Re: update feed from 4.1.1 to 4.1.2 ready to go...

2015-11-05 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 05/11/2015 Kay Schenk wrote: I fixed up the localized download areas which is an input file to the script, so hopefully we're good on that now. Is it committed? I'd rather review this update (which I don't see at

Re: update feed from 4.1.1 to 4.1.2 ready to go...

2015-11-04 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Kay Schenk wrote: ​Ok, these are comments that already existed but I will change the spelling... Yes, all fixes are not due to some mistakes in your work, but to previous stuff. but the corresponding fixes still need to be done on the 4.1.0 -> 4.1.2 feed (and probably to the other two too)

Re: update feed from 4.1.1 to 4.1.2 ready to go...

2015-11-03 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Kay Schenk wrote: The feeds for 4.0.0, 4.0.1, and 4.1.0 are now ready to be put in place. I double checked the languages with what was actually distributed for these versions, so hopefully all is well. But anyone can take a look. See attached in: https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=126612

Re: [QUESTION] Usability of Non-Optional Java Dependencies

2015-11-02 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 01/11/2015 Damjan Jovanovic wrote: 1. We don't have a Win64 version of AOO available for download. This has never been a major request from our users, and also technically speaking the benefits a user would gain by running a 64-bit version are not so big. Sure, it look modern and it is

Re: Patch for failing UT on Mac OSX

2015-11-01 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 31/10/2015 PATHANGI JANARDHANAN JATINSHRAVAN wrote: Attached is a patch that fixes a compilation error I faced while building Open Office on Mac OS X 10.10. Hi, thanks for starting your journey into the OpenOffice code! Patches are not distributed when you post to the mailing list: our

Re: update feed from 4.1.1 to 4.1.2 ready to go...

2015-10-31 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Kay Schenk wrote: see issue: https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=126612 There's an update feed from 4.1.1 to 4.1.2 ready to go whenever we're ready for this. Thanks! I think we are ready, +1 from me for putting it online when you wish, like tomorrow or Monday. Just go ahead, the reason

Re: Pending release tasks

2015-10-29 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Marcus wrote: Gavin will have a look for the problem. We will go on tomorrow. The site builds correctly now: https://ci.apache.org/builders/ooo-site-site-staging but I haven't checked if all your commits were properly applied (the ones to the Italian pages were not applied until I made

Re: Thinking of joining OpenOffice as a developer

2015-10-29 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: From: Patricia Shanahan I started with https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide/Building_o n_Windows, but hit some issues and want to make sure I'm using the right guide. The first line of that page says "This page is archived for historical

Re: Pending release tasks

2015-10-29 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Rory O'Farrell wrote: On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 20:34:55 +0100 Marcus wrote: And I think I know what went wrong: I've committed to fast, and not waited for finishing the staging build before committing the next change. Probably it was my fault then. I updated the Italian site while you were

Re: Thank you!

2015-10-29 Thread Andrea Pescetti
RA Stehmann wrote: Very special thanks go to Andrea. Thanks! But truth is, thanks must go me as much as to everybody else. Dozens, maybe even hundreds, of people spent days (and, more often, nights) working to make this release happen. A number of them are credited at

Re: Remembering Ian Lynch in 4.1.2 announcement

2015-10-28 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 27/10/2015 Andrea Pescetti wrote: I was wondering whether we should remember Ian Lynch at the end of the 4.1.2 Release announcement ... I have no idea on whether this is appropriate or not. I'm rather neutral on the issue. Feedback welcome. Seeing all feedback so far, I think the best

Re: Pending release tasks

2015-10-28 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 27/10/2015 Andrea Pescetti wrote: OK, 20:00 CET will work too. So we aim at releasing Wednesday 20:00 CET, or http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20151028T20=37 Here's a status update. The following resources have been updated (not by me! there are at least 10 people

Re: Pending release tasks

2015-10-28 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 28/10/2015 20:00, Marcus wrote: http://www.openoffice.org/download/ This is now serving AOO 4.1.2 as default download. Great, we released exactly at 20:00 as planned then! Announcement is now posted to the blog at http://s.apache.org/announcing-openoffice-412 and sent to users,

Re: Pending release tasks

2015-10-28 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Marcus wrote: IMHO we should stop to promote this old "other.html" webpage and also delete it from the blog post. Done. I still see it useful to have a list of languages in table format, but if this simplifies the site management I won't oppose for sure! Updated post (same URL):

Re: Pending release tasks

2015-10-28 Thread Andrea Pescetti
John D'Orazio wrote: That last URL does announce 4.1.2 but the url itself points to https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/announcing_apache_openoffice_4_11 ... Well, the URL is a URL. It is automatically generated by our not-so-modern blogging platform, the _11 at the end is a mere coincidence.

English dictionary updates

2015-10-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
This is mainly for Marco, but useful for the dev list too: it looks like we will release OpenOffice 4.1.2 later this week, and send out update notifications in the next few days, so would it be possible to skip version 2015.11.01 of the English dictionary, or upload it to the Extensions site a

Re: Pending release tasks

2015-10-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Andrea Pescetti wrote: The 4.1.2 folder now contain en-US only and is set to be "staged". If there are no big surprises and if propagation is still smooth as it was for the en-US test, the release is only 24-48 hours away. For the record, everything worked fine. Files are now all

Re: Pending release tasks

2015-10-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Marcus wrote: Unfortunately not. Currently there is a good chance that I need to work longer and I need a bit to arrive at home, so 20:00 CET would be better. OK, 20:00 CET will work too. So we aim at releasing Wednesday 20:00 CET, or

Remembering Ian Lynch in 4.1.2 announcement

2015-10-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
I was wondering whether we should remember Ian Lynch at the end of the 4.1.2 Release announcement, with a sentence like "The OpenOffice community dedicates version 4.1.2 to the memory of Ian Lynch, a member of the OpenOffice Project Management Committee and a key contributor to marketing and

Re: Pending release tasks

2015-10-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 26/10/2015 Andrea Pescetti wrote: 4) Preparing a short press release. Nothing really big, something like https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/announcing_apache_openoffice_4_1 can be OK, or something more elaborate if we manage to put together a few quotes (after all, it has been a while since

Re: Pending release tasks

2015-10-26 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Marcus wrote: 2) Upload to mirrors. Does anyone know how to copy files to SF... Until now there are no real blockers and no veto vote. So, starting the upload now shouldn't be wrong. Yes, I started the upload just to test it. It worked. Upload to SF is extremely fast, and actually I was able

Re: Pending release tasks

2015-10-26 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Andrea Pescetti wrote: 1) Preparing Release Notes. I've already updated https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.1.2+Release+Notes but it still needs work. I can take care of it. I'm now done with describing the main content of the release at the URL above. Edits by Keith

Re: Pending release tasks

2015-10-26 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 26/10/2015 Marcus wrote: nice plan, haven't seen this before - but maybe I've just overlooked the link in previous mails. (Note: our messages crossed, so I had some wrong information in my previous mail). Yes, the page has been there for a while, with regular updates. Actually you got

[RESULT] [VOTE] Release 4.1.2-RC3 as OpenOffice 4.1.2

2015-10-26 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 23/10/2015 Andrea Pescetti wrote: We have been in the Release Candidate stage for three weeks and it is now time to start a VOTE for releasing OpenOffice 4.1.2. ... I'm initially keeping the VOTE just a bit longer than the minimum 72 hours: please vote by Monday 26 October, 14:00 UTC. ... So

Re: Extra files in 4.1.2-RC3 source package

2015-10-26 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Jürgen Schmidt wrote: On 25/10/15 11:15, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Damjan reported an interesting finding a few hours ago: the source package of OpenOffice 4.1.2-RC3 contains two extra files (which are not in SVN) in "main/": MacOSXX64Env.Set and MacOSXX64Env.Set.sh. the src tar

Re: University student looking for experience in contributing to the Open Office project

2015-10-25 Thread Andrea Pescetti
PATHANGI JANARDHANAN JATINSHRAVAN wrote: While running the command you had posted in the previous mail, I got an error from configure: Good, this means that "configure" is doing its job! It will take a while to accommodate all requests and setup the system properly, but then you will be

[DISCUSS] Re: [VOTE] Release 4.1.2-RC3 as OpenOffice 4.1.2

2015-10-25 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Damjan Jovanovic wrote: [-1] Disapprove That's bad! Let's see if we can manage to explain it and at least get a 0, since I don't see anything really blocking in your reports (I mean, we do not require that the release has no issues at all, and we agree that what we are releasing is better

Re: University student looking for experience in contributing to the Open Office project

2015-10-25 Thread Andrea Pescetti
PATHANGI JANARDHANAN JATINSHRAVAN wrote: I downgraded to Ant 1.8.4 and still I get the same issue. It is greater than 1.7.0 and 1.8.4 is sufficiently old enough at this point that I would expect it to work I confirm I can build with ant 1.9 (1.9.3, to be precise) with no issues. so is

Extra files in 4.1.2-RC3 source package

2015-10-25 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Damjan reported an interesting finding a few hours ago: the source package of OpenOffice 4.1.2-RC3 contains two extra files (which are not in SVN) in "main/": MacOSXX64Env.Set and MacOSXX64Env.Set.sh. I've done a quick check and: - The issue already exists in the 4.1.0 and 4.1.1 releases, and

Pending release tasks

2015-10-25 Thread Andrea Pescetti
After we have a successful vote (hopefully soon), we'll have to start working on the last steps to distribute a release. They are tracked on https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.1.2 but for a short summary: 1) Preparing Release Notes. I've already updated

Re: [DISCUSS] Re: [VOTE] Release 4.1.2-RC3 as OpenOffice 4.1.2

2015-10-25 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Damjan Jovanovic wrote: Ok, I am changing my vote to: [0] Abstain Thanks for your understanding. I suppose since the file is generated, unused, and was present in previous releases, it shouldn't stop this release. ... since the file is a generated file and not a source file, that may not

Re: [VOTE] Release 4.1.2-RC3 as OpenOffice 4.1.2

2015-10-25 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 23/10/2015 Andrea Pescetti wrote: So please VOTE on releasing RC3 (as defined above) as OpenOffice 4.1.2: [ ] +1 Approve [ ] 0 Abstain [ ] -1 Disapprove, with explanation +1 Approve Verified signatures, checksums, licenses, built from scratch on Linux, tested Italian localization

Re: About voting

2015-10-25 Thread Andrea Pescetti
donaldupre wrote: I was wondering, why is it necessary to vote for a minor release (4.1.1 to 4.1.2)? Because a release is an official act at Apache. It doesn't matter if it is a minor or major release. You can find all answers at http://www.apache.org/dev/release.html Is a unanimous vote

Re: University student looking for experience in contributing to the Open Office project

2015-10-24 Thread Andrea Pescetti
PATHANGI JANARDHANAN JATINSHRAVAN wrote: I am running into some problems, I am using this site for reference https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO) That page is OK. If you let us know your preferred username, we can create a wiki account for you, so that you can

[VOTE] Release 4.1.2-RC3 as OpenOffice 4.1.2

2015-10-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
We have been in the Release Candidate stage for three weeks and it is now time to start a VOTE for releasing OpenOffice 4.1.2. Source and binary packages for RC3 are available at https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/openoffice/ and the reference revision is r1709696. Many people helped in

Re: Time for OpenOffice 4.1.2-RC3

2015-10-22 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Andrea Pescetti wrote: That said, I'm happy to say that all issues needing verification have now been verified, so it is really time for OpenOffice 4.1.2-RC3 as per subject. Stay tuned for binaries. Short update: upload is now ongoing, so we will be able to have RC3 ready for download

Re: Please test updates with OpenOffice 4.1.2-RC2

2015-10-22 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Andrea Pescetti wrote: I've just enabled a test (fake!) feed for OpenOffice updates. ... It would be good to have confirmation with all supported platforms (one confirmation is OK) Thanks for testing. We covered all supported platforms, so the test feed has now been retired. It is normal

Re: Time for OpenOffice 4.1.2-RC3

2015-10-20 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 20/10/2015 Grazia Giovanni wrote: Il 19/10/2015 13:42, Andrea Pescetti ha scritto: Update: verification of these issues is now complete, with good results except for a few glitches still existing in the Sharepoint issue. Then I've tested RC2 + latest patch from Giuseppe (see https

Please test updates with OpenOffice 4.1.2-RC2

2015-10-20 Thread Andrea Pescetti
I've just enabled a test (fake!) feed for OpenOffice updates. Please check with 4.1.2-RC2 that the menu "?" - "Check for updates" gives you a message saying that OpenOffice 4.1.3 (remember, this is just a test!) is available, and brings you to somewhere on the www.openoffice.org site (the

Re: OpenJDK8

2015-10-19 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Damjan Jovanovic wrote: On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 12:35 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Are all of these FreeBSD specific? We are not going to merge a lot of patches now that we are in the final QA phase. If you want to work on this discuss on Bugzilla (just open an issue and CC me, pescetti), but I'm

Re: Time for OpenOffice 4.1.2-RC3

2015-10-19 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Andrea Pescetti wrote: handful "important" ones: http://s.apache.org/KL1 Most notably, we still need verification of: - WebDAV and Sharepoint issues - Proper functionality of update URLs for OpenOffice and extensions - A PDF issue and a LanguageTool issue Update: verification of th

Time for OpenOffice 4.1.2-RC3

2015-10-18 Thread Andrea Pescetti
As you may or may not have seen depending on how much you follow Bugzilla, the number of issues still to verify on RC2 is down to just a handful "important" ones: http://s.apache.org/KL1 Most notably, we still need verification of: - WebDAV and Sharepoint issues - Proper functionality of

Re: University student looking for experience in contributing to the Open Office project

2015-10-18 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 18/10/2015 PATHANGI JANARDHANAN JATINSHRAVAN wrote: I have also cloned the repository from svn so that I can look at the code changes as I look at the issues on bugzilla. I hope that this can get me some familiarity with the codebase. It will, and it is a good way to start. Do you prefer

Re: University student looking for experience in contributing to the Open Office project

2015-10-18 Thread Andrea Pescetti
PATHANGI JANARDHANAN JATINSHRAVAN wrote: I picked Open Office since it is something I use daily (almost) and would like to contribute to. Hi, this is very good news! The best way to start right now is to help with the final steps for the 4.1.2 release. This will allow you to get familiar

Re: Release status - Please test OpenOffice 4.1.2-RC2

2015-10-17 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 15/10/2015 Andrea Pescetti wrote: It is very important to test OpenOffice 4.1.2-RC2 thoroughly: please download it from https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/openoffice/ and use it for your normal tasks but also to mark as "VERIFIED" the bugs listed at Use http://s.apac

Re: OpenJDK8

2015-10-17 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 17/10/2015 Don Lewis wrote: FreeBSD's ports builds, which include the latest release candidate, were now marked broken with OpenJDK8. The AOO410 branch needs r1697228, r1697237, r1697247, r1697306, and r1697312 from trunk (which are sequential commits with no unrelated commits between the

Re: [QUESTION] Optional Java Use for Essential Functionality

2015-10-17 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: The issue, here, is about how Java ends up being required and the way the absence of a suitable JRE derails users in the current arrangement where there may be no or a wrong-bitness JRE present. The issue is also what we mean by "essential" functionality. True, Base

Release status - Please test OpenOffice 4.1.2-RC2

2015-10-15 Thread Andrea Pescetti
It is very important to test OpenOffice 4.1.2-RC2 thoroughly: please download it from https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/openoffice/ and use it for your normal tasks but also to mark as "VERIFIED" the bugs listed at

Re: [API] Priority Problem with AND and OR

2015-10-13 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 13/10/2015 Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: The real question becomes should it be changed to follow expected mathematical norms (breaking all existing correct code and fixing all broken code where people assumed it was done in the generally accepted way). No, but we should advise people

Re: SQLite ODBC driver for Libra and OpenOffice

2015-10-13 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Alexander Thurgood wrote: Le 13/10/2015 15:37, FR web forum a écrit : This commercial driver has been published as an extension: http://extensions.openoffice.org/en/project/openoffice-sqlite-odbc-driver Is it normal? Seems it also comes with a proprietary, restrictive license :

OpenOffice 4.1.2-RC2 available (and happy birthday!)

2015-10-13 Thread Andrea Pescetti
As a small gift for the 15 years of OpenOffice (OpenOffice was released as Open Source on 13 October 2000, as Louis reminded us during ApacheCon Budapest), we now have OpenOffice 4.1.2-RC2 available. OpenOffice 4.1.2-RC1 has been tested for more than a week without major bugs or regressions

Re: [DISCUSS] Fwd: Re: FOSDEM 2016 - Call for Participation

2015-10-10 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 06/10/2015 Andrea Pescetti wrote: I'm going to submit a proposal for an ODF Editors devroom too, similar to http://s.apache.org/ved (the one we sent last year). This was sent yesterday. I didn't CC the list since submissions now happen through a web form, but content is not much different

Re: Meeting at ApacheCon

2015-10-10 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Alexandro Colorado wrote: Any pictures from the meetup? We didn't take any, I think. But Michal did take several other pictures (thank you Michal!) which he shared on this list a few days ago. Regards, Andrea. - To

SNAPSHOT tag updated

2015-10-10 Thread Andrea Pescetti
I've spoken more on Bugzilla than on the list lately, so I'm now catching up and providing some more information. As you may have noticed, the SNAPSHOT tag has been updated in preparation for a RC2 that will be available early next week. This RC2 may be a release we vote on, since all

Re: SNAPSHOT tag updated

2015-10-10 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 10/10/2015 Mathias Röllig wrote: At the moment always Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.2_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_de.tar.gz is missing in https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/openoffice/4.1.2-rc1-r1705606/binaries/de/ When will a build be available for testing? Those builds will come with RC2, it is

Re: SNAPSHOT tag updated

2015-10-10 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Andrea Pescetti wrote: If there interest in testing that version as soon as possible, I can probably make one RC2 installer (like: the 64-bit Linux DEB installer, German version) available for download from my people.apache.org space It was ready earlier than expected, so you can now find

Re: Apache OpenOffice Board-Reporting Schedule

2015-10-08 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: QUARTER REPORTFINAL January 1 - March 31 April May April 1 - June 30 July August July 1 - September 30 October November October 1 - December 31 January February The fact that it is by

Re: 64 bit Linux builds for 4.1.2

2015-10-05 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 04/10/2015 j.nitschke wrote: the script hashing the source packages had a little problem https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/openoffice/4.1.2-rc1-r1705606/source/ md5 and sha256 tried to hash r705606 instead of r1705606 Thank you, well spotted! Will take note for future uploads.

Re: [DISCUSS] Fwd: Re: FOSDEM 2016 - Call for Participation

2015-10-05 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Roman Shaposhnik wrote: just wanted to let you guys know that I've just submitted a proposal for Big Data and Data Science devroom for FOSDEM. Good! Not sure how to increase our chances of being accepted, but would love any feedback on that. Both booths/stands and devrooms are accepted (or

Re: OpenOffice 4.1.2-RC1 available for testing

2015-10-04 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 05/10/2015 Bruce Pope wrote: Will Apache OpenOffice make an office suite available for Android operating systems in the near future? A port has been available since 2012: http://www.openoffice.org/porting/ But this is out of scope of the current tests, which apply to the platforms we

Re: 64 bit Linux builds for 4.1.2

2015-10-03 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Marcus wrote: The release files are nearly complete. Only the Linux 64 bit DEB full install files are missing. The langpacks are there. I confirmed I checked myself, and all languages are there: it is just a matter of comparing svn ls

OpenOffice 4.1.2-RC1 available for testing

2015-10-03 Thread Andrea Pescetti
We have the first Release Candidate of OpenOffice 4.1.2 available for testing. So it's time to get serious with tests. We'll run tests for at least a full week as agreed. Note: we will not vote on this Release Candidate. But it should be widely used for tests. Volunteers are recommended to

Re: Macs for building / testing AOO?

2015-10-02 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 30/09/2015 Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 29/09/2015 Damjan Jovanovic wrote: Do we have any Macs we can use for building and testing AOO? The project does have a Mac available Here all details after a quick chat with the Infra guys: - Our Mac machine has been up and running for months

Re: 64 bit Linux builds for 4.1.2

2015-10-02 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 01/10/2015 Andrea Pescetti wrote: RA Stehmann wrote: for testing 64 bit Linux builds are needed. Do we have any we can use for testing AOO 4.1.2? We will. The idea is that https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/openoffice/ will contain the full set, as if it was a normal release The URL

Re: 64 bit Linux builds for 4.1.2

2015-10-02 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Marcus wrote: when do you think we should talk a bit louder about the new builds? I mean, updating the blog post, updating the headline on the website, etc. ? As soon as we know that the set is complete. This means (and everybody can do it): checking that all 4.1.1 languages are listed in

Meeting at ApacheCon

2015-10-01 Thread Andrea Pescetti
It seems that several of us are (or are going to be) at ApacheCon Europe today and tomorrow, but it's difficult to find people in the huge crowd. Louis suggested that we organize a meeting tomorrow morning (do you have any more details about proposed time/place, Louis?). I expect that we

Re: Macs for building / testing AOO?

2015-09-30 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 29/09/2015 Damjan Jovanovic wrote: Do we have any Macs we can use for building and testing AOO? The project does have a Mac available, but 1) It's meant to be used as a buildbot, so very much OK for building but awkward for testing (so for your case an external, not project-owned machine

Re: 64 bit Linux builds for 4.1.2

2015-09-30 Thread Andrea Pescetti
RA Stehmann wrote: for testing 64 bit Linux builds are needed. Do we have any we can use for testing AOO 4.1.2? We will. The idea is that https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/openoffice/ will contain the full set, as if it was a normal release: all systems, all languages. So in this respect

Re: [DISCUSS] Fwd: Re: FOSDEM 2016 - Call for Participation

2015-09-28 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 28/09/2015 RA Stehmann wrote: as promised Mechtilde and I will join the Apache booth (stand) team at FOSDEM 2016. So you think it's better not to apply (additionally) as OpenOffice? We don't have any assurance that the ASF will be granted a stand, and OpenOffice has always been granted

Re: Trunk for building testing

2015-09-28 Thread Andrea Pescetti
davide wrote: I've finally a little bit of time to try if my building stack on Win7 is ok. Thanks, nice! The question is simple: what is the AOO 4.1.2 devel trunk to use for building testing purpose? The 4.1.2 release will be done from this branch: $ svn co

OpenOffice 4.1.2 release date

2015-09-28 Thread Andrea Pescetti
I've been very reluctant so far to provide an explicit release date for OpenOffice 4.1.2, because of some processes that were not under control yet. A generic "late 2015" or "last quarter 2015" would be all you got from me. This is still true, but I want it to be very clear that we are

Blog post: update on OpenOffice 4.1.2 status

2015-09-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
A long overdue blog post on the 4.1.2 status is now online: https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/coming_soon_apache_openoffice_4 I regret that our tools do not really allow to review a post before publishing it, but if there is anything to be fixed/modify just note it here and I will fix it.

Re: Merging some FreeBSD changes to AOO410 (was Re: AOO build system upgrades)

2015-09-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 25/09/2015 Pedro Giffuni wrote: I think it may be desireable to upgrade coinmp in AOO410 and with that we would solve the issues for people(/buildbots) doing complete builds. I see you have just committed this to AOO410, but remember: we are not freely committing to AOO410 at the moment

Re: Blog post: update on OpenOffice 4.1.2 status

2015-09-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 27/09/2015 Kay Schenk wrote: re BZ: I will work on this today. I was trying to do that a week or so ago, but couldn't find a way to deal with tracking by "Flag". In Bugzilla's Advanced search (this answers the question from Marcus too) one can do a "Custom Search" for "Flags" - "contains

SNAPSHOT tag updated

2015-09-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
The SNAPSHOT tag has now been updated to the latest (for the time being) revision of the AOO410 branch: https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/openoffice/tags/ The buildbots that are configured to track SNAPSHOT will thus build OpenOffice 4.1.2 starting from now (actually if anybody knows how to force

Re: [CWiki] Account Whitelisting

2015-09-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Lalith Ramesh wrote: Please try again. I just created an account on the Confluence Wiki. Thanks! Your account lalithramesh312 is now whitelisted. Andrea - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For

Re: Release Notes work -- AOO 4.1.2 issues/other inclusions

2015-09-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 28/09/2015 Kay Schenk wrote: It is likely that not all approved issues have actually been committed to the AOO410 trunk. Correct. A few are still pending. And, conversely, all AOO410 commits are related to blocker issues, except the CoinMP update (which is a requested blocker at the

Re: 4.1.2_release_blocker granted: [Issue 125613] Insert Picture from file do not work

2015-09-27 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Regina Henschel wrote: it would be nice, if you will merge it. I have not committed to branches and fell uneasy. Done. All you need to do, for the record, is to be in an AOO410 checkout and run $ svn merge -c 1650314 https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/openoffice/trunk/main main This merges

New OpenOffice Chair ratification

2015-09-26 Thread Andrea Pescetti
This is hardly news, but since it has not yet been explicitly reported here... the ASF Board ratified Dennis' election as new OpenOffice Chair during their September meeting, held on 16 September. This was totally expected, but it explains some discrepancies that we could have in future

Re: [DISCUSS] Fwd: Re: FOSDEM 2016 - Call for Participation

2015-09-26 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 26/09/2015 Kay Schenk wrote: OpenOffice has been participating in FOSDEM for quite some time. For the upcoming FOSDEM in 2016, the ASF will also be participating. Because of the new ASF "stand" participation, it has been suggested to request a set of tables -- one to accommodate the ASF as a

Re: Stale Windows snapshot builds

2015-09-26 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 23/09/2015 Kay Schenk wrote: I just put in a request yesterday to INFRA to check out/provide help with this. I hope we can get some assistance with this soon. Is it in JIRA somewhere? As far as I know, Infra strongly prefers that issues be tracked in JIRA rather than by mail. Regards,

Re: [CWiki] Account Whitelisting

2015-09-26 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 26/09/2015 Lalith Ramesh wrote: As requested by the AOO community, I switched to the username lalithramesh312 to sign up for the Confluence Wiki. Thank you for understanding! Please activate my account so I can add myself to the Directory of Volunteers. I can't find your new account. It

Re: AOO build system upgrades

2015-09-24 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 24/09/2015 Damjan Jovanovic wrote: We aren't branching trunk to release 4.1.2, we are porting specific patches from trunk to the pre-existing AOO410 branch and then tagging that as the release. The state of trunk doesn't affect the release stability. There will be less oversight on trunk at

Re: Merging some FreeBSD changes to AOO410 (was Re: AOO build system upgrades)

2015-09-24 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Pedro Giffuni wrote: It did catch me somewhat off-guard that the release is not branched from trunk. It basically means that some changes that have been in the tree for over a year won't be included into the next release. Yes, this is actually quite normal (well, let's say "usual"!): I mean,

Re: Merging some FreeBSD changes to AOO410 (was Re: AOO build system upgrades)

2015-09-24 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Pedro Giffuni wrote: People shouldn't volunteer other people unless tey are also giving them the means to contribute ... I think. Status of that item (buildbots) is "Done". Don's name is there for recognition of the already done work. Using the buildbots for the release (even not

Re: AOO build system upgrades

2015-09-24 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Kay Schenk wrote: @Andrea. We already have buildbots for the 410 branch as the SNAPSHOT tag. But this tag needs to be updated to something more current with our recent merges. Sure, but we are now (say, in the last 24 hours and in the next 24 hours) merging a lot of pending items and I'd

Re: AOO build system upgrades

2015-09-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Damjan Jovanovic wrote: I see there was a historical attempt to upgrade the build environment to gbuild which migrated some modules (https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Build_Environment_Effort), and a more recent attempt, Capstone 2013, to get AOO to build in Visual Studio. Yes and we have

Re: OpenSSL update

2015-09-23 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Kay Schenk wrote: Anyway, I will do this update on my system and we'll see what happens after that. This can also be considered for 4.1.2, but in that case it would be easier for everybody if after testing you open an issue and attach the patch so that we can go through the usual process.

OpenOffice 4.1.2 and 4.2.0

2015-09-22 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On one side it seems that we are accumulating a lot of stuff for 4.1.2, way more than what we would normally put in a x.y.2 release. On the other side, there are many reasons for releasing 4.1.2 reasonably soon. So it is time to shift focus from "what to include in 4.1.2" to "what is still

Re: help how to create a patch

2015-09-21 Thread Andrea Pescetti
John D'Orazio wrote: Ok I'm trying to get the sources on my local computer to take a better look at them, it'll be easier to search them locally Not necessarily. Opengrok is your friend in many cases: http://opengrok.adfinis-sygroup.org/source/ Does anyone use Eclipse to work with the source

Re: update url with atom feed for update notifications

2015-09-21 Thread Andrea Pescetti
John D'Orazio wrote: Can anyone tell me, when a plugin is uploaded and hosted on http://extensions.openoffice.org, is an update url with relative atom feed automatically created? Or is it up to the plugin developer to provide the atom feed on his own server, and point the update url for the

Re: [CWiki] Account Whitelisting

2015-09-20 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Gavin McDonald wrote: On 20 Sep 2015, at 2:15 am, OO Bugs wrote: My name is Lalith Ramesh, and I would like to request an account on the Confluence Wiki with the username "openofficebugs". I would like to add myself to the Directory of Volunteers. To be honest I

Re: help building on Fedora x86-64

2015-09-20 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 20/09/2015 Carl Marcum wrote: I'm attempting my first AOO build and I'm using Fedora 20 x86-64 I think I have all the dependencies installed. You can verify it at https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Fedora_Build_Instructions (Fedora 19 will be OK as a reference). I used: ./configure

Re: Ian Lynch information needed

2015-09-19 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 13/09/2015 Kay Schenk wrote: Thank you. And it seems I mis-typed the year.in the memorial page. New revision attached. Thank you Kay. This final version is now published at http://www.apache.org/memorials/ Regards, Andrea.

Re: 32-bit Xubuntu 14.04 build broken

2015-09-19 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 13/09/2015 Damjan Jovanovic wrote: = 1. CoinMP cannot be downloaded = No Ubuntu package (or is there?) so it has to be downloaded during ./bootstrap, but it seems the website has been down for a few days now. This prevents the use of

Re: Wrongful information on the Wikipedia

2015-09-17 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Phillip Rhodes wrote: All of the above said, maybe we should drop this whole discussion Well, it remains the fact that "OpenOffice moribund" is false. The primary sources cited in the article (all of which are clearly misinterpreted) are: - A message from Juergen saying that he won't be

Re: [CWiki] Account Whitelisting

2015-09-14 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 13/09/2015 Andy Seymour wrote: I'm looking for permissions to be able to edit the Wiki "List of Volunteers" page Welcome! Account whitelisted. Andrea - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For

Re: Maintenance of AOO Wiki and Forum

2015-09-12 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 11/09/2015 jan i wrote: I see this mail goes public on dev@ which seems to have changed a lot I was answering your mail sent to dev. Your description sounds ok (at least for a sales brochure), reality might be a bit more complicated but not that much. Well, you had stated here that

Re: "[CWiki] Account Whitelisting"

2015-09-11 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Bilal Coleman wrote: My name is Bilal Coleman, I'm writing this in order to request that my wiki account be activated. My User name is Nightwriter. Welcome! Account whitelisted. Andrea. - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: Maintenance of AOO Wiki and Forum

2015-09-11 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 14/08/2015 jan i wrote: this might be a good time for a new maintainer to step up. The actual maintenance is about 1 hour pr month. Coming back to this, it is likely to be easier to find someone if we define this "ordinary maintenance" better. I mean, updating the application takes

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