Hi Peter, See comment inline...
Am 15.12.19 um 10:37 schrieb Peter Kovacs: > Hello Jenni, > > Okay, lets bring this back to the List. > > I try to sum up by Topic what is going on. If I forgot something it > slipped my mind. Everyone is invited to add stuff. There is no > particular order. The numbers are for easier reference. > > 1) Translation process > > OpenOffice offers a lot of languages (I think 60?) that can it setup to. > A community works on their translations on a pootle server. > > The Project build our own pootle servers up with updated servers which > are now in our maintenance ability. Before they were maintenanced by the > foundations infra team. > > We talk about the switch from the infa service to our community service. > Mechtilde is here in lead I would say. > > 2) Migration of static Webpages > > We have lots of web stuff. We have Static Webpages, a Media Wiki and a > Confluence Wiki with information in it. (it is historical grown) > > Now the static Web pages need to be moved. We currently use an > unmaintained system that parses Markup language into static pages. > > The new system offered by Infra (short for foundation Infra) is a > combination of tools. Dave is there in lead, I think and George wanted > to help. I have no Idea what status this project has. > > 3) Migration of the build System > > We use an old make build system called dmake. On top of it and in the > background there are various scripts active, that build open office. > This whole thing is unmaintained. > > We move to Gnu make. I think this is 90% done. The remaining > translations are difficult to do. Damjan is there in the lead (and the > only one involved?) > > 4) OpenOffice Win 64 bit translations > > We currently only offer a 32bitWindindows Version. Damjan is migrating > it to 64 bit. I am unsure on the status. Build knowledge required ;) > > 5) OpenOffice Code renew > > We still use C-Arrays in our code. This are potentially a security > threat. Patricia, had started before her pause to replace those with > modern C++ vectors. > > We should continue on this. This is I think newbe friendly task. But we > need to check her last commits to see the pattern. > > And you need to be able to build OpenOffice for this. Project is > currently on hold. > > 6) Code Documentation. > > For me as a newbe it is very hard to understand what the code does. so I > started to document the code. > > I want to understand which modul is has which responsibility on high > level. I try to document this at [0]: > > Also I try to get more inline Comments added. > > I am currently looking into autodoc. Maybe we stick to it, maybe move to > another maintained system. Discussion is still tbd. > > 7) Bug overview. > > I try to sort the bugs into topics and categories. > > My hope is that we can handle them better. or have teams caring on them. > > Our Bugtracker is Bugzilla, which is faster when you have a bad internet > connection, and it is opensource.[1] > > I have opened up a Jira account where I try to do the clustering. [2] > > help and Ideas are appreciated. > > 8) solving bugs for 4.2.0 > > We have a critical list that needs to be done before we can start a beta > for release 4.2.0. > > I have no clue where this list was :( I take a look, and tell later or > maybe someone else has it ready? Maybe you think of this? https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Open+List+from+Discussion The link to the Release Blockers is point 7.1 Regards, Matthias > > > > > [0] https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Main > [1] https://bz.apache.org/ooo/ > [2] > https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/OPENOFFICE/issues/OPENOFFICE-109?filter=allopenissues > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > Subject: Re: Hiii > Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2019 11:00:38 +0200 > From: Jennie Klein <jenniejoyn...@gmail.com> > To: Peter Kovacs <pe...@apache.org> > > > > For me this is all new so I'm not sure how it works, it would probably > be helpful to get specific directions on how to get up to date on the > project. First thing I saw was a bunch of messages about the project > that I was still not familiar with. > So maybe some kind of beginner instructions on how to get started. > So what is the next steps I need to do to be up to date? And know what's > going on and how I can help? > > On Sun, 15 Dec. 2019, 10:55 Peter Kovacs, <pe...@apache.org > <mailto:pe...@apache.org>> wrote: > > Yes take your time that is fine. I am just worried because people > usually post that they want to start and then do not write anything > else. > > We are not sure where people give up. So we cannot help or lower the > barrier at this point. That is why I wanted try to get feedback. > > What you can do we should talk on the list so people benefit. > > >
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