After travelling through Brasil and Venezuela I am finally back to the ice cold Hamburg. Vacation are over and the OOo 3.0 Beta is pretty near. Don't received a lot community translation for it ( uploaded 30 instsets from cws localisation28 ) , I guess you are working on the OOo 3.0 final one.

I created installationsets for the languages:
ar be-BY bg bn ca da de el es et fr gl hu it ja ko ku lt mk nl oc pt-BR ru sl sv tr uk vi zh-CN zh-TW

There are still some l10n errors in the Beta:
-Issue i88325 The string File->New->Template and Document is always in English. The translations are there but the code don't show them. Pointed Carsten to it.
-Issue i88387 Two Buttons in the new calc solver are always English ( "Shrink!" ) , did not yet found out why this happend. Seems to be an processing issue, the translation got overwritten in the database.

Good we found them now and not in the hectic OOo 3.0 final time!

-Ivo-

tags: openoffice.org

On a regular basis we provide developer snapshots to gather feedback on features and fixes that have been implemented on the way to OpenOffice.org 3.0.

A huge number of changed files has been integrated with milestone 7 prepared on the DEV300 codeline towards OpenOffice.org 3.0 to reflect our license change from LGPLv2 to LGPLv3.

The Environment Information System (EIS) says that 37801 files in 173 modules have been touched. They now carry the new license header. If you still see a file carrying an old header or any other mention of the old license, file an issue so that we can correct it.

This is a good chance to thank all those who created this code and continuously contribute to the project – pals spread all over the world and room mates here at Sun in Hamburg.

tags: license openoffice.org

Well, this is neither convenient (ever installed an ODBC driver on Unix?), nor efficient, plus prone to losing functionality in the different involved abstraction layers.

Yesterday, our friends over there at MySQL announced a preview release of the MySQL Connector/OpenOffice, a dedicated, native driver which implements OpenOffice.org's database access API, providing access to your MySQL databases.

So, if you're an MySQL and an OpenOffice.org user, this preview release is for you. Get it, try it out, and give us feedback how it worked for you.

The driver comes in the form of an OpenOffice.org extension, to be installed in OpenOffice.org 2.4. For the moment, only versions for Linux and Windows exist, with the final release, this will be extended to all platforms supported by OpenOffice.org itself. Please note you're discouraged from using the extension in the developer snapshots of the upcoming 3.0 release – it might or might not work there, chances for not working are higher the more both release branches diverge.

Find the MySQL Connector/OpenOffice site, having all the above information, and more, at http://forge.mysql.com/wiki/Connector_OpenOffice. Download the connector at http://downloads.mysql.com/forge/openoffice_preview. And do not forget to give us your feedback in Base's mailing list: users@dba.openoffice.org.

tags: base mysql openoffice.org