Re: E-mail outage resolved

2014-05-13 Thread jan iversen
On 13 May 2014 11:55, Mathias Röllig wrote: > Hello Andrea! > > All OpenOffice mailing lists were silent in the last few days. >> >> The reason was a severe outage of the Apache mail servers. Messages were >> queued but not delivered. Service will back to normal in a matter of >> hours, and we w

openExpo conference in madrid june 26.

2014-05-16 Thread jan iversen
Hi. Thanks to a initative from jza, I have been invited to give one of the keynote speeches at a one day conference in madrid june 26 http://www.openexpo.es/ The event is a free entrance event, that sadly means that I have to pay travel/hotel myself. They expect 500 participants I am currently

Re: [CODE]: proposal to integrate Google test framework as replacement for cppunit

2014-05-16 Thread jan iversen
On 16 May 2014 15:41, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > Hi, > > I am currently investigating in Google's C++ test framework [1] which > seems to be quite powerful and a good replacement for cppunit which has > not the proper license. > > My idea is to use gtest as general C++ unit testing framework in our

Re: [PROPOSAL] Assign non-committer Pootle accounts to languages

2014-05-20 Thread jan iversen
On 20 May 2014 08:32, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > At the moment, a new translation volunteer, when we create a new account > in Pootle https://translate.apache.org/ , can edit all OpenOffice > translations in all languages. This does not make sense, since Pootle > allows to assign a translator to on

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

2012-11-23 Thread jan iversen
ich contains loads of valuable information. jan On 23 November 2012 11:47, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > On Fri, 23 Nov 2012 05:22:29 -0500 > TJ Frazier wrote: > > > On 11/23/2012 04:20, jan iversen wrote: > > > I am happy for the help, Clayton has already giving me lot

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

2012-11-23 Thread jan iversen
2012 14:01, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote: > Hi, > > > On 23.11.2012 13:47, jan iversen wrote: > >> A big thank to those fighting in the trenches !!! >> >> I am still waiting for infra, but now I am available, so the minute I get >> the mail I will be on to it,

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

2012-11-23 Thread jan iversen
>> Hi, >> >> On 23.11.2012 13:47, jan iversen wrote: >> >>> A big thank to those fighting in the trenches !!! >>> >>> I am still waiting for infra, but now I am available, so the minute I get >>> the mail I will be on to it, and change to &q

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

2012-11-23 Thread jan iversen
3.11.2012 14:08, jan iversen wrote: > >> THANKSwould it not have been nice, if it was noted in the ticket... >> >> I am already looking at opie...so now I only need the mysql root password. >> >> > infra people told me on irc that it is needed that you setup

Re: [RELEASE]: new languages for AOO 3.4.1

2012-11-23 Thread jan iversen
If it is easier, we could keep the binary, and just release language packsa bit more uncomfortable but still an official release ! Jan. On 23 November 2012 15:01, Rob Weir wrote: > On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 3:39 AM, Jürgen Schmidt > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > we all know that the number of volun

Re: [RELEASE]: new languages for AOO 3.4.1

2012-11-23 Thread jan iversen
) downloaded the en-US binary and added the language pack, so technically it is possible. Jan. On 23 November 2012 15:47, Rob Weir wrote: > On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 9:30 AM, jan iversen wrote: > > If it is easier, we could keep the binary, and just release language > > packsa bit more un

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

2012-11-23 Thread jan iversen
elp at the current > moment. Are you on the IRC #dev.openoffice.org? We may discuss the > details. > > The current MediaWiki seems to be of version 1.15.5. An update is > required, but due to many reason it is not done yet. > > On 2012/11/23 22:13, jan iversen said: > &g

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

2012-11-23 Thread jan iversen
for volunteering. I do need help at the current > moment. Are you on the IRC #dev.openoffice.org? We may discuss the > details. > > The current MediaWiki seems to be of version 1.15.5. An update is > required, but due to many reason it is not done yet. > > On 2012/11/23 22:13, ja

Re: [RELEASE]: new languages for AOO 3.4.1

2012-11-23 Thread jan iversen
Good idea, that was basically what I meant...however even microsoft, does provide a slim setup, that then downloads the needed packages. jan On 23 November 2012 16:58, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > On Fri, 23 Nov 2012 16:00:38 +0100 > jan iversen wrote: > > > Following your thou

Re: [BLOG][DRAFT]: blog draft to reach out even more translators for the languages with more than 93% UI coverage

2012-11-23 Thread jan iversen
Do I need a special roller account to be able to see it (in case of yes, where are the create new user ?) ? have a nice wekend Jan. On 23 November 2012 18:17, Rob Weir wrote: > On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Jürgen Schmidt > wrote: > > On 11/23/12 5:54 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov

Re: What can we do to make our header text rotate?

2012-11-23 Thread jan iversen
Be aware that many browsers blocks javascripts from sites without a certificate. and it makes the page slower, because it has to load more urls. It would be more efficient to in php (if possible) and make it a real server issue. In php, it is quite simple, to make an algorithm, that e.g. displays

Re: [BLOG][DRAFT]: blog draft to reach out even more translators for the languages with more than 93% UI coverage

2012-11-23 Thread jan iversen
: > On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 12:27 PM, jan iversen wrote: > > Do I need a special roller account to be able to see it (in case of yes, > > where are the create new user ?) ? > > > > Try this public URL: > > http://blogs.apache.org/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=apache_openof

Re: [BLOG][DRAFT]: blog draft to reach out even more translators for the languages with more than 93% UI coverage

2012-11-23 Thread jan iversen
On 23 November 2012 23:05, Juergen Schmidt wrote: > Am Freitag, 23. November 2012 um 18:17 schrieb Rob Weir: > > On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Jürgen Schmidt > wrote: > > > On 11/23/12 5:54 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > > > > On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Jürgen Schmidt < > jogischm...@gmail.com

Re: [BLOG][DRAFT]: blog draft to reach out even more translators for the languages with more than 93% UI coverage

2012-11-23 Thread jan iversen
That was for all the open texts, help and UI. Jan. On 23 November 2012 23:19, Rob Weir wrote: > On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 5:12 PM, jan iversen wrote: > > On 23 November 2012 23:05, Juergen Schmidt > wrote: > > > >> Am Freitag, 23. November 2012 um 18:17 schrieb Rob

Re: What can we do to make our header text rotate?

2012-11-23 Thread jan iversen
On 23 November 2012 23:31, Rob Weir wrote: > On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 4:54 PM, Juergen Schmidt > wrote: > > > > Am Freitag, 23. November 2012 um 18:26 schrieb Rob Weir: > >> Currently our website has a header, controlled by > >> ooo-site/brand.mdtext, that we use to promote special events and > >

Wiki maintenance.

2012-11-25 Thread jan iversen
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 done, as well as the work ahead of us. For now, the sql scripts to: a) rem

Re: [discussion] Buildbot standard a.o or our own.

2012-12-31 Thread jan iversen
excuse me I did NOT say that anybody did a bad job! on the contrary I think a lot of people do a real big job I simply try to make the job easier. but I do understand when a polite question is unwanted. sorry for suggestion a possible improvement that will not happen again. Jan i Den 31/

Re: pootle server.

2013-05-24 Thread jan iversen
Den 24/05/2013 20.06 skrev "Claudio Filho" : > > Hi > > I tried to access the Pootle and returned the Sonar, at > https://analysis.apache.org/. Is correct it refresh the page. it is because your cached an old version. we changed the pottle technical setup yesterday. rgds Jan i > > Bests, > Claudi

Re: Migration of private list and authorizations

2012-11-04 Thread jan iversen
HI. Will we get a brief tutorial, once the SVN is moved, on how to migrate the local SVN/Git copy, without having to download it all again ? Jan. On 4 November 2012 10:41, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Just a brief note to tell everybody that the private mailing list (only > used for discussions ab

Re: [BZ]How does vote function work

2012-11-05 Thread jan iversen
It would at the same time, be nice to put a "validity" or similar on the bugs. I found bugs dated 2006, that are open, they do not seen so relevant. Or should old bugs, get an automatic upgrade, so they slowly get high-priority. just a thought. Jan. On 5 November 2012 04:11, Ji Yan wrote: > I'

Re: [early codereview / check for standards] genLang in l10ntools

2012-11-06 Thread jan iversen
translation memory, and then have a separate output class, that way the issue is not very sensitive and can be easily changed. Have a nice day Jan. On 6 November 2012 10:54, Dwayne Bailey wrote: > On 4 November 2012 12:55, jan iversen wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > I have f

Re: [early codereview / check for standards] genLang in l10ntools

2012-11-06 Thread jan iversen
I have made a description of a new workflow, where this code is only part of it. I do not know it you have seen otherwise here is a link: http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Localization_AOO/new_proposal Jan. On 6 November 2012 10:54, Dwayne Bailey wrote: > On 4 November 2012 12:55, jan iver

Re: proposal for new l10n workflow

2012-11-06 Thread jan iversen
Just to keep you all informed, that project plan has been updated and extended according to the latest request for change. Jan. http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Localization_AOO/workPlan On 30 October 2012 16:56, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > On 10/30/12 2:45 PM, jan iversen wrote: > > I

Re: [early codereview / check for standards] genLang in l10ntools

2012-11-06 Thread jan iversen
On 6 November 2012 11:58, Dwayne Bailey wrote: > On 6 November 2012 10:25, jan iversen wrote: > > > I prefer .xlif because it is easier to handle, and I do not need to store > > information (like module/source file) in comments. > > > > You still need to store so

Re: [early codereview / check for standards] genLang in l10ntools

2012-11-06 Thread jan iversen
PM, jan iversen wrote: > >> Hi. >> >> I have finished the control part of the new localization tool, and before >> I walk further down the line (writing/converting all the translations >> parts) I would like to have checked if the code is ok in terms of standard, &

Re: Draft Blog Post: You Can Help Us Improve OpenOffice by Helping Us Test

2012-11-06 Thread jan iversen
Nice pagewould it be helpfull if there was a bulleted list of examples what the QA do, being QA is a quite wide field... Jan. On 6 November 2012 17:44, Donald Whytock wrote: > Well, first of all you can take off the "(incubating)"...:) > > Other than that... > > - maybe expand SQE...Softwar

Re: [early codereview / check for standards] genLang in l10ntools

2012-11-06 Thread jan iversen
: src1.hrc src2.xcd genLang -m -t $* Thereby each single developer decides which files get scanned, and build get rid of this big tree scanning. Sorry that I forgot to mention that in my first mail. Jan. On 6 November 2012 16:12, jan iversen wrote: > HI > > Thanks for y

Re: [early codereview / check for standards] genLang in l10ntools

2012-11-06 Thread jan iversen
." I will just check with my former colleagues, maybe they did something more. I will write your list of variable names on my drawboard and try to keep it. Have a nice evening. Jan. On 6 November 2012 19:33, Andre Fischer wrote: > On 11/6/12 5:59 PM, jan iversen wrote: > >> @a

Re: Draft Blog Post: You Can Help Us Improve OpenOffice by Helping Us Test

2012-11-06 Thread jan iversen
Nov 6, 2012 at 11:53 AM, jan iversen > wrote: > > Nice pagewould it be helpfull if there was a bulleted list of > examples > > what the QA do, being QA is a quite wide field... > > > > Added. > > -Rob > > > Jan. > > > > On 6 November 20

Re: Mosaic Fun with OpenOffice Calc

2012-11-07 Thread jan iversen
AWESOME, Congratulations. Both with a nice presentation (you might not be a pro as you write, but you make your slides interesting even offline) and the calc extension ! This is by far the best use of Calc I have ever seen, from now on, whenever I see my dull sheets filled with numbers, I will th

Re: Andre: OpenOffice Build System

2012-11-08 Thread jan iversen
Thanks for the updatesbut also a huge applause to the speakers, what a work preparing those slides (even with the use of templates) !! >From here, I can only say, what a motivation factor !! Jan. On 8 November 2012 18:04, Rob Weir wrote: > Thanks, everyone, for the wonderful updates from

Re: [DISCUSS] Do we want download links for Dev Builds on a usual webpage?

2012-11-09 Thread jan iversen
Hi. In order to make life easier (more stable) for translators, I think it would be a good idea to "isolate" developer builds on dev. When we have langauge packs integrated, then we could point to them from l10n, with a thick note, stating they are only there for testing the language. In order to

Re: [DISCUSS] Do we want download links for Dev Builds on a usual webpage?

2012-11-09 Thread jan iversen
On 9 November 2012 22:50, Marcus (OOo) wrote: > Am 11/09/2012 10:30 PM, schrieb jan iversen: > > Hi. >> >> In order to make life easier (more stable) for translators, I think it >> would be a good idea to "isolate" developer builds on dev. When we have

Re: ApacheCon EU Survey

2012-11-10 Thread jan iversen
Once you get all the answers, will you then publish it (in a "statistic" form) ? I looked deeply into my pocket for apacheCon, but found it very expensive, so I would really like to hear if it was worthwhile. We have FOSDEM upcomming in europe, and many like me, may be questioning, is that how I

Re: ApacheCon EU Survey

2012-11-10 Thread jan iversen
Sorry Rob, I for one think you are doing the right thing collecting experience after a conference !! Instead of apacheCON just being what it is, you try to collect information which we can use be be better in the future +1 for that ! Jan. On 10 November 2012 18:54, Rob Weir wrote: > On Nov 10

Re: ApacheCon EU Survey

2012-11-10 Thread jan iversen
FOSDEM was open source in general and apacheCON was solely apache projects ?? Jan. On 10 November 2012 20:19, Rob Weir wrote: > On Nov 10, 2012, at 11:31 AM, jan iversen wrote: > > > Once you get all the answers, will you then publish it (in a "statistic" > > form

[QUESTION] DECLARE_LIST, ByteString

2012-11-10 Thread jan iversen
Hi Please excuse a stupid question from a newbie, but I still hope someone will give me a hint. I am currently rewriting the tools in l10n. They are using a lot of AOO internal declarations like: DECLARE_LIST ByteString with quite an extra functionality I have been looking for a "commo

Re: ApacheCon EU Survey

2012-11-10 Thread jan iversen
see below please. jan. On 10 November 2012 21:31, Rob Weir wrote: > On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 2:35 PM, jan iversen > wrote: > > I agree with your thoughts. > > > > Except there is a lot of ocean between those events, I intent to visit > > FOSDEM but being

Re: a german speaking Flyer

2012-11-10 Thread jan iversen
VERY nice flyer, nice work, I have one comment though, should we not state which Linux is supported or do we generally support all linux ?? Jan. On 10 November 2012 22:17, Jörg Schmidt wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to inform that some members of the German community have > created a flyer a

Re: a german speaking Flyer

2012-11-10 Thread jan iversen
I think that is a good idea, the flyer is a nice summary and could be used at any local events, or simply as a press release. Just to air a thought, should we make a directory trunk/main/documentation, and use the l10n process to translate the documents ? As we anyhow redefine the l10n process, n

Re: a german speaking Flyer

2012-11-10 Thread jan iversen
See below please. On 10 November 2012 22:42, Rob Weir wrote: > On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 4:28 PM, jan iversen > wrote: > > I think that is a good idea, the flyer is a nice summary and could be > used > > at any local events, or simply as a press release. > > > >

Re: a german speaking Flyer

2012-11-10 Thread jan iversen
I like your "maybe", but as I see it, there are no such thing as "apache" supervising what we do, "apache" is a community and we are all part of it, so what we do as a community have to be correct. I was just waving a flag, because I do not think that we support all linux variants, and I have been

Re: [QUESTION] DECLARE_LIST, ByteString

2012-11-10 Thread jan iversen
defined somewhere, do you know where ? THANKS for helping me. Jan. On 11 November 2012 00:04, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: > Hi Jan, > > On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 08:50:30PM +0100, jan iversen wrote: > > Hi > > > > Please excuse a stupid question from a newbie, but I

Re: [QUESTION] DECLARE_LIST, ByteString

2012-11-10 Thread jan iversen
Got it..".what you dont have in your head you must in your fingers (to reply)" : danish saying. I did not know opengrok, seems like a nice tool. thanks for helping. On 11 November 2012 00:30, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote: > On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 12:18:04AM +0100, jan

Re: Question ad FOSDEM 2013

2012-11-11 Thread jan iversen
Hi. I am looking at preparing a talk about the new l10n / build process especially managing the workflow. This is done in cooperation with juergen and andre. I will send it later as a proposal. Call for papers to Main track is december 1, so we do have some time left. Speaks/presentation/discuss

[question] flex and shortcoming

2012-11-11 Thread jan iversen
Hi. I would like to hear your opinion on the following problem: The l10n tools uses flex, which is quite nice, however I have found two problems with flex: - the .l sources defines YYLMAX, but the generated .c source declares yytext[YYLMAX] BEFORE the definition code it sucked in. I have verifie

Re: Question ad FOSDEM 2013

2012-11-11 Thread jan iversen
So you are saying "hold your horses" to me and others getting ready for FOSDEM ?? I have been talking with juergen, to ensure that I helped the community and not (as it happened before) put my foot to hard down on turf "belonging" to someone else. Can you please spend a few words on what the corr

Re: Question ad FOSDEM 2013

2012-11-11 Thread jan iversen
support. Jan. On 11 November 2012 22:45, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > On 11/11/2012 jan iversen wrote: > >> So you are saying "hold your horses" to me and others getting ready for >> FOSDEM ?? >> > > I'm saying that we have a talk submission deadline for Apa

Re: [Templates site]Cannot register

2012-11-11 Thread jan iversen
I can just confirm that I have the same problem. To me it seems as if the site changes (from incubator) inhibeted the sending of mails. I trace the html post, and that seems to be ok. rgds Jan I. On 11 November 2012 23:28, RGB ES wrote: > An user on the ES mailing list have problems registering

Re: [question] flex and shortcoming

2012-11-12 Thread jan iversen
hi see below please On 12 November 2012 09:30, Andre Fischer wrote: > On 11.11.2012 22:06, jan iversen wrote: > >> Hi. >> >> I would like to hear your opinion on the following problem: >> >> The l10n tools uses flex, which is quite nice, however I

Re: [question] flex and shortcoming

2012-11-12 Thread jan iversen
ote: > On 12.11.2012 14:02, jan iversen wrote: > >> hi >> >> see below please >> >> On 12 November 2012 09:30, Andre Fischer wrote: >> >> On 11.11.2012 22:06, jan iversen wrote: >>> >>> Hi. >>>> >>>> I would li

Re: [question] flex and shortcoming

2012-11-13 Thread jan iversen
! Jan. On 12 November 2012 20:11, Rob Weir wrote: > On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 12:14 PM, jan iversen > wrote: > > Hi Andre. > > > > What I find "funny" is that in Ubuntu, I dont even get a warning about > > multiple declared symbols in windows I get the warn

Re: Planned entry for Apache OOO Blog

2012-11-13 Thread jan iversen
+1 a very well written article, I share your conclusions and polite way of explaning it. Well done. As you write going the other way (use source from derivates in AOO) might prove more difficult, just alone the license issues...is there a rule which licenses are accepted as equal to ours (I think

Re: [early codereview / check for standards] genLang in l10ntools

2012-11-14 Thread jan iversen
Hi soon is real soon, I have already had a mail conversation with juergen, and I understand that Dwayne first of all has a new release, and secondly is interested in some of the ideas I had. Jan. On 14 November 2012 13:38, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > On 06/11/2012 jan iversen wrote: > >

Re: ApacheCon EU Survey

2012-11-14 Thread jan iversen
On 14 November 2012 09:00, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > On 10/11/2012 jan iversen wrote: > >> has anyone thought about making events that did not cost >> 600,- EUR + travel/hotel etc. ?? >> > > Yes, free (or with a nominal fee, like 10 EUR) events used to be the nor

Re: Best practices for contributing code to both Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice

2012-11-14 Thread jan iversen
+1 in general to your ideas, it would be VERY nice to have an easy way, and the more we all do to make it easy the more developers will work for both projects. I do however have one question. Regarding the mark #AOOCONTRIBUTION. It an AOO committer take the code and integrate it, would that not be

Re: Best practices for contributing code to both Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice

2012-11-14 Thread jan iversen
On 14 November 2012 20:01, Rob Weir wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 1:57 PM, jan iversen > wrote: > > +1 in general to your ideas, it would be VERY nice to have an easy way, > and > > the more we all do to make it easy the more developers will work for both > > proj

Re: Best practices for contributing code to both Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice

2012-11-14 Thread jan iversen
I learned something again tonight. Since there is an audit trail then your idea is perfect and first of all easy to handle. Jan. On 14 November 2012 20:21, Rob Weir wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 2:12 PM, jan iversen > wrote: > > On 14 November 2012 20:01, Rob Weir wrote: >

[Question] generated source files with languages (l10n process) overwriting original files.

2012-11-14 Thread jan iversen
While programming the l10n translation, I have stumbled across something which I do not know is a real or theoretical problem. I need an opinion from people with more experience. Description of the current situation: When you run configure with e.g. "--with-lang=da", all languages Are inserted in

Re: Open sources days denmark.

2012-11-15 Thread jan iversen
On 15 November 2012 15:13, Louis Suárez-Potts wrote: > Hi, > On 12-11-15, at 08:07 , jan iversen wrote: > > > Is this a place we want to show up ? > > > > http://www.opensourcedays.org/2012/ > > > > It is pretty big in scandinavia. > > > > Ja

Re: Look at the pretty branches

2012-11-15 Thread jan iversen
Apart from the branches it seems we have a directory called "trunk-orig", that only seems to contain 3 files, are they important ?? +1 to remove branches when they are integrated, it gives a lot better overview. Jan. On 15 November 2012 13:19, Rob Weir wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 7:03 PM,

Re: Look at the pretty branches

2012-11-15 Thread jan iversen
:57, Rob Weir wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 3:09 PM, jan iversen > wrote: > > Apart from the branches it seems we have a directory called "trunk-orig", > > that only seems to contain 3 files, are they important ?? > > > > +1 to remove branches when th

Re: Look at the pretty branches

2012-11-15 Thread jan iversen
On 15 November 2012 22:16, Rob Weir wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 4:00 PM, jan iversen > wrote: > > +1 to move. > > > > But please help me out with a simple question, if I delete a > file/directory > > in SVN, I assume it is only deleted from that version, so

bugzilla.

2012-11-15 Thread jan iversen
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.

Re: bugzilla.

2012-11-16 Thread jan iversen
On 16 November 2012 00:01, Regina Henschel wrote: > Hi Jan, > > jan iversen schrieb: > > Hi. >> >> I have a new mail account, which I have created in bugzilla. >> > > Why? because I wanted to use my apache account. > > > >> Is there a way

Re: New committer: Jan Iversen

2012-11-16 Thread jan iversen
Thanks for the promotion. CMS / Pootle works, and I am trying hard to make a correct loaf file. Any idea when SVN will be relocated ? Jan On 15 November 2012 23:58, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > The Apache OpenOffice PMC announces the addition of committer > Jan Iversen, jani@ apache.org &

Re: Let's think about a Call for Dev Volunteers

2012-11-16 Thread jan iversen
I have added a couple of comments below, based on my small (but to some noticeable) experience. Jan On 16 November 2012 15:39, Rob Weir wrote: > As you have probably seen, we're currently doing a call for QA > volunteer, supported by a blog post, the website and social media. > They all direct

Re: Request to provide windows install-arc zip download on buildbot.

2012-11-16 Thread jan iversen
It is ok with mo, but would it not be enough for the build, just to do a en-US version and then language packs ?? assuming of course that this approach saves space. jan On 16 November 2012 14:58, Herbert Duerr wrote: > Hi! > > > On 16.11.2012 09:18, Zhe Liu wrote: > >> Hi, >> Who can help to ma

Re: Best practices for contributing code to both Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice

2012-11-16 Thread jan iversen
There is a nice example of cooperation on l10n, where the project lead of libreOffice uses the list to have a volunteer translate non-AOO files to greek (at least they do not carry the AOO license header). At least to avoid misunderstandings, I think Rob´s thought are highly required so everybody

Re: New committer: Jan Iversen

2012-11-18 Thread jan iversen
t; > > > From: Andrea Pescetti > >To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > >Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2012 1:27 PM > >Subject: Re: New committer: Jan Iversen > > > >On 16/11/2012 Rob Weir wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at

Re: [Mwiki] New accounts by invitation only?

2012-11-20 Thread jan iversen
+1 from my sideand +1 to NOT wait 72 hours, we need to block it. Jan. On 20 November 2012 13:00, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann wrote: > Hi, > > > 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 d

Re: [Mwiki] New accounts by invitation only?

2012-11-20 Thread jan iversen
Hi. I have just received a bit strange e-mail from a Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com with the content: May I suggest you subscribe to the dev list? To subscribe to the list, send a message to: -- Ian Ofqual Accredited IT Qualifications (The Schools ITQ) www.theINGOTs.org +44 (0)1827 305940

Re: [Mwiki] New accounts by invitation only?

2012-11-20 Thread jan iversen
to wiki maintenance). I have learned what i JIRA ticket is, but that is about my level of knowledge at the moment, meaning for that part I need help. Jan. On 20 November 2012 22:39, tj wrote: > On 11/20/2012 12:06, jan iversen wrote: > >> Hi. >> >> >> Rob: >

Re: [Mwiki] New accounts by invitation only?

2012-11-20 Thread jan iversen
because it seemed nobody else was interested, and my biggest interest happens to be infrastructure and let other people do the real AOO programs. Jan. On 20 November 2012 23:01, Alexandro Colorado wrote: > On 11/20/12, tj wrote: > > On 11/20/2012 12:06, jan iversen wrote: > >>

Re: MWiki anti-spam pages

2012-11-20 Thread jan iversen
And further to that. We use release 1.15.5 from 2010-7-28. The current release is 1.20, and scanning through the different release notes, a lot of work has gone into security issues in the later version, including closing a number of old loopholes in PHP. Jan. On 20 November 2012 23:09, Rob Wei

Re: [Mwiki] New accounts by invitation only?

2012-11-20 Thread jan iversen
exactly the same on those as on dev. But of course if it causing problems that I changed my e-mail address, then I need to find another solution. have a nice evening. Jan. On 20 November 2012 18:17, Ian Lynch wrote: > On 20 November 2012 17:06, jan iversen wrote: > > > Hi. &g

Re: [RELEASE] AOO.next = AOO 4.0

2012-11-21 Thread jan iversen
+1 for 4.0, graduation is a very good argument. And thanks for volunteering, you have a big job ahead of you. Jan. On 21 November 2012 14:24, Shenfeng Liu wrote: > +1 for 4.0. > We really should have a big release after graduation. > > - Shenfeng (Simon) > > > 2012/11/21 Jürgen Schmidt > > >

Re: 25,733,485

2012-11-21 Thread jan iversen
Wow, that is really impressing jan. On 21 November 2012 17:47, Rob Weir wrote: > Sorry, I failed to announce that we hit the 25 million download mark > last Thursday. We're now almost at 26M. > > See: http://www.openoffice.org/stats/downloads.html > > -Rob >

Re: Bad press

2012-11-21 Thread jan iversen
If I may say so, based on my experience, we should not go too much into details about versions, this is about having a heterogeneous environment, something that most IT departments try to avoid at all cost, and AOO just happened to be the excuse for making the structure slimmer. In my opinion a res

Re: [Mwiki] New accounts by invitation only?

2012-11-21 Thread jan iversen
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 community agrees to it, using the lazy consensus,

Re: Apache OpenOffice: Call for Marketing Volunteers

2012-11-21 Thread jan iversen
You are doing an extremely fine job, recruiting new volunteers, and as we all can see it works (maybe we should get a couple more developers). Is somebody doing a follow-up in the form of registering something like. - how many volunteers registered their interest, - how many are are still active

Re: Apache OpenOffice: Call for Marketing Volunteers

2012-11-21 Thread jan iversen
the l10n.openoffice.org, still has the old banner ? Should I do something, I thought that when someone updated the master template, it was all changed ?? I also tested qa.openoffice.org which are ok, in respect of the banner, but has a message saying that the page is outdated, and the page it lin

Re: [RELEASE] AOO.next = AOO 4.0

2012-11-21 Thread jan iversen
On 21 November 2012 21:30, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > >> I got the impression that the majority would support a >> 4.0 version as our next release. >> > > So do I. > > > Besides the next major release we should also continue the discussion on >> further language packs based

Re: [Mwiki] New accounts by invitation only?

2012-11-21 Thread jan iversen
thanks for your reply. On 21 November 2012 21:17, TJ Frazier wrote: > 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

Re: Bad press

2012-11-21 Thread jan iversen
how many others like it...that would in my opinion be to fail the issue and do no good. Jan On 21 November 2012 22:47, Rob Weir wrote: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 1:54 PM, jan iversen wrote: > > If I may say so, based on my experience, we should not go too much into > > d

Re: Apache OpenOffice: Call for Marketing Volunteers

2012-11-21 Thread jan iversen
) Would it not be better if l10n was changed to use the standard template ? Sorry for being a newbie, but I prefer to ask a question instead of ruining a site ! Jan. On 21 November 2012 23:07, Andrea Pescetti wrote: > jan iversen wrote: > >> the l10n.openoffice.org, still has th

Re: [Mwiki] New accounts by invitation only?

2012-11-22 Thread jan iversen
See below please. On 22 November 2012 09:27, 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 s

Fwd: [Mwiki] New accounts by invitation only?

2012-11-22 Thread jan iversen
-- Forwarded message -- From: jan iversen Date: 22 November 2012 13:53 Subject: Re: [Mwiki] New accounts by invitation only? To: Daniel Shahaf I will look at the fail2ban, thanks for the advice. Sorry I misunderstood the SQL removal, I will do exactly as stated (but make a

Re: [Question] generated source files with languages (l10n process) overwriting original files.

2012-11-22 Thread jan iversen
ber 2012 um 21:47 schrieb jan iversen: > > While programming the l10n translation, I have stumbled across something > > which I do not know is a real or theoretical problem. I need an opinion > > from people with more experience. > > > > Description of the current situ

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

2012-11-22 Thread jan iversen
Hi. see below please. On 22 November 2012 19:56, C wrote: > Hi everyone. > > TJ pointed me at the Wiki Spam problem. I can try to lend a hand. > A hand is always welcome. > > Who is responsible for the Wiki backend? I can help out with a few > changes, but I need to get in touch with whoeve

Re: Apache OpenOffice: Call for Marketing Volunteers

2012-11-22 Thread jan iversen
dable, and "production", which I dont quite get...is it just calling up the url for me ? Jan. On 21 November 2012 23:24, Rob Weir wrote: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 5:19 PM, jan iversen wrote: > > Help me out please... > > > > 1) I thought imacat had helped me update l10n to

Re: Look at the pretty branches

2012-11-22 Thread jan iversen
I have added a new branch "l10n", to test the new l10n tools and make makefile/build changes without disturbing the main branch. The wiki page "source code" is updated. Jan. On 22 November 2012 16:23, Juergen Schmidt wrote: > > > > Am Donnerstag, 15. November 2

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

2012-11-23 Thread jan iversen
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, so I can get access, as far as I can see it

Re: [RELEASE]: new languages for AOO 3.4.1

2012-11-23 Thread jan iversen
On 23 November 2012 09:39, Jürgen Schmidt wrote: > Hi, > > we all know that the number of volunteers helping with translation is > growing and we would like to make new languages as soon as possible > available. This is important for two reason, first to make AOO available > in further languages