Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #166

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Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #166

Date: 2nd May 2024

All minutes published on: https://forum.collaboraonline.com/tag/meeting-minutes

  1. Attendees (write your name):

  • Pedro, Gulsah, Ezinne, Vivek, Attila, Mike D, Szymon, Darshan, Skyler, Gökay, Bayram, Mevan

  1. Testing

  • Skipped today

  1. Release Schedule

  1. Online Activity

  • PRs in need for attention (Please add here any PR that needs attention)

  • PRs without reviewer https://github.com/orgs/CollaboraOnline/projects/3/views/2

  • config: remove scheme document background colors #8564

  • https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/8871 → now merged

  • Nicolas

  • Cosmin

  • Julius

  • Nextcloud 29 released

  • Quite some fixes also backported to older releases

    • Updating files when running out of quota

    • Issues with open locally, we now terminate the session properly before handing over to local editing

    • Fix for using different URLs for internal communication

  • Ongoing work on polishing the guest name picker and cleanup of some very old code

  • Doing some testing and screen recordings around usability and performance

  • Attila

  • Merged PR for the GIF loading performance issue:
    https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153162
    The original poster reported it is ~x5 faster now.

  • Working on a WMF image issue
    https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138455
    already made it better but still not perfect

  • Aron

    • There is no update for 24.04 release this week. Next week

    • Bump version PR ended up being merged already

  • Szymon

  • Done: cell number format in Calc was broken when using multiple sessions with different languages

  • Current: view jump in Calc on row insertion by other user

  • Next: Pedro’s report - now unotoolbuttons are being enable/disable but the inner child is not being enabled or disabled: search previous and search next

  • Darshan

  • Accessibility:

    • change table layout in toolbar #8587 = > In review

    • Wrap input[type=‘edit’] control with a parent div #8702 → merged but now we need to chase any CSS problems that are still occurring

  • Tablet - initialize UI after server reconnection #8950

  • Fix header avatar have the same image of current UserList #8732

    • backported with some improvments => Thanks Skyler for help in backport

  • color preview in filter by color submenu #8604
    https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/165298

  • Next:

    • More improvements on accessibility stuff

    • Add ruler functionality in presentation document

  • Vivek

  • Modification in Manage conditional formatting dialog. => WIP https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/165829

  • Antony

  • Michael Performance

  • Background saving for 24.04

    • Needs enabling by default for next release

    • Modified state tracking needs finishing.

    • More unit tests are good.

  • Caolan performance

  • Watchdog profiles

  • Considering CallbackFlushHandler + embedded “subTimer” 100ms combination

  • Bayram

  • (In Progress) : Bug (Enhancement) : “Support Power Query in XLSX”

  • Bugzilla: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158857

  • Patch: (WIP) https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/164290

    • Uploaded patch set 9-12

  • assign correct data type for “credentials” attribute (int → string)

  • change class “ConnectionModel” to struct ConnectionModel, remove the class ConnectionModel that outside of the namespace

  • add import&export support for

  • remove “ConnGrabBagVector” and “WriteGrabBagItemToStream()”

  • huge clean-up

  • change boolean attribute values from “true” to “1” and “false” to “0” using “ToPsz10()”

  • Now working on A11Y stuff

  • Skyler

  • Mobile releases

    • Waiting for an Apple review

    • While that’s going on, I’m solving some other bugs (e.g. viewport moving offscreen when inputs are selected, issues with mobile wizard submenus moving the screen, etc.)

  • Freeze rows/cols

    • Gokay: I think there is an automatic setting behaviour on mobile WRT Frozen rows and cols

  • Pranam

  • Gökay

  • Continues:

    • Replace lat & long logic with twips / pixels.

    • Sending new improvements.

  • Some small fixes and reviews.

  • Copy text with comments issue. Has a PR but needs to check the tests also.

  • Hubert

  • Calc: Hiding gridlines https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/8880 - https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/8066

    • Investigating a related issue with the function wizard

  • In read only mode restrict presentation mode if download is disabled or watermark enabled

  • Still Working on a Drupal integration

  • Gulsah

  • Automatic font color problem in dark mode when we have background color

  • Paused to working on Calc “Edit Current Style” gear on sidebar. Present on Writer but not in Calc.

    • It doesn’t implemented on core. So I need to work on core first

  • Calc formula auto complete feature

    • I’ll start

  • Neil

  • Andras

  • Pedro

  • Last fixes got in before the release and PR reviews

  • Timur

  • Méven

  • Cor

    • Reviewing/testing localized shortcuts, accesskeys etc

    • Now investigating templates and issues related to templates (how we can improve)

  • Forum (Mike D)

8 forum posts this week + Thanks Cor for answering some too.

April Weblate Stats

Critical Bug

Key Topics

2 potential bugs:

  1. Next events

  2. Next meeting

  • 09**/05/2024**