Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #183

Development
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Date: 29/08/2024

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

Attendees (write your name):

  • Pedro, Darshan, Bayram, Gulsah, Ezinne, Attila, Nick, Richard, Szymon, Anna, Gabriel, Caolan, Meven, Hubert, Joao, Skyler, Aron, Andras, Antranig, Sahil

Testing

  1. Release Schedule

  • CODE RED 24.04.7.1 to be released today/tomorrow

  • Android 24.04 is released

    • Android blocker’s fixed → awaiting for Ezinne’s confirmation to press the button

  • 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

  • Use $host instead of $http_host #9902

  • Pranam’s PR also needs reviewer but still awaiting for CI to pass “added missing header file #9924 “

  • Antranig Vartanian

    • Wants to contribute any FreeBSD work

    • Andras Timar: Another contributor was working on that → Gleb P. was the community maintainer

    • Antranig: it seems the image you were using was removed from Cirrus community

      • So we ended up disabling the Cirrus CI (FreeBSD) because the service was broken

      • I have talked with them and it seems they are using the Google cloud platform. But this means that every time we have a new version we need to wait for Google’s approval

      • Demo server is up and running

      • The goal for the end of the year would be

  • Sahil

    • LO Contributor from the last year

    • GSOC → UI customization

      • But there is room for improvement, I feel that it should be much more flexible

    • Little experience with coding

    • https://collaboraonline.github.io/gsoc/

  • Nicolas

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  • Ankush

    • coder – working in finance industry

      • working on providing them with a tool here

      • started learning about COOL – two to three weeks back.

    • Some questions in the forum

    • Interested in improving finance bits …

      • once setup – will be looking at features …

    • Forum discussion :

  • Gabriel

  • 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

    • Seems the viewer API has a design flaw in that regard

    • Our files engineering-team is looking into having a work around

  • Small bugfix release of richdocuments later (probably today)

    • branding customization fix for logo

    • iframe accessibility

    • Fix issue where files were locked during preview generation with network timeouts which could have lead to failed saves

      • There is still a risk, but less likely, currently thinking about better ways to handle this

  • Nextcloud 30 upcoming, currently in beta

    • Integration with extract/transform document API

    • Create new documents with form from templates

  • Nextcloud Conference is happening Sept 14-15, contributor week afterwards

  • Nightly CODE docker image for easier testing

  • Thorsten

    • [No update]

  • Attila

No update

Continues:

  • Various bug fixes.

  • Separating JS code from HTML:

    • In review. To be merged in RED Code hopefully.

Next:

  • Hunting for leaflet bits

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

  • Hubert

  • Gulsah

  • Changing dark mode affects other users link colors.

  • Insert a new slide to specific position in online

  • Mobile invert background item has not status checkmark

  • Automatic color text inserted on white background slide not visible in Dark mode

    • There was an old WIP patch

      • https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/167029

      • Here I’m trying to create a new hierarchi to decide automatic font color. We should know app color, document color, document background color (if filled with a color) and textbox/shape color. To decide automatic font color we should know all that info. There are some challenges about getting background colors. I’m trying to solve…

  • Vivek

  • Sven

    • Completed cool#9621 – re-use a socket after sending

      • cool#9621: Resolve POST fileserver request

    • Working on cool#9833: Handle limited open Connections (keepalive connections, cool#9621)

    • Misc reviews

  • Timur

  • Just observing.

  • Méven

  • Nick

    • Working on making new jsdialog type ‘navigator’, separating it from sidebar

      • Reusing the sidebar builder so not a lot of duplicate code

      • Running into issues receiving the full json online side

GH Issues and Forum Topics

Next events

Next meeting

  • 05/09/2024