ORbit no longer a build dependency

2017-10-20 Thread Damjan Jovanovic
Hi You no longer need ORbit to build the latest trunk on *nix. It was only ever really used for a version check, which was last needed in ORBit version < 2.8 released in 2003, and I've removed it in SVN revision 1812807. Damjan

Re: Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] Apache OpenOffice 4.1.4 released

2017-10-20 Thread Kay Schenk
On Oct 20, 2017 12:20 PM, "Marcus" wrote: Dear OpenOffice community, we want to share with you the quoted mail from below: Yesterday the new Apache OpenOffice 4.1.4 was released. (due to busy work and technical difficulties I wasn't able to write this in time, please don't hold it against me th

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Apache OpenOffice 4.1.4 released

2017-10-20 Thread Pedro Lino
> > > > I think we as a community need to be more concerned about our > public perception in the future. > > > > Especially in Germany there are a lot of articles in which AOO is > > poorly presented, currently e. g: > > http://www.pro-linux.de/news/1/25256/openoffice-4

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Apache OpenOffice 4.1.4 released

2017-10-20 Thread Matthias Seidel
Am 20.10.2017 um 22:33 schrieb Jörg Schmidt: > Hello, > >> From: Marcus [mailto:marcus.m...@wtnet.de] >> Dear OpenOffice community, >> [...] > Thanks for the information. > > I think we as a community need to be more concerned about our public > perception in the future. > > Especially in Germa

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Apache OpenOffice 4.1.4 released

2017-10-20 Thread Jörg Schmidt
Hello, > From: Marcus [mailto:marcus.m...@wtnet.de] > Dear OpenOffice community, > [...] Thanks for the information. I think we as a community need to be more concerned about our public perception in the future. Especially in Germany there are a lot of articles in which AOO is poorly presen

Re: Open XML Filter

2017-10-20 Thread Raphael Bircher
Hi all. Am .10.2017, 17:16 Uhr, schrieb Dave Fisher : Hi Damhan, Sent from my iPhone On Oct 20, 2017, at 12:21 AM, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: I've looked at Apache POI before and even wrote a minimal filter that saves text cells in Calc to XLSX, see my email on 22 December 2015. Reading

Re: Where is http://www.openoffice.org/de/dev/pre_submission_de.html ?

2017-10-20 Thread Matthias Seidel
Am 20.10.2017 um 21:13 schrieb Jörg Schmidt: > Hello, > >> -Original Message- >> From: Matthias Seidel [mailto:matthias.sei...@hamburg.de] >> The page is now online... > thank you > >> I found several problems, but together we can surely update >> the page to >> be functional again. > Pl

Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] Apache OpenOffice 4.1.4 released

2017-10-20 Thread Marcus
Dear OpenOffice community, we want to share with you the quoted mail from below: Yesterday the new Apache OpenOffice 4.1.4 was released. (due to busy work and technical difficulties I wasn't able to write this in time, please don't hold it against me that this comes with one day delay) That t

Re: Where is http://www.openoffice.org/de/dev/pre_submission_de.html ?

2017-10-20 Thread Jörg Schmidt
Hello, > -Original Message- > From: Matthias Seidel [mailto:matthias.sei...@hamburg.de] > The page is now online... thank you > I found several problems, but together we can surely update > the page to > be functional again. Please can we discuss the next steps on dev...@openoffice.

Funds for Re: Open XML Filter

2017-10-20 Thread Peter kovacs
@Andrea you said if we want to do something we should reach out. So I think this might be a thing: How about creating a project plan, estimates for a budget and then start a campaign? We could also check if we can staff the team introducing the people to interested financiers. Which dev would

Re: Open XML Filter

2017-10-20 Thread Dave Fisher
Hi Damhan, Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 20, 2017, at 12:21 AM, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: > > I've looked at Apache POI before and even wrote a minimal filter that saves > text cells in Calc to XLSX, see my email on 22 December 2015. > > Reading OOXML in Apache POI is problematic, we would have t

dmake and epm

2017-10-20 Thread Jim Jagielski
Just a FYI that I am tracking dmake and epm on the below Github pages: o https://github.com/jimjag/epm o https://github.com/jimjag/dmake I know we are moving away from dmake, but IMO it'll take some time for that to be complete. Plus, updating to the latest version of EPM is useful (it's th

Re: Building Guides

2017-10-20 Thread Jim Jagielski
> On Oct 20, 2017, at 3:27 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > > Gavin McDonald wrote: >>> On 20 Oct 2017, at 9:40 am, Andrea Pescetti wrote: >>> There are no build instructions on the CWiki and there shouldn't be a copy >>> there. >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Development+Sn

Re: Building Guides

2017-10-20 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Gavin McDonald wrote: On 20 Oct 2017, at 9:40 am, Andrea Pescetti wrote: There are no build instructions on the CWiki and there shouldn't be a copy there. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Development+Snapshot+Builds Bad. I haven't removed that section of the page since I s

Re: Open XML Filter

2017-10-20 Thread Damjan Jovanovic
I've looked at Apache POI before and even wrote a minimal filter that saves text cells in Calc to XLSX, see my email on 22 December 2015. Reading OOXML in Apache POI is problematic, we would have to build the document tree twice, first in POI, then in AOO, as a SAX-like API is not supported, so me