Dina Holesovska

My daughter, Dina Holesovska, was born the last week, on 2006-09-05 at 20:08 CEST. You can see some photos of Dina with her happy mother and father here :-)

Weeks 04-15

x86-64 porting. Caolán joined the efforts, and the project got an extra speed ;-) - he reworked the patches for streams, and more - big thanks! So far - in the recent milestone m163 - there are all but few patches in (child workspaces long2int, sixtyfour02-04 are integrated), and the rest (about 15 patches) is waiting in sixtyfour05, configure17 & sfxcleanup child workspaces; they are all targetted 2.0.3. Looks very promising.

OOo 2.0.2. Branched ooo-build, added support for that in the apply file and apply.pl, etc.

Xlib-only splash. Rewrote the Gtk+-dependant part of the faster OOo splash implementation to Xlib-only; makes it even faster & more pleasant in KDE. You can see it in 'unxsplash' CWS...

Helping Éric Bischoff. Éric (the guy who wrote the KDE address book connector) has implemented a backend for KDE system-wide settings for OOo (like the preferred e-mail client, or proxies), and started reviving cuckooo, the KPart for displaying OOo documents in konqueror window I wrote nearly 3 years ago. Helped him with the internals of that, etc. Great to feel that kde.openoffice.org is not an one-man project ;-) Thank you, Éric!

Up-streaming.

• A load of build fixes made when updating to newer milestones
• Remove menu:helpid and menu:label from *.xml (CWS menucleanup)
• The faster splash (CWS unxsplash)
• The 64bit child workspaces
• Crystal icons (CWS iconswitching2)

Build bits. Updated to newer milestones several times (m156, m160, m161, m162, m163), removed old patches several times (m152, m156, m160, m162), check for the oldest supported tag, fixed broken patches several times, a load of smaller fixes (cws-commit-patch accepts "planned" CWS state, ...), etc.

Conference calls, bugfixing, etc.

Last of the 64bit patches filed to IZ

I've just filed the last 64bit-specific patch we have in ooo-build to IssueZilla... This does not mean that porting OpenOffice.org to x86-64 is over, but when all the patches get approved & integrated (lots of them already are - in CWSes sixtyfour01-04, long2int, intptr, numberformat, dxarray, etc. to note the big ones), one should be able to get a 64bit OOo without much trouble. Of course, no-one says how much it will work for you ;-)

Maybe it is too soon to celebrate, but I should note that this wouldn't happen without Caolán and Pavel (and their patches), and of course without people originally working on the port in ooo64bit02 CWS. Thank you!

Cut'n'paste detected in OOo

Michael and Thorsten pointed to cpd, a cut'n'paste detector. I have run that over the OOo code (milestone m154, without binfilters and some of the system stuff), and here you can download the results. It took about 1.5 hours to process the sources on a quite fast machine - not bad ;-)

Weeks 43-03

x86-64 porting.

• Committed another lot of fixes from ooo-build up-stream (CWS numberformat, long2int, pj43, sixtyfour01, ...). Some of the workspaces were already integrated.
• Tried to use gcj for the 64bit build, and believe it or not, it worked - with some workarounds. E.g. the .jars do not register yet; to be fixed.
• Created a Wiki page about the port. Feel free to experiment with the 64bit build and add your experience there. But remember - it's still experimental.

Éric Bischoff's KDE Address Book Connector was integrated. It happened in m147, and the connector will be available in OpenOffice.org 2.0.2. Thank you, Éric, for your great work!

Icon switching. It got finaly integrated in m149, yay! iconswitching2 is on its way, it will contain small improvements of the toolbars, and the Crystal icon set. Rob, Nuno, thank you again for your designs! I hope the CWS will be ready in time to get to 2.0.2 as well...

Week 38-42

AMD64/EM64T porting. Extracted even more from the ooo64bit02 - NumberFormat related patches, trivial long/ULONG -> sal_Int32/sal_uInt32 patches, and some smaller separable fixes (BigInt, PolygonPoints, ResId, c-includes, ...). Haven't created CWSes for them yet. Still about 350k of patches to split - but I'm afraid that it's going to be the harder part.

SUSE Labs conference. Had the talk, enjoyed the Sunday event, ... I had to leave earlier because of the OOo conference.

OpenOffice.org conference. Great event, I am really happy I was there. Had the talk - see the slides about porting OpenOffice.org to AMD64/EM64T/x86-64 (whatever the right name is, I use AMD64 there:) ), met a lot of people, had fun, ... ;-)

OOo 2.0 is out. Did ooo-build-2.0.rc* releases, tested & fixed some minor issues (layout of Options...->View dialog, autobuild warnings, trailing ':' in LD_LIBRARY_PATH, ...), ...

Updated ooo-build to newer milestones. m129, m134, ...

Build fixes. Several parallel build issues (mostly already fixed in some CWSes - thanks Caolan and Volker, extracted them for ooo-build), fixed few patches to apply, fixed one more un-apply problem in apply.pl...

Icon switching. Updated the specification again, and got it approved by the Sun QA people; hurray ;-)

Week 37

AMD64 porting. Extracted more from the ooo64bit02 CWS - long *pDXArray related patches (and created 'dxarray' CWS for them), AccessibleChild related patches (too small set to create a CWS now), and started with NumberFormat related patches (to be continued). Still about 600k of patches to split, review and commit...

Update to m129. More work than usually thanks to the SISSL/LGPL -> LGPL license switch; some patches were failing, others were applied on wrong locations causing troubles later. Tedious.

Minor bits. Helped Eric with Environment Variables Wiki page.