Re: volunteering

2012-10-27 Thread Kay Schenk
On 10/27/2012 02:00 PM, Prabha Chidambaran wrote: Hello Apache: My name is Prabha Chidambaran and I live in New Jersey. I am an aspiring technical writer and would love to get involved in writing documentation and help guides for your website. I have a Master's degree from Rutgers University and

Re: [PROPOSAL] "difficulty" field for Bugzilla

2012-10-27 Thread Kay Schenk
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > > On 10/26/2012 07:26 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 3:47 AM, Andre Fischer > wrote: > >>> On 24.10.2012 22:28, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > > @Regina, > > >>>

Re: The Impossible Question

2012-10-27 Thread Kay Schenk
On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 7:57 PM, Dave Fisher > wrote: > > > > On Oct 26, 2012, at 2:06 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: > > > >> Hi > >> Every now and then a user finds the experience of downloading, > installing, using AOO disappointing and frank

Re: proposal for new l10n workflow

2012-10-27 Thread jan iversen
Based on the comments I have received, I have updated the document. The major changes are: - removed l10n web page tools - no auto-commit in any tools - proposed changes to pootle server (based on request from andrea, to use/change existing tools) - added more text on the translation workflow, in

Re: the presentation program keeps losing my pages

2012-10-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Grant McPeetie wrote: I have used the impress program to produce two presentations for my work as a teacher. The first time, it ate fifteen pages. I loaded it on a more powerful machine and I can’t account for three missing pages. I save my work all the time, even though it autosaves, and I de

Re: The Impossible Question

2012-10-27 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 7:57 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: > > On Oct 26, 2012, at 2:06 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: > >> Hi >> Every now and then a user finds the experience of downloading, installing, >> using AOO disappointing and frankly frustrating if not worse. They will >> usually go to the use

Re: The Impossible Question

2012-10-27 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: > > On 12-10-27, at 13:05 , Kay Schenk wrote: > >> Also, what about the "Support" page. Is the order of items OK. If not, what >> should they be? > > The order there is totally up for grabs and there is no reason in that page's > case to

Re: The Impossible Question

2012-10-27 Thread Louis Suárez-Potts
On 12-10-27, at 13:05 , Kay Schenk wrote: > Also, what about the "Support" page. Is the order of items OK. If not, what > should they be? The order there is totally up for grabs and there is no reason in that page's case to abide by precedent (just the expectation that others probably have of

Re: The Impossible Question

2012-10-27 Thread Kay Schenk
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: > > On Oct 26, 2012, at 2:06 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: > > > Hi > > Every now and then a user finds the experience of downloading, > installing, using AOO disappointing and frankly frustrating if not worse. > They will usually go to the user

Re: [RELEASE] Releasing new languages for 3.4.1

2012-10-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 26/10/2012 jan iversen wrote: On 26 October 2012 19:43, Andrea Pescetti wrote: - Releasing a new language is totally risk-free: a new language can't break functionality in OpenOffice, while any feature could have bugs and needs more qualified testing. I do not agree to that statement for two

Re: [DISCUSS] Cleanup installation files, make them more modular

2012-10-27 Thread Joost Andrae
Hi, I have some items to add: - The installer packages should be modulized to allow the selection of parts (already done but we shouldn't forget to work on this) - Localizations should be separated from the binaries (soffice.bin, libs, resfiles). Maybe it's a good idea to separate language pa

Re: extensions and translations.

2012-10-27 Thread jan iversen
Got it, as Marcus explained, this is not a path to follow, but now I can write in my document that is has been discussed. jan On 27 October 2012 14:47, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: > On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 10:27:34AM +0200, jan iversen wrote: > > I agree with you, we should NOT put a new fram

Re: [DISCUSS] Cleanup installation files, make them more modular

2012-10-27 Thread RGB ES
2012/10/27 Joost Andrae > Hi Marcus, > > Am 26.10.2012 23:06, schrieb Marcus (OOo): > > I've modified the subject as I think this topic deserves its own, new >> thread. >> >> > that is a good idea. > > > Am 10/26/2012 07:28 PM, schrieb Ariel Constenla-Haile: >> >>> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 05:27

Re: Ambiguous paths for module hunspell

2012-10-27 Thread Ian C
On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 8:56 PM, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: > On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 06:16:08PM +0800, Ian C wrote: >> I just ran configure, bootstrap, sourced the sh file, changed to >> instsetoo_native/ >> and ran build (no arguments seems to give more output) >> >> Last time I ran build I ad

Re: Ambiguous paths for module hunspell

2012-10-27 Thread Ariel Constenla-Haile
On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 06:16:08PM +0800, Ian C wrote: > I just ran configure, bootstrap, sourced the sh file, changed to > instsetoo_native/ > and ran build (no arguments seems to give more output) > > Last time I ran build I added -all -P4 -- P4 to get some parallel > processing and threading.

Re: extensions and translations.

2012-10-27 Thread Ariel Constenla-Haile
On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 10:27:34AM +0200, jan iversen wrote: > I agree with you, we should NOT put a new framework on extensions writer. > > I was thinking along the lines of > > make a new directory ./extras/extensions/source, with files name>. This will force the extension developer to releas

Re: Apache and ODF

2012-10-27 Thread Inge Wallin
On Thursday, October 25, 2012 21:14:19 Rob Weir wrote: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Andreas Säger wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Today my wife got her new Kindle which comes with a document viewer > > based on Apache Freetype for the rendering job and Apache POI which is a > > Java library to parse

Re: [PROPOSAL] Initiate a Contest for Branding of 4.0

2012-10-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 26/10/2012 Ian Lynch wrote: I arranged one for the OOo schools mascot ... The winner was clear-cut. A 16 year old Italian boy who aspired to be a graphic designer. Here he is (by chance, he's called Andrea too): http://www.openoffice.org/editorial/interview_andrea_maggioni.html (EN) http://w

Re: Ambiguous paths for module hunspell

2012-10-27 Thread Ian C
On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 5:49 PM, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote: > Hi, > > Am 27.10.12 08:03, schrieb Ian C: > >> Hi, >> >> I saw a post back in Aug 4 where Pedro had >> >> build -- version: 275224 >> Ambiguous paths for module hunspell: >> >> I just updated my svn and get the same thing. >> >> Anyo

Re: Ambiguous paths for module hunspell

2012-10-27 Thread Oliver-Rainer Wittmann
Hi, Am 27.10.12 08:03, schrieb Ian C: Hi, I saw a post back in Aug 4 where Pedro had build -- version: 275224 Ambiguous paths for module hunspell: I just updated my svn and get the same thing. Anyone have a solution? Yes :-) the folder/module hunspell is moved from folder /main to /ext_l

Re: extensions and translations.

2012-10-27 Thread Marcus (OOo)
Am 10/27/2012 03:53 AM, schrieb Ariel Constenla-Haile: On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 01:17:33AM +0200, jan iversen wrote: I see, I have to get used to this license issues (a long time ago I believed open source was just open source, then I joined an apache project). It has nothing to do with licensi

Re: [PROPOSAL] "difficulty" field for Bugzilla

2012-10-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
jan iversen wrote: The process should be: - someone reports and describes a bug - someone technically qualified confirms the bug, put a comment in on where the bug probably sits and gives it a level. Or is that too much ?? It is more complex than that, because we have dozens of people who are

Re: extensions and translations.

2012-10-27 Thread jan iversen
I agree with you, we should NOT put a new framework on extensions writer. I was thinking along the lines of make a new directory ./extras/extensions/source, with files . The extension writer must submit the file (we do not collect them) through a committer. This directory would then go into the

Re: [DISCUSS] Cleanup installation files, make them more modular

2012-10-27 Thread Joost Andrae
Hi Marcus, Am 26.10.2012 23:06, schrieb Marcus (OOo): I've modified the subject as I think this topic deserves its own, new thread. that is a good idea. Am 10/26/2012 07:28 PM, schrieb Ariel Constenla-Haile: On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 05:27:41PM +0200, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: Once thing to pay