SNAPSHOT tag updated

2015-10-10 Thread Andrea Pescetti
I've spoken more on Bugzilla than on the list lately, so I'm now catching up and providing some more information. As you may have noticed, the SNAPSHOT tag has been updated in preparation for a RC2 that will be available early next week. This RC2 may be a release we vote on, since all blocker

Re: SNAPSHOT tag updated

2015-10-10 Thread Mathias Röllig
Am 10.10.2015 um 09:54 schrieb Andrea Pescetti: I've spoken more on Bugzilla than on the list lately, so I'm now catching up and providing some more information. As you may have noticed, the SNAPSHOT tag has been updated in preparation for a RC2 that will be available early next week. This RC2

Re: SNAPSHOT tag updated

2015-10-10 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 10/10/2015 Mathias Röllig wrote: At the moment always Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.2_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_de.tar.gz is missing in https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/openoffice/4.1.2-rc1-r1705606/binaries/de/ When will a build be available for testing? Those builds will come with RC2, it is

Re: SNAPSHOT tag updated

2015-10-10 Thread Mathias Röllig
At the moment always Apache_OpenOffice_4.1.2_Linux_x86-64_install-deb_de.tar.gz is missing in https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/openoffice/4.1.2-rc1-r1705606/binaries/de/ When will a build be available for testing? Those builds will come with RC2, it is easier to do so than re-upload the m

Apache replacement

2015-10-10 Thread donaldupre .
Hi What does it take to buy back OpenOffice from Apache? I'm sure there are commercial entities that will be happy to develop it. Apache isn't doing a great job... Best regards, Don PS I don't want a merge with LibreOffice!

Re: SNAPSHOT tag updated

2015-10-10 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Andrea Pescetti wrote: If there interest in testing that version as soon as possible, I can probably make one RC2 installer (like: the 64-bit Linux DEB installer, German version) available for download from my people.apache.org space It was ready earlier than expected, so you can now find it at

Re: Apache replacement

2015-10-10 Thread Damjan Jovanovic
Hi OpenOffice is under a very liberal license: anyone can fork it and continue developing it independently (eg. NeoOffice), there's nothing to be bought. What are your exact problems with the job Apache is doing? Regards Damjan On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 12:36 PM, donaldupre . wrote: > Hi > Wha

Re: Apache replacement

2015-10-10 Thread donaldupre .
There is the brand name "OpenOffice" to be bought. The exact problems with Apache: 1. Lack of releases, should be 3-4 per year as minimum. 2. The tired and boring look and feel of the homepage, blog, facebook, twitter. 3. Lack of innovation, the sidebar is not an example for innovation. 4. The lost

Re: Apache replacement

2015-10-10 Thread Andrea Pescetti
donaldupre . wrote: What does it take to buy back OpenOffice from Apache? I'm sure there are commercial entities that will be happy to develop it. Those entities can ask their employees to contribute to OpenOffice, and help shape the project with their contributions. This addresses all items

Re: Apache replacement

2015-10-10 Thread donaldupre .
Please allow me to clarify. According to your suggestion, the contributors will be managed by Apache. The decision making will stay with Apache. But apache proved to fail in those aspects... About creating a derivative product, after reading so many comments and opinions online suggesting a merge o

Re: Apache replacement

2015-10-10 Thread toki
On 10/10/15 13:48, donaldupre wrote: >The decision making will stay with Apache. There is nothing preventing an organization from collecting the source code Apache releases, modifying it, and commercially distributing the resulting program. As such, Apache's decision making becomes totally irrele

Extension count

2015-10-10 Thread Dennis Roczek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi everybody, is there a possibility to get the total number of extension listed at http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/ ? Maybe listed by category or simply all? Are these numbers somewhere documented on a statistics page (similar to MediaWik

Re: [DISCUSS] Fwd: Re: FOSDEM 2016 - Call for Participation

2015-10-10 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 06/10/2015 Andrea Pescetti wrote: I'm going to submit a proposal for an ODF Editors devroom too, similar to http://s.apache.org/ved (the one we sent last year). This was sent yesterday. I didn't CC the list since submissions now happen through a web form, but content is not much different f

Re: Meeting at ApacheCon

2015-10-10 Thread Alexandro Colorado
Any pictures from the meetup? On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 9:27 AM, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: > Hi- > > On 01 Oct 2015, at 14:43, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > > > > It seems that several of us are (or are going to be) at ApacheCon Europe > today y and tomorrow, but it's difficult to find people in the hu

Re: Starting Second Volunteer Orientation Module

2015-10-10 Thread Lalith Ramesh
I just finished this module. I also updated the wiki to include the tasks I can perform on this project. On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 5:32 PM, Kay Schenk wrote: > Thanks for the progress updates, Lalith! > > On 10/03/2015 12:00 PM, Lalith Ramesh wrote: > > I'm done with the first new volunteer orient

Re: Meeting at ApacheCon

2015-10-10 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Alexandro Colorado wrote: Any pictures from the meetup? We didn't take any, I think. But Michal did take several other pictures (thank you Michal!) which he shared on this list a few days ago. Regards, Andrea. - To unsubs

Re: building problems with recent changes -- /sal/qa/osl module

2015-10-10 Thread Kay Schenk
On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 7:32 PM, Damjan Jovanovic wrote: > The FreeBSD buildbot and 1 Linux buildbot have also been getting this, yet > 2 of us now couldn't reproduce it. > > Please provide: > * SVN revision > ​I am at svn r1707659 ​ > * full configure options > ​the configuration I use -- ./c

Hello

2015-10-10 Thread Brenda Creegan
I'm already familiar with programming in VBA (creating functions for Excel spreadsheets), but decided to switch to OpenOffice. I'm the type who will hack away at something until I figure it out. I've been using your wiki to learn how to use the API and UNO (which, I have to admit, initially left

Re: Hello

2015-10-10 Thread JZA
I advice to read the Andrew Macro (not the whole book) OpenOffice Macro explain, is more of a reference book but read the first chapters to understand the differences between VBA and AOO. I also recommend to subscribe to the AOO Forum and check the Macros subforum. https://forum.openoffice.org/en/f

Re: Extension count

2015-10-10 Thread Jörg Schmidt
> From: Dennis Roczek [mailto:dennisroc...@libreoffice.org] > is there a possibility to get the total number of extension listed at > http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/ ? Maybe listed by > category or > simply all? Are these numbers somewhere documented on a > statistics page > (similar