OpenOffice is an all-volunteer project within the Apache Software
Foundation. If you would like to contribute to OpenOffice we can always
use C++ programmers, but we cannot employ them.
On 8/1/2019 2:11 PM, Daniel Mobley wrote:
To whom it may concern,
this is a forwarded copy of a previous mes
Welcome to the team.
One major difference between AOO and the typical college project is its size.
It is far too big to read all the source code before making changes. You will
have to learn enough about the area you want to change.
Because it is big, complicated, and has to run on a range of
I know building AOO is difficult. The first time a tried I gave up. The
second time, I asked for help each time I got stuck, and succeeded in
building it.
The core problem is a combination of history, and the number of
different supported platforms.
On 8/20/2018 4:27 AM, Juan B. Rodriguez wr
You are, of course, free to choose any project you like, but I do have a
suggestion.
In general, AOO uses its own data structures rather than STL templates.
I believe it could be made more flexible and more secure by refactoring
towards using standard library classes.
Specifically, AOO has i
I suggested creation of the recruitment mailing list as a vehicle to
communicated with new participants in the Openoffice community, with
less traffic than the d...@openoffice.apache.org mailing list.
I am very sorry for my non-involvement for the last few months, which I
can now explain.
So
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Very glad to have you aboard.
As an ASF member, I believe you have at least pony-mail access to our
security mailing list. Could you meet me over there?
On 8/31/2017 12:49 PM, David Meikle wrote:
Hello,
My name is Dave and I'm a long term user of OpenOffice, as well as Software
Engineer, so
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On 8/25/2017 12:28 PM,
instruction for QA?
Since now, thanks in advance.
Regards,
Claudio Ferreira
2017-08-16 6:07 GMT-03:00 Patricia Shanahan :
If you can do some testing, please do so and report any regressions
relative to 4.1.3.
Forwarded Message
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Availability of AOO-4.1.4 RC2
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From: Patricia Shanahan [mailto:p...@acm.org]
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2017 10:48 AM
To: recruitment@openoffice.apache.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Availability of AOO-4.1.4 RC2
I am the very worst person to give any instructions for what to test - I wrote
several of the patches that went into
,
Claudio Ferreira
2017-08-16 6:07 GMT-03:00 Patricia Shanahan :
If you can do some testing, please do so and report any regressions
relative to 4.1.3.
Forwarded Message
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Availability of AOO-4.1.4 RC2
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 11:19:15 -0400
From: Jim Jagielski
Send an e-mail to recruitment-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org. Reply
to the resulting confirmation e-mail.
On 8/16/2017 7:54 AM, Diana Connolly wrote:
How do I get removed from this list?
On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 2:05 AM, Patricia Shanahan wrote:
Thanks for the response.
For what it is
If you can do some testing, please do so and report any regressions
relative to 4.1.3.
Forwarded Message
Subject: [ANNOUNCE] Availability of AOO-4.1.4 RC2
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 11:19:15 -0400
From: Jim Jagielski
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2017-08-13 6:30 GMT-07:00 Patricia Shanahan :
It is definitely not a prank - I proposed the list, so I
It is definitely not a prank - I proposed the list, so I should know.
I'm an AOO committer and PMC member. Very unfortunately, there has been
a limit to how much I could share my activities for the last few months.
I will explain more later.
Right now, I think we have a suitable bug for an all
Sorry for the silence - I'll explain later. We currently have two high
priority items:
1. Testing a release candidate, 4.1.4 RC2. This subdivides into either
doing your own builds by checking out the source code or downloading and
testing ready built versions. Testing pre-built versions is imp
Welcome to OpenOffice.
On 7/24/2017 2:15 PM, Andrey Zhitnikov wrote:
Dear OpenOffice crew.
My name is Andrey. I'm an electrical engineer from Israel. I'm interested
in helping to develop OpenOffice project. I think I have programming skills
and can help with programming tasks in Java, C++, Pytho
I have proposed this refactoring project on the dev@ mailing list, with
some positive and no negative feedback.
The problem is that OpenOffice makes extensive use of primitive arrays.
They have no option for automatic bounds checking, and we have had some
problems due to failure to explicitly che
On 6/18/2017 10:24 PM, Yemelyanenko Fyodor wrote:
Hello!
I've done level 1&2 modules from new volunteer orientation and level 3: intro
to dev.
I've established local build env, but got error during build process. I'll
investigate it to get further.
Thanks for the update. If you have not alre
Hi Ariel,
Welcome to OpenOffice.
The main activity at the moment is preparing for the 4.1.4 release. It
would be useful to check out the 4.1.4 branch of the source code, build
it in whatever environments you have available, and test it by using it.
You can find build instructions at
https:/
Welcome to OpenOffice. Most of the code is C++. A good first step is to
check out and build the source code. See
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO/Step_by_step
for instructions.
On 5/17/2017 8:32 AM, Mullaney, Patrick wrote:
Hello,
My name is Patrick Mullaney
I want to emphasize that anyone who tries to do something and gets stuck
should post questions here or on d...@openoffice.apache.org. Somebody
else may have already solved your problem, and your ideas may help
someone else.
On 2/10/2017 10:40 AM, Patricia Shanahan wrote:
Introduction:
I
them instead.
On 2/8/2017 5:09 PM, Patricia Shanahan wrote:
I have a mission for someone with knowledge of C++ and file search
tools. It does not require familiarity with the AOO source code. Any
volunteers?
On 2/10/2017 11:02 AM, Simos Xenitellis wrote:
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LibreOffice has been translating those German comments as a multi-year effort
and just recently they managed to complete the translation.
For this purpose, the used the following script to identify if a
comment is likely to be in German
and flag
Introduction:
I'm a member of the OpenOffice Project Management Committee. Some time
ago, I pushed the creation of the recruitment@ mailing list, and offered
to do some mentoring of new volunteers.
The good news is that, although now retired, I am a very experienced
developer. The bad news i
I have a mission for someone with knowledge of C++ and file search
tools. It does not require familiarity with the AOO source code. Any
volunteers?
AOO uses a Subversion repository. The best place to get started on C++
work is the step-by-step build instructions at
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO/Step_by_step.
It includes a link to the repository, as well as a lot of other
information you will need to buil
Welcome to the project!
You may find https://bz.apache.org/ooo/ a good starting point. It is the
Bugzilla database, where bug tracking, reproduction, duplicate
elimination etc. happen.
You could also subscribe to the users mailing list,
https://openoffice.apache.org/mailing-lists.html#users-
The easiest way to change it would be to unsubscribe one address, and,
if you want to see recruitment e-mails, subscribe with the other address.
On 12/13/2016 9:35 AM, Edward Keyser wrote:
helpful person
1) please change my email from edwa...@trisail.net to edw...@trisail.net
2) I also wonder w
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On 12/13/2016 7:26 AM, Marcus wrote:
Am 12/13/2016 04:24 PM, schrieb po...@yahoo.com:
Thanks, I know what an electronic mailing list is,
Welcome to OpenOffice. Your C++ experience will be especially valuable.
You can find detailed instructions for building OpenOffice at
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO/Step_by_step
On 11/11/2016 6:57 PM, pradnya hegde wrote:
Hello,
I am Pradnya Hegde .I am v
OpenOffice bugs are tracked through Bugzilla, https://bz.apache.org/ooo/
Searching for "needhelp" will get you a list of bugs needing more
analysis. I would begin with the ones with recent activity.
On 10/29/2016 12:40 AM, Richard Smith wrote:
Hi,
I'm a software engineer & would like to offe
On 9/13/2016 12:01 PM, Jonathan Kühn wrote:
...
So I got some questions:
To start with a stupid one: Do I really need to join the dev@ or can I
procrastinate this to a later point in time? Can I help you without
joining it, but waiting until I feel more comfortable joining it? How
can I know whe
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