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Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:31:57 -0400
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Subject: Re: Who wants to build OpenOffice?
From: Rob Weir <rob@robweir.com>
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On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Kay Schenk <kay.schenk@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 08/31/2011 09:01 AM, Rob Weir wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Rob Weir<robweir@apache.org> =C2=A0wrot=
e:
>>>
>>> We're blessed to have experienced OOo hackers on the list who have
>>> already jumped on the new code repository and started making
>>> improvements.
>>>
>>> But I see we have 214 people subscribed to the mailing list, including
>>> many who were not previously working on OOo code. =C2=A0This is great.
>>> Growing the community to bring in new developers is key to the success
>>> of the project.
>>>
>>> Do any of you want to get an AOOo dev environment set up, so you can
>>> build OpenOffice? =C2=A0If so, please respond to this note, and state w=
hat
>>> operating system you are interested in building on.
>>>
>>> Based on this information, we can have a discussion on how best to get
>>> you up to speed, whether via Q&A on this list, via IRC chat, a phone
>>> conference or maybe even a virtual machine image.
>>>
>>
>> A lot of good feedback on this idea. =C2=A0Thanks!
>>
>> =C2=A0From the responses I've read, it sounds like the most popular choi=
ce
>> is Linux. =C2=A0So let's start there.
>>
>> Could we start on Wed September 7th? =C2=A0And run this "event" through =
the
>> weekend?
>
> sounds good...I will work on this as well.
>
> Is everything on this page
>
> http://incubator.apache.org/openofficeorg/source.html
>
> including the Building Guide at --
> http://ooo-wiki.apache.org/wiki/Documentation/Building_Guide
>
> still current?
>

Probably not.  One of the goals of this exercise is to make updated
instructions.

-Rob

>>
>> Goals would be:
>>
>> 1) Enable volunteers who want to build under Linux
>>
>> 2) Create build instructions that are under ALv2, so we can include
>> them in the release. =C2=A0This is a good thing to draft on the "dev" wi=
ki.
>>
>> I'd like to do a put a post in the AOOo blog on this, to maybe attract
>> some additional developers who may want to participate
>>
>> In the blog post I'd put the link to the SVN tree, the IRC channel,
>> and the pre-reqs.
>>
>> BTW, what should say the pre-reqs are for storage? =C2=A0Source, includi=
ng
>> /main and /extras is around 4GB. =C2=A0Matthias suggested 70 GB for
>> building, which could be done on fast external storage. =C2=A0So 75 GB f=
ree
>> space total is reasonable?
>>
>> Do we have any RAM guidance? =C2=A0is 1GB sufficient? =C2=A02 GB?
>>
>> -Rob
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> -Rob
>>>
>
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