January 2005 - Openoffice-os4 - Studentersamfundet

The list, new update
by Christophe Ochal 10 Jan '05

10 Jan '05

Hello, Available persons for head honcho role: Amon_Re "I'm not experianced in managing large projects, but i have the determination to get this thing rolling. My experiances involve php coding, i have a fair understanding of C, and i also do installerscripts. That's it really." Rincewynd: "Not sure how I can help at this point, but here's an overview of my work-experience: - 5 years of 4GL programming. (No C/C++ alas, so I can't be helping programming); - 7 years of information systems design; - about the same (7 years) of database design (relational databases); - 2 years IT-consultancy; - 1.5 years (not fulltime) of managing small programming projects; - Too many years of writing development documentation (Functional Design, Technical Design, End-user docs); - I speak Dutch, English, French and German. I've taken a closer look at my schedule, and I'd like to make myself available for the following: - 'replacement' manager. At the moment I don't have the time to take part of the management of this project on me, but this'll change in a few months. So if one of the to be appointed managers has to leave in the future I'll prolly be available. I do have management experience, tho not for a project this big. - PR/Community management. The user community will want to hear about the projects' progress. If we decide to provide periodical status-updates to said community, I'm willing to put these together. There will likely also be a myriad of other questions from the user community that will need to be addressed." Mark: "I'll probably regret this, but I'll put myself forward to HELP with the project management: First of all I think this is way to big a project for 1 person to manage it (especially as it will be done on a voluntary basis) and so if possible the project should be broken down ito several tasks (or sub-projects) and each sub-project has its own manager, with possibly one co-ordinator at the top level. About me: I am currently a Systems Manager at The Open University, this involves (amongst other things) managing IT projects (never done a coding project though). I'm also one of the site developers at AW.net, I have (in my university years ;-) ) done some C, but its not up to much currently." No details available on Argo atm Kind regards -- Amon_Re Christophe Ochal Hoge Buizemont 168 9500 Geraardsbergen, Belgium Mobile: 0032 (0)479/46 45 74 http://www.kefren.be http://www.metalfest.be

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dev@porting.openoffice.org
by Christophe Ochal 10 Jan '05

10 Jan '05

Hello, I suggest we wait for further replies to dev(a)porting.openoffice.org untill after the vote. I will keep the vote open for 24 hours, wich should be plentifull for everyone to cast their vote, does everyone agree? Kind regards -- Amon_Re Christophe Ochal Hoge Buizemont 168 9500 Geraardsbergen, Belgium Mobile: 0032 (0)479/46 45 74 http://www.kefren.be http://www.metalfest.be

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Voting booth
by Christophe Ochal 09 Jan '05

09 Jan '05

Hello, In order to enable us to vote in peace, i created a hidden forum on amigadev, only visible to members of the group "openoffice" in order to add all of you i need to know your nick on amigadev. Please respond asap Kind regards -- Amon_Re Christophe Ochal Hoge Buizemont 168 9500 Geraardsbergen, Belgium Mobile: 0032 (0)479/46 45 74 http://www.kefren.be http://www.metalfest.be

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I: [OO.org-OS4] Re: The list, updated
by AP 09 Jan '05

09 Jan '05

> Good night to all. > > I'm Luke Giusti of Amigaplatform.com (www.amigaplatform.com) and all my > staff is ready to start with this project of porting. > > The staff is composed by 3 active members and 5 amiga's friends. > > We are not programmers but we are ready for betatesting, icons, graphics, > documentations, localizations into italian language. > > Regards Luke. > > www.amigaplatform.com > info(a)amigaplatform.com > >

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New Logo, please check it out
by David Doyle 09 Jan '05

09 Jan '05

Thoughts please on this new logo http://amigaworld.net/tmp/amiopenofficelogo.png I dropped the .org as it would look silly on a site that doesn't use openoffice.org as its domain. The name is easily changed should we decide on a project name. Regards David Doyle (DaveyD) Owner/Webmaster Amigaworld.net

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Human resources
by Christophe Ochal 09 Jan '05

09 Jan '05

Hello, Could everyone check the human resources list & see if it is complete: Management & Website/forum: Amon_Re DaveyD SVN Server & Mailinglist: Olegil Coders: Alexw Olegil hnl_dk EntilZha Rogue RockDemon ArchProgrammer MystikShadows turboalan mausle SieGeL Betatesters, Documentation, translators: Ferry Nibunnoichi Graphics: Mason Kind regards -- Amon_Re Christophe Ochal Hoge Buizemont 168 9500 Geraardsbergen, Belgium Mobile: 0032 (0)479/46 45 74 http://www.kefren.be http://www.metalfest.be

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Management
by Christophe Ochal 09 Jan '05

09 Jan '05

Hello, I propose we go the commité route for the project management, with 2 senior devs & 2 managers. One senior dev for linux One for AOS A rescource manager And finally one manager who makes the final calls based on feedback of the other 3. Kind regards -- Amon_Re Christophe Ochal Hoge Buizemont 168 9500 Geraardsbergen, Belgium Mobile: 0032 (0)479/46 45 74 http://www.kefren.be http://www.metalfest.be

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Various points
by Nibunnoichi 08 Jan '05

08 Jan '05

Nii Hao All! I've switched back from digest mode: i've never had a mailing list in digest mode and i just discovered to hate it :D Here're some excerpts from the digests: 1. i second the choice of a wiki, it's a great system! 2. if you think a forum+ml is too much, we could go with the list and use the forum justo for public announcements or something like weekly status updates. 3. please, PLEASE!, don't call it AmigaOffice or something alike, don't us do the same error of Amizilla: here we have a great brand we can use for free and it's a big selling point: let's use it! (btw, OpenOffice.org is the real name, not OpenOffice :)) 4. SVN vs. CVS: although i'm one of the fans of SVN i believe that if you guys feel more comfortable with CVS and it will let us to start rapidly, then you should use it. In the meanwhile SVN could be a side project (in a SourceForge perspective too...) 5. the fact that at some point we'll have Python (and APR too), really makes me happy (ok, i admit this point isn't much related to project organization :D) -- Nibunnoichi ICQ: 19981296 http://www.furinkan.org http://www.takahashi.it

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Logo proposal :)
by Nibunnoichi 08 Jan '05

08 Jan '05

Nii Hao All! Well... i know that it's too early to think about a logo but i had an idea knockin' on my mind since yesterday and i couldn't resist to test it :) It's just a proof of concept, i uploaded it here: http://www.furinkan.org/a_oo_big.png (this one is quite large) http://www.furinkan.org/a_oo_small.png (800px width) -- Nibunnoichi ICQ: 19981296 http://www.furinkan.org http://www.takahashi.it

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Re: [AmiZilla] Re: [OO.org-OS4] Re: status update please (Cross post)
by Max Larsson 08 Jan '05

08 Jan '05

Jeff Shepherd wrote: Just a reply to forward it to the openoffice list, because it doesn't seem to apear from you there. Semms that you have to be on the lists. > Max Larsson wrote: > > >>Hans-Joerg Frieden wrote: >> >>>Max Larsson wrote: >>> >>> >>>>For my part i am trying to build the nspr under OS3.9 running inside >>>>UAE. By the way i am documneting how to set up a development >> >>envirnoment >> >>>>for OS3.9. >>> >>>Isn't NSPR completed yet for AmiZilla? > > > It is pretty close to being complete. I haven't worked on it for a bit > but functionally, it should be nearly there. The major differences which > will have to be worked on for OS4 is shared library support. NSPR wants > functions which can return pointers to functions or variables from a > shared library. Obviously that isn't something that is standard for > AmigaOS shared libraries. I hacked on a2ixlibrary to allow for shared > library support without using ixemul.library. I also put support in > a2ixlibrary for returning pointers to functions and variables as well. > > The gcc patch was to support -L arguments to find shared components > created by a2ixlibrary (the default was a fixed location). Those > components shouldn't be needed for OS4 since it looks like it has better > shared library support than OS 3.x. > > I don't have a OS4 box to do any testing with it. >

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