NAKATA Maho's OOo blog

Twitter is nice; follow us jaopenofficeorg

maho_nakata — 2010-04-16T16:58:24+09:00

Twitter is very nice. Dynamic and clear. You want to access http://ja.openoffice.org/ and see "follow us" badge. currently follower is about 400.
I hope our project will have more collaborators than before!

What do you think?

Still SCA is in place and will be replaced by OCA.

maho_nakata — 2010-04-16T16:40:11+09:00

I e-mailed to Stefan Taxhet and asked what is the status of SCA.

Stefan Taxhet kindly replied as follows

>> Hi Stefan,
>> What is the status of SCA? Do Oracle accepts SCA? I don't think so.
>
> The SCA is still in place. It will sooner or later be replaced by an
> "OCA". We continue to use the SCA until this is ready.
>
> Greetings
> Stefan

Automated captioning on YouTube

maho_nakata — 2010-03-18T18:26:08+09:00

I'm really surprised to read the blog entry;
The Future Will Be Captioned: Improving Accessibility on YouTube. Many Japanese suffering from listening English - well it's due to
really bad education system in Japan; we only concentrate on maniac grammar but not for real communication.

Apparently this is a huge barrier between Japanese and English
spoken community.
So captioning will really really reduces barrier for us.

Great effort. I'll keep watching.

Jonathan Schwartz: Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal

maho_nakata — 2010-03-13T13:42:27+09:00

Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal, it is very interesting blog. worth reading.

> Bill skipped the small talk, and went straight to the point, > “Microsoft owns the office productivity market, and our
> patents read all over OpenOffice.”
...
>“We’re happy to get you under license.” That was code for
> “We’ll go away if you pay us a royalty for every download”

So - we are now. I really thank for both SUN microsystems and Jonathan Schwartz very much.

English (US) MacOSX PowerPC version of OpenOffice.org 3.2.0 has been released!

maho_nakata — 2010-03-12T18:33:30+09:00

English (US) MacOSX PowerPC version of OpenOffice.org 3.2.0 has been released!

This is the first official AQUA version of OpenOffice.org for PowerPC MacOSX.

Jean-Baptiste Faure has tested, and Marcus Lange corrdinated and uploaded.
Nakata Maho provided release candidate build, and OpenOffice.org community members have developed OpenOffice.org, indeed.

James McKenzie had left from QA after the release of 2.4.3, since then we have never see the release of English (US) MacOSX PPC version of OOo, just we don't have testers nor coordinators.
many issues and request for that, we have never see ...

I'm really appreciated as build provider.

See the thread;
http://qa.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=13195
.

Twitter ; ja.openoffice.org has been launched.

maho_nakata — 2010-03-09T16:00:16+09:00

http://twitter.com/jaopenofficeorg is the official
twitter of ja project (http://ja.openoffice.org/)

you can see twitter window at http://ja.openoffice.org/
please have a look...
sorry - but I'd tweet in Japanese.

3.2.0rc5: How many packages are approved ?

maho_nakata — 2010-02-18T10:04:39+09:00

QA: [from Christoph Lukasiak] new co-lead of OOo database QA team: andrew jensen

maho_nakata — 2010-02-18T09:56:31+09:00

[qa-dev] new co-lead of OOo database QA team: andrew jensen

> i am proud to introduce andrew jensen (aka drew) as my executing
> co-lead of the OOo database QA team

Drew replied as

(Christoph Lukasiak offered)
three objectives:

1. potential showstopper have to be found early (especially in
pre-realease phases)
2. confirming issues
3. mailing lists

Then offered these admonitions:

.. please make sure that this runs as good as possible
.. but keep in mind that the people volunteer their time

...
Congratulations!

Japanese Standard for ODF

maho_nakata — 2010-02-16T19:34:17+09:00

http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2009/12/japanese-standard-for-odf.html

> Based on a cryptic twitter from Dr Murata, it looks like the

> Japanese standard for ODF has been released.

http://twitter.com/muratamakoto/status/6424272274

This is a very good movement.

MacIntel: 9000sec gain on Xeon 2.66 four core + ATA

maho_nakata — 2010-02-16T18:18:24+09:00

DEV300_m71/full lang build/Mac Xeon 2.66GHz, four cores/ATA disk

49771.02 real 36264.96 user 31626.42 sys

same condition/iMac 1.83GHz two cores/external FireWire(400)
58967.18 real 45967.31 user 20056.50 sys

+9196sec or 18% gain. 14hours! however too long sys on new Mac.

MacPPC on ATA Drive is 10% faster than on FireWire external drive.

maho_nakata — 2010-02-16T18:02:55+09:00

Full lang build/Mac G5 2.3GHz dual, two parallel build timing

modules 2, processes 2.

on FireWire (400)
72617.17 real 54525.76 user 44652.86 sys
on ATA drive
66397.97 real 54268.03 user 43320.36 sys

6219 seconds gain. ATA is 10% faster than building on FireWire disk.

Mac donations from Miyahara, Toru and Komachi, Mamoru to Nakata, Maho (two dual core 2.66GHz Xeon 4G memory, two 1T HDDs, and Snow Leopard)

maho_nakata — 2010-02-15T15:27:07+09:00

I'd like to announce that there were donations from
MIYAHARA Toru, CEO of http://begi.net/ in 2009/1/27 - 29.
* two dual core 2.66GHz Intel Xeon based Mac (we are not sure which one :-))
* two 1T bytes HDD: Hitach HDT7201010SLA360

KOMACHI Mamoru,
* One license of Snow Leopard and Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac in 2009/9.

I'm very sorry that my announce is delayed, just I cannot stop my OOo building system
no room for new machines etc.

The machine is very silent. I was really surprised. Now I'm setting up.
I installed Snow Leopard on that system. It is really cute.

Many thanks for Miyahara-san and Komachi-san's donations, and many
thanks for your good works on OpenOffice.org!!

$ORIGIN support in rtld for FreeBSD

maho_nakata — 2009-03-19T09:56:15+09:00

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

maho_nakata — 2009-03-03T16:50:59+09:00

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

maho_nakata — 2009-02-26T09:28:59+09:00

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 dev@qa.openoffice.org mailing list.