fdo#51004: some progress and 10 years old bug pending

[David Ostrovsky]

Hi,

some progress here:

On 17.09.2012 12:23, david ostrovsky wrote:
> 1. Change the implementation on feature/mork branch to still depend on 
> mozilla on windows. (Currently mozilla stripped there for all 
> platforms completely).
done. Many thanks to David Tardon for helping out with git rebase!
> 2. Merge that feature branch to master (this week?).
done. Many thanks to Stephan, Michael Stahl, Fridrich and Miklos!

Please note:
On non windows platform LO->MAB integration is not controlled with 
--enabled-mozilla option any more.
Because of some extensions that depending on mozilla (do we still need 
it and going to support them?)
that configure option must be preserved.

Please check your dev build, your tb and your release build: do you 
still need it?
It would be really unfortunate if you just let that option activated and 
continue build /or even ship with your LO distro/ this
"somehow stranged hacked mozilla version".

> 3. Fix some minor issues.
tbd: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51004
> 4. Ask hackers to play with it (i have been told on IRC, that hackers 
> only tend to play with some experimental features if they find it on 
> master ;-)
It would be really nice if you can help here. if you don't use 
Thunderbird/Icedove, please consider to install it. I only tested it 
with Thunderbird.
What we need to test? Here we go:

1. run mork_helper: it would dump the MAB content.
2. Import mab in base:
a. open dbase b. import existing db, combo box appears c. select 
Thunderbird d. select file mab.odb e. one table AdressBook imported f. 
double click on it g. define query and execute it a couple of time.
3. use mail merge with your new imported mab.
4. test it on your platform and on your distro. i compiled it only on 
Linux/mingw and tested it only on Debian/Ubuntu.
5. check that windows not affected.
6. which other use cases we have?

report the problems or ... better fix it, ... it is on master now, not?
;-)
> 5. Provide beta builds for QA Team to test it (the problem is that i 
> don't really know what is still missing, besides todos that described 
> in bz above).
tbd. Not sure how to proceed here. Suggestions?

6. Update Release Info.
done:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/3.7#Base

7. As a special favour for Rene
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/93546 changed 
to "Fix Commited"
;-)

Ciao
David