Re: Draft Board report for November

2012-11-03 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Kay Schenk wrote: >>> >>> ... https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/2012+Nov >>> >>> Feel free to edit it. It should cover September 2012 and October 2012. >> >> Good that you put it on the wiki. When is the due date? > > > I

Re: AOO.Next IBM Priorities

2012-11-03 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: > > On Nov 2, 2012, at 1:40 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > >> On 01/11/2012 robert_weir wrote: >>> We (IBM) have consulted with customers, internal users, other IBM product >>> teams, on what our (IBM's) development priorities should be for the next

Re: OpenOffice graduation: translations of press release

2012-11-03 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 2:56 AM, Maho NAKATA wrote: > Hi Andrea > > We japanese team have just published its translation. > > cf. > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/ooo/ooo-site/trunk/content/ja/news/graduation.html >http://www.openoffice.org/ja/news/graduation.html (not yet up) > T

Re: ApacheCon Request: Please take a lot of photographs

2012-11-02 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 2:27 PM, Regina Henschel wrote: > Hi, > > Rob Weir schrieb: > >> For those bringing cameras to ApacheCon, could I ask you to take >> photographs in the following topics, for future AOO marketing, website >> and social media use: >> &g

ApacheCon Request: Please take a lot of photographs

2012-11-02 Thread Rob Weir
For those bringing cameras to ApacheCon, could I ask you to take photographs in the following topics, for future AOO marketing, website and social media use: - photos of speakers, either during their presentation or before/after their talk. - audience photographs - photographs of project members

Re: another XML file for the Consultants-Page

2012-11-02 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Jörg Schmidt wrote: > > >> -Original Message----- >> From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] >> Sent: Friday, November 02, 2012 2:59 PM >> To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org >> Subject: Re: another XML file for the Consul

Re: another XML file for the Consultants-Page

2012-11-02 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Jörg Schmidt wrote: > Hello, > > here is another XML file for an entry in: > http://www.openoffice.org/bizdev/consultants.html > > Can someone please check and then add? > If there are no objections I'll add to the XML and generate a new HTML. But if you are in c

Re: AOO volunteers: essential skills and tasks

2012-11-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 7:52 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > On 30/10/2012 Guy Waterval wrote: >> >> But for other people who will occasionally participate, why not a Post >> Office where they could register (for security reasons, acceptation of the >> license, etc.). >> When they have time, they can

Re: AOO.Next IBM Priorities

2012-11-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 2:53 PM, jan iversen wrote: > >> Thanks for the note, however knowing IBM I had hoped that one of the >> official goals was to help the development part of the community to get >> stabilized. >> > > This is what th

Re: extensions and translations.

2012-11-01 Thread Rob Weir
the full AOO installer. -Rob > Jan. > > > On 1 November 2012 21:24, Marcus (OOo) wrote: > >> Am 11/01/2012 01:17 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: >> >> On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 3:52 AM, Jürgen Schmidt >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On 11/1/12 12:3

Re: AOO.Next IBM Priorities

2012-11-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 4:53 PM, jan iversen wrote: > Thanks for the note, however knowing IBM I had hoped that one of the > official goals was to help the development part of the community to get > stabilized. > This was specifically product goals for the next release, as the subject title sugges

Encouraging participation

2012-11-01 Thread Rob Weir
tting a product that still can out beat >> the >> > big (costly) products out there. Do NOT forget some state institutions in >> > EU choose OpenOffice against other, but today I would not be so sure !!! >> > >> > Sorry for the outburst, but I am used to say

Re: CMS diff: Welcome to the localization (l10n) project

2012-11-01 Thread Rob Weir
I committed this. A did a little clean up. The left nav wasn't handling the long email list addresses well (wasn't wrapping them) so I rewrote to user shorter names. It is starting to look good: http://www.openoffice.org/l10n-new/ Good work! My unsolicited feedback, which you are free to igno

Re: Have you been contacted via private email and discouraged from participating on the OpenOffice project?

2012-11-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > On 11/1/12 5:38 PM, jan iversen wrote: >> Please excuse me, I think I know the difference between hooligans and >> people who are just blowing hot air. >> >> To be honest, at the moment AOO does NOT have a great deal of momentum, and >> have

Re: [QA Report]Weekly Defect Analysis Report as of 2012/10/29

2012-11-01 Thread Rob Weir
enoffice.org/stats/defects.html -Rob > - Shenfeng Liu (Simon) > > > > 2012/11/1 Ji Yan > >> Thanks, I'll talk to Simon for the detail data. >> >> 2012/11/1 Rob Weir >> >> > On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 9:23 PM, Ji Yan wrote: >> > > Hi Rob, &

Have you been contacted via private email and discouraged from participating on the OpenOffice project?

2012-11-01 Thread Rob Weir
I'm hearing that some project volunteers, especially new ones, are being contacted by certain external parties, who then try to discourage them from contributing to the Apache OpenOffice project. I'm hearing that similar notes have been sent out to those who submitted listings to our new Consultant

Re: extensions and translations.

2012-11-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 3:52 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > On 11/1/12 12:39 AM, Marcus (OOo) wrote: >> Am 10/27/2012 01:17 AM, schrieb jan iversen: >>> I see, I have to get used to this license issues (a long time ago I >>> believed open source was just open source, then I joined an apache >>> projec

Re: CMS diff: Introduction to QA

2012-11-01 Thread Rob Weir
Committed. Thanks for the patch. I'll review more later today. -Rob On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 3:34 AM, Yan Ji wrote: > Clone URL (Committers only): > https://cms.apache.org/redirect?new=anonymous;action=diff;uri=http://openofficeorg.apache.org/openofficeorg%2Forientation%2Fintro-qa.mdtext > > Ya

Updating ooo-dev list subscriber stats -- need assist from list moderator

2012-10-31 Thread Rob Weir
This page here: http://www.openoffice.org/stats/ooo-dev-subscribers.html I'd like to update this one a month. Now seems like a good time. This is really, really easy to do. All that is required is to update this CSV file in Subversion and publish it on the website: http://www.openoffice.org/st

Re: [QA Report]Weekly Defect Analysis Report as of 2012/10/29

2012-10-31 Thread Rob Weir
ts opened and 1208 fixed? > Shenfeng Liu created the original data file. I don't know how he got the data. Maybe you can ask him. If you post an update to the list (or the ooo-qa) list I can add to website for you. We can also add some text to that page to explain what the numbers mean

Re: old business...old OpenOffice domain names registered by Oracle (primarily)

2012-10-31 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: > > On Oct 31, 2012, at 1:05 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: > >> >> On 12-10-31, at 14:17 , Andrew Rist wrote: >> >>> >>> On 10/31/2012 8:54 AM, Kay Schenk wrote: On 10/30/2012 04:14 PM, Andrew Rist wrote: > > On 10/30/2012

Re: AOO volunteers: essential skills and tasks

2012-10-31 Thread Rob Weir
e one of those choices. Who wants to provide another? -Rob > jan > > On 31 October 2012 16:59, Rob Weir wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Kay Schenk wrote: >> > >> > >> > On 10/28/2012 04:30 PM, Rob Weir wrote: >&

Re: AOO volunteers: essential skills and tasks

2012-10-31 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Kay Schenk wrote: > > > On 10/28/2012 04:30 PM, Rob Weir wrote: >> >> On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Andrea Pescetti >> wrote: >>> >>> On 23/10/2012 Rob Weir wrote: >>>> >>>> >&

Re: Looking for guide to debug with MS Visual Studio Express

2012-10-31 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > On 10/31/12 12:59 PM, Andor E wrote: >> Hi, >> I have some doubts, that Visual Studio Express will work. The debugger >> of VS Express is limited severly in comparison to VS Professional. >> I have also just looked it up and Remote Debugging

Re: [PROPOSAL] Initiate a Contest for Branding of 4.0

2012-10-30 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Graham Lauder wrote: > 5 days is about up and we have no -1so I've started a page for creating of > the proposed RFP on the confluence wiki here: > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Brand+Contest+RFP > +1, maybe put "draft" in a prominent plac

Re: [ApacheCon] BoF session on AOO community

2012-10-30 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 12:41 PM, imacat wrote: > On 2012/10/29 23:26, Rob Weir said: >> Then there is the secondary question of network effect and value of >> the network. The more AOO users there are they greater the value of >> skills in AOO extension development

Re: [RELEASE] Releasing new languages for 3.4.1

2012-10-30 Thread Rob Weir
> Do we use the "review statistic" in pootle to anything, it seems actually > quite clever. > I don't know. -Rob > Jan. > > On 30 October 2012 16:17, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > >> On 10/30/12 2:46 PM, Rob Weir wrote: >> > On Oct 30, 2012, at 9:03 A

Re: [RELEASE] Releasing new languages for 3.4.1

2012-10-30 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > On 10/30/12 2:46 PM, Rob Weir wrote: >> On Oct 30, 2012, at 9:03 AM, RGB ES wrote: >> >>> 2012/10/30 Jürgen Schmidt >>> >>>> On 10/27/12 3:57 AM, Rob Weir wrote: >>>>> On Fri,

Re: [RELEASE] Releasing new languages for 3.4.1

2012-10-30 Thread Rob Weir
On Oct 30, 2012, at 9:03 AM, RGB ES wrote: > 2012/10/30 Jürgen Schmidt > >> On 10/27/12 3:57 AM, Rob Weir wrote: >>> On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 9:55 PM, Rob Weir wrote: >>>> On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Dave Fisher >> wrote: >>>>> >

Re: [ApacheCon] BoF session on AOO community

2012-10-30 Thread Rob Weir
On Oct 30, 2012, at 4:19 AM, "Jörg Schmidt" wrote: >> When we have something to announce you can expect to read it in >> official places. It won't be something we'll be hiding in strange >> corners of the web. > > That means if an employee identifies proposals on XING does not correspond to > th

Re: [ApacheCon] BoF session on AOO community

2012-10-29 Thread Rob Weir
On Oct 29, 2012, at 6:40 PM, "Jörg Schmidt" wrote: > >> Customers don't come to IBM looking only for OpenOffice. > > I mean companies, not simple users. I mean companies as well. > And these companies ask me if they should use AOO or LO and they look around > in the market. > > These companies

Re: [ApacheCon] BoF session on AOO community

2012-10-29 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Donald Whytock wrote: > About Peter's point #2...I suppose this is getting kind of abstract, > but what is the payoff from expanding AOO's community? Typically > marketing is performed to increase sales, which earns money; AOO has > no sales, so what should the i

Re: [ApacheCon] BoF session on AOO community

2012-10-29 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Jörg Schmidt wrote: > Hello, > >> The ooo-marketing list is a great place to coordinate international >> campaigns. And we have a German list for local events, yes? > > Yes, we have a German list, but there can discuss only. > > The practical work but needs a lot

Re: [ApacheCon] BoF session on AOO community

2012-10-29 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 12:18 AM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: > > On 12-10-28, at 23:33 , Rob Weir wrote: > >> >> That's the way to grow. Raising money to send the existing volunteers >> to travel to more places is only growth for the airline industry. It >&

Re: [QA Report]Weekly Defect Analysis Report as of 2012/10/29

2012-10-29 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 8:20 AM, Ji Yan wrote: > Please find weekly defect analysis report > http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/QA/Report/DefectStatus/20121029 > Thanks for the report. Would it be possible to also get an update for this chart: http://www.openoffice.org/stats/defects.html ??? The

Re: CMS diff: Quality Assurance

2012-10-29 Thread Rob Weir
Thanks for the patch. I've committed it. -Rob On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 1:35 AM, Yan Ji wrote: > Clone URL (Committers only): > https://cms.apache.org/redirect?new=anonymous;action=diff;uri=http://openofficeorg.apache.org/openofficeorg%2Fqa.mdtext > > Yan Ji > > Index: trunk/content/openofficeorg

Re: IPR PERMISSION

2012-10-29 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 12:59 AM, Peter Junge wrote: > On 10/24/2012 10:23 PM, Rob Weir wrote: >> >> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Peter Junge wrote: >>> >>> On 10/23/2012 7:42 PM, Rob Weir wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> On Tue, Oct

Re: [ApacheCon] BoF session on AOO community

2012-10-29 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 2:22 AM, Jörg Schmidt wrote: > Hello Rob, *, > >> -Original Message----- >> From: Rob Weir [mailto:robw...@apache.org] > >> I think the challenge is to change the thinking that says a project >> can only be successful if it raises mone

Re: [ApacheCon] BoF session on AOO community

2012-10-28 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 8:16 PM, Peter Junge wrote: > On 9/27/2012 8:49 AM, Andrew Rist wrote: >> >> >> On 9/24/2012 9:46 PM, Peter Junge wrote: >>> >>> Dear OpenOffice Community, >>> >>> During ApacheCon Europe 2012 (ACEU 2012; http://apachecon.eu/), we >>> will hold a 90-minute session on the st

Re: AOO volunteers: essential skills and tasks

2012-10-28 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > On 23/10/2012 Rob Weir wrote: >> >> New Volunteer Orientation root page: >> http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/orientation/ > > > This is an excellent resource. But we received a few requests from

Re: The Impossible Question

2012-10-27 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 7:57 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: > > On Oct 26, 2012, at 2:06 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: > >> Hi >> Every now and then a user finds the experience of downloading, installing, >> using AOO disappointing and frankly frustrating if not worse. They will >> usually go to the use

Re: The Impossible Question

2012-10-27 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: > > On 12-10-27, at 13:05 , Kay Schenk wrote: > >> Also, what about the "Support" page. Is the order of items OK. If not, what >> should they be? > > The order there is totally up for grabs and there is no reason in that page's > case to

Re: [RELEASE] Releasing new languages for 3.4.1

2012-10-26 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 9:55 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: >> >> On Oct 26, 2012, at 12:07 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: >>> ... it would probably allow to skip the release process and voting, since >>> we would mere

Re: [RELEASE] Releasing new languages for 3.4.1

2012-10-26 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: > > On Oct 26, 2012, at 12:07 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: >> ... it would probably allow to skip the release process and voting, since >> we would merely be adding 3-5 binary artifacts (built for different >> platforms). > > It is an interestin

Re: [PROPOSAL] "difficulty" field for Bugzilla

2012-10-26 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > On 10/26/2012 07:26 AM, Rob Weir wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 3:47 AM, Andre Fischer wrote: >>> On 24.10.2012 22:28, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: >>>> >>>> @Regina, >>>> >>>

Re: [RELEASE] Releasing new languages for 3.4.1

2012-10-26 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Marcus (OOo) wrote: > Am 10/26/2012 07:43 PM, schrieb Andrea Pescetti: > >> Rob Weir wrote: >>> >>> 1) release new languages via lang packs only for now >>> 2) release full installs, but for only these new languages >>

Re: The Impossible Question

2012-10-26 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: > Hi > Every now and then a user finds the experience of downloading, installing, > using AOO disappointing and frankly frustrating if not worse. They will > usually go to the user forums, but sometimes they will contact the Apache > Fo

Re: [PROPOSAL] Initiate a Contest for Branding of 4.0

2012-10-26 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 4:36 AM, Graham Lauder wrote: > The launch of 4.0 is a unique opportunity in the life of AOO both now and > far into the future. > > The branding needs to position us in the market place, be distinctive and > unique and makes a statement about the product. > > The creation

Re: [PROPOSAL] "difficulty" field for Bugzilla

2012-10-26 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 3:47 AM, Andre Fischer wrote: > On 24.10.2012 22:28, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: >> >> @Regina, >> >> Yes, Wizard is a reference to the level of mastery that a solver must >> possess, and is one of those "which one of these words does not belong" >> solutions. >> >> There i

Re: Apache and ODF

2012-10-26 Thread Rob Weir
ally lead the solution into the different > direction, we maybe should make it clear before having a deeper discussion. > > Thanks. > > ZhengFan > > > 2012/10/26 Andreas Säger > >> Am 25.10.2012 21:14, Rob Weir wrote: >> > >> > If you search for it, yo

Re: [RELEASE] Releasing new languages for 3.4.1

2012-10-26 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 3:07 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > It is now clear that, thanks to new volunteers now coordinating on ooo-l10n, > we will soon be in a position to add 3-5 new languages to Apache OpenOffice. > > It is also clear that at the moment we have no demand for a 3.4.2 with > critica

Re: Another logo needs updating: "Get it here!"

2012-10-25 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > >> >> >> On 10/20/2012 12:23 PM, Rob Weir wrote: >> >>> http://incubator.apache.org/**openofficeorg/get-it-here.html<http://incubator.apache.org/op

Re: Apache and ODF

2012-10-25 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Andreas Säger wrote: > Hi, > > Today my wife got her new Kindle which comes with a document viewer > based on Apache Freetype for the rendering job and Apache POI which is a > Java library to parse Microsoft documents. > It handles doc(x)/xls(x)/ppt(x) but no ODF.

Fwd: volunteer for turkish

2012-10-25 Thread Rob Weir
Hello Mehmet -- You did not receive this response because you are not subscribed to this mailing list. I'm forwarding it so you can read it. You can subscribe to the list by sending an email to ooo-l10n-subscr...@incubator.apache.org Regards, -Rob -- Forwarded message -- From

Re: apache2.conf file for openoffice.org server.

2012-10-25 Thread Rob Weir
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 6:48 AM, jan iversen wrote: > Hi > > In order to test web page changes offline, I am configuring my own apache > server, and would like to see the configuration of the > openoffice.orgapache server, but I cannot find it in svn, can somebody > help me, and mail > it to me di

Please add your name to our new Apache OpenOffice "Directory of Volunteers"

2012-10-25 Thread Rob Weir
(Follow-up posts to ooo-dev only, please) The new Directory is on the wiki here: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Directory+of+Volunteers Every volunteer is able to sign up for a wiki account and edit this page. 1. Volunteers of all kinds are encouraged to add your name. Deve

Re: Volunteers, Contributors, Committers, PMC members -- is there any way to consolidate these lists?

2012-10-25 Thread Rob Weir
ion. I will send an announcement when it is ready. -Rob > For your information, I started the publication of the article (in French) > "High Level AOO" > > Greats > > > librement, > > Sylvain DENIS > Expert TIC, FLOSS & WEB > Conseiller en sécurité de l&#x

Re: Volunteers, Contributors, Committers, PMC members -- is there any way to consolidate these lists?

2012-10-24 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 6:23 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: > Thanks Rob. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Oct 24, 2012, at 11:56 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > >> We have the following today: >> >> 1) http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/people.html -- This >>

Re: Volunteers, Contributors, Committers, PMC members -- is there any way to consolidate these lists?

2012-10-24 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > > > On 10/24/2012 11:56 AM, Rob Weir wrote: >> >> We have the following today: >> >> 1) http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/people.html -- This >> lists a variety of people involved in the proje

[PROPOSAL] "difficulty" field for Bugzilla

2012-10-24 Thread Rob Weir
As you have probably noticed, I'm engaged in a variety of initiatives to grow the community, bring in more volunteers, etc. One additional piece that I think would be useful is to add a new field to Bugzilla to indicate the difficulty level of the bug. Of course, this will often not be known. Bu

Volunteers, Contributors, Committers, PMC members -- is there any way to consolidate these lists?

2012-10-24 Thread Rob Weir
We have the following today: 1) http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/people.html -- This lists a variety of people involved in the project, independent of status. 2) I'd like to have a place for new volunteers to put their names, preferably on the wiki or some place where a non-committer ha

Re: AOO volunteers: essential skills and tasks

2012-10-24 Thread Rob Weir
in the work. > once again, your document are SUPER...the rest is just my experience. > jan. > > On 24 October 2012 10:09, jan iversen wrote: > >> +1, that was something I could really have used some weeks ago :-) >> >> Maybe a word about "active volunteers&quo

Re: [SOURCE]: code repo move after graduation

2012-10-24 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Pedro Giffuni wrote: > +1 openoffice > > Ditto for bugzilla. > And maybe the blog, which is current: http://blogs.apache.org/ooo/ Or ideally we would promote a shortcut URL like blogs.openoffice.org and have it redirect. > Pedro. > > ps. FWIW, it would've been

Re: [SOURCE]: code repo move after graduation

2012-10-24 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 12:19 PM, jan iversen wrote: > Question: > > If have made a "svn co" on the incubator version, will I have to do a new > "svn co" on the new path, or will "svn update" (as usual) work ??? > There is a command: "svn switch" that you will need to execute: http://svnbook.red

Re: OpenOffice graduation: translations of press release

2012-10-24 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 3:56 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > On 22/10/2012 Guy Waterval wrote: >> >> 2012/10/18 Andrea Pescetti >> >>> We welcome translations of today's press release about the OpenOffice >>> graduation. >> >> What about the translations of the press release about the OpenOffice >> >

Re: IPR PERMISSION

2012-10-24 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Peter Junge wrote: > On 10/23/2012 7:42 PM, Rob Weir wrote: >> >> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 6:18 AM, Peter Junge wrote: >>> >>> Dear Sumanyu Satpathy, >>> >>> we have been receiving several emails with attached do

Re: Deadline for mailing llist changes

2012-10-24 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 3:45 AM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > Wonder if we have a deadline on mailing list naming? and if we know if > the transition would be automagically or would need manual > registration? I am sure the Apache Mentors know how INFRA works these > transitions better. > The inst

Re: AOO volunteers: essential skills and tasks

2012-10-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > I am thinking about what new project volunteers need to get started. > Obviously there are area-specific things. For example, developers > need to know how to download and build. Translation volunteers need > to understand Pootl

Re: [DISCUSS] ML Moderators

2012-10-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > On 09/09/2012 06:47 PM, Shenfeng Liu wrote: >> >> Thanks very much for the list, Dave! >> I wonder if it is proper to publish the ML moderator list (at least for >> those public MLs) on a wiki, so that it can be easily maintained and >> updated

Re: Updated Stats page

2012-10-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Marcus (OOo) wrote: > Am 10/23/2012 08:48 PM, schrieb Rob Weir: > >> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 12:10 PM, jan iversen >> wrote: >>> >>> A report would serve the same purpose, and posted with regular intervals >>> (like 1

Re: Updated Stats page

2012-10-23 Thread Rob Weir
ay: http://www.openoffice.org/stats/countries.html One option would be to repeat this in 3 months or whatever, and add a new column and % difference for each country. -Rob > jan. > > On 23 October 2012 18:00, Rob Weir wrote: > >> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 11:23 AM, jan iversen &

Checking my assumptions: No need for a 3.4.2 release?

2012-10-23 Thread Rob Weir
Am I correct in believing that no critical bugs have been reported in 3.4.1 that would require us to spin a 3.4.2 maintenance release? -Rob

Re: Updated Stats page

2012-10-23 Thread Rob Weir
it write out an HTML page instead. -Rob > Jan. > > On 23 October 2012 17:20, Rob Weir wrote: > >> I've moved the download stats to its own page: >> http://www.openoffice.org/stats/downloads.html >> >> That allowed me to give a fuller description of what the

Updated Stats page

2012-10-23 Thread Rob Weir
I've moved the download stats to its own page: http://www.openoffice.org/stats/downloads.html That allowed me to give a fuller description of what the stats are, how they were gathered, etc. I think we should aim for this level of detail and transparency in any claims we make. This move then all

Re: IPR PERMISSION

2012-10-23 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 6:18 AM, Peter Junge wrote: > Dear Sumanyu Satpathy, > > we have been receiving several emails with attached documents in the > moderation queue of this mailing list. As far as I understand it, you want > to obtain permissions to use several screenshots of OpenOffice in > p

Re: Is there a way to force website rebuild?

2012-10-22 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Joe Schaefer wrote: > Make a trivial change to a file in templates/ or lib/ > Thanks, that did it. -Rob > Sent from my iPhone > > On Oct 22, 2012, at 2:19 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > >> It looks like parts of the CMS were down from last nig

Is there a way to force website rebuild?

2012-10-22 Thread Rob Weir
It looks like parts of the CMS were down from last night until recently. I had some changes pending at the time on ooo-site and site. Now when I go in I see that the staged content does not reflect the source files. For example: http://ooo-site.staging.apache.org/contact_us.html But if you loo

Bringing social capabilities into the core SDK

2012-10-22 Thread Rob Weir
(Responses please to the ooo-api list) I wanted to confirm some thinking I've been having recently. Please let me know if any of this sounds plausible or even useful. The problem I'm trying to solve is how to make OpenOffice better connected with the online tools that we all use today, from Drop

Re: [RELEASE]: propose a new developer snapshot based on revision 1400796

2012-10-22 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 9:22 AM, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > On 10/22/12 3:06 PM, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 01:57:31PM +0200, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> we still have problems with our public build bots, a problem that we >>> should address immediately. Neverth

Re: proposal for new l10n workflow

2012-10-21 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 12:14 PM, jan iversen wrote: > I have finally finished my proposal for a new workflow. > > please have a look at: > http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/File:L10procNew.pdf > I'll take a closer look, but I did browse it quickly and had one question: Do we know more about what

Re: [PROPOSAL] download statistics

2012-10-21 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > Are we interested in emphasizing our download statistics more by putting a > link to: > > http://www.openoffice.org/stats/ > > in the > "Additional Information" list on: > > http://www.openoffice.org/download/index.html > We can try, but I'm no

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

2012-10-21 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 3:08 PM, RGB ES wrote: > 2012/10/21 Fernando Cassia > >> On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 6:59 AM, David McKay wrote: >> > Technical aspects are bets handled through a mailing list; general user >> > questions are best handled through a forum. >> >> I agree that a dual approach ma

Re: Dmake binaries ?

2012-10-20 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 10:10 PM, Pedro Giffuni wrote: > > > --- Sab 20/10/12, Rob Weir ha scritto: > >> >> Pedro Giffuni wrote: >> > Hi Rob; >> > >> > The binary was something I built on my spare time with >> MSVC 9.0 never used. >

Re: Dmake binaries ?

2012-10-20 Thread Rob Weir
urely there was something that worked? And if the code hasn't changed since February, then why is there a problem now. I'm obviously missing something. -Rob > cheers, > > Pedro. > > > > >> >> From: Rob Weir >&

Re: Dmake binaries ?

2012-10-20 Thread Rob Weir
On Oct 20, 2012, at 8:38 PM, Pedro Giffuni wrote: > Hi; > > Apparently the Dmake binaries that I made available on the Dmake site don't > work. > > I think it would save some time, especially for Windows users to have a binary > installable package. Perhaps some would like to provide one? > Cou

Re: Need new logo for openoffice.apache.org

2012-10-20 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Larry Gusaas wrote: > >> On 2012-10-20 12:49 PM Alexandro Colorado wrote: >> >>> Well most of the artwork is done, is just a matter of doing the commit to >>> the right branch. Linux has png files so they

Re: Another logo needs updating: "Get it here!"

2012-10-20 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 5:09 PM, RGB ES wrote: > 2012/10/20 Rob Weir > >> On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 3:40 PM, jan iversen >> wrote: >> > If we want to have the same logo all over, respin I assume would not do >> the >> > job ? >> > >> >

Re: Another logo needs updating: "Get it here!"

2012-10-20 Thread Rob Weir
ot; button is still useful, since its size and aspect ratio, as well as the beveling, make it ideal for a download button. -Rob > jan. > > On 20 October 2012 21:23, Rob Weir wrote: > >> http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/get-it-here.html >> >> This logo has

Another logo needs updating: "Get it here!"

2012-10-20 Thread Rob Weir
http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/get-it-here.html This logo has an integrated incubator reference in it as well. I think Drew made the most recent version of this. Anyone have the source, or can easily respin it without the "incubator" block? Thanks! -Rob

Re: Need new logo for openoffice.apache.org

2012-10-20 Thread Rob Weir
e'll get there, I think, but it will take time. -Rob > Regards > Ricardo > > >> >> Jan. >> >> On 20 October 2012 16:28, Rob Weir wrote: >> >> > See upper left here: http://openoffice.apache.org >> > >> > The "Incubating"

Need new logo for openoffice.apache.org

2012-10-20 Thread Rob Weir
See upper left here: http://openoffice.apache.org The "Incubating" is integrated into the graphic. The underlying file is here: a PNG with transparent background. http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/images/300x100_dj_trans.png What do we want to do here? 1) Edit that graphic to remove

Re: OpenOffice graduates from the Apache Incubator

2012-10-19 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 8:06 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: > > On Oct 19, 2012, at 3:34 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Andreas Säger wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Today apache.org announced: >>>> The Apache Software

Re: OpenOffice graduates from the Apache Incubator

2012-10-19 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Andreas Säger wrote: > Hi, > > Today apache.org announced: >> The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache OpenOffice™ as a Top-Level >> Project >> >> Award-winning leading Open Source productivity suite widely used in 228 >> countries; over 20 million downloa

Re: AOO volunteers: essential skills and tasks

2012-10-19 Thread Rob Weir
ki/User:JanIversen > > jan. > > Jan. > > > > On 19 October 2012 23:08, Rob Weir wrote: > >> On Oct 19, 2012, at 4:45 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: >> >> > >> > >> > On 10/19/2012 01:07 PM, Rob Weir wrote: >> >> On Fri, Oct 19,

Re: AOO volunteers: essential skills and tasks

2012-10-19 Thread Rob Weir
current localization process. I'm hoping that, with your help, we resolve that in parallel. -Rob > All aside, I think we are making huge steps in the right direction and that > is what matters > > jan. > > > On 19 October 2012 22:07, Rob Weir wrote: > >> O

Re: AOO volunteers: essential skills and tasks

2012-10-19 Thread Rob Weir
On Oct 19, 2012, at 4:45 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > > > On 10/19/2012 01:07 PM, Rob Weir wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Rob Weir wrote: >>> I am thinking about what new project volunteers need to get started. >>> Obviously there are area-specific

Re: AOO volunteers: essential skills and tasks

2012-10-19 Thread Rob Weir
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > I am thinking about what new project volunteers need to get started. > Obviously there are area-specific things. For example, developers > need to know how to download and build. Translation volunteers need > to understand Pootl

Re: AOO volunteers: essential skills and tasks

2012-10-19 Thread Rob Weir
about what the "essential skills" a new volunteer would need in that area? -Rob > jan. > > On 19 October 2012 18:17, Rob Weir wrote: > >> I am thinking about what new project volunteers need to get started. >> Obviously there are area-specific things. For exa

Re: How many countries has AOO been downloaded from?

2012-10-19 Thread Rob Weir
s: http://www.openoffice.org/stats/ -rob > Jan. > > > On 19 October 2012 19:44, Rob Weir wrote: > >> I've seen some online traffic, on Twitter and elsewhere, questioning >> the claim in our graduation press release that AOO has been downloaded >> by users in

How many countries has AOO been downloaded from?

2012-10-19 Thread Rob Weir
I've seen some online traffic, on Twitter and elsewhere, questioning the claim in our graduation press release that AOO has been downloaded by users in "228 countries". The critics of this claim say that there are not that many countries in the world. Well, it depends on how you define things. T

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