and replies get longer and longer.
Forums are much quicker and to the point.
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by an active range of volunteers, some with
moderator and/or admin rights.
From these you will get an idea of the capabilities of forums.
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or queries were channeled to Terry concerning code
alteration and other technical matters, and governance queries were raised, as,
for example, review of suspicious activity of a given poster, or
reconsideration of the actions of a moderator. All other discussions take place
in public.
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have access to those
channels and their history.
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and then
do a perfunctory post of a proposal, fait accompli. That is not
transparency. From beginning to end we discuss in public.
Do you never walk to the water cooler and float something by someone else, as a
preparatory stage in working out yuour thoughts?
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received
50-100 of these (a guess - who is counting?).
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no direct input into the code of the project.
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liability?
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.
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understand it, they wish to vote in new
Volunteers. The higher levels of Moderator or Administrator would be subject
to Apache confirmation.
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for the legal draughtsmen, of
course. The old rule of £minimal change ought apply.
I'm not asking for a change, just exploring the possibility of one.
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with the invited access to the Forum.
These are visible only to the Volunteers, Moderators and Admins of the Forum.
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and modification powers and banning powers, all which can be subject
to review by the forum personnel
Admins handle the code.
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On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 14:20:14 +0100
Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote:
On my way out the door to a meeting, so no time to read your url at present.
Volunteers do the daily low level work of answering queires
Back from appointment, off to another in a few minutes. Volunteers is the name
and feel of its forum; it
doesn't normaly get distributed widely as Project Code does, so may not require
the same level of supervision/authorisation.
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although I am not a member of
the PPMC.
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of that; I am sure that when/if the Forum
is taken under Apache auspices he will disclose all the information which is
then required.
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On Tue, 06 Sep 2011 11:46:04 -0400
drew d...@baseanswers.com wrote:
On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 16:40 +0100, Rory O'Farrell wrote:
On Tue, 06 Sep 2011 11:29:12 -0400
Terry, Zoltan, Khirano, Alexandro, Andreas, David, Ricardo, myself and I
may have missed someone (apologies if I did) - are all
that the Moderators, as the
effective day-to-day managers of the Forum, represent the Apache ethos and
their nomination should certainly be ratified by the PPMC.
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access to the Forum issues and Governance threads so that they
can raise questions which are visible to the other Volunteers/Mods etc.
Because they have reached a trusted status, their opinions may receive more
weight with other Volunteers/Mods than those of the random User.
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convenient.
de gustibus non est disputandum
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on
the Irish political and social scene at highest levels; sometimes it is a mark
of the closeness of friendship that one knows a person's secret names.
Perhaps Hagar and eric b have not yet reached this happy stage :-)
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- but that is just my hope, to give an outline
timescale.
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.
/orcmid
A correction for information: there is one LibreOffice mailing list at
http://libreofficeforum.org/
Some users are complaining that it is unsatisfactory, as many questions are not
answered.
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from the two
OpenOffice forums. The two OpenOffice forums do answer questions related to any
of the OOo forks.
Is that libreofficeforum.org just some ad eyeball collector?
There are some ads in a sidebar to the left which are easily ignored.
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As Drew said.
The proposal is being seriously considered by Forum personnel; we want to allow
time for consideration, also input from members temporarily off line for
whatever reason.
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that the site is down, but gives no reason
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=131317
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on the wiki page be
carefully read; note that the forum is willing to modify its structures to fit
in with Apache, but there does not seem to be a similar flexibility on the
Apache side.
The forum downtime (which I hope is being worked upon) does not help us move
towards a decision.
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The OpenOffice forum is back on the air. Thanks to whoever in Oracle worked
the miracle.
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that the
accepted wisdom is that the optimum size of a decision making body is between 6
and 12; our ancestors felt twelve to be optimum (hence the traditional jury
size). My own experience is that about seven to nine is good, if one accepts a
majority vote rather than unanimity.
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(of glorious memory). Currently I use Sylpheed on my Ubuntu machines and
Eudora on my Windows machines.
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On Mon, 03 Oct 2011 09:29:22 +0200
Łukasz Janik ljani...@wp.pl wrote:
when will the new version of openoffice, from apache?
There is no definite date yet; it is not expected before early
2012, but miracles can happen!
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their insistence on their method to the exclusion of all other
methods. Whether this is due to language difficulties (US syntax
versus European syntax) I know not, but some softening and
flexibility in approach is called for.
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On Thu, 6 Oct 2011 17:06:36 +0100
Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote:
On 6 October 2011 16:53, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote:
Responsible Apache people need to rethink
their insistence on their method to the exclusion of all other
methods.
Please read the comments
form of triage before being advanced to fix.
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that, not the time, due
to real life committments over which I have no control.
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; be consistent!
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+1
Rory O'Farrell RoryOF on OOo Forum
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a very strong
option.
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.
On the Forum we frequently advise users who have a problem
downloading to use a torrent; this seems to cure recalcitrant
download problems, such as slow (modem) or noisy connections.
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happened. The result is sufficiently decisive on either
the overall votes or the PPMC votes that it can now be referred
to Apache legal and trademarking for a decision, either on the
main choice, or if this proves unacceptable for some legal reason,
a clear alternative.
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this is.
Secondly, to require the poster to supply in his .sig the OS and
Version of OOo in use, which saves several postings, as this
information is usually of importance in arriving at a solution to
the poster's problem.
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logo?
These are merely suggestions - no need to reply to them; having worked all my
life with artists I know that they often need to brood.
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. After some tries, the
phenomen occurs every times for some well defined zoom values
(sorry if I'm not clear).
Do you mean that the continuous tone gradient resolves into
dicrete tonal steps?
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On Mon, 5 Dec 2011 18:57:01 +0100
eric b eric.bach...@free.fr wrote:
Le 5 déc. 11 à 18:51, Rory O'Farrell a écrit :
snip
Do you mean that the continuous tone gradient resolves
into
dicrete tonal steps?
Something lke that, yes. In applied optics (my job in the real
life) the name
act together, or the AOOo project is doomed.
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On Sun, 18 Dec 2011 14:48:39 -0500
Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:
On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Rory O'Farrell
Quite honestly I am astounded at the amount of infighting and
petty point-scoring that goes on on the Apache OpenOffice
lists. Are you grown, rational beings, or sub
or something that works
everywhere?
Or Q4 2012?
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than we will fix it and will potentially move
the date.
Sorry - last posting escaped!
I'd be happier if the proposed release was 3.4 Beta 2, even if
that progressed to RC1 within a short period. To proceed from
Beta 1 to RC1 after such a massive rebuild may suggest
over-confidence.
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://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/
and if no solution found, post a query there.
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profile.
I downloaded and installed build 9583 today on a clean Windows XP
upgraded to SP2.
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1600x1200 to
1024x768; no effect. The machine this is on is not in use for
editing or other AOO functions, so I have no objection to
trying any fixes or diagnostics.
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On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:04:15 +0100
Jürgen Schmidt jogischm...@googlemail.com wrote:
On 2/28/12 3:27 PM, Rory O'Farrell wrote:
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:17:45 +0100
Hans Zyburahzyb...@zybura.com wrote:
Unfortunately I can't provide any help on an OO-DEV level,
I'm only doing some
it on Windows XP.
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On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:50:20 +
Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote:
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 17:30:46 +0100
Oliver-Rainer Wittmann orwittm...@googlemail.com wrote:
I have recreated the installationsets - Writer menues and
toolbars should be back now.
Best regards, Oliver.
OK
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:40:12 +
Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote:
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 18:37:02 +1000
Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote:
When I attempt to install AOO (latest developer build) on
Windows 7, I get the following error:
Error 1606. Could not access network location
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 21:13:53 +1000
Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 03:25, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie
wrote:
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 16:50:20 +
Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote:
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 17:30:46 +0100
Oliver-Rainer Wittmann orwittm
Oracle OpenOffice.org on
the more recent Ubuntus. It was also sometimes the case that the
newly installed OOOo would crash on first run, which could be
cured by deleteing the (default) User Profile. I don't know if
any of this will be of use to you, but it may suggest a path to
follow.
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to your default
language, which might help the spell check.
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did you download your most recent
copy of OpenOffice?
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on dates and events. The ones have so far are here.
You might perhaps enter dates (even approximate) for Commencement of IP
clearance and Completion of IP clearance. I remind you that this timeline may
be viewed by the unskilled, so terms such as IP and Pootle need some
explanation.
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, without disrespect to the LibreOffice/TDF
communities. We should mend fences; if that is not immediately
possible, we shouldn't be erecting other barriers.
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-proof
code, but one certainly ought be able to improve the situation
where the last copy of a file is erased or destroyed if the power
fails - a common scenario with less experienced users and laptops.
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to investigate what code shortcoming leads to files of hashes,
which may involve detailed analysis of low level code (my thoughts are that it
may be caused by unmasked interrupts, but I haven't coded at that level for 30
years, so am out of my experience).
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here. How about:
* The AOO project team includes a number of the original
developers plus developers from IBM Symphony and community
developers old and new.
How about many or very many
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is the focus of the continuing
programming effort and that will be the actively supported
version.
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openly that AOO 3.4 is the only focus of
development and support, although we know it is.
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_always_ be
wrong and need to much maintenance to maintain (even though
wrong!), so a general statement thanking the many who have
contributed to this project in any way seems most appropriate.
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forward to AOO 3.4 it will be a serious and very obvious
problem. I ask if anyone has checked if either or both of
these fixes are necessary on AOO 3.4.
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here.
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it.
It looks like Lily is testing with Windows 7 as well.
I wonder whether the fact that the upgrade server is down could
be currently masking the issue?
It regularly failed when the old OOo Upgrade server refused to
make a connection, which may have been a factor.
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On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 12:53:11 +
Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote:
On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 08:36:44 -0400
Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 4:51 AM, Ross Gardler
rgard...@opendirective.com wrote:
I've not experienced this in about a month of reasonably
.
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пересылаемого сообщения
Have you selected a Java implementation under /Tools /Options/
OpenOffice.org /Java?
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On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:07:11 +0400
Очиров Николай nvochi...@yandex.ru wrote:
Did not. How do I do this?
22.03.2012, 20:44, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie:
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 20:29:06 +0400
Очиров Николай nvochi...@yandex.ru wrote:
Пересылаемое сообщение
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:32:40 +0400
Очиров Николай nvochi...@yandex.ru wrote:
Thank you, Rory! And what about log-file?
22.03.2012, 21:12, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie:
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:07:11 +0400
Очиров Николай nvochi...@yandex.ru wrote:
Did not. How do I do
by Jürgen, will
_not_ contain this change.
Best regards, Oliver.
From memory this was an MSDOS and early Windows limitation which
occasionally jumps out (from old link libraries?) and bites one.
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regard this as a reasonable trade off -
I can remember working on documents with pen and ink, and later
with a manual typewriter; any word processor is preferable.
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time. I suspect, but do not know for
certain, that in some cases such users wish to economise on
memory, be it storage or RAM, used by the program when installed
on older computers.
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://www.openoffice.org/images/AOO_logos/AOO_orb2_logo_webSite.jpg
*
AOOfeather_logo_webSite.pnghttp://www.openoffice.org/images/AOO_logos/AOOfeather_logo_webSite.png
Please respond to this e-mail by selecting your favorite from
these 3.
AOO_orb1_logo_webSite.jpg
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logs which are accessible to Apache Observers will show
the extent of the problem, which a visit to the main pages of the Forum will
not, as we are trying to keep the Forum running as normally as possible.
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.
Hagar
Le Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:46:09 +0100, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie a écrit :
On Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:23:28 -0600
F C. Costerofjcc.apa...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks for the input Rob. I will pass it on to the forum. Some of the
volunteers commented over the weekend
*.deb
This last step sets up the links in the Office menu.
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are installed on both computers, in the same versions. If the file is
transferred only for printing, then use .pdf format for the transfer.
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On Tue, 8 May 2012 14:54:52 +0100
Ross Gardler rgard...@opendirective.com wrote:
The download binaries link from
http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/ is broken
Working for me now from Ireland at 15:10 UTC+1 (your message + 15 mins)
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On Tue, 8 May 2012 17:08:17 +0100
Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote:
ERROR!!
The second line in my last posting should read
sudo apt-get --purge remove openoffice-core
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to be able to agree to differ.
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On Wed, 9 May 2012 13:01:19 -0400
Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote:
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote:
The important thing is to maintain a generosity towards others and not to
be drawn into argument with them about the pros and cons of their/our
.
No problems except it complained on first startup, needing a Java. I forced it
closed, restarted and setup the Java quickly under /Tools /Options before it
could complain. Been editing with it all day, no problems. en-GB version or
Language pack would be nice.
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to be sure the settings are in force) and then try your failing file
again. If it fails at a different stage then it gives a clue to a possible
cause.
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this is a
truely openSource project or it is not.
There is nothing one does but someone else can object to it.
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button, or any program becomes too cumbersome.
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earlier for testing.
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to
the hard disk, you may have closed down the computer too quickly, before the
disk buffers flushed, and the file may be only partially written.
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system is
removing the record of the registration, prehaps some form of hyperactive disk
clean-up utility.
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One aspect of the User Experience which frequently manifests itself for Users
is a bad file save, leading to a corrupt file, which is partially or totally
irrecoverable
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On Fri, 18 May 2012 06:26:33 +0100
Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote:
One aspect of the User Experience which frequently manifests itself for Users
is a bad file save, leading to a corrupt file, which is partially or totally
irrecoverable
Sorry! My previous posting got away before I
On Fri, 18 May 2012 16:11:51 +0200
RGB ES rgb.m...@gmail.com wrote:
2012/5/18 Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie:
On Fri, 18 May 2012 06:26:33 +0100
Rory O'Farrell ofarr...@iol.ie wrote:
One aspect of the User Experience which frequently manifests itself for
Users is a bad file save
.
It may not have been strictly necessary to remove an earlier version so
completely, but after having installation difficulties in my early days I now
do this as a matter of course on the seven machines under my control.
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. (Perhaps 25
seconds instead of 1 or 2). Such perceived slowness may be undesireable.
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