Re: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-07-13 Thread Pedro Giffuni
--- Ven 13/7/12, Greg Madden ha scritto: ... I have been testing the Symphony deb packages. The 'properties' area is a nice feature, not compelling enough to re-base AOO on Symphony. AOO has progressed, new feaures that I use more than the 'properties area'. thanks for the feedback.

Re: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-07-12 Thread Shenfeng Liu
Andrea, Thanks for your comments! Please see my comments below. - Simon 2012/7/12 Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org On 05/07/2012 Shenfeng Liu wrote: While per my reading from the discussion, we generally agreed that the favorite way of integrating the values is to continuously

Re: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-07-12 Thread Pedro Giffuni
Hi Simon and everyone; --- Gio 12/7/12, Shenfeng Liu ha scritto: ... What hasn't been discussed in detail, and the key issue to me, is how much OpenOffice plus Symphony would differ from Symphony plus OpenOffice. Ideally, finally there will be little difference between OpenOffice

Re: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-07-12 Thread Ariel Constenla-Haile
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Pedro Giffuni p...@apache.org wrote: Ideally, finally there will be little difference between OpenOffice plus Symphonyand Symphony plus OpenOffice when we totally integrated the values from both side. But I can see in 2 years or even longer time, we can not

Re: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-07-12 Thread Pedro Giffuni
--- Gio 12/7/12, Ariel Constenla-Haile arie...@apache.org ha scritto: ... I think we all agree two years is a lot of time. We can always start with option I and re-evaluate later on. I would propose the following: For 3.x Release (x4) we go option I merging only the things that

Re: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-07-11 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 05/07/2012 Shenfeng Liu wrote: While per my reading from the discussion, we generally agreed that the favorite way of integrating the values is to continuously merging Symphony into AOO, feature by feature. ... I also noticed that this thread is no longer as active as 2 weeks before. So I

Re: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-07-05 Thread Shenfeng Liu
Hi, all, It was 4 weeks since Rob raised the topic, and there were a lot of discussions. I'm so glad to see that people got more familiar with the values in the code contributed from Symphony, tried it out, and liked to see those values to be integrated into AOO future releases. I treat it as a

Re: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-07-05 Thread Pedro Giffuni
OK with what seems to be the choice of the majority, just thought I'd share the experience :). best regards, Pedro. --- Gio 5/7/12, Shenfeng Liu liush...@gmail.com ha scritto: Da: Shenfeng Liu liush...@gmail.com Oggetto: Re: Next steps for Symphony and AOO A: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org

Re: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-07-05 Thread Ariel Constenla-Haile
Hi Pedro, On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Pedro Giffuni p...@apache.org wrote: I know rebasing from Symphony option was never very popular here. Just for the record, I ran a small experiment in the Symphony SVN: I used svn merge to bring some changes from AOO. The process was rather easy

Re: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-07-05 Thread Shenfeng Liu
: Da: Shenfeng Liu liush...@gmail.com Oggetto: Re: Next steps for Symphony and AOO A: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Data: Giovedì 5 luglio 2012, 01:28 Hi, all, It was 4 weeks since Rob raised the topic, and there were a lot of discussions. I'm so glad to see that people got more familiar

Re: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-07-05 Thread Pedro Giffuni
--- Gio 5/7/12, Ariel Constenla-Haile arie...@apache.org ha scritto: ... Hi Pedro, On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Pedro Giffuni p...@apache.org wrote: I know rebasing from Symphony option was never very popular here. Just for the record, I ran a small experiment in the Symphony

Re: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-06-28 Thread Kay Schenk
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Sam Ruby ru...@intertwingly.net wrote: On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Pedro Giffuni p...@apache.org wrote: It's really disappointing to see uninformed people give opinions about things they evidently don't understand. I can't resist :-)

Re: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-06-27 Thread Rob Weir
Top posting as a comment on the entire post, and what it is and what it isn't. In a recent article [1], later quoted in in LinuxToday [2], a LibreOffice board member was interviewed and made some erroneous statements regarding Apache OpenOffice and Symphony: [W]e are looking forward the

Re: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-06-27 Thread Kay Schenk
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Top posting as a comment on the entire post, and what it is and what it isn't. In a recent article [1], later quoted in in LinuxToday [2], a LibreOffice board member was interviewed and made some erroneous statements

Re: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-06-27 Thread Pedro Giffuni
--- Mer 27/6/12, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org ha scritto: ... Top posting as a comment on the entire post, and what it is and what it isn't. In a recent article [1], later quoted in in LinuxToday [2], a LibreOffice board member was interviewed and made some erroneous statements regarding

Re: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-06-27 Thread Sam Ruby
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Pedro Giffuni p...@apache.org wrote: It's really disappointing to see uninformed people give opinions about things they evidently don't understand. I can't resist :-) http://xkcd.com/386/ - Sam Ruby

Re: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-06-27 Thread Dave Fisher
Now I've got Bobby Weir singing One More Saturday Night in my head. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 27, 2012, at 5:06 PM, Sam Ruby ru...@intertwingly.net wrote: On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Pedro Giffuni p...@apache.org wrote: It's really disappointing to see uninformed people give opinions

Re: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-06-27 Thread Kevin Grignon
Hello All, Sorry for top post. Where are we at? Have we summarized the discussion? Have all expressed their views? How might we crystallized our position and move forward? Regards, Kevin On Thursday, June 28, 2012, Rob Weir wrote: Top posting as a comment on the entire post, and what it

Re: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-06-27 Thread Pedro Giffuni
Hi Kevin; --- Mer 27/6/12, Kevin Grignon kevingrignon...@gmail.com ha scritto: Hello All, Sorry for top post. Where are we at? Have we summarized the discussion? Have all expressed their views? How might we crystallized our position and move forward? There is indeed a big problem.

Re: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-06-18 Thread Yong Lin Ma
For option I, it is a easy path. Quitely like we will keep going with it. As we see recently, a lot of patches from Symphony were submitted. The problem with Option I is some features may never be migrated into AOO, like Async document loading, property sidebar and some improvements don't look

Re: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-06-16 Thread Kay Schenk
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Yong Lin Ma mayo...@apache.org wrote: Symphony get a java wrapper. That needs more memory footprint. Symphony also needs more disk space due the java plug-ins and new templates, clip arts. There is no java wrapper for the build we are discussing here. Thank

Re: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-06-15 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
On 6/14/12 10:19 PM, Pedro Giffuni wrote: --- Gio 14/6/12, Marcus (OOo) marcus.m...@wtnet.de ha scritto: ... And I think it's not just about emotions. If you take A as base and pick the enhancements of B you'll get an enhanced A. You won't probably remove features from A but take

Re: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-06-15 Thread Shenfeng Liu
And I'd like to repeat what Rob mentioned in his previous mail, behind option I option II is in fact an open question: how can we quickly integrate the most value in current AOO and Symphony together to deliver the next generation of AOO 4.0? We made a lot of technical study, and either option

Re: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-06-15 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 10:08 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: I. Merge code, from Symphony, feature by feature, into AOO, in a prioritized order. This is the slow approach, since it would take (by the estimates I've seen) a couple of years to bring all of the Symphony enhancements

Re: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-06-15 Thread Kay Schenk
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 10:08 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: I. Merge code, from Symphony, feature by feature, into AOO, in a prioritized order. This is the slow approach, since it would take (by the

Re: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-06-15 Thread Yong Lin Ma
Symphony get a java wrapper. That needs more memory footprint. Symphony also needs more disk space due the java plug-ins and new templates, clip arts. There is no java wrapper for the build we are discussing here. The memory it needs should in the same level of AOO or may be less due to some

Re: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-06-14 Thread Guy Waterval
Hello Ma Yong Lin, 2012/6/14 Ma Yong Lin mayo...@apache.org Yes. Please see FAQ in http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Symphonyfor more details. I've tried to install the binary build on Windows 7 after suppressing AOO 3.4 and Symphony 3.01. Installation : OK No problem up to now when

Re: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-06-14 Thread Marcus (OOo)
Am 06/12/2012 10:53 PM, schrieb Christoph Jopp: Am 12.06.2012 21:46, schrieb Regina Henschel: [...] I do not like version II. It is not about objective reasons, but about emotions. I'm involved in OpenOffice.org more then ten years. After Oracle shuts it down, being at Apache gives more the

Re: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-06-14 Thread Pedro Giffuni
--- Gio 14/6/12, Marcus (OOo) marcus.m...@wtnet.de ha scritto: ... And I think it's not just about emotions. If you take A as base and pick the enhancements of B you'll get an enhanced A. You won't probably remove features from A but take only some of B. So the decision between

Re: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-06-14 Thread drew
On Thu, 2012-06-14 at 13:19 -0700, Pedro Giffuni wrote: --- Gio 14/6/12, Marcus (OOo) marcus.m...@wtnet.de ha scritto: ... And I think it's not just about emotions. If you take A as base and pick the enhancements of B you'll get an enhanced A. You won't probably remove

Re: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-06-13 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi Rob, Hi all, 2012/6/12 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org Our challenge is to find the best way to bring these two code bases together, to make the best product. I think there are two main approaches to this problem: I. Merge code, from Symphony, feature by feature, into AOO, in a

Re: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-06-13 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
On 6/13/12 11:03 AM, Guy Waterval wrote: Hi Rob, Hi all, 2012/6/12 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org Our challenge is to find the best way to bring these two code bases together, to make the best product. I think there are two main approaches to this problem: I. Merge code, from Symphony,

Re: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-06-13 Thread Simon Phipps
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 fairly call Apache OpenOffice 4.0. Apologies if I missed this, but what

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: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-06-13 Thread Simon Phipps
On 13 Jun 2012, at 21:02, Rob Weir wrote: 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

Re: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-06-13 Thread Ma Yong Lin
Sent from iPad 在 2012-6-14,上午4:14,Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com 写道: On 13 Jun 2012, at 21:02, Rob Weir wrote: 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

Re: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-06-13 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 11:10 PM, Pedro Giffuni p...@apache.org wrote: Can we really not have the java components from Symphony? Why? Java is an asset rather than a problem. FC

Re: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-06-13 Thread Simon Phipps
On 13 Jun 2012, at 23:56, Ma Yong Lin wrote: 在 2012-6-14,上午4:14,Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com 写道: OK, understood. But what was the base version of the fork you've been porting to? 3.1? Yes. Please see FAQ in http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Symphony for more details. Great,

Re: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-06-13 Thread Yong Lin Ma
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 7:02 AM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: On 13 Jun 2012, at 23:56, Ma Yong Lin wrote: 在 2012-6-14,上午4:14,Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com 写道: OK, understood. But what was the base version of the fork you've been porting to?  3.1? Yes. Please see FAQ in

Re: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-06-13 Thread Kevin Grignon
KG01 - See comments inline. On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@googlemail.comwrote: On 6/13/12 11:03 AM, Guy Waterval wrote: Hi Rob, Hi all, 2012/6/12 Rob Weir robw...@apache.org Our challenge is to find the best way to bring these two code bases

Re: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-06-13 Thread Pedro Giffuni
--- Mer 13/6/12, Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com ha scritto: Pedro Giffuni p...@apache.org wrote: Can we really not have the java components from Symphony? Why? Java is an asset rather than a problem. Oh, you misunderstood .. I *want* them. I even updated most of our Java

Re: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-06-12 Thread RGB ES
2012/6/12 Dennis E. Hamilton orc...@apache.org: Predictably, I prefer approach I on first principles: Never derail the train that's running. I think this is fundamental: big changes on short times will give enormous problems to the current user base, not only because the obvious need to learn

RE: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-06-12 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
that beyond wondering what it is and if there is an impact if rebasing on Symphony were attempted. - Dennis -Original Message- From: RGB ES [mailto:rgb.m...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 01:36 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org; orc...@apache.org Subject: Re: Next steps for Symphony

Re: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-06-12 Thread Rob Weir
@incubator.apache.org Subject: Next steps for Symphony and AOO 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

Re: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-06-12 Thread Norbert Thiebaud
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:  (That is the essentially lie 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.). 1/ Are you publishing this under GPL ? if

Re: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-06-12 Thread Christoph Jopp
Am 12.06.2012 21:46, schrieb Regina Henschel: [...] I do not like version II. It is not about objective reasons, but about emotions. I'm involved in OpenOffice.org more then ten years. After Oracle shuts it down, being at Apache gives more the feeling of a translation than of a new

Re: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-06-12 Thread drew
On Tue, 2012-06-12 at 14:38 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 11:24 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton orc...@apache.org wrote: Predictably, I prefer approach I on first principles: Never derail the train that's running. From that perspective, there's all of this: - All of the

Re: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-06-12 Thread drew
On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 21:08 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: 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

Re: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-06-12 Thread Graham Lauder
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

Re: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-06-12 Thread Graham Lauder
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

Re: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-06-12 Thread zhangjf
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Graham Lauder g.a.lau...@gmail.com wrote: I always liked those two choices!  My gut goes for revolution, however do I remember a comment from way back that OOo extensions don't work with Symphony? That might be a disruption too far perhaps. Cheers GL That's

Re: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-06-12 Thread Yong Lin Ma
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 5:03 AM, drew d...@baseanswers.com wrote: On Mon, 2012-06-11 at 21:08 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: 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

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: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-06-11 Thread Pedro Giffuni
On 06/11/12 20:08, Rob Weir wrote: 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],

Re: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-06-11 Thread Phillip Rhodes
First of all let me ask one question: Can we really not have the java components from Symphony? We do have Java stuff already and even if it may not seem so, Eclipse is not really a problem since we can ship Category B binaries. I'm curious about this as well. Was IBM's rationale for not

RE: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-06-11 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
and maintaining both forks. - Then there's the localizations, etc. that would crash against the forked support, etc. Dennis -Original Message- From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 18:08 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Next steps for Symphony

Re: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-06-11 Thread zhangjf
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Pedro Giffuni p...@apache.org wrote: On 06/11/12 20:08, Rob Weir wrote: 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.

Re: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-06-11 Thread Kevin Grignon
Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org javascript:;] Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 18:08 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org javascript:; Subject: Next steps for Symphony and AOO 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

Re: Next steps for Symphony and AOO

2012-06-11 Thread Pedro Giffuni
: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] Sent: Monday, June 11, 2012 18:08 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Next steps for Symphony and AOO 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