Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #17

Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #17

Date: Mar 18, 2021

Next meeting: Mar 25, 2021

All minutes published on: https://forum.collaboraonline.com/c/news/meeting-minutes/14

Attendees:

  • Pedro, Gabriel, Michael, Symon, Muhammet, Kendy, Andras, Thorsten, Pranam

    • team busy getting release out ~tomorrow

Community update (Muhammet)

  • 85+ new contributors (25+ code contributors) since the move to github

  • We’re now on Codetriage: https://www.codetriage.com/collaboraonline/online

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  • Workshop next week

  • Blog posts and new easy hacks are much appreciated! :slight_smile:

JSON Toolbar / Notebookbar changes (Szymon)

  • Still focused elsewhere.

Bind Mounting / Hard-linking (Gabriel)

  • All merged and complete – tested locally: looks good.

Cleanup lost children (Gabriel)

  • Patch from Noel on this too – for 100% CPU use on master/6.4 (Michael)

    • while (!m_bDialogDone) { Yield(); }

    • Yield exits when quitting – but the condition never met

    • so – this is now patched and in cp-6.4 / master

    • thought it wouldn’t be so useful when we discussed

  • will up-load patch anyway next week

CanvasTileLayer bits (Kendy)

  • CanvasTileLayer now merged to co-6-4 and cp-6.4 – going well

    • lots of bug fixing going on

    • some are queued.

  • Main changes recently

    • improve quality of scrolling

    • one more pending stopping flicker when zoom ends

Icon theming (css class names) (Pedro)

  • We have to do server side variable/color substitution → which is easy enough.

    • Needs resourcing.

Async Saving (Kendy)

  • Still in-progress.

  • Ash working on improving tests.

  • hopefully it can be merged to cp-6.4 in ~two weeks.

  • Poco is being removed from the ServerSocket

Release schedule bits (Andras)

  • Getting CODE 6.4.7 out ~tomorrow.

  • Tag today, announce tomorrow.

Next Meeting

Next meeting will take place on Thursday, Mar 25, 2021 at 11:00 am (UTC)