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

2017-12-19 Thread Patricia Shanahan
+1 (binding) On 12/18/2017 5:24 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: I am calling a VOTE on releasing Apache OpenOffice 4.1.5-RC1 as GA!! You can find these gems at: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/openoffice/4.1.5-RC1/ The vote will last at least the normal 72 hours. Cheers! -- Jim

Re: Question on Windows Step by Step Building Guide

2017-12-08 Thread Patricia Shanahan
My solution is to do all file-changing svn operations, including check-out, using the Cygwin command line svn, not TortoiseSVN. On 12/8/2017 2:04 PM, Keith N. McKenna wrote: For a number of reasons I am considering embarking into the wonderful world of building AOO on Windows. In the section

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

2017-12-06 Thread Patricia Shanahan
If it turns out to only make things even more complicated, adding yet another build tool, how hard would it be to remove it from trunk? On 12/6/2017 6:10 PM, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: ... Should we make a separate branch for SCons or develop in trunk? It doesn't alter any existing files so it

Re: [PROPOSAL] Public Beta for 4.2

2017-12-03 Thread Patricia Shanahan
and build a last production version and that will be voted on. By this we have simple names, every one can follow, plus we do not break our work process. All the best Peter Am 3. Dezember 2017 18:40:23 MEZ schrieb Jim Jagielski <j...@jagunet.com>: On Dec 3, 2017, at 10:06 AM, Patricia Shana

Re: [PROPOSAL] Public Beta for 4.2

2017-12-03 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 12/3/2017 6:50 AM, Marcus wrote: Am 03.12.2017 um 11:11 schrieb Peter Kovacs: I would put Beta into the Splash screen, but Release I would use RC for for Release Candidate plus a number. So the first version would be 4.2.0RC1 If this does not break something of course. I think this

Re: [PROPOSAL] Public Beta for 4.2

2017-12-01 Thread Patricia Shanahan
(to create a 4.1.5) and start keeping track there? On Dec 1, 2017, at 8:18 AM, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote: Remember we also have the 4.1.5 branch, which is a lower risk solution to some 4.1.4 regressions. I think it is time to decide whether to release it, and if so, what the

Re: [PROPOSAL] Public Beta for 4.2

2017-12-01 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Remember we also have the 4.1.5 branch, which is a lower risk solution to some 4.1.4 regressions. I think it is time to decide whether to release it, and if so, what the timing should be relative to the start of the 4.2 beta test. There is something to be said for a single announcement so

Re: security fixes in trunk

2017-11-30 Thread Patricia Shanahan
The changes must not be committed as is, because that would undo some comment translation. I have built a modified trunk and plan to test it today. If all goes well I'll commit later today. On 11/30/2017 7:38 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: Thx! Looking over, I does appear to me that these need to

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

2017-11-30 Thread Patricia Shanahan
I would put it a bit more strongly. I think 4.1.x should be strictly reserved for changes that are essential to fix urgent user-visible bugs. On 11/30/2017 5:59 AM, 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

Re: security fixes in trunk

2017-11-27 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Thanks. I'll do a detailed analysis. On 11/27/2017 7:44 PM, Don Lewis wrote: When I diff the files that were changed for security reasons in 4.1.4 (this is actually 4.1.5 since I have a fresh checkout handy) vs. the same files in trunk, and throw out all the diff chunks that solely contain

Re: another bug in base

2017-11-27 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 11/27/2017 7:07 PM, Don Lewis wrote: On 26 Nov, Patricia Shanahan wrote: On 11/26/2017 4:47 PM, Don Lewis wrote: On 27 Nov, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: I can't reproduce it here, on trunk with: FreeBSD clang version 3.4.1 (tags/RELEASE_34/dot1-final 208032) 20140512 Target: x86_64-unknown

Re: another bug in base

2017-11-26 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 11/26/2017 4:47 PM, Don Lewis wrote: On 27 Nov, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: I can't reproduce it here, on trunk with: FreeBSD clang version 3.4.1 (tags/RELEASE_34/dot1-final 208032) 20140512 Target: x86_64-unknown-freebsd10.3 with either our built-in HSQLDB driver or SQlite over ODBC. What

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

2017-11-25 Thread Patricia Shanahan
it, etc. Referencing 4.1.5 is about the same as referencing a "dev" build, but additional info on how/why it got fixed would be helpful. Was it. Fixed on trunk and then ported to 4.1.5 or ??? MzK On Nov 25, 2017 05:51, "Patricia Shanahan" <p...@acm.org> wro

Re: Jim's Windows7 issues solved!?

2017-11-25 Thread Patricia Shanahan
: Yeah, I'll update the build instructions as needed. On Nov 22, 2017, at 11:17 PM, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote: Do we need an update to the instructions to clarify that? On 11/22/2017 12:34 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: I think I finally tracked down the problem w/ my Win7/cygwin

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

2017-11-25 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Should bugs be being marked "FIXED" based on the 4.1.5-dev build? We have not yet committed to releasing it. Forwarded Message Subject: [Issue 127600] AOO 4.1.4 : Creating labels on more than One page freezes application Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2017 13:48:42 + From:

Re: AOO 4.1.5-dev builds

2017-11-24 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 11/24/2017 8:23 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: On Nov 23, 2017, at 6:06 PM, Larry Gusaas wrote: There are serious regressions in 4.1.4 for Macs. The fix needs to be released now, not wait until 4.2.0 And at least 1 fix that address all platforms as well, so I do

Re: Jim's Windows7 issues solved!?

2017-11-22 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Do we need an update to the instructions to clarify that? On 11/22/2017 12:34 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: I think I finally tracked down the problem w/ my Win7/cygwin build problems. It was subtle. I kept all my sources in /home/jim/src/asf/AOO415 that is, it lived under the cygwin

Re: AOO 4.1.5-dev builds

2017-11-22 Thread Patricia Shanahan
I don't think we should wait for more development before releasing fixes for the 4.1.4 regressions. If 4.2.0 needs another month or so of development, I'm in favor of releasing 4.1.5 as soon as we can get the various bug reports checked against it. On a side note, for those living outside the

Re: AOO 4.1.5-dev builds

2017-11-22 Thread Patricia Shanahan
I see 4.1.5-dev as a device for testing whether a bug is due to a specific problem. That change is already checked in to the trunk. We still have to decide whether to go straight to 4.2.0. The upside is, as Damjam points out, that we need to get the general benefits of 4.2 out in the field.

Re: Fwd: [Issue 127596] New: Calc with DDE don't close and prevent windows 10 copy/paste

2017-11-21 Thread Patricia Shanahan
I agree. As soon as there is a Windows version of 4.1.5-dev I'll ask for a test. On 11/21/2017 7:35 AM, Dave Fisher wrote: Hi Patricia, This smells like a manifestation of the null link resource link you are fixing. Regards, Dave Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: From:

Re: Fwd: [Issue 127601] New: DDE Fields

2017-11-20 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Thanks. On 11/20/2017 3:42 PM, Matthias Seidel wrote: I will start a build tomorrow in the evening... Am 21.11.2017 um 00:37 schrieb Patricia Shanahan: This should be tested on 4.1.5-dev. Is there going to be a Windows build? Forwarded Message Subject: [Issue 127601] New

Fwd: [Issue 127601] New: DDE Fields

2017-11-20 Thread Patricia Shanahan
This should be tested on 4.1.5-dev. Is there going to be a Windows build? Forwarded Message Subject: [Issue 127601] New: DDE Fields Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 21:21:43 + From: bugzi...@apache.org Reply-To: iss...@openoffice.apache.org To: iss...@openoffice.apache.org

Re: svn commit: r1815764 - in /openoffice/updates-site/trunk/aoonext: check.Update index.html

2017-11-19 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Whether we will actually release a 4.1.5 is not yet decided. We do need to do some testing with a version that only has a limited set of changes relative to 4.1.4, so we are using the 4.1.5 branch for that purpose. On 11/19/2017 7:38 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: Isn’t the next version 4.1.5? Of

Re: URGENT: Need to build new version based on 4.1.4

2017-11-19 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Now that I have a bit more time, I wanted to thank Jim for raising the question. I really want people to review my code and question anything that seems dubious. On 11/19/2017 7:21 AM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: The null check inside the mAutoAskUpdateAllLinks test is something of an over

Re: URGENT: Need to build new version based on 4.1.4

2017-11-19 Thread Patricia Shanahan
and hiding all exceptions. That means data structures could be left in an inconsistent state without AOO crashing or the access violation being reported, and almost any symptom could result. On 11/19/2017 7:21 AM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: The null check inside the mAutoAskUpdateAllLinks test

Re: URGENT: Need to build new version based on 4.1.4

2017-11-19 Thread Patricia Shanahan
(parent)); is OK if parent == NULL? That is, does GetUserAllowsLinkUpdate() work OK if passed NULL? Or, if parent is NULL, should we skip calling SetUserAllowsLinkUpdate()? On Nov 18, 2017, at 3:49 PM, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote: I'm attaching the patch in case anyone else

Re: URGENT: Need to build new version based on 4.1.4

2017-11-18 Thread Patricia Shanahan
I see you have checked in some Mac building changes. Would it be better to keep the two fixes separate, or encourage testing both of them together? On 11/18/2017 1:20 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: We do have the AOO415 branch! :) On Nov 18, 2017, at 2:11 PM, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org>

Re: URGENT: Need to build new version based on 4.1.4

2017-11-18 Thread Patricia Shanahan
I'm attaching the patch in case anyone else wants to build their own test version. On 11/18/2017 11:11 AM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: There is a bug in my LinkManager changes. Specifically, I made the totally newbie mistake of accessing memory based on a pointer without allowing for it being

URGENT: Need to build new version based on 4.1.4

2017-11-18 Thread Patricia Shanahan
There is a bug in my LinkManager changes. Specifically, I made the totally newbie mistake of accessing memory based on a pointer without allowing for it being null, and it turns out it can be null :-( The primary report for this is https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=127581, "Writer

Re: Debugging Base's "Create Table in Design View"

2017-11-17 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Is it possible that this is another manifestation of https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=127581 If so, it will not happen in the trunk. On 11/17/2017 10:47 AM, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: tl;dr: Put a breakpoint on dbaui::DatabaseObjectView::doDispatch or

Re: Simpler Windows builds, oowintool, and Cygwin64

2017-11-15 Thread Patricia Shanahan
I've been waiting for the dust to settle. What is the best set of instructions for doing a Windows 10 build with Cygwin 64? On 11/15/2017 7:47 AM, Matthias Seidel wrote: Hi Damjan, I added 2 trailing "/" and now it works... ;-) Maybe Patricia can confirm it? I will now start a build from

Re: Dont understand Compiler message

2017-11-12 Thread Patricia Shanahan
anymore if my uild is sane anymore. Can I force the build process into a sequence build? Maybe that helps. would that be -p1? Thanks for any ideas. all the best Peter On 12.11.2017 15:03, Patricia Shanahan wrote: I sometimes get similar messages that go away if I just rerun the build. I

Re: Dont understand Compiler message

2017-11-12 Thread Patricia Shanahan
I sometimes get similar messages that go away if I just rerun the build. I think there may be some problem in whatever is supposed to ensure dependencies are built before the things that depend on them. On 11/12/2017 4:24 AM, Peter Kovacs wrote: | | |My Compile setup:| || ./configure  

Re: Simpler Windows builds, oowintool, and Cygwin64

2017-11-10 Thread Patricia Shanahan
I have a Windows 10 computer I do not currently use for builds. I'll configure it with 64-bit Cygwin and JDK 8 and try this out. On 11/10/2017 6:58 AM, Matthias Seidel wrote: Hi Damjan, Am 10.11.2017 um 06:27 schrieb Damjan Jovanovic: Hi I've committed a few small small fixes to oowintool,

Re: Regressions and testing

2017-11-09 Thread Patricia Shanahan
The more automated testing we can do, the better. I have a possible patch for one of the regressions. What do I need to do to run the "subsequent tests"? On 11/9/2017 9:46 PM, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: Hi It seems to me that regressions that we've had with releases recently could have been

Re: Which conference?

2017-11-08 Thread Patricia Shanahan
to join. Am 17. Oktober 2017 22:27:34 MESZ schrieb Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org>: 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 th

Re: Issue for 4.1.4 and MacOS

2017-11-06 Thread Patricia Shanahan
There is something I've seen in the OpenOffice code that may be involved in the silent failures to do something. For example, main\xmloff\source\core\xmlexp.cxx, line 759: catch( com::sun::star::uno::Exception& ) { } This will hide any and all

Re: Issue for 4.1.4 and MacOS

2017-10-31 Thread Patricia Shanahan
I do not know if this is the right choice, but we should include doing both in our thinking. Rebuild 4.1.4 for Mac only, test, and upload as soon as possible. Meanwhile, create, test, and vote on 4.1.5, to pick up the upgrade service. On 10/31/2017 9:30 AM, Dave Fisher wrote: There have been

Re: Issue for 4.1.4 and MacOS

2017-10-31 Thread Patricia Shanahan
I bow to empirical facts, but I am still confused. There are several xml files in the .ods, most of which are written correctly. Why just the ones under 'Object 1'? On 10/31/2017 8:53 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: OK, I *think* I found it... it looks like it is a XML/xslt issue where the 10.12

Re: Issue for 4.1.4 and MacOS

2017-10-28 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 10/28/2017 12:11 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: 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

Re: Issue for 4.1.4 and MacOS

2017-10-28 Thread Patricia Shanahan
If aoo413 is built on the same tooling as aoo414 is it broken too? Regards, Dave On Oct 28, 2017, at 5:47 AM, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote: I at first thought this might be a load problem. It is now clear it is a case of file corruption on save, only on Mac. Unfortunately, tha

Re: Issue for 4.1.4 and MacOS

2017-10-28 Thread Patricia Shanahan
loading, not saving. On 10/26/2017 5:45 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: Yeah, I kinda figured out what your hypothesis was... I'll need to think about this some more. On Oct 26, 2017, at 8:34 AM, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote: OK, forget that hypothesis. You have even done the next test I

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

2017-10-28 Thread Patricia Shanahan
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. On 10/27/2017 7:17 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: Hi Damjan, A friend is sending me a JDK7. But I

Re: Issue for 4.1.4 and MacOS

2017-10-26 Thread Patricia Shanahan
OK, forget that hypothesis. You have even done the next test I would have asked for if the line 288 breakpoint was not reached. I'll need to think up a new hypothesis. I'm planning to go groom a couple of horses this morning, but I'll work on this in the afternoon. On 10/26/2017 5:01 AM, Jim

Re: Issue for 4.1.4 and MacOS

2017-10-24 Thread Patricia Shanahan
macOS *builds* is that 4.1.4 uses '--with-alloc=system' but the 4.1.3 build does not. I will create a macOS build of AOO414 but adjust the configure script to not include that and see what effect that may have. On Oct 24, 2017, at 8:52 AM, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote: On 10/

Re: [PROPOSAL] Managing branches for future releases

2017-10-24 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 10/24/2017 2:34 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: On 10/24/2017 01:25 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: 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

Re: Issue for 4.1.4 and MacOS

2017-10-24 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 10/24/2017 5:49 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: On Tue, 24 Oct 2017 05:35:34 -0700 Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote: Since the issue appeared in 4.1.4, and involves document links, it might be related to my changes. I do not have a Mac, and do not have any Mac debug experience.

Re: Issue for 4.1.4 and MacOS

2017-10-24 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Since the issue appeared in 4.1.4, and involves document links, it might be related to my changes. I do not have a Mac, and do not have any Mac debug experience. How do people think we should proceed with this? Is there a Mac developer who can work with me on it? On 10/24/2017 4:40 AM,

Re: QA Improvements on 4.2.0

2017-10-23 Thread Patricia Shanahan
I like all this. In addition, I would like to get set up to do code review. I don't like the idea of changes going out to millions of users having only been seriously examined by one programmer - even if I'm that programmer. For both code review and testing, we need more active developers in

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

2017-10-19 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 10/18/2017 5:35 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: On Oct 18, 2017, at 4:45 PM, Pedro Lino wrote: Maybe we need to ask for review of http://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy.html#release-approval at the same time as looking at the voting process documentation. If taken

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

2017-10-19 Thread Patricia Shanahan
In general, we are documenting our release process in https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/How+to+Cook+a+Release. We have a problem that the ASF itself documents the rules for voting on releases in two places: http://www.apache.org/legal/release-policy.html#release-approval

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

2017-10-18 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 10/18/2017 3:39 PM, Carl Marcum wrote: On 10/18/2017 03:11 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: We expect PMC members to have a deep sense of responsibility to their projects. When they cast a binding vote, we trust that they have satisfied themselves enough to warrant them casting the vote. That,

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

2017-10-18 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 10/18/2017 12:28 PM, Pedro Lino wrote: On 18/10/2017 19:02, Andrea Pescetti wrote: 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 what they did to justify their +1. But this shouldn't be used "against"

Re: Which conference?

2017-10-17 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 10/17/2017 1:38 PM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: On Tue, 17 Oct 2017 22:27:34 +0200 Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> wrote: 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 fo

Which conference?

2017-10-17 Thread Patricia Shanahan
In my experience face-to-face meetings help smooth e-mail communication. I live in California but many of the AOO developers seem to be based in Europe, so my best chance of meeting some of you is to attend a European open source conference. I would like to decide at least a couple of months

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

2017-10-17 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Does this call for a change to https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO/Step_by_step#Mac_OS_X to prevent it in the future? On 10/17/2017 12:09 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Matthias Seidel wrote: (Later) I would be interested if your changes in the build process would

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

2017-10-17 Thread Patricia Shanahan
no changes to the files I used in my testing, so no need to retest. On 10/16/2017 12:45 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: -1, binding The macOS problem seems to me to be sufficiently serious that we cannot release RC5 with it. It has now been reported by two different users. I may change my vote based

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

2017-10-17 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Yeah! What is the test and vote procedure from this point? I've checked the commit messages, and none of the files I used in my testing have changed, so I do not see any need to repeat it. On the other hand, we need to allow time for Mac users to retest. On 10/17/2017 8:52 AM, Jim Jagielski

Re: AOO 4.1.4 – Error message

2017-10-17 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Good catch! Would it make sense to test with expat-2.2.4? On 10/17/2017 3:48 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: Good news... I think. For some reason, it does look like the expat patch is the root cause, but for the life of me I can't grok why. With the RC4 version of expat-2.2.3.patch, RC5 works on

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

2017-10-16 Thread Patricia Shanahan
-1, binding The macOS problem seems to me to be sufficiently serious that we cannot release RC5 with it. It has now been reported by two different users. I may change my vote based on future information. (If I were considering only my Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 testing, my vote would be +1)

Re: AOO 4.1.4 – Error message

2017-10-16 Thread Patricia Shanahan
As a test, would it be possible for a Mac developer to rebuild with the source code for RC5 but the process and libraries from RC4, and/or the other way round? That will tell us whether the problem is a source code change or a build process change. On 10/16/2017 11:33 AM, Dave Fisher wrote:

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

2017-10-14 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Based on my own testing, I was about to cast a binding +1, but I'm going to hold my vote until we know more about this. On 10/14/2017 3:36 PM, Larry Gusaas wrote: -1 (non binding) Get general error message (macOS High Sierra) every time I open a document. See separate post for details

Re: Strange behavior of Spellcheck

2017-10-14 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 10/14/2017 2:24 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Patricia Shanahan wrote: On my Windows 10 machine, Spellcheck defaults to en-US spelling, regardless of the language of the installation. I have tested this with both fr and en-GB. (French and the two variants of English are the only languages I

Strange behavior of Spellcheck

2017-10-14 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On my Windows 10 machine, Spellcheck defaults to en-US spelling, regardless of the language of the installation. I have tested this with both fr and en-GB. (French and the two variants of English are the only languages I know well enough to test.) For each document, I have to specify the

Re: 4.5.0? (Was: Re: AOO 4.2.0 and macOS)

2017-10-10 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 10/10/2017 11:49 AM, Marcus wrote: Am 10.10.2017 um 01:15 schrieb Andrea Pescetti: Jim Jagielski wrote: I was wondering... what do people think about going from 4.1.x all the way straight to 4.5.0... Since this next "major" release is pretty major, maybe a bigger step in number might be

Re: Resigning as RM for 4.1.x

2017-10-10 Thread Patricia Shanahan
I hope you will stay on. I am not sure I would have made the same decision as you about the release number, but in my opinion part of the RM role is bike-shedding prevention by making decisions. I hope that the need to test the patch ASAP does not get lost in the discussion of what to call

Re: 4.1.4 show stopper!

2017-10-10 Thread Patricia Shanahan
onsidering this issue, this means that 4.1.4 is also DOA. I will wait for a few more hours, for West Coast to get online but my plan is to start the process for AOO-415 On Oct 10, 2017, at 8:16 AM, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote: The attached patch fixes this, as well as the business c

Re: 4.1.4 show stopper!

2017-10-10 Thread Patricia Shanahan
for AOO-415 On Oct 10, 2017, at 8:16 AM, Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org> wrote: The attached patch fixes this, as well as the business card case. On 10/10/2017 2:59 AM, Mathias Röllig wrote: Hello! Even on Linux. Problem: linked sections will not be updated if the original section is c

Re: 4.1.4 show stopper!

2017-10-10 Thread Patricia Shanahan
rds, Mathias Am 10.10.2017 um 11:10 schrieb Patricia Shanahan: Thanks for the report. I have reproduced the problem in my Windows 8.1 debug environment, based on trunk but with some 4.1.4 changes added. I need to get some more sleep before serious debug (it is 2:08 a.m. here). Could someone ch

Re: 4.1.4 show stopper!

2017-10-10 Thread Patricia Shanahan
The equivalent of this patch for my debug environment does fix the labels problem. On 10/10/2017 3:28 AM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: I have a theory for the Labels issue, and am in the process of building to test it. On an extremely experimental, untested, basis I am attaching a candidate fix

Re: 4.1.4 show stopper!

2017-10-10 Thread Patricia Shanahan
section 5. Tools… → Update → Links or Tools… → Update → Update All => Nothing happens. :-( Regards, Mathias Am 10.10.2017 um 11:10 schrieb Patricia Shanahan: Thanks for the report. I have reproduced the problem in my Windows 8.1 debug environment, based on trunk but with some 4.1.4 changes added

Re: 4.1.4 RC4: synchronize labels don't work on MacOS

2017-10-10 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Thanks for the report. I have reproduced the problem in my Windows 8.1 debug environment, based on trunk but with some 4.1.4 changes added. I need to get some more sleep before serious debug (it is 2:08 a.m. here). Could someone check whether it happens in the unmodified trunk? That would

Re: Release Apache OpenOffice 4.1.4-RC4 crashes on Mac

2017-10-04 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 10/4/2017 3:03 AM, Roberto Galoppini wrote: ... I've just tried this on another Mac, with the very same operating system, and it works. I need to wait until later today to retry on the other machine, let's say in 6 hours from now. ... Given this, and the other reports of it working on Macs,

Re: Release Apache OpenOffice 4.1.4-RC4 crashes on Mac

2017-10-03 Thread Patricia Shanahan
AM, Roberto Galoppini <roberto.galopp...@gmail.com wrote: I've re-downloaded again, it does not work. Does anyone else have tried that? I'm really the only one facing problem with this build? 2017-10-03 15:04 GMT+02:00 Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org>: Did you happen to check keys o

Re: Release Apache OpenOffice 4.1.4-RC4 crashes on Mac

2017-10-03 Thread Patricia Shanahan
wrote: I've re-downloaded again, it does not work. Does anyone else have tried that? I'm really the only one facing problem with this build? 2017-10-03 15:04 GMT+02:00 Patricia Shanahan <p...@acm.org>: Did you happen to check keys or do a sumcheck on the download? This is sounding like it

Re: Release Apache OpenOffice 4.1.4-RC4 crashes on Mac

2017-10-03 Thread Patricia Shanahan
t;j...@jagunet.com>: How do you open it? Dbl-click the Icon? Select it and choose Open? Alt-click Open? On Oct 3, 2017, at 5:51 AM, Roberto Galoppini < roberto.galopp...@gmail.com> wrote: It never launched, actually. It crashes before anything else. 2017-10-03 11:24 GMT+02:00 Patricia

Re: Release Apache OpenOffice 4.1.4-RC4 crashes on Mac

2017-10-03 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Do you do anything in particular, such as open some type of document, before it crashes? On 10/3/2017 12:28 AM, Roberto Galoppini wrote: I was trying to test Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.4_MacOS_x86-64_install_en-US.dmg but I couldn't, it keeps crashing. Best, Roberto

Re: [VOTE] Release Apache OpenOffice 4.1.4-RC4 as GA

2017-10-01 Thread Patricia Shanahan
+1 (binding) On 9/30/2017 12:54 PM, Jim Jagielski wrote: I am calling a VOTE on releasing Apache OpenOffice 4.1.4-RC4 as GA!! You can find these gems at: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/openoffice/4.1.4-RC4/ The vote will last at least the normal 72 hours. Cheers! -- Jim Jagielski

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Availability of AOO-4.1.4 RC4

2017-09-26 Thread Patricia Shanahan
I have completed the minimum testing I need to cast a binding +1 vote for RC4, including successfully compiling and testing from the source tarball as well as installing and testing a couple of binaries. I will, of course, continue testing until the decision is made. On 9/22/2017 10:51 AM,

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Availability of AOO-4.1.4 RC4

2017-09-24 Thread Patricia Shanahan
23/09/2017 22:38, Patricia Shanahan wrote: I installed the en-GB binary on a Windows 10 machine. Its spell checker wants me to drop the "u" from "colour". Is there something else I have to do to make it really en-GB? On 9/22/2017 10:51 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: Avail

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Availability of AOO-4.1.4 RC4

2017-09-23 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Tools - Language - For all Text - Reset to Default Language makes it accept "colour". Shouldn't it start out in the default language on installation? On 9/23/2017 2:38 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: I installed the en-GB binary on a Windows 10 machine. Its spell checker wants me to d

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Availability of AOO-4.1.4 RC4

2017-09-23 Thread Patricia Shanahan
I installed the en-GB binary on a Windows 10 machine. Its spell checker wants me to drop the "u" from "colour". Is there something else I have to do to make it really en-GB? On 9/22/2017 10:51 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: Available for immediate testing are the source tarballs/zips and community

Re: Reported OLE issue w/ RC2

2017-09-20 Thread Patricia Shanahan
That specific bug has already been tested. It is a symptom of the unfortunate fact that what I don't know about the AOO source code can hurt us, in the form of unexpected regressions. The more different testing, the better. Linked files are the general area that should be hit most, but any

Re: [Discussion] Switch to Git?

2017-09-17 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 9/17/2017 9:04 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 14/09/2017 Dave Fisher wrote: does SVN vs. GIT prevent new developers from volunteering? I think this is the key question, even though there are many good points also in what others replied. We currently have a couple semi-official GIT

Re: [Discussion] Switch to Git?

2017-09-14 Thread Patricia Shanahan
I would like to add one more condition: We should not move until the process we will use has been applied successfully to smaller projects. I am relatively neutral on the choice of repository, and a lot of people seem to like Git. On 9/14/2017 11:16 AM, Marcus wrote: Even when I'm not a

Re: [Discussion] Switch to Git?

2017-09-14 Thread Patricia Shanahan
I know Git is the repository-of-the-decade, and therefore a switch to it is probably inevitable, just like the switch from RCS to SCCS and from SCCS to Subversion. Just as a matter of curiosity, which IDE's do not support Subversion? I know I was using a it with Eclipse before I heard of Git.

Re: Fwd: FOSDEM Apache Developer Room ?

2017-09-06 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 9/5/2017 3:42 PM, Peter Kovacs wrote: ... Can we make an OpenOffice meetup like last year? I mean it was great to meet new people. If we announce this a little then maybe more people come. Of course I would be happy to see those I already have met again. ... If there is an OpenOffice meetup

Re: Opengrok

2017-09-05 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Would Opengrok be out of service during the "remove all branches" phase? If so, for how long? On 9/5/2017 3:04 PM, Peter Kovacs wrote: Hi, maybe it would be nice to have a small script that runs once a day that just removes all branches and set them up which it finds. It would remove the

Re: How to make a new include work

2017-09-05 Thread Patricia Shanahan
this? What did you do in the end? Thanks the Information! :-D Am Montag, den 28.08.2017, 12:18 -0700 schrieb Patricia Shanahan: Looks interesting. An include I needed from sfx2 worked just fine, so I'll make sc look the same way in that file. On 8/28/2017 12:12 PM, Peter Kovacs wrote: sry

Re: [Discussion] build tool

2017-09-05 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 9/5/2017 7:11 AM, Peter Kovacs wrote: Hello all, To be honest I am not very happy with gmake and ant. It is difficult to add the functionality to Eclipse. Also we stay dependant for Windows on Cygwin or Windows Subsystem for Linux, which feels to me awkward. Also if we want to have people

Re: AAO writer RC-2

2017-08-30 Thread Patricia Shanahan
wrote: Maybe Gregg could create a test document and send us a link? I would be interested to test it on Windows and Ubuntu. Also, as it happens in Writer it could be related to the other bug. Regards, Matthias Am 27.08.2017 um 12:35 schrieb Patricia Shanahan: Thanks for this report. I am

Re: How to make a new include work

2017-08-28 Thread Patricia Shanahan
/pch \     -I$(WORKDIR)/SdiTarget/sfx2/sdi \     -I$(WORKDIR)/inc/ \     $$(INCLUDE) \     -I$(OUTDIR)/inc/offuh \     -I$(OUTDIR)/inc \     $(LIBXML_CFLAGS) \ But maybe my understanding on including is wrong :-) All the best Peter On 28.08.2017 19:41, Patricia Shanahan wrote: I need to include

How to make a new include work

2017-08-28 Thread Patricia Shanahan
I need to include main/sc/inc/document.hxx in main/sfx2/source/view/frmload.cxx. It is proving surprisingly difficult - there seems to be some copying of header files??? Any suggestions? What should the include line look like? Do I need to run configure and/or bootstrap again?

Re: AAO writer RC-2

2017-08-27 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Thanks for this report. I am working on another bug so I can't get to it immediately. It would be helpful to get as much characterization as possible. Does it happen on other operating systems? How many styles are necessary to reproduce the bug? On 8/26/2017 10:39 PM, Greg Madden wrote:

Re: Weak reference helper implementations

2017-08-15 Thread Patricia Shanahan
I have suggested a refactoring pass to make more use of STL structures instead of fixed size, unchecked arrays. Some security problem would be caught by array bounds checking. We have some new volunteers over on the recruitment mailing list. I think refactoring would be a good project for

Re: Opengrok

2017-08-15 Thread Patricia Shanahan
at Adfinis SyGroup? Thanks in advance for your help. Marcus Am 15.08.2017 um 19:46 schrieb Patricia Shanahan: Opengrok, http://opengrok.adfinis-sygroup.org/source/, times out. This makes it very unlikely I will be able to solve the RC2 OLE problem before I go out of town for a few days starting

Opengrok

2017-08-15 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Opengrok, http://opengrok.adfinis-sygroup.org/source/, times out. This makes it very unlikely I will be able to solve the RC2 OLE problem before I go out of town for a few days starting on Thursday. I can use find and grep instead, but it takes a lot longer.

Re: RC2: OLE problem?

2017-08-14 Thread Patricia Shanahan
I am rebuilding my 4.1.4 debug environment to make sure it is up to date. I am going to work on this ASAP, but I do have travel planned and will not be available Thursday through Tuesday. On 8/14/2017 1:35 PM, Matthias Seidel wrote: Well, not exactly the same... If I zoom into the document I

Re: Windows build woes

2017-08-11 Thread Patricia Shanahan
Have you tried repeating "build --all" a few times? I quite often have failures that go away with a few repeated builds. My interpretation is that whatever is supposed to make sure all dependencies are satisfied before building a module does not quite work right. Sooner or later, everything

Re: DOC file not opening on 4.1.4

2017-08-10 Thread Patricia Shanahan
One of the changes for 4.1.4 is supposed to tighten validation of doc files. Unfortunately, I made a mistake in the version that went into RC1, and it gets false positives. The problem should be fixed in RC2. On 8/10/2017 4:27 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: Forum volunteer John_Ha has sent me a

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