Re: Student Contribution

2016-03-04 Thread Keith N. McKenna
Alberto Torres wrote: > Thanks for the response! I don’t have much programming skills so I was hoping > I would be able to contribute to documentation or anywhere you feel would be > a good fit. Let me know! > > >> On Mar 4, 2016, at 2:56 AM, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: >> >> Hi Alberto >> >> Welc

Re: Profile.c bugs (was RE: Some thoughts on the learning curve)

2016-03-04 Thread Patricia Shanahan
In the short term, incremental and iterative can go well, but in the long term it only makes the bit rot worse. I have had bad experiences both ways, so neither course guarantees success. Thread synchronization is a particularly dangerous area for not having a known design, because it can lead to

Re: Student Contribution

2016-03-04 Thread Alberto Torres
Thanks for the response! I don’t have much programming skills so I was hoping I would be able to contribute to documentation or anywhere you feel would be a good fit. Let me know! > On Mar 4, 2016, at 2:56 AM, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: > > Hi Alberto > > Welcome to Apache OpenOffice. We would

Re: 100% of bvt QA tests now pass

2016-03-04 Thread Damjan Jovanovic
On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 9:51 AM, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: > Hi > > After a few of my fixes in SVN trunk, our bvt QA tests are now all passing > :-). > > The bvt.gui.BasicFunctionTest.testSlideShow test passes on 4.1.2 on > Linux, but fails on trunk on FreeBSD which also has the manually > reproduci

RE: Profile.c bugs (was RE: Some thoughts on the learning curve)

2016-03-04 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Patricia, I do not want to discourage scratching an itch that is important to you. I do need to express my concern for the limited capacity that we have for development work, and I have done that. Everyone is a volunteer, and at the end of the day we will have whatever we have. Enough said.

Re: Profile.c bugs (was RE: Some thoughts on the learning curve)

2016-03-04 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 3/4/2016 9:39 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: Patricia, Based on Damjan's finding that profile files are read by the application and that some are created during setup, with others copied in from the setup, it is settled that the code is used in current distributions and is also available to ex

RE: Profile.c bugs (was RE: Some thoughts on the learning curve)

2016-03-04 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Damjan, A question below. > -Original Message- > From: Damjan Jovanovic [mailto:dam...@apache.org] > Sent: Friday, March 4, 2016 04:41 > To: Apache OO > Subject: Re: Profile.c bugs (was RE: Some thoughts on the learning > curve) > > On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 11:59 AM, Patricia Shanahan wr

RE: Profile.c bugs (was RE: Some thoughts on the learning curve)

2016-03-04 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Patricia, Based on Damjan's finding that profile files are read by the application and that some are created during setup, with others copied in from the setup, it is settled that the code is used in current distributions and is also available to extensions. I recommend that we catch our breat

Re: Reporting broken download link

2016-03-04 Thread Marcus
Am 03/04/2016 11:03 AM, schrieb Volker: Ich wollte die Vollversion von openoffice herunterladen. Ich habe ein Samsung Labtop mit Windows Vista 32Bit Beim Download kommt folgende Fehlermeldung: Die Webseite kann nicht angezeigt werden. Wahrscheinlichste Ursachen: a.. Sie hab

Re: 100% of bvt QA tests now pass

2016-03-04 Thread Marcus
Am 03/04/2016 04:09 PM, schrieb Patricia Shanahan: +1 Test early, test often. I see it the same way. Marcus On 3/4/2016 6:30 AM, Pedro Giffuni wrote: Hi Damjan; Running tests in the buildbots is always a good idea. Best regards, Pedro. ps. the FreeBSD buildbot appears to still be brok

Re: Profile.c bugs (was RE: Some thoughts on the learning curve)

2016-03-04 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 3/3/2016 5:00 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: -Original Message- From: Patricia Shanahan [mailto:p...@acm.org] ... I am curious about whether it started out with pthread_mutex uses and lost them along the way, or whether that difference between unx and w32 is primordial. [orcmid] You

Re: 100% of bvt QA tests now pass

2016-03-04 Thread Patricia Shanahan
+1 Test early, test often. On 3/4/2016 6:30 AM, Pedro Giffuni wrote: Hi Damjan; Running tests in the buildbots is always a good idea. Best regards, Pedro. ps. the FreeBSD buildbot appears to still be broken with the downloading issue.

Re: 100% of bvt QA tests now pass

2016-03-04 Thread Pedro Giffuni
Hi Damjan; Running tests in the buildbots is always a good idea. Best regards, Pedro. ps. the FreeBSD buildbot appears to still be broken with the downloading issue. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache

Re: Profile.c bugs (was RE: Some thoughts on the learning curve)

2016-03-04 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 3/4/2016 4:40 AM, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 11:59 AM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: On 3/4/2016 12:54 AM, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: ELF binaries (Linux, *BSD) fundamentally use one of the worst ideas of all time: symbols are process scoped (unlike on Windows and MacOS where

Re: Profile.c bugs (was RE: Some thoughts on the learning curve)

2016-03-04 Thread Damjan Jovanovic
On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 11:59 AM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: > On 3/4/2016 12:54 AM, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: >> >> ELF binaries (Linux, *BSD) fundamentally use one of the worst ideas of >> all time: symbols are process scoped (unlike on Windows and MacOS >> where they're library scoped), meaning that

Reporting broken download link

2016-03-04 Thread Volker
Hallo zusammen, Ich wollte die Vollversion von openoffice herunterladen. Ich habe ein Samsung Labtop mit Windows Vista 32Bit Beim Download kommt folgende Fehlermeldung: Die Webseite kann nicht angezeigt werden. Wahrscheinlichste Ursachen: a.. Sie haben keine Verbindung

Re: Profile.c bugs (was RE: Some thoughts on the learning curve)

2016-03-04 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 3/4/2016 12:54 AM, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: ELF binaries (Linux, *BSD) fundamentally use one of the worst ideas of all time: symbols are process scoped (unlike on Windows and MacOS where they're library scoped), meaning that symbols with the same name can clash even if in different libraries lo

Re: Profile.c bugs (was RE: Some thoughts on the learning curve)

2016-03-04 Thread Patricia Shanahan
On 3/3/2016 5:00 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: -Original Message- From: Patricia Shanahan [mailto:p...@acm.org] Sent: Thursday, March 3, 2016 14:38 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: Profile.c bugs (was RE: Some thoughts on the learning curve) I am seriously considering startin

Re: Student Contribution

2016-03-04 Thread Damjan Jovanovic
Hi Alberto Welcome to Apache OpenOffice. We would appreciate your help. Do you have any ideas of what you wish to contribute? Feel free to contact us for any help you need. Thank you Damjan On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 8:38 AM, Alberto Torres wrote: > Hi, > > My name is Alberto Torres and I am a 4t

Re: Profile.c bugs (was RE: Some thoughts on the learning curve)

2016-03-04 Thread Damjan Jovanovic
On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 3:43 AM, Patricia Shanahan wrote: > On 3/3/2016 5:00 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: >>> >>> -Original Message- >>> From: Patricia Shanahan [mailto:p...@acm.org] >>> Sent: Thursday, March 3, 2016 14:38 >>> To: dev@openoffice.apache.org >>> Subject: Re: Profile.c bugs (