Re: Redirects vs. SYMPA

2012-01-31 Thread Andrea Pescetti
TJ Frazier wrote: SYMPA sends me these messages, but when I try to follow the links, I get a 404 on the Apache server. Perfectly reasonable, since I need to reach Kenai/SYMPA. Does somebody have to play with the redirects, or can I do something in my hosts file (I'm probably the only one who

Re: admin permissions on old OOo

2012-01-31 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 30/01/2012 Dave Fisher wrote: Is it time to remove the old OOo? Not without proper notice. At least, there are still active mailing lists there and the corresponding moderation web panels under http://openoffice.org still work. Regards, Andrea.

Re: Default values on Writer

2012-01-29 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 22/01/2012 RGB ES wrote: == Context sensitive toolbars == Context sensitive toolbars are a really useful feature but new users tend to not like them because by default they appear on not so useful places... like on top of the table you are trying to edit. IMHO, anchoring by default those

Re: OpenOffice Template Website Problems

2012-01-29 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 24/01/2012 Rupert wrote: I am writing to let you know that I am currently not able to log in to the OpenOffice template website (I do have a valid user name password) ... Also, while it is possible to download templates, often the website page needs refreshing several times before it

Re: External libraries

2012-01-28 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 20/01/2012 Andre Fischer wrote: It's done. I just checked in the CoinMP replacement of the former lp_solve library. Thanks! I updated https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/IP_Clearance+Impact to reflect this and other recent changes. Regards, Andrea.

Re: [CODE] update services

2012-01-28 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 27/01/2012 Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: this is actually implemented. Nice to know! I updated http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Update_Notification_Protocol with this remark. a dummy http://people.apache.org/~arielch/ProductUpdateService/check.Update will indicate every OOo version

Re: [ooo-site] ALL THE OO EXTENSIONS SUBDOMAIN IS BROKEN AND DOWN 404 HELP!!

2012-01-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Jim Sanders wrote: The extensions website is kaputski mate! Dear Jim, this is a well-known problem that is expected to be solved by the moment version 3.4 is released, in the next few months. In the meantime, reloading the pages several times will often work. Regards, Andrea.

Re: Trying to add more quality to openoffice

2012-01-22 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 16/01/2012 p.a.sa.h. wrote: Still not knowing how to find an OpenOffice more appropriate contact, this is the most immediate i found, so please forward it to someone who can really do something. I'm sending two files that weren't opened correctly by your application software: the two

Re: New feature: Drawing thick lines with line caps

2012-01-21 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 16/01/2012 Regina Henschel wrote: I have added a Wiki page about it https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+3.4+Release+Notes Thanks Regina (and Armin for technical details and integration work), this is a very nice description! Just a question: does this new feature

Re: i18nregexp replaced with ICU regexp = heads up

2012-01-21 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 04/01/2012 Jürgen Schmidt wrote: On 1/4/12 4:26 PM, Herbert Duerr wrote: For the specific example of the RE-extension \ the more common syntax for it is \b and that is also understood by almost all regex engines including the ones used in old and new OOo. We should keep this in mind for the

Re: Next step: fonts

2012-01-18 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 18/01/2012 Pedro Giffuni wrote: I will take a stab at bringing back the Gentium font and I will bring in the ChromeOS fonts that will replace the Liberation fonts we used to carry. Since they are metrically equivalent, can the font substitution table be updated with the same changes?

Re: [BUILD]: propose new Developer snapshot builds based on revision r1231878

2012-01-17 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Jürgen Schmidt wrote: If Windows, Linux and Mac versions are available I would like to drop a short mail on our announce mailing list if we all think that it is a good idea to promote this unofficial snapshot builds to a broader audience. We can only benefit from this and will hopefully can

Re: Double dictionaries for languages

2012-01-17 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 07/01/2012 Marco A.G.Pinto wrote: Portuguese has suffered a language agreement and now there are two kinds of my language: - pre-agreement - post-agreement... The language is still the same and just the dictionary is changed. Could this be implemented into AOO? I think (but I haven't

Re: Resolving MS Word Binary File Format

2012-01-17 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 09/01/2012 Liang Weike wrote: I'm making an investigation of OpenOffice processing the documents of MS Office's binary file formats. ... So, has OpenOffice improved the flow and construction of resolving MS Office's binary file formats after MS offered the specification? As far as I know,

Re: Seeking Bugzilla Admin Volunteers

2012-01-15 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Rob Weir wrote: Did you read anyone say that current privileges are going to be dropped? I certainly did not say that. No, but that was a doubt I had: in the process of granting new privileges, it might be that someone notices that a lot of people already have high privileges, and that this

Re: [BUG]AOO in Asia Language word's counts calculate is wrong

2012-01-15 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 01/01/2012 L'oiseau de mer wrote: I test the lastest version AOO, and noticed the problem. This a old problem since past openoffice.org. I hope this problem can be solved in new AOO. Because this different mathod calculated between Asia Language word's counts and Europe or Western. For

Broken authentication in the current Extensions website

2012-01-15 Thread Andrea Pescetti
The authentication in the current Extensions website is broken, possibly due to DNS migration (but possibly not!). I reported it in http://s.apache.org/iTr but it probably got buried in that thread. If you open http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/user (reload until it shows) you will get

Re: May I use OpenOffice.org and Apache Incubator logos on OpenOffice.org CD

2012-01-15 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 12/01/2012 Donald Whytock wrote: On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: The old policy, if I recall correctly, was to allow this kind of usage and a generic usage for community activities. Would you want people to notify the list if/when it happens? Yes, maybe some

Re: New feature: Drawing thick lines with line caps

2012-01-14 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 13/01/2012 Armin Le Grand wrote: again updated to trunk (after some Svg fixes) and built. Find the linecap install sets under: Win: http://people.apache.org/~alg/linecap/wntmsci12/ Linux64bit: http://people.apache.org/~alg/linecap/unxlngx6/ Have fun checking out the LineCap feature! Thanks

Re: Java 7 and Apache OpenOffice

2012-01-14 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 13/01/2012 Rob Weir wrote: On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 6:24 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Wasn't the cycle something like the following? - Developer thinks the bug is fixed and marks issue as RESOLVED FIXED. - QA engineer sets to VERIFIED, then to CLOSED. ... The value of having a QA engineer test

Re: Seeking Bugzilla Admin Volunteers

2012-01-14 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 12/01/2012 Rob Weir wrote: I'll enter a JIRA issue asking that myself, and whichever other committers want to be included, be added to a group that will have the following additional Bugzilla permissions: - editbugs - editcomponents - canconfirm - editkeywords I still have extended

Re: Category-B tarballs in SVN (was Re: External libraries)

2012-01-12 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Pedro Giffuni wrote: --- Gio 12/1/12, Rob Weir ha scritto: Also, the MPL license requires that we make our modified files available electronically for 12 months. Thank you for pointing this out. This sounds pretty much unacceptable for Apache policies Anyway this could be solved by the MPL

Re: How to provide Linguistic Tools replacements after the removal of GPL'd modules

2012-01-12 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 10/12/2011 Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 04/12/2011 Andrea Pescetti wrote: After coordinating with Gianluca about some details, I've just opened the issue at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-117 As you can see at the link above, we won't get an answer before the end of 2011

Re: Java 7 and Apache OpenOffice

2012-01-12 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: Now I'm uncertain about what to do in these cases. In OpenOffice.org times, the developer who fixed the issue didn't resolve it as fixed. Someone else had to do the QA in order to confirm the fix and change the issue status. Wasn't the cycle something like the

Re: Java 7 and Apache OpenOffice

2012-01-10 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 06:01:59PM +0100, Oliver Brinzing wrote: seems lo fixed this issue. me, I haven't seen it. LO has a different license, so AOO can not take its code. This leads to duplication, as we must find our own way to fix it. This applies to actual

Re: EN Forum Activity Summary

2012-01-07 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 06/01/2012 Hagar Delest wrote: Here is a proposal. Nice post; just a few remarks. After 4 years of existence, the Community Forum has moved on the ASF servers end of October 2011. Since the situation is already confusing enough, I would spell out that ASF is Apache Software Foundation,

Re: Extensions hosting

2012-01-06 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 04/01/2012 Roberto Galoppini wrote: 2012/1/4 Jürgen Schmidt: We should keep in mind that for many extension developers it's probably ok to create a SF, GoogleCode or whatever project to host the extension code and the binary. But i believe that there are also many developers who simply want

Re: /usr/bin/openoffice.org

2012-01-06 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Jürgen Schmidt wrote: I think we want have a good relation to them and we should potentially send a friendly reminder that we see a problem here. As a user I would expect that I get the latest OOo 3.3 version. And in the future we would like to use it to get an AOO with some explanation. Sure.

Re: [BUILD] Linux buildboot set up and configure switches

2012-01-03 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 03/01/2012 Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: you have to add localized builds, as Oliver pointed out. Localized builds everyday will be an overhead for the build boots, for example, my build on 6 cores computer takes less than 1:30 hr with no languages, and circa 3 hrs with en-US, de, es, fr, it,

Re: [BUG] AOO cannot be installed

2012-01-02 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 10:32:10AM +0100, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: Normally the office would come via the distro and would have been build for the distro and the specific versions of the system libraries. This is much easier and i hope we can achieve this state in the

Re: About the Former Native Language projects

2012-01-02 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 13/12/2011 Ross Gardler wrote: On 13 December 2011 11:33, Kazunari Hirano wrote: This is great. Where is the pootle server? https://translate.apache.org/projects/OOo/ It's only just gone live so your guidance on how the AOO project should engage with it will be most appreciated. The

Re: draft - Website migration(+) announcement - draft

2012-01-01 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 31/12/2011 Rob Weir wrote: HTML is not very reliable in email. But maybe we could do this: Create the newsletter as a webpage, either on the wiki, or via mdtext or the blog. That has the full text of the newsletter. Then for the announce list, we just include the table of contents or the

Re: 3.4 release plan

2012-01-01 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 30/12/2011 Rob Weir wrote: So now on to a 3.4 release, our first Apache release. I've started a wiki page to track the top-level tasks that we'll need to address before we can have a release. I've certainly missed some things, so please feel free to enhance.

Re: EN Forum Activity Summary

2011-12-30 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Rob Weir wrote: A question for you: Are you getting any feedback on the 3.4 beta release? Or are you only getting questions on the 3.3.0 release? OpenOffice.org usually didn't put a lot of emphasis on beta releases, so we (I mean, Italian lists, including the new one at Apache, and the

Re: 3.4 release plan

2011-12-30 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Rob Weir wrote: On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: Specifically I get comments from friends that the Check for Updates from the Help menu no longer functions due to URL update changes. Are there similar areas that we need to document? Is this an issue with OOo 3.3? The

Re: Replacement for Liberation Fonts (was Re: Font related questions)

2011-12-30 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Pedro Giffuni wrote: Apparently they are improved versions of the Liberation fonts, which Redhat what licensed from the same designers. The key feature of Liberation fonts is that they are metrically equivalent to the corresponding Microsoft core fonts: i.e., any given glyph (character) in

Re: [WWW] Changeover is Close - Final Tasks!

2011-12-29 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 26/12/2011 Andrea Pescetti wrote: I still can't help you since I haven't got access so far. Anyway, even if it breaks, given the current status of Extensions and Templates I believe that broken authentication will just be a minor annoyance. Unfortunately it seems that authentication

Product name on the new website

2011-12-29 Thread Andrea Pescetti
First of all, thanks to everybody involved in the website migration, it was a huge task and the vast majority of pages seems to have been migrated just fine. What should we use as a product name on http://www.openoffice.org/it/ and related pages? Shall we just keep the OpenOffice.org name

Re: draft - Website migration(+) announcement - draft

2011-12-29 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 29/12/2011 drew wrote: During this migration period community developers also made great progress with the application code. Ariel Constenla-Haile, one of the community developers, generated binary packages, suitable for early testing purposes, from the current Apache OpenOffice code

Re: Announce list is live

2011-12-28 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Simon Phipps wrote: I suggest the smartest thing to do is to subscribe the annou...@openoffice.org to ooo-annou...@incubator.apache.org so that everyone hears the news from this project I agree; for an announcement list the only downside I see is that someone might receive duplicate messages

Re: [WWW] Changeover is Close - Final Tasks!

2011-12-26 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 22/12/2011 Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 22/12/2011 Dave Fisher wrote: The email subscribes, unsubscribes and links have been updated for: ... ooo-utenti for utenti@oo.o (is this correct? it should be ooo-utenti-il...) I will take care of checking/redoing the last one. I replaced links

Re: [WWW] Changeover is Close - Final Tasks!

2011-12-26 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 23/12/2011 03:15, Dave Fisher wrote: On Dec 22, 2011, at 2:16 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: got some information about Extensions and Templates clarifying that the authentication depends on http://openoffice.org/something and not on a to-be-migrated subdomain, right? I don't have

Re: Too many lists

2011-12-26 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 15/12/2011 Shane Curcuru wrote: Suggestion: instead of creating two Italian lists, create only the users-italian@ (whatever name) one. OK, and this is what we did. Then create the i10n@ list, and use that for the dev-italian@ work - or any other development work in different languages.

Re: Ip Clearance: 1st version of Svg replacement available

2011-12-26 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 19/12/2011 Armin Le Grand wrote: as mentioned in [1] I have now finished and reintegrated the first version of the Svg replacement from the branch Very good stuff, really. I can only blame you for not turning this into a blog post! Really, all it would take is a copy and paste of the

Re: Accepting WhiteLabel Office Bug Reports?

2011-12-26 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: I notice that a bugzilla report on WhiteLabel Office 3.3.1 was received and closed as invalid: https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=118695. ... Can it be found in our hearts to accepts these and be gentler with them and the users who go to the trouble to submit

Re: Early User-QA Engagement (was RE: Ip Clearance: 1st version of Svg replacement available)

2011-12-26 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: So what does version58 mean? Where did that come from? If it is fixed in another build, how is that identified? version58 just happens to be the last in alphabetical order, but I doubt it is correct. It is probably useful to write the SVN revision number in the

Re: Team OpenOffice White Label Office (powered by Apache Open Office)

2011-12-25 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 22/12/2011 Pavel Janík wrote: I think the core issue here is responsibility to users, credibility of the product and bridging the gap between the last OOo and the first AOOo. Exactly. And it could be that it's Christmas and good sentiments prevail, but I still see possible that this

Re: [WWW] Changeover is Close - Final Tasks!

2011-12-22 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 22/12/2011 Dave Fisher wrote: The email subscribes, unsubscribes and links have been updated for: ooo-users for user@oo.o ooo-dev for dev@*oo.o and discuss@oo.o ooo-announcefor announce@oo.o ooo-marketing for d...@marketing.oo.o ooo-utenti for

Re: [WWW] Changeover is Close - Final Tasks!

2011-12-22 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 22/12/2011 Dave Fisher wrote: Website migration is decoupled from the following other issues: - Mailing List cutover. (ooo-site should avoid allowing users to subscribe to the old lists.) - @openoffice.org forwarder cut-off. - openoffice.org ids and extensions and templates access. OK, so

Re: old colored vs new monochrome icons

2011-12-22 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 22/12/2011 Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: It would help us to actually know which old icons are being discussed here. Can they be seen somewhere? This is by no means the full set, but the most visible icons in a typical use case are shown at http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/3623/ooomedie.png

Re: [WWW] Changeover is Close - Final Tasks!

2011-12-22 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Kay Schenk wrote: [...] I left the N-L contacts alone for now, since I don't know what the status of that is. It is equally outdated, but it would probably be better to write Contact instead of Project Lead in the table header at http://ooo-site.staging.apache.org/projects/native-lang.html

Re: Where are we on the website migration, ooo-site - openoffice.org?

2011-12-19 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 11/12/2011 Dave Fisher wrote: On Dec 11, 2011, at 11:00 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: If the web services (or LDAP authentication, I don't know how it works internally) are not preserved, something will break for sure: Extensions, Templates, the (now defunct anyway) QATrack and I don't know

Re: Time for the ASF to send an Open Letter?

2011-12-18 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 17/12/2011 eric b wrote: the french version pretends Apache OpenOffice.org ( http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org ) is a fork We probably should take an eye on the Italian and the German versions. The Italian one has a terse but accurate description. Regards, Andrea.

Re: [PROPOSAL] Setup of ooo-users-it and ooo-project-it mailing lists

2011-12-15 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 11/12/2011 Andrea Pescetti wrote: For the time being, we would map the existing (12) Italian lists to - A support list, ... - A project list, ... If there are no objections to the above proposal within 72 hours, I will invoke Lazy Consensus and will create a JIRA issue. In the end I see

Re: old colored vs new monochrome icons

2011-12-14 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 14/12/2011 Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Andrea Pescetti But can someone explain why the icons were changed in the first place? Surely, someone had an argument for this at the time? In the wiki page Pedro linked there's a further link to the official explanation page

Re: Proposal: ooo-announce list

2011-12-13 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 13/12/2011 Michael Meeks wrote: On Mon, 2011-12-12 at 16:14 +0100, Andrea Pescetti wrote: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=cf5d0e20f2ba5a71f9ca2ed78a1b24841c97bb06 ... it doesn't seem particularly hidden... Sure - that is because this CVE is already public, presumably

Re: Problems with OpenOffice.org mailing lists

2011-12-13 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 13/12/2011 Marcus (OOo) wrote: In the last ~24h I got more than a dozend spam messages in my inbox for moderation. So, something *is* actually working again. Same for me, it seems delivery is mostly OK now and some (but not all, or not all yet) messages from December have been delivered.

Re: old colored vs new monochrome icons

2011-12-13 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 13/12/2011 Marcus (OOo) wrote: Am 12/13/2011 06:12 PM, schrieb Gianluca Turconi: I can only say that a colored icon set for OO is the second most wanted feature in the usenet Italian community. ... So, you think that a big hint like 3.4 will be with the old b/w icons but we will do

Re: [PROPOSAL] Setup of ooo-users-it and ooo-project-it mailing lists

2011-12-13 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 13/12/2011 Shane Curcuru wrote: How much traffic do the existing Italian lists get? The ones that we would map to the users list got a bit more than 1000 messages in 2011 so far; the ones that we would map to the projects list got about 300, but OpenOffice.org is a mostly inactive

Re: [PROPOSAL] Setup of ooo-users-it and ooo-project-it mailing lists

2011-12-13 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 14/12/2011 Rob Weir wrote: Maybe things are simpler with a user list? I see that the legacy utenti list still gets a lot of traffic and has a lot of subscribers. The dev list, not so much. The (Italian) dev list is for mutual support between developers of macros (yes I know the name is

Re: Proposal: ooo-announce list

2011-12-12 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 11/12/2011 Rob Weir wrote: Tthe practice is to check in such fixes without making it evident to the observer that it is security-related. So don't expect SVN comments to give it away. Like this?

Re: Rationalizing two OpenOffice websites

2011-12-11 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 28/11/2011 Pedro Giffuni wrote: ps. Andrea, please do link the document in the new site :). Done some days ago in revision 1212124, but it doesn't show up on the live instance. And actually I can't see the previous commit by you either (revision 1203948), so I'm probably looking at the

[PROPOSAL] Setup of ooo-users-it and ooo-project-it mailing lists

2011-12-11 Thread Andrea Pescetti
moderators of the Italian OpenOffice.org lists are available to continue their tasks in the new infrastructure: - Davide Dozza - Andrea Pescetti - Paolo Pozzan If there are no objections to the above proposal within 72 hours, I will invoke Lazy Consensus and will create a JIRA issue. Regards

Re: Problems with OpenOffice.org mailing lists

2011-12-11 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 11/12/2011 Rob Weir wrote: On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Rob Weir... wrote: On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Andrea Pescetti ... wrote: If indeed delivery has stopped and no technical support is available, then the mailing list migration would escalate in priority... I tried a test

Re: [PROPOSAL] Setup of ooo-users-it and ooo-project-it mailing lists

2011-12-11 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Il 11/12/2011 Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Andrea Pescetti ... wrote: - A support list, named ooo-users-it at incubator.apache.org - A project list, named ooo-project-it at incubator.apache.org I wonder if ooo-general-it.i.a.o might be possible, instead of ooo-project

Re: Rationalizing two OpenOffice websites

2011-12-11 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Dave Fisher wrote: On Dec 11, 2011, at 6:03 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: but I don't see the change (Protezione dei Dati su Apache OpenOffice) at http://ooo-site.apache.org/it/contribuire/legale.html Should I use a different URL? Try http://ooo-site.staging.apache.org/ The publish step has

Re: Where are we on the website migration, ooo-site - openoffice.org?

2011-12-11 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Dave Fisher wrote: (1) Finish wrapping with breadcrumbs, topnav and folder specific topnav. Also license/copyright. (2) Approval from Trademarks. (3) Redirection list for subdomains. Kay you could help with this. (4) Participate link. Then co-ordination with Infra to do these: (a) Publish build

Re: Extensions and templates

2011-12-11 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 09/12/2011 Dave Fisher wrote: Send an email to supp...@osuosl.org and start a conversation with Lance Albertson. He's willing to tell you all about it. The short answer is that Oracle was making changes when the plug was pulled on OOo. They left it broken. Done. I hope that I will be able

Re: Extensions and templates

2011-12-11 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 10/12/2011 Gavin McDonald wrote: From: Ross Gardler Can anyone state that we are legally able to take the Drupal code? ... I checked, got a very clear 'no problem, no issues, please take it' I assume this is enough for us to start looking at the code, even though I would appreciate a

Re: Extensions and templates

2011-12-11 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Gavin McDonald wrote: You should have read my reply to the above email first. Please do not bother Lance or OSUOSL with this again, I have access and I have it in hand. I had read your reply of course, but having it in hand does not imply you know all history, and I was interested in knowing

Re: Extensions and templates

2011-12-11 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Gavin McDonald wrote: You don't need a public comment from Oracle, the answer I got was from Oracle. Thanks for sharing this further bit of information. I confirm I volunteer for the two tasks I leave below. Regards, Andrea. So you can count me in, my initial focus being on the following

Problems with OpenOffice.org mailing lists

2011-12-10 Thread Andrea Pescetti
It seems something is broken on the OpenOffice.org mailing lists. For example, the Italian user list archives and the global user list archives seem to stop at November 30th: http://openoffice.org/projects/it/lists/utenti/archive http://openoffice.org/projects/www/lists/users/archive and the

Re: (Draft) Email forwarding public announcement

2011-12-09 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Rob Weir wrote: On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Andrea Pescettipescetti@... wrote: This means that extension publishers can be contacted only through their @openoffice.org address; the first thing to do in the possible future clones of the Extensions and Templates site would thus be to disable

Re: Extensions and templates

2011-12-09 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 09/12/2011 Jürgen Schmidt wrote: On 12/9/11 1:06 AM, Gavin McDonald wrote: I already have access and have been speaking with Lance over this over the past week. It is in hand, as they say. This is great. One to-do is definitely the upgrade to a newer Drupal version. I completely agree,

Re: Legacy openoffice.org email addresses in the legacy website

2011-12-09 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 09/12/2011 Rob Weir wrote: On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 3:16 AM, Gianluca Turconi public@... wrote: Please, double check the cancellation of the luctur alias because I still receive few spam messages from that address... The openoffice.org email address aliases are still active. We have not

Re: [DISCUSS]: Bugzilla default owners

2011-12-09 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 18/11/2011 Jürgen Schmidt wrote: Currently we have for all bug categories default owners. Most often this owners are not longer active on the project... For example i would volunteer for all issues related to api, sdk, and extensions with their sub categories for now (maybe more later) Any

Re: How to provide Linguistic Tools replacements after the removal of GPL'd modules

2011-12-09 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 04/12/2011 Andrea Pescetti wrote: After coordinating with Gianluca about some details, I've just opened the issue at https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LEGAL-117 As you can see at the link above, we won't get an answer before the end of 2011. This is reasonable, the issue is complex

Re: Extensions and templates

2011-12-08 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Gavin McDonald wrote: From: Andrea Pescetti On 29/11/2011 Rob Weir wrote: ==Option 1: Remain at OSUOSL== We could remain with OSUOSL hosting. However, the existing site is very unstable. This would be best both for short and long term. ... Sorry, OSUOSL don’t want anything to do

Re: Legacy openoffice.org email addresses in the legacy website

2011-12-08 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 21/11/2011 Rob Weir wrote: A sorted list of the most frequently mentioned addresses can be found by: grep -o -r -i --no-filename --include=*.html [[:alnum:]+\.\_\-]*@openoffice.org . | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -r I see the following. But I cannot easily tell what is a name versus an official

Re: (Draft) Email forwarding public announcement

2011-12-08 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 30/11/2011 Rob Weir wrote: Some specific points that could use more detail include project services (lists, wikis, Bugzilla, etc.) that would be very commonly used with openoffice.org email addresses. I think I listed them all. But can you think of others? I just checked and I confirm what

Re: Extensions and templates

2011-12-07 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 29/11/2011 Rob Weir wrote: ==Option 1: Remain at OSUOSL== We could remain with OSUOSL hosting. However, the existing site is very unstable. This would be best both for short and long term. In the short term, it provides continuity of service and it doesn't break existing links. In the

Re: Who knows Apache OO 3.4 Test Cases and Old Test Plan?

2011-12-06 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 15/11/2011 Peter Junge wrote: Am 12.11.2011 20:14, schrieb Uwe Altmann: Once there was http://www.sunvirtuallab.com:8001/tcm2/opensource/tcm_index.cgi?tcm_config=newooo as a home of tcm (test case management) - there have been a lot of test cases for manual tests we used especially for L10n

Re: Moved over the old OOo archive

2011-12-06 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 04/12/2011 Dave Fisher wrote: I was not aware that Infrastructure added OOo legacy downloads to http://archive.apache.org/dist/incubator/ooo/ So, I guess the question is what procedure should be used to update the archive with the missing versions from:

Re: How to provide Linguistic Tools replacements after the removal of GPL'd modules

2011-12-04 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 30/11/2011 Gianluca Turconi wrote: Rob Weirrobw...@apache.org ha scritto: That is worth a try. Someone would need to enter a JIRA issue for this ... If we do that, we'll have an answer within a week or two. Andrea Pescetti could have already done it. He should give more details here

Re: Moved over the old OOo archive

2011-12-04 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 06/11/2011 Marcus (OOo) wrote: Am 11/05/2011 03:02 PM, schrieb Andrea Pescetti: the archive is missing old builds (i.e., 2.3.0). They were removed from the archive to save space. If space now allows, I can provide the older builds that had been removed from the archive (or at least

Re: [DISCUSS]: hosting of source code that doesn't belong to the office directly

2011-12-03 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 30/11/2011 Jürgen Schmidt wrote: On 11/30/11 1:31 PM, Rob Weir wrote: Maybe just call it extensions ? This could be the root for standard extensions that are produced by this project. Some might be app dev related. But we might have other standard extensions in the future, e.g., a CMIS

Re: GPL'd dictionaries (was Re: ftp.services.openoffice.org?)

2011-11-29 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 29/11/2011 Andre Fischer wrote: I have now a patch for removing the dictionaries module. ... So now would be the time to raise objections to this and provide alternative solutions. I had set https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=117605 as a blocker issue for this, since we still

Re: What about BrOffice?

2011-11-28 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Jomar Silva wrote: We had to use BrOffice as the product name because OpenOffice was a registered trademark in Brazil, and AFAIK Apache OpenOffice will not have problems here. If I recall correctly, the issue about OpenOffice being a registered trademark (by some entity different than

Re: [CODE] configure.in: yes/no messages swapped in --enable-copyleft

2011-11-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 22/11/2011 Andre Fischer wrote: On 21.11.2011 19:59, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Thanks for the information, but since configure is writing a wrong (and potentially confusing) message, and the fix I sent is trivial and totally harmless, why not just fix it? ... You are absolutely right, and I

Re: Proposal for retirement of openoffice.org email forwarder

2011-11-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Rob Weir wrote: So what systems do you think might be sending a lot of emails at once to openoffice.org email addresses? 1) Legacy OpenOffice.org mailing lists 2) Bugzilla? Any others? I think Bugzilla is the one more likely to send mass e-mails to openoffice.org addresses; I've seen that now

Re: Rationalizing two OpenOffice websites

2011-11-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 24/11/2011 Dave Fisher wrote: Yes and I would avoid doing anymore N-L projects. Since Khirano is willing to do a translation of the new main site. If Pedro and the other Italians and MArcus and the other Germans. Plus Alexandro and the Spanish are in Consensus to do translations of the new

Re: GPL'd dictionaries (was Re: ftp.services.openoffice.org?)

2011-11-25 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Gianluca Turconi wrote: Il 24/11/2011 17.39, Ariel Constenla-Haile ha scritto: Dictionaries are developed by individuals/entities outside OOo, they were never developed inside the OOo source tree. I'm not sure what was the procedure (sure Gianluca can comment), but it seems like these

Re: GPL'd dictionaries (was Re: ftp.services.openoffice.org?)

2011-11-25 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Andrea Pescetti quoted the FSE answer about mere aggregation of GPLed dictionary. One of the reasons indeed, but not the main reason. The main reason for it was that, unlike what would happen when using a GPL library (i.e., that the virality of GPL would mean that the GPL applied to the program

Re: Proposal for retirement of openoffice.org email forwarder

2011-11-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 21/11/2011 Rob Weir wrote: Please note: I don't want to discuss here the merits of shutting down or not shutting down such a forwarding service. That discussion was made moot by an ASF Board decision against hosting such a general-access email forwarding service like the legacy OOo had.

Re: [DISCUSS]: content of the about dialog box

2011-11-21 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Rob Weir wrote: So in total, maybe something like: = Copyright © 2011 Apache Software Foundation. All rights reserved. I'm not sure about this. Is there any code that is under the Apache copyright? As far as I know, the copyright still belongs to Oracle and third-party contributors.

Re: [CODE] configure.in: yes/no messages swapped in --enable-copyleft

2011-11-21 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Andre Fischer wrote: good point but please keep in mind that this is a temporary workaround. Much work is currently being done ... the --enable-copyleft switch will not live for very long. Thanks for the information, but since configure is writing a wrong (and potentially confusing) message,

[CODE] configure.in: yes/no messages swapped in --enable-copyleft

2011-11-20 Thread Andrea Pescetti
It seems that the yes and no messages corresponding to the --enable-copyleft option are swapped in configure.in; this has no impact on the build, but it gives the user a wrong feedback about the options he specified. The fix would just consist in swapping the yes and no messages; for those

Re: Mailing list user migration: Staging and volunteers

2011-11-13 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 25/10/2011 Rob Weir wrote: Process for getting a new mailing list created is here: http://www.apache.org/dev/committers.html#new-mailing-list Probably makes sense to start with the largest NL communities first? I had a look at this and at the mentioned EZMLM Moderator's and Administrator's

Re: GPL'd dictionaries (was Re: ftp.services.openoffice.org?)

2011-11-13 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: A rough analysis http://people.apache.org/~arielch/dictionaries.ods shows that more than half language packs didn't distribute the three DICT, HYPHEN and THES dics. Thanks Ariel for the useful data. By crossing it with data from

Re: Ohloh

2011-11-12 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 11/11/2011 Rob Weir wrote: On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Pedro Giffuni wrote: Apache OOo is correct (Kudos to arist@) but it is reported as a duplicate and will be deleted. When it is deleted actually means it is merged, along with its history, with the OpenOffice project. OK, and

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