Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #186

Development
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Date: 19/09/2024

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

Attendees (write your name):

  • Darshan, Ezinne, Hub, Gabriel, Attila, Bayram, Nick, João, Andras, Gülşah, Gökay Anna, Méven, Skyler, Caolán

Current instance @ https://github.com/CollaboraO, nline/online/commits/e2ed2f59

Testing

  1. Release Schedule

  • from master: CODE 24.04.8.1 “red” next week (week 39)

  • CODE green 24.04.7.2 was released last week (week 37)

  • Mobile

    • expecting to release again in early October (week 40)

  • 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 4

  • PR without commit message and lacking reviewers : browser: accessibility: fix min-content, max-content grid #9944 https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/9944/commits/3c65582cf983bbb833c3c67a82283caa67fce3cc

  • 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

  • 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

  • Andras

    • No update

  • Szymon

  • Fail cypress in CI on exceptions

  • Fixed TypeErrors

  • Reverted the scroll window change to fix Function Wizard in release

  • Reviews and merging RED phase PRs

  • 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

  • Aron

    • nothing to add

  • Caolan

  • Worked on some LanguageTool spellchecking issues → fixed

  • Auto committed Watchdog profiles

  • Bayram

  • (In Progress) - Enhancement - Calc: Autofill: show the value that the latest cell will get once the mouse button is released

  • next: Bug - Display the name of the respective document more completely and prominently in the title line

  • Skyler

  • Android build instructions

    • Just (just) merged – thanks Andras

  • Now looking at…

    • …clipboard for mobile apps, which is currently horribly broken

      • it looks like a regression from some desktop clipboard improvements

        • the nicest way to fix this is probably to tidy up the clipboard code a bit and make mobile/desktop work in more the-same-way than they have before…

    • …content controls for mobile apps

      • can turn them on, but generally do not have usable UI on mobile

  • Pranam

    • Calc formula tooltips now available in each users language (earlier it was based on language of the first user who loaded the document) → tested today, it works!

    • Various improvements for dark/light theme text in calc when font has automatic colors → let’s test this today

    • Fixed resolved comments would have highlighted on reload even if resolved comments are hidden.

  • Gökay

Continues:

  • Various bug fixes & reviews.

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Next:

Events

  1. OmniOpenCon

    1. https://omniopencon.org/

    2. September 26-28, 2024 in Bucharest

    3. Accepting now talk submissions (can be also remotely) till the end of this week (37)

Forum Topics

Next meeting

  • 26/09/2024