Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #196

[darshan]

Date: 28/11/2024

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

Attendees (write your name):

• Andras, Anna, Attila, Banobe, Caolán, Chris, Darshan, Gülşah, Hub, João, Méven, Ezinne, Pedro, Richard, Skyler, Szymon

Testing

Files – ( password is coolmeeting)

• Calc - https://staging-perf.eu.collaboraonline.com/nextcloud/index.php/s/wG2BJ56c9qb5E9c

• Writer - https://staging-perf.eu.collaboraonline.com/nextcloud/index.php/s/RM3TNkjbHMcaGHb

• Impress - https://staging-perf.eu.collaboraonline.com/nextcloud/index.php/s/NyfHoJX8S6SzCRo

• Features, user flows (Anyone can add here the things they need to test)

  • [Application] [Requester]: what to test

1. Release Schedule

• CODE 24.04.10.1 is released.

  • Next week we will have 24.04.10.2

• Mobile will be released by the end of November

  • iOS app

  • Android app

    • currently Ezinne is testing based on test results the decision will be made to release on Friday or in the next week!

• 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

• Nice to see the improvement from Caolan cypress tests with --enable-debug and trace logging fail #10570 https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/10570

• Nicolas

• Gabriel

• Julius

• Ongoing work to improve mentions by Elizabeth https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/10556

• Implement startPresentation parameter https://github.com/nextcloud/richdocuments/pull/4209

  • Esc key seem to don’t work at all in this case

• Pending bug fix for federated share

• Bug fix for PDF files (mostly cosmetic)

• Thorsten

  • [No update]

• Banobe

  • Has now Collabora Online running under a Ubuntu VM within MacOS

    • Using VSCode on MacOS via the ssh vscode extension

  • Going though readmes files (good to look at those even the ones that are in subfolders) and easy hacks

    • Pedro: I will help with easy hacks and other issues that you can start to work on

• Attila

• Still working on collecting command usage information.
  Resolved the multiuser problem, merged lot of commands to make it as small as possible, added some more logic (like ctrl/shft recognition), made better report.
  I made it post-process to keep command order, but now now I write it back to run-time, as it I more important then order.

• Extract and transform API → insert slide into presentations.
  Added uno command for transform, and tested it reached into impress.
  Checked extract, found a way it can reach impress, but not made it working yet.

• Andras

  • small fixes wrt. coolwsd.xml and configure script

• Szymon

• Improving TreeView widget

  • fixed layout in autofilter

  • working on context menu for tree view – need some additional core work and do it async for LOK

• Slideshow in window being idle when main window is hidden – “pause screen” is done so user is not confused that slideshow is not reacting - https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/10598

• fixed regression in spellchecking: no “missing dictionary” warning

• fixed font name box not working after shape selection in Online

• Darshan

  • PR:

    • Accessibility : Enhance Drop-down Accessibility with Arrow Key Navigation #10378 https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/10378 => MERGED

    • Add keyboard navigation for shapes and connectors https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/10615 => MERGED

    • Presenter console : Disable zoom after limit cross https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/10573 => MERGED

• Aron

  • nothing to add

• Caolan

• Working on some autotext and configuration features

• Auto committed Watchdog profiles

  • https://github.com/caolanm/profiles/tree/co-24.04/watchdog

• Bayram

• (To Review) - Enhancement - Show “Delete contents” info when using auto-fill for deleting cells (GH#9913) : https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/9913

  • core1: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/175827 (Merged - 24.04)

  • core2: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/176557 (Merged - 24.04)

  • core3: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/176565 (To Review - 24.04)

• Skyler

• Video placeholder sizing

  • Looks like it could be due to a missized placeholder being cached…

• Mobile releases

  • If you’d like to test the builds, you can get them from our snapshots page or from our testflight!

    • https://www.collaboraoffice.com/downloads/Collabora-Office-Android-Snapshot/

    • https://testflight.apple.com/join/TEnBWi68

• Pranam

  • Imroving interoperability to import formulas from MSO

  • Fixing some async dialogues freezing new users joining

• Gökay

Continues:

• Various bug fixes & reviews.

  • Some small bugs in master branch.

• Impress Notes view - dark mode issue → Fixed.

• Impress Notes view – slide refreshes → Fixed.

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

• Hubert

  • coolconfig: allow setting admin user/passwd from command line. https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/10616

  • postmessage to hide a whole tab in the notebook bar

  • Still in progress: WordPress connector.

    • WiP repo location https://github.com/hfiguiere/collabora-wordpress/

• Gulsah

• Excel fails to open a number of sample spreadsheets roundtripped to XLSX

  • Master: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/177222 (merged)

  • co-24.04: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/177016 (merged)

  • co-23.05: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/177476 (building)

• New “Show all comments” button fixes

  • Button is added to compact view

  • Group the show all comments and show resolved comments button on tabbed view

  • https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/10599 (merged)

• Autofill: the selection color doesn’t get reset when user dismisses the context menu

  • Progressing…

• Next:

  • Fix the comment sign ratio on zoom

  • Add new status to status bar for the Show all comments

• Sven

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

    • WIP using poll timeout as IDLE criteria to render invisible tiles

    • Tile/TileCombined intersection enhancement – merged

  • cool#10298 Regression fix in Socket::shutdown() (manual background save)

  • Reworked (split) cool#9833 ‘limited open connections’

    • cool#10334 merged keep UDS WS alive, …

    • cool#10366 merged net::Defaults: Revert and re-apply revised code

    • cool#10370 merged Implement MaxConnection Limit (2)

    • cool#10398 merged Cleanups + UTs, Drop WS Ping Timeout

    • cool#10375 open net::Defaults.maxTCPConnections system defaults, …

    • cool#10386 open Robust ServerSocket not throw (EOL) on recoverable accept failure

    • WIP proposal for more fine grained limitation handling

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

    • Reduce RAM usage for large data chunks

    • WIP, discussed metrics (idle criteria)

• Timur @Anna

• Just observing.

• Méven

  • Add css to context menu entries to allow css tweaking #10351 IN REVIEW

  • Working on Wopi connection check #9202

• Chris

  • Fix for intermittent searchbar-spec test failure #10585

  • Follow up on the 0 size canvas that some integrators seems to have (Nextcloud) #10612

  • Working on tweaking #10509

• Nick

  • Correctly receiving jsdialog online now, and have basic navigator working now

    • WIP: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/172594/2

    • WIP: https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/9933

    • Need to:

      • Create open/close button

      • Fix navigator closing

      • Combine with slide sorter for impress

  • Back at university now so will have less time for collabora

• Rashesh

  • new address input field added to calc which adds ability to create named ranges

  • working on @mention

    • https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/10047 & https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/7923

    • https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/10273

  • Filed a nextcloud issue regarding mention: https://github.com/nextcloud/richdocuments/issues/4169

    • https://github.com/nextcloud/richdocuments/pull/4171 → still not in

  • https://github.com/nextcloud/richdocuments/issues/4276 → discussion aroundMaster slides import from templates folder

Events

FOSDEM dev-room: LibreOffice Technology

• https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/10/28/fosdem-2025-libreoffice-technology-devroom-call-for-papers/

• Deadline 1st December → this week.

• Talks:

  • COOL UI / UX command tracking & analysis (Attila)

  • Nextcloud Office built on COOL & LibreOffice Technology (Julius/Elizabeth)

  • Improved comments & mentions (Pranam)

  • LibreOffice Technology atomic / threading improvements (Caolan)

  • Optimizing AutoText & settings for multi-tenant collaboration (Caolan)

  • COOL – LibreOffice Technology in the browser (Michael)

  • Automatic Documents, packed with content & signed (Michael)

  • Beautiful remote web dialog widgets built on LOT (Szymon)

  • New, shiny WebGL presentations in the browser - presenter console + animations (Szymon)

  • COOL / Mobile LibreOffice Technology (Skyler)

LibreOffice Conference 2024 (Recap):

• Michael : Building a successful Open Source business around LibreOffice – LibreOffice Conference 2024

  • Unleash the power of Collabora Online

  • Collabora keynote

• Attila: improved Fontwork Text Placement – LibreOffice Conference 2024

• Skyler: Implementing STYLEREF: a journey in compatibility

• Justin: Bug for Bug: layoutInCell interoperability

• Pranam: Conditional Formatting dialog cleanup

• Caolan Spreadsheet Parallel Optimizations

• Tomaz PDF Annotations in LibreOffice Draw

• Miklos: Meet the Engineering Steering Committee (ESC)

Forum Topics

• Top forum topics from last week:

  • Android Save Issues, Word count crash: https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/android-save-issues/3169 => Thanks Skyler for working on this https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/10564

  • Dive Into Pivot Tables with Collabora Online! #FeatureFriday https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/dive-into-pivot-tables-with-collabora-online-featurefriday/3176/1

  • MacOS: Collabora Office: Random crashes when moving window via windows management https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/macos-collabora-office-random-crashes-when-moving-window-via-windows-management/3004 => Lots of discussion happening recently need to see this issue

  • Nextcloud integration behind authelia https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/nextcloud-integration-behind-authelia/3179/1

  • Basic user support questions:

    • Removing columns https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/removing-columns/3182/3

    • how to locate the specified comment and make it selected after opening the document in edit mode? https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/locate-to-the-specified-comment/3183

Next meeting

• 05/12/2024