Seeking PPMC volunteers for shared project Twitter account

2012-04-18 Thread Rob Weir
I can support up to 10. Please send me your Twitter account name. Also follow the account here: https://twitter.com/#!/apacheoo I'll give you access to the account and send you instructions for how to use it. (Group accounts work a little differently than normal Twitter accounts). Ideally we'd

Re: Has the AOO 3.4 RC been released?

2012-04-18 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 12:39 AM, Christoph Jopp wrote: > > > Am 18.04.2012 23:01, schrieb Rob Weir: >> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Christoph Jopp wrote: >>> >>> >>> Am 18.04.2012 19:17, schrieb Kay Schenk: On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Wed, Apr 18, 201

Re: Apache OpenOffice Project Twitter Account

2012-04-18 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 2:07 AM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > On 4/18/12, Rob Weir wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Roberto Galoppini >> wrote: >>> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Alexandro Colorado >>> wrote: >>> On 4/17/12, drew wrote: > On Tue, 2012-04-17 at 11:15 -0500,

Re: Ditching our mirror system for an inferior solution?

2012-04-18 Thread Peter Pöml
On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 07:22:55 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: > Have you ever thought of getting others involved in maintaining the > software? For example, it could be an Apache project, to maintain > and further develop the software? Of course: even before I started, I made the decision that this be

Re: Ditching our mirror system for an inferior solution?

2012-04-18 Thread Peter Pöml
On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 04:12:09 -0700, Joe Schaefer wrote: > Personally Peter I would *love* to see the > ASF adopt mirrorbrain somehow, and encourage > you to work with Henk on something along those > lines.  We know it's good, we just have a lot > of legacy infra that we need to keep supporting.

Re: cannot find JRE ?

2012-04-18 Thread JH Chen
The extension installed and worked without any issue in my AOO3.4 build. I am using the following JVM. java version "1.6.0" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build pwa6460sr9ifix-20110211_02(SR9+IZ94423)) IBM J9 VM (build 2.4, JRE 1.6.0 IBM J9 2.4 Windows 7 amd64-64 jvmwa6460sr9-20101 124_69295 (JI

Re: cannot find JRE ?

2012-04-18 Thread Shenfeng Liu
Jin Hua have no problem in his machine with IBM JRE recognized. I will try to install a new version to check if it works. - Simon 2012/4/19 Dennis E. Hamilton > In a different context, there was found to be code that verifies a vendor > string in determining detection of the Java installation.

Re: Has the AOO 3.4 RC been released?

2012-04-18 Thread O.Felka
I don't think anyone offered to help, despite these several requests :-( I think that it has slipped your attention that I've made lot of tests with the old vcl testtool. Groetjes, Olaf

RE: cannot find JRE ?

2012-04-18 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
In a different context, there was found to be code that verifies a vendor string in determining detection of the Java installation. It was necessary to adjust code to accept Oracle corporation as well as Sun Microsystems, a change that occurs in Java 7 distributions. Simon is using an IBM-pr

[RELEASE]: status update for our first RC

2012-04-18 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
Hi, I would like to inform you about the current status for our RC. Andrew has updated the NOTICE file and we will rebuild the office now. I have also updated the version number string for the src package. Building, signing and update will take some time. And once the bits are available I wil

Re: can not find JRE ?

2012-04-18 Thread Andre Fischer
Hi Simon, on my machine it looks like this: after opening Tools->Options->OpenOffice.org->Java it takes a short time to populate the list of available JREs. From these I can select the one to use, no need to enter a path manually. The paths of some available JREs (all are 32 bit) are c:\

Re: Apache OpenOffice Project Twitter Account

2012-04-18 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On 4/18/12, Rob Weir wrote: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Roberto Galoppini > wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Alexandro Colorado >> wrote: >> >>> On 4/17/12, drew wrote: >>> > On Tue, 2012-04-17 at 11:15 -0500, Alexandro Colorado wrote: >>> >> My point is that we are going to be

Re: Has the AOO 3.4 RC been released?

2012-04-18 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
On 4/18/12 10:16 PM, Joost Andrae wrote: Hi, when providing an OOo snapshot as a release candidate binaries were signed. Will this be the case with the first RC provided for AOO ? Kind regards, Joost when you mean if we can sign the windows binary with an official Apache certificate to avoi

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

2012-04-18 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Peter Poeml: > anyone, including ASF infra, is free to use MirrorBrain. My > recommendation is that ASF infra upgrades from closer.cgi to MirrorBrain, > because then they can integrate the existing OOo/AOo mirrors into Apache > mirroring easily. I would also like that we take advantage of MirrorBr

Re: Has the AOO 3.4 RC been released?

2012-04-18 Thread Kay Schenk
On 04/18/2012 03:51 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: Rob Weir: we want to be testing much earlier in the project cycle. That is why Lily sent several notes to the list, months ago, asking for help testing AOO dev snapshots. I don't think anyone offered to help, despite these several requests :-(

Re: Has the AOO 3.4 RC been released?

2012-04-18 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Rob Weir: > we want to be > testing much earlier in the project cycle. That is why Lily sent > several notes to the list, months ago, asking for help testing AOO dev > snapshots. I don't think anyone offered to help, despite these > several requests :-( Around 20 volunteers from the Italian comm

Re: Has the AOO 3.4 RC been released?

2012-04-18 Thread Christoph Jopp
Am 18.04.2012 23:01, schrieb Rob Weir: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Christoph Jopp wrote: >> >> >> Am 18.04.2012 19:17, schrieb Kay Schenk: >>> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Rob Weir wrote: >>> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > Michael, I am cu

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

2012-04-18 Thread Peter Pöml
Hi, Am 13.04.2012 um 01:59 schrieb Rob Weir: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 7:40 PM, Peter Pöml wrote: >> Hi, >> >> 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 up

Re: Has the AOO 3.4 RC been released?

2012-04-18 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Christoph Jopp wrote: > > > Am 18.04.2012 19:17, schrieb Kay Schenk: >> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Rob Weir wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton >>> wrote: Michael, I am curious what has you be interested in the availabilit

Re: Has the AOO 3.4 RC been released?

2012-04-18 Thread Joost Andrae
Hi, when providing an OOo snapshot as a release candidate binaries were signed. Will this be the case with the first RC provided for AOO ? Kind regards, Joost

Re: Live testing of SF download mirrors

2012-04-18 Thread Joost Andrae
Hi Mark, thank you for bringing up some details about sf.net's infrastructure. It is indeed very interesting. On the other hand I'm still a friend of including the reliable bandwidth provided by the OOo mirrors as they still provide additional entry points for downloaders worldwide. MirrorBra

Re: Apache OpenOffice Project Twitter Account

2012-04-18 Thread drew
On Wed, 2012-04-18 at 18:53 +0200, Roberto Galoppini wrote: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 5:44 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Roberto Galoppini > > wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Alexandro Colorado > >> wrote: > >> > >>> On 4/17/12, drew wrote: > >>> > On T

Re: Has the AOO 3.4 RC been released?

2012-04-18 Thread Christoph Jopp
Am 18.04.2012 19:38, schrieb Christoph Jopp: > > > Am 18.04.2012 19:17, schrieb Kay Schenk: >> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Rob Weir wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton >>> wrote: Michael, I am curious what has you be interested in the availability of >>

Re: Has the AOO 3.4 RC been released?

2012-04-18 Thread Christoph Jopp
Am 18.04.2012 19:17, schrieb Kay Schenk: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > >> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton >> wrote: >>> Michael, I am curious what has you be interested in the availability of >> an AOO 3.4 Release Candidate. >>> >>> 1. What does it s

Re: Live testing of SF download mirrors

2012-04-18 Thread Mark Ramm
Hi Joost, > the download numbers are impressive and they reflect mostly the activity we > had between releases. Directly after a release the numbers will have peak > values. I'm not sure if sf.net's load balancers will be able to handle this > kind of load alone. MirrorBrain was quite stable and t

Re: Has the AOO 3.4 RC been released?

2012-04-18 Thread Kay Schenk
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton > wrote: > > Michael, I am curious what has you be interested in the availability of > an AOO 3.4 Release Candidate. > > > > 1. What does it say to you when a project build set is designated a

Re: Apache OpenOffice Project Twitter Account

2012-04-18 Thread Roberto Galoppini
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 5:44 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Roberto Galoppini > wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: >> >>> On 4/17/12, drew wrote: >>> > On Tue, 2012-04-17 at 11:15 -0500, Alexandro Colorado wrote: >>> >> My point is that

Re: Has the AOO 3.4 RC been released?

2012-04-18 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > Michael, I am curious what has you be interested in the availability of an > AOO 3.4 Release Candidate. > >  1. What does it say to you when a project build set is designated a "Release > Candidate"? > >  2. What use would you make of

RE: Has the AOO 3.4 RC been released?

2012-04-18 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Michael, I am curious what has you be interested in the availability of an AOO 3.4 Release Candidate. 1. What does it say to you when a project build set is designated a "Release Candidate"? 2. What use would you make of such a designated build different from a developer snapshot and an actu

Re: Live testing of SF download mirrors

2012-04-18 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Roberto Galoppini wrote: > Hi all, > > we have been testing AOO downloads for about 10 days, below our findings: > > - downloads per day ( http://goo.gl/jKbnC ) > - info about geographies ( > http://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/files/stats/map ) >

Re: Apache OpenOffice Project Twitter Account

2012-04-18 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Roberto Galoppini wrote: > On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > >> On 4/17/12, drew wrote: >> > On Tue, 2012-04-17 at 11:15 -0500, Alexandro Colorado wrote: >> >> My point is that we are going to be bombarded with support questions, >> >>

Re: Apache OpenOffice Project Twitter Account

2012-04-18 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 4:24 AM, drew wrote: > On Tue, 2012-04-17 at 13:34 -0400, drew wrote: >> On Tue, 2012-04-17 at 18:43 +0200, Rob Weir wrote: >> > On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 5:51 PM, drew wrote: >> > > On Mon, 2012-04-16 at 00:50 -0400, drew wrote: >> > >> On Sun, 2012-04-15 at 18:25 -0400, Ro

Using language pack r1303653 with program version r1325589?

2012-04-18 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi all, I get crashes on the multi-language version r1303653, which makes the version not usable for me. But I need German and English UI. Is it possible to use the language pack r1303653 with the program version r1325589? Kind regards Regina

Re: Live testing of SF download mirrors

2012-04-18 Thread Jürgen Schmidt
On 4/18/12 2:45 PM, Roberto Galoppini wrote: Hi all, we have been testing AOO downloads for about 10 days, below our findings: - downloads per day ( http://goo.gl/jKbnC ) - info about geographies ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/files/stats/map ) - operating systems ( http

Re: Marketing Conference call minutes

2012-04-18 Thread Kazunari Hirano
Hi Eric and all, Sorry but I couldn't join the meeting. On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 3:49 AM, Eric Otchet wrote: > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Conference+Call+Meeting+Minutes Thanks for the minutes. On the list I would like to further discuss on: - Why should I upgrade to AO

Re: Apache OpenOffice Project Twitter Account

2012-04-18 Thread Roberto Galoppini
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 7:08 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > On 4/17/12, drew wrote: > > On Tue, 2012-04-17 at 11:15 -0500, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > >> My point is that we are going to be bombarded with support questions, > >> regardless if we choose not to, is not up to us. > >> > >> Sure yo

Re: Live testing of SF download mirrors

2012-04-18 Thread Joost Andrae
Hi Roberto, the download numbers are impressive and they reflect mostly the activity we had between releases. Directly after a release the numbers will have peak values. I'm not sure if sf.net's load balancers will be able to handle this kind of load alone. MirrorBrain was quite stable and the

Re: can not find JRE ?

2012-04-18 Thread Shenfeng Liu
Sorry, that I clicked "Send" in mistake before I finish. So let me rewrite: I installed the latest build successfully, and want to try the IBM Connection extension. Since it is Java based, I need to config the JRE firstly. In the Options dialog, Use a JRE check box was already on, but there is no

can not find JRE ?

2012-04-18 Thread Shenfeng Liu
I installed the latest build successfully, and want to try the IBM Connection extension. Since it is Java based, I need to config the JRE firstly. In the Options dialog, Use a JRE check box was already on, but there is no JRE listed available. Then I clicked Add button to browse to my JRE

Re: Live testing of SF download mirrors

2012-04-18 Thread Roberto Galoppini
Hi all, we have been testing AOO downloads for about 10 days, below our findings: - downloads per day ( http://goo.gl/jKbnC ) - info about geographies ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirror/files/stats/map ) - operating systems ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/openofficeorg.mirro

Re: Has the AOO 3.4 RC been released?

2012-04-18 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 2:02 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > Is there any reason why the developer snapshots, r1325589, the same files as > currently linked as RC1 candidates, can't simply be used under the condition > that they are not yet releases but are essentially feature-frozen and stable