[Introduction] Getting involved with Apache OOo

2011-08-25 Thread Matt Richards
Greetings, I have been using OOo for quite some time (its been my fall back if I'm not able to use Microsoft's suite [mostly on Linux and Mac]) and am very pleased seeing it become an Apache project. While, I've not really been part of the OOo community until I heard it has been accepted into the

Re: Who wants to build OpenOffice?

2011-08-30 Thread Matt Richards
Hey Rob, I am interested in building A OOo from the ground up. I've been using it for years, but never attempted to build it myself. I run a verity of operating systems, suppose I'm interested in Windows (both x86 and x64) and Linux, more more specific Debian/Ubuntu (also both x86 and x64). On

Re: Who wants to build OpenOffice?

2011-08-30 Thread Matt Richards
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Rob Weir r...@robweir.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Raphael Bircher r.birc...@gmx.ch wrote: Am 30.08.11 21:24, schrieb Rob Weir: We're blessed to have experienced OOo hackers on the list who have already jumped on the new code repository and

Re: Apache OpenOffice.org Developer Education: Building on Linux

2011-09-01 Thread Matt Richards
I'm interested in lending a hand where I can, as I've been able to get OOo to build on Linux (64bit).. On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 6:04 PM, Alexandro Colorado j...@openoffice.orgwrote: This is what we had in http://education.openoffice.org including the classrooms. There is also the getting

Re: Who wants to build OpenOffice?

2011-09-05 Thread Matt Richards
Now that I've built OpenOffice on Linux with moderate success, I'd like to lend a helping hand with the documentation side of things. As far as I am aware, the existing (maybe old now) wiki has been migrated to Apache Infra (via VM). Does this content need to be moved to the confluence wikis

Re: Who wants to build OpenOffice?

2011-09-05 Thread Matt Richards
a whole lot of testing), and it did. These are more some notes, needs some polish before it ends up as anything official in my opinion. On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Matt Richards mricha...@gmail.com wrote: Now that I've built

Re: Who wants to build OpenOffice?

2011-09-05 Thread Matt Richards
, Matt Richards a écrit : My build machine runs Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty) with a 64 bit kernel. To get the deps needed to build OOo, I used apt-get build-dep on LibreOffice package (as this is what Ubuntu is packaged with at this time) I figured they're still fairly similar. I did need to install

Re: [DISCUSS][wiki] Migration (was Re: Who Wants to build OpenOffice?)

2011-09-05 Thread Matt Richards
-Original Message- From: Matt Richards [mailto:mricha...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, September 05, 2011 13:49 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Who wants to build OpenOffice? Now that I've built OpenOffice on Linux with moderate success, I'd like to lend a helping hand

Re: [DISCUSS][wiki] Migration (was Re: Who Wants to build OpenOffice?)

2011-09-06 Thread Matt Richards
As far as point 2, I thought Terry had completed the all of the migration work and all that was left was to create a final export and cut over the DNS entries? In my mind, if there is already a lot of content on the MW and the Apache Foundation allows us to continue to use it, why not? On Tue,

Re: Catching up

2011-09-06 Thread Matt Richards
I'm all for creating a separated documentation list.. I suppose using the [DOC] subject tag on this list would work as well, but then again you have to remember to use it.. On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Wanda Phillips

Re: [RT] Create a second incubator podling - the ooo forums

2011-09-06 Thread Matt Richards
Things appear to be quite heated surrounding the forum transition area and I fear this is ultimately going to rip apart a very strong existing portion of the OOo community if it continues on the path its going. I thought a big part of the Apache way is building and sustaining a community

Re: Who wants to build OpenOffice?

2011-09-06 Thread Matt Richards
Yeah, publishing logs of the session is a great idea. Sure, its the most useful to be in on the session in real time, but that's not always possible. 2011/9/6 Pavel Janík pa...@janik.cz Another lightweight alternative would be to start a new page on the community wiki and track the issues

Re: [RT] Create a second incubator podling - the ooo forums

2011-09-06 Thread Matt Richards
, 2011, at 10:02 AM, Matt Richards wrote: Things appear to be quite heated surrounding the forum transition area and I fear this is ultimately going to rip apart a very strong existing portion of the OOo community if it continues on the path its going. Cool heads will need to prevail

Re: Real names (was: What is needed for Support Forums to be fully integrated into the Apache OpenOffice.org project)

2011-09-06 Thread Matt Richards
I for one can agree with this. There are some communities where I personally want to separate my real identity from my online identity for privacy reasons. Usually its because I don't trust that particular community or that community for historical reasons knows me by my online identity instead of

Re: [DISCUSS][wiki] Migration (was Re: Who Wants to build OpenOffice?)

2011-09-06 Thread Matt Richards
understand real life/health needs to come before any of these types of projects. No problem. - Dennis -Original Message- From: Matt Richards [mailto:mricha...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 08:32 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSS][wiki] Migration

Re: Proposal: Forum integration

2011-09-06 Thread Matt Richards
The way I'd like to think it should work is the Administrators join as PMC and the Moderators are simply contributors. I don't think it should be a requirement for Moderators to be part of the the PMC as well. On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Christian Grobmeier grobme...@gmail.comwrote: Drew,

Re: [Introduction] Getting involved with Apache OOo

2011-09-06 Thread Matt Richards
Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Matt Richards mricha...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the welcome. I'm bringing this thread back as I've been a little more active recently and am a new name around OOo and Apache. Some may have missed the initial post

Re: Proposal: Forum integration

2011-09-06 Thread Matt Richards
To me, this sounds like a good path to follow. On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 3:13 PM, drew d...@baseanswers.com wrote: On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 14:56 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:45 PM, drew d...@baseanswers.com

Re: [DISCUSS][wiki] Migration (was Re: Who Wants to build OpenOffice?)

2011-09-06 Thread Matt Richards
, 2011 11:20 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: [DISCUSS][wiki] Migration (was Re: Who Wants to build OpenOffice?) On Sep 6, 2011, at 10:43 AM, Matt Richards wrote: Well, I thought Terry has resigned from the project according to another thread, leaving the wiki migration

Re: threading

2011-09-06 Thread Matt Richards
As far as I know, only Outlook 2010 and above fully supports threading.. At least by default. 2007 might have support, but I don't personally have a copy of it to check.

Re: threading

2011-09-06 Thread Matt Richards
pre-installed. This particular view of things is essentially the one I have had since Outlook 98, although with many refinements since. - Dennis -Original Message- From: Matt Richards [mailto:mricha...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 12:44 To: ooo-dev

Re: [DISCUSS][wiki] Migration (was Re: Who Wants to build OpenOffice?)

2011-09-06 Thread Matt Richards
. Additionally they would prefer to use a FreeBSD jail, but this is not mandatory. I was considering stepping in for this last issue but I have no MediaWiki expertise and having me as another guy learning is probably not helpful at this time. Pedro. --- On Tue, 9/6/11, Matt Richards mricha

Re: Observations and a suggestion on posts and timezones

2011-09-06 Thread Matt Richards
Seems so, its pretty incredible the amount of time I've spent responding to emails on this list. On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 5:34 PM, drew d...@baseanswers.com wrote: On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 18:28 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: Recently, my day has looked like this: I wake up, check my email, get a

Re: [DISCUSS][wiki] Migration (was Re: Who Wants to build OpenOffice?)

2011-09-06 Thread Matt Richards
, TJ Frazier wrote: On 9/6/2011 13:43, Matt Richards wrote: Well, I thought Terry has resigned from the project according to another thread, leaving the wiki migration at a bit of a stand still. Figured I could step in and pick up where he left off on this. Am I able to, as a non

Re: Need a volunteer for the Bugzilla templates

2011-09-06 Thread Matt Richards
I'm willing to give this a healthy try, if nobody else beats me to it. On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Pedro F. Giffuni giffu...@tutopia.comwrote: (This just required a new subject header) Hi; As you know the bugzilla database is working already (very well to be honest) but the UI

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

2011-09-07 Thread Matt Richards
Oh.. Yeah... I forgot when I attempted my initial configure I had to run it a few times and install some additional packages. Glad you were able to Document some of them. On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wriote: I did this a couple of days ago, but ran into some

Re: Need a volunteer for the Bugzilla templates

2011-09-07 Thread Matt Richards
I have started to take a look into this, I am wondering is there a screen shot or a way I can see how the old bugzilla looked? On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 12:11 PM, Alexandro Colorado j...@openoffice.orgwrote: On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Pedro F. Giffuni giffu...@tutopia.com wrote: (This

Re: Need a volunteer for the Bugzilla templates

2011-09-07 Thread Matt Richards
thought so, but tried that the other day and it wasn't working. On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:47 PM, Alexandro Colorado j...@openoffice.orgwrote: On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Matt Richards mricha...@gmail.com wrote: I have started to take a look into this, I am wondering is there a screen

Re: openoffice.org is nonresponsive

2011-09-07 Thread Matt Richards
parts of it were not working so great for me yesterday, but that appears to have cleared up today. On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Alexandro Colorado j...@openoffice.orgwrote: I dont experience any issue so far I have been using the site all day without lag. On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:41 PM,

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

2011-09-07 Thread Matt Richards
Well, whatever direction this goes.. Getting a the information on Apache grear is a great step. On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:05 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: On Sep 7, 2011, at 8:47 PM, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: --- On Wed, 9/7/11, Alexandro Colorado wrote: .. I also have

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

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

Re: Need a volunteer for the Bugzilla templates

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

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

2011-09-08 Thread Matt Richards
://www.atlassian.com/search/?query=mediawiki HTH, Dave On Sep 8, 2011, at 12:29 PM, Matt Richards wrote: Yeah, I've kinda ran into a similar problems when I originally volunteered to help. I don't know how to go about it, without access to various data dumps and such that it appears only

Automated Builds and Releases

2011-09-12 Thread Matt Richards
Quick question (or perhaps a discussion point). With all this talk about how things used to be built in a data center in Hamburg. I am wondering how the release/build process works with Apache projects. Does the ASF provide facilities for automated builds or releases? Is this something each

Re: Automated Builds and Releases

2011-09-12 Thread Matt Richards
ah, excellent. Must have missed that, there has been a lot of threads :( On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Pedro F. Giffuni giffu...@tutopia.comwrote: --- On Mon, 9/12/11, Matt Richards mricha...@gmail.com wrote: ... Quick question (or perhaps a discussion point). With all this talk about

Re: Bugzilla e-mail is bouncing and other e-mail issues

2011-09-27 Thread Matt Richards
heh, when did that happen? Must have missed the email about the ooo-issues list. On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 8:54 PM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: Follow up to my follow up from a few weeks ago. Can someone open an JIRA issue with Infra and work with them to make these BZ changes?