Re: Why a mailing list is superior to any web-based forum

2012-10-21 Thread David McKay
On 21/10/12 09:41, Rory O'Farrell wrote: On Sun, 21 Oct 2012 05:07:24 -0300 Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: -No captcha to solve anywhere to join a mailing list. - No separate user-password to remember on a mailing list. - You can read it anywhere you can get e-mail - You don´t have

Re: Interactive Calendar Needed

2012-10-10 Thread David McKay
Hi Starwind, A lot of users (myself included) use Thunderbird with the Lightning plug-in which provides excellent calendar facilities. There is an extension you can get to this which will synch it with Google calendar as well. I personally don't know of anything on the AOO development road

Re: [VOTE][PMC] PMC Chair

2012-10-05 Thread David McKay
[X] Drew Jensen (atjensen) On 05/10/2012 00:41, Andrew Rist wrote: This is a call for vote on selecting the PMC Chair the Apache OpenOffice PMC. Per the IPMC's Guide to Successful Graduation [1] the Apache OpenOffice podling needs to select a PMC to be listed in the TLP resolution.

Re: Open Office Web Developer Tool

2012-09-23 Thread David McKay
On 23/09/12 20:07, Raphael Bircher wrote: Hi This is not a general answare, it's my personal option only. First of all, I'm happy, that you like Apache OpenOffice. Thanks for using it, and thanks for your feedback. Now about the Web Development Tool. For my point of view a clear no. First,

Re: [DISCUSS][PMC] Proposed PMC List

2012-09-20 Thread David McKay
On 20/09/12 19:32, Andrew Rist wrote: Here's a quick update with the progress so far. * We have had 14 people provide lists. * 32 people have been identified (listed below) * 22 people have shown up more than twice, 3 people are on 10 lists. * I think we cover 5 continents, and a pretty

Re: [DISCUSS] Code of Conduct

2012-09-12 Thread David McKay
On 12/09/12 19:02, Kay Schenk wrote: On 09/11/2012 02:50 AM, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote: Hi, On 11.09.2012 07:51, Dave Fisher wrote: Hi, We have a code of conduct here: http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/list-conduct.html These are the community's code and we should all agree to

Re: [PERSONAL] My absence

2012-09-11 Thread David McKay
On 11/09/12 00:46, Donald Harbison wrote: On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 9:22 PM, Carl Marcum cmar...@apache.org wrote: Best wishes to you and your family. Family is the most important thing. Best regards, Carl On 09/06/2012 04:28 PM, Donald Harbison wrote: I feel it necessary to explain why I

Re: Volunteers needed to pickup some tasks

2012-09-10 Thread David McKay
On 10/09/12 22:56, Rob Weir wrote: On Sep 10, 2012, at 11:32 AM, TJ Frazier tjfraz...@cfl.rr.com wrote: On 9/9/2012 12:25, David McKay wrote: On 09/09/12 17:19, David McKay wrote: On 08/09/12 22:06, TJ Frazier wrote: On 9/8/2012 16:50, tj wrote: On 9/8/2012 12:01, David McKay wrote

Re: Volunteers needed to pickup some tasks

2012-09-09 Thread David McKay
On 08/09/12 22:06, TJ Frazier wrote: On 9/8/2012 16:50, tj wrote: On 9/8/2012 12:01, David McKay wrote: On 08/09/12 06:50, Rob Weir wrote: I'm raising my focus a little in this project to look more into some larger ecosystem opportunities. As part of this change in focus I'll have less time

Re: Volunteers needed to pickup some tasks

2012-09-09 Thread David McKay
On 09/09/12 17:19, David McKay wrote: On 08/09/12 22:06, TJ Frazier wrote: On 9/8/2012 16:50, tj wrote: On 9/8/2012 12:01, David McKay wrote: On 08/09/12 06:50, Rob Weir wrote: I'm raising my focus a little in this project to look more into some larger ecosystem opportunities. As part

Re: Volunteers needed to pickup some tasks

2012-09-08 Thread David McKay
On 08/09/12 06:50, Rob Weir wrote: I'm raising my focus a little in this project to look more into some larger ecosystem opportunities. As part of this change in focus I'll have less time to deal with day-to-day operational aspects of the project. So I'd like to shed some responsibilities and I

Re: [PERSONAL] My absence

2012-09-06 Thread David McKay
Best wishes to you both. Dave. On 06/09/12 21:28, Donald Harbison wrote: I feel it necessary to explain why I have been absent from discussions here and on ooo-private recently. My wife was stricken with a serious medical emergency Wednesday, August 29th. She is recovering after surgery, and

Re: [VOTE] Apache OpenOffice Community Graduation Vote

2012-08-20 Thread David McKay
+1. On 19/08/2012 16:52, Rob Weir wrote: Per the IPMC's Guide to Successful Graduation [1] this is the optional, but recommended, community vote for us to express our willingness/readiness to govern ourselves. If this vote passes then we continue by drafting a charter, submitting it for IPMC

Re: Should quickstarter be enabled or disabled by default?

2012-07-25 Thread David McKay
On 24/07/2012 23:56, drew jensen wrote: On Tue, 2012-07-24 at 14:25 -0700, Kay Schenk wrote: On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Kevin Grignon kevingrignon...@gmail.comwrote: KG01 - see comments inline. On Jul 21, 2012, at 5:40 AM, Kay Schenk kay.sch...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 20, 2012

Re: How does hunspell deal with dots in wordlists?

2012-07-21 Thread David McKay
On 21/07/12 11:47, tj wrote: Although used by AOO, Hunspell is not an Apache product. Google is your friend. --/tj/ On 7/20/2012 21:42, Sahand.T wrote: Hi I'm about to create a wordlist and am considering including abbreviations in the wordlist. Before I do that I need to know how hunspell

Re: Must use the incubating qualifier

2012-06-24 Thread David McKay
On 24/06/12 00:05, drew wrote: On Sat, 2012-06-23 at 18:08 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 5:57 PM, RGB ES rgb.m...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/6/23 David McKay dmc...@btconnect.com: On 23/06/12 22:19, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: OK, personal impression only: I find the rainbow

Re: Must use the incubating qualifier

2012-06-23 Thread David McKay
On 23/06/12 22:19, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: OK, personal impression only: I find the rainbow coloring through the text of Get it Here to be distracting and not helpful. I know some subset of us know what the colors represent, but I see no need to be cute about it. (Yes, this will be on

Re: [Proposal] Guidelines for list conduct policy

2012-06-19 Thread David McKay
On 19/06/12 21:26, Ross Gardler wrote: Top posting as I'm not commenting on the text itself. I'd like to request that this document clarifies the purpose of the private list - we don't want to give the impression that the project conducts essential business on the private list. (My new text

Not sure I'm still getting ooo-dev emails

2012-06-18 Thread David McKay
Can somebody check that I'm still subscribed to ooo-dev? (I'm definitely still subscribed to ooo-private.) Thanks, Dave.

Re: [Discuss] Guidance regarding acceptable interaction on mailing lists

2012-06-12 Thread David McKay
On 11/06/12 23:31, Rob Weir wrote: Good idea. But this discussion belongs on ooo-dev. There is no need for it to be private. -Rob Yes, you're right. Moved to ooo-dev. Dave. On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 6:11 PM, David McKaydmc...@btconnect.com wrote: As I mentioned back at the start of

Re: Seeking Bugzilla Admin Volunteers

2012-01-14 Thread David McKay
will be preserved under the new ID. - Dennis -Original Message- From: David McKay [mailto:dmc...@btconnect.com] Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 14:11 To: dennis.hamil...@acm.org Cc: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org; thegur...@apache.org Subject: Re: Seeking Bugzilla Admin Volunteers On 13/01/12

Re: Fwd: Seeking Bugzilla Admin Volunteers

2012-01-13 Thread David McKay
Hi TJ, My real-world job changed on the 1st December 2011 (I moved company), and Bugzilla is no longer part of my day-to-day role, but I guess I still remember most of what I knew! If I can be of assistance I'd be pleased to help. My bugzilla ID is thegur...@openoffice.org. Regards, Dave.

Re: Seeking Bugzilla Admin Volunteers

2012-01-13 Thread David McKay
On 13/01/12 20:02, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: For David McKay, see if thegur...@apache.org is registered. On the other hand, I would not elevate his privileges or ask that he be set up as administrator without having his confirmation that he's still interested and available. - Dennis

Apache Open Office Bugzilla

2011-11-21 Thread David McKay
Hi Dave, I hope you're the right person for me to ask this question to. I have tried raising the issue a few times on the the dev list but got nothing back. Amongst other things, I'm a Bugzilla administrator at my day job. I'd like to help in whatever fashion I can with the Bugzilla

Re: Bugzilla: can we rename some of the product categories?

2011-10-24 Thread David McKay
On 24/10/11 22:58, Rob Weir wrote: Currently, when you enter a new bug you are given an alphabetical list of products, starting with: aa: Afar Language Project: Work in and on the Afar language af: Afrikaans Language Project--Support, discussions, development of Afrikaans localization

Re: [DISCUSS] Bugzilla Admin (was RE: Bugzilla notifications not going to an ASF mailing list)

2011-10-21 Thread David McKay
On 20/10/11 20:37, Rob Weir wrote: On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Dennis E. Hamiltonorc...@apache.org wrote: I believe the next-action on administration of the ooo-bz is ours. It looks like there need to be some @apache.org administrators, and the hierarchy of administration with

Re: [VOTE] Acceptance of the OpenOffice.org Proposal

2011-10-18 Thread David McKay
+1 On 18/10/11 17:27, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: In reply to this message on ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org, vote for the acceptance of the proposal for governance and operation of the OpenOffice.org Forums within the Apache OpenOffice.org Podling. The Proposal text is at the October 12 version

Re: [DISCUSS] Expiration of Initial Committer Invitations

2011-10-15 Thread David McKay
On 15/10/11 21:14, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: There are 13 Initial Committers who have not completed the process to establish themselves as committers. Two of those have registered iCLAs. In all cases, repeated reminders to complete the process or to let us know they are declining to become

Re: [DISCUSS] Having New Committers also be on the PPMC

2011-10-02 Thread David McKay
That makes sense to me to. Dave. On 02/10/11 18:08, Marcus (OOo) wrote: +1 Marcus Am 10/02/2011 01:06 AM, schrieb Kay Schenk: On 09/30/2011 11:31 AM, Simon Phipps wrote: On 30 Sep 2011, at 19:15, Rob Weir wrote: We have never adopted a formal position of having everyone be a

Re: Dissatisfaction amongst the community admins, moderators and volunteers

2011-09-08 Thread David McKay
On 08/09/2011 15:06, Rory O'Farrell wrote: On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 09:54:33 -0400 Rob Weirrobw...@apache.org wrote: Thanks for sharing the history on this. It is useful (I think) to understand the history of this community and what they've been through in the past, what problems they've

Re: [LINUX-BUILD] Details on my Ubuntu 11.04 experience

2011-09-07 Thread David McKay
On 07/09/2011 18:55, Matt Richards wrote: Oh.. Yeah... I forgot when I attempted my initial configure I had to run it a few times and install some additional packages. Glad you were able to Document some of them. On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Rob Weirrobw...@apache.org wriote: I did this

Re: What is needed for Support Forums to be fully integrated into the Apache OpenOffice.org project

2011-09-06 Thread David McKay
Not sure if this was directed at me:if it was, my handle is thegurkha and my real name is Dave McKay. On 05/09/2011 23:23, eric b wrote: Hi, Just curious: what is your real name ? Regards, Eric Bachard

Re: What is needed for Support Forums to be fully integrated into the Apache OpenOffice.org project

2011-09-06 Thread David McKay
On 06/09/2011 15:56, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: Christian, What I find awkward around all of these discussions is that there are already several Apache OOo PPMC members who were and are already administrators and moderators on the OpenOffice.org forums, and not one of them stood up here, on

Re: What is needed for Support Forums to be fully integrated into the Apache OpenOffice.org project

2011-09-06 Thread David McKay
a moderator there (possibly not realizing how significant that was to become for the current discussion). So the fault is with my radar, not your visibility and that of others. I retract my statement of concern. -Original Message- From: David McKay [mailto:dmc...@btconnect.com] Sent: Tuesday

Re: Proposal: Forum integration

2011-09-06 Thread David McKay
On 06/09/2011 22:34, Dave Fisher wrote: On Sep 6, 2011, at 1:54 PM, drew wrote: On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 15:25 -0400, Rob Weir wrote: snip Thanks. So would something like this work: Site admins must be PPMC members, appointed by PPMC, with actual site admin assignment made by Infra. In

Re: [PROPOSAL] turn off mail address mangling at Gmane

2011-09-05 Thread David McKay
+1. On 05/09/2011 12:20, Michael Stahl wrote: hi all, the ooo-dev list is available at gmane.org for NNTP access and via a web frontend [0]. currently accessing this list via Gmane presents users not with the real mail addresses of posters, but with mangled mail addresses, for example

Re: What is needed for Support Forums to be fully integrated into the Apache OpenOffice.org project

2011-09-05 Thread David McKay
On 05/09/2011 21:51, Rob Weir wrote: On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Reizinger Zoltánzreizin...@hdsnet.hu wrote: 2011.09.05. 20:35 keltezéssel, davidills...@gmail.com írta: On 5 Sep 2011, at 19:00, Reizinger Zoltán wrote: snip ==Approval of Forum roles== My understanding is that forums

Re: Who wants to build OpenOffice?

2011-08-30 Thread David McKay
On 30/08/11 21:37, Matt Richards wrote: On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 3:33 PM, Rob Weirr...@robweir.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Raphael Bircherr.birc...@gmx.ch wrote: Am 30.08.11 21:24, schrieb Rob Weir: We're blessed to have experienced OOo hackers on the list who have already

Re: OOo4Kids / OOoLight support ( Re: Migrating the web forums at user.services.openoffice.org to Apache servers )

2011-08-05 Thread David McKay
On 05/08/11 18:56, Reizinger Zoltán wrote: Hi all, 2011.08.05. 18:41 keltezéssel, drew írta: On Fri, 2011-08-05 at 14:22 +0200, eric b wrote: snip Let's try a different approach: if the item exists on the forums, there will be _de_facto_ a support ? (yet the chicken egg issue .. ). Hi

Re: A first try to remove some copyleft components from the build

2011-07-18 Thread David McKay
On 18/07/11 20:50, Andy Brown wrote: Mathias Bauer wrote: On 18.07.2011 20:21, Mathias Bauer wrote: 1) xpdf (GPL'd) is a run dependency, this is linux/unix specific. PDFBox may be a replacement. This component is used for the pdf import extension, not for OOo itself. The pdf import

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

2011-07-10 Thread David McKay
On 10/07/11 19:19, Donald Harbison wrote: No need to drag the .org into the future, if Apache is prefixed. If no prefix, yes, we lead with the trademark of record: OpenOffice.org. IMHO. Let's simply use Apache OpenOffice. +1. On Jul 10, 2011 1:27 PM, Marcus (OOo)marcus.m...@wtnet.de wrote:

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

2011-07-09 Thread David McKay
On 09/07/11 12:21, Pavel Janík wrote: Why? Out of the folk on the OOo forum who expressed an opinion to me, no one liked it. It was a perpetual reminder that the product couldn't be called what they really wanted it to be called: OpenOffice. I greatly prefer Apache OpenOffice to Apache

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

2011-07-09 Thread David McKay
My preference has nothing to do with blogs, it is purely a naming and branding issue. Formally, OpenOffice.org was always written as OpenOffice.org by those who knew, but colloquially/informally it was always talked about as OpenOffice. I agree we need to maintain ties with the legacy and

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

2011-07-09 Thread David McKay
On 09/07/11 13:24, Peter Junge wrote: On 09.07.2011 20:02, David McKay wrote: My preference has nothing to do with blogs, it is purely a naming and branding issue. Formally, OpenOffice.org was always written as OpenOffice.org by those who knew, but colloquially/informally it was always talked

Re: ooo blog (was: RE: ooo-dev list subscriber stats?)

2011-07-08 Thread David McKay
Doesn't the dropping of the .org imply renaming the product not just the project? The name of the product is OpenOffice.org because the name OpenOffice was registered elsewhere. If the new name was 'Apache OpenOffice' would that be different enough from the other OpenOffice (a company inthe

Re: Problem adding my details to the contributors page

2011-07-05 Thread David McKay
Yes, I'm a committer. I only just got my ID through, so perhaps I need to wait a little while for things to percolate throught he system. On 05/07/11 21:45, Raphael Bircher wrote: Am 05.07.11 22:39, schrieb David McKay: And we're off to a flying start. Trying to use the online CMS to add my

Re: Problem adding my details to the contributors page

2011-07-05 Thread David McKay
OK, I'll sit tight. Thanks. On 05/07/11 21:54, Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 4:39 PM, David McKaydmc...@btconnect.com wrote: And we're off to a flying start. Trying to use the online CMS to add my details to http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/people.html But when I check