lol I forgot abou this list. Great! we should update. On 15.12.19 11:22, Matthias Seidel wrote: > Hi Peter, > > See comment inline... > > Am 15.12.19 um 10:37 schrieb Peter Kovacs: >> Hello Jenni, >> >> Okay, lets bring this back to the List. >> >> I try to sum up by Topic what is going on. If I forgot something it >> slipped my mind. Everyone is invited to add stuff. There is no >> particular order. The numbers are for easier reference. >> >> 1) Translation process >> >> OpenOffice offers a lot of languages (I think 60?) that can it setup to. >> A community works on their translations on a pootle server. >> >> The Project build our own pootle servers up with updated servers which >> are now in our maintenance ability. Before they were maintenanced by the >> foundations infra team. >> >> We talk about the switch from the infa service to our community service. >> Mechtilde is here in lead I would say. >> >> 2) Migration of static Webpages >> >> We have lots of web stuff. We have Static Webpages, a Media Wiki and a >> Confluence Wiki with information in it. (it is historical grown) >> >> Now the static Web pages need to be moved. We currently use an >> unmaintained system that parses Markup language into static pages. >> >> The new system offered by Infra (short for foundation Infra) is a >> combination of tools. Dave is there in lead, I think and George wanted >> to help. I have no Idea what status this project has. >> >> 3) Migration of the build System >> >> We use an old make build system called dmake. On top of it and in the >> background there are various scripts active, that build open office. >> This whole thing is unmaintained. >> >> We move to Gnu make. I think this is 90% done. The remaining >> translations are difficult to do. Damjan is there in the lead (and the >> only one involved?) >> >> 4) OpenOffice Win 64 bit translations >> >> We currently only offer a 32bitWindindows Version. Damjan is migrating >> it to 64 bit. I am unsure on the status. Build knowledge required ;) >> >> 5) OpenOffice Code renew >> >> We still use C-Arrays in our code. This are potentially a security >> threat. Patricia, had started before her pause to replace those with >> modern C++ vectors. >> >> We should continue on this. This is I think newbe friendly task. But we >> need to check her last commits to see the pattern. >> >> And you need to be able to build OpenOffice for this. Project is >> currently on hold. >> >> 6) Code Documentation. >> >> For me as a newbe it is very hard to understand what the code does. so I >> started to document the code. >> >> I want to understand which modul is has which responsibility on high >> level. I try to document this at [0]: >> >> Also I try to get more inline Comments added. >> >> I am currently looking into autodoc. Maybe we stick to it, maybe move to >> another maintained system. Discussion is still tbd. >> >> 7) Bug overview. >> >> I try to sort the bugs into topics and categories. >> >> My hope is that we can handle them better. or have teams caring on them. >> >> Our Bugtracker is Bugzilla, which is faster when you have a bad internet >> connection, and it is opensource.[1] >> >> I have opened up a Jira account where I try to do the clustering. [2] >> >> help and Ideas are appreciated. >> >> 8) solving bugs for 4.2.0 >> >> We have a critical list that needs to be done before we can start a beta >> for release 4.2.0. >> >> I have no clue where this list was :( I take a look, and tell later or >> maybe someone else has it ready? > Maybe you think of this? > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Open+List+from+Discussion > > The link to the Release Blockers is point 7.1 > > Regards, > > Matthias > >> >> >> >> [0] https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Main >> [1] https://bz.apache.org/ooo/ >> [2] >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/OPENOFFICE/issues/OPENOFFICE-109?filter=allopenissues >> >> -------- Forwarded Message -------- >> Subject: Re: Hiii >> Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2019 11:00:38 +0200 >> From: Jennie Klein <jenniejoyn...@gmail.com> >> To: Peter Kovacs <pe...@apache.org> >> >> >> >> For me this is all new so I'm not sure how it works, it would probably >> be helpful to get specific directions on how to get up to date on the >> project. First thing I saw was a bunch of messages about the project >> that I was still not familiar with. >> So maybe some kind of beginner instructions on how to get started. >> So what is the next steps I need to do to be up to date? And know what's >> going on and how I can help? >> >> On Sun, 15 Dec. 2019, 10:55 Peter Kovacs, <pe...@apache.org >> <mailto:pe...@apache.org>> wrote: >> >> Yes take your time that is fine. I am just worried because people >> usually post that they want to start and then do not write anything >> else. >> >> We are not sure where people give up. So we cannot help or lower the >> barrier at this point. That is why I wanted try to get feedback. >> >> What you can do we should talk on the list so people benefit. >> >> >>
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