Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #30

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Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #30

Date: June 24, 2021

Next meeting: July 01, 2021

All minutes published on: https://forum.collaboraonline.com/c/news/meeting-minutes/14

Attendees:

• Gabriel, Ezinne, Symon, Cor, Andras, Nicolas, Michael, Muhammet, Gokay, Pedro

Community update (Muhammet)

• Still need more C++ tasks for people to mentor

  • More is much appreciated.

  • https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22Easy+Hack%22

• We’re now listed on the First Contributions platform: https://firstcontributions.github.io/

• Next: Community Roundup

  • Publishing tomorrow! =)

Interactive Performance (Michael)

• Mert’s wavy-line bits going through CI

• Pranam’s image scaling profiling / Andras.

  • several ideas here …

  • found lots of excessive immediate painting going on.

• More Profiling work to close gaps → Tor

  • been merged to cp-6.4 mostly.

• Dennis → working on improving table pieces too.

• Henry → fixing calc interactivity & drag and drop selection.

• JS stringification of images performance & GC saving (Michael)

• Benchmark with six people typing into a document – trying to measure improvements there (Michael)

Native sidebars (Szymon)

• working on other popups than the color picker

  • implemented these; now trying to do some cleanup in the code.

  • Now we have line-styles working

• Next:

  • Looking for other instances of popups to fix.

  • some fixes for multiple-users needed, missing some updates.

• Pedro will start to theme layout soon.

• gitpod should now be working vs co-2021 for Andreas K & others

  • so should be easy to help out with the sidebar / CSS

• Szymon did a demo of the new sidebar

• Interested in difference between sidebar & toolbar colors (Gabriel)

  • should be in-sync, but - perhaps with new sidebar may help (Szymon)

Async Saving (Michael)

• Should now all be merged … using it now

• Reviewed & merged the WOPI access SSL context cleanup from Ash just now.

• ~nearly done – bar the bug fixing.

Pull requests (Muhammet)

• one awaiting a response from the contributor – needs their DCO / sign-off

• new mattermost plugin committer: adding features, requesting things, and seeking reviews.

  • Muhammet and Kendy trying to help out there.

Commit Access

Stability bits (Gabriel)

• Any joy with ASAN ? (Michael)

  • not yet.

• Don’t see any more crashes related to mpWindowImpl bits

  • have some other crashes that are un-related under heavy use

    • still chasing these

  • but overall some improvements.

• Next step – testing cp-6.4.9

• missing a docker/ folder ?

  • Where do you look for that ? (Andras)

    • its only on master.

    • can take the scripts from master and build any version including 6.4

Ongoing work (Michael)

• Szymon implemented support for HTTP 302 re-direction from WOPI servers

  • see IBM/FileNet using this to move from http → https etc.

• Change tracking as comments fixed by Dennis.

• Some CI intermittency fixed by Michael

• missing Kendy’s overview here.

Design Bits

• hope to see lots of aesthetic wins in calc

• improvements in welcome dialog

• need to ensure they are tested & stable.

• New connecting animation / busy popup

  • elegant way → one SVG, and theming it – depending on the app type

    • so it looks nice in each app without duplicating SVG or code behind.

  • Want to improve to target mobile & tablet

  • Good stuff – improving dialogs coming from core

    • will affect online positively: eg. CSV / text import

CI / Cypress bits (Pedro)

• Need to make it more stable, thankful for Rashesh’s work

• a problem in 6.4 – perhaps why many pull requests are not passing

  • good news: found the culprit – Canvas from the sidebar

  • have two options:

    • try to close the sidebar before we do any tests regarding annotations – perhaps easiest

      • or

    • try to find out what’s up with the sidebar in 6.4 with annotations

      • closing sidebar – can give a ghost panel there.

  • Can we file a ticket for Dennis on the sidebar/annotations – and get CI green again quickly for now.

Release schedule bits (Timar)

• CODE 6.4.10

  • plan to build & test it tomorrow friday

  • any volunteer testers welcome at 13:00 CET on IRC in #cool-dev

  • release planned for next week.

LibreOffice Conference (Muhammet)

• June 30th the deadline for applications – we have ~1 week to get papers in.

Next Meeting

Next meeting will take place on Thursday, July 01, 2021 at 10:00 am (UTC)