Re: [What?] Why and How did this reach my inbox?

2011-08-23 Thread Mathias Bauer
On 23.08.2011 07:10, Dave Fisher wrote: On Aug 22, 2011, at 8:44 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: Are you saying that the newsgroup, whatever it is, is designed to send everything posted on it to ooo-dev ? And it subscribes to ooo-dev so it is like an aggregator? Yes. And it is actually

Re: us...@openoffice.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] d...@openoffice.org]

2011-08-23 Thread Mathias Bauer
On 23.08.2011 02:18, Rob Weir wrote: On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: The changes are good at showing where we are as developers. The unfortunate point is that us...@openoffice.org is still a functional list with several posts in a day and the

Re: us...@openoffice.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] d...@openoffice.org]

2011-08-23 Thread Marcus (OOo)
Wasn't there consensus to wait for new mailing lists until there is really a need to split up the things? When we would follow this way, then we have to wait until the messages on ooo-dev@ from normal users grow up too much. Otherwise we would create a mailing list for (currently) nobody.

Re: us...@openoffice.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] d...@openoffice.org]

2011-08-23 Thread Jean Weber
IMO, any ordinary user who stumbled upon this list (ooo-dev) would be frightened away immediately. This list is totally unsuitable for user support. --Jean On 23/08/2011, at 19:02, Marcus (OOo) marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Wasn't there consensus to wait for new mailing lists until there is

Re: us...@openoffice.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] d...@openoffice.org]

2011-08-23 Thread Marcus (OOo)
Am 08/23/2011 02:18 AM, schrieb Rob Weir: On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Dave Fisherdave2w...@comcast.net wrote: The changes are good at showing where we are as developers. The unfortunate point is that us...@openoffice.org is still a functional list with several posts in a day and the

Re: us...@openoffice.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] d...@openoffice.org]

2011-08-23 Thread Jean Weber
When users see what looks like an email address in the context of support, they typically think it is a help desk, not a mailing list (and they may not even know what a mailing list is). A forum is not going to be mistaken for a help desk email address. So I think Terry and others are correct

Re: [Discussion] dev-jnqqrfibojom4zkihc2...@public.gmane.org

2011-08-23 Thread Marcus (OOo)
Am 08/23/2011 03:09 AM, schrieb Larry Gusaas: On 2011-08-22 5:09 PM Marcus (OOo) wrote: Am 08/23/2011 12:50 AM, schrieb Dave Fisher: On Aug 22, 2011, at 3:38 PM, Marcus (OOo) wrote: Am 08/22/2011 11:45 PM, schrieb Andy Brown: Marcus (OOo) wrote: @all: If there is somewhere else a place

Re: us...@openoffice.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] d...@openoffice.org]

2011-08-23 Thread Marcus (OOo)
I can imagine what you think of. However, this was our consensus; or at least the last standpoint in the discussion weeks ago. I'm fine when we now decide different and create a new mailing list just for users. Marcus Am 08/23/2011 11:08 AM, schrieb Jean Weber: IMO, any ordinary user who

Re: us...@openoffice.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] d...@openoffice.org]

2011-08-23 Thread Marcus (OOo)
+1 Am 08/23/2011 11:32 AM, schrieb Jean Weber: When users see what looks like an email address in the context of support, they typically think it is a help desk, not a mailing list (and they may not even know what a mailing list is). A forum is not going to be mistaken for a help desk email

Re: [Discussion] dev-jnqqrfibojom4zkihc2...@public.gmane.org

2011-08-23 Thread Mathias Bauer
On 23.08.2011 11:33, Marcus (OOo) wrote: Why not? This was the intention from the beginning on. We agreed that we don't want to create new mailing lists when no posts are expected. So, let's see how many users ask for support here. When the number gets tooo high we can create a new users@

Re: [Repo][Proposal]After the code is checked in to SVN

2011-08-23 Thread Stephan Bergmann
On Aug 21, 2011, at 6:48 PM, Rob Weir wrote: 1) Initially, only changes are made to make SVN to more perfectly match the Hg tip. We know there are 10 or so files that need to be checked in, with attention to EOL style. And there was a suggestion to update the memo of the initial checkin.

Re: [Discussion] dev-jnqqrfibojom4zkihc2...@public.gmane.org

2011-08-23 Thread Marcus (OOo)
Am 08/23/2011 12:55 PM, schrieb Mathias Bauer: On 23.08.2011 11:33, Marcus (OOo) wrote: Why not? This was the intention from the beginning on. We agreed that we don't want to create new mailing lists when no posts are expected. So, let's see how many users ask for support here. When the

Re: [Discussion] dev-jnqqrfibojom4zkihc2...@public.gmane.org

2011-08-23 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 6:15 AM, Marcus (OOo) marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Am 08/23/2011 12:55 PM, schrieb Mathias Bauer: On 23.08.2011 11:33, Marcus (OOo) wrote: Why not? This was the intention from the beginning on. We agreed that we don't want to create new mailing lists when no posts

Re: [Repo][Proposal]After the code is checked in to SVN

2011-08-23 Thread Armin Le Grand
Am 23.08.2011 13:07, schrieb Stephan Bergmann: On Aug 21, 2011, at 6:48 PM, Rob Weir wrote: ... Two more steps that we might want to phase in somewhere are: (a) Replace the Oracle/LGPLv3 license headers in all the relevant files with Apache/AL2 ones. Is this maybe legally important to do

Re: us...@openoffice.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] d...@openoffice.org]

2011-08-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 5:32 AM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: When users see what looks like an email address in the context of support, they typically think it is a help desk, not a mailing list (and they may not even know what a mailing list is). A forum is not going to be mistaken

Re: [Discussion] dev-jnqqrfibojom4zkihc2...@public.gmane.org

2011-08-23 Thread Marcus (OOo)
Am 08/23/2011 01:40 PM, schrieb Alexandro Colorado: On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 6:15 AM, Marcus (OOo)marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Am 08/23/2011 12:55 PM, schrieb Mathias Bauer: On 23.08.2011 11:33, Marcus (OOo) wrote: Why not? This was the intention from the beginning on. We agreed that we

Re: us...@openoffice.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] d...@openoffice.org]

2011-08-23 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 07:57 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 5:32 AM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: When users see what looks like an email address in the context of support, they typically think it is a help desk, not a mailing list (and they may not even know what

Re: [Discussion] dev-jnqqrfibojom4zkihc2...@public.gmane.org

2011-08-23 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 6:59 AM, Marcus (OOo) marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Am 08/23/2011 01:40 PM, schrieb Alexandro Colorado: On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 6:15 AM, Marcus (OOo)marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Am 08/23/2011 12:55 PM, schrieb Mathias Bauer: On 23.08.2011 11:33, Marcus (OOo)

Re: [What?] Why and How did this reach my inbox?

2011-08-23 Thread Eike Rathke
Hi Dennis, On Monday, 2011-08-22 19:25:41 -0700, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: And why should we accept newsgroup posts the same as posts from subscribers to this list? This list is not a newsgroup, but the gmane newsgroup creates the effect of subscribers without they're being subscribed here.

Re: us...@openoffice.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] d...@openoffice.org]

2011-08-23 Thread Eike Rathke
Hi Marcus, On Tuesday, 2011-08-23 11:11:35 +0200, Marcus (OOo) wrote: And very often they write to the list but aren't subscribed. So they don't get the answer unless someone is CC'ing them. That actually is a failure of how the list is setup when it has Reply-To pointing to the mailing list

Re: id@openoffice.org

2011-08-23 Thread Eike Rathke
Hi, On Monday, 2011-08-22 19:00:03 +0200, Mathias Bauer wrote: The id@ooo addresses most probably are useful only in one case: getting mail notifications about changes in the bug tracking system. Plus, besides that they're used for login credentials, they are needed when searching for bugs

Re: us...@openoffice.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] d...@openoffice.org]

2011-08-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Eike Rathke o...@erack.de wrote: Hi Marcus, On Tuesday, 2011-08-23 11:11:35 +0200, Marcus (OOo) wrote: And very often they write to the list but aren't subscribed. So they don't get the answer unless someone is CC'ing them. That actually is a failure of how

Re: us...@openoffice.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] d...@openoffice.org]

2011-08-23 Thread Marcus (OOo)
Am 08/23/2011 03:29 PM, schrieb Eike Rathke: Hi Marcus, On Tuesday, 2011-08-23 11:11:35 +0200, Marcus (OOo) wrote: And very often they write to the list but aren't subscribed. So they don't get the answer unless someone is CC'ing them. That actually is a failure of how the list is setup

Re: us...@openoffice.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] d...@openoffice.org]

2011-08-23 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 15:29:50 +0200 Eike Rathke o...@erack.de wrote: snip Mailing lists are much more accepted by those who actually help because handling is much easier than any web forum. You can setup your own scoring, flags, delete unimportant stuff in your personal archive and so on. To

Bugzilla vs JIRA (was: id@openoffice.org)

2011-08-23 Thread Eike Rathke
Hi Rob, On Monday, 2011-08-22 19:07:07 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: Dumb question, but does anyone really like Bugzilla? It's alright, it does the job, it could be better. Do users think it is easy to use? Or are they always complaining about it? If they are complaining we don't know if they

Re: us...@openoffice.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] d...@openoffice.org]

2011-08-23 Thread Donald Whytock
Just a couple centavos... Some companies' firewalls block social sites. Aside from obvious targets like Facebook and Myspace, automatic categorizers like IronPort will flag sites that say anything about blogs, forums, community, etc. At one office, Springsource.org was blocked for me for the

u...@openoffice.org on mail_list.html

2011-08-23 Thread Dave Fisher
Hi Marcus, Starting a new thread so that there is no confusion. You removed all links to an existing us...@openoffice.org from the mail_list.html. (I like the ooo-dev part of what you did.) Please return these links to the page until the time we create ooo-users@i.a.o. BTW - last thread on

Re: us...@openoffice.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] d...@openoffice.org]

2011-08-23 Thread Kazunari Hirano
Hi Marcus and all, On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 11:05 PM, Marcus (OOo) marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: At the end it seems the best solution is still to go 2 ways: ML and forum. +1 The forum will support 10 languages such as EN(English), ES(Spanish), FR(French), HU(Hungarian), IT(Italian), JA(Japanese),

Re: Bugzilla vs JIRA (was: id@openoffice.org)

2011-08-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Eike Rathke o...@erack.de wrote: Hi Rob, On Monday, 2011-08-22 19:07:07 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: Dumb question, but does anyone really like Bugzilla? It's alright, it does the job, it could be better. Do users think it is easy to use?  Or are they always

Re: us...@openoffice.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] d...@openoffice.org]

2011-08-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Marcus (OOo) marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: snip At the end it seems the best solution is still to go 2 ways: ML and forum. Best in what way? If half of us want pizza for dinner, and the other half want sushi, is the best solution to have sushi pizza? I think

Re: u...@openoffice.org on mail_list.html

2011-08-23 Thread Andy Brown
Dave Fisher wrote: Hi Marcus, Starting a new thread so that there is no confusion. You removed all links to an existing us...@openoffice.org from the mail_list.html. (I like the ooo-dev part of what you did.) Please return these links to the page until the time we create ooo-users@i.a.o.

Re: [Repo][Proposal]After the code is checked in to SVN

2011-08-23 Thread Andy Brown
Stephan Bergmann wrote: On Aug 21, 2011, at 6:48 PM, Rob Weir wrote: 1) Initially, only changes are made to make SVN to more perfectly match the Hg tip. We know there are 10 or so files that need to be checked in, with attention to EOL style. And there was a suggestion to update the memo of

Re: us...@openoffice.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] d...@openoffice.org]

2011-08-23 Thread drew
On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 09:39 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Eike Rathke o...@erack.de wrote: Hi Marcus, On Tuesday, 2011-08-23 11:11:35 +0200, Marcus (OOo) wrote: And very often they write to the list but aren't subscribed. So they don't get the answer unless

Re: us...@openoffice.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] d...@openoffice.org]

2011-08-23 Thread Marcus (OOo)
Am 08/23/2011 05:46 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Marcus (OOo)marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: snip At the end it seems the best solution is still to go 2 ways: ML and forum. Best in what way? If half of us want pizza for dinner, and the other half want sushi, is the

Re: us...@openoffice.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] d...@openoffice.org]

2011-08-23 Thread Andy Brown
Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Marcus (OOo)marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: snip At the end it seems the best solution is still to go 2 ways: ML and forum. Best in what way? If half of us want pizza for dinner, and the other half want sushi, is the best solution to have

Re: u...@openoffice.org on mail_list.html

2011-08-23 Thread Marcus (OOo)
OK, for the better overview I've split the webpage into 2 parts: user and dev. And put back the general parts about mailing lists. Marcus Am 08/23/2011 04:42 PM, schrieb Dave Fisher: Hi Marcus, Starting a new thread so that there is no confusion. You removed all links to an existing

Re: u...@openoffice.org on mail_list.html

2011-08-23 Thread Dave Fisher
Hi Marcus, Thanks! Looks good! Regards, Dave On Aug 23, 2011, at 9:28 AM, Marcus (OOo) wrote: OK, for the better overview I've split the webpage into 2 parts: user and dev. And put back the general parts about mailing lists. Marcus Am 08/23/2011 04:42 PM, schrieb Dave Fisher: Hi

Re: Bugzilla vs JIRA

2011-08-23 Thread Frank Schönheit
Regarding customizations I have no idea how much work it a) was to get them into the OOo Bugzilla b) would be to get them into Apache Bugzilla c) would be to get them into JIRA I don't know either. I think the key fact is knowing the extent of the customizations. For example, is it just

Re: Bugzilla vs JIRA

2011-08-23 Thread Frank Schönheit
While JIRA has some nifty features for developers and people working with bugs, such as creation of sub-tasks and integrated statistics and integration with SCMs, I doubt it is more end user friendly than Bugzilla. I tend to agree to this. JIRA has more eye-catchers, and is more powerful, but

RE: [What?] Why and How did this reach my inbox?

2011-08-23 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Complete loss of subject heading is a minor annoyance? How about the mangling of the To address? When I get one of these, I cannot use any rules because the To address that my mail client sees is not that of ooo-dev but some hacked-up pseudo gmane address. So it may be great to use ooo-dev

Can someone verify this?

2011-08-23 Thread Andy Brown
http://studio-no.net/openoffice.php seems to be selling OOo, not illegal I know. Is this something like PortableApps? Andy

RE: Bugzilla vs JIRA (was: id@openoffice.org)

2011-08-23 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I personally prefer JIRA, but it was the first one where I saw issue tracking work well in a group setting. I don't like bugzilla that much. I think bugzilla is the answer here because the e-mail addresses of the existing reports have hard-coded e-mail address in them. There are some other

RE: us...@openoffice.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] d...@openoffice.org]

2011-08-23 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Rory, There are those who think it is necessary netiquette to bottom post and also keep the entire thread. (I'm not one of them.) There is no answer to this. - Dennis -Original Message- From: Rory O'Farrell [mailto:ofarr...@iol.ie] Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 07:09 To:

RE: us...@openoffice.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] d...@openoffice.org]

2011-08-23 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
+1 There is no one-size fits all here. We should have the list and the forum. They are not redundant. Some people will use both. - Dennis -Original Message- From: Marcus (OOo) [mailto:marcus.m...@wtnet.de] Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 07:05 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org

Re: us...@openoffice.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] d...@openoffice.org]

2011-08-23 Thread RGB ES
2011/8/23 Andy Brown a...@the-martin-byrd.net: This road is getting old.  We have already discussed this, back in June.  I saw the same old discussion on the LibO list last year. Yes, and it was a sad show... People can get very vocal about this holy war between forums and ML. For my part I do

Re: Can someone verify this?

2011-08-23 Thread Dave Fisher
To me it looks like it uses the download mirrors and is free. I don't see any selling. In Chrome on a Mac it offers to download a Windows 3.3.0 install from mirrors.fe.up.pt - so it is not perfect. On Aug 23, 2011, at 12:43 PM, Andy Brown wrote: http://studio-no.net/openoffice.php seems

Re: Bugzilla vs JIRA (was: id@openoffice.org)

2011-08-23 Thread Dave Fisher
On Aug 23, 2011, at 12:50 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: I personally prefer JIRA, but it was the first one where I saw issue tracking work well in a group setting. I don't like bugzilla that much. I think bugzilla is the answer here because the e-mail addresses of the existing reports

Re: Can someone verify this?

2011-08-23 Thread Marcus (OOo)
Let me try: - I've downloaded the file without that someone wanted to have money or a registration from me. - The mirror http://mirrors.fe.up.pt/; where the download comes from is an officoal mirror of the (old) OOo project. - The MD5 sum is exactly the same as if you would download the

Re: us...@openoffice.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] d...@openoffice.org]

2011-08-23 Thread Marcus (OOo)
I can understand Rob's arguement that we have to split ourself to give support for mailing list(s) and forum in parallel. However, I believe that it would be an advantage when the normal, average user has a choice where to go to get an answer. Marcus Am 08/23/2011 09:50 PM, schrieb Dennis

Re: us...@openoffice.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] d...@openoffice.org]

2011-08-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Marcus (OOo) marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: I can understand Rob's arguement that we have to split ourself to give support for mailing list(s) and forum in parallel. However, I believe that it would be an advantage when the normal, average user has a choice where

Re: [What?] Why and How did this reach my inbox?

2011-08-23 Thread Shane Curcuru
I can provide some general context about how mailing lists are traditionally handled at Apache, since there are some specific mailing list etiquette technology issues being discussed here. - Complete mailing list contents are always public, with the exception of specific lists that are

Re: us...@openoffice.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] d...@openoffice.org]

2011-08-23 Thread Kazunari Hirano
Hi Rob, On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 5:49 AM, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: ooo-users-en.i.a.o ooo-users-es.i.a.o ooo-users-hu.i.a.o ooo-users-it.i.a.o ooo-users-ja.i.a.o ooo-users-nl.i.a.o ooo-users-pl.i.a.o ooo-users-vi.i.a.o ooo-users-zh.i.a.o Looks great! We create them on request.

Re: us...@openoffice.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] d...@openoffice.org]

2011-08-23 Thread Marcus (OOo)
Do you know how much the non-English MLs are used? Why not start with Engish only? BTW: Where do you see 30 moderators for the forums? Marcus Am 08/23/2011 10:49 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Marcus (OOo)marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: I can understand Rob's

Re: us...@openoffice.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] d...@openoffice.org]

2011-08-23 Thread Dave Fisher
On Aug 23, 2011, at 1:49 PM, Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Marcus (OOo) marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: I can understand Rob's arguement that we have to split ourself to give support for mailing list(s) and forum in parallel. However, I believe that it would be an advantage

Re: Can someone verify this?

2011-08-23 Thread Andy Brown
Marcus (OOo) wrote: Let me try: - I've downloaded the file without that someone wanted to have money or a registration from me. - The mirror http://mirrors.fe.up.pt/; where the download comes from is an officoal mirror of the (old) OOo project. - The MD5 sum is exactly the same as if you

Re: us...@openoffice.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] d...@openoffice.org]

2011-08-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: On Aug 23, 2011, at 1:49 PM, Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Marcus (OOo) marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: I can understand Rob's arguement that we have to split ourself to give support for mailing list(s)

Re: Can someone verify this?

2011-08-23 Thread Marcus (OOo)
Am 08/23/2011 11:16 PM, schrieb Andy Brown: Marcus (OOo) wrote: Let me try: - I've downloaded the file without that someone wanted to have money or a registration from me. - The mirror http://mirrors.fe.up.pt/; where the download comes from is an officoal mirror of the (old) OOo project. -

Re: us...@openoffice.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] d...@openoffice.org]

2011-08-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Marcus (OOo) marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Do you know how much the non-English MLs are used? Why not start with Engish only? Does it matter? The English list is getting very little traffic. A note was sent today asking about interest. I've seen zero

Re: us...@openoffice.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] d...@openoffice.org]

2011-08-23 Thread Jean Weber
Idle curiosity: I wonder how many people who offer support do it in both places: mailing list and forum, or more or exclusively in one or the other. Personal observation (not intended as a generalization): my preferences vary with whether I'm a consumer or a provider of support services. As a

Re: us...@openoffice.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] d...@openoffice.org]

2011-08-23 Thread Marcus (OOo)
Yes, it seems a bit difficult to decide what is the best for all or at least the majority of our users. Maybe someone has some more agruements about MLs vs. forums. Marcus Am 08/23/2011 11:40 PM, schrieb Jean Weber: Idle curiosity: I wonder how many people who offer support do it in both

Re: us...@openoffice.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] d...@openoffice.org]

2011-08-23 Thread Andy Brown
Jean Weber wrote: Idle curiosity: I wonder how many people who offer support do it in both places: mailing list and forum, or more or exclusively in one or the other. Personal observation (not intended as a generalization): my preferences vary with whether I'm a consumer or a provider of

Re: us...@openoffice.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] d...@openoffice.org]

2011-08-23 Thread Marcus (OOo)
Ah, now I understand. This is sarcasm. ;-) Am 08/23/2011 11:37 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 5:05 PM, Marcus (OOo)marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: Do you know how much the non-English MLs are used? Why not start with Engish only? Does it matter? The English list is getting

Re: us...@openoffice.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] d...@openoffice.org]

2011-08-23 Thread RGB ES
2011/8/23 Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com: Idle curiosity: I wonder how many people who offer support do it in both places: mailing list and forum, or more or exclusively in one or the other. Personal observation (not intended as a generalization): my preferences vary with whether I'm a

Re: Can someone verify this?

2011-08-23 Thread Andy Brown
Marcus (OOo) wrote: Thanks for watching out. Is what I do. :) Maybe there is a dependency from where, how, etc. you try to download. However, it doesn't seen to be a general thing. I did not think of that. I downloaded the file from their link and looks like the right size for the

Re: us...@openoffice.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] d...@openoffice.org]

2011-08-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: Idle curiosity: I wonder how many people who offer support do it in both places: mailing list and forum, or more or exclusively in one or the other. Personal observation (not intended as a generalization): my preferences

Re: users-jnqqrfibojom4zkihc2...@public.gmane.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] dev-jnqqrfibojom4zkihc2...@public.gmane.org]

2011-08-23 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2011-08-23 3:37 PM Rob Weir wrote: Does it matter? The English list is getting very little traffic. There were 56 posts to us...@openoffice.org in the last week. Traffic is highest after a new release. Here is a list by month for 2011: Jan 409Feb 290Mar 366Apr 197May 218

Re: users-jnqqrfibojom4zkihc2...@public.gmane.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] dev-jnqqrfibojom4zkihc2...@public.gmane.org]

2011-08-23 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2011-08-23 4:08 PM Rob Weir wrote: I assume this is a natural tenancy and explains why OOo has several hundred mailing lists, most of them rarely or never used. Most of those are not support lists and that number has nothing to do with this discussion of support mailing lists. Do you

Re: users-jnqqrfibojom4zkihc2jig-xmd5yjdbdmrexy1tmh2...@public.gmane.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] dev-jnqqrfibojom4zkihc2jig-xmd5yjdbdmrexy1tmh2...@public.gmane.org]

2011-08-23 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2011-08-23 4:21 PM Rob Weir wrote: So the English support forum has 613 *active threads* for August alone. In many cases that multiplies out to multiple posts per thread. So the forum traffic dwarfs the mailing list traffic. Perhaps you should compare to the LibreOffice user support list

Re: us...@openoffice.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] d...@openoffice.org]

2011-08-23 Thread drew
On Wed, 2011-08-24 at 07:40 +1000, Jean Weber wrote: Idle curiosity: I wonder how many people who offer support do it in both places: My observation. It's minimal. Most responders are in one of the other, but not both. //drew

Re: User support: beyond forums or lists

2011-08-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: I've started a new thread, because I think Rob Weir's very important point has got lost in the discussions about forums and lists. Rob wrote: Support is important. The question is how best to do it.  If all we're doing is

Re: User support: beyond forums or lists

2011-08-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 7:18 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: It can be hard to find the Tuna with all the Herrings tossed around :-D Hey, even a broken clock is right twice a day. I was overdue ;-) -Rob On Aug 23, 2011, at 4:05 PM, Jean Weber wrote: I've started a new thread,

Re: users-jnqqrfibojom4zkihc2...@public.gmane.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] dev-jnqqrfibojom4zkihc2...@public.gmane.org]

2011-08-23 Thread drew
On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 18:21 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Larry Gusaas larry.gus...@gmail.com wrote: On 2011-08-23 3:37 PM Rob Weir wrote: Does it matter? The English list is getting very little traffic. There were 56 posts to us...@openoffice.org in the last

Re: us...@openoffice.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] d...@openoffice.org]

2011-08-23 Thread drew
On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 16:49 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Marcus (OOo) marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote: I can understand Rob's arguement that we have to split ourself to give support for mailing list(s) and forum in parallel. However, I believe that it would be an

Re: us...@openoffice.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] d...@openoffice.org]

2011-08-23 Thread drew
On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 18:08 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 5:40 PM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: Idle curiosity: I wonder how many people who offer support do it in both places: mailing list and forum, or more or exclusively in one or the other. Personal

Re: User support: beyond forums or lists

2011-08-23 Thread Simon Phipps
On 24 Aug 2011, at 00:20, Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: It's clear to me that we need to do better than we have in the user support area, if we can do so. Not only will that benefit users and improve our reputation, it will allow

Re: users-jnqqrfibojom4zkihc2...@public.gmane.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] dev-jnqqrfibojom4zkihc2...@public.gmane.org]

2011-08-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 7:25 PM, drew d...@baseanswers.com wrote: On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 18:21 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Larry Gusaas larry.gus...@gmail.com wrote: On 2011-08-23 3:37 PM  Rob Weir wrote: Does it matter?  The English list is getting very little

RE: us...@openoffice.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] d...@openoffice.org]

2011-08-23 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I work like Andy, I think. With the ML it is easy to scan the headers of new messages (or threads) and dig deeper on something that I may be interested in or know something about. With forums, which I use when I have to, the most difficult part is looking around to find out if a matter that

Re: User support: beyond forums or lists

2011-08-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: On 24 Aug 2011, at 00:20, Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: It's clear to me that we need to do better than we have in the user support area, if we can do so. Not

Re: users-jnqqrfibojom4zkihc2...@public.gmane.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] dev-jnqqrfibojom4zkihc2...@public.gmane.org]

2011-08-23 Thread drew
On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 19:38 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 7:25 PM, drew d...@baseanswers.com wrote: On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 18:21 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Larry Gusaas larry.gus...@gmail.com wrote: On 2011-08-23 3:37 PM Rob Weir wrote:

Re: User support: beyond forums or lists

2011-08-23 Thread Simon Phipps
On 24 Aug 2011, at 00:49, Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: On 24 Aug 2011, at 00:20, Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: It's clear to me that we need to do better than we have in

RE: us...@openoffice.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] d...@openoffice.org]

2011-08-23 Thread Gavin McDonald
-Original Message- From: Marcus (OOo) [mailto:marcus.m...@wtnet.de] Sent: Wednesday, 24 August 2011 12:05 AM To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: us...@openoffice.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] d...@openoffice.org] Am 08/23/2011 03:29 PM, schrieb Eike Rathke: Hi Marcus,

RE: Bugzilla vs JIRA (was: id@openoffice.org)

2011-08-23 Thread drew
On Wed, 2011-08-24 at 10:08 +1000, Gavin McDonald wrote: -Original Message- From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamil...@acm.org] Sent: Wednesday, 24 August 2011 5:50 AM To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: RE: Bugzilla vs JIRA (was: id@openoffice.org) I

RE: Bugzilla vs JIRA (was: id@openoffice.org)

2011-08-23 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Good. That's reassuring. Thanks. - Dennis -Original Message- From: Gavin McDonald [mailto:ga...@16degrees.com.au] Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 17:08 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org; dennis.hamil...@acm.org Subject: RE: Bugzilla vs JIRA (was: id@openoffice.org) -Original

Re: User support: beyond forums or lists

2011-08-23 Thread drew
snip So far the LibreOffice project has avoided creating support forums that compete with the openoffice.org lists; would it be smart to explore a way to have this broader, collaborative support in place? I would not characterize it quite that way - LibreOffice has taken the same path that

Re: User support: beyond forums or lists

2011-08-23 Thread Simon Phipps
On 24 Aug 2011, at 01:28, drew wrote: snip So far the LibreOffice project has avoided creating support forums that compete with the openoffice.org lists; would it be smart to explore a way to have this broader, collaborative support in place? I would not characterize it quite that way

Re: User support: beyond forums or lists

2011-08-23 Thread drew
On Wed, 2011-08-24 at 01:36 +0100, Simon Phipps wrote: On 24 Aug 2011, at 01:28, drew wrote: snip So far the LibreOffice project has avoided creating support forums that compete with the openoffice.org lists; would it be smart to explore a way to have this broader, collaborative

Re: User support: beyond forums or lists

2011-08-23 Thread Simon Phipps
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 1:44 AM, drew d...@baseanswers.com wrote: On Wed, 2011-08-24 at 01:36 +0100, Simon Phipps wrote: Apologies if this ought to be clear to me, but are you proposing: No apologies needed - I'm touchy on the subject...so just slap the back of my head now and then when I

Re: us...@openoffice.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] d...@openoffice.org]

2011-08-23 Thread Pedro Giffuni
Well .. An important difference, I think, is that the forum will serve for all openoffice variants (including LibreOffice). The mailinlist can only attend issues related to Apache OpenOffice since its the codebase we maintain and support. Pedro. On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:00:01 +0200, Marcus

ooo-wiki going offline

2011-08-23 Thread Terry Ellison
Just a warning in case anyone is browsing the ooo-wiki.apache.org server. We will be taking it offline to add an Apache Traffic Server Cache. You can still all access the current production site at wiki.services.openoffice.org I will post another announcement when it is back one line for

Re: us...@openoffice.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] d...@openoffice.org]

2011-08-23 Thread Andy Brown
Gavin McDonald wrote: From: Marcus (OOo) [mailto:marcus.m...@wtnet.de] Maybe, but they are still not subscribed. So the moderator has to let the posts through; again and again until the user is subscribed. ew,, no that does not have to happen at all. the moderator can do a reply-all ,

Re: User support: beyond forums or lists

2011-08-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Simon Phipps si...@webmink.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 1:44 AM, drew d...@baseanswers.com wrote: On Wed, 2011-08-24 at 01:36 +0100, Simon Phipps wrote: Apologies if this ought to be clear to me, but are you proposing: No apologies needed - I'm touchy

Re: User support: beyond forums or lists

2011-08-23 Thread drew
On Wed, 2011-08-24 at 09:05 +1000, Jean Weber wrote: I've started a new thread, because I think Rob Weir's very important point has got lost in the discussions about forums and lists. Rob wrote: Support is important. The question is how best to do it. If all we're doing is considering

RE: us...@openoffice.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] d...@openoffice.org]

2011-08-23 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
It's an odd situation. In many ways an us...@openoffice.org list would appear to remain useful but I think it creates a decision crisis for users to have too many of these. What I notice about [libreoffice-users] and also [libreoffice] (the dev list) is that many user-level reports have to do

Re: us...@openoffice.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] d...@openoffice.org]

2011-08-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 9:47 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: It's an odd situation.  In many ways an us...@openoffice.org list would appear to remain useful but I think it creates a decision crisis for users to have too many of these. What I notice about

Re: users-jnqqrfibojom4zkihc2...@public.gmane.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] dev-jnqqrfibojom4zkihc2...@public.gmane.org]

2011-08-23 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2011-08-23 7:28 PM Andy Brown wrote: The OOo user and discuss list use to have the Delivered-to contain moderator and it was easy to see when a message was from a person that was not subscribed to the list, the way that Apache does it. When the mail system changed that was removed so the

Re: users-jnqqrfibojom4zkihc2...@public.gmane.org [Was: Re: [Discussion] dev-jnqqrfibojom4zkihc2...@public.gmane.org]

2011-08-23 Thread Andy Brown
Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2011-08-23 7:28 PM Andy Brown wrote: The OOo user and discuss list use to have the Delivered-to contain moderator and it was easy to see when a message was from a person that was not subscribed to the list, the way that Apache does it. When the mail system changed that

Re: ooo-wiki going offline

2011-08-23 Thread Terry Ellison
I've now finished the upgrade to add the Apache Traffic Server front end to the community MediaWiki service at http://ooo-wiki.apache.org/ and the service is back online. We need to do some further tuning of the system cache optimisation, but even with the first-cut settings that I prepared

Re: ooo-wiki going offline

2011-08-23 Thread Andy Brown
Terry Ellison wrote: I've now finished the upgrade to add the Apache Traffic Server front end to the community MediaWiki service at http://ooo-wiki.apache.org/ and the service is back online. We need to do some further tuning of the system cache optimisation, but even with the first-cut

Re: ooo-wiki going offline

2011-08-23 Thread Dave Fisher
On Aug 23, 2011, at 8:34 PM, Andy Brown wrote: Terry Ellison wrote: I've now finished the upgrade to add the Apache Traffic Server front end to the community MediaWiki service at http://ooo-wiki.apache.org/ and the service is back online. We need to do some further tuning of the system

User support - what do others do

2011-08-23 Thread drew
Hi, Just a quick note. What do other similar FOSS projects do for end user support, forums, lists or other. Calligra - forums, no mail list Scribus - forums, no mail lsit Paint.net - forums, no mail list GnuCash - forums, no mail list InkScape - forums AND mail list MySQL - forums and mail

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