Re: E-mail outage resolved

2014-05-18 Thread Peter Junge

On 19/05/14 06:54, Marcus (OOo) wrote:

Without to blame someone or doing any finger-pointing.

Just FYI

The mail backlog seems still not yet empty. I receive new mails - e.g.,
mails from commits I've done - appr. 30-45 min. later than before the
mail outage.


I also have a kind of feeling that I have been receiving much less 
emails than I should have so far, OTOH I have been receiving a couple of 
emails twice.


Peter



Marcus



Am 05/13/2014 12:05 PM, schrieb jan iversen:

On 13 May 2014 11:55, Mathias Röllig  wrote:


Hello Andrea!

  All OpenOffice mailing lists were silent in the last few days.


The reason was a severe outage of the Apache mail servers. Messages
were
queued but not delivered. Service will back to normal in a matter of
hours, and we will receive all messages in queue.




Because some of my messages (direct to the dev-list or automated from
Bugzilla to the issues-list) are not received at this time:
Already some messages are in the queue? If not I want to resend my
messages to the dev-list but I want to prevent double sending.



The backlog queue is still being emptied, there was 9 million mails in
it,
so that takes days before all mails are sent (e.g. google throttles our
mail sending).

rgds
jan I.


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Re: How to update, commit and publish only a single file/directory? [WAS: Re: need wiki help]

2014-05-18 Thread Kay Schenk
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Marcus (OOo)  wrote:

> Re-post
>
> This mail has not got the attention it deserves as everybody is looking
> for this. ;-)
>
> Marcus
>
>
>
> Am 04/29/2014 08:52 PM, schrieb Marcus (OOo):
>
>  Am 04/29/2014 03:45 PM, schrieb Jürgen Schmidt:
>>
>>> Keep in mind that when you publish a page all pending changes will be
>>> published as well. It is no local update of your changes only. Just as
>>> reminder, it's a not so nice side effect of the CMS
>>>
>>
>> It seems this wonderful feature is unknown. So let me explain how to
>> publish only your updates: :-)
>>
>> The main point is *where you are* in the CMS Browse View when you click
>> on the "Update" link.
>>
>> Example to update and publish only a file:
>>
>> 1. In your browser open, e.g.,
>> "www.openoffice.org/my-dir/my-subdir/index.html".
>> 2. Open the CMS via the bookmarklet.
>> 3. Click on the link "[Edit]" in the row of the "index.html" file.
>> 4. Click on the link "[Update]".
>> 5. Do your changes in the file.
>> 6. Commit your changes.
>> 7. On the following page click on the link "[Publish]".
>>
>> Now only the changed "index.html" file is published.
>>
>> Why? Because you have only updated this file in your local workspace
>> repository on the Apache CMS server [1].
>>
>> Example to update and publish only the content of a specific sub-dir:
>>
>> 1. In your browser open, e.g.,
>> "www.openoffice.org/my-dir/my-subdir/".
>> 2. Open the CMS via the bookmarklet.
>> 3. Click on the link "[Update this directory]".
>> 4. Do your changes in one or more files.
>> 5. Commit your changes.
>> 6. On the following page click on the link "[Publish]".
>>
>> Now only the changed files in this directory are published.
>>
>> Why? Because you have only updated this drectory in your local workspace
>> repository on the Apache CMS server [1].
>>
>> [1] You can see your local repo on the top right. Example:
>> marcus- > trunk > content > download > index.html
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Marcus
>>
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Any chance you'd like to update the instructions we have already? :)

http://openoffice.apache.org/docs/edit-cms.html

What you're describing can be used whether do command line svn or not. It
pertains to publishing.


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Re: E-mail outage resolved

2014-05-18 Thread Marcus (OOo)

Without to blame someone or doing any finger-pointing.

Just FYI

The mail backlog seems still not yet empty. I receive new mails - e.g., 
mails from commits I've done - appr. 30-45 min. later than before the 
mail outage.


Marcus



Am 05/13/2014 12:05 PM, schrieb jan iversen:

On 13 May 2014 11:55, Mathias Röllig  wrote:


Hello Andrea!

  All OpenOffice mailing lists were silent in the last few days.


The reason was a severe outage of the Apache mail servers. Messages were
queued but not delivered. Service will back to normal in a matter of
hours, and we will receive all messages in queue.




Because some of my messages (direct to the dev-list or automated from
Bugzilla to the issues-list) are not received at this time:
Already some messages are in the queue? If not I want to resend my
messages to the dev-list but I want to prevent double sending.



The backlog queue is still being emptied, there was 9 million mails in it,
so that takes days before all mails are sent (e.g. google throttles our
mail sending).

rgds
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Re: Forward planning for OO 5.0

2014-05-18 Thread Guy Waterval
Hi all,


2014-05-18 22:17 GMT+02:00 Marcus (OOo) :

> Am 05/18/2014 09:40 PM, schrieb Max Merbald:
>
>  I think it's a very good idea that ideas for AOO Next can be collected
>> here. I have a few myself. One is that the user interface has not been
>> changed/modernised significantly since OO2, with the exception of the
>> sidebar which is very useful and which I like to use. Thus I it seems to
>> look a bit quaint. I don't think, though, OO needs ribbon bars like
>> Microsoft Office. It just needs a somewhat more modern look.
>>
>
> This would be a hugh task. First think about *how* it should look like and
> then do it everywhere in the code.
>
> However, I've to say +1 as a more modern look & feel this really overdue
> after this long time.


For me, the most beautiful interface I've seen for a derivative of
OpenOffice was the interface of Symphony (MDI).
But OK, I know it's impossible to have it for OpenOffice and it would
certainly cost too much work. But a slight refresh of the interface, why
not if it doesn't cost too much ressources to do it.

A+
-- 
gw


>


Re: How to update, commit and publish only a single file/directory? [WAS: Re: need wiki help]

2014-05-18 Thread Marcus (OOo)

Re-post

This mail has not got the attention it deserves as everybody is looking 
for this. ;-)


Marcus



Am 04/29/2014 08:52 PM, schrieb Marcus (OOo):

Am 04/29/2014 03:45 PM, schrieb Jürgen Schmidt:

Keep in mind that when you publish a page all pending changes will be
published as well. It is no local update of your changes only. Just as
reminder, it's a not so nice side effect of the CMS


It seems this wonderful feature is unknown. So let me explain how to
publish only your updates: :-)

The main point is *where you are* in the CMS Browse View when you click
on the "Update" link.

Example to update and publish only a file:

1. In your browser open, e.g.,
"www.openoffice.org/my-dir/my-subdir/index.html".
2. Open the CMS via the bookmarklet.
3. Click on the link "[Edit]" in the row of the "index.html" file.
4. Click on the link "[Update]".
5. Do your changes in the file.
6. Commit your changes.
7. On the following page click on the link "[Publish]".

Now only the changed "index.html" file is published.

Why? Because you have only updated this file in your local workspace
repository on the Apache CMS server [1].

Example to update and publish only the content of a specific sub-dir:

1. In your browser open, e.g.,
"www.openoffice.org/my-dir/my-subdir/".
2. Open the CMS via the bookmarklet.
3. Click on the link "[Update this directory]".
4. Do your changes in one or more files.
5. Commit your changes.
6. On the following page click on the link "[Publish]".

Now only the changed files in this directory are published.

Why? Because you have only updated this drectory in your local workspace
repository on the Apache CMS server [1].

[1] You can see your local repo on the top right. Example:
marcus- > trunk > content > download > index.html

HTH

Marcus


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Re: [DOWNLOAD][PROPOSAL] How to download another version than offered in the green box?

2014-05-18 Thread Marcus (OOo)
This weekend just a little update as I was not able to do more work 
(healthy problem):


http://ooo-site.staging.apache.org/download/test/index_droplist.html

- The [Reset] button is gone.

- Styled the 3 select boxes as the default look & feel is, hm, just 
default. ;-)


- Styled the both download buttons more eye-catching. To keep it simply 
I've intentionally avoided to use graphics as I think a text button is 
better suited here.


- The icons and links for "full install vs. langpack info" and "Report 
broken link" were moved to the sub-green box. Because it's terrible 
difficult to keep the text and link status correctly updated for 
different selected values.


Marcus



Am 05/04/2014 06:37 PM, schrieb Marcus (OOo):

Another update, seems this weekend I've my productive phase: ;-)

http://ooo-site.staging.apache.org/download/test/index_droplist.html

What was done:

- Grey box:

- Bye, bye grey color - hello green freshness.
- The select boxes are prefilled with the browser guessed data.
- The information link has now a (i) icon.
- Added a "Report broken link" - pointing to the debug webpage.
The icon alone is maybe not meaningful enough, therefore an
additional text link.
(Of course the debug webpage needs further work to really work as
report function.)
- All not primary important data are now in the sub-box.
Now it looks more clean.

- Green box:

- All not primary important data are now in the sub-box.
Now it looks more clean and the focus is set for downloading only.

- Links:

- I've moved and deleted links and also adjusted the headlines.
- In the nav bar as well as in the colored boxes.
- Of course it's just a suggestion and can be discussed/changed.

What is not yet working:

- The version drop-down-box has still no effect for others than 4.1.0.
It's a bigger effort as I've to take into account every
available build for every release in the past.
- The [Reset] button is now not working as expected, however maybe
it's indeed no longer necessary?

What do you think?

What are the next steps:

- Make the version drop-down-box work for older releases.
- Improve the styling of the both download links.
- Combine the both green boxes.

- And further suggestions from you.

Thanks in advance for testing. :-)

Marcus



Am 05/03/2014 12:41 AM, schrieb Marcus (OOo):

I've done some further work.

http://ooo-site.staging.apache.org/download/test/index_droplist.html

What is working:

- Filesizes are shown for selected full install + langpack.
- Checksum links are shown for selected full install + langpack.
- When choices are done a little help icon is shown. Click on it to get
to a help text for "full install vs. langpack".
- Some release data is shown like in the green box.

What is not yet working:

- The version dropdown box has no effect yet but it shows already how
it could work (likely).

- I've not tested with all browsers. So, maybe something is not working.

What are the next steps:

- Reduce the additional links in the green box and re-work in the right
hand nav bar - delete duplicates, change order/positions, delete if
not needed here, etc.

In general, this should result in a clean-up.

- Make the version drop-down box work to choose from older releases.

After that I'll publish a new update to the webpage and go on with your
further comments and suggestions.

So, please have a look and don't hesitate to comment.

Thanks

Marcus



Am 04/29/2014 12:40 AM, schrieb Marcus (OOo):

Thanks a lot for your input.

A few of them (delete some obviously not needed text, make the choice
order of the drop-dwn boxes irrelevant) are already committed. But the
most need more time.

Please don't expect to have this full-featured for the AOO 4.1.0
release. I need more time to do all this. Luckily the need work-free
days are coming. :-)

Marcus



Am 04/27/2014 08:19 PM, schrieb Marcus (OOo):

Hi all,

while enjoying the Easter time I made some progress about a long-term
problem:

- Downloading the offered file via the green box is fast and easy
- Downloading a different file than the offered is not

Via the big table on the "other.html" is now easy to maintain for us
but
has no improvement for the user as it is large and complex.

Therefore I've thought of making another offer directly on the main
download webpage:

http://ooo-site.staging.apache.org/download/test/index_droplist.html

Please don't look too close to look & feel - sure the grey color is not
the best one ;-) - this can and will be improved for sure.

For now please have a look for the functionality via the drop-down
boxes
and the then created links below them.

What do you think? is this a direction we can/should go in general?
Or do you have complete different thoughts?

Thanks in advance.

Marcus


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Re: Forward planning for OO 5.0

2014-05-18 Thread Alexandro Colorado
Draw and Impress really need some major improvements. The way
presentations are done are not as structured the way Impress view
them.

Many high impact presentation have a better use of graphics and more
stylish use of fonts, colors etc.

AOO unfortunately hasn't really make this easier, and a lot of
improvements could be started.

The panels showed a good way to move forward. But the way AOO handle
colors could be heavily improved. Making color spectrum more available
will open the user to access (quickly) the 16million colors.

Improving gallery services and clipboard could also make the users
drag-drop images and push them to the background if needed.

Finally fileformats could be extended to add compatibility with Visio,
Scribus, and SVG in general.

Publishing to PDF is good but also HTML5 present a large opportunity
for Impress. Being able to have prezi-like presentations would be a
good idea. Generating the correct Javascript on webcast mode, could be
good.

On 5/17/14, Guy Waterval  wrote:
> Hi Jürgen,
> Hi all,
>
>
> 2014-05-17 16:57 GMT+02:00 Juergen Schmidt :
>
> Anybody can propose things and we can discuss it.
>
>>
>> For IBM we have clear priority for the future and that is OOXML and we
>> will
>> propose and discuss details soon. But I hope others have ideas as well
>> ...
>
>
> By Educoo, we are thinking about a mechanism to change the profile "on the
> fly" by taking advantage of the speed of the current launch of AOO (many
> thanks for that).
> The idea would be to can install, in the same version of AOO, some
> predefined profiles,  adapted to different levels of users (children,
> adolescents, adults, seniors, etc. ) so that the user can switch between
> them and can use the more adapted for him. OK, that's not a revolution, but
> that would allow a teacher to adapt to the age of the students of his
> classroom, for example.
>
> A+
> --
> gw
>
>
>>
>>
>


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Re: Forward planning for OO 5.0

2014-05-18 Thread Marcus (OOo)

Am 05/18/2014 09:40 PM, schrieb Max Merbald:

I think it's a very good idea that ideas for AOO Next can be collected
here. I have a few myself. One is that the user interface has not been
changed/modernised significantly since OO2, with the exception of the
sidebar which is very useful and which I like to use. Thus I it seems to
look a bit quaint. I don't think, though, OO needs ribbon bars like
Microsoft Office. It just needs a somewhat more modern look.


This would be a hugh task. First think about *how* it should look like 
and then do it everywhere in the code.


However, I've to say +1 as a more modern look & feel this really overdue 
after this long time.



And second is, when you work with pictures in Writer or Impress and you
pull the picture at the corner it does not enlarge or shrink
proportionally. If you want to keep the picture proportionally and
enlarge or shrink it you need to use the menu. I think the pictures
should enlarge or shrink proportionally when using the little green
squares at the corners. You don't usually wish to change the proportions
when using photos.


That's already working. :-) Just hold the [Shift] key when moving the 
green handles.


Marcus




Am 18.05.2014 01:54, schrieb Andrea Pescetti:

On 17/05/2014 Juergen Schmidt wrote:

Anybody can propose things and we can discuss it. ...
nobody should expect that others do the work.


This is an excellent summary indeed. On one hand we can discuss and
collect ideas, but on the other hand these ideas need to be concretely
supported by developer resources to pass from the "brainstorming"
phase to the "planning" phase.

At the level of brainstorming, for example, I believe that a priority
for a new major release would be a better integration with our online
resources (easier ways, built-in in the application, to reach our
sites for feedback, volunteering, support...). But if and how this can
happen will depend on the interest that current and new developers
have in this.

Regards,
Andrea.


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Re: Forward planning for OO 5.0

2014-05-18 Thread Max Merbald

Hello,

I think it's a very good idea that ideas for AOO Next can be collected 
here. I have a few myself. One is that the user interface has not been 
changed/modernised significantly since OO2, with the exception of the 
sidebar which is very useful and which I like to use. Thus I it seems to 
look a bit quaint. I don't think, though, OO needs ribbon bars like 
Microsoft Office. It just needs a somewhat more modern look.


And second is, when you work with pictures in Writer or Impress and you 
pull the picture at the corner it does not enlarge or shrink 
proportionally. If you want to keep the picture proportionally and 
enlarge or shrink it you need to use the menu. I think the pictures 
should enlarge or shrink proportionally when using the little green 
squares at the corners. You don't usually wish to change the proportions 
when using photos.


I hope my ideas have been helpful!

Max


Am 18.05.2014 01:54, schrieb Andrea Pescetti:

On 17/05/2014 Juergen Schmidt wrote:

Anybody can propose things and we can discuss it. ...
nobody should expect that others do the work.


This is an excellent summary indeed. On one hand we can discuss and 
collect ideas, but on the other hand these ideas need to be concretely 
supported by developer resources to pass from the "brainstorming" 
phase to the "planning" phase.


At the level of brainstorming, for example, I believe that a priority 
for a new major release would be a better integration with our online 
resources (easier ways, built-in in the application, to reach our 
sites for feedback, volunteering, support...). But if and how this can 
happen will depend on the interest that current and new developers 
have in this.


Regards,
  Andrea.

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Re: Please disable 4.1.0 Update Info!

2014-05-18 Thread Andrea Pescetti

On 16/05/2014 Rainer Bielefeld wrote:

I submitted "Issue 124913 - Disable 4.1.0 Update Info"
https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124913
because I think that it would be irresponsible to encourage users to
update to 4.1.0 with known issue.


I'm not sure this would give any results. Maybe OpenOffice caches the 
update information, so one would still get the update notification even 
if we retire it. But in general, 4.1.0 is the best version we can offer. 
You cite https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124717 as the 
reason but the root cause for it is an issue that has existed since 
2010, and it took a huge effort and many misunderstandings before you 
found a way to reproduce it.


I agree, though, that we should consider a 4.1.1, and maybe schedule it 
for June; we already have a couple of new languages and some bugfixes, 
we have an ongoing session of post-release tests and in a few weeks 
we'll probably be ready to wrap it up and see what's best to do.



I also think that there should be a hint in 4.1.0 Release Notes under
"Known issues"


Sure. I see it's there now and it's good to have it there.

Regards,
  Andrea.

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Re: [www] NEW language Selection Dropdown!

2014-05-18 Thread Ariel Constenla-Haile
On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 01:40:52AM +0200, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
> On 17/05/2014 Tal Daniel wrote:
> >http://ooo-site.staging.apache.org/test/templates/brand-template-with-language-select-without-vars.html
> >Please test it a bit, comment here, and if all goes well, I'll move the
> >code into the site brand.html template, to affect all sites.
> 
> Thanks for this! It looks good enough to me to go live. Please allow
> a bit more of the usual 72 hours for feedback, since mail delivery
> seems to be back to normal but we may still experience some delays.
> 
> I had already reviewed the select list and code when it was on
> staging, and it's OK. My accessibility concern was not on the
> select, but on the JavaScript manipulating it.

It would be better to avoid JavaScript, and use the Dotiac::DTL / Django
Template Language facilities, leaving the code logic on view.pm the list
can be populated with a for loop.

http://www.dotiac.com/cgi-bin/index.pl
http://www.djangoproject.com/
The blog example:
http://sourceforge.net/p/dotiac/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/Dotiac/examples/templates/blog.html


Regards
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New Volunteer Michele Galloway

2014-05-18 Thread Michele Galloway
Good morning!

I am going through the new members orientation and the first suggestion is
to write an email to this group introducing myself.

I am Michele Galloway who has been in the IT field for 30 years.  It was an
accidental profession for me as it chose me when I was an administrative
assistant and the University of Southern California.  I was blessed with a
boss who thought I had potential and sent me to a training class to
administrate a small computer called a Rabbit.  That started my 30 year
journey with information technology.  I have been in many areas of the
field and found my passion in analysis.  So I do requirements for a living
and have done testing, system analysis, data analysis, data modeling,
configuration management, technical support, system administration and
therefore am delighted to participate with technical groups.  I'm exploring
the "big data storage" and "big data analytics" so any work in those areas
would be welcomed.

I hope I have something to contribute. I do QA and requirements, and data
and perhaps there is a need for those skills.  I am currently engineering
requirements as a government contractor and look forward to contributing to
open source.

Don't hesitate to contact me with your thoughts on where I might fit in.


Re: [www] NEW language Selection Dropdown!

2014-05-18 Thread Andrea Pescetti

Tal Daniel wrote:

On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 2:40 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote:

http://i.imgur.com/inLcLeD.png but this is definitely minor. And in
general all these problems can be addressed later.

Andrea, what OS/Browser are you using? I see the select box without that
bottom spacing. We'll fix that, later on.


That was Firefox on Linux, but it may be a font issue too. Anyway, other 
browsers work fine and indeed this is a very minor detail.


Regards,
  Andrea.

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Re: [www] NEW language Selection Dropdown!

2014-05-18 Thread Marcus (OOo)

Am 05/18/2014 07:51 AM, schrieb Tal Daniel:

On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 2:40 AM, Andrea Pescettiwrote:


On 17/05/2014 Tal Daniel wrote:


http://ooo-site.staging.apache.org/test/templates/
brand-template-with-language-select-without-vars.html

Please test it a bit, comment here, and if all goes well, I'll move the
code into the site brand.html template, to affect all sites.



Thanks for this! It looks good enough to me to go live.


Please allow a bit more of the usual 72 hours for feedback,




Sure, OK.



I also see some alignment issues in the select (it seems that the
drop-down is a few pixels taller than it should be), see
http://i.imgur.com/inLcLeD.png but this is definitely minor. And in
general all these problems can be addressed later.



Andrea, what OS/Browser are you using? I see the select box without that
bottom spacing. We'll fix that, later on.


I can see this also with Firefox on Linux.

It's be cause of the language names in their native writing - here it is 
Hindi (hi) and Thai (th) which have a slightly higher height compared 
with the other language names inside the selectbox. I've the same 
problem in my download selectbox. It should be solved when you style the 
selectbox a bit different (customized height and adjusted text alignment).



My main concern is that, even limiting it to the 38 released languages, I

see that quite a few localized websites still need an update. [...] Based
on this, I would still include the "Other" item at the end of the select as
a link to native-lang.html then go live with the 38 languages and
immediately ask the l10n list for volunteers in updating the relevant sites.



Good idea. I'll even link from "Language:" to all languages, for
accessibility's sake, as you suggested.


+1

Marcus


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Re: [www] NEW language Selection Dropdown!

2014-05-18 Thread Marcus (OOo)

Am 05/17/2014 11:36 PM, schrieb Tal Daniel:

I've created a page for testing the new language dropdown here:
http://ooo-site.staging.apache.org/test/templates/brand-template-with-language-select-without-vars.html

Notes:
* Ignore the surrounding templates that the python script attaches to the
page, and focus on the central area, which is a duplicate of the brand
template above it, with addition of the dropdown box.
* The template example lacks variables, so I commented out a few lines, and
hardcoded a few strings.
* Currently, the selected language is English, but eventually, localized
sites will set the default selected language according to their language,
by changing a variable in brand.mdtext (or I'll do it).

Please test it a bit, comment here, and if all goes well, I'll move the
code into the site brand.html template, to affect all sites.


Looks good, for me it's working. :-) I've not tested all list items but 
when one is working, then it's just a question of if the others are 
correctly named and linked.


One suggestion:
I think it's better to write also the English name into the selectbox. 
Of course, e.g., a Russian guy knows what to choose to see the webpage 
in Russian. However for others that need to go there, too, it's a bit 
difficult - especially when the character set is different than Latin.


Also I would add a "Choose a website language" (or similar) as first 
item. You can use this as default and fall-back if something is not 
working. Maybe with some "-" to separate from the lang items.



Ken, I'm sorry, I tried to create the /content structure in /content/test,
and failed.
I can't copy files from /content, without checking out the whole 9GB
folder, and I don't think it's possible to create inner sites with
templates, within the /content/test directory, at this stage. Hence, I
created a simple page to test the func. of the dropdown only.


That's a good alternative for the testing phase.

Marcus




On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Marcus (OOo)  wrote:


Am 05/15/2014 11:10 PM, schrieb Tal Daniel:

  On Thu, May 15, Kay Schenk wrote:


  OK, this is looking interesting, but...please revert this change as the

next "real" publish is likely to make this live and we probably don't
want
to do this yet without further review.

So, please do the following --

* copy the revised version of brand.mdtext to the /test directory (we
can then review this further)
* revert your brand.mdtext change at the top level

Thanks.


  Kay, I reverted /templates/brand.html to revision before my changes

(robweir).
No changes in brand.mdtext, apart from localized site (he), which still
functions.
So, there are no apparent changes in the ooo-site now.

I'm not sure how we're going to test this, since now the feature isn't
online, and I didn't find a way to override the brand.html template within
a localized site, or /test; it's a global template.

Anyway, I've created a branch -
templates/brand-branch-with-language-select.html, so save template
changes,
for future testing.
Please help in testing it, in the near future. My tests showed that all
redirections work properly in Chrome. Default-selected language is
selected
according to the language defined in brand.mdtext (for example, see
/xx/brand.mdtext or /he/brand.mdtext).



Tal, I was not able to follow your work in the last days as I'm (still)
recovering from a cold. Maybe stupid question but is there a version online
of your lang selector?

Thanks




  On 05/14/2014 01:21 AM, Tal Daniel wrote:



On Wed, May 14 I wrote:

  Following my suggestion, I've changed the brand.html template to show a

lanaugage selection dropdown on all sites (currently available on


staging



sites only - http://ooo-site.staging.apache.org/).




To see a working example, select עברית (Hebrew) from the dropdown menu.


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