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On Mon, Dec 27, 2021 at 4:46 AM Peter Kovacs <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Eduard Struber, > > > My name is Peter Kovacs. I live in Germany and joined the project in > 2016. I am part of the Project Management Comitee, which handles some > managing aspects of the project. > > I mostly help others, with the time left I try to develop some > improvements on Apache OpenOffice. As much as my time and skill allows. > > On 26.12.21 18:44, Edward Struber wrote: > > I am 75 years young, retired with many happy hours coding in C++. > Thank you for your interest in Apache OpenOffice. > > American English is my native language. My mother used her Masters > degree > > to teach English at Reagan High School in Austin, Texas. My father was > an > > Electrical Engineer who made his career in the U.S. Air Force. Were you > > willing to permit me to proofread and edit articles, I could reasonably > be > > expected to clarify instructions and grammar in the articles and C++ > > program notes submitted by persons who are not native English speakers. > Sounds great, everyone is welcome. And everyone can help here. Your long > standing c++ skills are of value since the code is old, and we are at > least 10 years behind modern way of coding. > > Please send me a submission that is not clear in its instructions, and > let > > me send you back my edited version to see if my changes are an > enhancement > > to the original. If it looks to you that my changes help, then send me > > some more work to proofread and improve. > > I did omit the "84" from my gmail address once, so I know to slow down > and > > sleep on my work before re-reading any of my corrections before > submitting > > my edits to Apache Open Office. I also expect that other volunteers will > > be checking what ever I may submit. > > We do not really have a workflow that assign work, since we work on > voluntary bases. However I try to explain as good as I can where you > find all you need to make a decision where your skills fit in best. > Remeber we work all as equals. There is no rank or hierarchy here. We > participate together on this project in order to create something for all. > > We talk per email mailing list about development on > [email protected] (short dev or [email protected]). Best to subscribe > there and and receive all developer mails. Of course you can send > questions per mail there. Also if you want to discuss Ideas, you can > send a mail there. Since a lot of people will receive this email, do not > send Addresses or phone numbers. > > I recommend to start building OpenOffice as a first experience by > yourself. A guide you find bellow at [1]. For windows please give a hint > on the development mailing list so fellow developers can provide the > files you need. If you have issues please ask on the mailing list. If > you have improvements please request an account for the "Mwiki" with > your preferred username and password on the > [email protected] list. An admin will create the account > for you. > > for Contribution you can use github.com as a low entry point. Sign up > there for an account. Our Project can be found at [2]. You can take a > look at pull request [3] and review them and give your feedback. If you > want to add your work we recommend to create a pull request and it goes > into the review process as the ones you see. A guide how this can be > done you find at [4]. > > We handle Tickets on our ticketsystem bugzilla [5]. There you find a lot > what we need to test if they are still an issue or not. Or we need to > fix them. The things we really need to work on you find at [6]. You can > read without an account. If you want to edit request an account at > [email protected]. You will need to provide an email. > > I hope this is enough to get you a a first overview into the project. We > have gathered on our "Help wanted" page [7] more Information. I hope to > read from you in future. If there are questions please ask them on dev. > > > All the best > > Peter > > Links: > > [1] https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide_AOO > (This is the general guide at the end you find detailed instructions per > environment) > > [2] https://github.com/apache/openoffice > > [3] https://github.com/apache/openoffice/pulls > > [4] > > https://docs.github.com/en/pull-requests/collaborating-with-pull-requests/proposing-changes-to-your-work-with-pull-requests/creating-a-pull-request > > [5] https://bz.apache.org/ooo/ > > [6] > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Blocker+issues+4.2.0 > > [7] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/Help+Wanted > > -- > This is the Way! http://www.apache.org/theapacheway/index.html >
