Re: Reporting broken download link Download fehlgeschlagen 2 x

2018-01-13 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Emanuele wrote: Would you mind trying to download from the following sourceforge mirror? https://netix.dl.sourceforge.net/project/openofficeorg.mirror/4.1.5/binaries/en-US/Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.5_Linux_x86-64_install-rpm_en-US.tar.gz Works for me. $ curl -s

Re: FOSDEM dinner invitation

2018-01-13 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 12/01/2018 Simon Phipps wrote: informal dinner on the Saturday evening at FOSDEM (February 3rd, 8pm) in Brussels I'll have other commitments for the evening, thanks. Still, this is a good occasion to remind that, for the fifth year in a row, we'll have a shared devroom running for the

Re: ooo-forums downtime

2018-01-10 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 10/01/2018 Greg Stein wrote:> status.apache.org reports services that are *down*, rather than individual bugs/problems. Just to be clear, we had two different issues here: 1. Some advanced search options broke due to incompatibility with the new SQL server (and this is fixed, which is

Re: Organizing testing for 4.2.0

2018-01-09 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Kay Schenk wrote: I know we have a number of Google tests incorporated currently. I don't know much about how to construct these, but I'd like to help as wel​l. Sure, this would be very nice to have! But the discussion here (especially on the QA list) is mostly focused on manual testing by

Re: Website outage

2018-01-09 Thread Andrea Pescetti
FR web forum wrote: It's time for Infra to take a look. Did you follow this ask or should I do it? The preferred way to contact INFRA is by creating an issue in JIRA. I went ahead and created it this time: https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/INFRA/issues/INFRA-15822 You can subscribe to

Re: Website outage

2018-01-09 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Dave Fisher wrote: What is the full url you are using? Would you try to run a traceroute and dig on that domain? I've tested again. Same results as reported in the other discussion. Basically, one IP from the DNS record is working and the other is not (so if you incur in the non-working one,

Re: Publish Extension (and Extensions Site Administrator Missing?)

2018-01-09 Thread Andrea Pescetti
imacat wrote: Can anybody help me publish my extension? > https://extensions.openoffice.org/project/pokemon-go-iv-calculator This (as well as removing spam comments) can be done by any site moderator; we have several PMC members with these privileges, me included. I've republished your

Re: Update Feeds for AOO 4.1.5

2018-01-08 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Matthias Seidel wrote:> Am 08.01.2018 um 22:06 schrieb Marcus: Hm, do we had notifications for 3.3.x when 4.1.4 (and older) was out? Yes, until 2014. [1] Somehow we stopped notifying our "old" users after 4.1.1 came out. I always found it irritating that the notification did not mention the

Re: openoffice.org slowness

2018-01-07 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Hagar Delest wrote: For the record, I think that the forums (or at least the English one) are also less responsive. Maybe due to the server change. I'm not sure it's the same problem. The problem being discussed here is not about the site being responsive, but about something like: I open

Re: openoffice.org slowness

2018-01-06 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 05/01/2018 Dave Fisher wrote: See the IP Addresses and if they are on the same continent as you when you have trouble. See if the trace route has high latency. Thanks, this will indeed help a lot in troubleshooting and I have interesting results: $ wget it.openoffice.org

Re: Language code for Ukrainian?

2018-01-06 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 05/01/2018 Marcus wrote: Am 05.01.2018 um 17:26 schrieb Matthias Seidel: why our homepage for Ukrainian links to "ua" [1] and not to uk (or uk-UA)? same difference: country = "ua" [2] and language = "uk" [3]. Probably the project was setup (at the time) with a wrong convention that

Re: svn commit: r1820131 - /openoffice/trunk/main/readlicense_oo/docs/readme/readme.xrm

2018-01-05 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 04/01/2018 mseidel wrote: Author: mseidel Date: Thu Jan 4 16:56:16 2018 New Revision: 1820131 URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1820131=rev Log: Some (minor) corrections to ReadMe Note that this will result in a lot of strings needing translation updates. We may have different

Re: ooo-forums downtime

2018-01-04 Thread Andrea Pescetti
CCing Chris for the two messages below. Maybe a SQL version issue? Regards, Andrea. On 04/01/2018 21:59, Hagar Delest wrote: Note: same for the other languages (Italian anf French tested). The DISTINCT 3065 thing seems a common one: In French forum: Erreur générale SQL ERROR [ mysqli ]

Re: Volunteer for building OpenOffice from source

2018-01-04 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 03/01/2018 Ash Blade wrote: I saw that you are looking for help with building Open Office from source and I think my current set of skills could be put to good use with this task. Welcome, Ash! Yes, we can surely put your skills to good use here. With your current experience I think you

Re: OpenOffice logo, holidays version

2018-01-03 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Matthias Seidel wrote: I think holidays are over now (sigh) and we can revert to the "normal" OpenOffice logo. Should I change it for the Italian page, too? Not yet (for the Italian page) thanks. Traditionally Italian holidays, for example school holidays, run 25 Dec to 6 Jan, and it is still

Re: ooo-forums downtime

2018-01-01 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Chris Lambertus wrote: This is ONLY to move the back-end MySQL database onto a new box. Thanks for the explanation. Then this is indeed low-risk and the more challenging tasks will come with https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-13281 which I will continue to monitor. Regards,

Re: ooo-forums downtime

2018-01-01 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Chris Lambertus wrote: At 0100 UTC on Thursday January 4th, I will be moving the OpenOffice PHPBB forum databases to a new server. Can you elaborate more, or tell us what the best place for further discussions is? This is good news in itself, but I believe I'm the only active project

Re: A problem on OO Debian versions?

2018-01-01 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Rory O'Farrell wrote: Andrea Pescetti wrote: The best archive build to use to the purpose would be the following: https://ci.apache.org/projects/openoffice/install/linux64/ (5th entry) I'll also try the OO 4.2.0 version you indicated. For the record, I've tried it on my system (Ubuntu 14.04

Re: A problem on OO Debian versions?

2018-01-01 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Rory O'Farrell wrote: Jose R R wrote: Issue is present in my computing environment, too. "out of the box" Xubuntu 16.04.3 386 ... There was no problem on that system. I tested too and I wasn't able to reproduce the problem: - 4.1.5 on an RPM-based system (operation took a few seconds) -

Re: A problem on OO Debian versions?

2018-01-01 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Rory O'Farrell wrote: I have tested this on Xubuntu 16.04.3 (XFCE), Ubuntu 16.04.3 (Gnome), Debian 9.30 (XFCE), all showing the same freeze. On Centos 7 and Antergos 17.12 (RPM distros) ToC rebuilds in about 10 seconds. I wouldn't blame it on the package format, since DEB and RPM versions

Re: Starting the 4.2.0 localization

2017-12-31 Thread Andrea Pescetti
a lot of manual work and we could try to split it and make it accessible to people who can't fully build OpenOffice too. Regards, Andrea. Andrea Pescetti wrote: Further updates, with some numbers based on Portuguese (one of the several languages that are reported as 100% complete in Po

Re: Starting the 4.2.0 localization

2017-12-30 Thread Andrea Pescetti
error-free in order to test a full import. Regards, Andrea. Il 30/12/2017 00:42, Andrea Pescetti ha scritto: Some further notes (then someone else may want to reorganize this, but for the moment I'm just collecting them): - The problem (not a problem actually; just the need to translate s

Re: Starting the 4.2.0 localization

2017-12-30 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Pedro Lino wrote: Hi Andrea, all Impress document and right-click on the slide you will see the context menu in English. Problem confirmed with Portuguese build Thanks for checking. And actually, as I wrote, I wouldn't consider this a problem. Code refactoring caused some strings to be

Re: Starting the 4.2.0 localization

2017-12-29 Thread Andrea Pescetti
uld be: 1. Run the same process (2 and 3) on AOO415 and see if the match is perfect there (no warnings) 2. Build both AOO415 and trunk with the new SDF file and see if translations from Pootle are picked up properly. Regards, Andrea. Il 28/12/2017 00:39, Andrea Pescetti ha scritto: Just a f

Starting the 4.2.0 localization

2017-12-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Just a few notes on what I've found so far about the 4.2.0 localization, in case others (like Keith, who wrote he is interested) want to follow and/or proceed. Of course, you will need: 1. A full checkout of trunk; I believe some of the tools are built during the build process, but I'm using

Simple tasks for recruitment list

2017-12-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
As the focus is switching back to trunk, I expect other people to find simple issues that they would be able to do themselves but that are suitable for newcomers too. In that case we can involve people from the recruitment mailing list: just create an issue in Bugzilla and send a mail to

Filenames for bundled dictionaries

2017-12-26 Thread Andrea Pescetti
See https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=127637 for context. In short: when we bundle a dictionary in OpenOffice, it is downloaded during bootstrap and then bundled using the filename we use at bootstrap phase. This filename does not follow any conventions at the moment, and a change

OpenOffice logo, holidays version

2017-12-24 Thread Andrea Pescetti
As usual, the "holiday version" of the OpenOffice logo is now online at http://www.openoffice.org/ I've applied it to English and Italian; I didn't apply it to all languages since it may make more sense in some context than others. Still, applying it is trivial: just do the equivalent of

Re: Download Link appears broken ''Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.4_Win_x86_install_en-US.exe''

2017-12-24 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 24/12/2017 CobaltCactus wrote: Many downloads go the full gammet to 95% and then CRASH. Sourceforge does not carry a good reputation for download sites anymore. The SourceForge downloads worked well (and still work for me, just tested) for us so far. If you have troubles, you can download

Re: [RESULT] Was: Re: [VOTE] Release AOO 4.1.5-RC1 as GA

2017-12-24 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 21/12/2017 Jim Jagielski wrote: So with more than the sufficient 3 +1 (binding) votes and no vetos, I call the VOTE has PASSED. Just for the record, I've run the usual release checks in the last couple days with no issues. The vote is now closed but mine would have been a +1. What I

Re: [RESULT] Was: Re: [VOTE] Release AOO 4.1.5-RC1 as GA

2017-12-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Carl Marcum wrote: "Set the attribute "Latest Version" to all full installation files for every platform." I believe this should be done once files have been "unstaged", which in turn should be done just a few hours before uploading the download pages. The process is at

Re: [RESULT] Was: Re: [VOTE] Release AOO 4.1.5-RC1 as GA

2017-12-22 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Carl Marcum wrote: My upload to SF has been going all day. Looks to be about 1/2 way done. Strange, normally I do it from a good connection but I think the entire 4.1.4 upload took about 3 hours. On the other hand, uploading to the ASF servers (especially now that everything must be done

Re: [Request] SourceForge permissions for uploading release

2017-12-22 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Carl Marcum wrote: Can someone with admin rights to the SourceForge account grant me permissions so I can upload the release? Done. Thank you and enjoy! We now have 6 PMC members as administrators of that area, so we should be well covered. Regards, Andrea.

Re: L10N: new languages on Pootle

2017-12-22 Thread Andrea Pescetti
FR web forum wrote: I see that you are come back here. I read all lists. I'm a volunteer like everybody else, so I answer when I can, and I do what I can do. Other Pootle admins apparently are even less responsive than me, since I'm the only one who shows signs of life. Could you have a

Re: [RESULT] Was: Re: [VOTE] Release AOO 4.1.5-RC1 as GA

2017-12-21 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Carl Marcum wrote: On 12/21/2017 11:36 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: Who wants to do the Upload to SF? That's usually me but if the Release Express has to leave then... I'm willing if I'm able. ...then go ahead, please. Are there instructions somewhere Sure. The "Upload" section of

Re: New PMC Member Keith N. McKenna

2017-12-19 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Marcus wrote: Please give a warm welcome to Keith. Fixing last name spelling for the records: Keith N. McKenna (here and in subject). Welcome back Keith! Andrea - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: Spell checking in French

2017-12-18 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Pedro Lino wrote: (the same as clicking on the Dictionaries button on the Extensions website) However searching for the words spelling or dictionaries returns many more results than the Dictionaries button (for instance none of the Portuguese tools show up when clicking Dictionaries) This means

Re: [VOTE] New Apache OpenOffice PMC Chair

2017-12-08 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Marcus wrote: Luckily we have 2 volunteers: Carl and Peter. Therefore please vote by replying to this thread. [ ] Carl Marcum (cmarcum) [ ] Peter Kovacs (petko) [ ] Abstain (I cannot/won't choose between them) I vote for Carl Marcum (cmarcum), purely due to the nature of the job. I would

Re: 4.2.0: Baseline CentOS6 as reference build platform

2017-12-05 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Jim Jagielski wrote: So our options are: 1. We stick w/ CentOS5 as our ref build system for 4.2.0 but force Gnome VFS. 2. We move to CentOS6, accept the default of GIO but understand that this moves CentOS5 as a non-supported OS for our community builds. 3. Just as we offer

Re: [PROPOSAL] Public Beta for 4.2

2017-12-05 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 04/12/2017 Jim Jagielski wrote: Say we release 4.1.5 and that build number is 9799. We then release start doing betas and RCs for 4.2.0 and use 9800, 9801 and 9802. We then find out we need to release a 4.1.6. Is that BUILD number now 9803? This is an interesting scenario. The way it has

Re: [PROPOSAL] Start process for AOO 4.1.5-RC1

2017-12-05 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 04/12/2017 toki wrote: English dictionaries has an updated release every month, but extensions for AOo [...] are only released every two months, unless there has been a recent release, in which case the update extension release is skipped. This would be nice in theory. In practice,

Re: [PROPOSAL] Start process for AOO 4.1.5-RC1

2017-12-05 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 04/12/2017 Jim Jagielski wrote: On Dec 3, 2017, at 3:57 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: We don't have a 4.1.5 blocker flag in Bugzilla ... How does one add one in Bugz? Marcus knows the magic for it. I believe only Bugzilla admins can create a new flag. Regards, Andrea

Re: 4.2.0: Baseline CentOS6 as reference build platform

2017-12-05 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Jim Jagielski wrote: Who has write access to that? The main OpenOffice site is in our source repository, so all committers have access to it. But for some reason we don't post news there, even though we have an (outdated) news archive there. The OpenOffice blog

Re: FOSDEM 2018: Open Document Editors DevRoom

2017-12-04 Thread Andrea Pescetti
if you retry now you may be able to submit a proposal. Regards, Andrea. Il 02/12/2017 15:54, Andrea Pescetti ha scritto: Reminder: 3 days left (Saturday, Sunday, Monday) for submitting your FOSDEM proposal. You just need a title and a short abstract for the moment. Submission instructions below

Re: [PROPOSAL] Start process for AOO 4.1.5-RC1

2017-12-03 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Jim Jagielski wrote: I propose that we, "officially", start the ball rolling in the process of releasing AOO 4.1.5. Are you accepting blockers? My only blocker would be the English dictionary update https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=127621 (a new version is available and we don't

Updating the build guide (Re: a more sane way to override optimization flags in gbuild)

2017-12-03 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Keith N. McKenna wrote: That begs the Question should we add a section to the overall build guide for CentOS6? If yes I can add the section as a clone of the CentOS5 Guide with all the proper warnings and notes about it needing updating for the CentOS6 specifics. No, this wouldn't be helpful

Re: Tweet new build

2017-12-03 Thread Andrea Pescetti
FR web forum wrote: No news about 4.1.4 build. Anybody to tweet this annoucement? https://twitter.com/ openofficeorg This is not the official OpenOffice Twitter account. The official account is https://twitter.com/apacheoo that is managed, as far as I know, by Roberto on behalf of the PMC.

Re: A more sane way to build - SCons, deCygwination and other hopes

2017-12-03 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 02/12/2017 Jim Jagielski wrote: What I don't want is some hybrid monstrosity like we have now. Nor do I want work on the build system to hold off release of 4.2.0. This is surely a good point. Actually, the wide delay between 4.1.0 and the future 4.2.0 is due in big part to build changes.

Re: a more sane way to override optimization flags in gbuild

2017-12-03 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Jim Jagielski wrote: On Dec 2, 2017, at 5:56 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 30/11/2017 Jim Jagielski wrote: I think for 4.2.x and later, we have deprecated CentOS5 as a supported build system... I ran into a LOT of issues. Such as, for example? for starters: o zip 3.0. o GIO OK, I now

Re: [PROPOSAL] Public Beta for 4.2

2017-12-02 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Jim Jagielski wrote: I went ahead and copied the 4.1.4 page and created: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.1.5 Of course, it needs to be further cleaned up. I can RM if that's OK with everyone. Fine with me, let's keep unchanged everything that worked well for

Re: [PROPOSAL] Public Beta for 4.2

2017-12-02 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 01/12/2017 Jim Jagielski wrote: I see that Pat has committed the security patches to trunk, which is fantastic! Maybe we should take the next few business days and go thru Bugz and see what, if anything, would be low-risk patches to trunk and pencil in, say, Dec 7th as a "code freeze" date

Re: [Issue 20819] add polynomial regression type

2017-12-02 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Peter Kovacs wrote: https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=20819 ... The best way imho is to let the users vote. How about follwing flow: 1) check if we can include the extention by license or find an agreement with the maintainers. 2) Put a call to Vote if the package should be included or

Re: a more sane way to override optimization flags in gbuild

2017-12-02 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 30/11/2017 Jim Jagielski wrote: I think for 4.2.x and later, we have deprecated CentOS5 as a supported build system... I ran into a LOT of issues. Such as, for example? I think that the guide we have at https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO/Step_by_step#CentOS_5

Re: FOSDEM 2018: Open Document Editors DevRoom

2017-12-02 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Reminder: 3 days left (Saturday, Sunday, Monday) for submitting your FOSDEM proposal. You just need a title and a short abstract for the moment. Submission instructions below. Regards, Andrea. Il 27/11/2017 08:42, Andrea Pescetti ha scritto: Reminder: submission deadline for proposal

Re: FOSDEM 2018: Open Document Editors DevRoom

2017-11-26 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Reminder: submission deadline for proposal is in 7 days (next Monday). Anyone attending FOSDEM is welcome to prepare a short presentation. The call is now published at https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/open-document-editors-devroom-at Regards, Andrea. On 19/11/2017 Andrea Pescetti wrote

Re: AOO 4.1.5-dev builds

2017-11-26 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 24/11/2017 Patricia Shanahan wrote: To answer Damjan's question "when are these 4.1.x releases going to stop?", we need to continue with 4.1.x builds, and releases as needed, at least until 4.2.0 development is complete. This is correct but it misses a (probably taken for granted) detail:

Re: AOO 4.2.0-dev builds

2017-11-26 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 24/11/2017 Jim Jagielski wrote: Question: Is CentOS 5 still our preferred version, or should we deprecate CentOS5 for CentOS 6? We should move to CentOS 6. I've explained it in detail at https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=127513 more than 3 months ago and I'll happily discuss this

Re: Accessibility link not working

2017-11-26 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Matthias Seidel wrote: Am 26.11.2017 um 18:42 schrieb Dick Groskamp: http://www.openoffice.org/ui/accessibility/index.html with the suggestions Karla made: 1. remove the link to bobby ( I checked: bobby isn't available anymore, at least not from that link) or replace it by the one Karla

Re: Fwd: [Issue 127600] AOO 4.1.4 : Creating labels on more than One page freezes application

2017-11-26 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Patricia Shanahan wrote: This is a slightly complicated issue, and I am not sure how to handle the related Bugzilla issues. Kay is right. Issues like https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=127600 are RESOLVED (i.e., we have committed code that fixes the issue) but not CLOSED (since we

Re: openssl-0.9.8zg.tar.gz missing on Sourceforge

2017-11-24 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Matthias Seidel wrote: It seems that "openssl-0.9.8zg.tar.gz" is missing on Sourceforge (OOO Extras): https://sourceforge.net/projects/oooextras.mirror/files/ Added earlier today, should be visible now. More admins can always be added to our SourceForge area, just provide the SourceForge

Re: FOSDEM 2018: Open Document Editors DevRoom

2017-11-19 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Andrea Pescetti wrote: Important dates: - Submission deadline: 4 Dec 2017 - FOSDEM: [3-]4 Feb 2018, Brussels, Belgium. Just to avoid confusion about dates: FOSDEM is 3-4 February 2018 and runs for the full day both days. The Open Document Editors (including OpenOffice) devroom is on Saturday

FOSDEM 2018: Open Document Editors DevRoom

2017-11-19 Thread Andrea Pescetti
The Call for talks for the Open Document Editors (such as OpenOffice) is open. I'll republish the full call on the OpenOffice blog later today to have a reference URL. Important dates: - Submission deadline: 4 Dec 2017 - FOSDEM: 4 Feb 2018, Brussels, Belgium. I encourage everybody who plans

Re: FYI: The OO 4.1.4 Mac problem

2017-11-16 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Dave Fisher wrote: I’ve 4.1.3 works. I’ve confirmed that 4.1.2 GA has the Base problem. Read "Base 4.1.2 does not open Tables and Queries in Mac OSX": http://openoffice.2283327.n4.nabble.com/Status-of-quot-Base-4-1-2-does-not-open-Tables-and-Queries-in-Mac-OSX-quot-td4683000.html (this is

Re: Build errors

2017-11-07 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Peter Kovacs wrote: But maybe we should simply consider to write this part of the code again, with the goal that it works with the old and new ones. So I think I will try this. It does not make any differences if I can compile anyhow. Opinions? Did you ever get a successful build, on any

Re: Apache OpenOffice Github repository has 2 open "pull" requests

2017-11-07 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Marcus wrote: Am 07.11.2017 um 09:57 schrieb Peter Kovacs: I am a bit confused about the 2 pull request. They both seem to try to merge changes via git into the Git Repo. So this would be https://github.com/apache/openoffice/pulls - both of them are not useful. One is badly written, the

Re: Issue for 4.1.4 and MacOS

2017-11-05 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Jim Jagielski wrote: I am wondering if this means/requires that the build machine MUST be running 10.12 (Sierra). The original report https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=127580 says that the Base bug happens with the new (20171101) builds but not with the 4.1.4 builds released in

Re: Issue for 4.1.4 and MacOS

2017-10-31 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Matthias Seidel wrote: Am 31.10.2017 um 23:39 schrieb Andrea Pescetti: Andrea Pescetti wrote: In terms of the update feed, we can keep on hold the update feeds for the 4.1.3 (and earlier) to 4.1.4 upgrade for Mac users; and once 4.1.5 is out, we will push the update as usual. I could

Re: Issue for 4.1.4 and MacOS

2017-10-31 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Andrea Pescetti wrote: In terms of the update feed, we can keep on hold the update feeds for the 4.1.3 (and earlier) to 4.1.4 upgrade for Mac users; and once 4.1.5 is out, we will push the update as usual. Another obvious thing we can do (if we are really sure that 4.1.4 for Mac contains

Re: Issue for 4.1.4 and MacOS

2017-10-31 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Dave Fisher wrote: I would like to know what Andrea and Matthias think since they have been working with the upgrade system. This is just a bug. A bad bug, that teaches us that (let alone the source code) we should document not only the configure switches but also key details of the

Re: Post-release steps for 4.1.4

2017-10-28 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Matthias Seidel wrote: But knowing that now one thing comes to my mind: If we *would* enable permanent redirection to HTTPS for the website, we may have to exclude http://installation.openoffice.org/description otherwise it would break the update feed? No, this is not a problem. It is not a

Re: [4.1.5] Re: SDBC developments and the JDBC driver port

2017-10-28 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Dave Fisher wrote: BTW - Damjan’s changes are javadoc related and absolutely needed on modern Macs where getting JDK7 is not easy. We cannot be so conservative that we are afraid of upgrades. Yes we can. And not only we can, but we should (a personal opinion of course). It must be clear

Re: Post-release steps for 4.1.4

2017-10-28 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Matthias Seidel wrote: Am 28.10.2017 um 20:07 schrieb Andrea Pescetti: You didn't only look around, you committed stuff and I'll now try to review it. But yes, I confirm that one is the tool we use. Only small changes for https... I couldn't resist! ;-) OK, no problem! But as you will see

Re: Issue for 4.1.4 and MacOS

2017-10-28 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Dave Fisher wrote: We ought to factor out the build tooling by comparing a build based on 4.1.3 with the bug to rule out a tooling regression. Very good suggestion. Building 4.1.3 on exactly the same system and with exactly the same config used for 4.1.4 will tell us whether this is related

Re: Post-release steps for 4.1.4

2017-10-28 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Matthias Seidel wrote: Am 26.10.2017 um 22:58 schrieb Andrea Pescetti: - Enable feeds for 4.1.3 in French, German, Italian (three random "medium-size" languages) within the next 24 hours. I was a bit curious and looked around. ;-) https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/openoffic

Re: [4.1.5] Re: SDBC developments and the JDBC driver port

2017-10-28 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Patricia Shanahan wrote: Unless the changes are also in 4.1.4 or are super-urgent, I do not think they belong in 4.1.5. 4.1.5, which we hope will never be released, is for fixes to 4.1.4 that are too urgent to wait for 4.2. Confirmed. 4.2 should get all the focus. Nothing gets in AOO415 (which

Re: [PROPOSAL] Managing branches for future releases

2017-10-28 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Peter Kovacs wrote: Am Samstag, den 28.10.2017, 00:40 +0200 schrieb Andrea Pescetti: this thread was actually to address the problem with actually changing release numbers in code, nothing else. It does not adress the problem with release models. It works only around them. Is there a bug

Re: [PROPOSAL] Managing branches for future releases

2017-10-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Peter Kovacs wrote: I hope I did not scare anyone with this lengthy explanation now. No, but it is just off-topic. This is partially my fault since "Managing branches" in the subject could be read as a proposal for a branching model. But this is totally not the topic here. The issue here

Re: [Issue 127574] New: Out of date OSX version

2017-10-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Dave Fisher wrote: I just created a BZ id - dave2w...@comcast.net - would someone grant me PMC rights. Use your @apache.org e-mail for the Bugzilla account and you will get them automatically (of course they can be granted manually too, by a Bugzilla admin, if you prefer to use a non-ASF

Re: Access denied on Dictionaries page

2017-10-26 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Marcus wrote: Am 26.10.2017 um 22:23 schrieb Andrea Pescetti: If we see users confused by the "double update" process we will have to add an item to the Release Notes. I don't understand what you want to write to the release notes. I mean: if we start getting e-mails from people

Post-release steps for 4.1.4

2017-10-26 Thread Andrea Pescetti
A short summary of the post-release steps for 4.1.4 I'm going to take care of, since we are now at the "7 days after release" mark: 1) Security reports for 4.1.4 are now published at https://www.openoffice.org/security/bulletin.html Nothing special, the usual handful of fixes we do at every

Re: Access denied on Dictionaries page

2017-10-26 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 26/10/2017 Marcus wrote: Am 26.10.2017 um 12:09 schrieb Marco A.G.Pinto: Now I get an access error in the official page: http://extensions.openoffice.org/en/project/english-dictionaries-apache-openoffice maybe a temporary outage in the second where you have looked. I've test now and it's

Differences between CWiki Announcement and Press Release

2017-10-25 Thread Andrea Pescetti
These two pages https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.1.4+Announcement (CWiki Announcement) and https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the-apache-software-foundation-announces19 (Press Release) have some minor differences in text. The former, probably an intermediate

Re: [PROPOSAL] Managing branches for future releases

2017-10-24 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Kay Schenk wrote: Would it be more clear to just remove the AOO415 branch and only re-instate it if needed (hopefully not). No, it wouldn't. See https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=127552 - there is a series of changes that need to be done for the release number bump. It's better to

[PROPOSAL] Managing branches for future releases

2017-10-24 Thread Andrea Pescetti
I'm starting a short series of occasional posts to capture the current collective state of mind on the next release. I'll float them here for refinement or lazy consensus, and then we may want to reuse this text in wiki or blog posts to avoid repeating the same concepts over and over. Let's

Re: Tajik hunspell dictionary

2017-10-24 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Odil Soliev wrote: We are prepare a Tajik hunspell dictionary for OpenOffice. How can we add our dictionary to OpenOffice distribution? After you are done with the dictionary (.dic and .aff files), package them into an extension and upload it to http://extensions.openoffice.org/ You can

Re: Funds for Re: Open XML Filter

2017-10-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Peter kovacs wrote: How about creating a project plan, estimates for a budget and then start a campaign? I think that getting money would not be the hardest part. The hardest part would be to find people who are trusted and competent enough. The code is complex and different people have

Re: Security Bulletins

2017-10-22 Thread Andrea Pescetti
dennisroczek wrote: the following page needs an update: https://www.openoffice.org/security/bulletin.html We've usually released bulletins about 7 days later than the release announcement. We are going to do the same for 4.1.4. Regards, Andrea.

Re: Building Guides

2017-10-20 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Gavin McDonald wrote: On 20 Oct 2017, at 9:40 am, Andrea Pescetti wrote: There are no build instructions on the CWiki and there shouldn't be a copy there. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Development+Snapshot+Builds Bad. I haven't removed that section of the page since I

Re: Templates/Extensions site expired

2017-10-19 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Marcus wrote: Am 19.10.2017 um 23:20 schrieb Matthias Seidel: Unfortunately just today the SSL certificate expired for: https://extensions.openoffice.org/ and https://templates.openoffice.org/ People will see an error message when trying to search for updates via Extension Manager. Yes, and

Re: Building Guides

2017-10-19 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 19/10/2017 Keith N. McKenna wrote: https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO/Step_by_step To the best of my knowledge the step by step link that I gave you is the latest revisions. This is correct. The Building Giude and its specialized versions are actively

Re: Download Pages for 4.1.4?

2017-10-19 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Matthias Seidel wrote: The main download page, as well as German and Netherlands are updated... But we still have a bunch of pages to do. I'll take care of the Italian pages and I'll also put online the translations I received from our volunteers. Regards, Andrea.

Re: [VOTE][RESULT] Release Apache OpenOffice 4.1.4-RC5 as GA

2017-10-18 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Carl Marcum wrote: If a PMC member cast a vote should it always be counted as binding whether stated explicitly or not? Yes, it should. People add "binding" as a shorthand to mean "I am from the PMC" since a release cannot be approved without reaching 3 votes from the PMC, and it must be

Re: [VOTE][RESULT] Release Apache OpenOffice 4.1.4-RC5 as GA

2017-10-18 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Pedro Lino wrote: I agree that it is good that some users replicate the building procedure and confirm that it works. ... In any case I couldn't find that particular requirement for a PMC member in the voting page (https://www.apache.org/foundation/voting.html). Maybe that is being too strict?

Re: [VOTE][RESULT] Release Apache OpenOffice 4.1.4-RC5 as GA

2017-10-18 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Keith N. McKenna wrote: Even though he is a PMC member his vote cannot be counted as binding as he did not build from source as is required by Apache Policy. This is OK as long as the Apache Policy doesn't get in the way too much... I mean, I highly appreciate when people provide a list of

Re: Which conference?

2017-10-17 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Patricia Shanahan wrote: I am currently considering FOSDEM 2018, but is there a better choice? No better choice. It is confirmed there will be a Devroom for Open Document Editors (like OpenOffice) and the call for talks will be sent very soon. There will also be a quite crowded ASF booth

Re: Upload of 4.1.4-RC5 to SourceForge

2017-10-17 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 13/10/2017 Andrea Pescetti wrote: Our SourceForge area is now updated with files from revision 22458 from the dev area (this revision includes the rebuilt Linux-64 binaries). Now updated again to revision 22553 (this one includes the rebuilt OS X binaries). As expected, the only modified

Re: New macOS builds available (Was: Re: [VOTE] Release Apache OpenOffice 4.1.4-RC5 as GA)

2017-10-17 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Matthias Seidel wrote: (Later) I would be interested if your changes in the build process would also apply to the Linux64 builds from trunk. I'm also very happy to learn this is reported by Jim and Dave to be fixed in the rebuilt RC5! And indeed I would be uncomfortable in confirming my +1

Re: AOO 4.1.4 – Error message

2017-10-16 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 16/10/2017 Dave Fisher wrote: with RC5 I see: (1) I get the little general error dialog. Can we get an issue in Bugzilla please, so that we can try and make it reproducible? What I understood so far is: 1. For some reason this (in RC5) only affects Mac OS X 2. It is NOT specific to

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache OpenOffice 4.1.4-RC5 as GA

2017-10-16 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 16/10/2017 Patricia Shanahan wrote: I may change my vote based on future information. Sure, we'll have to keep the vote open until at least we have determined whether this is an issue with that particular set of binaries or not. The full rebuild Jim is doing will give the answer. All

Re: WikiPublisher extension (was Re: servlet-api.jar)

2017-10-16 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Guy Waterval wrote: I do not know if such a collaboration is allowed by Apache No problem. Apache won't pay developers directly, but it doesn't forbid that developers are paid of course! So whoever is the sponsor, there is no problem as long as the code is under the Apache License version 2

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