Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #19
Date: April 08, 2021
Next meeting: April 15, 2021
All minutes published on: https://forum.collaboraonline.com/c/news/meeting-minutes/14
Attendees:
- Pranam, Cor, Muhammet, Michael, Gabriel, Rashesh, Andras, Aron, Ezinne
Kendy, Pedro, Rizal, Nicolas
Community update (Muhammet)
-
90+ new contributors (25+ code contributors) since the move to github
-
Workshop hosted by Turkey Open Source Platform
-
Trying to get into open-source development on github, around 200 participated
- in Turkish this time.
-
There will be an English follow-up – repeating the same calling for participants too later.
-
CodeQL check for C++ now enabled on GitHub
- A number of alerts. Can be candidates for new easyhacks.
-
New time for COOL meetings? (Daylight saving changes etc.)
- from UTC 11am → UK time 11am, European time 10am
-
Blog posts and new easy hacks are much appreciated!
JSON Toolbar / Notebookbar changes (Szymon)
- Still focused elsewhere.
Cleanup lost children (Gabriel)
-
patch reviewed & merged.
-
fixed merged …
-
issue around multiple loolwsd instances
-
check that kit process spawned by current forkit process
-
if forkit crashes … can re-start – if one of the older processes
becomes an orphan – we will skip it.-
Check the kit process forked by current or is an orphan.
- If parent is pid == 1 – is not enough.
-
-
-
Lets leave it for now.
CanvasTileLayer bits (Kendy)
-
enabled transparent / client-side rendered background of tiles in calc.
- don’t need to send empty tiles left & right when moving around.
-
continuing to fix CanvasTileLayer
Icon theming (css class names) (Pedro)
-
We have to do server side variable/color substitution → which is easy enough.
- Needs resourcing.
-
Added a comment / archive to the forum with an example for future reference.
Async Saving (Kendy)
-
Ash has finished many of the test updates, and plans to finish them soon
- then we can switch on async-saving ~soonish.
Pull requests (Kara)
-
working on table markers (Pedro)
-
just a few – but all have reviewers.
Release schedule bits (Andras)
-
End of this week – a small bug-fix 6.4.7-next release
-
Later a new CODE 6.4.8 with async save – in some weeks.
-
New core branch co-2021 with back-porting of patches ongoing.
Forum (Pedro)
-
new users posting questions with links need approval first
-
someone having trouble building for iOS – which is nice, the instructions were improved today.
-
Will ping Tor if not solved.
-
https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/how-to-build-the-ios-version/286
-
How to handle core fixes (Gabriel)
-
First get it into core master gerrit (Michael)
-
cherry-pick it to distro/collabora/cp-6.4 – which will eventually
be distro/collabora/co-2021- stable branches eg. cp-6.4 need another review
-
related to dynamically changing the UX
-
Next Meeting
Next meeting will take place on Thursday, April 15, 2021 at 11:00 am (UK time)