Cannot file issue to request language addition

[tom9358]

Hi everyone! This is my first post here..
I want to make a spell checker for a not-yet supported language, similar to viewtopic.php?t=68485 and viewtopic.php?t=28853.

I have made a .oxt spell checker extension using the hunspell format. The extension is not entirely usable yet, as the language is not in the languages list. (The extension does work apart from that, since I can go to Format -> Character... and set the language there. But this way, the language cannot be set as default for all documents.)

I have already attempted the following to fix this:
- I followed the tutorial on reporting bugs or suggestions from that first forum link, which tells me to file an issue.
- To make an issue, I need to make a bugzilla account, but user account creation has been disabled, see https://bz.apache.org/ooo/createaccount.cgi
- Like that page says, new accounts must be created by an administrator which we can contact via aoo-bugzilla-admin@apache.org. So I sent them an email. But now I hit a dead end: I get a mailer deamon message back that my e-mail could not be delivered to that address!

I'm not sure what to do now, and I was hoping someone here would be able to help me

I am using the latest LibreOffice in principle, but I understand this forum is for OpenOffice as well and ideally I would like my extension to be supported in both

[Hagar Delest]

Hi and welcome to the forum!

Send a mail to their dev mailing list: dev@openoffice.apache.org

[tom9358]

What a fast response! Thank you, I will mail them! Do you by any chance know what I have to do to achieve the same but for LibreOffice?

[robleyd]

There is information on the LO Extensions site.

[Hagar Delest]

Not sure how it works for LO but you can try to file a bug report or ask on their mailing list too: https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/

Anyway, you'll have more luck with LO I think. Much more developers there.
Note: I take that it is more with adding a language in the list that may be hard coded in the application.

[tom9358]

Thanks both for the responses! Indeed, my request is that support for the language be added so that it can be selected from the list. To my understanding that list is indeed hard-coded. I still haven't heard back from dev@openoffice.apache.org whom I mailed 26 January, but I haven't had the courage yet to contact people on a LibreOffice mailing list. I was afraid to bother too many people with such a small, trivial request. But I think I'll just have to get over that fear and send the mail now..

[Hagar Delest]

I was afraid to bother too many people with such a small, trivial request. But I think I'll just have to get over that fear and send the mail now..

Sure! This is the spirit of such a community.
It's not trivial at all since it requires code change. Maybe it means that this should be changed so that the language list can be updated more easily.