Monthly Archives: April 2008
Why does Ubuntu puts Firefox transalation in gnome’s language pack ? (2)
A day after presenting the question, seems like a user got a problem I didn’t thought of. He didn’t like Firefox 3 and decided to install Firefox 2 instead. The problem is that he now has Firefox 2 and the … Continue reading
Filed under i18n & l10n, Mozilla, Ubuntu
Why does Ubuntu puts Firefox transalation in gnome’s language pack ?
The other day, Tomer from Mozilla Israel contacted me to update me that the Israeli Ubuntu community changes the Firefox translation and doesn’t contribute the changes back. We sorted out the translation process with the Ubuntu people who were very … Continue reading
Filed under i18n & l10n, Mozilla, Ubuntu
My GPG hall of shame
During FOSDEM’s key signing party I had a few people telling me they didn’t get my signatures on their key. It seems that although I already signed them, there was a problem with sending the signatures (probably my local mail … Continue reading
Filed under FOSDEM
Continuing the 2nd Debian Openoffice.org bug triage
Short version: 155 bugs processed, 130 bugs to go… Reminder: The target of this triage is to clean all bugs not relevant for version 2.4.0 in Debian. Openoffice.org 2.4.0 entered Lenny (testing) two weeks ago, and last week Rene created … Continue reading
Filed under Debian GNU/Linux, Openoffice.org, QA stuff
How to describe free software involvement in a CV?
I’ve started to write an updated version of my CV. This is the first version which should mention my involvement in free software, and I’m not sure what exactly to write. As I don’t know who would be the next … Continue reading
Filed under Proud to use free software
A begining of an Israeli openoffice.org community ?
While issue #86811 is going to the right direction, I decided to try and use the momentum around it to unite people into an Israeli openoffice.org community. The first thing was to start and do a little triage of RTL/CTL … Continue reading
Filed under i18n & l10n, Openoffice.org
Upload of ‘fribidi’ failed (who are you?)
To the person trying to upload fribidi to mentors.debian.net: Please change the maintainer field. I had enough with these error messages in the last few days: I am sorry to tell you that your upload to mentors.debian.net failed. The maintainer … Continue reading
Filed under Debian GNU/Linux
Openoffice.org Issue #86811: Arabic numbers instead of decimal numbers
Issue #86811 is still of my top priorities this week, as it causes a major problem for Hebrew speaking users of Openoffice.org. As I can’t fix the code myself, I’m focusing on explaining that this is a major problem and … Continue reading
Filed under Openoffice.org
Where did the numbers go ? (major bug in OO.org 2.4.0)
About two months after the Israeli government stopped the support for openoffice.org localization, we hit a major bug (actaully – a regression) with version 2.4.0 effecting Hebrew users. In version 2.4.0 numbers written in Microsoft Word documents are shown as … Continue reading
Filed under Openoffice.org
