Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #188

Development Meeting Minutes
1

Date: 03/10/2024

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

Attendees (write your name):

  • Pedro, Bayram, Darshan, Gulsah, Skyler, Anna, Attila, Caolan, Joao, Thorsten, Hub, Gabriel, Sven, Gokay, Timur

Testing

  1. Release Schedule

  • from master: CODE 24.04.8.1 “red” this week

  • CODE green 24.04.8.2 next week

  • Mobile

    • in the progress of making a release now – snapshot/betas are available for Android/iOS.

      • Fixing an iOS issue w/ version numbering before sending to QA.

      • Expecting public release to be ~Monday/Tuesday next week (although this may change if QA finds serious release blockers)

  • 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 1

  • 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

    • Busy with the conference https://omniopencon.org/

      • Some time for hacking and bring some new contributoes

      • Plan to do next year with more time to prepare

    • browser: add last modification and document status at the bottom #4531

  • 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

  • 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

  • Working on comment @mentions

  • Remove a synchronous DNS lookup and do the work earlier inexisting async DNS

  • 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

    • core: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/172589 (Merged - 24.04 - master)

    • PR: https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/10037 (WIP)

      • core: send row&column address (e.g. 1!R3C5) for correct location (thanks to Caolan for the idea)

      • then use _parseCellRange() and _cellRangeToTwipRect() for cellRange (this is also used by “comments”) (Caolan)

      • finally, auto-fill popup location is now correctly calculated. we can show the popup in the correct/desired place. (bottom-right of the cell) (with help from Gökay – thanks!)

      • now: trying to fix other small bugs → refactor → test with a spreadsheet that uses “view, freeze rows and columns” …

  • (Closed) - Display the name of the respective document more completely and prominently in the title line → was under review → tested & closed

  • Skyler

  • Core file formats work is merged! May need supporting patches from integrators (e.g. Nextcloud does not know about the new files yet) but generally these are openable in Collabora Online

  • Working on exporting impress presentations to different formats

    • Currently looking at flash – since as it’s a legacy file format that is still (unfortunately) in use

    • Support was removed from LibreOffice a while ago, so going back over that patch to see if I can back out sensibly

  • Mobile releases are in progress – there’s an Android snapshot and an iOS testflight. Currently fixing iOS version numbers before sending to QA for a look-over. Likely public release date is early next week (Monday, Tuesday)

  • 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.

  • Grid in impress → Adding switch buttons and implementing snapping to grid functionality.

  • Impress notes view. Switch from notes to normal view

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

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Next meeting

  • 10/10/202