Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #48
Date: Nov 11, 2021
Next meeting: Nov 18, 2021
All minutes published on: https://forum.collaboraonline.com/c/news/meeting-minutes/14
- Attendees (write your name):
- Pedro, Szymon, Gabriel, Pranam, Michael, Andras, Ezinne, Thorsten
- Community update (Pedro)
- Hacktoberfest: credits → to do
- some people still about to push PR(s) → need to chase that
- People who tested and/or reported bugs: credits → todo
- I also notice that we had new contributors doing translations during october → also credit them
- Some forum activity:
- Docker slow, thanks Michael for answering , still no reply from him
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Document conversion with Collabora REST API (15 d)
- Is it possible to convert .docx documents in a read-only PDF (PDF type A)?
- recently added a parameter to conversion end-point (Gabriel)
- can share this with us; implemented it for an older COOL, where only some of the PDF types.
- Would be great to push arbitrary options through for filters (Michael)
- Is it possible to extend Collabora user interface for custom objecthandling
- User answered.
- How to disable update splash / changelog → thanks Michael for answering
- User interested in customizations etc , another user answered also with info
- Can’t open files=The server has disconnected | admin page=serverhas been shut down/logs=client - server version mismatch (5 d) → not answered
- Design bits (Pedro)
- Community website: need to swap CTA to something else (it is still COOL days focused)
- Redesigning Welcome dialog (Pedro)
- kinda works already
- there were a couple of problems in some browsers
- this was already fixed
- And now I need to chase on mobile
- since we have the flex box design it will not be difficult, I hope
- About dialog
- Right now it’s working on desktop with the new structure (so using dynamic dimensions and flex box layout)
- It will allow for more flexibility regarding logos
- And now I need fix some remaining stuff on mobile
- Lots of things to fix / improve before the release; still some sidebar pieces.
- This has been merged
- there is one more thing in the sidebar to be fixed (when using calc)
- and some specific bits like color-pickers need sorting
- merged
- Current theme – needs to be at a nice stage in both classic & notebookbar
- still some stuff to do
- Bit of oddness in the writer / home tab eg. (Michael)
- there is still some alignments to be fixed specially with the inclusion of the brand new character spacing menu btn
- Toolbars → to do
The Cypress tests (Pedro)
- were a bit wonky, but it should get back on track soon, some tests were disabled and some merged
Schedule & update (Andras)
- CO-2021
- RC1 is going to be released this week, packages by the end of the day
- RC2 next week, RC3 after that, and that would be it for CODE
- CODE 21.11 Release Notes - Collabora Office and Collabora Online
- 6.4.14
- Released non-release last week
- next 6.4.15, after we sort out the urgent issues with 2021 release
- it will contain small fixes for customers
- CO-2021 (Kendu)
- getting safe renames in for RC1 and discuss
- rename of loleaflet.html → cool.html is reasonably safe
- has been done, inclunding branding
- we found a few issues that will be solving today, it’s should be fine
- To do: update documentations and send newsletter
Misc 1&1 bits (Gabriel)
- Gabriel created PR:
- Will created a new PR for the PDF conversion
- adding to the forum’s topic
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admin: add resource consuming docs cleanup metrics by gmasei11 · Pull Request #3507 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub
- merged
- Discover important bug related to saving → CO-2021
- needs more investigation
- Changing document; save; inserting image; inserting chart; save and close;
- Reopening document will not show chart neither image
- it seems related to mounting configuration in loolwsd.xml (if it’s disabled that occurs)
- Michael: probably related with async save
- Gabriel: I just re-tested and it seems not related to how fast/slow we save the document
- Gabriel: I will create a bug report
- Michael: could you please ping Ash? Gabriel: yup
- Will created a new PR for the PDF conversion
- Performance issue around spreadsheets with comments
- a fix already
- File not opening in Firefox – hangs at initializing.
- Some N^2 in the JS ? (Michael)
- do poke at it.
- Some N^2 in the JS ? (Michael)
- Recordings for COOL-days ?
- Videos are already available in the youtube channel
- Finishing this now (William) → didn’t send out emails
- Pedro will send out emails to everyone
- 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
- still on-going
- 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
- Unit tests fail → Ash is chasing that
- Andras to chase
Update on what we’re up to (Szymon)
- Getting CO-2021 in a reasonable state to be released
- Now fixing many things in the sidebar
- Resizing issues
- Image panel issues
- Biggest things – RTL spreadsheets: Dennis is starting
- Gokay on a11y improvements.
- Otherwise lots of bug-fixing left & right.
- Pull Requests in Need of Attention (Kendy)
- Kendy has been chasing this and merging stuff and/or rebasing etc
Next Meeting
Thursday, Nov 18, 2021 at 11:00 am (UTC) (12 CEST)