Re: [DISCUSS] [PMC] Proposed PMC List

2012-09-19 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Andrew Rist wrote: If anyone is concerned about sending their list to ooo-dev, you can send it to Ross ( rgardler at apache) instead, and at the end of the period (next Sunday), he will send an anonymized summary Perfect. This is a simple, efficient solution that will help people who prefer

Re: [User Docs] What do we as a community want for user documentation or AOO

2012-09-19 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 17/09/2012 Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 5:15 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: http://www.apache.org/legal/resolved.html#category-a says --- For the purposes of being a dependency to an Apache product, which licenses are considered to be similar in terms to the Apache License 2.0

Re: [PMC] Proposed PMC List

2012-09-19 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Here's my list. Limiting to 10 is indeed a challenge, there are about 5 other people that I would definitely have nominated... Ariel Constenla-Haile (arielch) Drew Jensen (atjensen) Kay Schenk (kschenk) Jürgen Schmidt (jsc) Marcus Lange (marcus) Pedro Giffuni (pfg) Regina Henschel (regina)

Re: [DISCUSS] [PMC] Proposed PMC List

2012-09-18 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 17/09/2012 Andrew Rist wrote: * This is not a vote. This is a search for consensus. Please no '-1' replies. Let's see what this process produces, and then discuss from there. It seems that the process is working quite well, and that we are on the right way to bootstrap a PMC by consensus.

Re: Missing Visual C++ Libraries in all recent versions of Open Office installer

2012-09-17 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 16/09/2012 Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: the fact is that there is a bug, that has to be closed as wontfix or left open depending on a *new* one: install the MSVCRedist (which IMO is no defect, but a request for enhancement). For reference, I opened an enhancement request based on

Re: [DL][Website] Second draft of the new DL scripting

2012-09-17 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Marcus (OOo) wrote: I was busy another weekend to start to implement the new structure for the DL scripting. The new webpages are accessible only here (as long as they are not published): http://ooo-site.staging.apache.org/download/test/new/index.html

Re: What is a good Project Management Committee?

2012-09-16 Thread Andrea Pescetti
active PPMC members. [ Andrea Pescetti] The current PPMC, especially due to the bootstrapping phase that allowed a large number of initial committers to enter the project without demonstrating merit... Of the initial committers 55 serve on the current PPMC (and all are committers) 15

Re: What is a good Project Management Committee?

2012-09-16 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Rob Weir wrote: For example, we had some initial committers who sent out bulk emails to a list of OpenOffice users. ... They issued press releases claiming that OpenOffice would fail, that the only way to get it to succeed was to send them money. They did this using a name and website and

Re: Missing Visual C++ Libraries in all recent versions of Open Office installer

2012-09-15 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 03:43:10AM -0700, jsmith...@fastmail.fm wrote: http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15t=56141 In all recent versions of Open Office, many people have complained that they get an error about Java being corrupt. ...

Re: What is a good Project Management Committee?

2012-09-15 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 07/09/2012 Andrew Rist wrote: While on one hand I understand why so many of us want to be on the PMC, a large PMC is not necessarily in the best interest of the project. The PMC should not be making decisions about the direction of the project and on who gets to do what - the PMC should be

Re: [DISCUSS] Code of Conduct

2012-09-12 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 11/09/2012 10:04, Rob Weir wrote: On Sep 10, 2012, at 7:52 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: We have a code of conduct here: http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/list-conduct.html I believe we discussed that text for several weeks. It started on the wiki. I eventually moved it onto the website.

Re: [DISCUSS]: What should be part of AOO by default or what belongs more into a broader eco-system around AOO

2012-09-12 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 11/09/2012 Rob Weir wrote: On Sep 11, 2012, at 12:27 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: Things that comes to my mind where I would always prefer an extension solution: - Connectors to some non free, non open source software based on proprietary API's. ... - Dependencies on external GPL, LGPL

Re: [www] OptionsPageDemo example missing

2012-09-11 Thread Andrea Pescetti
David Ludovino wrote: I'm developing an OOO extension and would like to add an options page to it. The Developer's Guide has a section dedicated to it under http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/DevGuide/Extensions/Options_Dialog . Though all links to the most important part, the

Re: Restore Windows bug on OS X Lion Mountain Lion

2012-09-11 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 05/09/2012 Larry Gusaas wrote: Is any work being done on this serious bug on Macs OS X ver. 10.7 10.8? There have been many help requests on the user forum and on the ooo-users mailing list. I confirm we had several reports in the forum and mailing list in Italian too. I noticed them only

Re: [CONFERENCE] ApacheCon Europe 2012 - track OpenOffice - status, feedback and asking for volunteers

2012-09-11 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 07/09/2012 Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote: The little team made up their minds for some additional, more general events/sessions. The current list contains the following: - Community panel -- 90 (45-60) min. panel session with a couple of AOO community members - Birds of Feather on community

Re: [user documentation] Requirements for a documentation project

2012-09-11 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 10/09/2012 Guy Waterval wrote: As I have more free time until June 2013, I plan to continue writing a user documentation for OOoLight (Educoo.org). As the two products AOO et OOoLight are, from an end user point of view of course, relatively similar to use, my goal is to try to interfacing

Re: [DL][Website] First draft of the new DL scripting

2012-09-10 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Jürgen Schmidt wrote: .../PROJECT_NAME/VERSION/source/ .../PROJECT_NAME/VERSION/binaries/LANG/ .../PROJECT_NAME/VERSION/binaries/SDK/ Where PROJECT_NAME is something like ooo or aoo or openoffice. Good. I'd use openoffice as project name, for clarity. It's longer than alternatives but we

Re: Volunteers needed to pickup some tasks

2012-09-10 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 08/09/2012 Rob Weir wrote: I'd like to shed some responsibilities and I hope there are volunteers able or willing to learn to pick up the following: ... 4. Generally making sure things don't fall through the cracks. For example, look at posts from a week ago and see which ones have not been

Re: [EXTENSION] LanguageTool in AOO

2012-09-09 Thread Andrea Pescetti
RGB ES wrote: 2012/9/9 Marco A.G.Pintomarcoagpi...@mail.telepac.pt LanguageTool extension ( http://www.languagetool.org ) no longer freezes on AOO 3.4.1 . Could it be added as default to the next release? IMO, it is not that easy: LT is LGPL, which is not compatible with the Apache license.

Re: [EXT] MySQL SDBC Connector

2012-09-09 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 07/09/2012 Alex Thurgood wrote: On 07/09/2012 03:50, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: I managed to build the MySQL Connector extension and make it work on Thanks, great news! Indeed there were quite a few request for an updated version. A nice to have would be for Mac OSX too ;-) I see

Re: Duplicate code in module binfilter [was: Re: svn commit: r1379349 - in /incubator/ooo/trunk/main: offapi/com/sun/star/sheet/ offapi/type_reference/ oox/inc/oox/xls/ oox/source/xls/ sc/inc/ sc/sour

2012-09-07 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 04/09/2012 Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote: There is a misunderstanding. The module binfilter contains the needed code to import/export legacy binary StarOffice file format in order to remove this code from the main code base. Module binflter is more or less a dead module, which hopefully can be

Re: CMS diff: 3.4.1_rn.html

2012-08-31 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Kay Schenk wrote: The release notes -- named as 3.4.1_rn.html are finally published in production... http://www.openoffice.org/zh-cn/releases/3.4.1_rn.html And I've now added links to zh-cn and hu translations to http://www.openoffice.org/development/releases/3.4.1.html (there's probably no

Re: svn commit: r1377138 - /incubator/ooo/ooo-site/trunk/content/development/releases/3.4.1.html

2012-08-31 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Marcus (OOo) wrote: [...] Apache OpenOffice 3.4.0 and 3.4.1 support Java 7, which is the recommended configuration; but (especially on 64-bit Windows) you might receive warnings about the Java version being defective. In that case, download and install [the most current JRE 6 version | link].

Re: svn commit: r1377138 - /incubator/ooo/ooo-site/trunk/content/development/releases/3.4.1.html

2012-08-30 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 29/08/2012 Andreas Säger wrote: Then extract some old version of Java6 (= revision 23), point the office to it and try again. It's many times faster. So, to recap: the best version of Java we could mention as a workaround (after saying that Java 7 is supported and more secure, of course)

Re: The translation of AOO3.4.1 release notes and announcement

2012-08-30 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Kay Schenk wrote: On 08/29/2012 06:22 PM, Shenfeng Liu wrote: Thanks very much for your help! I didn't expect it to be such a complex situation. Sorry for so many troubles brought to you. Not a problem...just a mystery! :) The CMS takes away most of the complexity in SVN, but for those

Re: svn commit: r1377138 - /incubator/ooo/ooo-site/trunk/content/development/releases/3.4.1.html

2012-08-29 Thread Andrea Pescetti
I found this commit from Marcus, from a few days ago: Author: marcus Date: Fri Aug 24 22:17:10 2012 New Revision: 1377138 URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1377138view=rev Log: #i120681# Updated the link to JRE 6 to point to the lastest build instead of a fixed version. Now, the idea of

Re: Extension downloading problem

2012-08-26 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Rob Weir wrote: Also, I wonder if it would be worth submitting a patch for Apache. It looks like they have the other content types used by OpenOffice, but not oxt files: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk/docs/conf/mime.types Actually, it seems it's already been there for a

Re: What to say in AOO 3.4.1 release announcement about the ports? (BSD, Solaris, OS/2)?

2012-08-25 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 21/08/2012 Andrea Pescetti wrote: Actually I don't know how many other distributions are there, but the only requests I've seen so far on mailing lists and forums are for portable versions and, to a smaller extent, for versions compatible with older Linux glibc versions (and Ariel provided

Re: The translation of AOO3.4.1 release notes and announcement

2012-08-25 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 21/08/2012 Sylvain DENIS wrote: I translated the text AOO 3.4.1 French. I would put online after the official version. Thanks, I've committed this to the French site using the naming conventions currently used there, so http://www.openoffice.org/fr/AOO_annonce_3_4_1.html I saw that the

Re: proposed new directory structure for future releases

2012-08-25 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 23/08/2012 22:06, Marcus (OOo) wrote: Also IMHO no need to separate between the languages. Furthermore, when you have to check for a potential error, then you you just need to verify this in a single directory and not more. /stable/VERSION/all and every install file The rest is OK, but

Re: Defect Status wiki

2012-08-24 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 22/08/2012 Shenfeng Liu wrote: (2) I'm not sure what's the difference between the status *Verified* and *Closed*. IMO all the defects verified should finally be closed. In the old OpenOffice.org project, where the QA process was probably more formal, the meaning were the following: -

Re: BAD link

2012-08-24 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 23/08/2012 Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: IIRC OOo never released en-US language packs, that's why many people working in translation, needing to check some UI string in English, ended up installing the en-GB language pack. Exactly. And this often happened also for volunteers busy with QA

Re: Extension downloading problem

2012-08-24 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Dave Fisher wrote: Has anyone inspected the MIME Type returned? If it is not a proper one for OXT then it is possible that IE8 is doing detection of the type. I had different results than Dave's, and I concluded I see different MIME types depending on the mirror I get, so this depends on how

Italian forum broken (Fwd: Re: [RELEASE][3.4.1]: update on the current status ...)

2012-08-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
The Italian forum at http://forum.openoffice.org/it/forum/ is not working, see the note by Ricardo below. If an Infra JIRA issue is needed, I can of course create it. But it would be good if someone with proper credentials could just jump in and fix it... Seeing hte error message, I'd say that

Re: What to say in AOO 3.4.1 release announcement about the ports? (BSD, Solaris, OS/2)?

2012-08-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 18/08/2012 22:14, Taf wrote: We'll ready to prepare the portable version. Today Andrea sent us the link with last/final 3.4.1 we are waiting for a while only to be sure r1372282 will be confirmed officially. I see http://www.winpenpack.com/en/download.php?view.1341 has already been updated

Re: [RELEASE][3.4.1]: update on the current status ...

2012-08-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
RGB ES wrote: 2012/8/23 Rory O'Farrellofarr...@iol.ie: Announced on the en-Forum and by PM to the Volunteers. Announced on ES forums. IT forums are not working... As discussed in other threads, the IT forum now works thanks to imacat, and RGB already posted there. In the meantime, I: -

Re: svn commit: r829379 - in /websites/production/ooo-site: cgi-bin/ content/

2012-08-22 Thread Andrea Pescetti
sebb wrote: On 21 August 2012 22:23, Daniel Shahaf wrote: Why? Could very well have a publish all changes mode (the current only option) alongside the cherry picking (publish only selected file) mode. This thread started because something was published inadvertently. No, this thread started

Re: Fwd: [RESULT][VOTE] Release Apache OpenOffice 3.4.1 (incubating) RC2

2012-08-22 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 23/08/2012 Rob Weir wrote: I've also updated the Japanese and French NL pages. The Italian and Spanish pages seem to be hooked into the same Javascript we use on the main download page, so I'm hoping they will point to the 3.4.1 release automatically when we push the updates to that script.

Re: What to say in AOO 3.4.1 release announcement about the ports? (BSD, Solaris, OS/2)?

2012-08-21 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Rob Weir wrote: I agree that we should have some mention of other versions or distributions that are based on AOO code, even if they are not strictly ports. The question is where to mention them? So far only winPenPack showed up, so for version 3.4.1 it seems natural to just use the

Re: What to say in AOO 3.4.1 release announcement about the ports? (BSD, Solaris, OS/2)?

2012-08-21 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Kay Schenk wrote: We can leave the porting page as is with winPenPack on it, and just see what happens. But I guarantee that based on comments on comments/questions we've already had over the past year, we will basically be obliged to list every other distributor that also feels they have

Re: Fwd: Apache OpenOffice 3.4.1 announcement

2012-08-21 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Rob Weir wrote: Forwarded with permission of the author. I corrected the English version. Translators should take note. I've just made a couple of other translation-relevant fixes to http://ooo-site.staging.apache.org/development/releases/3.4.1.html : - Mention portable versions - Remove

Re: What to say in AOO 3.4.1 release announcement about the ports? (BSD, Solaris, OS/2)?

2012-08-20 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Kay Schenk wrote: So, I think the second column on the porting page should be removed entirely. I feel winPenPack is a distribution and not a port, and therefore this would go as well. (I need to look again to see how/why this was even suggested). I think we would take on an incredible amount of

Re: svn commit: r829379 - in /websites/production/ooo-site: cgi-bin/ content/

2012-08-20 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Marcus (OOo) wrote: - who isn't aware of the consequences of her/his changes (do you all know that a change on a NL webpage will also publish everything else in staging?) Yes, and I consider it a bug (an inconvenience, say). But anyway, the most reasonable option to me is preparing the full

Re: [VOTE] Apache OpenOffice Community Graduation Vote

2012-08-19 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Rob Weir wrote: Everyone in the community is encouraged to vote. Votes from PPMC members and Mentors are binding. This vote will run 72-hours. [ ] +1 Apache OpenOffice community is ready to graduate from the Apache Incubator. [ ] +0 Don't care. [ ] -1 Apache OpenOffice community is not ready

Re: svn commit: r829379 - in /websites/production/ooo-site: cgi-bin/ content/

2012-08-19 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Dave Fisher wrote: We were supposed to wait to publish. Author: pescetti Date: Sun Aug 19 15:08:26 2012 New Revision: 829379 What did I publish? If it was only (like the diff showed) http://www.openoffice.org/it/stampa/comunicati/aoo341.html then it's OK to have it online. It's not linked and

Re: [DISCUSS] AOO Ready to Graduate

2012-08-18 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 17/08/2012 Rob Weir wrote: We've had several prods from our mentors suggesting that we are ready to graduate. I agree it would be good to do so, since it will automatically reduce complex and unclear terminology (incubator, podling) that has been misused outside the project and it will

Re: [VOTE]: Release Apache OpenOffice 3.4.1 (incubating), RC2

2012-08-18 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 15/08/2012 Jürgen Schmidt wrote: Please vote on releasing this package as Apache OpenOffice 3.4.1 (incubating). +1 Release this package as Apache OpenOffice 3.4.1 (incubating) This is based on tests on the binary packages by me and other community members from the ooo-progetto-it mailing

Re: Working on a writer number enhancement.

2012-08-17 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 17/08/2012 Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote: On 17.08.2012 10:06, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote: On 17.08.2012 10:02, Huaidong Qiu wrote: I am working on a writer number enhancement, to support a new ODF attribute List Level for paragraph style [1]

Re: [QA] TestLink Usage Guide

2012-08-17 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Li Feng Wang wrote: I wrote a Wiki about TestLink Usage Guide, http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/QA/TestLink Hope to help you use TestLink. Thanks, very good information. A couple of remarks: 1) Can testcases be translated? Of course one can create a scenario where, say, all tests are

Re: [UX] DISCUSS - Survey Tool Recommendation

2012-08-17 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 16/08/2012 Rob Weir wrote: On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 12:47 AM, Kevin Grignon wrote: I've been looking at various survey tools and would like to recommend that we deploy the open source survey tool, *LimeSurvey.* Perfect. It is a good tool and it is in continuity with what the project used

Re: Registration

2012-08-17 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 15/08/2012 Dave Fisher wrote: On Aug 14, 2012, at 8:09 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Ready at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-5144 I'll look into this one tomorrow. There will be two parts. (1) DNS redirect to www.openoffice.org (2) httpd.conf rewrite to redirect to thankyou.html

Re: [DRAFT] AOO 3.4.1 Release Announcement for Review

2012-08-17 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 16/08/2012 Rob Weir wrote: https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=announcing_apache_openoffice_3_4 Comments are welcome. I had a quick look about 24 hours ago and the text seemed fine. But I cannot access the URL now (well, I can, but I only see the Apache OpenOffice

Re: [INFO][WEBSITE]: improved usability with simplified Urls to reach some of our services

2012-08-16 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 16/08/2012 Dave Fisher wrote: Yes. # change users.services.openoffice.org/... to forum.openoffice.org/... RewriteCond ${lowercase:%{HTTP_HOST}} ^users\.services\.openoffice\.org$ RewriteRule ^users\.services\.openoffice\.org/(.*) http://forum.openoffice.org/$1 [NE,L,R=permanent]

Re: Two new stats graphs: ooo-dev subscribers and committers

2012-08-14 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 14/08/2012 Rob Weir wrote: http://www.openoffice.org/stats/ooo-dev-subscribers.html and http://www.openoffice.org/stats/committers.html Nice! The first one has a few incorrect references to Committers in the page title tag and in the chart axis. But for the rest it's very good and it

Re: [INFO][WEBSITE]: improved usability with simplified Urls to reach some of our services

2012-08-14 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 14/08/2012 RGB ES wrote: 2012/8/14 RGB ES: Good! But I'm finding a weird behaviour on the forums... If I enter on the old url http://user.services.openoffice.org/ I'm NOT redirected. If I open bot, the new and the old address and log-in in the new, in the old one I'm still logged off I

Re: Registration

2012-08-14 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 09/08/2012 Dave Fisher wrote: On Aug 7, 2012, at 2:44 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: I created a page with this content at http://www.openoffice.org/legacy/thankyou.html If we have lazy consensus (i.e., no objections in 72 hours or so) on this, I'll then proceed and ask Infra to redirect all

Re: spell checker

2012-08-13 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 12/08/2012 Phil Hocott wrote: Since I downloaded the apache version of open office my spelling and gramer doesn't work properly so I found an old copy of open office 3.1.0 and downloaded it and everything is fine. This is a quite radical solution: version 3.1.0 is really old and misses

Re: Yes. You can do this with OpenOffice. (MysteryGuitarMan video with OpenOffice Mac)

2012-08-12 Thread Andrea Pescetti
imacat wrote: Well, see the attachment. ^_*' Nice! And interesting too (yes, the guy purportedly did everything by hand, pixel by pixel, see the explanation video link sent by Rob). So there is definitely room for a contest or a conference presentation about this... Regards, Andrea.

Re: Yes. You can do this with OpenOffice. (MysteryGuitarMan video with OpenOffice Mac)

2012-08-10 Thread Andrea Pescetti
(answering below so that Paolo gets all context; he is not subscribed so CC him if relevant) On 10/08/2012 Rob Weir wrote: If you don't know this guy's work you should really check it out. He has over 2 million YouTube subscribers. It is hard to describe, but I'd say it is 1/3 one-man band,

Re: Problem with Spell check and Language configuration in oo 3.4

2012-08-10 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Pedro Domínguez wrote: I have updated the openoffice from 3.3 to 3.4 version and now I can't spell check my documents. I have four servers with windows 2003 server, here is where the users connect to the OO, with a movil profile. With the older version (3.3) never had a problem with this, while

Re: Registration

2012-08-09 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote: On 07.08.2012 23:44, Andrea Pescetti wrote: I created a page with this content at http://www.openoffice.org/legacy/thankyou.html May be we can use it also for our update service. It could be the landing page for users of legacy OOo versions for whose language we

Re: [RELEASE][3.4.1]: current status update

2012-08-09 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Rob Weir wrote: On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: Please don't mix frequent building on regular basis with what has been happening here the last weeks. There have been two, three, RC build proposal in the same week. The most notorious is the build announced on Monday

Re: New links for localization web page

2012-08-07 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 05/08/2012 Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 27/07/2012 Peter Pöml wrote: download.services.openoffice.org to redirect to openoffice.mirrorbrain.org OK, I opened https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-5118 to make this temporary redirection permanent (at DNS level). ... I assume

Re: Registration

2012-08-07 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 23/07/2012 Rob Weir wrote: On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: So I'd propose to ask Infra to redirect the whole domains https://registration2.services.openoffice.org/ http://registration2.services.openoffice.org/ http://survey.services.openoffice.org/ to something

Re: Open Infra JIRA issues

2012-08-07 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Rob Weir wrote: So to make this easier for me next time, and for anyone else, I created a table on the wiki of our open Infrastructure JIRA issues: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Open+Infrastructure+Requests ... Also, feel free to add any other open issues. I added a

Re: Blog post draft: OpenOffice Conference Call for Papers

2012-08-06 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Donald Harbison wrote: Andrea, I hope that you submit a proposal for a talk. We need the impressive Italian community to represent key aspects of the proejct and participate at ApacheCon Europe. It's quite likely that I will propose a talk (not necessary on a topic related to OpenOffice in

Re: New links for localization web page

2012-08-05 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 27/07/2012 Peter Pöml wrote: Am 27.07.2012 um 09:32 schrieb Andrea Pescetti: I was about to ask Infra to redirect http://download.services.openoffice.org to http://openoffice.mirrorbrain.org but it seems it's already done. It seems it's already done because, this morning, I configured

Re: Built-in functionality to reset profile (Re: NewWikiMainPage)

2012-08-05 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 17/07/2012 RGB ES wrote: 2012/7/17 Andrea Pescetti: RGB ES wrote: Most of the time, a corrupted user profile prevents AOO from starting so I do not think an item on any menu will help. A fail safe mode that run when a crash is detected (or two crashes in a row?) will be more useful

Re: [UPDATE SERVICE] dynamic approach [was: Re: [UPDATE SERVICE] activation of update service for OOo 3.1 and OOo 3.1.1]

2012-08-05 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 03/08/2012 Rob Weir wrote: On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 6:13 AM, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote: I am planning to give a talk on ApacheCon EU about the update function in AOO and the Update Service. In this talk I will give a deep insight in its purpose and functionality which should be enough input

Re: Blog post draft: OpenOffice Conference Call for Papers

2012-08-04 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 25/07/2012 Rob Weir wrote: If possible, I'd like to also replace our Announcing Apache OpenOffice 3.4 header link on ooo-site with one linking to this blog post, once published. We can let that run for the next week or so Thanks, the pages under /it now have a translated version of the

Re: [PROPOSAL] more clarification on Java -- changes to

2012-08-04 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 17/07/2012 Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2012-07-17 1:15 AM Jürgen Schmidt wrote: I agree in general to you and thanks for summarizing this topic. I have only one point to add, why should we mention potential problems that we can't reproduce? In this case I would not mention it, it would be

Re: Stephen, Arnaud Barrie's school for potential Maven committers

2012-08-04 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 16/07/2012 Rob Weir wrote: An interesting approach: http://javaadventure.blogspot.ie/2012/07/do-you-want-to-become-maven-committer.html I wonder if we could do something similar? Maybe with QA or Translation? For it to work we'd need to commitment of several committers willing to be

Re: Mixed oneway and normal/synchronous UNO interface calls

2012-08-04 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Moving the request below to ooo-dev since it is probably too technical for ooo-users. Please replay to ooo-dev and Karsten, the original poster. On 23/07/2012 Karsten Burger wrote: Hello, I found this guarantee for oneway calls: http://www.openoffice.org/udk/common/man/uno.html sequence of

Re: What to say in AOO 3.4.1 release announcement about the ports? (BSD, Solaris, OS/2)?

2012-08-04 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 31/07/2012 drew wrote: On Tue, 2012-07-31 at 14:36 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: Community members are also working on BSD, Solaris and OS/2 ports, with plans to release these outside of Apache. ... I think there is some logic to mentioning them in the release announcement. But work that happens

Re: investigation using Google Webmaster tools

2012-08-03 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Rob Weir wrote: On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Pedro Giffuni wrote: We cannot do maintainance for broken links here. Perhaps we should remind users to report broken links on the originating websites. Certainly we can fix this on our end. In fact I just did:

Re: investigation using Google Webmaster tools

2012-08-03 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Rob Weir wrote: Google is reporting a 404 error for this URL: http://www.openoffice.org/security/bulletin-20060629.html ... The Wayback Machine shows the page did exist in 2006: http://web.archive.org/web/20060703040511/http://www.openoffice.org/security/bulletin-20060629.html But it was broken

Re: re lost login data

2012-07-30 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Des wrote: I have lost all of my login details to go onto the Open Office site, password user name. Can you please tell me how I can get this matter resolved All accounts have been disabled or converted with the infrastructure migration to the Apache servers. But this doesn't mean, of

Re: Communications regarding post AOO 3.4.1 plans

2012-07-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 26/07/2012 Kay Schenk wrote: Re -- security bug fixes. I know we did the older CVE-2012-0037 with patches to Windows and Mac. But we weren't able to deal with a Linux patch as I recall. (I don't know what progress has been made on that front). For the record, Ariel provided a procedure to

Re: Fwd: New links for localization web page

2012-07-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 27/07/2012 Peter Pöml wrote: I have configured a HTTP redirect to my replacement server on .mirrorbrain.org now. I hope that helps you. Thanks Peter, this helps a lot! Whatever we replace in the openoffice.org HTML pages, there's a huge number of links out there pointing to

Re: [DEVTOOLS] how to handle old bugs in old versions of netbeans integration plugin

2012-07-24 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Kay Schenk wrote: https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=78242 FWIW -- I did basically close this with resolved and unreproducible. Oh boy...getting mixed between Jira and BZ. BZ has no CLOSE, only RESOLVED, which is somewhat misleading. You can set issues to CLOSED in BugZilla, but,

Re: AOO as a portable application

2012-07-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Guy Waterval wrote: 2012/7/22 drew The other packager was: http://sourceforge.net/projects/winpenpack/ again I would not be surprised to see them update soon also. WinPenPack has just updated their site: they are now offering a live or portable version of Apache OpenOffice 3.4 called

Updating dictionaries for OpenOffice 3.4.1

2012-07-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Updating dictionaries from the Extensions site to their latest version should probably be (or become) part of the standard pre-release actions, like updating localizations: it is a low-risk fix that fits with the concept of maintenance releases. Unfortunately, we haven't done that step for

Re: Updating dictionaries for OpenOffice 3.4.1

2012-07-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Jürgen Schmidt wrote: In general I agree that we should test new versions of dictionaries and should integrate them in the next upcoming release. But we should do that in time and not in the last minute. OK, let's remember to put it in our schedule for next releases; or let's just agree to

Re: Registration

2012-07-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 16/07/2012 21:14, sebb wrote: On 16 July 2012 19:01, Rob Weir wrote: The registration URL's for OOo 3.3 look like this: https://registration2.services.openoffice.org/RegistrationWeb/register/GUID?prduct=OpenOffice.orglocale=encid-926117 So we should be able to handle this entirely with ASF.

Re: Install developer build side by side with regular version instead of overwriting it

2012-07-22 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 21/07/2012 Andrea Pescetti wrote: there was a quite prominent warning on the download page last time I checked (it seems https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+3.4+Unofficial+Developer+Snapshots is temporarily unavailable at the moment). Correcting myself: the page

Re: [DOCUMENTATION] Known bugs page for end users [Re: Instabilité version 3.4]

2012-07-22 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 05/07/2012 Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: I guess this is one of those registrymodifications.xcu bugs. We may think of having a page with Known bugs, their workarounds, information about a possible fix in a next release, etc. So far there is only one bug which stands out, and it is indeed the

Re: Discussion on Bug 119639, the requirement conflicts with ODF standard

2012-07-22 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 20/07/2012 Clarence GUO wrote: Then how can I fix this defect? It seems the only way is to change the standard and change the corresponding filter code. But I know change the standard is not easy... It is not easy, but not impossible either. See these resources where you can see that

Empty bug in Bugzilla (#i64400#)

2012-07-21 Thread Andrea Pescetti
By chance (a link found in a discussion about OpenOffice dictionaries in the Mozilla Bugzilla) I came across a link to https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=64400 (mentioned in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=355178#c3 ) The issue page looks completely empty, even though it

Re: Install developer build side by side with regular version instead of overwriting it

2012-07-21 Thread Andrea Pescetti
RGB ES wrote: 2012/7/21 floris v: I just downloaded and installed the latest developer snapshot/build and found that it replaces the stable version. I think that that was on purpose: we are really close to 3.4.1 release so it's time to test install issues. Exactly, it was discussed earlier

Re: CSS debugging (ability to read Polish might help)

2012-07-20 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Rob Weir wrote: http://www.openoffice.org/pl/ there is some CSS issue causing the text to be white-on-white or something. I stared at it but did not see the source of the problem. The source of the problem is the first non-comment line here: http://www.openoffice.org/css/ooo.css body {

Re: [UI] ColorPicker - entering hex color code

2012-07-19 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: If I enter AA, I would expect it to be #AA, that is, zeros added at the left. AA - AA - RBG 0,0,170 but the color picker shows RGB 170,170,170 ... Which should be the expected behaviour? What I would expect is: ABC - AABBCC This is the (unnatural for

Re: Should quickstarter be enabled or disabled by default?

2012-07-19 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Risto Jääskeläinen wrote: Supposing that quickstarter is working without any faults there is still a time stealing hiding in it. Those users who use OpenOffice only once and while lost a bit their working time every day they start their computer and not use use OpenOffice at that session. Yes,

Re: On parks, commons, and websites... and fun (or lack of)

2012-07-18 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Hagar Delest wrote: You've taken the fun out of it. ... As a consequence, I resign from my PPMC role and will unsubscribe the dev private mailing lists right now. It's a very sad (hopefully temporary) consequence. It proves that the OpenOffice project is not mature yet: it can still happen

Re: [Proposal] Remove OpenOffice Consultants list

2012-07-18 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 17/07/2012 Alexandro Colorado wrote: +1 I agree however like Rob say, would be good to stablish a new proposal on eventually refresh this list. I think the list has its value as a concept. I agree with the principle of removing the consultants list, but the page itself

Re: Apache OpenOffice (I) at Oscon

2012-07-17 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: I've kept in touch with what is going on. But my interest is in learning what you have to say and would have me say. Assuming you are already familiar with all topics you listed (and of course you are!) I'd say the numbers Rob gave already provide solid facts on

Built-in functionality to reset profile (Re: NewWikiMainPage)

2012-07-17 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Rob Weir wrote: Since this seems to be such a common solution, I wonder if we should add this directly to the product? Something like a Help menu item, or Help/Support menu for reset profile on restart or something like that. This would be a fantastic addition and would make support much

Re: lingua

2012-07-17 Thread Andrea Pescetti
le arrivera' e dal quel momento ricevera' tutte le richieste di supporto e potra' ovviamente inviarne a sua volta. Se ci fossero ulteriori problemi, siamo a disposizione sui canali indicati. Distinti saluti, Andrea Pescetti.

Re: Built-in functionality to reset profile (Re: NewWikiMainPage)

2012-07-17 Thread Andrea Pescetti
RGB ES wrote: Most of the time, a corrupted user profile prevents AOO from starting so I do not think an item on any menu will help. A fail safe mode that run when a crash is detected (or two crashes in a row?) will be more useful... is it something like that possible? I actually meant the

Re: Should quickstarter be enabled or disabled by default?

2012-07-17 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 18/07/2012 Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: Well supposedly problems with it have been fixed, but quickstarter does seem to have its issues. ... Maybe this is worth a performance test, to see whether QuickStart really is quick, and by how much? Besides

Re: Java download link on AOO site

2012-07-12 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Hagar Delest wrote: Le jeu. 12 juil. 2012 21:19:50 CEST, Joe Schaefer a écrit : Hagar is a committer, that comes both with certain rights and certain responsibilities, the latter of which is to not bother others with work he can carry out effectively himself. Don't tell me that since I'm a

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