Re: Student Project

2014-09-21 Thread Deborah Digges
Hi Regina, I looked through the documentation you sent me, but I wasn't able to figure out where exactly to start. Could you please help me out? On Sep 21, 2014 11:01 PM, Regina Henschel rb.hensc...@t-online.de wrote: Hi Deborah, Deborah Digges schrieb: Hi Regina, I am very much

Re: Student Project

2014-09-21 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Deborah, Deborah Digges schrieb: Hi Regina, I looked through the documentation you sent me, but I wasn't able to figure out where exactly to start. Could you please help me out? The code is indeed huge. But you can mimic the solutions you see for rectangles and ellipses. And therefore

Re: Student Project

2014-09-13 Thread Deborah Digges
Hi Regina, I am very much interested in this task . I'd love to go over the details with you, at your convenience. I'm not exactly sure what this means, but it sounds really interesting! I've started reading the chapter on the docs. I'll reach out to you with questions as I get them :) Thanks,

Re: Student Project

2014-09-12 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Deborah, Deborah Digges schrieb: I'll get in touch with the QA team right away. Thanks for all your help. I've uploaded the patches and set the appropriate flags for review request, as indicated by Regina Henschel :) If there are any more such issues, I'd be glad to work on them,to

Re: Student Project

2014-09-09 Thread Ariel Constenla-Haile
Hello Deborah, On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 01:49:35PM +0530, Deborah Digges wrote: Hello, I am a *4th year* Computer Science student. As a part of a course - The Architecture of Open source technologies, I am required to contribute to an open source project. The project is needed to be done

Re: Student Project

2014-09-05 Thread Deborah Digges
Thank you, I will have a look at the issues and get back to you with questions. It would be great if you could help us find a project for the team as a whole i.e. three members working for ~8hrs for 3 months. Thanks, Deborah Digges On Sep 5, 2014 1:46 AM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org

Re: Student Project

2014-09-05 Thread Deborah Digges
Hello, I have been working on the bug https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=125583, and have attached the patch for it. However, on rebuilding , I am unable to see the changes. What am I doing wrong? Also, please could you tell me how to assign a bug to myself. On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at

Re: Student Project

2014-09-05 Thread Deborah Digges
This is the fix for https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=125584. I'm sorry if this isn't the right way to share patches. Should I upload it as an attachment on the specific issue page? Thanks, Deborah Digges On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 5:51 PM, Deborah Digges

Re: Student Project

2014-09-05 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 05/09/2014 Deborah Digges wrote: Hello, I have been working on the bug https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=125583, and have attached the patch for it. Thanks! Please attach the two patches to the respective bugs in Bugzilla. What you should do is: 1) Login at

Re: Student Project

2014-09-05 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi, Andrea Pescetti schrieb: On 05/09/2014 Deborah Digges wrote: Hello, I have been working on the bug https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=125583, and have attached the patch for it. Thanks! Please attach the two patches to the respective bugs in Bugzilla. What you should do is: 1)

Re: Student Project

2014-09-05 Thread Deborah Digges
I was running from /opt/openoffice4/program/soffice and wasn't seeing the reflected changes. However, I was able to see the changes from /unxlngx6 .pro/Apache_OpenOffice/installed/install/en-US/openoffice4/program/soffice . Thanks! I do not see the take command below assigned to. I reckon I do

Re: Student Project

2014-09-05 Thread Kay Schenk
On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 6:17 AM, Deborah Digges deborah.gertrude.dig...@gmail.com wrote: This is the fix for https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=125584. I'm sorry if this isn't the right way to share patches. Should I upload it as an attachment on the specific issue page?

Re: Student Project

2014-09-05 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 05/09/2014 Deborah Digges wrote: I do not see the take command below assigned to. I reckon I do not have the required privileges. Should I go ahead and upload the patches anyway? Sure, please do. And about the missing privileges: please send a mail to the QA list q...@openoffice.apache.org

Re: Student Project

2014-09-05 Thread Deborah Digges
I'll get in touch with the QA team right away. Thanks for all your help. I've uploaded the patches and set the appropriate flags for review request, as indicated by Regina Henschel :) If there are any more such issues, I'd be glad to work on them,to familiarize myself with the whole process.

Re: Student Project

2014-09-04 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 03/09/2014 Deborah Digges wrote: Thank you for your help and time; I will take a look at the issues and try to solve some of them. Two easy issues that I just filed are here: https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=125583 https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=125584 If you

Re: Student Project

2014-09-03 Thread Deborah Digges
Thank you for your help and time; I will take a look at the issues and try to solve some of them. I have completed the build and install, and have also taken a look at the architecture. If you do come across a project that has the needed mix of mentors, I'd be glad to be a part of it. On

Re: Student Project

2014-09-03 Thread Amali Praveena Soban Kumar
Hi Deborah, It is great you finished the build and install so quickly; which version of Ubuntu are you using? Thanks, Amali. On Thursday, 4 September 2014, 3:15, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/03/2014 06:37 AM, Deborah Digges wrote: Thank you for your help and time; I

Re: Student Project

2014-09-03 Thread Deborah Digges
Hello, Thank you, Amali. I'm currently working on version 12.04 . Thanks, Deborah Digges On Sep 4, 2014 2:05 AM, Amali Praveena Soban Kumar samaliprave...@yahoo.com.au wrote: Hi Deborah, It is great you finished the build and install so quickly; which version of Ubuntu are you using?

Re: proposed student project? freedesktop.org desktop integration for debian

2014-09-02 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 02/09/2014 Kay Schenk wrote: Would it be beneficial to have the students work on freedesktop integration for our debian builds? I would prepare an issue with pertinent details as far as I am able , but would rely on some of our debian-based developers to fill in some pieces. It should work

Re: proposed student project? freedesktop.org desktop integration for debian

2014-09-02 Thread Kay Schenk
On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 11:55 PM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: On 02/09/2014 Kay Schenk wrote: Would it be beneficial to have the students work on freedesktop integration for our debian builds? I would prepare an issue with pertinent details as far as I am able , but would rely

Re: proposed student project? freedesktop.org desktop integration for debian

2014-09-02 Thread Amali Praveena Soban Kumar
Alexandro said,I am not sure how hard would that be but you can easily setup an environment using a virtualbox with whatever os you need (debian, suse, fedora, or... gulp... windows) and just compile there. what I think is, creating a virtual machine with Ubuntu OS, downloading the source are

Re: proposed student project? freedesktop.org desktop integration for debian

2014-09-02 Thread Kay Schenk
from me on this. I really don't have the hardware or time to setup an additional VM to help with the student project. But, thanks for the suggestion. On Wednesday, 3 September 2014, 1:55, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 11:55 PM, Andrea Pescetti pesce

Re: Student Project

2014-09-02 Thread Kay Schenk
On 09/01/2014 10:25 AM, Deborah Digges wrote: Hello, It's great to hear from you! * We work primarily on unix machines - ubuntu specifically. IDEs we have worked on include Eclipse, NetBeans and Aptana studio. * I know git, but am not very experienced with it. I have worked briefly with

Re: Student Project

2014-09-01 Thread Kay Schenk
On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 1:19 AM, Deborah Digges deborah.gertrude.dig...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am a *4th year* Computer Science student. As a part of a course - The Architecture of Open source technologies, I am required to contribute to an open source project. The project is needed to

Re: Student Project

2014-09-01 Thread Deborah Digges
Hello, It's great to hear from you! * We work primarily on unix machines - ubuntu specifically. IDEs we have worked on include Eclipse, NetBeans and Aptana studio. * I know git, but am not very experienced with it. I have worked briefly with perforce. * The course evaluation would be in the

proposed student project? freedesktop.org desktop integration for debian

2014-09-01 Thread Kay Schenk
OpenOffice has been approached by students for a one semester project (approximately 96 hours) involving an open source project, see the following thread-- http://markmail.org/message/2uxfdm2tjh7ei2zl They are using Ubuntu. Recently, we had a post regarding broken desktop integration for debian.

Re: proposed student project? freedesktop.org desktop integration for debian

2014-09-01 Thread Alexandro Colorado
I am not sure how hard would that be but you can easily setup an environment using a virtualbox with whatever os you need (debian, suse, fedora, or... gulp... windows) and just compile there. Sure virtual environments are not the best location to do your compilation, however it will get you the

Student Project

2014-08-29 Thread Deborah Digges
Hello, I am a *4th year* Computer Science student. As a part of a course - The Architecture of Open source technologies, I am required to contribute to an open source project. The project is needed to be done by a team of *3 members*.The semester ends by* November*, so that gives me *three