# Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #58

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**Created:** [February 3, 2022, 11:50am UTC](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/collabora-online-weekly-meeting-58/862 "2022-02-03T11:50:51Z")\
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# Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #58

Date: Feb 03, 2022

Next meeting: 10/02/2022

All minutes published on: [Meeting Minutes - Collabora Online](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/c/news/meeting-minutes/14)

## Attendees (write your name):

- Pedro, Szymon, Gabriel, Cor, Andras, Michael, Pedro, Ezinne, Gokay

## Welcome breakage

- odd behaviour of welcome screen – Kendy filing a ticket.

## Community update (Pedro)

### GitHub activity:

- npm problem (discuss later)

- New issues:

### Forum activity:

- Reports of Office.vue problem: [Office.vue:198 FAILED](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/office-vue-198-failed/855)
  - It seems Pedro and Gokay experienced similar, we already discussed this with nextclouders

- Asks for examples of how to create plugins
  - similar SDK docs needed for plugins.

- Richdocuments Pr (from Henry) got merged → for the infobar
  - Julius was mentioning that maybe we could somehow link to the NC settings
    - They have a panel / area re: updates …

- Problems creating new documents from custom ott template
  - patches merged to richdocuments.

**Design bits (Pedro)**

- Improvemetns re: status bar
- CSS vars wins from Andreas K
- notebookbar – new ‘view’ tab.
- Fix Basic shapes regression
- Rename old loleaflet stuff

**What we’re up to (Szymon)**

- Optimized image operations – especially rotation
  - should be much faster.
  - Improving the UX for this when network is slower

- Some clipboard problem in co-2021 around impress clipboard problems
  - Szymon’s patch fixes that.

- RTL – style preview fixing work todo
- Working on improvements from master-slides (Pranam)
  - to handle this better.

**Schedule & update (Andras)**

- Release next 21.11 update 3rd week of Feb
  - will release CODE a week before.

**Nextcloud bits (Julius)**

- Recovering from vacation.
- People trying to open CSV with COOL + Nextcloud (Pedro)
  - all agreed – default should be COOL if it is present.
  - Small problem: their mime-type API not designed for two options for the same thing.
  - Perhaps can always open in one option – but expose ‘open with COOL’ in there as a button.
  - More important for PDFs
    - reports of people, don’t know you can annotate your PDFs in COOL.
    - Have a button for it.

- Maintenance release of richdocuments with template fixes soon
  - ?

- Looking at the notebookbar design
  - ongoing work – merging more pieces this week.
  - Goal – soon after FOSDEM hope to have fewer components, and a more minimal design.
    - Lots of people switching to notebookbar on NC
      - see it by screenshots of reporting.

  - Need focus on this.

## FOSDEM

- This weekend – so please get involved.
  - Lots of talks there in the LibreOffice Technology dev-room
    - [FOSDEM 2022 - LibreOffice Technology devroom](https://fosdem.org/2022/schedule/track/libreoffice_technology/)

  - Also on the Ubuntu stand
    - [https://stands.fosdem.org/stands/ubuntu/](https://stands.fosdem.org/stands/ubuntu/)

**1&1 bits (Gabriel)**

- Performed collaborative editing test for 5 → 8 people for an nour
  - general results: app looks far better than previous versions
  - no crashes experienced, no critical issue
  - perhaps didn’t press the right button; but tested collaborative editing
  - like the new version.
  - Decided to focus on 21.11 rather than 6.4

- Started to evaluate 21.11 application:
  - testing in single user mode types of documents
  - schedule is different – session spans to end of next week.

- Did find some important issues:
  - annoying – open a new page in a text document – takes 1 minute in collaborative editing: put cursor on last line of the last page, and press – ‘enter’
    - really bad (Michael)
    - deleted all the content, shrinked to 1 page – after that, no new pages.

  - Can you reproduce & work out what is going on (Michael)
    - file a ticket – and give some simple steps …

  - Saving:
    - seems after the 1st save – any modifications not saved
      - to confirm this …

    - Ash is wrestling ‘’Save’ heavily in master (Michael)
      - poke Ash fast, and file ASAP …

    - Will test with the latest builds (Gabriel)
      - expectation – if bug is confirmed.

- Alex’s side – not able to join today:
  - created a follow-up re: processing of URLs.
  - Moving the processing to core → an issue field: [Follow up task regarding processing links in slideshow (presentation files) · Issue #4093 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/4093)

- Evaluation was really positive of 21.11

## GSOC (Michael)

- Easy-projects for new people need filing … tag them in tickets ?
- Ideal project: has two mentors …
  - takes some months for an intern.
  - Is not mission critical – but nice-to-have
    - eg. Dark Mode

  - Android’y / mobile UX stuff particularly.
  - Navigator in Writer → exposing that ? (Cor)
    - might not be too hard.
    - Can file the ticket (Szymon)
      - key is making it work in mobile too …
      - **AI:** need a “easyproject” tag or somesuch (Pedro)

  - Previews of fonts in various boxes (Szymon)
    - requires an extension of JSDialogs in the font-list-box …

  - **AI:** chase Mert & Kendy for mobile ideas **(Gokay)**

**Easy bug(s) (Pedro)**

- Szymon created two easy-hacks.

**Next Meeting**

10/01/2022