# Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #21

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**Created:** [April 23, 2021, 1:24pm UTC](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/collabora-online-weekly-meeting-21/327 "2021-04-23T13:24:05Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 1:24pm UTC](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/collabora-online-weekly-meeting-21/327/1 "2021-04-23T13:24:05Z")

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**Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #20**

Date: April 22, 2021  
Next meeting: April 29, 2021  
All minutes published on: [https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/collabora-online-weekly-meeting-21](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/collabora-online-weekly-meeting-21)

**Attendees:**

- Kendy, Thorsten, Nicolas, Gabriel, Symon, Vivek, Aron, Andreas K, Pedro, Andras, Rashesh, Ezinne,

**Community update (Muhammet)**

- 90+ new contributors (25+ code contributors) since the move to github
- Upcoming Getting Started Open-Source/COOL Dev on GitHub workshop later next week
  - Announcement at the beginning of next week, workshop near the end.
  - A repetition of the Turkish workshop in English

- Blog posts and new easy hacks are much appreciated! 🙂

**JSON Toolbar / Notebookbar changes (Szymon)**  
- Still focused elsewhere.

**Cleanup lost children (Gabriel)**

- all done.

**CanvasTileLayer bits (Michael)**

- ongoing – and looking good; drop the topic – chase bugs.

**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.
  - [Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #15 - #2 by pedro.silva](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/collabora-online-weekly-meeting-15/226/2)

**Async Saving (Michael)**

- All the test are passing …
- 12k more lines (of 22k lines) to review … for the back-port to cp-6.4

**UX bits (Pedro)**

- Welcome to Vivek
  - a web-developer working to enhance the JS experience, and a 2nd year student.
  - Merged the first two PRs (Pedro)
    - 2nd patch merged by Pranam – improving the full-screen button

- Trying to improve UX bug reports with step by step instructions & details
  - so more people can easily get to work on these smaller easier-hacks

- Great to see new bug reports from Andreas
- Bug report around mobile (Andreas)
  - can write down which CSS isn’t useful for desktop – don’t know JS dialog bits
  - we see a lot of commands – not useful on desktop; don’t want to hurt mobile – because can’t test it.
  - Just create the issue (Pedro)
    - goal is to have quicker loading / faster rendering JS + CSS for desktop
    - ordering problems with JS – something of a nightmare (Michael)
    - focus just on CSS files for desktop first (Pedro)

**Gitpod (Pedro)**

- the default editor has changed recently – some people are lost
- there is a new forum post that explains how to change to the previous / old editor you are used to:
  - [https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/gitpod-has-changed-its-default-editor](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/gitpod-has-changed-its-default-editor)

- can’t use ‘g’ script on gitpod to submit easily currently
  - but can add permissions to gitpod in your personal profile
    - and so can push easily.

  - …. [!] ….

**CI bits (Andras)**

- CI improved for co-6.4 branch – to check master against.
- co-2021 on cypress is unblocked too
- Rashesh is working to improve cypress against core / co-2021

**Pull requests (Michael)**

- nothing lingering.

**Nextcloud & Staging (Andreas)**

- default to Notebookbar ? …
- did a gap analysis (Szymon)
  - missing bits from classic were added to notebookbar
  - probably nothing is missing.

- Should we switch to Notebookbar yet ? (Michael)
  - hold off it a little bit – wait a bit more (Pedro)
    - lots of changes / improvements entering
    - wait – a bit more confidence to advocate for that.

  - Expect this for co-2021 (Michael)
    - if not sooner.
    - Would be nice to have it next month (Pedro)
      - in one or two more weeks.

- Will help to improve the notebookbar layout (Andras)
  - to make it more consistent.

**Ongoing work (Kendy)**

- lots of bug-fixing around CODE 6.4.8
- some performance work (Michael)
  - Tor doing profiling bits

- next big thing coming – Szymon’s sidebar work for co-2021
  - development about to start next week.
  - How long to get something on the screen to pixel-polish ? (Szymon)
    - sidebar completely re-worked in 7.1 – will probably need a lot of fixes
    - not like enabling it for desktop.
    - something visible – will be easy …

- Attached window for color selector - to sidebar button (Nicolas)
  - is it possible to make those dialogs not attached; a modal dialog (?)
  - yes – one reason to do this in the 1st place (Kendy)
    - selector – JS as when we open toolbar selector.
    - Then possible eg. to replace sidebar pane with color selector temporarily (Michael)

**Release schedule bits (Andras)**

- Released CODE 6.4.8 early this week
  - by end of the week – expect to have COL 6.4.8 with more improvements
  - will re-release CODE too.

- CODE 6.4.9
  - blocking on async saving / bulk writing work review …
    - one to two weeks out (?)

- New core branch co-2021 polishing for next months

**Next Meeting**  
Next meeting will take place on Thursday, April 29, 2021 at 10:00 am (UTC)