Meeks michael.me...@suse.comwrote: On Thu, 2012-10-18 at 16:05 -0500, Alexandro Colorado wrote: Recently i reported a 7yr old bug on memory management, i am sure LibO also

Re: AOO 3.4, OOo 3.3, LibreOffice3.5.3 Performance Testing Result

2012-05-29 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Lilly, On Tue, 2012-05-29 at 15:44 +0800, Xia Zhao wrote: Two or three weeks ago we have had lot of discussion against performance, and I ever statement that we would provide the performance testing data. Now the manual testing result is got and we will continuous on automatic performance

Re: Request for Apache License for CWSs

2012-05-23 Thread Michael Meeks
On Wed, 2012-05-23 at 13:54 +0200, Regina Henschel wrote: There are a lot of CWSs in http://hg.services.openoffice.org/. The files are still under LGPL3. Some of these CWSs are relevant for LO and for AOO. It it possible to get these CWSs under APL2.0? Right ! so I've been delaying

Re: LibreOffice relicensing efforts

2012-05-23 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Pedro, On Wed, 2012-05-23 at 10:36 -0500, Pedro Giffuni wrote: There are no details of the relicensing process but doesn't look very clean to me: - They are basically assuming that OOo 3.3.x (where they started has been relicensed under ALv2, which is not true. This is

Re: LibreOffice relicensing efforts

2012-05-23 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Rob, On Wed, 2012-05-23 at 22:31 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: It seems to be based on an interesting theory about what an SGA actually does. It seems to assume that the SGA itself puts the code under the Apache License. Ah - I can see how you get there from the pre-amble; the

Re: LibreOffice relicensing efforts

2012-05-23 Thread Michael Meeks
On Wed, 2012-05-23 at 22:51 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: There is very little code of value in AOO that can simply be copied as-is into LO and then never touched again. Typically the code will need to be modified when initially merged into LO. But then, as bugs are fixed or the feature is

Re: Apache OpenOffice 3.4 Blows Past 1M Downloads

2012-05-17 Thread Michael Meeks
On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 12:52 +0800, Yue Helen wrote: W...a great milestone! Congratulations! BTW, is there a page/tool we can get the latest download number? Sure - it's public on the sourceforge page; it's also filter-able, so you can easily see the download number for eg. the

Re: Fwd: Performance!

2012-05-10 Thread Michael Meeks
On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 07:45 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: And so you posted questions on his blog, seeking clarifications on methodology, and he responded. Apparently my general concern around promoting such content as being FUD per-se is hard to answer :-) The only interesting thing to me

Re: [Extension] IBM Connections Extension is ready.

2012-05-09 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi there, On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 17:55 +0800, Liu Da Li wrote: The IBM Connections Extensions lets you to connect IBM Connections easily It sounds rather interesting. IBM Connections http://www-01.ibm.com/software/lotus/products/connections/is social software for business that lets

Re: [Extension] IBM Connections Extension is ready.

2012-05-09 Thread Michael Meeks
On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 11:04 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: No current plans to make source code available. It is a free-of-charge extension for OpenOffice. I don't believe we have tested with LibreOffice. You can see the license details when you install. Standard IBM license for non-warrantied

CWS licensing / summary ...

2012-05-04 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Andrew / Ross, Lets try to get to the bottom of this. On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 09:42 +0100, Ross Gardler wrote: If anyone on this list believes a *specific* CWS is valuable as the project as it moves forwards then here is what to do... Go to our repository and look to see if it is

Re: CWS licensing query ...

2012-05-01 Thread Michael Meeks
On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 22:59 +0100, Ross Gardler wrote: On 19 April 2012 17:24, Michael Meeks michael.me...@suse.com wrote: 1. Are those SGA's unmodified, and/or does the scope extend beyond the plain list of files, and just one version of them ? The SGAs

Re: OOo / zlib license oddness ...

2012-04-23 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Andre, On Fri, 2012-04-20 at 10:35 +0800, Andre Fischer wrote: Thanks Michael for your analysis. No problem :-) hope it helps. I dont't think that copying the files is a problem. After all we are already unzipping the zlib tar ball to a location of our choosing. Why should

CWS licensing query ...

2012-04-19 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi there, Just digging through the code looking at some (re)-licensing issues we have to deal with, and I'm wondering about the license of code in Child Workspaces (branches in Mercurial). It would be my hope (and for both project's benefit) that existing patches (ie. CWS), to

Fwd: Shutdown of the securityt...@openoffice.org mailing

2012-03-19 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi guys, The appended mail was sent to the old multi-vendor security list at openoffice.org recipients. That seems reasonable - the infrastructure is coming to an end. As previously discussed ( to death ;-) [ and I have no particular desire to re-opening and re-hash the issue ]

Re: Shutdown of the securityt...@openoffice.org mailing

2012-03-19 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Rob, On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 08:11 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: We've discussed this all before, but to reiterate, the previous list was a security list for a single open source project. It was hosted by that open source project. I'm not seeing in what sense that was neutral. It was

Re: Question related derivative code based on our Apache licensed code

2012-01-16 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Pedro, On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 06:38 -0800, Pedro Giffuni wrote: What will happen is that the code will keep the MPL/LGPL3 restrictions in addition to the AL2. That would be the plan; though our code will -emphatically- not be available under the AL2; only an MPL/LGPLv3+ [as well as

Re: Time for the ASF to send an Open Letter?

2011-12-19 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Pedro, On Sat, 2011-12-17 at 16:38 -0800, Pedro Giffuni wrote: And it's usually so much easier to take. Steve jobs had a famous quote about that that I don't remember very well ;-). But wait, did I confuse you with the chap who suggested that Apple's non-contribution back to

Re: Time for the ASF to send an Open Letter?

2011-12-19 Thread Michael Meeks
On Mon, 2011-12-19 at 08:40 -0800, Pedro Giffuni wrote: Please don't take anything personally. I just find it amusing that your signature says you are a pseudo-engineer, Ah ! fair cop :-) that's so people don't take me too seriously, and hopefully a good reminder to not take myself so;

Re: Time for the ASF to send an Open Letter?

2011-12-17 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Rob, On Sat, 2011-12-17 at 09:49 -0500, Rob Weir wrote: Did you also see Michael Meeks' attempt to visualise this context? http://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2011-11-18-graphs.html ... What that chart fails to show is the family tree. it suggests that LibreOffice is something

Re: Proposal: ooo-announce list

2011-12-13 Thread Michael Meeks
On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 16:14 +0100, Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 11/12/2011 Rob Weir wrote: The practice is to check in such fixes without making it evident to the observer that it is security-related. This would be our normal practise too; though we can't edit git history but we could

Re: Neutral / shared security list ...

2011-11-30 Thread Michael Meeks
On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 07:13 -0500, Rob Weir wrote: Remember, we had a securityteam mailing list already. LO folks were subscribed to it. Sure that list @openoffice.org. A ~random sub-set of TDF folks are subscribed to it. Requests to have an administrator for the TDF side to

Re: Neutral / shared security list ...

2011-11-29 Thread Michael Meeks
So, On Tue, 2011-10-25 at 13:00 -0700, Dave Fisher wrote: On Tue, 2011-10-25 at 10:22 -0700, Dave Fisher wrote: I think we are getting somewhere. The last detail is which is the real ML and which is the forwarder. While the AOOo project might prefer to have Fair point - for

Re: Neutral / shared security list ...

2011-11-29 Thread Michael Meeks
Rob, On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 07:37 -0500, Rob Weir wrote: Just to be clear. No discussion of this new list has taken place on ooo-dev or ooo-private. You did read this thread ? it was discussed, inconclusively at length, and the unhappiness with the status quo articulated quite clearly,

Re: Neutral / shared security list ...

2011-10-25 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Dave, On Mon, 2011-10-24 at 16:25 -0700, Dave Fisher wrote: Not sure how much this is like your original proposal, but maybe the following is acceptable: (1) The securityt...@openoffice.org continues. As mentioned, not happy about an openoffice.org domain; LibreOffice is not

Re: Neutral / shared security list ...

2011-10-25 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Rob, On Sat, 2011-10-22 at 22:59 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: I just noticed that the LO help website is heavily linked into the OOo wiki. Thanks for the report :-) http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahelp.libreoffice.org+link%3Awiki.services.openoffice.org About 732,000

Re: Neutral / shared security list ...

2011-10-25 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Dave, First - thanks for being so reasonable :-) it is rather refreshing to talk details in a pleasant fashion. On Tue, 2011-10-25 at 08:24 -0700, Dave Fisher wrote: However, this is moot (does not matter) if the address is not in a domain that the ASF is responsible. Fair

Re: Neutral / shared security list ...

2011-10-25 Thread Michael Meeks
On Tue, 2011-10-25 at 10:22 -0700, Dave Fisher wrote: You are welcome! I'm looking for common ground and I am trying to listen to logic. :-) So where does that leave us ? one approach that hasn't been discussed (and is perhaps a good compromise) - is for me to go ahead and

Re: working on a OpenOffice roadmap

2011-10-24 Thread Michael Meeks
On Sat, 2011-10-22 at 13:40 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: Since Sun had control of the Bugzilla instance, then anything you (a non-Sun member of the public) can see was accepted and made available under the OpenOffice.org open source project. I don't believe that to be the case. I'm also

Re: working on a OpenOffice roadmap

2011-10-24 Thread Michael Meeks
On Mon, 2011-10-24 at 08:01 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: In my experience lawyers don't tend to add pointless distinctions into In your experience with lawyers, did they ever teach you to misquote and/or modify the legal language in order to bolster your arguments? Dearest Rob,

Re: [DISCUSS] Neutral / shared security list proposal

2011-10-21 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Dennis list, On Fri, 2011-10-21 at 08:11 -0700, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: It is not something that can be done unilaterally here on the AOOo podling. Do you propose that this be discussed at securityteam@ OO.o? It would seem that is where consensus is required. Last I checked

Neutral / shared security list ...

2011-10-19 Thread Michael Meeks
So, It seems despite the promising flower of agreement here between Dennis and myself; we seem to have failed to attract any volunteers - and an openoffice.org branded list is not a suitably neutral place. Which leaves me to suggest freedesktop again; failing any violent

Re: Neutral / shared security list ...

2011-10-19 Thread Michael Meeks
On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 11:49 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, Michael. But are there not already TDF members among the moderators of the securityteam mailing list? I have no idea - but I suspect not; not that fixing that would meet my definition of neutral hosting of

Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-10 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Rob, On Sun, 2011-10-09 at 15:26 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: Reading binary file formats, including the legacy MS Office formats, is notoriously difficult to do robustly. Agreed. 2) That security reports should be sent to successor project's security contacts. .. 3) We should list

RE: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-10 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Dennis, On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 08:03 -0700, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: How is it that this reciprocal action occurred and was made known to the Apache OOo podling ? Oh - it's quite simple, you ASF/OOo made your decision to not include TDF guys, and we (without an endless mail thread)

Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-10 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Rob, On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 12:19 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: It does not seem reasonable to publicly excoriate AOOo for having a private security list restricted to members while you are simultaneously and without notice proceed to enforce the same policy for the TDF security list. It

Re: Vulnerability fixed in LibreOffice

2011-10-10 Thread Michael Meeks
On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 18:33 +0200, Malte Timmermann wrote: old/original OOo security list securityt...@openoffice.org. Which of course is highly sub-optimal, since it is an openoffice.org branded list, soon to be Apache owned - which is not neutral. Apparently we can't administer it

Re: [CODE] gtk system tray icon and libegg

2011-10-07 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Pedro, On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 07:56 -0700, Pedro Giffuni wrote: My guess is that mmeeks signed a JCA for his code and was even willing to get a JCA for libegg too. libegg is not my code, and is not covered by any (C) assignment I've ever signed, it was built as an external library we

Re: [CODE] gtk system tray icon and libegg

2011-10-07 Thread Michael Meeks
Hi Pedro, On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 10:07 -0700, Pedro Giffuni wrote: I would think that using directly the GTK+ functionality is something that LibreOffice will want to do too (if it's not done already). Certainly, it was done many moons ago. I am afraid we will have to ask later on

Re: ICU

2011-07-20 Thread Michael Meeks
On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 14:18 +0200, Michael Stahl wrote: that is an interesting point: we currently ship binaries of C++ runtime libraries in the installation sets. One thing that escapes a lot of people's notice is that most C++ app out there on Linux links vs. crt1.o crti.o crtbegin.o