Re: OS2 code

2021-01-24 Thread Marcus
Am 23.01.21 um 23:46 schrieb Steve Lubbs: How about something along the lines of: Begin Verbiage The following list of third-party ports and distributions is made available as a service to the community.The Apache OpenOffice project does not officially endorse or maintain the

Re: OS2 code

2021-01-23 Thread Steve Lubbs
Hi Marcus, How about something along the lines of: Begin Verbiage The following list of third-party ports and distributions is made available as a service to the community.The Apache OpenOffice project does not officially endorse or maintain these packages. If you have a por

Re: OS2 code

2021-01-23 Thread Marcus
Am 22.01.21 um 20:22 schrieb Steve Lubbs: Thanks Andrea for the additional clarification. I understand better now. As for gitbox link, I don't have visibility yet beyond the HEAD which is completely understandable. But I can see the list is long! Steve, after all this discussion, do you still

Re: OS2 code

2021-01-22 Thread Steve Lubbs
Thanks Andrea for the additional clarification. I understand better now. As for gitbox link, I don't have visibility yet beyond the HEAD which is completely understandable. But I can see the list is long! Steve On 1/20/21 3:49 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 18/01/2021 Steve Lubbs wrote: So i

Re: OS2 code

2021-01-20 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 18/01/2021 Steve Lubbs wrote: So it seems that OS2 is not supported by the AOO project. Correct. I assume that the AOO project is not updating the OS2 code. Wrong (well, kind of...). Yuri Dario is an Apache committer too; and we did incorporate the last changes he did into our source co

Re: OS2 code

2021-01-20 Thread Peter Kovacs
On 19.01.21 22:00, Steve Lubbs wrote: On 1/18/21 6:03 PM, Peter Kovacs wrote: The Project does accept bug reports. And Code testing and bug fixing is done by bitworks. That's the part I was missing. Maybe it is that there is a Fuzziness on who is the Project? Who releases the Community bi

Re: OS2 code

2021-01-19 Thread Steve Lubbs
On 1/18/21 6:03 PM, Peter Kovacs wrote: The Project does accept bug reports. And Code testing and bug fixing is done by bitworks. That's the part I was missing. Maybe it is that there is a Fuzziness on who is the Project? Who releases the Community binary version? Who releases the binary OS/

Re: OS2 code

2021-01-18 Thread Peter Kovacs
On 19.01.21 01:05, Steve Lubbs wrote: Hi Michael, Comments inline in red. On 1/18/21 2:03 AM, Dr. Michael Stehmann wrote: Hi, I think we have to differ between responsibility and merit and support. To my mind responsibility implies support. Support implies ongoing coding, testing, and bug

Re: OS2 code

2021-01-18 Thread Steve Lubbs
Hi Michael, Comments inline in red. On 1/18/21 2:03 AM, Dr. Michael Stehmann wrote: Hi, I think we have to differ between responsibility and merit and support. To my mind responsibility implies support. Support implies ongoing coding, testing, and bug fixing efforts involving not only the cod

Re: OS2 code

2021-01-18 Thread Marcus
Am 18.01.21 um 18:42 schrieb Matthias Seidel: Am 18.01.21 um 18:33 schrieb Marcus: Am 18.01.21 um 04:01 schrieb Steve Lubbs: To begin with the use of the phrase "third-party port" in this context indicates to me that a coding/testing activity is required to support the target of the port which

Re: OS2 code

2021-01-18 Thread Matthias Seidel
Hi, Am 18.01.21 um 18:33 schrieb Marcus: > Am 18.01.21 um 04:01 schrieb Steve Lubbs: >> To begin with the use of the phrase "third-party port" in this >> context indicates to me that a coding/testing activity is required to >> support the target of the port which is not being done by the AOO >> pr

Re: OS2 code

2021-01-18 Thread Marcus
Am 18.01.21 um 04:01 schrieb Steve Lubbs: To begin with the use of the phrase "third-party port" in this context indicates to me that a coding/testing activity is required to support the target of the port which is not being done by the AOO project. Here are the statements on the page (that ma

Re: OS2 code

2021-01-18 Thread Dr. Michael Stehmann
Hi, I think we have to differ between responsibility and merit and support. On the webpage we IMO have to clarify we are not responsible for the OS/2 port and the merits belong to others. But in our code we IMO should do what is in our potentials to support such a port. So please keep the

Re: OS2 code

2021-01-17 Thread Steve Lubbs
Hi Marcus, To begin with the use of the phrase "third-party port" in this context indicates to me that a coding/testing activity is required to support the target of the port which is not being done by the AOO project. Here are the statements on the page (that may need to be modified) that i

Re: OS2 code

2021-01-10 Thread Marcus
Steve, when you think that the text on [1] leads to the impression that AOO for OS/2 is dead maybe something with the wording is wrong. So, please let us rethink to update the webpage to eleminate this impression. [1] https://www.openoffice.org/porting/index.html Thanks Marcus Am 10.01.2

Re: OS2 code

2021-01-09 Thread Steve Lubbs
Thanks for correcting me. :-[ On 1/9/21 3:43 PM, Matthias Seidel wrote: Hi Steve, Where did you get the idea from? ;-) AOO 4.1.8 is released for OS/2 and OS/2 based systems: https://www.bitwiseworks.com/products/ports.php#AOO I am running it in a VM on ArcaOS 5. https://www.arcanoae.com/ R

Re: OS2 code

2021-01-09 Thread Matthias Seidel
Hi Steve, Where did you get the idea from? ;-) AOO 4.1.8 is released for OS/2 and OS/2 based systems: https://www.bitwiseworks.com/products/ports.php#AOO I am running it in a VM on ArcaOS 5. https://www.arcanoae.com/ Regards,    Matthias Am 09.01.21 um 23:40 schrieb Steve Lubbs: > According