RE: [DISCUSS] Issue 125954 unhiding "hidden" content on e-mail send of document

2016-05-01 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
30/2016 05:07 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 3:53 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton > <dennis.hamil...@acm.org > >> wrote: > >>> -Original Message- > >>> From: Kay Schenk [mailto:kay.sch...@gmail.com] > >>> Sent: Friday, April 29, 2016 1

RE: 5. Any system which depends on human reliability is unreliable

2016-04-30 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
an reliability is > unreliable > > 2016-04-24 19:20 GMT+02:00 Dennis E. Hamilton <dennis.hamil...@acm.org>: > > > <https://www.gilb.com/p/Principle-Gilbs-Laws-of-Unreliability> (Might > > require registration. I cannot determine that as an existing

RE: [DISCUSS] Issue 125954 unhiding "hidden" content on e-mail send of document

2016-04-29 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
> -Original Message- > From: Kay Schenk [mailto:kay.sch...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, April 29, 2016 13:28 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Issue 125954 unhiding "hidden" content on e-mail > send of document > > > > On 04/26/2016 03:39 AM, Carl Marcum wrote: [

RE: ApacheOpenOffice on AIX 6 or 7

2016-04-28 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
If you are asking about office productivity software that runs on AIX, do you mean under the Common Desktop Environment? Are you already using IBM Lotus Notes? AIX is kin to Unix System 5 and BSD Unix. It runs on various proprietary IBM platforms. It will matter if you are working with a

FW: Excell 2003+

2016-04-26 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
> -Original Message- > From: John Godfrey [mailto:jdgodf...@shaw.ca] > Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2016 07:34 > To: dennis.hamil...@acm.org > Subject: Re: Excell 2003+ > > Problem solved. > Thanks, > John > > > On 4/23/2016 9:40 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton

New Committer: Jan Høydahl (janhoy)

2016-04-24 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
[BCC AOO PMC] The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache OpenOffice is pleased to annound that Jan Høydahl (janhoy) has accepted our invitation to become a committer on the Apache OpenOfffice project. A warm welcome to Jan Høydahl. Regards, Dennis Hamilton, on behalf of the Apache

5. Any system which depends on human reliability is unreliable

2016-04-24 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
(Might require registration. I cannot determine that as an existing subscriber.) An interesting observation about dealing with the human part of human-computer systems. The position expressed is that this requires a systematic,

[REPORT] Issue Clearance Quality through 2016Q1

2016-04-23 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
-- > From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:orc...@apache.org] > Sent: Friday, January 15, 2016 11:23 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: [REPORT] Issue Clearance Quality + Technical Debt > > [BCC to Project Management Committee and users@ oo.a.o] > > SUMMARY > > T

RE: Excell 2003+

2016-04-23 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Please explain this part with more detail: > I employed a programmer to write script to enter data from a text file > to an AOO spreadsheet saved as Excel. he did all the coding using Open > XML SDK and the xlsx file he returned to me AOO will not open. 0. First thing to try: Open the Excel

RE: [DISCUSS][VOTE] Release Groovy UNO Extension 0.1.4-RC2

2016-04-21 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I am having a different kind of difficulty. I think this experience is more for the Apache Groovy project, but some of it might apply to our prerequisites at . 1. I chose to use the Groovy 2.4.6 Windows Installer (.exe). 2. I do

RE: [DISCUSS][VOTE] Release Groovy UNO Extension 0.1.4

2016-04-18 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Nice collaborative work, as always [;<). - Dennis > -Original Message- > From: Carl Marcum [mailto:cmar...@apache.org] > Sent: Monday, April 18, 2016 04:04 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS][VOTE] Release Groovy UNO Extension 0.1.4 > > On 04/17/2016 08:48 PM,

RE: svn commit: r1739628 - in /openoffice/trunk/main: connectivity/source/drivers/flat/ETable.cxx tools/source/stream/stream.cxx

2016-04-17 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Does the rule about using "" to make a single quote inside a quoted field also apply? - Dennis > -Original Message- > From: dam...@apache.org [mailto:dam...@apache.org] > Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2016 09:45 > To: comm...@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: svn commit: r1739628 - in

RE: [QA] Testlink Guest Account

2016-04-17 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Great questions! 1. We don't assign test cases to people, generally. Generally, QA contributors select bugzilla issues and assign to themselves as QA person so that others know someone has raised their hand. 2.There has not been any updating of TestLink since 2014-08-15 and the latest

RE: You NEED TO UPDATE YOUR Security Certificate Before I UPDATE OPEN OFFICE

2016-04-12 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Help us connect the dots a little more, John. Case #1: 1. Is there a problem when you go to ? 2. Is there a problem when you click on "Download full installation" on that page or is it before that? Case #2: 1. Are you in Apache OpenOffice (which

RE: Background colour for OO Comments

2016-04-11 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
> -Original Message- > From: Rory O'Farrell [mailto:ofarr...@iol.ie] > Sent: Monday, April 11, 2016 10:44 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: Background colour for OO Comments > > On Mon, 11 Apr 2016 10:35:35 -0700 > "Dennis E. Hamilton&quo

RE: Background colour for OO Comments

2016-04-11 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
> -Original Message- > From: Rory O'Farrell [mailto:ofarr...@iol.ie] > Sent: Monday, April 11, 2016 10:00 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: Background colour for OO Comments > > > The initial extension offers the facility to mark a selection and attach > the annotation to

RE: Background colour for OO Comments

2016-04-11 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
> -Original Message- > From: Rory O'Farrell [mailto:ofarr...@iol.ie] > Sent: Monday, April 11, 2016 00:52 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Background colour for OO Comments > > > Comments applied to text in OpenOffice take different background colours > depending on the author

RE: [DISCUSS] Cleanup needed for RESOLVED-FIXED issues

2016-04-09 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 9:59 AM, Marcus<marcus.m...@wtnet.de> wrote: > > > >> Am 04/07/2016 06:35 PM, schrieb Dennis E. Hamilton: > >> > >>> My only concern is that this is a giant CTR and pretty much assures > that > >>> the "R" will not

RE: Interesting Developments for Windows-targetted software

2016-04-08 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
There's good news (2 flavors) and bad news (one) concerning the forthcoming Windows 10 Anniversary Update. Features of that upgrade are now available in a Windows Insider build 10.0.14316 and I can confirm more interesting things. > -Original Message- > From: Dennis E. Ha

Weekly Principle - Success Demands Clarity by Kai and Tom Gilb

2016-04-08 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Wondering how this can be adapted in a bottom-up driven open-source effort such as Apache OpenOffice. How can this arrive organically and provide a path to some defined success, or at least measure whether progress is toward a measurable value?

Apache OpenOffice Mailing List Statistics

2016-04-07 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
[BCC to PMC] The tabulation below provides the rate of mailing list usage for all of public lists since Apache OpenOffice became a top-level project in November 2012. The full, auditable compilation of the data can be found in the PDF at . In the tabulation below,

RE: Cross Script vulnerabilities in AOo Extensions?

2016-04-07 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Toki, thanks for your useful question. Here are some factors to consider. 1. The Apache OpenOffice project does not vet or review extensions and templates that are produced by third parties and downloadable from the SourceForge extension and template collections. These are all "at your own

RE: [DISCUSS] Cleanup needed for RESOLVED-FIXED issues

2016-04-07 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
My only concern is that this is a giant CTR and pretty much assures that the "R" will not happen. So be it. However, do not disable the issues mails for any reason. There is a difference between R not happening and R not being possible. - Dennis > -Original Message- > From: Marcus

RE: [DISCUSS][VOTE] Release Groovy UNO Extension 0.1.4

2016-04-05 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
> -Original Message- > From: Carl Marcum [mailto:cmar...@apache.org] > Sent: Tuesday, April 5, 2016 15:08 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS][VOTE] Release Groovy UNO Extension 0.1.4 > > On 04/05/2016 01:36 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wro

RE: [HELP NEEDED] old Solaris related build issues

2016-04-05 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
+1 to the suggestions from Marcus > -Original Message- > From: Marcus [mailto:marcus.m...@wtnet.de] > Sent: Tuesday, April 5, 2016 09:18 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: [HELP NEEDED] old Solaris related build issues > > Am 04/05/2016 01:51 AM, schrieb Patricia Shanahan: >

[DISCUSS][VOTE] Release Groovy UNO Extension 0.1.4

2016-04-05 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Side question. > -Original Message- > From: Carl Marcum [mailto:cmar...@apache.org] > Sent: Tuesday, April 5, 2016 04:07 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: [VOTE] Release Groovy UNO Extension 0.1.4 > > This is for a source release of Groovy UNO Extension 0.1.4 from Apache >

Using the @ApacheOO Twitter Account

2016-04-03 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
lla issues. -- Dennis E. Hamilton orc...@apache.org dennis.hamil...@acm.org+1-206-779-9430 https://keybase.io/orcmid PGP F96E 89FF D456 628A X.509 certs used and requested for signed e-mail - To unsubscribe, e

RE: procedure for going from RC to release

2016-04-03 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
The RC artifact that is approved as a release is the artifact that is released. If you check the last RC for AOO 4.1.2 at you'll see that the folder has the RC name, tied to the source tree. In that folder, the files are all identified

Interesting Developments for Windows-targetted software

2016-03-30 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
along with the highly-improved file-system integration that will come with GNU/Windows as some are beginning to call this. -- Dennis E. Hamilton orc...@apache.org dennis.hamil...@acm.org+1-206-779-9430 https://keybase.io/orcmid PGP F96E 89FF D456 628A X.509 certs used and req

RE: Regression tests?

2016-03-29 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
+1 Patricia. Go for it. > -Original Message- > From: Patricia Shanahan [mailto:p...@acm.org] > Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2016 06:00 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: Regression tests? > > Thanks for this extremely useful information - far too useful to only > exist in a mail

RE: Release Manager for 4.2.0?

2016-03-29 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
> -Original Message- > From: Damjan Jovanovic [mailto:dam...@apache.org] > Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2016 02:30 > To: Apache OO > Subject: Re: Release Manager for 4.2.0? [ ... ] > > Let's rather research where AOO uses openssl instead of guessing. > > I find

DO NOT OPEN OR DOWNLOAD 000000889723.zip

2016-03-29 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
A direct post to ooo-commits @incubator.apache.org (and delivered via commits@ openoffice.apache.org) consists of a Zip having serious malicious content. If you are subscribed to the commits list, please delete the message that has no subject and the attachment 00889723.zip without

RE: Release Manager for 4.2.0?

2016-03-28 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
> -Original Message- > From: Don Lewis [mailto:truck...@apache.org] > Sent: Monday, March 28, 2016 15:32 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Cc: dennis.hamil...@acm.org > Subject: Re: Release Manager for 4.2.0? > > On 28 Mar, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > &g

RE: Release Manager for 4.2.0?

2016-03-28 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Commenting just on document signing ... > -Original Message- > From: Pedro Giffuni [mailto:p...@apache.org] > Sent: Monday, March 28, 2016 13:48 > To: OOo Apache > Subject: Re: Release Manager for 4.2.0? [ ... ] > > [ ... ] I am unsure about what in OpenOffice

RE: Releasing the Apache OpenOffice API plugin for NetBeans

2016-03-27 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
+1 on the three PMC members > -Original Message- > From: Andrea Pescetti [mailto:pesce...@apache.org] > Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2016 12:26 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: Releasing the Apache OpenOffice API plugin for NetBeans > > Dennis E. Hami

RE: Release Manager for 4.2.0?

2016-03-27 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Great news! Thanks, Andrea > -Original Message- > From: Andrea Pescetti [mailto:pesce...@apache.org] > Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2016 13:13 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: Release Manager for 4.2.0? > > On 29/01/2016 Andrea Pescetti wrote: > > For 4.2.0 we need a Release

RE: Releasing the Apache OpenOffice API plugin for NetBeans

2016-03-27 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
> -Original Message- > From: Andrea Pescetti [mailto:pesce...@apache.org] > Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2016 09:46 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: Releasing the Apache OpenOffice API plugin for NetBeans > > On 27/03/2016 Patricia Shanahan wrote: > > On 3/26/2016 10:37 AM,

RE: Releasing the Apache OpenOffice API plugin for NetBeans

2016-03-26 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
> -Original Message- > From: Andrea Pescetti [mailto:pesce...@apache.org] > Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2016 10:38 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: Releasing the Apache OpenOffice API plugin for NetBeans > > On 20/03/2016 Patricia Shanahan wrote: > > The issue is whether it

RE: branches/gbuild-reintegration merge?

2016-03-24 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
+1 on the conservative approach that Marcus recommends. I understand that this is now being considered a low risk case. Still, better safe than sorry, especially since reverting from the trunk would be complicated. - Dennis > -Original Message- > From: Marcus

[DISCUSS] HELP WANTED: Putting Help Wanted on OpenOffice.org

2016-03-24 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
as a nice on-ramp for areas we have available for folks to work. -- Dennis E. Hamilton orc...@apache.org dennis.hamil...@acm.org+1-206-779-9430 https://keybase.io/orcmid PGP F96E 89FF D456 628A X.509 certs used and

RE: New PMC Member Keith N. McNamara

2016-03-22 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
; > On 21/03/2016 Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > >> A warm (belated) welcome to Keith McNamera > > > > McKenna. And welcome Keith! > > > > http://people.apache.org/phonebook.html?pmc=openoffice has the right > > name (and by the way it is the new page for t

RE: Can we add the value "N/A" to the Target Milestone field

2016-03-22 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
> -Original Message- > From: Marcus [mailto:marcus.m...@wtnet.de] > Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2016 11:30 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: Can we add the value "N/A" to the Target Milestone field > > Am 03/22/2016 06:34 PM, schrieb Patricia Shanahan: > > On 3/22/2016 9:25

RE: Can we add the value "N/A" to the Target Milestone field

2016-03-22 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Many interesting ideas, ... > -Original Message- > From: Carl Marcum [mailto:cmar...@apache.org] > Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2016 03:35 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: Can we add the value "N/A" to the Target Milestone field > > On 03/22/2016 05:02 AM, Marcus wrote: > > Am

RE: Can we add the value "N/A" to the Target Milestone field

2016-03-21 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
> -Original Message- > From: Carl Marcum [mailto:cmar...@apache.org] > Sent: Monday, March 21, 2016 15:30 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: Can we add the value "N/A" to the Target Milestone field > [ ... ] > > > I have been guilty of creating issues for coding tasks

New PMC Member Keith N. McNamara

2016-03-21 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
[BCC PMC] The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache OpenOffice is pleased to announce that Keith N. McNamera joined the PMC on 2016-03-05. A warm (belated) welcome to Keith McNamera Regards, - Dennis Hamilton, on behalf of the Apache OpenOffice PMC

New PMC Member Patricia Shanahan

2016-03-21 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
[BCC PMC] The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache OpenOffice is pleased to announce that Patricia Shanahan joined the PMC on 2016-02-29. A warm (belated) welcome to Patricia Shanahan Regards, - Dennis Hamilton, on behalf of the Apache OpenOffice PMC

New PMC Member Carl Marcum

2016-03-21 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
[BCC PMC] The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache OpenOffice is pleased to announce that Carl Marcum (cmarcum) joined the PMC on 2016-02-14. A warm (belated) welcome to Carl Marcum Regards, - Dennis Hamilton, on behalf of the Apache OpenOffice PMC

RE: Can we add the value "N/A" to the Target Milestone field

2016-03-21 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
> -Original Message- > From: Keith N. McKenna [mailto:keith.mcke...@comcast.net] > Sent: Monday, March 21, 2016 10:22 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: Can we add the value "N/A" to the Target Milestone field > > Kay Schenk wrote: [ ... ] > > The problem is stemming from

RE: Can we add the value "N/A" to the Target Milestone field

2016-03-21 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
gt; > On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton > <dennis.hamil...@acm.org > >> wrote: > > > >> I want to clarify this. > >> > >> I think the problem might be that "Resolved - Fixed" is being used > >> incorre

RE: Can we add the value "N/A" to the Target Milestone field

2016-03-20 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Thanks for the "None" Target, Marcus. > -Original Message- > From: Marcus [mailto:marcus.m...@wtnet.de] > Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2016 15:38 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Cc: q...@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: Can we add the value "N/A" to the Target Milestone field > > Am

RE: Can we add the value "N/A" to the Target Milestone field

2016-03-20 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I want to clarify this. I think the problem might be that "Resolved - Fixed" is being used incorrectly. As far as I know, there are many cases where this resolution is used where one of "Resolved - Not an Issue" (though not too often), "Resolved - Irreproducible", "Resolved - Won't Fix", or

RE: Releasing the Apache OpenOffice API plugin for NetBeans

2016-03-20 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
+1 I think exploring that source being at ASF and the artifact be elsewhere is a good idea. > -Original Message- > From: Carl Marcum [mailto:cmar...@apache.org] > Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2016 09:49 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: Releasing the Apache OpenOffice API plugin

RE: Releasing the Apache OpenOffice API plugin for NetBeans

2016-03-20 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
[BCC to the PMC] >From the Chair, If this is considered an Apache release and identified as provided by the Apache OpenOffice project, then the Apache release requirements must be satisfied. I know of no records on the AOO project obtaining an exception for this case from the Foundation. If

RE: [OT] ApacheCon

2016-03-20 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
> -Original Message- > From: Andrea Pescetti [mailto:pesce...@apache.org] > Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2016 06:41 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: [OT] ApacheCon > > On 17/03/2016 Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > > I thought about it, since the travel

RE: [OT] ApacheCon

2016-03-19 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I thought about it, since the travel part is easy. I decided to avoid the expense of the conference and accomodations and stay home though. - Dennis > -Original Message- > From: Patricia Shanahan [mailto:p...@acm.org] > Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2016 17:24 > To:

AOO Governance (was RE: Next release and gbuild)

2016-03-19 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Technically, we do not have a management hierarchy on Apache projects, although there are some rather limited governance roles. There can be self-organizing *informal* teams that are basically people working together for some common within-project purpose and those are fluid and definitely

RE: AOO Governance (was RE: Next release and gbuild)

2016-03-19 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
It seems we're having a nomenclature problem here. At the ASF "Release Manager" and "Release Management" are narrow, specific terms. AOO release management does not involve any abstraction that includes supervision of work and especially not supervision of workers. This may be more helpful

RE: Posting Alert Message Experimentation

2016-03-18 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
scetti [mailto:pesce...@apache.org] > Sent: Saturday, March 12, 2016 00:14 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Cc: us...@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: Posting Alert Message Experimentation > > On 11/03/2016 Marcus wrote: > > Am 03/11/2016 09:59 PM, schrieb Dennis E. H

RE: apache testing volunteer

2016-03-12 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Yes, Rashida can subscribe to qa@, issues@, and create an account on the bugzilla at . It is valuable to have external testing for confirmation and narrowing in, with the reporter and others, on the actual issue condition. In this case it will also be important to

Posting Alert Message Experimentation

2016-03-11 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
led by Apache Infrastructure. - Dennis > -----Original Message- > From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamil...@acm.org] > Sent: Friday, March 11, 2016 11:43 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Cc: us...@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: FW: Alert: forum.openoffice.org

FW: Recovery: wiki.openoffice.org is back again!

2016-03-11 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
FYI > -Original Message- > From: no-re...@status.apache.org [mailto:no-re...@status.apache.org] > Sent: Friday, March 11, 2016 11:41 > To: orc...@apache.org > Subject: Recovery: wiki.openoffice.org is back again! > > Hello, Our monitoring system has detected that wiki.openoffice.org >

FW: Recovery: forum.openoffice.org is back again!

2016-03-11 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
FYI > -Original Message- > From: no-re...@status.apache.org [mailto:no-re...@status.apache.org] > Sent: Friday, March 11, 2016 11:41 > To: orc...@apache.org > Subject: Recovery: forum.openoffice.org is back again! > > Hello, Our monitoring system has detected that forum.openoffice.org >

FW: Alert: forum.openoffice.org is down!

2016-03-11 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
FYI > -Original Message- > From: no-re...@status.apache.org [mailto:no-re...@status.apache.org] > Sent: Friday, March 11, 2016 11:11 > To: orc...@apache.org > Subject: Alert: forum.openoffice.org is down! > > Hello, > Our monitoring system has detected that forum.openoffice.org (https)

FW: Alert: wiki.openoffice.org is down!

2016-03-11 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
FYI > -Original Message- > From: no-re...@status.apache.org [mailto:no-re...@status.apache.org] > Sent: Friday, March 11, 2016 11:11 > To: orc...@apache.org > Subject: Alert: wiki.openoffice.org is down! > > Hello, > Our monitoring system has detected that wiki.openoffice.org (https) is

RE: Adding Blog Authors (was RE: Apache OpenOffice Templates and Extensions new sites)

2016-03-09 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
> Am 03/09/2016 08:27 PM, schrieb Dennis E. Hamilton: > > I note that<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-11130> has > made no progress. > > oh dear. I'll notify Infra in a more direct way after this mail. > > > I also notice that my blogs.apache.org Roller

Adding Blog Authors (was RE: Apache OpenOffice Templates and Extensions new sites)

2016-03-09 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Marcus, I note that has made no progress. I also notice that my blogs.apache.org Roller account has a different password than my ASF User ID account. (My Apache ID is used as my Roller Username. I don't think that is a requirement). When

RE: AOO Code Comments

2016-03-06 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Here is something that came up two weeks ago: This page is the top level of some considerable in-code format and documentation practices: . (Hat tip to j.nitschke for pointing me to these.) Documentation codes are treated at

[OFF-LIST] RE: [VOTE] Release Java Bootstrap Connector via Maven

2016-03-05 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Patricia, for your [VOTE] to be binding, you need to confirm having built from source, checked signatures, etc. Please provide an account of what you did along with your vote. I just want to make certain that you did it. - Dennis > -Original Message- > From: Patricia Shanahan

RE: Profile.c bugs (was RE: Some thoughts on the learning curve)

2016-03-04 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
.c bugs (was RE: Some thoughts on the learning > curve) > > On 3/4/2016 9:39 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > > Patricia, > > > > Based on Damjan's finding that profile files are read by the > > application and that some are created during setup, with ot

RE: Profile.c bugs (was RE: Some thoughts on the learning curve)

2016-03-04 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Damjan, A question below. > -Original Message- > From: Damjan Jovanovic [mailto:dam...@apache.org] > Sent: Friday, March 4, 2016 04:41 > To: Apache OO > Subject: Re: Profile.c bugs (was RE: Some thoughts on the learning > curve) > > On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at

RE: Profile.c bugs (was RE: Some thoughts on the learning curve)

2016-03-04 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Patricia, Based on Damjan's finding that profile files are read by the application and that some are created during setup, with others copied in from the setup, it is settled that the code is used in current distributions and is also available to extensions. I recommend that we catch our

RE: Profile.c bugs (was RE: Some thoughts on the learning curve)

2016-03-03 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
ursday, March 3, 2016 17:43 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: Profile.c bugs (was RE: Some thoughts on the learning > curve) > > On 3/3/2016 5:00 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > >> -Original Message- > >> From: Patricia Shanahan [mailto:

RE: Broken links in the Wiki

2016-03-03 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Patricia, the OpenOffice architecture material has not been maintained in a long time. It appears that pacbell.net is long gone and folks personal accounts with it. In this case there is a prominent John Ousterhout and there might be another location for the PDF if we could figure out its

RE: Profile.c bugs (was RE: Some thoughts on the learning curve)

2016-03-03 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
ook :). Apparently sal/osl/w32/profile.cxx sprang primordially from the earth on 2010-01-29. I have to believe there was an older one, possibly named profile.c but deleted and not shown in the bitbucket. > > Patricia > > > On 3/3/2016 11:14 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:

RE: Profile.c bugs (was RE: Some thoughts on the learning curve)

2016-03-03 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
ecking. Despite the sane class wrapping, there could potentially be multiple Profile instances constructed on the same ProfileName string. Then thread synchronization could still be needed, assuming osl_openProfile succeeds under those conditions. > -Original Message- > From: Dennis

[RISKS?] Dependability Issues with the AOO Code?

2016-03-01 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
be so favorable in our case, absent a systematic approach to AOO maintenance, especially around dependability problems. -- Dennis E. Hamilton orc...@apache.org dennis.hamil...@acm.org+1-206-779-9430 https://keybase.io/orcmid PGP F96E 89FF D456 628A X.509 certs used and req

Profile.c bugs (was RE: Some thoughts on the learning curve)

2016-02-29 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
prune it from trunk and source releases. - Dennis > -Original Message- > From: Patricia Shanahan [mailto:p...@acm.org] > Sent: Saturday, February 20, 2016 20:57 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: Some thoughts on the learning curve > > > > On 2/20

New Committer: Jon Peli Oleaga (jpoleaga)

2016-02-25 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
[BCC AOO PMC] The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache OpenOffice is pleased to announced that Jon Peli Oleaga (jpoleaga) has accepted our invitation to become a committer on the Apache OpenOffice project. A warm welcome to Jon Peli Oleaga. Regards, Dennis Hamilton, on behalf of

RE: [DISCUSS][VOTE] Release Java Bootstrap Connector via Maven

2016-02-25 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
+1 on your timing. Your switching to a personal distribution is also a good fall-back approach. - Dennis > -Original Message- > From: Carl Marcum [mailto:cmar...@apache.org] > Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2016 15:51 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS][VOTE]

New Committer: Patricia Shanahan (pats)

2016-02-24 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
[BCC AOO PMC] The Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache OpenOffice is pleased to announced that Patricia Shanahan (pats) has accepted our invitation to become a committer on the Apache OpenOffice project. A warm welcome to Patricia Shanahan. Regards, Dennis Hamilton, on behalf of

RE: [DISCUSS] Documentation comments

2016-02-23 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
The answer appears to be "yes and no". This page is the top level of some considerable in-code format and documentation practices: . (Hat tip to j.nitschke for pointing me to these.) Documentation codes are treated at

RE: Some thoughts on the learning curve

2016-02-20 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I sympathize with Pedro's observation. Meanwhile, although I am not an expert, I could stand to buddy up on the following profile-related situation: . If I had to name one absolutely critical situation it has to do with AOO release

Apache OpenOffice Report from the Approved 2016-01-20 ASF Board Meeting Minutes

2016-02-20 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
[BCC to PMC] For your convenience, the Apache OpenOffice portion of the Approved 2016-01-20 ASF Board minutes is available at . - Dennis BACKGROUND The complete collection of Board Meeting Minutes

RE: [QUESTION] Karma for www.openoffice.org contribution and editing

2016-02-20 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
QUESTION] Karma for www.openoffice.org contribution and > editing > > Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > > We have arrangements for non-committers to contribute to the CWiki > > and the MediaWiki, even the project Blog. > > > > In terms of requesting Help Wa

[QUESTION] Karma for www.openoffice.org contribution and editing

2016-02-19 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
to Contribute page and perhaps some other places.) -- Dennis E. Hamilton orc...@apache.org dennis.hamil...@acm.org+1-206-779-9430 https://keybase.io/orcmid PGP F96E 89FF D456 628A X.509 certs used and requested for signed e-mail

RE: Use of OpenOffice logo.

2016-02-17 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
[BCC to AOO PMC] Questions about trademarks and permissible usage must be directed to . The agreement on permissions will be based on narrow, specific usage to be worked out in confidence by communication to the private@ list. Please follow-up on private@. -

RE: [DISCUSS] Release Java Bootstrap Connector via Maven

2016-02-16 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Carl, thanks for clearing that up. > -Original Message- > From: Carl Marcum [mailto:cmar...@apache.org] > Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2016 15:30 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Release Java Bootstrap Connector via Maven > > On 02/16/20

RE: [DISCUSS] Release Java Bootstrap Connector via Maven

2016-02-16 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
> To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Release Java Bootstrap Connector via Maven > > > On 02/15/2016 04:45 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > > In case it is useful in this case, be aware that it is the last > > vote cast by any individual that mat

RE: review requested: [Issue 67103] check in OpenOffice NetBeans integration : [Attachment 85289] unfixed defect

2016-02-16 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Yes, the attachment is a .docx file named Great Thoughts [;<). I also marked it obsolete pending complete removal. > -Original Message- > From: Marcus [mailto:marcus.m...@wtnet.de] > Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2016 03:43 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: review requested:

RE: Food for Thought

2016-02-16 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
+1 Thank you Michael > -Original Message- > From: RA Stehmann [mailto:anw...@rechtsanwalt-stehmann.de] > Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2016 01:44 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: Food for Thought > > On 15.02.2016 23:14, Patricia Shanahan wrote: > > > > The typical AOO

RE: [VOTE] Release Java Bootstrap Connector via Maven

2016-02-15 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
+0 from me too. This is just a ping. I want to examine the source packaging and try compiling the jars but not at the moment. More feedback soon. > -Original Message- > From: Marcus [mailto:marcus.m...@wtnet.de] > Sent: Monday, February 15, 2016 14:21 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org >

Food for Thought

2016-02-15 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
ressed needs met. -- Dennis E. Hamilton orc...@apache.org dennis.hamil...@acm.org+1-206-779-9430 https://keybase.io/orcmid PGP F96E 89FF D456 628A X.509 certs used and requested for signed e-mail - To unsub

RE: Building on Windows

2016-02-14 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I couldn't tell from your updated instruction page what compiler was used. Does your build use a compiler that is in the Windows 7 SDK, or another compiler, such as an Express edition? And thank you and Damjan for all of the attention it took to get this working. - Dennis > -Original

RE: SVN to BZ robot not working

2016-02-14 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I just saw Kay's SVN to BZ commit message for the patch of mine she submitted earlier. See Comment 16 at the bottom of https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=126635#c16 Maybe it was just delay to BZ and then from BZ to the CC: to Kay. - Dennis > -Original Message- > From: Damjan

RE: Access to OOO_EXTRAS?

2016-02-13 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Please. My SourceForge user name is -- wait for it -- orcmid > -Original Message- > From: Andrea Pescetti [mailto:pesce...@apache.org] > Sent: Saturday, February 13, 2016 02:04 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: Access to OOO_EXTRAS? > > Damjan Jovanovic wrote: > > I am

RE: Where to start?

2016-02-11 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I can think of a few that are pressing but not necessarily the sort of thing being dreamed of. 1. Usability issues. We have a couple of serious usability issues with respect to the current code base. These are at least for Windows: a. A method for automatically backing up and resetting

BZ 125501 (was RE: Where to start?)

2016-02-11 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
My reading of the bug report is that it is entirely about OS/2 and has nothing to do with Windows. I suppose the only question is whether that created a regression on 4.1.2 on any non-OS/2 platform. Do we know if Yuri (or someone) merged those changes to the AOO410 branch before AOO 4.1.2

RE: [PROPOSAL][DEVTOOLS] Stage Java BootstrapConnector to Maven Repository

2016-02-08 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
> -Original Message- > From: Carl Marcum [mailto:cmar...@apache.org] > Sent: Friday, February 5, 2016 03:56 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subject: Re: [PROPOSAL][DEVTOOLS] Stage Java BootstrapConnector to Maven > Repository > > On 02/04/2016 03:48 PM,

RE: [DISCUSS][POLICY?] Lost Features When Saving to ODF

2016-02-08 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
e.org > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS][POLICY?] Lost Features When Saving to ODF > > On 2/7/2016 11:51 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > ... > > 3. Note that on saving to .xls, the rubber-stamp warning about > > possible loss of features occurs, but in this case the feature is not &

RE: [PROPOSAL][DEVTOOLS] Stage Java BootstrapConnector to Maven Repository

2016-02-08 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
y up to Carl to pursue this, which I recommend, or go off-project (which would remain an alternative anyhow). - Dennis > -Original Message- > From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:orc...@apache.org] > Sent: Monday, February 8, 2016 11:46 > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > Subje

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