Re: [RELEASE]: new snapshot base don revision r1400866

2012-10-25 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-10-24 9:27 AM Jürgen Schmidt wrote: I have provided full install set for all supported languages and a further language pack for en-US + the SDK and src release. I can't find the en-US language pack. I get the following message: Not Found The requested URL

Re: [RELEASE]: new snapshot base don revision r1400866

2012-10-25 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-10-25 10:24 PM Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2012-10-24 9:27 AM Jürgen Schmidt wrote: I have provided full install set for all supported languages and a further language pack for en-US + the SDK and src release. I can't find the en-US language pack. I get the following message: Not Found

Re: Need new logo for openoffice.apache.org

2012-10-20 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-10-20 12:49 PM Alexandro Colorado wrote: Well most of the artwork is done, is just a matter of doing the commit to the right branch. Linux has png files so they are taken from the site, which also has the .ico and icm for windows and mac. Besides that, I wonder what else would be needed.

Re: Open Office on IOS ?

2012-10-18 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-10-18 8:10 AM Fan Zhengzhou wrote: Personally, I think the cloudy Openoffice would be a better choice. For based on it, we need not to care about the different specifications among the popular devices. That would be a bad choice. Users could only use OpenOffice when they had access to

Re: OpenOffice graduates from the Apache Incubator

2012-10-18 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-10-18 9:38 AM Dave Fisher wrote: On Oct 18, 2012, at 7:56 AM, Donald Whytock wrote: Will membership in the mailing lists be copied over to new lists? Yes. (exception is private) Or are the existing lists getting renamed? Yes. The old lists will forward to the new when these are

Re: Open Office on IOS ?

2012-10-18 Thread Larry Gusaas
://extensions.openoffice.org/en/project/MultiCloud cheers, Pedro. From: Larry Gusaas larry.gus...@gmail.com To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2012 11:19 AM Subject: Re: Open Office on IOS ? On 2012-10-18 8:10 AM Fan Zhengzhou wrote: Personally

Re: OpenOffice for Android

2012-10-12 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-10-11 5:50 PM Fernando Cassia wrote: No, it would be better if consumers educated themselves and purchased an AMD or Intel x86 based tablet (I favor AMD Fusion myself), where you can install ANY OS you want, including standard x86 Linux (Fedora, Ubuntu, etc), and run standard Apache

Re: Restore Windows bug on OS X Lion Mountain Lion

2012-10-03 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-10-03 12:42 AM Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 11/09/2012 Andrea Pescetti wrote: 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

Re: Restore Windows bug on OS X Lion Mountain Lion

2012-09-06 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-09-06 1:26 AM Jürgen Schmidt wrote: I use 10.7.4 and still can't reproduce it. I tried a force quit several times with open documents and every time the document recovery started, finished and the office was ready to work. The bug isn't about document recovery, it is the new app window

Re: Restore Windows bug on OS X Lion Mountain Lion

2012-09-06 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-09-05 2:09 PM 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. For your information, this bug also affects LibreOffice, see https://bugs.freedesktop.org

Re: Restore Windows bug on OS X Lion Mountain Lion

2012-09-06 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-09-06 3:46 AM Jürgen Schmidt wrote: On 9/6/12 9:59 AM, Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2012-09-06 1:26 AM Jürgen Schmidt wrote: I use 10.7.4 and still can't reproduce it. I tried a force quit several times with open documents and every time the document recovery started, finished and the office

Restore Windows bug on OS X Lion Mountain Lion

2012-09-05 Thread Larry Gusaas
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. There are many duplicate bug reports open for this issue: Bug 119006 - Restore windows problem Bug 119236 - Restoring windows

Re: Restore Windows bug on OS X Lion Mountain Lion

2012-09-05 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-09-05 2:36 PM Juergen Schmidt wrote: Am Mittwoch, 5. September 2012 um 22:09 schrieb Larry Gusaas: 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 am not aware of any

Re: [VOTE] Apache OpenOffice Community Graduation Vote

2012-08-20 Thread Larry Gusaas
+1 On 2012-08-19 9:52 AM Rob Weir wrote: Per the IPMC's Guide to Successful Graduation [1] this is the optional, but recommended, community vote for us to express our willingness/readiness to govern ourselves. If this vote passes then we continue by drafting a charter, submitting it for IPMC

Re: AOO 3.4.1 and Mountain Lion support?

2012-07-26 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-07-26 12:02 PM Rob Weir wrote: Has anyone upgraded yet and tried installing 3.4.0 or 3.4.1? I heard that having a digital signature is now required. Is that true? Any workarounds? Anything we should put in the release notes about Mountain Lion? -Rob Haven't upgraded, my Mac is too

Re: problems with open office apache

2012-07-17 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-07-17 12:40 AM Alexandro Colorado wrote: On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 1:09 AM, ironmancopel...@aol.com wrote: Hello sir/ma'am, I would like to inquire on how to fix a recent problem i have been having. when i first open, open office i get a pop up that reads restore windows The application

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

2012-07-17 Thread Larry Gusaas
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 different if we couldn't fix the problem.

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

2012-07-17 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-07-17 2:38 PM Joe Schaefer wrote: From: Hagar Delest hagar.del...@laposte.net To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 4:10 PM Subject: Re: On parks, commons, and websites... and fun (or lack of) Let's be clear: I don't have the

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

2012-07-17 Thread Larry Gusaas
should just keep your mouth shut. - Original Message - From: Larry Gusaas larry.gus...@gmail.com To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Cc: Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 4:54 PM Subject: Re: On parks, commons, and websites... and fun (or lack of) On 2012-07-17 2:38 PM Joe Schaefer wrote

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

2012-07-17 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-07-17 3:04 PM Rob Weir wrote: Please, everyone. Let's not pile on this thread with more name calling, etc., in the heat of the moment. Let's set it aside and see tomorrow if there is anything more that should be said. We accomplish nothing with rapid-fire, emotional responses. I

Re: Java download link on AOO site

2012-07-14 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-07-14 5:48 PM Kay Schenk wrote: I think the above bug you cited is not a java 1.6 vs 1.7 issue, It's a can't find java issue. I will do some more research tomorrow to see if there is a really a java 1.6 vs java 1.7 issue. I do remember seeing complaints about not being able to find

Re: Java download link on AOO site

2012-07-12 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-07-12 1:06 PM Joe Schaefer wrote: - Original Message - From: Hagar Delest hagar.del...@laposte.net To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Cc: Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2012 3:04 PM Subject: Re: Java download link on AOO site Le jeu. 12 juil. 2012 00:39:17 CEST, Joe Schaefer

Re: Java download link on AOO site

2012-07-12 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-07-12 3:48 PM Joe Schaefer wrote: Hello? Is this thing on? This project has a whopping 9GB website that all of maybe 5 people on the planet know how to takecare of, and it is rife with stale information inherited from a different past. The website is a*community* resource and that

Re: Java download link on AOO site

2012-07-12 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-07-12 11:01 PM Joe Schaefer wrote: This list, unlike the forums, is about project development, and teaching others to behave in productive ways by*demonstrating* the behavior you want to see from others here. Why don't you look in the bloody mirror. You are demonstrating how to be an

Re: Your website contains 3 (found thus far) spelling errors

2012-06-11 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-06-11 6:44 AM Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: Best of all, Apache OpenOffice can be downloaded and used entirely free of any license fees. Please change back to the correct English spelling, licence, used in most of the English speaking world. Spelling is license is an American mutation.

Re: Draft Blog post: OpenOffice.org is now Apache OpenOffice

2012-06-03 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-06-03 5:35 PM Albino B Neto wrote: Hi. 2012/6/3 Rob Weirrobw...@apache.org: https://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=openoffice_org_is_now_apache Good text. Albino The line The .org is now in Apache makes no sense at all. The only people who will understand the

Re: NewWikiMainPage

2012-05-27 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-05-27 8:38 AM Ina Marantz wrote concerning NewWikiMainPage: I'm trying to find out if I can use OpenOffice with a Mac. I don't see this information anywhere. You can use Apache OpenOffice 3.4 on Intel Macs. See system requirements at:

Re: OpenOffice on eBay

2012-05-18 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-05-18 1:40 PM Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: On 2012-05-18, at 14:18 , Chery wrote: It is free! Who would buy it from you? OpenOffice has always been sold on eBay and other similar sites. The advantage to the buyer is that she does not have to download the app., can have it

Re: [ooo-site]

2012-05-13 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-05-13 3:08 PM drew wrote: On Sun, 2012-05-13 at 20:17 +0100, Lou Devlin wrote: I cannot see a UK version for download Can you help? Hello Lou, I presume you are asking in regards to a binary package marked en_GB rather then en_US, yes? For this release there was none, language

Re: Missing Extensions: PDFImport for Mac

2012-05-11 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-05-11 2:56 PM Roberto Galoppini wrote: On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Louis Suárez-Pottslui...@gmail.comwrote: NO, to reply to myself, that is Good-Day's. I do have it on my system, and can post it to a server if you tell me where. It is, however, Oracle PDF Import, if that

Re: [ooo-site]

2012-04-22 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-04-22 1:45 PM Dave Fisher wrote: On Apr 22, 2012, at 12:23 PM, Roberto Galoppini wrote: Actually I can't reproduce this error, I got the right file. Can you please confirm that this issue is still open? Yes. I click on the PPC 3.2.1 en-US download and it gives me the current 3.3

Re: [ooo-site]

2012-04-22 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-04-22 7:06 PM Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Larry Gusaaslarry.gus...@gmail.com wrote: On 2012-04-22 1:45 PM Dave Fisher wrote: On Apr 22, 2012, at 12:23 PM, Roberto Galoppini wrote: Actually I can't reproduce this error, I got the right file. Can you please

Re: [ooo-site]

2012-04-22 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-04-22 7:39 PM Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 9:32 PM, Larry Gusaaslarry.gus...@gmail.com wrote: On 2012-04-22 7:06 PM Rob Weir wrote: On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Larry Gusaaslarry.gus...@gmail.com wrote: On 2012-04-22 1:45 PM Dave Fisher wrote: On

Re: [ooo-site]

2012-04-22 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-04-22 7:41 PM Dave Fisher wrote: On Apr 22, 2012, at 6:32 PM, Larry Gusaas wrote: I'm running Mac OS X version 10.6.8 using Safari version 5.1.5 I go to http://www.openoffice.org/download/other.html and under Mac OS PPC ¹ DMG/English (US) click on 3.2.1 That takes me to: http

Re: [ooo-site]

2012-04-22 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-04-22 8:19 PM Larry Gusaas wrote: I tried Firefox 11.0 and it redirected to http://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/files/latest/download?_test=sidebarand and downloaded the Intel version OOo_3.3.0_MacOS_x86_install_en-US.dmg I tried Firefox 11.0 again. This time it did

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache OpenOffice 3.4 (incubating) RC1

2012-04-21 Thread Larry Gusaas
+1 (non-binding) Larry On 2012-04-20 6:58 PM Jürgen Schmidt wrote: this is a call for vote on releasing the following candidate as Apache OpenOffice 3.4 (incubating). This will be the first incubator release for Apache OpenOffice and a key milestone to continue the success of OpenOffice.org.

Re: And idea for OOo

2012-03-31 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-03-31 5:55 AM Rob Weir wrote: On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 12:56 AM, Larry Gusaaslarry.gus...@gmail.comwrote: Good. You finally gave an useful response. Why didn't you do so in your first response to me? I was not responding to you. i was responding to Cody Miller who asked the original

Re: And idea for OOo

2012-03-30 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-03-30 8:00 AM Rob Weir wrote: #1 is easy, and in fact is already done, via extensions. For example, this extension allows the user to save/retrieve documents to a variety of cloud storage providers, including Amazon, DropBox, Google, SkyDrive, etc:

Re: And idea for OOo

2012-03-30 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-03-30 11:50 AM Rob Weir wrote: On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Larry Gusaaslarry.gus...@gmail.comwrote: On 2012-03-30 8:00 AM Rob Weir wrote: #1 is easy, and in fact is already done, via extensions. For example, this extension allows the user to save/retrieve documents to a

Re: And idea for OOo

2012-03-30 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-03-30 3:45 PM Rob Weir wrote: I think you are just being argumentative, looking at the microscopic details without understanding the generality of the user's question or my response. I just responded to your question. I don't see any technical reason why one could not code the same

Re: And idea for OOo

2012-03-30 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-03-30 7:56 PM Rob Weir wrote: On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Larry Gusaaslarry.gus...@gmail.comwrote: I just corrected your inaccurate statement. #1 is easy, and in fact is already done, via extensions. The extension exists. I linked to it. The fact that a plugin only supports

Re: And idea for OOo

2012-03-30 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-03-30 10:16 PM Rob Weir wrote: On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 12:09 AM, Larry Gusaaslarry.gus...@gmail.comwrote: Quit trying to weasel out of admitting you made an erroneous statement. Having a Windows only statement means the point #1 is not done and not available for all platforms. Your

Re: Implementation of genitive case of month names (posessive context)

2012-03-14 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-03-14 2:54 AM Jürgen Schmidt wrote: On 3/14/12 12:48 AM, Larry Gusaas wrote: I thought the discussion several months ago decided on Apache OpenOffice for both the project and application. If that is correct, when are you going to change the name of the application? The full change

Re: Implementation of genitive case of month names (posessive context)

2012-03-13 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-03-13 2:05 PM Rob Weir wrote: We are in our final weeks of testing and bug fixing for our OpenOffice 3.4 release. I thought the product name was changed to Apache OpenOffice. Shouldn't the release be Apache OpenOffice 3.4? Or are you going to use OpenOffice.org 3.4? Or, as you

Re: Implementation of genitive case of month names (posessive context)

2012-03-13 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-03-13 2:28 PM Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Larry Gusaaslarry.gus...@gmail.com wrote: On 2012-03-13 2:05 PM Rob Weir wrote: We are in our final weeks of testing and bug fixing for our OpenOffice 3.4 release. I thought the product name was changed to Apache

Re: Implementation of genitive case of month names (posessive context)

2012-03-13 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-03-13 2:55 PM Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Larry Gusaaslarry.gus...@gmail.com wrote: On 2012-03-13 2:28 PM Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Larry Gusaaslarry.gus...@gmail.com wrote: On 2012-03-13 2:05 PM Rob Weir wrote: We are in our final

Re: Implementation of genitive case of month names (posessive context)

2012-03-13 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-03-13 3:33 PM Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 5:20 PM, Larry Gusaaslarry.gus...@gmail.com wrote: None of which answer my question. Shouldn't the release be Apache OpenOffice 3.4? The wiki page https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Current+Status+FAQ states:

Re: Clarifying facts

2012-03-13 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-03-13 3:38 PM Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: Hi *, On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:15:29PM +0100, eric b wrote: Hi, Could we remove the LibreOffice link from the main page ? (e.g. just put the name of the derivated software) ? (

Re: Clarifying facts

2012-03-13 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-03-13 6:25 PM Rob Weir wrote: Of course, I'm pretty sure this FAQ thing is all just a berserker tactic, intending to distract us from productive work. We've seen it before; we'll see it again. Some of us will even learn. If you want to do productive work, quit making these insulting

Re: Clarifying facts

2012-03-13 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-03-13 7:37 PM Dave Fisher wrote: Larry, I've seen you on the user lists answering questions. Are there any that you think should be added to this FAQ? Where can I get support? forum – http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/index.php mailing list – ooo-us...@incubator.apache.org

Re: Clarifying facts

2012-03-13 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-03-13 8:53 PM Simon Phipps wrote: On 14 Mar 2012, at 02:36, Rob Weir wrote: Let's see if anyone else thinks this is too verbose. Remember, FAQ's are not intended to be read as an article, one after another. Typically they are things we we link to and point users to for specific

Re: Clarifying facts

2012-03-13 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-03-13 10:43 PM Rob Weir wrote: I disagree entirely. Simon was the one apply the blunt instrument here. He started the day by posting on Google+: Since there is no currently maintained version of OpenOffice.org following Oracle disbanding the team, and since the new Apache OpenOffice

Re: [EXTENSIONS][RELEASE] (was RE: Calling all volunteers: It is time to test)

2012-03-05 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-03-05 12:08 PM Rob Weir wrote: On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: If there is no solution for extensions, Apache OpenOffice 3.4 early incubator releases should not overload prior versions of OO.o. I recommend that AOO 3.4 install in

Re: [EXTENSIONS][RELEASE] (was RE: Calling all volunteers: It is time to test)

2012-03-05 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-03-05 1:44 PM Rob Weir wrote: Again, your opinion carries as far as your willingness to code an alternative install approach. Are you saying that unless one is willing to provide code there is no point in making suggestions? I am getting sick of this insulting attitude that is way

Re: [EXTENSIONS][RELEASE] (was RE: Calling all volunteers: It is time to test)

2012-03-05 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-03-05 1:52 PM Rob Weir wrote: On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Larry Gusaaslarry.gus...@gmail.com wrote: On 2012-03-05 12:08 PM Rob Weir wrote: On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.orgwrote: If there is no solution for extensions, Apache

Re: [EXTENSIONS][RELEASE] (was RE: Calling all volunteers: It is time to test)

2012-03-05 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-03-05 2:29 PM Rob Weir wrote: On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Larry Gusaaslarry.gus...@gmail.com wrote: On 2012-03-05 1:44 PM Rob Weir wrote: Again, your opinion carries as far as your willingness to code an alternative install approach. Are you saying that unless one is willing

Re: [EXTENSIONS][RELEASE] (was RE: Calling all volunteers: It is time to test)

2012-03-05 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-03-05 3:30 PM Rob Weir wrote: I'll put it to you quickly simple. If you have been paying attention you will realize that we're discussing release blocking issues. I have been paying attention. Have you? In the thread Calling all volunteers: It is time to test you wrote We could

Re: [EXTENSIONS][RELEASE] (was RE: Calling all volunteers: It is time to test)

2012-03-05 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-03-05 4:38 PM Rob Weir wrote: This has been known for several months and has been part of the 3.4 plan. We discussed it extensively in early December. Certainly if you have new information, new workarounds, new proposals, or even new code, then I'm new we all would love to know about

Re: [EXTENSIONS][RELEASE] (was RE: Calling all volunteers: It is time to test)

2012-03-05 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-03-05 7:11 PM Rob Weir wrote: Actually, there are grve misunderstandings here, both procedural and technical., Some have taken the fact that the extensions need to be reinstalled and extrapolated that as evidence that the profiles are overwritten. I have never said that profiles are

Re: [EXTENSIONS][RELEASE] (was RE: Calling all volunteers: It is time to test)

2012-03-05 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-03-05 7:17 PM Rob Weir wrote: On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 7:44 PM, Larry Gusaaslarry.gus...@gmail.com wrote: On 2012-03-05 4:38 PM Rob Weir wrote: This has been known for several months and has been part of the 3.4 plan. We discussed it extensively in early December. Certainly if you

Re: [EXTENSIONS][RELEASE] (was RE: Calling all volunteers: It is time to test)

2012-03-05 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-03-05 7:51 PM Rob Weir wrote: On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Larry Gusaaslarry.gus...@gmail.com wrote: I have never said that profiles are overwritten. I said that the extensions were deleted from the user profile. Please read what has been written before accusing people of grave

Re: [EXTENSIONS][RELEASE] (was RE: Calling all volunteers: It is time to test)

2012-03-05 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-03-05 8:17 PM Rob Weir wrote: As I said before, the point was that requiring users to reinstall extensions is not unreasonable. It is certainly better than what you are recommending, that users must reinstall extensions but then they also lose every other setting and preference they

Re: [TEST] procedures for no overwrites of existing OOo 3.3?

2012-03-03 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-03-03 12:13 PM Kay Schenk wrote: Hello all-- I run Linux and know how to avoid overwrites with our current test packaging by using the --prefix option when I do an RPM install. And this is what I used for the test I recently did. Are there similar options available for Mac and Win

Re: Calling all volunteers: It is time to test

2012-03-02 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-02-29 8:18 AM Rob Weir wrote: Once you have installed, launch OpenOffice and look at the Help/About box. If the revision shown there matches the build you installed (e..g, r1293550) then the install was a success. Please send a short note to theooo-...@incubator.apache.org telling us

Re: OpenOffice.org email forwarder shutdown: That time is now

2012-02-29 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-02-29 1:29 PM Rob Weir wrote: We dealt with the mailing lists before, sending notes to the active ones that the project had moved over to Apache and gave them the new addresses. I subscribe to many of these lists and they have been silent for months. I moderate one and it is all spam,

Re: [ooo-site]

2012-02-14 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-02-14 10:01 AM Manfred Schmidt wrote: This address does not work: server does not respond http://download.services.openoffice.org/files/localized/de/3.2.0/OOo_3.2.0_MacOS_PPC_install_de.dmg Thank you You can get OOo 3.2 at

Re: [ooo-site]

2012-02-14 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-02-14 2:35 PM Marcus (OOo) wrote: IMHO Manfred tried to get the PPC version, so this link is working: http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/openoffice/localized/de/3.2.0/OOo_3.2.0_MacOS_PPC_install_de.dmg Newer versions as 3.2.0 are not available. Marcus My apologies. My eyes must have been

Re: Fw2 [ooo-site] - dwnld-size Mac-version 200MB for 56k-modem or ISDN

2012-01-19 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-01-18 4:50 AM WilfriedBiesinger wrote concerning Fw2 [ooo-site] - dwnld-size Mac-version 200MB for 56k-modem or ISDN: Found out by myself: german latest version does not exist. So from this: no such file or directory: the without Java -version. Which of the Mac-version I have to

Re: Fw1 [ooo-site] - dwnld-size Mac-version 200MB for 56k-modem or ISDN

2012-01-17 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-01-17 5:31 AM WilfriedBiesinger wrote concerning Fw1 [ooo-site] - dwnld-size Mac-version 200MB for 56k-modem or ISDN: please, I do need the Mac-version (PPC I think) zipped, too, and although without Java, if not already is without. Go to

Re: Fw1 [ooo-site] - dwnld-size Mac-version 200MB for 56k-modem or ISDN

2012-01-17 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2012-01-17 10:13 AM Christian Lohmaier wrote: That's a not really helpful answer. And what is not helpful about it? It provides the location to get the latest official release for either Intel or PPC versions once the posters determines which he needs. --

Re: Problems with OpenOffice.org mailing lists

2011-12-12 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2011-12-12 2:04 PM Paul wrote: I'm the moderator for the old OOo lists (sympa infrastructure) and nothing has come through, for moderation, for several days (including today) apart from 3 spam (which is far from the normal 100-150). Think it is still well and truly broken. /paul I sent a

Re: [VOTE] Trademark and Brand

2011-11-10 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2011-11-09 9:47 PM Donald Harbison wrote: b) Apache OpenOffice +1 -- _ Larry I. Gusaas Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan Canada Website: http://larry-gusaas.com An artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs. - Edgard Varese

Re: [VOTE] Acceptance of the OpenOffice.org Proposal

2011-10-19 Thread Larry Gusaas
+1 On 2011-10-18 10:27 AM Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: In reply to this message onooo-...@incubator.apache.org, vote for the acceptance of the proposal for governance and operation of the OpenOffice.org Forums within the Apache OpenOffice.org Podling. The Proposal text is at the October 12

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-06 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2011-09-06 8:04 PM Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote: On 09/04/2011 02:23 PM, Rob Weir wrote: If you do not own the hardware, the domain name and the trademark, then you are operating at the pleasure of those who do own these

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

2011-09-05 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2011-09-05 11:26 AM Rob Weir wrote: If you want to create a support forum outside of the Apache project then you do not need the approval of the PPMC. I don't see that outcome as at all tragic. We already have one independent forum. I see no reason why there cannot be two or more. I don't

Re: [ANN] This list is migrating to ooo-users-d1gl8uupddxtxqt0kkdzdmd2fqjk+...@public.gmane.org

2011-09-02 Thread Larry Gusaas
Will this list also be available using Gmane? On 2011-09-02 11:03 AM Rob Weir wrote: Please note that, as part of the overall migration to Apache, this list will be closed. Based on feedback received, including from participants on this list, we've decided to create a users list at the Apache

Re: [ANN] This list is migrating to ooo-users-d1gl8uupddxtxqt0kkdzdmd2fqjk+8+b-xmd5yjdbdmrexy1tmh2ibg-xmd5yjdbdmrexy1tmh2...@public.gmane.org

2011-09-02 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2011-09-02 12:08 PM Rob Weir wrote: On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Larry Gusaaslarry.gus...@gmail.com wrote: There is a long list of Apache mailing lists available through Gmane. The mangled subject lines are the result of a choice made when this list was set up on Gmane and that

Re: An invitation to committers to the OOo Community Forums

2011-09-02 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2011-09-02 12:16 PM Rob Weir wrote: On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Donald Whytockdwhyt...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Christian Grobmeiergrobme...@gmail.com wrote: Do you really want to discuss a users behavior in public? Wow, I really don't want to do that. I

Re: [ANN] This list is migrating to ooo-users-d1gl8uupddxtxqt0kkdzdmd2fqjk+8+b-xmd5yjdbdmrexy1tmh2ibg-xmd5yjdbdmrexy1tmh2ibg-xmd5yjdbdmrexy1tmh2...@public.gmane.org

2011-09-02 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2011-09-02 12:28 PM Rob Weir wrote: I meant, what is required to get ooo-users on Gmane. Does this require anything from the ooo-users moderators, or can this be done by you, since this is a public mailing list that anyone can subscribe to, It is probably best done by a contributor to this

Re: [ANN] This list is migrating to ooo-users-d1gl8uupddxtxqt0kkdzdmd2fqjk+8+b-xmd5yjdbdmrexy1tmh2ibg-xmd5yjdbdmrexy1tmh2ibg-xmd5yjdbdmrexy1tmh2ibg-xmd5yjdbdmrexy1tmh2...@public.gmane.org

2011-09-02 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2011-09-02 1:14 PM Tony Stevenson wrote: On 2 Sep 2011, at 20:00, Larry Gusaas wrote: Their subscribe page http://gmane.org/subscribe.php also states Please do not subscribe lists that don't want to be carried by Gmane. That has not been decided by this project yet. Well, if no one

Re: [ooo-user] was RE: users-jnqqrfibojom4zkihc2...@public.gmane.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] dev-jnqqrfibojom4zkihc2...@public.gmane.org]

2011-08-31 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2011-08-31 1:09 PM Rob Weir wrote: ooo-users, the future home ofus...@openoffice.org Like the existing list, it would not be exclusively support. It would be used for discussions, new feature ideas, etc., whatever users want to post (within reason). We can't prevent users from posting

Re: [What?] Why and How did this reach my inbox?

2011-08-24 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2011-08-24 11:42 AM Michael Stahl wrote: On 23.08.2011 21:25, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: How about the mangling of the To address? When I get one of these, I cannot use any rules because the To address that my mail client sees is not that of ooo-dev but some hacked-up pseudo gmane address.

Re: users-jnqqrfibojom4zkihc2...@public.gmane.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] dev-jnqqrfibojom4zkihc2...@public.gmane.org]

2011-08-23 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2011-08-23 3:37 PM Rob Weir wrote: Does it matter? The English list is getting very little traffic. There were 56 posts to us...@openoffice.org in the last week. Traffic is highest after a new release. Here is a list by month for 2011: Jan 409Feb 290Mar 366Apr 197May 218

Re: users-jnqqrfibojom4zkihc2...@public.gmane.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] dev-jnqqrfibojom4zkihc2...@public.gmane.org]

2011-08-23 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2011-08-23 4:08 PM Rob Weir wrote: I assume this is a natural tenancy and explains why OOo has several hundred mailing lists, most of them rarely or never used. Most of those are not support lists and that number has nothing to do with this discussion of support mailing lists. Do you

Re: users-jnqqrfibojom4zkihc2jig-xmd5yjdbdmrexy1tmh2...@public.gmane.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] dev-jnqqrfibojom4zkihc2jig-xmd5yjdbdmrexy1tmh2...@public.gmane.org]

2011-08-23 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2011-08-23 4:21 PM Rob Weir wrote: So the English support forum has 613 *active threads* for August alone. In many cases that multiplies out to multiple posts per thread. So the forum traffic dwarfs the mailing list traffic. Perhaps you should compare to the LibreOffice user support list

Re: users-jnqqrfibojom4zkihc2...@public.gmane.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] dev-jnqqrfibojom4zkihc2...@public.gmane.org]

2011-08-23 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2011-08-23 7:28 PM Andy Brown wrote: The OOo user and discuss list use to have the Delivered-to contain moderator and it was easy to see when a message was from a person that was not subscribed to the list, the way that Apache does it. When the mail system changed that was removed so the

Re: [Discussion] dev-jnqqrfibojom4zkihc2...@public.gmane.org

2011-08-22 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2011-08-22 5:09 PM Marcus (OOo) wrote: Am 08/23/2011 12:50 AM, schrieb Dave Fisher: On Aug 22, 2011, at 3:38 PM, Marcus (OOo) wrote: Am 08/22/2011 11:45 PM, schrieb Andy Brown: Marcus (OOo) wrote: @all: If there is somewhere else a place that should be updated (and I've write access)

Re: [Discussion] dev-jnqqrfibojom4zkihc2jig-xmd5yjdbdmrexy1tmh2...@public.gmane.org

2011-08-22 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2011-08-22 7:29 PM Andy Brown wrote: Larry Gusaas wrote: There is no link to it anymore on the OOo support or mailing list pages. How are current users of OOo supposed to find support if the support lists are no longer listed. Certainly not by posting to this list! Larry, the link

Re: [What?] Why and How did this reach my inbox?

2011-08-22 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2011-08-22 8:25 PM Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: And why should we accept newsgroup posts the same as posts from subscribers to this list? This list is not a newsgroup, but the gmane newsgroup creates the effect of subscribers without they're being subscribed here. Do some research. Read

Re: [What?] Why and How did this reach my inbox?

2011-08-22 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2011-08-22 9:44 PM Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: Reply all doesn't do what you think on this list. Yes it does. Actions of reply-all also depend on the email client you are using. If I had used reply-all for this post, a copy would have been posted through gmane, another would have gone

Re: [Discussion] dev-jnqqrfibojom4zkihc2jig-xmd5yjdbdmrexy1tmh2...@public.gmane.org

2011-08-22 Thread Larry Gusaas
by the fact the subject line was an email address. I have never seen this happen before after several years of using gmane to access several OOo mailing list. -Original Message- From: Larry Gusaas [mailto:larry.gus...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 22, 2011 18:09 To: ooo-dev

Re: Community outreach to openoffice.org visitors?

2011-08-03 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2011/08/03 1:43 PM Marcus (OOo) wrote: Do you mean this? deleted spam links / Or which landing pages do you have in mind? Marcus Why are you posting spam links? Both links leave out the final e in openoffice and take me to spam sites. Larry -- _ Larry

Re: Community outreach to openoffice.org visitors?

2011-08-03 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2011/08/03 2:26 PM Marcus (OOo) wrote: Sorry, of course I meant these: http://www.openoffice.org http://www.openoffice.org/news I think you knew this. ;-) Of course. But only after clicking on the previous links which opened a pop up in Safari which wouldn't go away until I force quit

Re: Suggestion for OOo branding...

2011-07-23 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2011/07/23 1:01 PM Malte Timmermann wrote: On 23.07.2011 07:09, Graham Lauder wrote: ...I suspect that the original reasoning behind the ODF thing was a corporate strategy to wave OOo as the primary application for producing compliant ODF documents. The trend, especially in Europe, was