Re: [dev] extending the OpenOffice BugBounty Programm

2009-02-07 Thread Martin Whitaker
Oliver Specht wrote: Martin Whitaker schrieb: T. J. Frazier wrote: Windows developers would be expectably running Ms's latest-and-greatest, Windows Vista (or W7 pre-releases). If they decide to take a look at the code ("Do I want to get involved with this?"), they hit an immediate barrier: t

Re: [dev] extending the OpenOffice BugBounty Programm

2009-02-07 Thread Oliver Specht
Martin Whitaker schrieb: T. J. Frazier wrote: Windows developers would be expectably running Ms's latest-and-greatest, Windows Vista (or W7 pre-releases). If they decide to take a look at the code ("Do I want to get involved with this?"), they hit an immediate barrier: the SVN folks only boas

Re: [dev] extending the OpenOffice BugBounty Programm

2009-02-07 Thread Maximilian Odendahl
Hi, Removing the next barrier -- allowing (and documenting!) OO.o development under Windows -- involves significant (but not massive) effort on our part. It should be readily doable (assuming a solution for the SVN problem), possible since a long time: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wi

Re: [dev] extending the OpenOffice BugBounty Programm

2009-02-07 Thread Martin Whitaker
T. J. Frazier wrote: Windows developers would be expectably running Ms's latest-and-greatest, Windows Vista (or W7 pre-releases). If they decide to take a look at the code ("Do I want to get involved with this?"), they hit an immediate barrier: the SVN folks only boast a client for WXP. A litt

Re: [dev] extending the OpenOffice BugBounty Programm

2009-02-07 Thread T. J. Frazier
Martin Hollmichel wrote: Hi, last year we initiated the bug bounty program ... Are there any other ideas to make the Program more attractive ? or should we stop this effort because it's hopeless ? May I suggest that some of the bounty money, and/or equivalent time and effort, might be better

Re: [dev] extending the OpenOffice BugBounty Programm

2009-02-06 Thread Grover Blue
heck, simple: 1 start a twitter account and get 1000+ followers. post a link. 2 post to digg 3 tell a few high profile bloggers about it. 4 inform writers/editors on tech news sites, like wired.com 5 send notices to computer science departments at universities (there has to be an easy way to reac

Re: [dev] extending the OpenOffice BugBounty Programm

2009-02-06 Thread Cor Nouws
Maximilian Odendahl wrote (6-2-2009 19:56) Martin Hollmichel schrieb: last year we initiated the bug bounty program (http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/BugBountyProgram and references below). Obviously we failed in spreading the information about this program, the feedback was very low.

Re: [dev] extending the OpenOffice BugBounty Programm

2009-02-06 Thread Maximilian Odendahl
Hi Martin, couple of random points which come into my mind: - although I even read lots of OOo mailing lists and blogs etc. I never new if the bounty program actually started or not, so I guess noone actually knew about it - when telling my roommate about it, he thought it was a great idea,

[dev] extending the OpenOffice BugBounty Programm

2009-02-06 Thread Martin Hollmichel
Hi, last year we initiated the bug bounty program (http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/BugBountyProgram and references below). Obviously we failed in spreading the information about this program, the feedback was very low. Before we extend the program we want to be sure to make it this