Community Weekly Meeting #136

[pedro.silva]

Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #136

Date: Sep 14th 2023

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Attendees (write your name):

• Andras, Anna, Ezinne, Mike D, Attila, Caolán, Darshan, Hub, Szymon, Timur, Gökay, Cosmin, Skyler, Nick, Aron, Vivek, Pedro, Pranam, Nicolas

Document split

• Horrible problem with shared links … Pedro in a different document:
  • overwrite / confirm etc.
  • steps: duplicate blank document in Nextcloud, rename it, edit it, share an (editable) link to it
    • other people enter a different document with the shared …
  • Ticket: # … Split document. shared link vs logged in using Nextcloud · Issue #7256 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub

Annoying heading behavior

• Unexpected new indentation when pressing enter at the beginning of headings
• libreoffice/core - main, development code repository for TDF#148360
• Worth reverting the patch here, it’s been open since a while… (Thorsten)
• AI: ask Justin to take a look (Andras)

Release schedule

• Next week minor release: CODE 23.05.4 Thursday 12-14 September
  • hope to have an announcement today.
  • More fixes for next week – with a 2nd COOL release and a new CODE.
• Mobile releases 12-14 September
  • iOS release is queued
    • final smoke test is in progress
    • looks good on the surface, no obvious regressions (Nicolas)
      • think it’s a stable release.
    • Ezinne found some cosmetic issues (Andras)
      • filed and will be checked.
  • Android too
    • Snapshots: Index of /downloads/Collabora-Office-Android-Snapshot testing appreciated
    • seems to have regressions entering edit mode in text document (Nicolas)
      • not seeing text while in edit mode,
      • Andras not seeing that – invalidates document, and zooms in – get text after a second – using light mode.
  • expect these go out today / tomorrow.

Online activity

• PRs without reviewer 2, now 0
  • Collabora Online · GitHub
    • Add cli option to use settings from env variables by Minion3665 · Pull Request #7160 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub → Ash to review Skyler’s patch
    • Mostly done on arrow keys traversing notebookbar PR → Gokay to review it
• Szymon
  • URL (hyperlink) dialog – prepared missing widgets, but not enabled yet
    • Attilla was doing something with URL dialog – re: Links in Calc. Atilla will look into it.
  • Duplicated lines checker into make check: Detect code duplicates in make-check run by eszkadev · Pull Request #7204 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub → now merged
• Darshan
  • Export as does nothing on mobile → will look into this
  • Mobile UI fixes
    • Fixed the way we are generating the widgets that has icon
  • Accessibility refactoring → reviewed, failing on cypress
  • Mobile: dark mode menu option added to the hamburger menu on Calc, Impress, Draw → merged
    • But right now on writer we have the “View” main hamburger menu which is missing on all the other apps. Next → Add that and move things like dark mode into that menu. → next
  • Add QR and Bar code generation option #7216 → now merged
    • It is working for one user → now we need to make it async → Szymon to look at it and add code pointers: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/156642
• Michael / Caolan – Performance
  • Did some work on export performance improvement
  • getTokenString is another loop over the tokens that we already loop over by caolanm · Pull Request #7220 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub now merged
  • Partial awesomeness on AVX2 acceleration of RLE stuff:
    • private/mmeeks/simd → now working …
    • needs checking & merging …
• Testing results:
  • Dark mode now working nicely.
  • Found some good problems from calc:
    • calc performance with large selections - copy/paste · Issue #6893 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub – getTextSelection
      • may be a red-herring.
  • Presentation starting – accelerated this (Timur)
    • still – with a large presentation – can take too long.
    • AI: can we have a progress bar ticket filed (Caolan)
      • have a progress bar – for the standard desktop mode so far.
    • And switch the ticket to enhancement to speed things up.
• Skyler
  • Working on STYLEREF
    • Made a field type
    • Working on implementing different searching rules depending on where the field appears
    • https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/156912 ← very WIP patch (i.e. this one doesn’t even compile)
    • Still need to implement the flags that word has (e.g. “search backwards”)
    • Still need to use the field when we come across a styleref in docx, and need to have a way to save to odt
  • These PRs are still waiting on review/merge
    • Stop coolwsd when /etc/coolwsd/coolwsd.xml changes by Minion3665 · Pull Request #7145 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub → Oked by Michael, waiting on merge
    • Add cli option to use settings from env variables by Minion3665 · Pull Request #7160 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub → Waiting on review
  • Getting devices so I can make changes to iOS
    • Shipping dates say everything should arrive before the next weekly meeting
• Timur
  • Lots of tickets to test … on Android app, reporting bugs for COOL
    app to TDF bugzilla – cleaning this up a bit.
    • What failed in 6.4 is now working nicely in 21 and 23.05
    • Some using LibreOffice Viewer for 7.6 alpha …
    • F-Droid: they should just side-load our APKs, there is an additional android repo. 21.11 is the latest there, and snapshot is 6.4 …
      • AI: look at updating the snapshot repo there from the Jenkins job (Andras)
• Mike D

  • "Ordered List" Sidebar Button Does Not Work 2nd Time · Issue #7248 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub

    • Sidebar + ordered list button seems bugged.
    • Can’t go from:
      • 1. → a) → 1.

  • Can go:

    • 1. → a)
    • then button acts strange.

  • Format > "Bullets and Numbering" > Outline = Crash · Issue #7254 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub

    • Crash in Format > “Bullets and Numbering” menu:
      • Highlight a list.
      • Format > “Bullets and Numbering”
      • “Outline” tab
      • Choose any
      • = CRASH.
• Gokay
  • working on comment replies – will be able to separate these from other comments when created at the same position
    • currently if at the same word they look like replies – will be more user-friendly.
    • Prepared PR Writer: Set parent / child relationship in UI. by gokaysatir · Pull Request #7200 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub waiting for tests to pass → merged
  • Assigned accessKeys to buttons within the shortcuts component. Example: small save icon assigned to 1 → merged
    • Integrators can set that accessKey when inserting the button → merged
    • SDK docs updated: …
  • Next → Make copy paste user flow easier
• Hubert
  • Working on improving SDK examples
  • Next: framed.doc.html where we have the SDK example after doing the make run

Forum (Mike D)

Answered 2 minor posts.

• Answered the Japanese Phonetic thread:
  • Unable to use phonetic guides - #2 by Tex

16 → 16 - zero replies in user support:

→ User Support - Collabora Online

35 → 37 - zero replies in installation and config:

→ Installation & Configuration - Collabora Online

Community

• Nextcloud Conference (September 16–17) just before the LibreOffice Conference (September 20–23)
  • Nextcloud Conference 2023 keynote speaker: Max Schrems - Nextcloud
• LibreOffice conference Bucharest
  • next week ! =) - fewer people in the call perhaps.
  • Many of us will be in Bucharest – with Gabriel will be organizing it too.
  • LibreOffice Conference 2023 in Bucharest, Romania - The Document Foundation Blog
  • Registration is now open
  • You are invited to the “Introduction in LibreOffice Development” workshop:
    • Learn about LibreOffice development at our upcoming conference! - The Document Foundation Blog
    • Workshop: Introduction to LibreOffice Development » LibreOffice Conference 2023
    • Bucharest, Romania 2023 » LibreOffice Conference 2023

Next meeting

Postponed by a week. New date: 28/09/2023