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LibreOffice in the Top Ten
A short shoutout: The LibreOffice Getting Started Guide by the LibreOffice Documentation Team made it to the Top Ten Paid App Downloads in Ubuntu. Congratulations and Kudos to Jean Weber and the whole...
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early releases, continuous integration, warm bodies and cool machines
All the streamlining in LibreOffice package done upstream at LibreOffice itself, by Rene at Debian and the tiny bits and pieces I do on top of that at Ubuntu are beginning to pay off: Yesterday a...
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On the importance of being a bug confirmer
The truth is rarely pure and never simple. – Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest Two important things happened in LibreOffice QA this week. The first one has not gone unnoticed by a lot of...
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Announcing LibreOffice HardHacks
So when your waiting for the next attack You’d better stand there’s no turning back – Iron Maiden, The Trooper I teased in the last post, that there will be a second important change in LibreOffice QA...
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LibreOffice rules
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. – Douglas Adams So yesterday was Ubuntu Quantals feature freeze and two important features made it in with the...
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Speakerdeck’d myself … (also: LibreOffice conference 2012)
You’re so vain, I’ll bet you think this song is about you. – You’re so vain, Carly Simon I just uploaded all my past and current slides to speakerdeck, for your pleasure and ridicule. From the just...
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LibreOffice Quantal features: Unity Integration, PackageKit and Templates
So the Ubuntu Developer Summit for Raring Ringtail (UDS-R) is starting tomorrow — although not exactly a slide-heavy conference, this is still an excellent opportunity to point out some of the new...
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LibreOffice Quality Heroes
Its been a while since the LibreOffice QA team started to look for HardHacks and give them to the LibreOffice development team for their kind evaluation. While the HardHacks idea is not yet 100 days in...
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Survived UDS, LibreOffice on Ubuntu Nexus 7 and my obsession with clicky...
Dr. Soran: What if I told you I found a new truth? Picard: The nexus? – Star Trek: Generations So UDS is over and you can find the results of what was discussed there showing up bit by bit on my...
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Dicke Bertha online.
Oh Lord, won’t you buy me a Mercedes Benz ? My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends. – Janis Joplin, Mercedes-Benz So one cycle is over, UDS is done, blueprints are mangled — so far nothing...
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LibreOffice 4.0 alpha1 available for testing
…the Linux philosophy is “laugh in the face of danger”. Oops. Wrong one. – Linus Torvalds LibreOffice 4.0 alpha1 has been silently tagged in the LibreOffice repositories three days ago. Yesterday, I...
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Building LibreOffice easily, killing an urban myth
When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That...
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LibreOffice Test Marathon, Bibisect 4.0 and Ubuntu packages
“Linux does endless loops in six seconds” – allegedly Linus Torvalds, 1995 at the First Dutch International Symposium on Linux The LibreOffice 4.0 Test Marathon will start on Friday, and this is a...
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Instant Karma — a pledge and a plea
“Instant Karma’s gonna get you Gonna knock you right on the head” – John Lennon, Instant Karma Last year before Christmas, I donated 220 Euro to the Document Foundation and I hope it helped as a tiny...
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Instant Karma — a pledge and a plea, part 2
“Instant Karma’s gonna get you Gonna knock you right on the head” – John Lennon, Instant Karma As I said a month ago: As I firmly believe freedom to be essential regardless of scale or context, I...
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Brothers in Arms
But it’s written in the starlight And every line on your palm We’re fools to make war On our brothers in arms – Dire Straits, Brothers in Arms As the LibreOffice project grows, the distance between...
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One
“One Ring to rule them all” – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings It has been done. LibreOffice is now build by one instance of make that is aware of the whole dependency tree. According to my master...
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LibreOffice Debian/Ubuntu Team growing
“Ich danke der Academy für das Erkennen von Talent.” -- Ich danke der Akademie, Kettcar So, I just updated the LibreOffice version for Ubuntu Raring in the LibreOffice PPA to the 4.0.1~rc2 version,...
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autopkgtests for adults
“That’s not a knife — THAT’s a knife.” – Michael J. Crocodile Dundee I recently worked a bit to see this line showing up in my favorite editor: ubtree0t-junit-subsequentcheck PASS LibreOffice has...
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LibreOffice prints on Tuesdays (only)!
Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come. Corporation t-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday. – I am the walrus, The Beatles Although the “OOo does not print on Tuesdays” OpenOffice.org-bug is long...
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