Re: Possible fraud??

2012-04-14 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 13/04/2012 Keith Shafe wrote: There is a guy on ebay selling Open Office 3.3 which I was led to believe was a free download. I don't know the EBay Terms and condition, but the license does not forbid this kind of sales. I just found out that we even have a page about it:

Re: [BUILD][RELEASE] Dictionaries on language packs

2012-04-14 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 12/04/2012 Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: Now the dictionaries are installed only on full localized install sets, but not in the language packs, at least on Linux (didn't try on Win). Indeed, I see no reasons to ship language packs without dictionaries. It was a welcome addition with the

VCLTestTool

2012-04-14 Thread Ian
HI, poking around I got to http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/VCLTesttool - does anyone know if this is alive? Or meant to be? Files are all dated 2007. I downloaded it and tried to run but it fails looking for an X shared lib. --- ./testtool.bin: error while loading shared libraries:

Re: [DL LOGIC] How to choose a mirror when more than 1 is available?

2012-04-14 Thread Kay Schenk
On 04/07/2012 09:45 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: I agree that it is far more appealing to do this server side rather than have the client user agent have to fire up only to do a redirect. It also leaves open the prospect of handling the failure modes more effectively. Of course, that change

Need a code branch for RC

2012-04-14 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi all, I want to commit some features and bug fixes, but want not to do this immediately before a RC. The danger of producing regressions and problems is too high. I suggest that RC gets a branch, so that working on trunk is possible again. Kind regards Regina

RE: [DL LOGIC] How to choose a mirror when more than 1 is available?

2012-04-14 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Kay, thanks for noticing the security issue around having a script served from an insecure web page. That has me thinking about the security context for server-side selection of mirrors (assuming that the server sends confirmed redirects back to the requester), I think the URL to request the

Re: Ditching our mirror system for an inferior solution? (was: Re: About Testing the SourceForce Mirror of AOO 3.4)

2012-04-14 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
Hi, On Fri, 13 Apr 2012, Peter Pöml wrote: Am 03.04.2012 um 18:17 schrieb Roberto Galoppini: We at SourceForge have worked the last ten days to line-up dedicated infrastructure (including CDN services) to support the upcoming AOO download serving test. I can hardly believe reading this!

RE: [DL LOGIC] How to choose a mirror when more than 1 is available?

2012-04-14 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Notice that the same security concerns around authenticity and integrity of downloads applies to extension and template downloads as well. There is currently no embedded signature mechanism for .oxt files, although there could be if .oxt were upgraded to use genuine ODF packages and ODF 1.2

Re: [DL LOGIC] How to choose a mirror when more than 1 is available?

2012-04-14 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: Kay, thanks for noticing the security issue around having a script served from an insecure web page. That has me thinking about the security context for server-side selection of mirrors (assuming that the

Re: [DL LOGIC] How to choose a mirror when more than 1 is available?

2012-04-14 Thread Kay Schenk
On 04/14/2012 10:59 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: Kay, thanks for noticing the security issue around having a script served from an insecure web page. Well...my concern didn't really stem from the security of the openoffice.org site but other issues...mostly I got to thinking about how we

Re: Need a code branch for RC

2012-04-14 Thread Juergen Schmidt
On Sunday, 15. April 2012 at 01:24, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi all, I want to commit some features and bug fixes, but want not to do this immediately before a RC. The danger of producing regressions and problems is too high. I suggest that RC gets a branch, so that working on trunk is