Re: Draft blog post: Porting Apache OpenOffice to Solaris, an interview with Nicolas Christener

2012-06-17 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=porting_apache_openoffice_to_solaris Thanks to Nicholas for taking time to answer my questions. He also provided a great photograph of the team at Adfinis SyGroup

Re: [DISCUSS]Next steps for automated testing

2012-06-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 2:31 AM, Zhe Liu aliu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, As mentioned before, I was working on a Java library to perform gui testing. Actually it has been implemented on Symphony source code. It involves 3 modules: 1.

Tutorial: How to Use the Apache CMS Web Interface

2012-06-15 Thread Rob Weir
My first attempt making a video with Camtasia. Hopefully this will be useful to someone starting to use the CMS for the first time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcDZN3Lu6HA Regards, -Rob

Re: Impact of Upgrade Downloads

2012-06-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Joost Andrae joost.and...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, On the top chart each hump is one week, with peaks midweek and lower volume on the weekend.  As you can see, we've had a significant increase in volume this last week, as we gradually rolled out the upgrade

Re: [Call-for-Review] Some issue about memory leak in Aoo3.4

2012-06-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 4:25 AM, Chao Huang chao.de...@gmail.com wrote: hi, all I'm Huang Chao from China. My interesting areas are Mac porting, performance(startup, loading, saving, etc), stability, build env. At recent stage, I will focus on memory leak issue in Aoo3.4. Here are the fixed

Re: 4M later today

2012-06-15 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Current download count is 3968717.  We should hit 4M later today.  The work Oliver has done to enable the update notifications for OOo 3.3.0 users has

Re: [DISCUSS] logo usage -- nitpicking and some proposed changes

2012-06-14 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 11:06 PM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: cc/ ooo-market...@incubator.apache.org I'm looking at the information we

Should we start posting regular dev snapshot builds for 3.4.1 or 3.5?

2012-06-14 Thread Rob Weir
I've seeing a lot of bug fixes coming in. This is great! But none of us are perfect. Sometimes bug fixes don't work or fixing one bug causes another problem.That is why we test. And it is best to test a bug fix before too much time has elapsed. Would it make sense to agree on a date to

Re: 4M later today

2012-06-14 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Roberto Galoppini rgalopp...@geek.net wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 10:30 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [DISCUSS] logo usage -- nitpicking and some proposed changes

2012-06-14 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 12:32 PM, drew d...@baseanswers.com wrote: On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 20:49 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: cc/ ooo-market...@incubator.apache.org I'm looking at the information we have on the project site

Re: [DISCUSS] logo usage -- nitpicking and some proposed changes

2012-06-14 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/14/2012 09:52 AM, Rob Weir wrote: On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 12:32 PM, drewd...@baseanswers.com  wrote: On Wed, 2012-06-13 at 20:49 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Kay Schenkkay.sch

Re: 4M later today

2012-06-14 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Ariel Constenla-Haile arie...@apache.org wrote: On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 12:16:28PM -0400, Rob Weir wrote: I've just tried to download it from the French link(*), and it seems to work just fine. What else should we double check? What I'm not seeing

Re: Bugs for BugZilla should also be logged in BugZilla or other bug tracking method?

2012-06-13 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 5:23 AM, Bin Guo binbj...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I observed there is one bug 119930 in BugZilla, it is not bug for AOO, but for BugZilla, I wondered this kind of bug should be logged in BugZilla or it should be logged to other path? If it is an administrative issue

4M later today

2012-06-13 Thread Rob Weir
Current download count is 3968717. We should hit 4M later today. The work Oliver has done to enable the update notifications for OOo 3.3.0 users has accelerated the download rate significantly. And happy anniversary, everyone. It was one year ago today that members of the OpenOffice.org

Re: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-06-13 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: 2012/6/12 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org II.  Use Symphony as the the new base, and merge (over time) AOO (and OOo) enhancements and bug fixes into the new trunk.  This approach quickly gives a new UI, something we could

Re: 4M later today

2012-06-13 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Current download count is 3968717.  We should hit 4M later today.  The work Oliver has done to enable the update notifications for OOo 3.3.0 users has accelerated the download rate significantly. Update: We're at 4001934

Re: 4M later today

2012-06-13 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/13/2012 12:59 PM, Rob Weir wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Rob Weirrobw...@apache.org  wrote: Current download count is 3968717.  We should hit 4M later today.  The work Oliver has done to enable

Re: 4M later today

2012-06-13 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Roberto Galoppini rgalopp...@geek.net wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 10:30 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/13/2012 12:59 PM, Rob Weir wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 1:06 PM

Re: [DISCUSS] logo usage -- nitpicking and some proposed changes

2012-06-13 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: cc/ ooo-market...@incubator.apache.org I'm looking at the information we have on the project site for Trademark Usage http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/trademarks.html First item, logos: For the Apache

Re: [DISCUSS] logo usage -- nitpicking and some proposed changes

2012-06-13 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 9:59 PM, Kevin Grignon kevingrignon...@gmail.com wrote: KG01 - See comments inline. On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 8:49 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: cc/ ooo-market...@incubator.apache.org

Re: Draft blog post: Porting Apache OpenOffice to Solaris, an interview with Nicolas Christener

2012-06-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: Il 11/06/2012 19:14, Rob Weir ha scritto: https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=porting_apache_openoffice_to_solaris Thanks to Nicholas for taking time to answer my questions. Nice interview, but I

Re: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-06-12 Thread Rob Weir
of copyleft, IMHO. The GPL just forces one to disclose the code. It does not force anyone to actively share, integrate, work through issues, etc.). -Rob Dennis -Original Message- From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 18:08 To: ooo-dev

Re: [Discuss] Guidance regarding acceptable interaction on mailing lists

2012-06-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 3:00 PM, David McKay dmc...@btconnect.com wrote: On 11/06/12 23:31, Rob Weir wrote: Good idea.   But this discussion belongs on ooo-dev.  There is no need for it to be private. -Rob Yes, you're right. Moved to ooo-dev. Thanks, Dave. What I wanted to point out

[DRAFT] Update notifications for OpenOffice.org 3.3.0 Installations

2012-06-12 Thread Rob Weir
I'm proposing to send the following note out to ooo-announce and ooo-users.We should be making such information available for admins and others who support OOo installations. We probably should have sent this out earlier, but better now than never. Is there anything else we should add that

Re: [Discuss] Guidance regarding acceptable interaction on mailing lists

2012-06-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Donald Harbison dpharbi...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry for top posting...meant to post this to ooo-dev, not ooo-private. On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Donald Harbison dpharbi...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 6:11 PM, David McKay dmc...@btconnect.com

Re: Your website contains 3 (found thus far) spelling errors

2012-06-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Larry Gusaas larry.gus...@gmail.com wrote: On 2012-06-11 6:44 AM Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: Best of all, Apache OpenOffice can be downloaded and used entirely free of any license fees. Please change back to the correct English spelling, licence, used in

Re: User demographics

2012-06-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 10:45 PM, Kevin Grignon kevingrignon...@gmail.com wrote: KG01 - See comments inline. On Jun 11, 2012, at 10:27 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On one of the UX threads there is ongoing discussion about a possible user survey. KG01 - Yes, we need data. I

Re: Re: Open the UOF2.0 source codes

2012-06-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 1:44 AM, Pedro Giffuni p...@apache.org wrote: --- Lun 11/6/12, hongyun.an hongyun...@cs2c.com.cn ha scritto: ... Data: Lunedì 11 giugno 2012, 00:20 You are welcome.We hope it will be more compatible between the ODF and UOF2.0. Could anybody tell me how submit the

Re: [Request] [Bugzilla] Please help me adding into qa-team or related to have permission in BugZilla

2012-06-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 6:25 AM, Herbert Duerr h...@apache.org wrote: Hi, our bugzilla grants many rights by default with two major exceptions: can-confirm is needed for confirming an issue as reproducible edit-bugs is needed for setting the status of an issue to resolved Answering the

Re: [UPDATE SERVICE] OOo 3.3 update service - next steps

2012-06-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann orwittm...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, On 08.06.2012 11:06, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote: [snip] Dutch - http://www.openoffice.org/nl/downloaden.html French - http://www.openoffice.org/fr/Telecharger/ German -

Re: Installation Experience and Feedback

2012-06-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 9:53 AM, O.Felka olaf-openoff...@gmx.de wrote: AFAICT, the unpacked files are only needed for installation, and one still has the initial download, so why clutter up the disk? this is not true. The unpacked files are needed for the so called 'maintenance mode':

Re: [AOO Blog]Feeds do not work

2012-06-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 9:07 PM, Gavin McDonald ga...@16degrees.com.au wrote: -Original Message- From: Gavin McDonald [mailto:ga...@16degrees.com.au] Sent: Tuesday, 5 June 2012 9:43 AM To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: RE: [AOO Blog]Feeds do not work -Original

Draft blog post: Porting Apache OpenOffice to Solaris, an interview with Nicolas Christener

2012-06-11 Thread Rob Weir
https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=porting_apache_openoffice_to_solaris Thanks to Nicholas for taking time to answer my questions. He also provided a great photograph of the team at Adfinis SyGroup, but the media upload feature of Roller is not working. I get a security

Re: [Marketing][UX] Who wants to do a Content Experiment?

2012-06-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Paolo Pozzan pa...@z2z.it wrote: Il 08/06/2012 15:54, Rob Weir ha scritto: A Content Experiment is when we create several version of the same web page and test it with users to see which version performs best. Google Analystics has a feature where it can run

Re: Draft blog post: Porting Apache OpenOffice to Solaris, an interview with Nicolas Christener

2012-06-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 4:14 PM, drew d...@baseanswers.com wrote: On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 13:14 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=porting_apache_openoffice_to_solaris Thanks to Nicholas for taking time to answer my questions. He also provided a great

Re: official logos ???

2012-06-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: I'm starting to do some work on the Distributor FAQ (up soonish on the wiki for comments) and have come to a bit of an issue with regard to the actual display and download areas of our official logos. (If this has been

Re: official logos ???

2012-06-11 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/11/2012 02:40 PM, Rob Weir wrote: On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Kay Schenkkay.sch...@gmail.com  wrote: I'm starting to do some work on the Distributor FAQ (up soonish on the wiki for comments) and have come

Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-06-11 Thread Rob Weir
As we wait [0] for the Symphony [1] code to be loaded into Subversion I think it would be good to start a discussion on next steps of how we can make best use of this contribution. Hopefully you've had time to review the list of features on the wiki [2], install one of the binaries [3] , or maybe

Re: New PPMC Member: Yuri Dario

2012-06-10 Thread Rob Weir
Thanks, Dennis. I've added the latest group of new committers to our podling status file: http://incubator.apache.org/projects/openofficeorg.html -Rob On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton orc...@apache.org wrote: The Apache OpenOffice PPMC announces the addition of committer

Welcome new committers!

2012-06-10 Thread Rob Weir
Aside from the welcome note that Dennis sent out, I'd like to bring to things to your attention. First, please read through the Guide for New Committers: http://www.apache.org/dev/new-committers-guide.html There is some useful information there related to email, security, etc. Second, please

Re: Add-ins

2012-06-10 Thread Rob Weir
Original posted is not subscribed to the list, so forwarding. -Rob On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Joost Andrae joost.and...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, Excel AddIns do not run within OpenOffice but there are several extensions for AOO available at http://extensions.services.openoffice.org or at

Re: [DISCUSS] Pootle and New Contributor Category

2012-06-10 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Juan C. Sanz juancsa...@hotmail.com wrote: El 08/06/2012 1:22, Rob Weir escribió: On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: On Jun 7, 2012, at 3:43 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton orc

Re: download page misbehaviour

2012-06-10 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Peter Brawley peter.braw...@earthlink.net wrote: On 2012-06-09 10:30 AM, Peter Brawley wrote: On 64-bit Win 7 Pro, Chrome and the AOO download page misbehave together in these ways: (i) the page fails to check for existing versions, ie whether I need a

Re: question re web site(s) patches...

2012-06-10 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 7:29 PM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: Hi -- I'm looking at our Developer FAQ, which I just changed-- http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/developer-faqs.html and the information provided in the CMS ref regarding patches ...

Re: [Marketing][UX] Who wants to do a Content Experiment?

2012-06-10 Thread Rob Weir
visitors are downloading AOO less might be gleamed by loading our download page on an older version of I.E. Remember, to get this dialog in Windows, one must be running an older machine that does not understand ODF, so pre-Windows 7, and pre-Office 2007 SP2. A. On 6/8/2012 6:54 AM, Rob Weir

Re: Welcome new committers!

2012-06-10 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 8:23 PM, Anton Meixome meix...@certima.net wrote: 2012/6/11 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org: Aside from the welcome note that Dennis sent out, I'd like to bring to things to your attention. First, please read through the Guide for New Committers: http://www.apache.org/dev

Re: [UPDATE SERVICE] OOo 3.3 update service - next steps

2012-06-10 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann orwittm...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, On 07.06.2012 14:19, Rob Weir wrote: On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 5:24 AM, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann from what we have experienced so far from the first phase of the OOo 3.3 update service it makes sense

User demographics

2012-06-10 Thread Rob Weir
On one of the UX threads there is ongoing discussion about a possible user survey. I mentioned that we have some info from users, from information collected by Google Analytics. There was some interest in this data, so I offered to put together a little report. Here it is. This is data

[Marketing][UX] Who wants to do a Content Experiment?

2012-06-08 Thread Rob Weir
A Content Experiment is when we create several version of the same web page and test it with users to see which version performs best. Google Analystics has a feature where it can run such experiments for us automatically, tracking all the statistics for us, and telling us which version of a page

Re: Homepage still showing 1 million downloads in sidebar ...

2012-06-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Rony G. Flatscher (Apache) r...@apache.org wrote: FYI, http://www.openoffice.org/ shows the following text in the right sidebar:        Apache OpenOffice 3.4 Blows Past 1M Downloads    After last week's release of Apache OpenOffice 3.4, the project is

Re: Request bugzilla privilege

2012-06-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 2:14 AM, Herbert Duerr h...@apache.org wrote: On 08.06.2012 06:07, Ji Yan wrote: I found some duplicated defect in bugzilla and want to change stauts to Duplicate, but have no privilege to do that. Could somebody grants me the rights? Thanks in advanced I'm sure

Re: Request for Apache License for CWSs

2012-06-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Pedro Giffuni p...@apache.org wrote: FWIW, --- Ven 8/6/12, Ariel Constenla-Haile ha scritto: ... If Marina was in the internship program, then she was not an Oracle employee, and the joint copyright assignment she signed does not take her rights over the

Re: After long-running GUI testing, AOO3.4 becomes slower and slower, and occupies more and more memory

2012-06-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 9:43 PM, Zhe Liu aliu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, This week I did some long-running GUI testing on AOO 3.4 using Java on my iMac. After about 23 hours, the memory occupied by soffice changed from 90MB to 600MB. And soffice became very slow. My scenario is 1. Create new

Re: Unofficial OpenSolaris/SPARC 3.4 build

2012-06-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 4:17 AM, Nicolas Christener nicolas.christe...@adfinis-sygroup.ch wrote: Hi Rob On Mon, 2012-06-04 at 11:29 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: [...] Congratulation! Thank you :) Would you like more public awareness of this test build?   Do you want to find more users to help

Re: [UX] The Questions for users

2012-06-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Kevin Grignon kevingrignon...@gmail.com wrote: KG 01 - See comments inline On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 8:00 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Keep in mind that we already have a large recent survey of sorts, based on Google Analytics data from those who have

Re: [UPDATE SERVICE] OOo 3.3 update service - next steps

2012-06-07 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 5:24 AM, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann orwittm...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, On 06.06.2012 22:50, Marcus (OOo) wrote: Am 06/06/2012 03:39 PM, schrieb Oliver-Rainer Wittmann: Hi, from what we have experienced so far from the first phase of the OOo 3.3 update service it

Re: Moderation best practices FAQ

2012-06-07 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 10:47 PM, Peter Junge peter.ju...@gmx.org wrote: Hi moderators, *, I have a couple of questions WRT the best practices of moderating AOO mailing list. As I have found, the mailing lists FAQs (ooo-dev-...@incubator.apache.org) are yet non-existent, so the discussion

Re: [UPDATE SERVICE] OOo 3.3 update service - next steps

2012-06-07 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann orwittm...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, On 07.06.2012 14:19, Rob Weir wrote: On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 5:24 AM, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann from what we have experienced so far from the first phase of the OOo 3.3 update service it makes sense

Re: [PROPOSAL] Get it here community download promotion program

2012-06-07 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: We get regular requests from individuals and companies that want to add a link to the AOO download, and to use the logo with it.  These range from websites of individual users, to websites that aggregate download links

Re: *DRAFT FINAL* June board report

2012-06-07 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 6:59 AM, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@googlemail.com wrote: On 6/7/12 12:10 PM, Ross Gardler wrote: On 7 June 2012 11:02, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@googlemail.com wrote: On 6/7/12 11:54 AM, Ross Gardler wrote: On 7 June 2012 10:47, Jürgen Schmidt

Re: [DISCUSS] Pootle and New Contributor Category

2012-06-07 Thread Rob Weir
, the anonymous contribution to pootle is a no-no. - Dennis PS: Changing to the [DISCUSS] that is called for and to have it be visible. -Original Message- From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2012 09:41 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: *DRAFT FINAL

Re: First Year Anniversary - party CD

2012-06-07 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 6:43 PM, drew d...@baseanswers.com wrote: On Thu, 2012-06-07 at 14:35 -0700, Nancy K wrote: I do like all of these, but have to show you folks what my friend Reya Mellicker is offering - and she is willing to let Apache Open Office use it as you see fit.  If you need

Re: [UX] The Questions for users

2012-06-06 Thread Rob Weir
Keep in mind that we already have a large recent survey of sorts, based on Google Analytics data from those who have visited the website and downloaded AOO. It won't tell us some of the detailed stuff, like whether they use AOO at home or at work, but there is more info available here than might

Re: Tolerance and acceptance

2012-06-06 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 7:24 AM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: I move that there is no need to continue to fuel the fires of AOO vs LO. The PPMC is now effective at ignoring anti-AOO materials on our own lists. I suggest the PPMC should further silence inflammatory posts that

Re: [UPDATE SERVICE] OOo 3.3 update service first phase

2012-06-06 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 6:33 AM, Roberto Galoppini rgalopp...@geek.net wrote: On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann orwittm...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, it looks like that our first phase of the OOo 3.3 update service had a good start. As far as I can see the downloads on

3,027,168 downloads

2012-06-06 Thread Rob Weir
We hit 3 million early this morning. I've updated the chart here: http://people.apache.org/~robweir/aoo-downloads.html -Rob

Re: [UPDATE SERVICE] OOo 3.3 update service - next steps

2012-06-06 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann orwittm...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, from what we have experienced so far from the first phase of the OOo 3.3 update service it makes sense to me to have the full OOo 3.3 update service working at the end of this week. As we would like

Re: 2012-06-05 Status: PPMC and Committer Roster

2012-06-06 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: @Dave, I see no reason to fuss over the PPMC? at this point. With the preparation for graduation, the PPMC will be reviewed and an appropriate PMC constituted. I think any concern about dangling PPMC? and

Windows 8 Compatibility?

2012-06-06 Thread Rob Weir
I installed the Windows 8 Tech Preview (32-bit) today on a virtual server. After a few minutes to figure out the new platform UI I installed AOO 3.4. Install went without problems and it appears to run fine. Of course, there is more that we could do to be a well-integrated Windows desktop

Re: First Year Anniversary - party CD

2012-06-06 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 6:48 PM, drew d...@baseanswers.com wrote: I would like to propose that we treat the 13th of the month as our 1st Anniversary and would like to do the following for the occasion: Party time! There has already been a few CD requests made,

Re: [HEADS UP][UPDATE SERVICE] OOo 3.3 update service first phase will be active today at 10:00 (GMT+2)

2012-06-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 3:41 AM, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann orwittm...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, just for your interest. I will activate the OOo 3.3 update service first phase today at 10:00 (GMT+2). In the first phase Italian OOo 3.3 instances on Windows, MacOS X, Linux 32bit and Linux 64bit

Re: [Draft] How to Help Translate Apache OpenOffice

2012-06-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: On 04/06/2012 Rob Weir wrote: [ I'd love to start a new list, ooo-i...@incubator.apache.org to handle this and the following translation coordination issues ] I'm not sure the current traffic would justify

Re: Propose to Integrate Old OO Wiki and New AOO Wiki

2012-06-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 10:35 PM, chengjh chen...@apache.org wrote: Hi, We see,the old OpenOffice.org wiki http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Main_Page  has accumulated plenty of valuable information,including planning,function specification,technical documents and so on..Currently,the

Re: *DRAFT* June board report...please help

2012-06-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: OK, here's a draft -- Dennis is working on getting me actual people numbers later today, so what I have here in terms of new committers is just a (bad) guess. And, duh -- we only report in March, June, September, December,

Re: How Can My Business Use OpenOffice Base?

2012-06-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Cynthia Woo cynth...@gmail.com wrote: Good Afternoon, I am currently working for Mentor Works Ltd. a small consulting company that specializes in government funding options available to small to medium sizes businesses. We are currently looking for a program

Re: [DISCUSS] Rules of voting for new committers and PPMC members

2012-06-04 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: Sent from my iPhone On Jun 3, 2012, at 5:18 PM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/03/2012 11:48 AM, Pedro Giffuni wrote: FWIW, The Foundation Roles are explained here:

Re: Draft Blog post: OpenOffice.org is now Apache OpenOffice

2012-06-04 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 2:30 AM, Pedro Giffuni p...@apache.org wrote: --- Lun 4/6/12, Wolf Halton wolf.hal...@gmail.com ha scritto: ... The .org is in Apache is probably too clever, but it the rest of the article is fine. Wolf Hmm ... OK, maybe its better not to be too fancy. Lets

Re: Unofficial OpenSolaris/SPARC 3.4 build

2012-06-04 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Nicolas Christener nicolas.christe...@adfinis-sygroup.ch wrote: Hi all :) It's time for a new OpenSolaris/SPARC build of AOO 3.4 :) http://adfinis-sygroup.ch/aoo-solaris-sparc This is an unofficial build we provide as is and without any warranty. This build

[Draft] How to Help Translate Apache OpenOffice

2012-06-04 Thread Rob Weir
I'm putting this draft together, not because I have all the answers, but because I think I have most of the questions. Hopefully others can help fill in the details. When complete, this can go onto the website and we can have a blog post to call for more translation volunteers.

Re: [Draft] How to Help Translate Apache OpenOffice

2012-06-04 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Donald Whytock dwhyt...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Rob Weir r...@robweir.com wrote: 2) You can suggest translations on our Pootle server: https://translate.apache.org/projects/OOo_34/   Logins to Pootle are reserved for project Committers

Re: [Draft] How to Help Translate Apache OpenOffice

2012-06-04 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@googlemail.com wrote: On 6/4/12 5:15 PM, Rob Weir wrote: I'm putting this draft together, not because I have all the answers, but because I think I have most of the questions.  Hopefully others can help fill in the details.  When

Re: [HEADS UP] Re: [UPDATE SERVICE] proposal a OOo 3.3 update service

2012-06-04 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann orwittm...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, On 04.06.2012 12:11, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote: On 04.06.2012 10:11, Roberto Galoppini wrote: [snip] Thanks. Let see what happens, when we start tomorrow with the Italian OOo 3.3 update

Re: [AOO Blog]Feeds do not work

2012-06-04 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 7:08 PM, RGB ES rgb.m...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/6/5 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org: On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 5:58 AM, RGB ES rgb.m...@gmail.com wrote: https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/feed/entries/atom gives document not found Odd.   RSS feed gives the same error.  Do you know

Re: What to do with the Czech homepage?

2012-06-03 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 2:20 AM, Pavel Janík pa...@janik.cz wrote: Not from myside. I would delete them as well. But why not ask our Czech committer. ;-) @Pavel: Could you sheet some light on the cz webpage? What do you think? Delete them, yes. -- OK. I've updated the page, added the new

Re: What to do with the Czech homepage?

2012-06-03 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 10:56 AM, drew d...@baseanswers.com wrote: On Sun, 2012-06-03 at 09:19 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 2:20 AM, Pavel Janík pa...@janik.cz wrote: Not from myside. I would delete them as well. But why not ask our Czech committer. ;-) @Pavel: Could

Draft Blog post: OpenOffice.org is now Apache OpenOffice

2012-06-03 Thread Rob Weir
It was part of the original AOO 3.4 release plan to have a blog post that explained the rebranding. That didn't occur due to the Roller issues that occurred then. But better late than never. Here is the draft: https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=openoffice_org_is_now_apache

Re: Draft Blog post: OpenOffice.org is now Apache OpenOffice

2012-06-03 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Pedro Giffuni p...@apache.org wrote: --- Dom 3/6/12, RGB ES ha scritto: ... Maybe add both, old and new logo side by side? But I think the post is just perfect as it is now: short and to the point. I get a security exception if I try to upload a new image

Re: Draft Blog post: OpenOffice.org is now Apache OpenOffice

2012-06-03 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Marcus (OOo) marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Am 06/03/2012 09:59 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Pedro Giffunip...@apache.org  wrote: --- Dom 3/6/12, RGB ES ha scritto: ... Maybe add both, old and new logo side by side? But I think

Re: Draft Blog post: OpenOffice.org is now Apache OpenOffice

2012-06-03 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 4:24 PM, drew d...@baseanswers.com wrote: On Sun, 2012-06-03 at 15:59 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Pedro Giffuni p...@apache.org wrote: --- Dom 3/6/12, RGB ES ha scritto: ... Maybe add both, old and new logo side by side? But I think

Re: The reason I removed the program called Open Office 3.4

2012-06-03 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 4:37 PM, drew d...@baseanswers.com wrote: On Sat, 2012-06-02 at 09:30 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 10:40 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: On Jun 1, 2012, at 7:18 PM, Jihui Choi wrote: On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Alexandro Colorado

Re: Draft Blog post: OpenOffice.org is now Apache OpenOffice

2012-06-03 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Marcus (OOo) marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Am 06/03/2012 10:37 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Marcus (OOo)marcus.m...@wtnet.de  wrote: Am 06/03/2012 09:59 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Pedro Giffunip...@apache.org

AOO 3.4 FAQ's (was: Re: The reason I removed the program called Open Office 3.4)

2012-06-03 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Jun 3, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote: On Sun, 3 Jun 2012 16:44:28 -0400 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: snip Moving this to its own thread. Do we have any FAQ's for AOO 3.4?   Do we have a sense of what the common questions are at this point, based

Re: The reason I removed the program called Open Office 3.4

2012-06-02 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 10:40 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: On Jun 1, 2012, at 7:18 PM, Jihui Choi wrote: On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote: When you install it you agreed to open doc files in OpenOffice Basically installing AOO doesn't

Re: Moving Category-B tarballs (was Re: [PROPOSAL] Starting the graduation process)

2012-06-02 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 9:23 PM, Pedro Giffuni p...@apache.org wrote: Sorry to highlight something more here... The draft (which I insist is clearer that the resolved FAQ) says, under License Categories: Pedro, your logic violates every principle of interpretation. If something was in a

Re: Moving Category-B tarballs (was Re: [PROPOSAL] Starting the graduation process)

2012-06-02 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 9:08 PM, Pedro Giffuni p...@apache.org wrote: Hi Ross; I don't think it's my turn since my issues remain unresolved. I think Ross's idea was to stop batting this back and forth at a high level, and instead focus on a specific file. So get into the details rather than

Re: Moving Category-B tarballs (was Re: [PROPOSAL] Starting the graduation process)

2012-06-02 Thread Rob Weir
this issue properly going forward. From: Rob Weir robw...@apache.org To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Sent: Saturday, June 2, 2012 9:37 AM Subject: Re: Moving Category-B tarballs (was Re: [PROPOSAL] Starting the graduation process) On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 9:08 PM

Re: [UX] The Questions for users

2012-06-02 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 6:42 PM, Albino B Neto bino...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. Questions relating to research! We aren't in order to adjust. Sorry long text. Legend: - Questions --Response options. Will this question be international? or is it local? An international survey might have

Re: What is a PMC Chair?

2012-06-02 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote: Since discussion has turned to graduation I'd like to invite people to consider who they would like to have as PMC chair. The first part of this is understanding what the role of a PMC chair is. Since someone

What to do with the Czech homepage?

2012-06-02 Thread Rob Weir
http://www.openoffice.org/cs/ I don't read Czech, but I was going over the NL pages to verify download links, in preparation for when we enable the OOo 3.3 upgrades. You can get a good sense of the page via http://translate.google.com If any knows Czech, it would be good to confirm what

Re: Moving Category-B tarballs (was Re: [PROPOSAL] Starting the graduation process)

2012-06-02 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 6:04 PM, Joe Schaefer joe_schae...@yahoo.com wrote: This situation doesn't seem to be diffusing itself, even tho I have tried to explain that the 3.4.0 release deps packaging does not comply with infra policy. Surely there is a middle ground here- that the missing

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