Re: [OT] What is needed for Support Forums to be fully integrated into the Apache OpenOffice.org project

2011-09-08 Thread Rory O'Farrell
At the present time Hagar has chosen to appear under a pseudnym for what seem to him good reasons. Members of the Forum on this list accept ths persona and have no doubt about the postings to this list from that persona being genuine. There is no requirement _at this time_ for him to appear

Re: What is needed for Support Forums to be fully integrated into the Apache OpenOffice.org project

2011-09-08 Thread Pedro Giffuni
I have huge respect for the forums and the efforts the admins of this systems do to make OO cool. I admit that I don't understand well how they can fit in the Apache's structure (afaict it has never been done) so I do share a lot of the doubts that Rob has: if the forums are to be supported

Re: What is needed for Support Forums to be fully integrated into the Apache OpenOffice.org project

2011-09-08 Thread Christian Grobmeier
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 7:23 AM, toki toki.kant...@gmail.com wrote: Whilst it was Terry's choice, Rob's attitude was quite literally : I don't care about how the forum used to be run, or why it was run that way. You will do this, or else, where the or else is to treat it as if it was a mailing

Re: [OT] What is needed for Support Forums to be fully integrated into the Apache OpenOffice.org project

2011-09-08 Thread Christian Grobmeier
Eric, I understand that it disturbs you that you don't know Hagar's real name.  That is perfectly clear. What I don't understand is what you expect to see done about it. A healthy community, and clean rules. There are clean rules. If you want to join the PMC, you need to sign a ICLA with

Re: Bug reporting, handling rules

2011-09-08 Thread FR web forum
Yes FR web forum is apparently operating pseudonymously *and* anonymously. Those mails often copied oooforum [at] free [dot] fr also, and I switched to replying to thatthat until I realized that I was simply cross-posting to yet-another list. Please don't send my email address in clear. I

Re: QUASTE working?

2011-09-08 Thread Martin Hollmichel
Am 08.09.2011 01:09, schrieb Raphael Bircher: Hi Dave This is not a buildbot or samething like that. This is the VCL Testtool. It's a Tool witch is designed to run Testcase fully automaticly. It's similar to a User interact with OOo. So it's a Gui function test. also login to EIS seems

[PROPOSAL] Set up of ooo-dev-ja at incubator.apache.org

2011-09-08 Thread Kazunari Hirano
Hi all, I propose setting up of ooo-dev-ja at incubator.apache.org As Japanese OpenOffice.org mailing lists such as us...@ja.openoffice.org, annou...@ja.openoffice.org, d...@ja.openoffice.org, disc...@ja.openoffice.org, documentat...@ja.openoffice.org, market...@ja.openoffice.org,

[DISCUSS] Bug reporting, handling rules

2011-09-08 Thread Reizinger Zoltán
Hi all, Start again, the my earlier try was alienated. As a first builds starts, and OOo Bugzilla migrated to Apache, needs to think about how we will use it. On OOo QA site can be found three page which says about issues/bug issuing rules which the OOo project followed, and Bugzilla was

Re: [LINUX-BUILD] Developer Education -- Building on Linux event starts now

2011-09-08 Thread Pavel Janík
On Sep 7, 2011, at 9:32 PM, Pavel Janík wrote: AFAIK source_config is the only way to get build.pl to look outside the main repository/directory, so it is necessary. given that we now have a more fixed directory layout with the SVN repo, i guess it should be possible to hardcode the path

[PROPOSAL] Get lazy consensus on to recommend that the trademark permission be granted to TLM Ltd

2011-09-08 Thread Ian Lynch
Proposal: That The Apache OpenOffice.org Podling recommends to Apache Branding to provide permission to use the OpenOffice.org trademark and logo for certificates, handbook and training materials for a system of internationally recognised end-user skills certification accredited by the UK national

Re: [repo] External sources, ICU (was: Who wants to build OpenOffice?)

2011-09-08 Thread Eike Rathke
Hi Pedro, On Wednesday, 2011-09-07 20:32:38 -0700, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: There is also interest in using icu-regex for replacing the copyleft regex and the latest versions seem to have improved a lot. Of course, but upgrading ICU at this stage for a 3.4 release IMHO is not an

Re: Bug reporting, handling rules

2011-09-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Daniel Shahaf d...@daniel.shahaf.name wrote: Rob Weir wrote on Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 21:18:31 -0400: I'd recommend handling this via respectful discussion with the user on the list, expressing your concerns. Do me a favor and quit making those implications.  We

Re: [PROPOSAL] Set up of ooo-dev-ja at incubator.apache.org

2011-09-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 4:09 AM, Kazunari Hirano khir...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I propose setting up of ooo-dev-ja at incubator.apache.org As Japanese OpenOffice.org mailing lists such as us...@ja.openoffice.org, annou...@ja.openoffice.org, d...@ja.openoffice.org,

Re: [PROPOSAL] Set up of ooo-dev-ja at incubator.apache.org

2011-09-08 Thread Eike Rathke
Hi Rob, On Thursday, 2011-09-08 08:01:00 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: In any case, +1 for Japanese list, with a slight preference for the name ooo-general-jp. nitpick As this is for Japanese and not Japan it should be ooo-general-ja instead. /nitpick Eike -- PGP/OpenPGP/GnuPG encrypted mail

Re: [PROPOSAL] Set up of ooo-dev-ja at incubator.apache.org

2011-09-08 Thread Kazunari Hirano
Hi Rob and all, On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Have you considered the name:   ooo-general-jp.incubator.apache.org? No, I have. What do you think? Good idea. In any case, +1 for Japanese list, with a slight preference for the name ooo-general-jp. jp

Re: [PROPOSAL] Set up of ooo-dev-ja at incubator.apache.org

2011-09-08 Thread Marcus (OOo)
Am 09/08/2011 10:09 AM, schrieb Kazunari Hirano: [...] I also propose 2 moderators for ooo-dev-ja at incubator.apache.org 1. Kazunari Hirano 2. Maho Nakata If there are no objections to the above proposal within 72-hours then I will invoke Lazy Consensus and will create a JIRA issue. Thanks,

Re: [repo] External sources, ICU (was: Who wants to build OpenOffice?)

2011-09-08 Thread Marcus (OOo)
Am 09/08/2011 05:32 AM, schrieb Pedro F. Giffuni: --- On Wed, 9/7/11, Eike Rathke wrote: OK, I accept your reasoning. ... There is also interest in using icu-regex for replacing the copyleft regex and the latest versions seem to have improved a lot. Of course, but upgrading ICU at this

Re: [PROPOSAL] Get lazy consensus on to recommend that the trademark permission be granted to TLM Ltd

2011-09-08 Thread Dave Fisher
Hi Ian, I don't see proper attribution that OpenOffice.org is a trademark of the Apache Software Foundation on theingots.com. Otherwise, OK! On the podling's site we are using OpenOffice.org and the seagull logo are registered trademarks of The Apache Software Foundation. We haven't received

Re: [PROPOSAL] Set up of ooo-dev-ja at incubator.apache.org

2011-09-08 Thread Marcus (OOo)
Am 09/08/2011 02:26 PM, schrieb Kazunari Hirano: Hi Rob and all, On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Rob Weirrobw...@apache.org wrote: Have you considered the name: ooo-general-jp.incubator.apache.org? No, I have. What do you think? Good idea. In any case, +1 for Japanese list, with a

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-08 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote: On 09/06/2011 10:04 PM, Rob Weir wrote: It couldn't have been all that bad if you spent so much time volunteering on those boards. -Rob The problem is that the forum was setup years ago by a single

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-08 Thread David McKay
On 08/09/2011 15:06, Rory O'Farrell wrote: On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 09:54:33 -0400 Rob Weirrobw...@apache.org wrote: Thanks for sharing the history on this. It is useful (I think) to understand the history of this community and what they've been through in the past, what problems they've

[PROPOSAL] Move forum support discussions to ooo-users@

2011-09-08 Thread Shane Curcuru
I don't know why I didn't think of this before! [PROPOSAL] Ask the community to move all discussion of forums, user support, forum management or technical implementations, over to the ooo-users@ mailing list. Rationale: - ooo-dev@ is pretty heavily loaded, and this will reduce traffic for

RE: Concerns about all PDL website material

2011-09-08 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Thanks Dave, I don't see any *policy* reason to change much so long as the initial migration preserves reliable, undisrupted user-facing operation of OpenOffice.org. The domain name transfer does not need to be the occasion for fixing everything. A great deal can be done after that transfer

RE: [wiki] Migration - A TerryE Clipping Collection [LONG]

2011-09-08 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Pedro, just a quick clarification, My understanding is that Infra doesn't do content conversions of the kind we are talking about. It is all volunteer work and it is up to the PPMC to resource such things. Infrastructure provided the gear and the platform/stack. Oh, and I read Alexandro's

Re: [PROPOSAL] Move forum support discussions to ooo-users@

2011-09-08 Thread drew
On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 10:18 -0400, Shane Curcuru wrote: I don't know why I didn't think of this before! [PROPOSAL] Ask the community to move all discussion of forums, user support, forum management or technical implementations, over to the ooo-users@ mailing list. that would be fine with

Re: [PROPOSAL] Move forum support discussions to ooo-users@

2011-09-08 Thread RGB ES
2011/9/8 Reizinger Zoltán zreizin...@hdsnet.hu I think the discussion is mostly over, no new items appeared on this list. Most of the topics repeated again and again. The proposal : https://cwiki.apache.org/**confluence/display/OOODEV/**

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-08 Thread Kazunari Hirano
Hi Rob and all, On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Yes, Hirano-san, take your time.  There is no advantage to rushing this.  In fact, we can all take some time to cool down as well. Good. Thanks. :) [1]

Re: [PROPOSAL] Move forum support discussions to ooo-users@

2011-09-08 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 10:59:41 -0400 drew d...@baseanswers.com wrote: I don't think it will take much time to take one last look at those and I fully expect all will agree (or not object) that moving into the new OpenOffice project is the best solution ... but we should take that small time to

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-08 Thread drew
On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 00:15 +0900, Kazunari Hirano wrote: Hi Rob and all, On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Yes, Hirano-san, take your time. There is no advantage to rushing this. In fact, we can all take some time to cool down as well. Good. Thanks.

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-08 Thread drew
On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 11:49 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Kazunari Hirano khir...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Rob and all, On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Yes, Hirano-san, take your time. There is no advantage to rushing this. In

RE: [wiki] Migration - A TerryE Clipping Collection [LONG]

2011-09-08 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
--- On Thu, 9/8/11, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: ... Pedro, just a quick clarification, My understanding is that Infra doesn't do content conversions of the kind we are talking about. It is all volunteer work and it is up to the PPMC to resource such things.

RE: Bug reporting, handling rules

2011-09-08 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
If I click Reply All the addresses that appear are what you see in the To: on this message. I have not altered anything. Your procedure for hiding your e-mail address is disruptive to this list and, evidently, against the etiquette for lists on Apache projects. Please find another solution.

RE: Bug reporting, handling rules

2011-09-08 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I think the first problem is there is great confusion about what FR web forum is doing. FR is providing an accurate Sender address, but the list doesn't show that (or at least, not in my e-mail client), it shows the From: SMTP Header, not the Sender: one which is not supposed to be forged or a

Re: [PROPOSAL] Set up of ooo-dev-ja at incubator.apache.org

2011-09-08 Thread Manfred A. Reiter
Hi Kazunari-san, all 2011/9/8 Marcus (OOo) marcus.m...@wtnet.de Am 09/08/2011 02:26 PM, schrieb Kazunari Hirano: [...] Which do you prefer, ooo-general-xx at incubator.apache.org or ooo-dev-xx at incubator.apache.org? (xx is ISO language code) Thanks, khirano +1 for

RE: [PROPOSAL] Set up of ooo-dev-ja at incubator.apache.org

2011-09-08 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
+1 especially with ja (OK on general unless it is really intended to be a Japanese Language Developer list, something that would need further clarification) -Original Message- From: Eike Rathke [mailto:o...@erack.de] Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2011 05:18 To:

Re: [LINUX-BUILD] Details on my Ubuntu 11.04 experience

2011-09-08 Thread Mathias Bauer
Am 08.09.2011 01:27, schrieb Rob Weir: On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Mathias Bauer mathias_ba...@gmx.net wrote: Am 07.09.2011 19:27, schrieb Rob Weir: I did this a couple of days ago, but ran into some issues that others had not come across, so I decided to repeat it. I wiped out the

Re: [repo] External sources, ICU (was: Who wants to build OpenOffice?)

2011-09-08 Thread Mathias Bauer
Am 08.09.2011 02:41, schrieb Eike Rathke: Hi Pedro, On Wednesday, 2011-09-07 14:19:50 -0700, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: I don't see why the current ICU 4.0.1 needed to be updated, what issues with headers are you referring? I am not sure exactly when the ICU license changed but the

Re: QUASTE working?

2011-09-08 Thread Mathias Bauer
Am 08.09.2011 00:52, schrieb Raphael Bircher: Hi Alexandro Am 08.09.11 00:32, schrieb Alexandro Colorado: I can't access QUASTe, I hope this is not the lost box that was in the planet. Regards. I'm actualy not sure if we realy want to use Quaste. Quaste was a special tool for our

Re: [repo] External sources, ICU (was: Who wants to build OpenOffice?)

2011-09-08 Thread Mathias Bauer
Am 08.09.2011 13:30, schrieb Eike Rathke: Hi Pedro, On Wednesday, 2011-09-07 20:32:38 -0700, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: There is also interest in using icu-regex for replacing the copyleft regex and the latest versions seem to have improved a lot. Of course, but upgrading ICU at

Re: [LINUX-BUILD] Developer Education -- Building on Linux event starts now

2011-09-08 Thread Mathias Bauer
Am 08.09.2011 11:22, schrieb Pavel Janík: On Sep 7, 2011, at 9:32 PM, Pavel Janík wrote: AFAIK source_config is the only way to get build.pl to look outside the main repository/directory, so it is necessary. given that we now have a more fixed directory layout with the SVN repo, i

RE: [DISCUSS] Bug reporting, handling rules

2011-09-08 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
There's some great material there. I did not review closely. It is my thinking that this material should be preserved in an appropriate way. I agree that the top level should make it easy to file a bug and offer links to progressively-deeper detail elsewhere. Users with interest in knowing

Re: [repo] External sources, ICU (was: Who wants to build OpenOffice?)

2011-09-08 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
Hi; --- On Thu, 9/8/11, Mathias Bauer mathias_ba...@gmx.net wrote: Which version of ICU is used in LibreOffice? If they use a newer one, this probably can tell us about possible surprises. The FreeBSD port uses 4.8.1 (with local patches). so it looks like they use system icu already. I

Re: Bug reporting, handling rules

2011-09-08 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Dennis E. Hamilton wrote on Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 10:23:55 -0700: I think the first problem is there is great confusion about what FR web forum is doing. FR is providing an accurate Sender address, but the list doesn't show that (or at least, not in my e-mail client), it shows the From: SMTP

Re: [LINUX-BUILD] Developer Education -- Building on Linux event starts now

2011-09-08 Thread Mathias Bauer
Am 08.09.2011 20:13, schrieb Pavel Janík: Hi, On Sep 8, 2011, at 7:46 PM, Mathias Bauer wrote: Thanks for the heads-up, I already discovered that the build doesn't work. excuse me, but what doesn't work for you now? With the current tree (revision 1166829 now), without --with-lang,

Re: [LINUX-BUILD] Developer Education -- Building on Linux event starts now

2011-09-08 Thread Mathias Bauer
Am 08.09.2011 20:53, schrieb Pavel Janík: OK, sorry, I misunderstood your this change is incorrect. So I will try a new clean build with --with-lang from head. Eike is right with his reservation, but I don't think that we need a general patch here, your hack should be enough. The place

RE: [wiki] Migration - A TerryE Clipping Collection [LONG]

2011-09-08 Thread Pedro F. Giffuni
--- On Thu, 9/8/11, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: ... I see you closed INFRA-3917. I like to clean my own mess, yes. Keep in mind that there appear to be others willing to struggle with Confluence migration (CWiki?). That makes me very happy! Anyone can reopen the issue: the problem I see is

RE: Bug reporting, handling rules

2011-09-08 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Daniel You're right, what I remembered as a Sender: was a Reply To: The latest message from FR web forum on the list today is as you describe: There are these X-Authenticated-User: ooof...@free.fr Reply-To: ooo-fo...@free.fr From: FR web forum o...@athena.apache.or and the interesting

Re: [PROPOSAL] Set up of ooo-dev-ja at incubator.apache.org

2011-09-08 Thread Manfred A. Reiter
Hi Dave, thank you very much for asking ;-) Am 8. September 2011 19:59 schrieb Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net: Hi Manfred, The German I learned in school 35 years ago is enough for me to know that it would be polite if you would provide a rough translation. it was really addressed to

Re: [wiki] Migration - A TerryE Clipping Collection [LONG]

2011-09-08 Thread Matt Richards
Yeah, I've kinda ran into a similar problems when I originally volunteered to help. I don't know how to go about it, without access to various data dumps and such that it appears only Contributors/PPMC members have access to. On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Pedro F. Giffuni

Re: Need a volunteer for the Bugzilla templates

2011-09-08 Thread Matt Richards
I've not forgotten about this, I'm planning to work on this soon. Though, how can I go about testing my template changes, do I need to go through the troubles and install my own BugZilla instance? On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Matt Richards mricha...@gmail.com wrote: thought so, but tried

RE: [PROPOSAL] Move forum support discussions to ooo-users@

2011-09-08 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Hi Shane, I looked at all of the subsequent replies to this proposal and I think the discussion should stay here. I think better visibility would be great. I don't think ooo-users@i.a.o will accomplish that. I think that venue is inappropriate. - Dennis FURTHER OBSERVATIONS After looking

Re: [PROPOSAL] Set up of ooo-dev-ja at incubator.apache.org

2011-09-08 Thread Dave Fisher
On Sep 8, 2011, at 10:25 AM, Manfred A. Reiter wrote: Hi Kazunari-san, all 2011/9/8 Marcus (OOo) marcus.m...@wtnet.de Am 09/08/2011 02:26 PM, schrieb Kazunari Hirano: [...] Which do you prefer, ooo-general-xx at incubator.apache.org or ooo-dev-xx at incubator.apache.org?

Re: [wiki] Migration - A TerryE Clipping Collection [LONG]

2011-09-08 Thread Dave Fisher
If you have a server, then you can always setup your own confluence for free, or buy a personal limited license for $10 for 10 users. Apache CWiki is on a version 3.4 while the current version is 3.5. See http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/try.jsp Atlassian has a sandbox as well:

Re: [wiki] Migration - A TerryE Clipping Collection [LONG]

2011-09-08 Thread Matt Richards
Sure, I can set up Confluence on my own hardware. But what about getting the MW data dump to work with? On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: If you have a server, then you can always setup your own confluence for free, or buy a personal limited license for

Re: [DISCUSS] Is it worth looking at Confluence Wiki Again?

2011-09-08 Thread TJ Frazier
On 9/6/2011 18:12, Rob Weir wrote: Moving this point to its own thread On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 6:03 PM, drewd...@baseanswers.com wrote: On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 17:30 -0400, TJ Frazier wrote: On 9/6/2011 13:43, Matt Richards wrote: Well, I thought Terry has resigned from the project according

Re: [DISCUSS] Is it worth looking at Confluence Wiki Again?

2011-09-08 Thread Dave Fisher
Hi TJ, Have a look at the Re: [wiki] Migration - A TerryE Clipping Collection [LONG] thread. Anyone thinking about playing with CWiki is thinking it is a Plan B. MWiki is still Plan A. For me the CWiki was the only choice until Terry E showed up and did his tremendous work! Since he left

Re: [DISCUSS] Is it worth looking at Confluence Wiki Again?

2011-09-08 Thread Pedro Giffuni
Hello TJ; Just looking for fun at the conversion tool: https://studio.plugins.atlassian.com/wiki/display/UWC/UWC+Mediawiki+Notes Particularly the featues section: Templates would certainly be trouble. Math macros are supported, but we need to install the Latex plugin in Confluence.(Not