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Nov 15th - wiki migration

The wiki is being migrated to a new shared wiki here

Jul 13th - wiki

A wiki has been installed and is being populated with useful hacking info. Feel free to help

Jun 1st - new lads

While loosing Srini & Shreyas, we've managed to get hold of Jody Goldberg (of extensive gnumeric fame), and Radek Doulik; who are beavering away at Calc & the new canvas respectively.

Feb 9th - Hacker's CWS HOWTO

Ever wondered what a CWS is & how to use it, now in simple, no-fluff terms here.

Jan 26th - Bonsai back

Bonsai is now back in business.

Jan 10th - Hacking Tutorials

Raul has come up with some annotated walk-throughs of some patches for common things people like to fix in OO.o, not yet finished, but rather useful, see here.

Jan 5th - Red-Carpet snapshot channel

OO.o 1.9.x milestones packages as RPMs are available intermittently through red-carpet; simply point red-carpet at http://red-carpet.go-ooo.org/.

Jan 5th - Red-Carpet snapshot channel
November 8th - German hackers guide

Christian Junker of Trees For Life fame, just finished a beautiful German translation of the hackers guide, [ for those that can't read the comments in the code ].

September 30th - Japanese hackers guide

Yukiharu Yabuki just up-loaded the Japanese translation of the hackers guide; a great piece of work.

September 22nd-24th - OOoCon

A great time for meeting the other developers, albeit for rather too short a time, and enjoying discussing various directions for the future of OO.o & seeing some of the great work that has been done for 2.0.

July 9th - CWS tooling

It is now possible to create a CWS with an ordinary OO.o CVS account.

May 5th - CVS rename

To reduce the (potential) confusion, the CVS module 'openoffice' has been end-of-lifed, and new commits will go to the 'ooo-build' CVS module; this better reflects it's role, and package name.

March 29th - Usable IssueZilla front-end.

To compensate for the grotesque usability nightmare that is IZ, a more useful link-set page can be found here; or just hit 'New' to the right.

Feb 24th - CWS data browsable.

The CWS browsing interface (EIS - Environment Information System) by Joerg went live here - great.

January ~7th - More Novell engineers.

Ramesh Babu is working on community development and QA, Raul Siddhartha will be fixing up our web tools before moving onto the core, Vivek will be helping build packages of everything, and of course Krishnan will continue juggling spinning plates & managing things.

November ~24th - OO.o hacking bounties.

Novell announces desktop integration and tweaking bounties here.

October ~25th - Novell add engineers.

Novell are devoting more great people to working full time on OO.o, please welcome Anil Bhatia, Jayant Madavi & Amit Shoivake as they transition to the team.

September ~30th - RedHat hire DanW.

As above really, Dan Williams will be hacking on OO.o under a Red-Hat full-time - which promises to be great news for everyone.

September 5th - More magicpoint help.

Consultations with Nat revealed the existence of the carefully concealed 'Master View' button, updated the MGP users guide.

Older News...

LXR:
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Bugs:
OO.o Issue New
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Translate a short German comment: [ thanks to BabelFish ]

Tinderbox Build Status

Find an overview over the last tinderbox build results here.

A list of the currently open tinderbox branches (CWSs and MWSs) can be found here.

For more information on branches, see the roadmap and codelines documents. To create your own tinderbox, check the Tinderbox setup guide.

Browse Bonsai and Patches

You may look up the changes in the last week on the branches below:

cws_srx645_mingw mws_srx645
cws_src680_ooo64bit02 HEAD
Changes in ooo-build

Use CIA to look up the latest changes in ooo-build cvs.

Tarballs

You can download packages of OO.o here. These are tested to ensure clean builds.

Local web tools

Our patches to sync bonsai via cvsup, and a description of how to make LXR work on RH 8.0+ can be found here.