Welcome to the team

[Chris Rees]

On 30 July 2011 03:50, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 01:46:31 +0300, George Liaskos wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 9:52 PM, George Liaskos
>> <geo.liaskos at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 9:36 PM, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at freebsd.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 23:10:17 +0300, George Liaskos wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at freebsd.org>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> First, welcome to the list and thank you for your subscription :).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Just a few notes on how this works.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This team has been created in order to have the office related ports
>>>>>> maintained by a pool of commiters and contributors rather then just
>>>>>> depending on a single person.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The other goal of the team is to try to keep those ports quite
>>>>>> consistent
>>>>>> between each other, we can now easily discuss about what option to
>>>>>> activate
>>>>>> by default or not, and try to apply the same rules to all the subset
>>>>>> of
>>>>>> ports maintained by the team.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> concerning the commit rules, except if someone has an objection, I
>>>>>> think
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> best for the team is to be "help yourself" driven, which mean everyone
>>>>>> can
>>>>>> do the work without others approval, based on the idea that anyone is
>>>>>> smart
>>>>>> enough to discuss big changes before doing it :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I already gives all the ports I maintained which I considered as
>>>>>> office
>>>>>> related to the list (including the associated PRs :)) feel free to add
>>>>>> yours, or those from ports@ if relevant.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What is in the office@ TODO list (in fact was in my todo list) and has
>>>>>> been
>>>>>> started and not finished :
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - Adding locales thesaurus ports (I think I have added all the
>>>>>> possible
>>>>>> ones)
>>>>>> - Adding locales hyphenation ports (I think I have added all the
>>>>>> possible
>>>>>> ones)
>>>>>> - Adding the hunspell dictionaries ports (lots of them are missing and
>>>>>> need
>>>>>> to be added)
>>>>>> - Update the libreoffice to 3.4.2, George Liaskos Has already done
>>>>>> some
>>>>>> nice
>>>>>> work about this (I already forwarded this to the mailing list) but I
>>>>>> haven't
>>>>>> had time to integrate his patch yet (there is a git repo here :
>>>>>> https://github.com/bapt/libreoffice-ports if need pgj@ has the commit
>>>>>> access
>>>>>> to it, I can add the access to other people from the list just ask :))
>>>>>> we
>>>>>> can also decide that other places are suitable for that.
>>>>>> - Be able to provide l10n package for libreoffice, pgj@ has already
>>>>>> done
>>>>>> a
>>>>>> nice work about this, but they are created "the ugly way" splitted the
>>>>>> big
>>>>>> fat libreoffice package. with 3.4 libreoffice uses translation-toolkit
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> buit his l10n files, I'm sure we should be able to build them directly
>>>>>> from
>>>>>> source this needs to be work on if it is possible.
>>>>>> - Make use of local hyphen/thesaurus/dicts for libreoffice and maybe
>>>>>> others
>>>>>> (OOo?) to reduce the size of the generated package (easier for users
>>>>>> to
>>>>>> download) and to be able for users to have the last available
>>>>>> dictionary
>>>>>> for
>>>>>> their language.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Now please add/discuss your own project to that list, remove the maybe
>>>>>> crazy
>>>>>> idea I got etc.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> regards,
>>>>>> Bapt
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>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> FYI LibreOffice 3.4.2.2 is down :)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> https://plus.google.com/photos/114339071175273147770/albums/5634488140081530849/5634495501462444482
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> George
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> And upgrading to 3.4.2.3 break it :)
>>>> FYI 3.4.2.3 is going to be announced as the official 3.4.2
>>>>
>>>> Bapt
>>>>
>>>
>>> Which module is causing problems? If your compile breaks at svx,
>>> remove "--with-lang" from the Makefile.
>>>
>>
>> I 've compiled 3.4.2.3 succesfully with the following change at the
>> Makefile.
>>
>> -LOCALIZED_LANG?=       en-US
>> +LOCALIZED_LANG?=
>
> Same here now. but post-install also needs some work.
>
> Glad to see we may be on time for the official 3.4.2 release :)
>
> I proposed the following policy for libreoffice release: always keep only
> one ports in the port tree: the officially entrerpise ready version from
> upstream? which mean currently 3.3.3 and as soon as the announcement is
> made, 3.4.2 will become the official enterprise so we will switch at the
> same time.
>
> opinions ?
>

Personally I despise the -devel ports, because one invariably becomes
out of date as the maintainer struggles to keep both in sync.

We are not Debian, and the ports tree IS tagged at releases, so I see
no problem with keeping the switches in sync with the 'production'
version.

Chris