$ORIGIN support in rtld for FreeBSD

Now FreeBSD (as of 8-CURRENT) supports $ORIGIN, $OSNAME, $OSREL and $PLATFORM.

...The $ORIGIN, $OSNAME, $OSREL and $PLATFORM tokens
are supported.... It was done by Konstantin Belousov, reviewed by Alexander Kabaev, and tested by Nakata Maho and pho.

See also my very old PR PR88117.

OpenJDK6 on FreeBSD

After a lot of efforts by the FreeBSD community members,
now we have a OpenJDK6 port in the ports tree.
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/java/openjdk6/

I've never tested for OpenOffice.org, though :-(

Thanks

2008 QA activity report Italian language project part II Andrea Pescetti

http://qa.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=11845

From: Andrea Pescetti
...
Maho NAKATA wrote:
> From: Andrea Pescetti ...
>> Our (the Italian QA team's) reports are already published, in Italian,
>> in our monthly newsletter archived at http://www.plio.it/
>
> I'm interested in this!
> In Newsletter mensile PLIO - Ottobre 2008?
> Newsletter mensile PLIO - Novembre 2008?
> > OpenOffice.org 2.4.2 in italiano
> Which subject?

The newsletters from 2008 talking about QA activities are:
http://www.plio.it/node/29
http://www.plio.it/node/30
http://www.plio.it/node/32
http://www.plio.it/node/40
http://www.plio.it/node/49
http://www.plio.it/node/51
generally in the release announcements (like "OpenOffice.org 2.4.2 in
italiano") or in test announcements ("Test QA").

> where I can find Newsletter mensile PLIO - Decembere 2008?

It wasn't issued due to festivities. The January 2009 issue is now on
our website.

> Great input! "On the same day" is very difficut for Japanese.
> How many testers, typically?

Around 20 in the group. Every time, 10-15 of them are active in the
Release Candidate phase.

Regards,
Andrea Pescetti - Italian N-L Project Lead.
--------------------------------------------------------

Great. Publishing a news letter is also very nice.
10-15 is quite large number in release phase!

If you report something about QA please send to [e-mail] mailing list.

"Languagepacks for Mac, pleast test & give feedback" by Christian Lohmaier

http://qa.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=11803
Christian Lohmaier
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Languagepacks for Mac, pleast test & give feedback

Hi *,

to get things going again, I uploaded a new set of languagepacks for testing.

Please test and give feedback, either on the list, or on the spec-page:

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_languagepacks

torrents available here:

http://izbot.dyndns.org:6969/

The languagepacks are based on DEV300_m40 (wrt. localization status),
but should basically work on any OOo 3.x version

ciao
Christian
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Original mail
Torrents
Wiki: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_languagepacks

2008 QA report: Italian community (by Andrea Pescetti)

Here is another report from Italian community by Andrea Pescetti

http://qa.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=11791
--------------------------------------------
Our (the Italian QA team's) reports are already published, in Italian,
in our monthly newsletter archived at http://www.plio.it/

In brief, in 2008 we coordinated QA on all Italian OpenOffice.org
releases and in most cases managed to distribute them on the same day
the English versions were announced. Our testers are growing in number
and expertise and this permits more thorough testing and quick reactions
in case of blocking issues.

Regards,
Andrea Pescetti - Italian N-L Project Lead.
-------------------------------------------

Great report! They published in the same day - it is very important and very difficult.
Unfortunately their report is written in Italian, so I cannot
read at all :( I assume other communities report in their
native lang :)

How to use compiz on FreeBSD 7-amd64+RADEON X1650 with Xorg 7.4

Note: it won't work with i386. Please let me know if it works for you.

1. Update to 7-stable (both kernel and userland)

As drm information for RADEON X1650 (etc) are not updated, in the 7.1-RELEASE, first, update the kernel and userland to later than SVN rev 187021 (2009/1/10) version.

2. patch /etc/X11/xorg.conf
--- xorg.conf 2009-02-03 19:28:25.000000000 +0900
+++ xorg.conf 2009-02-05 15:55:41.000000000 +0900
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
+ Option "AIGLX" "true"
EndSection

Section "Files"
----------------------------------
In my case hald somehow doesn't work well, so I added
> Option "AllowEmptyInput" "false"
as well.

3. install compiz
portinstall x11-wm/compiz-fusion
portinstall x11-wm/emerald

4. start compiz+emerald by:
$ LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=1 compiz --replace ccp &
$ emerald --replace &

5. logs

Xorg.0.log.amd64.X1650(/var/log/Xorg.log)7-stable amd64+RADEON X1650



Xorg.0.log.i386.X1650.DRI.failed (/var/log/Xorg.log) 7-stable i386+RADEON X1650 (does not work, screen is garbled)


Xorg.0.log.i386.X1650.noDRI (/var/log/Xorg.log) 7-stable i386+RADEON X1650 (works, but compiz does not work)



xorg.conf.amd64.X1650 7-stable amd64+RADEON X1650
xorg.conf.i386.X1650.noDRI xorg.conf on 7-stable i386+RADEON X1650, compiz does not work

xorg.conf.i386.X1650.DRI.failed xorg.conf on 7-stable i386+RADEON X1650, does not work, screen is garbled, etc.

6. Note on i386
It doesn't work on i386. sometimes screen is garbled. sometimes
wall paper is up, but gnome menu doesn't appear.

7. Update 2009/2/21: Robert Noland told me that we don't need to load drm as it is loaded automatically.

Free flash player : gnash (Japanese issue exists, though)

I'm a big fan of FreeBSD (http://www.freebsd.org/) and I'm a ports committer for a long time. I'm using FreeBSD as a desktop OS, and no problem here except for flash player.

Since we don't have a flash player from ADOBE, and we use Linux version via www/nspluginwrapper, and/or www/linuxpluginwrapper. The former is most popular, as it is stabler (still unstable) and easier to install.

Both plugin wrapper uses Linux binary compatibility features, and both are very unstable.

Yesterday I tried gnash a free flash movie player, and works very fine. I can play youtube, NICONICO, and other sites uses flash.
Lesser (or no) freeze.

Only issue is the some Japanese are not displayed correctly, just print squares. How I can send a feed back? :)

Anyway it is a great free software!

Participate to l10n TCM testing for 3.1 (2009/2/10-2/26)

OpenOffice.org 3.1 will be released in May 2009.
To reduce the bugs, esp. your language specific bugs, we do l10n TCM testing. Please participate for better quality of OpenOffice.org!!

How to test?
Follow the instruction (test cases) in your language. We have added test cases which are the new features in 3.1.

Who can test?
Everyone, who can install OpenOffice.org :-)

Period
2009/2/10 - 2009/2/26 (planned, may change)

Details:
contact [e-mail] or QA mailing list in
your localized lang. Please provide following information.
1. TCM account name. (or new account name for the first time)
2. Platform (Windows XP, Vista, Linux, Solaris, MacOSX etc)
3. Category (writer, impress, draw...or all of them)
4. Test new features in 3.1 or not.

Contact:
ISHIMURA Naoyuki: [e-mail]

References:
http://qa.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=11782
http://ja.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=announce&msgNo=312 [in Japanese]

A status report from Drew Jensen

Drew Jensen reported to [qa-dev] list about his activity in 2008.

http://qa.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=11750

Greetings,

During 2008 continued to volunteer on the QA Database Team.

Activity in issue tracking system:
Total issues confirmed , invalidated / marked duplicate , verified /
closed , commented = 196

Issues entered by me:
Defect (valid*) = 69 (fixed by developers = 41**)
Enhancement = 14 (implemented by developers = 5)

* and a few invalid / duplicate entries...ooops.
** includes some issues entered in prior years

Other OO.o activity:

Continued to help with answering end user questions on OO.o web forums
and mailing lists.

Filled position as one of the site administrators for the user web
forums.

Joined Ubuntu Bughunter team focusing on Base issues with
distro. supplied OO.o.

November 2008 listed as an answer contact for OpenOffice.org in
Ubuntu. (Launchpad web application)

Guess that's it,

Drew Jense
------
Great activity! One person can do a great contribution.
We can expect direct feedbacks from Ubuntu! Really great.

The OpenOffice.org Community Council funded NAKATA Maho a 1600Euro FreeBSD box.

The OpenOffice.ort Community Council funded me a FreeBSD box.

Here are some evidences

• estimate of machine,
  
• details of wire transfer (1)
  
• details of wire transfer (2)[P.O. 2008/3 MACHINE FOR FLEEBSD PORTING] [TEAM OPENOFFICE.ORG E.V]
  
• Building DEV300_m40, later, it breaks :-)
  

My activity towards OpenOffice.org FreeBSD porting.
I have been porting OpenOffice.org to FreeBSD more than five years.
I'm the de-facto maintainer of OOo ports.
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/editors/openoffice.org-3/
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/editors/openoffice.org-2/
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/editors/openoffice.org-3-RC/
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/editors/openoffice.org-2-RC/
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/editors/openoffice.org-3-devel/
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/editors/openoffice.org-2-devel/
etc.

My first direct commit is:
Revision 1.76: download - view: text, markup, annotated - select for diffs
Thu Apr 17 11:24:26 2003 UTC (5 years, 6 months ago) by maho

I send a proposal in 2008/11/12
http://council.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=discuss&msgNo=1813

My requrest falls into Infrastructure cathegory:
and it was accepted by the budget holder; Stefan Taxhet and the authorisers
Clorian Effenberger and Chirstian Lohmaier.
http://council.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=budget&msgNo=2
http://council.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=budget&msgNo=8
http://council.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=budget&msgNo=9

Stefan Taxhet send e-mail to Matthias to process in 2008/11/21.
http://council.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=budget&msgNo=10

I purchased a machine in 2008/12/4. [At Akihabara, T-ZONE DIY shop, 192,896Yen]

The machine arrived at 2008/12/10.
The bank telephoned me for wire transfer in 2009/1/8.

I have done four commits until 2009/1/27 using funded machine.
DEV300_m39
OOO300_m15
OOO300_m14
DEV300_m38

Acknowledgement should done like:
http://council.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=budget&msgNo=37
"Funded by OpenOffice.org community" (by Cor Nouws)

I think I will have a bit more time for doing something else other than FreeBSD porting, which I have been doing for a long time...

Thanks for trusting me. Thanks for your generosity.
Nakata Maho