Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #190

Development
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Date: 17/10/2024

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

Attendees (write your name):

  • Anna, Pedro, Ezinne, Caolan, Darshan, Bayram, Hub, Gabriel, Sven, Meven, Szymon, Attila

Testing

  1. Release Schedule

  • Red CODE 24.04.9.1 will be released next week.

  • Mobile

    • iOS app released

    • Android app released

      • Improvements on the Clipboard

    • both are based on 24.04.7.3

  • 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 3

  • 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 → now merged!

    • 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)

  • Also https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/commit/07c2dfd12ba53117bab4f2a276b2c628e4e1f257 got merged ! → Thanks!

  • 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 & reviews.

  • Grid in impress → Done. There will be style changes.

  • Impress Notes view → Checking dark mode view.

  • Impress Notes view → currently the silde thumbnails do not get properly refreshed

  • Impress notes view → Done.

Next:

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

  • Hubert

    • No updates.

  • Gulsah

  • Hyperlink preview glitch - https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/9013

  • Better calc comment sign https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/7130

    • Desktop version has the expected triangle sign, But online shows the old red rectangle, I’ve investigated the pointed patch but didn’t help the find solution. It seems red rectangle still comes from core, we don’t create it on online. I’m debugging to find where we create the sign.

    • Paused to work to solve problem above.

  • Vivek

  • Sven

    • PRs for cool#9989 de-prio rendering invisible tiles delivered

      • Feature, using poll timeout as IDLE criteria to render invisible tiles - to-be-merged

      • Tile/TileCombined intersection enhancement - merged

    • cool#10228 Fix C++ unit tests instability, e.g. unit-wopi-save-on-exit

      • PR merged (two data-races in UnitBase)

    • 2nd PR cool#9833 ‘limited open connections’

      • PR merged

    • cool#10240 Handle data more efficiently via streaming and files

      • Reduce RAM usage for large data chunks

      • WIP

  • Timur

  • Just observing.

  • Méven

    • work in progress implementing curved lines for impress, thanks Gokay

  • Nick

Events

  1. LibreOffice conference happened

    1. https://conference.libreoffice.org/2024/

    2. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQAClQkZEm2rkWvU5bvCAXQ

Forum Topics

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Next meeting

  • 24/10/2024