Re: Extensions and templates site down

2011-07-13 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 12/07/2011 Simon Phipps wrote: TDF are just about to launch a full version of their extensions templates system and they would be perfectly happy for AOOo to redirect the URL that OpenOffice.org is using to access the repository so that it uses the system TDF are hosting for LibreOffice.

Re: Extensions and templates site down

2011-07-13 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 12/07/2011 Rob Weir wrote: 1) The new extensions.openoffice.org site hosts no code or binaries. It is simply a directory of 3rd party extensions and links to outside sites for the actual files. This would really be suboptimal since the OpenOffice.org community really expects to use the

Re: Extensions and templates site down

2011-07-13 Thread André Schnabel
Hi, Am 13.07.2011 00:37, schrieb Pedro Giffuni: While this is understandable, it is not good enough. We will have to find an alternative repository and link to it from Apache's website. This is something that can wait though. You might think different, when you was an actual user or

OOo Conferences presentations

2011-07-13 Thread Reizinger Zoltán
Hi All, I want to rise one question not raised in this list. OOo community held 10th OOo Conference in Budapest last year. The conference materials with 9th Italian conference materials stored in http://www.ooocon.org/ site. What is the status of this site, it is in transfer list if hosted by

Re: SVN tutorial

2011-07-13 Thread Carl Marcum
Dave, On 07/12/2011 09:55 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: On Jul 12, 2011, at 6:49 PM, Carl Marcum wrote: I'll sign up for the basic SVN tutorial from Help Wanted if no one has yet. Great! BTW - I have a TODO on http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/website-local.html for how to create a

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-13 Thread Simon Phipps
On 13 Jul 2011, at 12:55, Sam Ruby wrote: If a project decides to create a canonical place to find things like extensions and templates then we will expect the (P)PMC to demonstrate active oversight of that repository. To clarify this, Sam: Do you mean that any external repository would

Re: Script to generate mail archive URL from message

2011-07-13 Thread Shane Curcuru
Note that in general for any official Apache project work we prefer to use links to apache.org resources where possible. I.e. for board reports and for the bulk of public websites about Apache projects, we expect projects to use the Apache mail-archives.a.o server. This is because our own

Re: [DISCUSS] Project + PPMC Growing Pains

2011-07-13 Thread Shane Curcuru
Indeed, I would urge PPMC members to push regular posts to the OOo blog. While we do our work here on dev@ in public, it's often easier for the greater world to follow a blog posting than it is to follow mailing lists. From my perspective (as a mentor, not on the PPMC), here are some

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-13 Thread Simon Phipps
On 13 Jul 2011, at 14:29, Sam Ruby wrote: On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: On 13 Jul 2011, at 12:55, Sam Ruby wrote: If a project decides to create a canonical place to find things like extensions and templates then we will expect the (P)PMC to

Re: [DISCUSS] Project + PPMC Growing Pains

2011-07-13 Thread Ross Gardler
Responding as a mentor - not as an OO.o committer... On 12 July 2011 23:39, Dennis E. Hamilton orc...@apache.org wrote: Good point, Rob.  I am not floating a proposal, more an opportunity for discussion.  Here are some questions:  1. When should we conclude that the Initial Committers that

Re: OpenOffice.org (was Re: Ooo blog)

2011-07-13 Thread Sam Ruby
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: On 13 Jul 2011, at 14:29, Sam Ruby wrote: On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: On 13 Jul 2011, at 12:55, Sam Ruby wrote: If a project decides to create a canonical place to find things

Open Office Help Wanted

2011-07-13 Thread Harold Fennell
I would like to know more about: external diff and merge tools for Subversion that can process ODF documents Do you have other teams working on this problem, what is the expected timeframe, any helpful hints on completion, and is the a tool that integrates into Subversion or into open

Re: Open Office Help Wanted

2011-07-13 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Harold Fennell harold_fenn...@hotmail.com wrote: I would like to know more about: external diff and merge tools for Subversion that can process ODF documents Do you have other teams working on this problem, what is the expected timeframe, any helpful hints

Re: Online Help Planning

2011-07-13 Thread TJ Frazier
Hi, Frank, On 7/13/2011 14:49, Frank Peters wrote: I have created a page on the user wiki for online help planning https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Application+Help Many thanks for that. I have posted some radical ideas, which you should feel free to incorporate, reply

Re: Online Help Planning

2011-07-13 Thread Frank Peters
good that this topic comes up... On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 8:49 PM, Frank Petersfpe.mli...@googlemail.com wrote: I have created a page on the user wiki for online help planning https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Application+Help helpcontent2/helpers/REAME reads: ##

Re: Symphony contribution

2011-07-13 Thread Marcus (OOo)
Am 07/14/2011 12:00 AM, schrieb Rob Weir: I'm sending this with my IBM hat. I'm going to be speaking at the ODF Plugfest in Berlin Friday afternoon, and will be making some announcements. I wanted you to hear this first, before anyone else knows. Great, thanks for this. [...] We will be

Re: Symphony contribution

2011-07-13 Thread Simon Phipps
On 13 Jul 2011, at 23:00, Rob Weir wrote: However, we at IBM have not been exemplary community members when it came to OpenOffice.org. This wasn't necessarily by design, but for various reasons, that was the effect. Yes, we participated in various community councils, and sponsored

Re: Symphony contribution

2011-07-13 Thread Yong Lin Ma
A few things I like to clarify. We are not announcing giving up Symphony development. IBM has business commitment with Symphony and its users. We are willing to contribute the whole Symphony to community. The code would be available to the community. (The C++ part of Symphony, also the