Marco A.G.Pinto wrote:
Andrea, I grabbed the en_GB dictionary from the Mozilla repository,
since the AOO one is obfuscated. So, my "blueprint" is Mozilla's.
Good to know, but this is not a detail, this is very important for
users. This should definitely be mentioned more clearly in the
changelog.txt file, since (for example) the 800 added words are in
comparison to the previous version of the Mozilla dictionary, but you
don't know how your dictionary compares to the "obfuscated" one.
The text I am using in the README is exactly the same, and I just
replaced the:
*Please let David Bartlett <d...@openoffice.org> know of any *
*errors that you find.*
That e-mail address (like all *@openoffice.org addresses) is no longer
valid. So no major problems here since the name is properly credited in
other places in the text.
I was referring to this text that was removed from README_en_GB.txt:
---
Original version of the en_GB dictionary:
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi/id=72145
OpenOffice.org patch and morphological extension
The morphological extension based on Wordlist POS and AGID data
created by Kevin Atkinson and released on ttp://wordlist.sourceforge.net.
Other fixes:
OOo Issue 48060 - add numbers with affixes by COMPOUNDRULE (1st, 111th,
1990s etc.)
OOo Issue 29112, 55498 - add NOSUGGEST flags to taboo words
New REP items (better suggestions for accented words and a few mistakes)
OOo Issue 63541 - remove *dessicated
2008-12-18 nemeth AT OOo
---
So you removed it since it does not apply to the English dictionary you
brought in but to the "obfuscated" one, right? But anyway I would keep
this information around since the issue numbers are still very useful
(for example, following the issues above I was now able to reconstruct
the history of a bug that I fixed six months ago and that could have
been fixed more easily!). They may be useful to you too, so I recommend
that you keep them in the README file somewhere, specifying that they do
not apply to the currently used dictionary but that you keep them there
for reference.
Andrea, while talking to JZA (Alexandro Colorado) last week or so, he
told me to test the extension myself since only a few files were
replaced.
You entirely replaced two dictionary files that are downloaded one
million times a week. It's not enough that they work for you. I suggest
this approach for the first release:
1) Fix changelog.txt and possibly README files.
2) In the meantime, I will take care that the extension
http://extensions.openoffice.org/en/project/aoo-dict-en is reassigned to
you (this usually takes some days)
3) Create a new release for the en-GB dictionary and leave it
"unpublished", so users won't be notified of the new release. Your
release is thus not listed but available for download from a direct link
(I'll help you here if this is the first dictionary you upload and you
are confused).
4) Send a quick note to the dev mailing list saying that you replaced
the en-GB dictionary and that you are going to publish the new release;
give them one week to test; when I do so, I often provide also a .ODT
file with a word I removed (your reference is the previous OpenOffice
dictionary, not the Mozilla one), a word I added, a word that is
unchanged and correct and a word that is unchanged and wrong (random
characters).
5) If you don't receive any bad feedback, go on and flag your release as
"published" and you are done! And at that time I will also update the
OpenOffice source code to use your updated extension. And, after one
week or so, users will start to receive notifications that a new version
of the English dictionary is available.
Andrea, I created an account but I am having passwords issues:
first I set the username to *marcoagpinto*
I'll have the extension reassigned to user "marcoagpinto" then. This is
an administrative request so it usually takes a couple days. When you
see the extension in "Account - My Account" (top right), it means it has
been removed from my account and assigned to yours.
Regards,
Andrea.
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