Hi Andrea,
OK, but if a developer bumps into German comments while investigating
code, it doesn't harm to check in a translation to English. Most of our
more experienced developers know German and English, so it won't be
problematic to find someone who can ensure that the translation is
Hi,
I have some items to add:
- The installer packages should be modulized to allow the selection of
parts (already done but we shouldn't forget to work on this)
- Localizations should be separated from the binaries (soffice.bin, libs,
resfiles). Maybe it's a good idea to separate language
Hi Rob,
that's a cool idea.
+1 but I would use the word complexity instead of difficulty.
Usually the issue tracker database is customer driven (severity) but a
helper field to sort bugs by complexity will help developers to focus on
more complex issues.
If there are no objections, I'll add
Hi Jan,
more information about ApacheCon can be found here:
http://www.apachecon.eu/
Am 24.10.2012 22:03, schrieb jan iversen:
Where can I read more about ApacheCon EU or NA ? I cannot quite follow you
here (mainly due to terms), is this about getting sponsor money to AOO ?
It should be easy
Hi Christof,
I am trying to write an addin for AOO writer. Thank google I found a fiew
examples for additional calc functions and a bit of interface documentations
so I was able to more or less guess how the code for my writer addin should
look like.
Where I completelly am lost is on the
Hi,
I played a bit with the colors at
Tools-Options-OpenOffice.org-Appearance-Application background and
Blue 9 seems easier on the eyes:
http://people.apache.org/~pescetti/tmp/aoo-background-blue9.png
but it is still not optimal and all other colors should probably be
tweaked to apply a
Hi,
it is impossible unless there's currently no port of the AOO 3.4 version
for IBM s390x available. But there's OpenOffice.org 3.2.1
http://download.services.openoffice.org/stable/3.2.1/OOo_3.2.1_Linux_S390X_install-rpm_en-US.tar.gz
which you could try out. The s390x port has been done by
Hi,
Examples:
http://people.apache.org/~jsc/test/aoo_new_defautl_background.png
http://people.apache.org/~jsc/test/aoo_new_defautl_background2.png
I know that probably many have an opinion about the color. But more
important for now is the question if we want such a change in general.
In the
Hi,
Am 02.10.2012 13:03, schrieb zhun guo:
Hi,Zhengfan and Ian Lynch,
All format office documents' interoperability is important.
1. ODF and OOXML, is more concerned about data storage. Microsoft, and
OpenOffice is the supporter。But we need ODF and OOXML to be merged to a
new one
Hi Alexandro,
soffice is an established file name for the binary. If there is a clash
with LO's naming scheme then why should AOO change the name? It's LO
that abandoned the name OpenOffice
And if you take a look at the naming scheme of the API sun/star/... this
is something you cannot
Hi,
a side note: IANAL, but in some countries legal texts have to be
translated (eg. in France). Means, if you change something witin this
area you have to accept this requirement.
Kind regards, Joost
Hi Rob,
We set new records for 1-day downloads on the following two days as well:
Wed Aug 29: 195305
Thurs Aug 30: 197479
So four days in a row of new records. Good momentum, I think,
especially for the traditionally slow vacation season.
It looks like around 1/3 of these are upgrade
Hi Armin,
I can still reproduce the behavior described:
Open eg.
http://openclipart.org/detail/172011/racing-helmet-by-gnokii-172011 in
Firefox and drag the SVG file to the Gallery in AOO. On my system (Win7
Pro 64 Bit) the resulting Gallery entry is a BMP file.
Joost wrote somewhere in
Hi Simon,
Sorry that my post was too short. Let me explain the ideal scenario in my
mind:
1. When I installed a clean AOO, I hope to have 10~20 most frequent used
build-in cliparts in local repository from AOO installation package.
+1 like page decoration elements (lines, edges, etc.)
2.
Hi,
have a look here:
http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/OpenOffice_NetBeans_Integration
Someone already provided an integration for NB 7.1 as Alpha build.
Perhaps you'll get it running in NB 7.2
Am 10.09.2012 10:30, schrieb Shukla, Mangesh:
Hi ,
I am new to this forum and OpenOffice
Hi,
just to shorten this thread: There is already a possibility to add
clipart to AOO by using the extension mechanism. Just have a look at the
extensions page and search for clipart:
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org
I think we probably don't want bundle it with AOO directly. I
Hi Rob,
in my opinion a source control system should not be used to store binary
objects. Quite probable multiple copies of the same binary are stored
within the SVN system if you branch the source tree. Additionally the
backup of SVN will grow as well.
It's better to have a fixed central
Hi,
I just checked the Writer2Epub v1.1.7 extension on the extension site.
The extension downloads correctly with oxt file extension.
It is correct that from technical view an oxt file is a zip archive
containing all content needed to install as an extension into Apache
OpenOffice.
Am
Hi,
+1
Kind regards, Joost
Hi Armin,
This would mean that it gets slower again after some time. I just did not
use AOO, but worked on something else ca. 1 1/2 Hrs after rebooting.
Nonetheless AOO started (doubleclicking the test document, no quickstarter,
last used after reboot) instantly. There must be some
Hi,
It makes me more confuse :(
any of you guys can suggest me where to start?
or if one of you can help me to custom this platform is a better option :)
have a look at this:
https://incubator.apache.org/odftoolkit/odfdom/
Kind regards, Joost
Hi Rob,
it seems so...but Peter's own MirrorBrain OOo MirrorBrain page is still
working. In the past we asked Peter sometimes to use it as a fail-over
system and it worked properly.
http://ooo.mirrorbrain.org
Am 26.07.2012 15:56, schrieb Rob Weir:
Forwarding from the ooo-L10n list.
Is
Hi,
looks like it fails whenever this site is involved
http://openoffice.mirrors.tds.net
So the answer should be to remove that mirror from the Brain.
Does anyone know how to do that?
someone with shell access to MirrorBrain (Marcus Lange, Peter Poeml and
me) can remove that entry from
Hi,
Am 23.07.2012 09:00, schrieb Zhe Liu:
Hi,
I use Calc to open a csv. Text Import dialog pops up. Semicolon
Space are checked by default as separators. Most of csv files in the
world use comma as separator, right? I prefer comma.
In addition, when I use AOO to save a csv, I found the
Hi,
people who want to have MS Office file formats as default storage format
can configure it within the dialog
/tools/options/load~save/general/
Please bear in mind that MS Office file formats are not OpenOffice's
generic formats. OpenOffice needs to import/export them and it's not
Hi,
in the moment I have just one question in mind when I read Ubuntu in
this context:
Does your system run X11 or Wayland ?
Am 03.07.2012 20:47, schrieb Rory O'Farrell:
I'm not yet in a position to raise a formal bug, but I would appreciate input
from other users who may have occasion to
Hi,
All running X11. I'm an old fashioned User, coming from punched cards and tape
(1965) via text based editors on home assembled computers (ah! the Z80...) to
PCs, using them as tools, so I don't need any fancy screens and effects.
besides issue 119327 using Wayland instead of X11
Hi Drew,
Back in March I sent an email to 102 contact references for that mirror
network, it would be a good idea IMO to drop another note to these
folks, let them know we recognize the traffic they are still carrying,
say thanks and keep in touch as the projects looks to, and plans for the
Hi,
It looks like the current instance is running on an Oracle server at
Santa Clara, CA, USA:
download.services.openoffice.org (192.9.173.38)
Are going to have an own mirrorbrain instance here with Apache
infrastructure? Otherwise it's like keeping the mirrors net without
the underlying
Hi,
just some nit picking...
Am 27.06.2012 03:23, schrieb Lin Yuan:
Currently in AOO, only part of the data in user profile is locked and can
not access by mutiple instances. So as tested on Windows Server 2008, AOO
will crash in such situation. The patch is not to really support one user
to
Hi,
Am 26.06.2012 14:53, schrieb Lin Yuan:
AOO will crash if launch mutiple times from diffrent terminal sessions for
the same user.
but in a Windows Terminal Server session you have user profiles for each
user.
Install OpenOffice using the /a (administrative) option within the
Hi Rob,
but in a Windows Terminal Server session you have user profiles for each
user.
This patch is for if you connect with Terminal Services twice using
the same user account.
I just wanted to make sure that there is no real problem to get
OpenOffice configured so it can be used
Hi,
Crazy idea. Would something like this work:
1) We do a one-time effort of getting screen shots of all dialogs and
other localized UI elements.
2) In Photoshop or Gimp, remove all the localized text
3) Take PO files and have a script generate a set of HTML pages that
display each of the
Hi,
Am 20.06.2012 13:43, schrieb ZuoJun Chen:
Hi, Fan
I have extracted parameter from first paragraph in sample file
1 Spacing before paragraph 18pt in doc file
2 above-paragraph-spacing in SvxULSpaceItem: 360
3 line-spacing of said para in doc file: 12pt
4 line-spacing of said para in
Hi,
as far as I remember MS often changed the source path of this
distributable binary on their web pages in the past so it wasn't
possible to integrate its path into a download script to automate it's
download as an external package. Hopefully I'm wrong now and MS changed
this behavior but
Hi,
On the top chart each hump is one week, with peaks midweek and lower
volume on the weekend. As you can see, we've had a significant
increase in volume this last week, as we gradually rolled out the
upgrade notifications. Daily volume had been 90-110K before. Now it
is 170-190K/day.
so
Hi,
Excel AddIns do not run within OpenOffice but there are several
extensions for AOO available at
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org or at
http://aoo-extensions.sourceforge.net
Am 09.06.2012 11:54, schrieb Henrikki Rutanen:
Hello,
I would like to use an add-ins designed for Excel
Hi,
OpenOffice.org NetBeans Integration can use c++ language develop
extension ?
No, the plugin only supports Java.
so using the Java Native Interface (JNI) is no viable option within a
JAVA based extension ? I cannot believe that... There are some
extensions that go that way.
Just
Hi,
maybe it depends on the crash. For testing purpose the developer Hennes
Rohling (nick hro) once created the tool kill.exe which was part of the
tools project within OOo. This kill.exe allows you to sent the proper
signal to the soffice.bin (soffice.exe was just the starter process)
Hi,
the crash reporter doesn't seem to work anymore even if I add a dummy
URL into the ErrorReportServer entry within the bootstrap.ini file. This
must be a bug that needs to be fixed within the build environment.
Am 29.05.2012 14:26, schrieb Joost Andrae:
Hi,
maybe it depends on the crash
Hi,
hmmm...
If the crash reporter within your Linux AOO build has crashdump enabled
then just
kill -SEGV the PID of the soffice.bin process
and have a look at the stack trace that is shown within the ErrorReport
dialog and compare it with the stack trace within RedHat's Bugzilla. The
Hi,
in Impress you can select /file/export. Within the filter selection box
you can choose swf.
Am 17.05.2012 04:00, schrieb Liu Da Li:
It seems that there doesn't exist such filter in Openoffice,export write to
flash.
2012/5/17 jianlizhaojianlizh...@hotmail.com
OpenOffice.org can export
Hi,
I'm not sure but perhaps it's an issue related to the QuickStarter
mechanism because the source code within WollMux want's to access this?
Perhaps buxfix
https://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revisionrevision=1338503 is related
to this issue? What does line 450 in
Hi Jürgen,
Time schedule
=
- starting first week of June weekly developer snapshots
So if I understand it correctly then feature and UI freeze date has to
be defined some weeks before June 30th to allow translators to deliver
their translations on time?
- June 30,
Hi,
how is the legal Terms of use of this extension ? Does the sentence
You also agree that IBM is free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how,
or techniques that you send us for any purpose. within the IBM page at
https://www.ibm.com/legal/us/en/ fit to this service ?
Kind regards, Joost
Am
infrastructure to Apache. I hope that one of the infra Gurus @Apache can
help to solve your issues.
Kind regards, Joost Andrae
Am 07.05.2012 10:28, schrieb Carsten Otto:
Dear whoever reads this,
I experience problems when mirroring from the (old) openoffice archive.
The contact address t
Hi,
the MD5SUM of the German Windows installation set does not fit to the
MD5SUM stored at
http://people.apache.org/~jsc/aoo34-rc/rc1/windows/Apache_OpenOffice_incubating_3.4.0_Win_x86_install_de.exe.md5
C:\downloadsmore
Apache_OpenOffice_incubating_3.4.0_Win_x86_install_de.exe.md5
Hi,
seems to be fine after the download has been initiated using wget.
Sorry for the confusion...
the MD5SUM of the German Windows installation set does not fit to the
MD5SUM stored at
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
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.
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
Hi,
the page http://extensions.services.openoffice.org is still available
and some of the authors provided links to their homepages or they
provide an email address. So with a little work some of the authors can
be informed this way.
I'm not sure if the IRC channel
Hi Gianluca,
I am not a lawyer but I think the following page is informative for
people to understand how the Apache Foundation handles third-party licenses:
http://www.apache.org/legal/3party.html
And the Legal page is worth to be read as well:
http://www.apache.org/legal/
If you want to
Hi,
probably these links are of help:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/RTLLogFileAnalysis
http://www.openoffice.org/tools/profiling/profiling-howto.html
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/RTLLog2ODF
Am 03.04.2012 15:57, schrieb Очиров Николай:
Hi Drew
Thank you for your help. I
Hi,
There was a mention of this a few weeks ago, that some at Apache were
exploring the possibility of having code signing certificates for Apache
releases. This was in the thread where we were discussing the anti-virus
warnings about the 3.4 dev builds. But there was no indication of time
Hi,
All seems right. One missing point is the query part of the URL,
a non-WNT feature related to the package format, see
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/incubator/ooo/trunk/main/scp2/source/ooo/common_brand.scp?revision=1296424view=markup#l1031
${UPDATEURL}?pkgfmt=pkgformat
A web service should
Hi,
after downloading the multi language OOo-Dev 3.4.0_m1 build (r1293550)
for Windows from
http://people.apache.org/~orw/DevSnapshots-Rev.1293550/win32/OOo-Dev_OOO340m1_Win_x86_install_en-US_de_fr_it_es_ja_pt-BR_zh-CN_nl.exe
Norton Internet Security found WS.Reputation.1 and removed the
Hi,
one thing is localization (l10n) the other is internationalization
(i18n). I once started a Wiki page
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Arabization_efforts to collect
issue IDs regarding changes that have to be done to enhance the
application's capabilities regarding this CTL
Hi,
within OOo usually the CrashReporter starts if the application binary
crashes and you could easily copypaste the callstack. But be aware that
callstacks do not necessarily provide all information needed to catch
the function that caused this crash. You might also need a memory
mapping
Hi Amos,
probably reading the pages at http://www.openoffice.org/api/ might be a
good place to start with.
Am 23.01.2012 06:08, schrieb Amos Denny:
Hi, i know very little about programming but I would like to write a program
that will interact with currently existing MS word or Open Word.
Hi Drew,
how about integrating the Apache feather into the logo ? ...just an idea...
Here is an example png files (300 x 150 px) to match the base image size
used for the current logo on the wiki
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/27832565/alphabold_300x150px.png
with the
Hi Rob,
So what are our options?
==Option 1: Remain at OSUOSL==
We could remain with OSUOSL hosting. However, the existing site is
very unstable. For this approach to be practical we'd need a
volunteer with Drupal skills to work with OSUOSL to diagnose what is
wrong and to restore
Hi,
3) Platforms that do not have enough volunteers to complete the test
plan would not have official Apache releases. Or if we had releases,
they would be called experimental or some other name to indicate
that they were not fully tested.
test cases should be separated into UI tests and
Hi,
I prefer to have tests from several tiers, firstly having a UI test
framework that is written and performed by testers who are not that
experienced in writing tests in whatever programming language (BASIC is
not a must have but it needs to be as easy as LOGO turle graphics)
mostly to
Hi,
when building module agg on Windows the build breaks because
agg_vertex_iterator.h is not found. I had a look at agg sources but I
did not find such an include. Does somebody know more what's going on ?
Kind regards, Joost
Hi Liu,
you are welcome! The QA people here will benefit of your contribution.
VCL testtool has been used to avoid regressions and to assure that
broken resource files are found before a release because broken resource
files cause an application crash. VCL testtool used a VBA dialect to
Hi,
As promised, here's the ballot. Choose one, cast your vote. If none of
them get more than 50% of the binding votes, we will start a ballot for the
top two contenders.
a) Apache OpenOffice.org
+1
Kind regards, Joost
Hi,
maybe someone can have a look at http://qa.openoffice.org/issuelinks.html
This page contains useful links for QA project members to query open
issues for each module. I believe such static query links can be
modified to match the Apache bugzilla. The CWS query forms were useful
as well
Hi,
1. I get OO 3.4 contents in below site, is it correct place?
http://development.openoffice.org/releases/
http://development.openoffice.org/releases/3.4beta.html
you can still download the latest beta from here:
http://download.services.openoffice.org/files/extended/3.4beta/
If you need
Hi Rob,
just a remark:
In my private opinion it would make more sense to invest resources into
impementing a formula reference which points to expanded formula cells
(/edit/fill) like it is already done for formatting templates within the
sheet.
A slow sheet doesn't necessarily mean that
Hi,
At one of the OOo conferences I vaguely remember there was a university
project that already parallelized computation of Calc sheets.
Unfortunately I cannot remember the project/university name anymore.
Probably having a look at the conference session drafts might give us
some more insight.
Hi,
I don't know who's in charge of this system (Maybe Stefan?) but
unfortunately it shows a database error message. I just encountered that
part of the historical conference data isn't hosted at
marketing.openoffice.org but on ooocon.org
Kind regards, Joost
Hi,
my wntmsci12.pro build has finished but the packaging process stopped
due to a missing so_activex.dll. This is abnormal because I disabled
activex build in winenv.set.sh environment and additionally exported
DISABLE_ACTIVEX to TRUE within my Cygwin shell environment.
a log snipplet is
Hi,
after removing the following lines in
../solver/340/wntmsci12.pro/bin/setup_osl.inf after making a backup copy
of the original file
File gid_File_Lib_Soactivex
Dir = gid_Brand_Dir_Program;
Name = so_activex.dll;
Styles = (PACKED);
UnixRights = 444;
End
Hi Frank,
Sadly, we never found the time/courage/whatever to completely isolate a
standard machine from the Corp. network, completely uninstall the
scanner, and challenge our theory.
So: Is there some error code when your build breaks, and what's your
virus scanner?
it's a Norton Internet
Hi,
whilst building wntmsci12.pro my first time ever I saw some quirks that
need healing hands:
bootstrap aquires external files via hg.services.openoffice.org
I SVN'ed trunk from Apache domain and I think these externals should not
use hg.services any more. Would it be possible to move
Hi,
Probably you have been hit by the well-known bug in GNU Make 3.81 that
lets it core-dump at times. This needs to be solved, the developers of
Libre Office have gained some experience with that.
GNU Make 3.8.1 is installed on my machine but I thought that dmake
is always used instead ?
Hi,
There may be some issues with make 3.82 in cygwin, give it a try.
Now I've compiled version 3.82 and will give it a try. This information
would be woth a mention within the building guide.
just to note: The same issue still happened just a few minutes ago in
module writerfilter. The
Hi,
just to note: The same issue still happened just a few minutes ago
in module writerfilter. The update to GNU Make 3.82 doesn't seem to
fix this behavior.
writerfilter is a build/dmake module, GNU make isn't involved there, so
something else seems to give problems on your system.
perhaps
Dear TJ,
I doubt this backend can or needs to be released and I'm not sure if
AOOo will benefit from having such a system.
What do you do to read a callstack?
Take the upper lines of it and read their function calls. Somewhere
within the upper part of the callstack you will find the address
Hi,
I'd like to introduce myself:
My name is Joost Andrae and I live in Hamburg, Germany.
I was working on StarOffice/OpenOffice.org full time since I joined
StarDivision as QA engineer in 1995. This was the time when StarOffice
development started. Since several years I'm working as program
Hi TJ,
I'm not sure if the backend infrastructure of the crash reporter can be
hosted outside a trusted network and it's fairly complex as it contains
debugging systems for all platforms available, as well as a big database
which is tied to the Hamburg build infrastructure and it stores
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