Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #177

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Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #177

Date: 18th Jul 2024

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

  1. Attendees (write your name):

  • Pedro, Bayram, Darshan, Ezinne, Hub, Andras, João, Méven, Anna, Michael, Aron, Caolán, Skyler, Vivek, Gökay, Attila, Szymon, Timur

  1. Testing

  2. Release Schedule

  • CODE: 24.04.5.1 released

  • CODE 24.04.4.2 To be released in 18 July

  • Next CODE 24.04.6.1 in 2 weeks

  • Mobile releases 24.04.4 (stable branch) Next week

    • iOS 24.04 Released this week

    • Android 24.04 is stalled

      • Blocker: android: some parts don’t render at some zoom levels (Rash will look at it)

  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

  • now 2

  • https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/9457 Added Szymon as reviewer (as he was already part of the discussion)

  • Nicolas

  • Gabriel

  • Now back

  • We have started to upgrade now to 23

  • Working now on something related to CSV and probably will backport it but I’m waiting for some feedback → https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/165905

    • this was mostly useful for converting CSV → PDF – because separators were not found

    • idea was to detect automatically at conversion.

    • First patch – adds character-set and separator settings

      • can use these when you pass the filter parameters.

      • Instead of separator & character set put ‘detect’

    • Would be nice to use it in the import dialog.

  • Would love to help out with design for serializing settings (Michael)

  • Julius

  • Getting much more frequent races causing a download of the file … when clicked. (Michael)

    • seems like a richdocuments / Nextcloud race… perhaps more plugins installed …

    • now have draw.io/BPMN/etc. etc. in the list here … probably related to this.

    • Finally have a reproducer on our instance

  • New releases out last week with some fixes

    • richdocumentscode setup improvements to make requests async

    • Generally improve background connectivity checks

    • Guest name picker redesign

    • Fix when renaming files with manual file locking enabled

    • Fixed group limit settings

  • Thorsten

    • [No update]

  • Attila

    Working on some customer task, may not really related to cool.

  • Andras

  • Szymon

  • Following the users in writer – fixed another case

    • When the user uses the insert new page → the view remains unchanged but the user is already down

  • Added tooltip to menubuttons (color pickers for example)

  • 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

  • Add ‘title’ attribute to iframe for accessibility (PR #9444) => Merged

  • Accessibility: Add ARIA roles for buttons #9500

  • (has local patch) Typescript conversion of Ruler.js. Next will create base class for ruler which will help to remove duplication of code occurring in horizontal and vertical ruler file.

    • Maybe we can then hunt why it takes too long to re appear when switching pages

  • Next:

    • More improvements on accessibility stuff

    • add currency drop down in writer app.

  • Aron

    • nothing to add

  • Caolan performance

  • Worked on some linux namespace stuff for better container experience

    • merged now. So now “make run” and “make check” should use linux namespaces, so for dev shouldn’t need sudo anymore. Better container integration flows from this, defaulted on for --enable-experimental and can be explicit with
      --o:mount_namespaces=true

  • dns stalls seen in watchdog profiles, fix merged

    • might be nice to poke at the warning spew (Michael)

      • I can see a case of this locally now I believe

  • Watchdog profiles

  • Bayram

  • (In Progress) - Enhancement - tdf#158857: Keep Power Query when saving XLSX

    • core (PR1): https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/164290 (Merged)

      • Calc can import&export xl/connections.xml now → added to 25.2 release notes.

      • tested on Excel/Calc → works very well - did not encounter any crash etc…

    • core (PR2): (xl/drawings/*) - (WIP) → Continue to work on this.

  • (To Test) - Accessibility Writer - Accessible Overlay Content: Improve new tooltips

  • Skyler

  • Working on Android issues

  • Elliot

    • On holiday

  • Pranam

  • Gökay

Continues:

  • Separating global.js file from HTML.

Next:

  • Hunting for leaflet bits

  • Some small fixes and reviews.

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

  • Hubert

  • No updates

  • Gulsah

  • Invert calc background color feature

  • Changing dark mode affects other users link colors.

  • Vivek

    • No updates to share from my side, Thanks!

  • Timur

  • Méven

  • Cor

    • Found the (easy) cause of a single keyboard shortcut issue/regression on Desktop, caused by a COOL commit.
      Gökay will patch that.

    • Dived into presentations/templates (weeks ago) trying to understand the cascading of styles and DF, which is ‘more interesting’ than e.g. Writer. Helps to clean up stuff. Later will look into my macro’s (from previous work) for cleaning/standardizing existing slides.

  • Easy hack:

- admin warning for under-powered systems => Assiged to rparth07

- “Format > Columns” Menu: Style Dropdown Text Misaligned #7591

- Android: Dark Mode “Menu Selection” = Light-on-Light Highlight+Text #7503

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  2. Next meeting

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