No worries. I have my VMs ready to go.

> On Jul 23, 2018, at 12:47 AM, Peter kovacs <pe...@apache.org> wrote:
> 
> Fyi: To my frustration I failed yesterday to proceed. My next timeslot is on 
> Wednesday. I hope nothing will interfere. 
> 
> Am 21. Juli 2018 08:28:47 MESZ schrieb Peter Kovacs <peter.kov...@posteo.de>:
>> I hope i have time on Sunday. I wanted to proceed last Sunday but
>> failed on this. 
>> Currently my calendar is kind of full. Next possible opportunity is
>> conning Wednesday.
>> 
>> I am undecided if the 4.1.6 will be the last release. But after 4.1.6 I
>> agree 4.2.0 beta should get priority. I can imagine that at least one
>> maintenance release could be possible while we stabilize 4.2.0. In the
>> beta phase.
>> 
>> 
>> Am 19. Juli 2018 19:49:46 MESZ schrieb Matthias Seidel
>> <matthias.sei...@hamburg.de>:
>>> Back to the topic:
>>> 
>>> If we want to release 4.1.6, we should start the process described
>>> here:
>>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/How+to+Cook+a+Release
>>> 
>>> That said, 4.1.6 should really be the last 4.1.x. (my opinion). We
>> have
>>> to get 4.2.0 releasable!
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>>    Matthias
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Am 04.07.2018 um 23:45 schrieb Marcus:
>>>> Am 04.07.2018 um 22:46 schrieb Kay Schenk:
>>>>> On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 1:00 PM, Marcus <marcus.m...@wtnet.de>
>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Am 04.07.2018 um 08:23 schrieb Peter Kovacs:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> I think Jim is referring to the gstreamer situation, where we
>>> decided
>>>>>>> that we skip CentOS6 more or less for 4.2.0.And one argument was,
>>>>>>> if they
>>>>>>> want something they should support us. This is not showing
>>> sympathy
>>>>>>> for a
>>>>>>> small user group that uses very old software for 2 more years
>>> until
>>>>>>> they
>>>>>>> have to move to CentOS 7. I personally think that the gstreamer
>>>>>>> Topic can
>>>>>>> be solved after we have released a beta version. Damjan and I
>> have
>>>>>>> pointed
>>>>>>> out a lot of possible ways to deal with the issue. Just for now I
>>>>>>> think we
>>>>>>> have other problems then gstreamer in 4.2.0. I think it is my
>>> fault
>>>>>>> that I
>>>>>>> put that argument so much in the front line, but that stuck for
>>> me.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> In the last months we had a drop in activity. And more then one
>>> topic
>>>>>>> received not the attention it deserved. I would not conclude that
>>>>>>> anyone
>>>>>>> has stopped caring at this point in time.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Let us conclude for now:
>>>>>>> 4.1.x is still in maintenance. And in my opinion we could think
>> of
>>>>>>> maintaining it until 2020 when CentOS6 drops out of maintenance.
>>> Some
>>>>>>> support from CentOS6 side would be nice. But we need to search
>>>>>>> someone for
>>>>>>> this.
>>>>>>> I have that on my todo list, but did not manage to follow it up.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> incl. gstreamer 0.1.0 that is now within the 4.1.x code.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> PS:
>>>>>> CentOS 6 will be supported until Nov 2020; which means another
>> ~2.5
>>>>>> years.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 4.2.0 has I think 3 bugs we know about and that blocks a beta
>>> release.
>>>>>>> Current target for building with gstreamer is CentOS7. Building
>>>>>>> without
>>>>>>> gstreamer could be done on CentOS6. We should keep the code in
>>>>>>> trunc CentOS
>>>>>>> 6 compatible where ever we can for now. That will make it easy to
>>>>>>> back port
>>>>>>> patches to 4.1.x if we decide to maintain 4.1.x until EOL of
>>> CentOS6.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> In 4.2.0 we can still keep gstreamer 0.1.0 or update to something
>>>>>> newer.
>>>>>> To be honest, I don't care *about this special topic*.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> And it is only relevant on Linux, right?
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> IMHO more relevant is the baseline: When we increase the CentOS
>>>>>> version we
>>>>>> also raise the sysreq for Linux kernel, glibc, etc. This has a
>> much
>>>>>> bigger
>>>>>> impact for our users.
>>>>> 
>>>>> ​You are absolutely correct about this, Marcus. Monitoring the
>>> 32-bit
>>>>> Linux
>>>>> downloads might help here. It does seem like AOO could be moving
>>> away
>>>>> from
>>>>> 32-bit for Linux and other operating systems. I don't know what
>>>>> impact this
>>>>> will have overall though.
>>>> 
>>>> I don't remember exactly, does the gstreamer 0.1.0 vs. 1.0.0
>>>> discussion is also connected to the Linux 32-bit builds? If so, a
>>>> solution could be indeed to drop the 32-bit builds. From SF.net
>> stats
>>>> I get the following (2018-01-01 until today).
>>>> 
>>>> BTW:
>>>> Very likely it's the used OS the download is started from. And not
>>> the
>>>> OS where OpenOffice should be installed on.
>>>> 
>>>> OS        %
>>>> -----------------------
>>>> Windows        86,1165
>>>> Macintosh     7,8424
>>>> Unknown         4,9012
>>>> Linux         1,0621
>>>> Android         0,0762
>>>> BSD         0,0011
>>>> Solaris         0,0006
>>>> 
>>>> But even then, I'm sure the most downloads from resp. for Linux will
>>>> be for 64-bit.
>>>> 
>>>> Has anybody more exact numbers - or an idea how to get them?
>>>> 
>>>> Marcus
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>>> On 03.07.2018 23:50, Matthias Seidel wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> What impact has Ant 1.10.x exactly on older machines?
>>>>>>>> It is no problem for me to build the Windows version with Ant
>>>>>>>> 1.9.12. As
>>>>>>>> long as we use Java 8.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> But again, I just did a personal build to test AOO 4.1.x with
>>> Java 8.
>>>>>>>> Nothing else.
>>>>>>>> To be more precise: I was the only one who cared. No response
>>> from
>>>>>>>> other
>>>>>>>> members!
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Am 03.07.2018 um 23:19 schrieb Jim Jagielski:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> The above made it appear that Ant 1.9.x was no longer supported
>>> plus
>>>>>>>>> had some sort of security related issue making it unsuited for
>>>>>>>>> AOO... ie,
>>>>>>>>> we *needed* to use Ant 1.10 not just that we now *can* use it.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> How about showing some sympathy and understanding for those who
>>>>>>>>> may be
>>>>>>>>> stuck w/ older machines? After all, let's be real, our
>> continued
>>>>>>>>> support
>>>>>>>>> for "older" systems is the only real thing we have going for
>>>>>>>>> us... It's
>>>>>>>>> these little things that make significant ripples in our
>>>>>>>>> eco-system and we
>>>>>>>>> seem to not really care about that anymore.
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> On Jul 3, 2018, at 4:02 PM, Matthias Seidel
>>>>>>>>> <matthias.sei...@hamburg.de>
>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Am 03.07.2018 um 21:45 schrieb Jim Jagielski:
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> On Jul 1, 2018, at 11:27 AM, Peter Kovacs <pe...@apache.org>
>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> Hi everbody.
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> I would like to bring a 4.1.6 Release on the way in July.
>>> Even
>>>>>>>>>>>> if we
>>>>>>>>>>>> manage to get 4.2.0 ready it will only be a beta. And we
>> have
>>>>>>>>>>>> some stuff to
>>>>>>>>>>>> get out to the people.
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> Matthias has created a suggestion for a 4.1.6 release on
>>>>>>>>>>>> security.
>>>>>>>>>>>> Containing some security fixes, plus
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>>> - Java 8 Update 172
>>>>>>>>>>>> - Apache Ant 1.10.3
>>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>>> What is wrong w/ Apache Ant 1.9.12? Why the need for 1.10.x?
>>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> What is wrong with Ant 1.10.x? If we build with Java 8 we can
>>> use
>>>>>>>>>> it... ;-)
>>>>>>>>>> My test build was just a Proof-of-Concept what can be done
>> with
>>> AOO
>>>>>>>>>> 4.1.x.
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> But of course we can build with 1.9.x if that is wanted?
>>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>>>>>      Matthias
>>>> 
>>>> 
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