NAKATA Maho's OOo blog

$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.

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

maho_nakata — 2009-02-16T12:49:15+09:00

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

2008 QA report: Italian community (by Andrea Pescetti)

maho_nakata — 2009-02-16T09:36:03+09:00

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

maho_nakata — 2009-02-07T07:07:45+09:00

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)

maho_nakata — 2009-02-06T09:58:12+09:00

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)

maho_nakata — 2009-02-02T14:55:10+09:00

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 qa@dev.openoffice.org 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: Naoyuki.Ishimura@Sun.COM

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

maho_nakata — 2009-01-28T16:31:41+09:00

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.

maho_nakata — 2009-01-28T13:48:07+09:00

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

Here are some evidences

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

OSC 2009@Sendai : Participate to QA for release.

maho_nakata — 2009-01-28T11:43:41+09:00

Khirano-san and I did a presentation at Open Source Conference 2009 @ Sendai, Miyagi, Japan, conducted by Mihayara Toru-san.

What I did was a presentation, asking community members to participate to QA for release OpenOffice.org.

Here is the seminar deails of our presentation.
http://www.ospn.jp/osc2009-sendai/modules/eguide/event.php?eid=14
and my presentation is here
Khirano-san did a presentation he introduced one of the largest deployment, Aizuwakamatsu City etc (same OOoCon2008 Beijing).

I did also a presentation to Motojima Yasushi-san of 情報政策課副主幹(係長級), Aizuwakamatu city, privately. He also did a presentation. What impressed me a lot is that he regards deployment of OpenOffice.org is not only for cut down the cost, but also for
common wealth of humanity. Great.

I'd like to thanks for all the participants and staffs of OSC2009 sendai, and Tohoku OSS investigator group (東北OSS利活用検討会) for funding.

The Open Source Conference(s) are one of the biggest events in Japan; and Miyahara-san is the conductor. He won "IPA Japan OSS contributor award" for his initiation, activity towards the Open Source Conference in 2008. The Open Source Conferences are usually held all over Japan, and of course, most active place is Tokyo.

2008 Annual QA report from Zhu Lihua (Beijing Redflag Chinese 2000 Software)

maho_nakata — 2009-01-27T14:44:44+09:00

Thosten Ziehm reported OpenOffice.org : What was done in 2008. This is very good summary of overall achievement in 2008.

Of course, this is overall achievement. so I asked another QA team working on OpenOffice.org from China. Zhu Lihua Testing Enginner in Beijing Redflag Chinese 2000 Software Co., Ltd., replied as:

http://qa.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=11705

---------------------------------------------------------------
Hi Maho and Thorsten,

In 2008, mainly, the following activity was done:

1. TCM testing
We participated in l10n24/l10n27/l10n29 testing
We translated all the testcases in TCM into Chinese

2. Issue handling
We have filed more than 300 valid issues last year, and paticipate in the confirmation of the unconfirmed issues. We went through more than 400 issues, more than 300 of them are confirmed, duplicated or provided with useful information. And we have verified and closed about 100 issues.

QA team of RF have executed test against OOo3.0, and have found bugs, now we are submitting these bugs into issuetracker. We chose the issues result in crash as the first step. By now, we have filed 74 crash issues against OOo3.0. Beside this, we have filed about 60 non-crash issues of the OOo3.0.

In the year 2009, We will continue doing the work mentioned above. And we will participate more in VCLTestTool, include upload test result to QUASTe, find issues and try to fix issues in srcipts. We are working harder for this.

Let's make 2009 a harvest year for all.

Best Regards,
Lihua
---------------------------------------------------

Very well done, and thanks for your report!

A new FreeBSD ports committer Takatsu Tomonari-san

maho_nakata — 2009-01-27T11:53:58+09:00

My friend, Takatsu Tomonari-san, become a FreeBSD ports committer.

We were in the same laboratory at Kyoto.
At that time I was an administrator of DEC machines at the lab. We were using a FreeBSD box as key server. Time has passed, and still we have been getting touch with. Last year, I asked him to be a FreeBSD committer and he told me that he want to be! Great.

I recommended him as a committer in 2009/1/5, also I'd like to be a mentor of him. portmgr@ did some voting, and accepted as a committer, and also my mentor ship in 2009/1/22.

We will go together a while!

This is my first experience to be a mentor :) and may take a while.

Congratulations and good luck.

My research: The NEOS Server offers SDPA-GMP for the solution of semidefinite programming problems

maho_nakata — 2008-12-16T11:22:18+09:00

This is another part of myself as a scientist.
I'm using and developing the semi-definite programming solver, and the SDPA-GMP has been offered by the NEOS server. It's great honor to me! because it was recommended by others, not by our team.

I'm a post doc at RIKEN. Not many know about RIKEN, so I'd like to explain a bit. RIKEN was established in 1917 and famous laboratory in Japan. Prof. Nishina, Prof. Yukawa and Prof. Tomonaga were also there. We have very large particle accelerator before the world war II, conducted by Prof. Nishina. Prof. Yukawa and Tomonaga were awarded Nobel prize (physics).

My research interest is the density matrix theory, and my motivation is solving Schroedinger equation, which is the fundamental equation of Chemistry. This is a partial differential equation of the second order. It is known that we can formulate as Semidefinite programming, and we solved exactly for the first time!.

It is very difficult to solve the semidefinite programming exacltly and efficiently, and lot of unknowns are there due to inaccuracy of the results.

In 2006 or so I started to develop the SDPA-GMP. Some problems of semidefinite programing are very difficult due to inaccuracy of "double". We need more significant digits, say 100, where double has only 16. GMP is one of the fastest implementation of multiple precision arithmetic library, and I use it to implement some BLAS/LAPACK codes. This is almost dumb
translation of BLAS/LAPACK code to the GMP, and very slow (usually
500 times slower than double). There are two papers related to SDPA-GMP...Variational calculation of second-order reduced density matrices by strong N-representability conditions and an accurate semidefinite programming solver
and Strange Behaviors of Interior-point Methods for Solving Semidefinite Programming Problems in Polynomial Optimization (preprint)

Thanks Stephan Bergmann! A break through for MacOSX PPC porting.

maho_nakata — 2008-12-01T10:04:02+09:00

I have been providing MacOSX packages over three years. I'm trying
to provid packages almost every milestone, every languages, and
both PowerPC and Intel architecture. Some of my intentions are
helping the QA process and release process.

One of the major problem of providing packages for PPC was
random crash while building. There are some some issues like:
#i87969#, MacOSX : regcomp fails at instsetoo_native on PPC
#i77664#, MacOSX : build fails at i18npool/source/localedata/data conditionally
.

Usually one hour later after I begin the build, #i77664# hits seriously.
It is not a reproducible error, and sometimes the build passes
i18npool module without error. In my experience, defragmentation of
HFS+ partition or adding -O0 -g seems to reduce the errors, but
not completely.

More serious one is #i87969#. The build randomely crashes, espcially
the numbers of packages increases, crash also increases.
More precisely, OOO300 series has less #i87969# hits, Tiger
has less, Panther has more crashes (That's why I switched to Tiger even
for 2.x series). Also it seemed that if the number of
files at solver increases, hit also increases (see my comment in #i87969#).
Recently, after DEV300_m33, I couldn't provide the packages for PPC
anymore.

OpenOffice.org community noticed that I stopped providing PPC.
Some asked directly, and some asked in the mailing list.
No I'm not a lazy :) but regcomp issues is very hard for me to solve.
So - I asked OpenOffice.org community for the help!
http://blog.livedoor.jp/maho_nakata/archives/51073896.html
I prepared G5 Mac access for developers, with build script, etc.

Stephan Bergmann, who is a sophisticated programmer in SUN Hamburg
solved the problem!
http://porting.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=mac&msgNo=7522
The root cause of the problem was GCC--UNO bridge code. see
#i96647# for details...

I provided DEV300_m33, 34, 35 and 36 applying his patch
no regcomp errors!!!

http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=releases&msgNo=13007
http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=releases&msgNo=13010
http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=releases&msgNo=13012
http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=releases&msgNo=13018
Now build is suprisingly smooth, no irritating i18npool breakage,
etc. I'm sooo excited.

I also suspect there are some random and unreproducible error
in PPC Mac version of OOo, and hope they're gone.

Thanks again, Stephan Bergmann! You are our hero.