# Collabora Weekly meeting #47

**URL:** <https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/collabora-weekly-meeting-47/703>\
**Category:** Meeting Minutes\
**Created:** [November 4, 2021, 11:51am UTC](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/collabora-weekly-meeting-47/703 "2021-11-04T11:51:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 4, 2021, 11:51am UTC](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/collabora-weekly-meeting-47/703/1 "2021-11-04T11:51:50Z")

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**Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #47**

Date: Nov 04, 2021

Next meeting: Nov 11, 2021

All minutes published on: [https://forum.collabor](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/c/news/meeting-minutes/14)[aonline.com/c/news/meeting-minutes/14](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/c/news/meeting-minutes/14)

**Attendees (write your name):**

- Pedro, Gabriel, Alexandru, Andras, William, Kendy, Michael, Thorsten, Szymon,

**Community update (Pedro)**

- Hacktoberfest
  - didn’t have time to check what we achieved from the fest …
  - got a couple of new contributors – running ‘git log’ on community website
    - got 8 awesome new contributors:
      - Jaime Pereira
      - noel
      - Marc Rodrigues
      - LUCANM
      - Mariana Beldi
      - Sachin Hatikankan
      - PareshHK
      - Shubham Ingale

  - will create a social media post about this.
  - Learned from this:
    - people can initially look like newbies – with troubles around git
    - but may not be as new as they look – not much experience with git & re-basing
    - but after a bit of help – they can do great stuff.

- Online side:
  - Hugo with five contributions
  - Julius also contributed a lot
  - others wanted to contribute, but didn’t do a lot in that month.

- Some forum activity:
- A positive month.

## Test-fest **(Pedro)**

- Nice to see a lot of people who were not aware of our demo servers
- and/or possibility to test it without the setup yourself
- came on-board and tried to test; had some server problems initially
- could have got more people to test in parallel.
- Some bug reports:
- [GitHub · Where software is built](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A21.11-0)
  - have seen Ezinne answering in some of these (Kendy)
  - four already closed (Pedro)

- added a bug (Gabriel)
  - related to spreadsheet files with many comments.
    - [Loading/Editing a spreadsheet file full with comments is slow. · Issue #3520 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/3520)
    - A performance issue – a pull-request for this was already created by Dennis.
      - [Fix slow loading/editing of sheet with ~800 comments [master] by dennisfrancis · Pull Request #3556 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/3556)

## Forum (Pedro)

- Great bug on CODE docker startup extremely slow (Michael)
  - thanks to Gabriel for confirming back-port to fix it.

- People setting sidebar defaults by changing loolwsd.xml
  - although this is/was originally the idea – don’t think it was implemented
  - instruct them to the input field to the iframe with specific values as per SDK
  - 2nd person trying to do this via XML; good to keep an eye on this.
  - Who is authoritative if we add a new setting ? (Michael)
  - would like to have loolwsd forcing the style working (Kendy)
    - even if we need a ‘on/off/frame’ … tri-state ?
      - perhaps an easy-hack … (?)

**Design bits (Pedro)**

- Redesigning Welcome dialog (Pedro)
  - so we have a three-step slider, with less text & more images / CTA /  
end-points for the community.
  - Release-notes, file a bug, give involved by various ways

- Next in-line – notification for updating …
  - need to work on that.

- Lots of things to fix / improve before the release; still some sidebar pieces.
  - In some cases the layout breaks; fixes yesterday night need merging.

- Updates on comments in notebookbar need to fix the alignment
- and some specific bits like color-pickers need sorting.
- Current theme – needs to be at a nice stage in both classic & notebookbar
- Bit of oddness in the writer / home tab eg. (Michael)

## Schedule & update ( **Andras** )

- CO-2021
  - We released the beta last week
  - Next week we will have an RC1.
  - [https://www.collaboraoffice.com/code-21-11-release-notes/](https://www.collaboraoffice.com/code-21-11-release-notes/)

- 6.4.14
  - will be released today with a number of fixes

- CO-2021 (Kendu)
  - getting safe renames in for RC1 and discuss
  - rename of loleaflet.html → cool.html is reasonably safe
    - we had a setting for a long time
    - Hesitant about loleaflet… reverse proxy problems?
    - Lets just go for it (Michael)
      - 30-50 patches from Henry already.

## Misc 1&1 bits **(Gabriel)**

- Gabriel created PR:
  - [admin: add resource consuming docs cleanup metrics by gmasei11 · Pull Request #3507 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/3507)
  - has some metrics relating to cleaning up resource consuming documents
    - for lost kits cleanups – added this.

  - Lets get it into 6.4 as well (Michael)
    - beware of division by zero (not affecting this patch)

- Performance issue around spreadsheets with comments
  - focus was on co-2021 – also experience it in 6.4 …
    - shared some videos.
    - Not so dramatic – it’s reasonable; works ok.
    - Some kind of regression – in 6.4.0 very fast:
    - comments have been re-rewritten (Michael)
      - so not so important that it was good there.

  - File not opening in Firefox – hangs at initializing.
    - Some N^2 in the JS ? (Michael)
      - do poke at it.

- Recordings for COOL-days ?
  - Some people want to see his presentation !
  - Finishing this now (William)
    - scheduled to be up-loaded, later today … should get the links.

- Quick update (Alex)
  - working on something else for the company for the last few weeks
  - estimated 1-2 weeks will be done with this major feature
  - will resume work on planned contributions for the frontend.

## Default to Notebookbar **(Kendy)**

- this is still not merged … need to get that in.
  - Andras to chase.

**Cypress bits (Pedro)**

- Rashesh has been working on using Cypress to update screenshots of our help dialog
  - which is seldom updated – has old screenshots with out of date dialogs
  - we have a working PR – tested & shared feedback.
  - Have two extra tests – run the tests, take screenshots – help dialogs updated
  - Wow (Michael)

- Base work is done – can use it later on to do non-critical testing of UI components
  - able to see aesthetic differences related to a button eg.
  - something we also discussed with Julius – thinking to use on their side
  - can get diff-images – did the button get butchered accidentally …

## Update on what we’re up to **(Kendy)**

- working to get patches merged for the RC1
  - merging other pieces himself.

- Biggest things – RTL spreadsheets: Dennis is starting
- Gokay on a11y improvements.
- Otherwise lots of bug-fixing left & right.

**Pull Requests in Need of Attention (Pedro)**

- [Move adding the start script after running the install script. by by-erik · Pull Request #3433 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/3433) → Andras T. to review
- [update last modified time label & translation by luka-nextcloud · Pull Request #3567 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/3567) → Pedro to review
- [Fix: empty CSS file errors by pedropintosilva · Pull Request #3557 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/3557) → Szymon to review
- [Trace: Writer and Impress: Generated loolstress traces by Ezinnem · Pull Request #3398 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/3398) → Michael (?) to review]
  - easy to simulate lots of users doing things on the server concurrently

## [restream.io](http://restream.io) **(William)**

- tool to re-stream on social-media can do that.
- Lets get some attention to our calls for this ?
  - Can we sometimes skip bits at the end ? (Michael)

- could we have the first 5 minutes of warm-up (Pedro)
  - to encourage people to actually join us …
  - refrain to record it all.
  - we have the forum – don’t want to shoot ourselves in the foot.

## Next Meeting

Thursday, Nov 11, 2021 at 10:00 am (UTC)

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**Author:** ![gmasei11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8491ac/32.png) [@gmasei11](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/u/gmasei11)\
**Post date:** [November 5, 2021, 8:04pm UTC](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/collabora-weekly-meeting-47/703/2 "2021-11-05T20:04:50Z")

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@pedro.silva I think we should change the UTC time to 11:00 am.