Ave atque vale

Dear friends, Due to a terminal medical diagnosis, I am withdrawing from most participation in ASF and AOO. I will try to arrange a death notice, so that my privileges can be revoked at that time. Meanwhile, I may be able to kibitz a little. I am unsubscribing from all lists but Announce, bu

Re: [Call-for-Review] code changes for more powerful smarttag extensions

On 3/18/2013 03:45, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: On 3/17/13 11:27 PM, TJ Frazier wrote: ... I also noticed that when you zoom a text document the lines for redlining as well as for smarttags, etc. are not zoomed in the same way and makes it less visible. But this seems to be a general issue. Juergen

Re: A question about existing practices

artitions". [1] <http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/User:TJFrazier/Reveal_Codes> /tj/ -Original Message- From: TJ Frazier [mailto:tjfraz...@cfl.rr.com] Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2013 02:10 To: dev@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: A question about existing practices On 3/18/2013 11:12

Re: A question about existing practices

On 3/18/2013 11:12, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: ... - Dennis PS: My all-time favorite unreconcilable voted-for issue is the request for "Reveal Codes" in the manner of WordPerfect. Hi, Dennis, This is one of my favorites, too, and you might be of great help to my work. I read somewhere that

Re: [Call-for-Review] code changes for more powerful smarttag extensions

<https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=121911> Feel free to cross-link or add comments. /tj/ On 3/18/2013 03:45, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: On 3/17/13 11:27 PM, TJ Frazier wrote: ... I also noticed that when you zoom a text document the lines for redlining as well as for smarttags, et

Re: [Call-for-Review] code changes for more powerful smarttag extensions

... I also noticed that when you zoom a text document the lines for redlining as well as for smarttags, etc. are not zoomed in the same way and makes it less visible. But this seems to be a general issue. Juergen Hi, Jürgen, This is one of my pet peeves. The major problem seems to be the line

Re: [Problem with Mwiki] Link to list catagories not working

On 3/6/2013 16:38, Keith N. McKenna wrote: At the bottom of all Create and Edit pages in mwii there is a note to categorize all pages with a link that calls a special page that lists the category tree. It is preset to look at: Category:Manindex Mode: Categories only Namespace: all When ca

Re: [question] what is text [ x-comment ]

Hi, Jan, On 2/22/2013 06:21, janI wrote: On 22 February 2013 10:10, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: On 2/22/13 9:45 AM, janI wrote: On 22 February 2013 09:30, Andre Fischer wrote: On 22.02.2013 08:29, janI wrote: Hi. the .src sources relatively often contain a text line: text [x-comment]

Re: Calc behavior: result of 0 ^ 0

On 2/9/2013 18:11, Andrea Pescetti wrote: A good practical example of backwards-incompatible changes in version 4.0 is the behavior of Calc while computing 0 ^ 0. You can find a long issue, with different points of view, about this at: https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=114430 but in

Re: Apache OpenOffice in Fedora 19?

On 1/30/2013 16:54, RGB ES wrote: 2013/1/30 Andrea Pescetti Right on the deadline to propose new features for Fedora 19 (it wasn't planned) I submitted Apache OpenOffice as a proposed new feature: https://fedoraproject.org/**wiki/Features/ApacheOpenOffice

Re: [MWIKI]Is wiki bug?

On 1/7/2013 11:18, janI wrote: that sund like the CR/LF problem (unix/windows), the new editor might be more sensitive. I do not think there are anything I can tune on that part, but maybe TJ knows more (I am not the best mwiki user, I just do the server maintenance). Rgds jan I. The wiki soft

Re: Can't Escape the CAPTCHA Cats on MIki

On 1/6/2013 05:34, janI wrote: @TJ: thx for helping regina, however in general I think it is better to analyze the problem, otherwise we end up all being sysop (I have no problem with that, as long as we all understand what it means). The problem is solved by a reconfiguration of confirmEdit as

Re: Can't Escape the CAPTCHA Cats on MIki

On 1/5/2013 18:31, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi Jan, I can still not enter a link on my page http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/User:Regina/MYDrafts5. I want to add a link in the section "References". The cats&dogs captcha appears, I select all cats and hit "Speichern". But it does not save, I'm back

Re: Color coding for Basic snippents on Mwiki?

On 1/5/2013 16:57, janI wrote: There are no conversions in place, so we use the standard as provided. Have you looked at mwiki home page, I am pretty sure they have some explanation. Please also be aware that all our pages are loaded with a standard aoo style sheet, which might further limit th

Re: typing formulae in writer

On 1/4/2013 16:37, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi Theoderik, Theoderik Orbus schrieb: I am visually disable. I just spent about 3/4 of an our on the web site attempting to find an answer to what I think is a simple question. I have not been able to find instructions in OO or on the web site (or anyw

Re: MWIKI down?

On 1/2/2013 21:07, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: Trying to create an account for Alexander (as requested) using the user name he sent to me, but mwiki appears to be down... Hi, Andrew, According to , the wiki has been down for an hour. (This is a /very/

Re: mwiki: HELP DynamicPageList.

3 15:44, janI wrote: Hi. no I see a php error in the DPL2 php files. Yes wiki is down, with kernel panic (I assume) and we (infra) are trying to get hold of someone with the needed karma to physically reboot it. jan. On 1 January 2013 21:26, TJ Frazier wrote: A couple of the templates are g

Re: Calc user guide Chapter 6 - German translation READY NOW

On 1/1/2013 16:20, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi Heiko, 口 海 schrieb: Hi Andrea and OOo-Team, happy New Year for the OOo - Project and best wishes ! As I had announced some months ago, I have translated several chapters of the Calc 3.2 - user guide into German. This chapter of the user guide is (t

Re: mwiki: HELP DynamicPageList.

A couple of the templates are giving user-error messages. (Are you seeing those in the error logs?) I was going to try to fix or disable those, but the wiki went down ... :/ /tj/ On 1/1/2013 14:37, janI wrote: So if I understand you correctly we need it and cannot just remove it. Then I hope

Re: Calc user guide Chapter 6 - German translation READY NOW

On 1/1/2013 10:11, Raphael Bircher wrote: Hi It would be interesting to write this also to the German Mailing List users...@openoffice.apache.org Nice to see more german Native language speachers. Greetings Raphael Am 01.01.2013 13:54, schrieb 口 海: Hi Andrea and OOo-Team, happy New Year for

[Mwiki] No CAPCHA images

Jan, We have a complaint on the wiki[1] that CAPCHA images are not appearing. [1] /tj/

Re: Endnote/Index in Writer

On 12/30/2012 07:11, Rory O'Farrell wrote: On the en-Forum it has just been pointed out to me that Endnotes place themselves at the End of a document; this prevents an alphabetical Index being placed there, which is the usual location for it. Perhaps this should be considered for alteration

Re: Draft: Guidelines for redistributing (an original) Apache OpenOffice with 3rd party bundles (e.g. books or template packages)

On 12/30/2012 06:32, janI wrote: +1, I would add a line saying something: In no case are such distributions allowed without the written consensus of Apache OpenOffice. That will make it easier to pursue a case, if someone just distributes. I would also suggest, we add a link to the distribution

Re: [mwiki] Spammers are baaack ...

On 12/25/2012 23:18, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: On 12-12-25, at 21:51 , RGB ES wrote: 2012/12/26 TJ Frazier @jan, Can you process the user creation log for today, and send me (off-list) the user names and email addresses? I've already blocked two new spammers, and I'm deeply sus

Re: [mwiki] Spammers are baaack ...

On 12/25/2012 21:51, RGB ES wrote: 2012/12/26 TJ Frazier @jan, Can you process the user creation log for today, and send me (off-list) the user names and email addresses? I've already blocked two new spammers, and I'm deeply suspicious of the other new accounts. Any ISP involv

[mwiki] Spammers are baaack ...

@jan, Can you process the user creation log for today, and send me (off-list) the user names and email addresses? I've already blocked two new spammers, and I'm deeply suspicious of the other new accounts. Any ISP involved will be hearing from me. Do I assume correctly, that something (Apach

Re: [mwiki] IS DOWN FOR DB MAINTENANCE for the next couple of hours !!!!

On 12/25/2012 08:05, janI wrote: On 25 December 2012 13:22, TJ Frazier wrote: On 12/25/2012 04:03, janI wrote: HI Tj and Helen. First please bear over with me, it is x-mas morning, and my head is not fully operational :-) Let me explain: we are actually running on the test system, I have

Re: [mwiki] IS DOWN FOR DB MAINTENANCE for the next couple of hours !!!!

roblem with the editor tool bar ? or did I misunderstand you ? (see attachment) Wikitest is not active at the moment, because I have switches 1.20.2 to production. Rgds Jan I. On 24 December 2012 20:47, TJ Frazier wrote: On 12/24/2012 06:50, janI wrote: Hi. I have taken wiki.openoffice.org, down

Re: [mwiki] IS DOWN FOR DB MAINTENANCE for the next couple of hours !!!!

On 12/24/2012 06:50, janI wrote: Hi. I have taken wiki.openoffice.org, down for a db maintenance. Jan I. Jan, I'm seeing a problem with the editor tool bar. Tried to check it out on testwiki, but got a 403. /tj/

Re: [Release candicate] mwiki, test

ld suggest a Sunday, or a Saturday, as fairly low-usage days. Any time of day will be inconvenient for some people, so pick a convenient time for you! :-) /tj/ On 21 December 2012 00:42, TJ Frazier wrote: On 12/20/2012 16:44, janI wrote: Can anybody give me a link to a couple of

Re: [wiki help] sysop help needed !!

On 12/22/2012 16:40, janI wrote: On 22 December 2012 22:32, TJ Frazier wrote: On 12/22/2012 11:17, janI wrote: On 22 December 2012 17:10, RGB ES wrote: 2012/12/22 janI Before I upgrade our database (and system) to 1.20.2 I would like to clean some of the dead stuff. I would

Re: [Release candicate] mwiki, test

a Saturday, as fairly low-usage days. Any time of day will be inconvenient for some people, so pick a convenient time for you! :-) /tj/ On 21 December 2012 00:42, TJ Frazier wrote: On 12/20/2012 16:44, janI wrote: Can anybody give me a link to a couple of pages with intensive math ?? I

Re: [wiki help] sysop help needed !!

On 12/22/2012 11:17, janI wrote: On 22 December 2012 17:10, RGB ES wrote: 2012/12/22 janI Before I upgrade our database (and system) to 1.20.2 I would like to clean some of the dead stuff. I would apriciate if some of the sysop could help me with - looking at special page/unused files a

Re: Request Mwiki account

On 12/22/2012 06:57, Bycadi Rao wrote: Dear Sir, Myself Kiran and writing from India. I am a Vb.Net programmer and i would like to merge OpenOffice to my vb application forms. i saw some of the web site and try to learn the same but when ever i clicked on something to download (ODF Toolkit) it's

Re: [Release candicate] mwiki, test

On 12/20/2012 16:44, janI wrote: Can anybody give me a link to a couple of pages with intensive math ?? I have math running in my local version, when I search for math I get 1 hit, and that page displays ok. thx in advance jan

Re: [question] draw...

On 12/16/2012 14:08, janI wrote: [snip] Working with updating the wiki, I tried to use it :-) but the page: http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Draw_Guide is very empty ?? so where is the guide ? The v2 guide on the wiki is out of date, but it's there. All the wikified guides work the same way:

Re: [UX]Comments visibility

On 12/16/2012 01:41, Kevin Grignon wrote: KG01 - see comments inline On Dec 15, 2012, at 11:31 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 08/12/2012 RGB ES wrote: Some users, mostly when reading an existing document, tend do disable the view of comments with View → Comments. The problem with this option

Re: Admin mailing list?

On 12/13/2012 09:14, janI wrote: I give +1 for the list and the WIKI account part, then we can see over time, if web discussions naturally move to that list. Jan. "By request" account creation on the wiki is a fine short-term solution for the spammer problem (until the upgrade). In the long ru

Re: can I get permission to upload file to mwiki ?

On 12/12/2012 17:39, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: On 12/11/2012 12:25 AM, Shenfeng Liu wrote: I'd like to continue the working on the fidelity improvement wiki, and need to upload screenshots. My wiki account is

Re: Request Mwiki account

On 12/11/2012 20:03, Jeff Johnson wrote: Would you please create me a Wiki account. I wish to interact regarding macros. Preferred username: johnsojm47 email: jeffjohn...@cox.net Done. The email with your random password has been sent; please change it when you log in. Several people on th

Re: NewWikiMainPage

On 12/10/2012 02:39, Andrea Pescetti wrote: tj wrote: 2) Please use a suitable subject, like "Labels". Your query has nothing to do with the wiki main page. Note that this is due to the fact that http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Main_Page contains a notice saying "You're looking for the old wik

Re: Request Mwiki account

On 12/9/2012 13:33, marc payen wrote: USER NAME : marcooo93 Best regards Done. You should have the email with your random password. Please change that when you first log in. Welcome to the wiki! Write here again if you have any problems. /tj/ (User:TJFrazier on the wiki)

Re: Wiki troubles?

On 12/8/2012 16:19, janI wrote: On 8 December 2012 21:56, TJ Frazier wrote: On 12/8/2012 12:19, janI wrote: Hi. If I understand you correctly I think I will have no change of correcting it...it is a standard usage of spammers, to make a fake login, and I think that is what you have been

Re: Wiki troubles?

n I. Yes, you are lucky. When you are done, you will understand every part of the procedure, and you can feel confident that you can fix any part of it. I wish I could help more. Thank you for all your hard work. /tj/ On 8 December 2012 17:52, TJ Frazier wrote: On 12/8/2012 11:16, janI

Re: Wiki troubles?

On 12/8/2012 11:16, janI wrote: Sorry, yes we are working on the traffic server and apache below wiki, which might cause very short outages (less than 10 seconds). Jan. Jan, During the recent spam-fighting, I saw stale pages a number of times, of one particular type. I was chasing the pictur

Re: [RELEASE] Update 4.0 planning items

On 12/6/2012 23:11, Shenfeng Liu wrote: Hi, all, I suggest we update the planning items in 4.0 wiki: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+4.0+Release+Planning I just updated the status of each items and added some more according to my reading of the mails. I hope ever

Re: new user

On 11/30/2012 08:01, Agustín Godino wrote: I would like to be an user in the openoffice wiki. The user name I wolud like is: agusk75 Thanks. Agustín Godino. Done. You should have the generated email. Write again if you have problems. You may not be able to create new pages just yet, so I have

Re: [call for review] wiki maintenance

On 11/29/2012 13:19, janI wrote: Thanks I did not know that LEFT JOIN and JOIN has different speeds on inodb tables. I made the fast fix, and split xmaint_uids into smaller tables, and is running now. BUT I am dead nervous of deleting wrong data !! so the review in general would be nice. I have

Re: New page in media wiki

On 11/29/2012 04:22, Andre Fischer wrote: Hi, I would like to create a new (Media)Wiki page but can't. Editing is still possible. Maybe one of the wiki admins could create the page "Sidebar" ? My user name is "Andre". Thanks, Andre Hi, Andre, This is fallout from the spam problem. I hav

Re: Enable mWiki account

On 11/29/2012 02:52, Kevin Grignon wrote: mWiki Admin, I've lost the ability to edit or add content. Please re-enable my existing account. Account name is greenyo. Thanks, Kevin Hi, Kevin, This is fallout from the spam problem. I have appointed you a sysop. Please use your new karma cautio

Re: New wiki acount

On 11/26/2012 16:24, Vincent Thiry wrote: User name : balak064 Mail : balak...@gmail.com Thank you Done. You will want to change your password after you first log in. If you have any problems, please write again. /tj/ (User:TJFrazier on Mwiki)

Re: Request Mwiki account

first login (but I haven't checked that). /tj/ On 26 November 2012 22:59, TJ Frazier wrote: On 11/26/2012 13:06, Thiago Ramos wrote: My username can be thiago_addlabs and e-mail this same. Thanks. Att, Thiago Giannini

Re: Request Mwiki account

On 11/26/2012 13:06, Thiago Ramos wrote: My username can be thiago_addlabs and e-mail this same. Thanks. Att, Thiago Giannini Ramos --- Analista de Sistemas - ADDLabs - IC/UFF http://www.addlabs.uff.br/ Av. Gal. Milton Tavares de Souza, s/nº

Re: IAccessible2 integration for AOO 4.0

On 11/26/2012 13:40, Rob Weir wrote: On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: Is this to be based on the Symphony code? Dennis, we have Symphony code within IBM. Remember, we wrote it. Whatever code we check in is covered by signed ICLA's and CCLA's. That should address a

Re: Wiki maintenance.

On 11/25/2012 18:10, TJ Frazier wrote: Jan, FYI, I just deleted / blocked two spammers. The rate was only one per hour, so we can handle that. The ID's were already created, so please run that "delete recent accounts" script as soon as it's ready. /tj/ Doing a little

Re: Wiki maintenance.

Jan, FYI, I just deleted / blocked two spammers. The rate was only one per hour, so we can handle that. The ID's were already created, so please run that "delete recent accounts" script as soon as it's ready. /tj/ On 11/25/2012 11:58, janI wrote: Ok, got it (I just want to be sure, it is be

Re: Wiki maintenance.

Hi, Jan, TJ comments inline. On 11/25/2012 06:50, jan iversen wrote: I am starting this thread so we have a place, to keep our decisions. I will also a bit later make a new wiki page, "wiki planned maintenance" where I (and hopefully also the other administrators) will keep track of the work don

Re: Request Mwiki account

On 11/24/2012 18:29, Peter Duff wrote: Please let me have an Mwiki account Peter Duff The account "pjduff" has been created for you. You should get an email containing your initial random password; you can change that when you log in. This procedure is new to us; you will be making a real c

Re: Wiki spamming is going to get worse if something isn't done soon...

On 11/23/2012 04:20, jan iversen wrote: I am happy for the help, Clayton has already giving me lot of information, instead of me having to dig it out. It is also securing to have a helping hand in the background who know our wiki very well. Is there a gentle way, to make Infra do the last bit, s

Re: [Mwiki] New accounts by invitation only?

On 11/22/2012 03:27, Herbert Duerr wrote: Hi Jan, On 21.11.2012 20:24, jan iversen wrote: having looked at the mediawiki pages, especially the amount of updates, and make a trial installation my my private server, I know I can cope with the maintenance problems (but NOT with spam attacks, that

Re: [Mwiki] New accounts by invitation only?

On 11/21/2012 14:24, jan iversen wrote: having looked at the mediawiki pages, especially the amount of updates, and make a trial installation my my private server, I know I can cope with the maintenance problems (but NOT with spam attacks, that requires more than just one person). If the communi

Re: [Mwiki] New accounts by invitation only?

On 11/20/2012 20:10, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: On 11/20/2012 06:46 AM, tj wrote: Can I get lazy consensus on requiring users to request Mwiki accounts on a ML? Temporarily or permanently, I don't know. Oh, please do It looked to me more like it was about three a minute in the wee hou

Re: [Mwiki] New accounts by invitation only?

On 11/20/2012 07:31, Herbert Duerr wrote: On 20.11.2012 12:46, tj wrote: Can I get lazy consensus on requiring users to request Mwiki accounts on a ML? Temporarily or permanently, I don't know. I agree that for the current spam attack this is the most reasonable solution. After that period th

Re: [Mwiki] New accounts by invitation only?

On 11/20/2012 07:24, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi, tj schrieb: Can I get lazy consensus on requiring users to request Mwiki accounts on a ML? Temporarily or permanently, I don't know. +1 I had made that suggestion already. Do not wait, but change it immediately. Kind regards Regina Thanks, R

Re: [Mwiki] Spam Attack in progress!

On 11/17/2012 18:04, TJ Frazier wrote: On 11/17/2012 17:17, Rob Weir wrote: On Nov 17, 2012, at 4:26 PM, TJ Frazier wrote: On 11/17/2012 15:56, Max Merbald wrote: Hi, disabling new registrations is one thing which might, however, stop sensible people from participating. I think it must be

Re: [Mwiki] Spam Attack in progress!

On 11/17/2012 17:17, Rob Weir wrote: On Nov 17, 2012, at 4:26 PM, TJ Frazier wrote: On 11/17/2012 15:56, Max Merbald wrote: Hi, disabling new registrations is one thing which might, however, stop sensible people from participating. I think it must be very frustrating when you're tryi

Re: [Mwiki] Spam Attack in progress!

7.11.2012 21:49, schrieb TJ Frazier: On 11/17/2012 08:28, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi, TJ Frazier schrieb: Since 05:00 (UTC+5) this morning, I have blocked over 150 spammers; the deleted-pages count is higher. Normal would be about half a dozen. And still they come. In the short run, I can probably ha

Re: [Mwiki] Spam Attack in progress!

On 11/17/2012 08:28, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi, TJ Frazier schrieb: Since 05:00 (UTC+5) this morning, I have blocked over 150 spammers; the deleted-pages count is higher. Normal would be about half a dozen. And still they come. In the short run, I can probably handle it, though help from any

Re: Editing needed on BZ footer -- remove "podling" reference

On 11/16/2012 22:04, Dave Fisher wrote: On Nov 16, 2012, at 5:40 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: On Nov 15, 2012, at 3:08 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: On 11/14/2012 05:06 PM, TJ Frazier wrote: On 11/14/2012 18:47, Kay Schenk wrote: HI -- Could one

[Mwiki] Spam Attack in progress!

Since 05:00 (UTC+5) this morning, I have blocked over 150 spammers; the deleted-pages count is higher. Normal would be about half a dozen. And still they come. In the short run, I can probably handle it, though help from any committer sysops would be useful. In the long run, some site-mainta

Re: bugzilla.

On 11/15/2012 17:28, Jan iversen wrote: Hi. I have a new mail account, which I have created in bugzilla. Is there a way to move the bugs I have reported with my old e-mail to the new e-mail (in bugzilla) ? Jan. Hi, Jan, If you changed your email address in an existing BZ account ("preferen

Re: Editing needed on BZ footer -- remove "podling" reference

On 11/14/2012 18:47, Kay Schenk wrote: HI -- Could one of our BZ admins please remove the "podling" reference in the footer area for Apache OOo Bugzilla? Thanks. Hi, Kay, A little research in the BZ Help [1] reveals in Section 6.3.5 that the global footer is in a template, "global/footer.htm