Re: Planning for emergency releases

2016-08-08 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 8/8/2016 11:14 AM, Marcus wrote: Am 08/08/2016 07:28 PM, schrieb Andrea Pescetti: On 07/08/2016 Marcus wrote: Maybe we are not that far aways from each other. What I want to to avoid is to provide hundreads of MBs for a single fix. Of course we can do a 4.1.3 with some collected fixes. As I

Re: Building AOO for Windows 10

2016-08-08 Thread Carl Marcum
On 08/07/2016 08:35 AM, Kirsten S wrote: Hello together, I am new to this list and new to the AOO-Project. I've been trying to build AOO and to get the source code since yesterday. I followed the step by step guide in this link: https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/

Re: expat upgrade patch needs testing

2016-08-08 Thread Don Lewis
On 8 Aug, Kay Schenk wrote: > > > On 08/07/2016 08:03 PM, Don Lewis wrote: >> On 5 Aug, To: dev@openoffice.apache.org wrote: >>> I just submitted a patch to upgrade the bundled expat to version 2.2.0: >>> >>> >>> I've done some testing on

Re: expat upgrade patch needs testing

2016-08-08 Thread Kay Schenk
On 08/07/2016 08:03 PM, Don Lewis wrote: > On 5 Aug, To: dev@openoffice.apache.org wrote: >> I just submitted a patch to upgrade the bundled expat to version 2.2.0: >> >> >> I've done some testing on FreeBSD and Windows. Unfortunately I can't

RE: Planning for emergency releases

2016-08-08 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
+1 on the permanent "ready to release" mode. > -Original Message- > From: Marcus [mailto:marcus.m...@wtnet.de] > Sent: Monday, August 8, 2016 11:15 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: Planning for emergency releases > > Am 08/08/2016 07:28 PM, schrieb Andrea Pescetti: > > On

Re: Review of the 4.1.2-patch1 MacOSX.README.txt file

2016-08-08 Thread William L. Anderson
Kay, I have attached a ".txt" file that incorporates the changes suggested. Two items are *not* included. (1) There is a need to provide the md5 and sha256 hash of the libtl.dylib file. Many Mac users do not have any experience with GnuPG or OpenPGP keys. However, the Mac comes with tools to

Re: Planning for emergency releases

2016-08-08 Thread Marcus
Am 08/08/2016 07:28 PM, schrieb Andrea Pescetti: On 07/08/2016 Marcus wrote: Maybe we are not that far aways from each other. What I want to to avoid is to provide hundreads of MBs for a single fix. Of course we can do a 4.1.3 with some collected fixes. As I don't know what is coming in the

Re: Planning for emergency releases

2016-08-08 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 07/08/2016 Marcus wrote: Maybe we are not that far aways from each other. What I want to to avoid is to provide hundreads of MBs for a single fix. Of course we can do a 4.1.3 with some collected fixes. As I don't know what is coming in the future I would not love to see another 4.1.4, 4.1.5,

RE: [TESTING] Applying openoffice-4.1.2-patch1 for Windows

2016-08-08 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Alpha version 0.0.1 of README-4.1.2-patch1-apply-Windows.txt has been introduced into the files (and the .zip) at . This version reflects suggestions by Marcus Lange, Pedro Lino, and Keith McKenna. Suggestions

Re: Review of the 4.1.2-patch1 MacOSX.README.txt file

2016-08-08 Thread Kay Schenk
Hi Bill and thanks for helping out. To aid in readability of your edits, would it be possible for you to make your proposed changes to the MacOSX readme and include the whole file (with your edits) as a ".txt" attachment to this message? On Sun, Aug 7, 2016 at 5:10 PM, William L. Anderson

Special project for newcomers

2016-08-08 Thread Patricia Shanahan
There is a current project for which newcomers to the OpenOffice team may be able to make a particularly valuable contribution. The objective is to find out whether a set of instructions are usable and work. For this, being unfamiliar with the background is an advantage. To participate, you need

Re: Hello World

2016-08-08 Thread Damjan Jovanovic
Hi Aditya Welcome to Apache OpenOffice! Your skills sound very useful and I see a promising future for you here. We appreciate all contributions. If you plan to get into development, please subscribe to this mailing list if you haven't already, and start by checking out the source code:

Help me through this place

2016-08-08 Thread aditya chandran
Hi , Aditya here, Could anyone please mentor me through this new place I am quite new and young to the place Eagerly awaiting your reply Aditya