On Wed, 24 Aug 2016 00:01:22 -0700 (PDT) Don Lewis <truck...@apache.org> wrote:
> Here is my list: > > * Update bundled redland / rasqal / raptor to fix a CVE. This is > currently in progress. The FreeBSD port has been using the system > versions of the latest and greatest. > > * Updated bundled serf to fix a CVE and a WebDAV issue. The FreeBSD > port has been using the system version of the latest and greatest. > > * [low priority] Update bundled vigra. This version is no longer > available upstream. It is used by the basebmp module, but I don't > know what it is used for or how to test it. I believe only the > headers are used. The FreeBSD port uses the latest and greatest > version and I haven't heard of any problems. > > * [low priority] Updated bundled CoinMP. There has been an API > change, which prevents the FreeBSD port from using the system > version. Difficulty unknown ... > > * Fix the easy to fix compiler warnings. In the case of unused > private class member variables, deleting them would cause an ABI > change because the object size would shrink. If that is a problem > the alternate would be to mark them unused. I think there are only > a small number of these, but they get reported many times. > > * Handle the Wiki Publisher and PDF Import extensions as integrated > extensions: > <https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Setup_-_Bundled_Extensions> > I've done some work on this in the FreeBSD port, but I haven't > tackled the installer part for other platforms. > > * Fix a problem that I stumbled across involving extensions that can > cause an infinite crash / recover loop. I think I can generate an > alert when I detect the problem. I'm not sure if I can use an > existing alert message or will need a new one. If the latter, then > there will be some translation work required. > > * Give network connection failures a more informative error message. > I stumbled across this when tracking down a problem that was > confined to FreeBSD. > > > Someone should fix the broken spellcheck problem. It generates a lot of > complaints from our users. > The "broken spellcheck problem" seems largely to be caused by over hasty close-down of the computer before cached files (both hardware and software caches) are properly written to disk. User education is the answer - educate them to be patient in closedown and wait for disk activity to finish before power-off. -- Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
