Tracking bugs like Issue 124985 - [Meta] Meta Bug for collecting bugs which appeal for AOO 4.1.x

2014-05-26 Thread Rainer Bielefeld
Hi, my experience is that such tracking bugs are not useful. The time invested in adding dependencies (what is rather uncertain, who can know how many bugs are missing and on what facts the various contributors added the bugs to the Meta) should be invested (with much more benefit) into

Re: Tracking bugs like Issue 124985 - [Meta] Meta Bug for collecting bugs which appeal for AOO 4.1.x

2014-05-26 Thread Rainer Bielefeld
Hi Herbert, I think we have some misunderstanding here. It's an essential that information should be consistent at any place for Bugzilla. Here an overview concerning priority /severity of the issues listed in the meta-issue; ! Critical major normaltrivial ! Total

Please disable 4.1.0 Update Info!

2014-05-16 Thread Rainer Bielefeld
Hi, I submitted Issue 124913 - Disable 4.1.0 Update Info https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124913 because I think that it would be irresponsible to encourage users to update to 4.1.0 with known issue. I also think that there should be a hint in 4.1.0 Release Notes under Known

Re: Please Review 4.1 Release Notes

2014-04-27 Thread Rainer Bielefeld
Rob Weir schrieb: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.1+Release+Notes Hi, has there been any progress concerning spell check problem http://www.openoffice.org/development/releases/3.4.1.html#AOO3.4.1ReleaseNotes-KnownIssues? If not, I think we should mention that

Re: [RELEASE]: propose AOO 4.1.0 RC - Showstoppers?

2014-04-06 Thread Rainer Bielefeld
Hi, we have a potential showstopper Issue 124607 - .odt with (Page-No) field in header/footer and comment for text range fails to open with Read Error. Error reading file https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124607 CU Rainer

Wrong regression test cases

2014-04-02 Thread Rainer Bielefeld
Hi, from time to time there is a suspect that there are errors in test case descriptions, currently I know: Issue 124523 - Testcase requires not existing feature wildcards https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124523 Issue 124535 - Wrong Test description for hyperlinks in Writer TOC

New Bug reporters March 2014

2014-04-01 Thread Rainer Bielefeld
. If you have any questions concerning your Bugzilla bug reports please feel free to add me to CC in the bug report. Best Regards Rainer Bielefeld - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional

Reminder: [Issue 124572] New: Edits blocked with message: Your IP address has been automatically blocked

2014-04-01 Thread Rainer Bielefeld
Hi, seems our Wiki is damaged. AOO area or Apache Infra? CU Rainer - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org

Specifications for Enhancement Requests

2014-03-30 Thread Rainer Bielefeld
Hi all, today I read [Issue 124455] introducing a attribute for spacing between paragraphs with the same paragraph style https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124455. I think it's an Idea what is worth to think over, but it is one of those where several relations and possible

Wework Wiki: Test Case Management

2014-03-28 Thread Rainer Bielefeld
Hi, https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Test_Case_Management Needs some rework before we can add a Link to Bugzilla Component. I am not familiar with that stuff. Best Regards Rainer - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Fwd: Update Available: Apache OpenOffice

2014-03-27 Thread Rainer Bielefeld
Hi, few minutes ago I got following reminder 2 times. They are a little late for 4.0.1? Any Ideas? The Download Latest Version link leads to nirvana. CU Rainer Original-Nachricht Betreff:Update Available: Apache OpenOffice Datum: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 16:42:10

German authorities want to improve AOO - LibO

2014-03-24 Thread Rainer Bielefeld
Hi, is someone from Germany observing this? http://www.heise.de/open/meldung/Behoerden-wollen-Libre-OpenOffice-verbessern-2152858.html Best regards Rainer - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For

AOO Bugzilla

2014-03-22 Thread Rainer Bielefeld
seems to be down? Best regards Rainer Bielefeld - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org

Re: AOO Bugzilla

2014-03-22 Thread Rainer Bielefeld
Hi, worked for few minutes, now again Error: Proxy Error The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server. The proxy server could not handle the request GET /ooo/report.cgi. Reason: Error reading from remote server Might be coincidence? 2 times stopped working after I

Re: 4.1. Regressions

2014-03-19 Thread Rainer Bielefeld
Yuzhen Fan schrieb: Here is the analysis of possible cases Hi, plausible description of the task, I'm more or less proceeding so. I will send you bug list for your review Difficult - I currently prefer to check issues where I have knowledge first, not to proceed a list. Other volunteers

Re: 4.1. Regressions

2014-03-19 Thread Rainer Bielefeld
Hi, and we need help of an an experienced MAC user for [1], it seems we have some MAC-Only issues in the list. CU Rainer Hyperlinks: [1]

Re: 4.1. Regressions

2014-03-19 Thread Rainer Bielefeld
how about the defects already have value in QA Contact Hi, https://issues.apache.org/ooo/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=doremlist_id=133813namedcmd=410_RegressionTest_woQAremaction=runsharer_id=8583 Shows the possible regressions without someone in QA, only 5 found. Not many left ... Let's wait

Re: Beta Survey

2014-03-15 Thread Rainer Bielefeld
features in AOO 4.1 (list them) Can't remember, don't think so 9) Any other comments (free text response) Regression situation with 4.1.0 still rather unclear, see my posting 4.1. Regressions Rainer Bielefeld - To unsubscribe

Re: AOOTest-277

2014-03-14 Thread Rainer Bielefeld
Rainer Bielefeld schrieb: can someone please check whether test descriptions for above mentioned test are correct? Thanks to Sandhya Sivakumar, who left a comment in the Bug. CU Rainer - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev

Re: 4.1. Regressions

2014-03-11 Thread Rainer Bielefeld
Hi, I think Bugzilla Help https://issues.apache.org/ooo/describekeywords.cgi tells it all. There only is no common sense whether key word should be used also for very old regressions (regression in OOo 1.0.1 compared to OOo 1.0.0), from developer's point of view only regressions in AOO 3.4-dev

4.1. Regressions

2014-03-08 Thread Rainer Bielefeld
Hi all, last weekend I wanted to check whether I can try to use 4.1 for my daily work with acceptable risk. Using such a trunk version for normal work is a much more manifold and reliable test than testing with prepared testcases (what, of course, have to be done, too!). I am used to do a

Re: [RELEASE]: first Beta RC ... Bug 124272 - Error message Truetype error 2704 when install language pack on en_US snapshot

2014-03-03 Thread Rainer Bielefeld
Hi, I still can't install Language packs because of https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124272 CU Rainer - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail:

Re: Bug 124114 - Auto Detection for mime type selects text/plain instead of application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text - Reminder

2014-02-22 Thread Rainer Bielefeld
Hi all, anything new here? Auto mime type recognition is really bad, not only writer.ods affected, see Bug 124293 - Section Range names truncated from underscore to end in MSO .XLSX https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124293! Best regards Rainer

Bug 124268 - OOXML import problems

2014-02-20 Thread Rainer Bielefeld
Hi, I think we should decide whether we want to use a tracking bug [2] or a Key word (interop_OOXML) [2]. Using both in parallel only makes it more difficult to create reliable queries. CU Rainer Hyperlinks: [1] https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124268 [2]

Re: Bug 124268 - OOXML import problems

2014-02-20 Thread Rainer Bielefeld
Edwin Sharp schrieb: Keywords or Tags should be preferred. Hi, especially because availability is visible for everybody keyword selector, while Tracking bugs need expert knowledge that they do exist. Tracking bugs are favorable if there is no simple relation does exist (Blocks

Wikis down

2014-02-17 Thread Rainer Bielefeld
Hi all, Wikis have been down for 2 days or so, http://monitoring.apache.org/status/ shows critical for half the infrastructure, but latest news on Twitter is Feb 11: Great news for @theASF projects using GitHub! Sometimes miracles take a little longer, but (if no quick solution is

Re: Wikis down

2014-02-17 Thread Rainer Bielefeld
As a fast solution, I've updated the contact_us Hi, thank you, I should have asked yesterday, it always works that few minutes after such a measure the problem will be solved ;-) Indeed, wiki.openoffice.org is back again. But cwiki still seems to have problems? Best regards Rainer

Bugzilla: User Sam Jennings

2014-02-15 Thread Rainer Bielefeld
Hi all, may be someone feels able to explain to above mentioned user how to use Bugzilla in an appropriate way? Or wants to block user Sam Jenning's Bugzilla account samjenni...@hotmail.com for a week or so for educative reasons? He is engaged and may be even talented, but unfortunately he

Bug 124114 - Auto Detection for mime type selects text/plain instead of application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text

2014-02-12 Thread Rainer Bielefeld
regards Rainer Bielefeld Used Hyperlinks: [1] https://issues.apache.org/ooo/buglist.cgi?f1=attachments.mimetypef2=attachments.filenamelist_id=124012o1=substringo2=substringquery_format=advancedv1=3drv2=odt [2] https://issues.apache.org/ooo/buglist.cgi?f1=attachments.mimetypef2

Mentoring new Developers

2014-02-10 Thread Rainer Bielefeld
Hi all, I know 2 charts, 1 with good news https://issues.apache.org/ooo/reports.cgi?product=-All-datasets=UNCONFIRMED and one with bad news: https://issues.apache.org/ooo/reports.cgi?product=-All-datasets=CONFIRMED I think we urgently need some assistance for the core developers by interested

Bugzilla: Keyword regression

2014-02-06 Thread Rainer Bielefeld
Hi, currently the manual on https://issues.apache.org/ooo/describekeywords.cgi seems to suggest to use that keyword also for problems what appeared between OOo 1.0.2 and OOo 1.0.3. Such use might be correct as a matter of form, but I think useless for QA and developers daly work. regression

Re: Bugzilla: Keyword regression

2014-02-06 Thread Rainer Bielefeld
Rob Weir schrieb: I wonder whether a combination of the regression flag and the version field would give us everything we need to know? Hi, that's the main intentions behind my suggestion. If we know we have had a regression (not too long ago, with Regression keyword) and also have found

Re: AOO [Bug 122235] Connection fails with 502 Error reading from remote server

2014-01-23 Thread Rainer Bielefeld
or whatever else) or can we simply clos above mentioned Bug report? Best Regards Rainer Bielefeld - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org

Re: AOO [Bug 122235] Connection fails with 502 Error reading from remote server

2014-01-19 Thread Rainer Bielefeld
Tony Stevenson schrieb: Following the thread below, and the containing BZ issue in AOO space (and notably not in the Infra JIRA instance) - I will move the SQL DB that runs the AOO instance of BZ tomorrow morning at 07:30 (5 minutes before the currently scheduled backup that will ‘kill’ the

Unused patches

2013-12-22 Thread Rainer Bielefeld
Hi all, we have lots of bug reports with unused patches. I think patches should be checked as soon as possible and be integrated as soon as possible. Example: I found 31 Bugs with unused patches by Kohei Yoshida - I think we can't get progress in Calc any cheaper. And also the other Bugs

BUGZILLA/FAQ

2013-11-07 Thread Rainer Bielefeld
Hi, it would be great if some volunteers would help to replace the question marks on https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/BUGZILLA/FAQ by useful contents. Best regards Rainer - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: BUGZILLA/FAQ

2013-11-07 Thread Rainer Bielefeld
Hi, thank you all for updating and completing the FAQ, I again learned some important details and I hope, information also will be useful for other users and help to unify information in the Bug reports. Best regards Rainer

Re: [Bug 122235] Connection fails with 502 Error reading from remote server

2013-11-03 Thread Rainer Bielefeld
Hi, waiting for Bugzilla becoming available again, I have some time for general meditations. Experience of life is that you should not confide your car to a garage where workers obviously are not interested in repairing their broken tools. May be during next BZ breakdown you find time to

AOO 4 unusable under Linux64?

2013-09-28 Thread Rainer Bielefeld
Hi all, Edwin Sharp and some other users found several bugs [1] under Linux64, in summary the conclusion seems to be that AOO currently is more or less unusable with Linux 64. Can some developers please have a look? Best regards Rainer Used Hyperlinks: [1]

Re: Be Bugzilla (email) account seems broken, Bug 123259 - No mails from Bugzilla

2013-09-15 Thread Rainer Bielefeld
Hi Rob, thank you for detailed info. I can't help with the core problem, but I have a general suggestion. I think it would be useful to have a thread at q...@openoffice.apache.org (or a similar appropriate mailing list) like this one I created at Libreoffice long ago:

Be Bugzilla (email) account seems broken, Bug 123259 - No mails from Bugzilla

2013-09-14 Thread Rainer Bielefeld
created a feed so that I will be informed concerning any new changes in my bugs, but that proceeding is painful. Best regards Rainer Bielefeld - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional

Bug 121014 - Fidelity issues

2013-08-29 Thread Rainer Bielefeld
Hi all, can someone please leve a comment in above mentioned bug and explain what Fidelity issues are? Thank you Rainer - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail:

Bug 49699 - Remove SPAM attachments

2013-08-21 Thread Rainer Bielefeld
Hi, This query https://issues.apache.org/ooo/buglist.cgi?f1=attachments.submittero1=equalsquery_format=advancedresolution=---v1=non-migrated%40openoffice.orglist_id=82681 shows 201 Bugs with attachments created by user Unknown, a small sample mostly showed SPAM contents in these attachments

Re: Updating BZ versions for next releases

2013-08-05 Thread Rainer Bielefeld
Rob Weir schrieb: Hi Rob, 1) It is reasonable for someone to report a bug using 3.4.0, 3.4.1 or 4.0.0. None of these versions are end of life so they should be allowed for new bug reports. I agree. An additional hint: for me the Version is an important distinguishing mark. Of course the

[Bug 122803] - Make sure that developers read Bug reports related to their field of activity

2013-07-23 Thread Rainer Bielefeld
Hi, can someon please proceed https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=122803. All discussion should be in the bug, please! Best regards Rainer - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For

Assigned Bugs

2013-07-23 Thread Rainer Bielefeld
Hi all, in AOO bugzilla there are lots of lots of unfixed Bugs with an Assignee, but without any change for years. So, for example, today I found 722 unfixed bugs assigned to groucho...@googlemail.com (with changes within last 2 years). 2 Bugs with this assignee changed to FIXED within that

[Bug 122434] New: Using of Alias breaks Depends on Tree

2013-06-01 Thread Rainer Bielefeld
Hi, can someone please have a look? Thank you Rainer - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org