Present:
- Leif, Stephan, Szymon, Sahil, Michael S, Andras, Caolan, Darshan, Tomaz, Miklos, Thorsten
Completed action items
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gerrit performance: better handling of crawlers (Andras)
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quick fix: gitiles plugin is disabled temporarily
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then: Anubis will be a proxy to solve this
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explore what is possible with gerrit for welcoming (Darshan)
- works now, Darshan is notified on first patch
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Patch review: remove WIP tag from stats next time (Darshan)
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Bug reporting: build some bug stats for next time (Darshan)
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gerrit: add commit rights for everyone that has them on github (Andras)
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done, if somebody is missing, poke Andras
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use-case: cherry-pick somebody else’s change? (Caolan)
- let Andras know who is missing that, then we can fix this
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Samuel has this problem (Stephan)
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Pending action items
Dark mode design (Michael M)
Release Engineering update (Andras)
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Monorepo: repo itself was ready late last week
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main branch: CI is now working (Andras)
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for now cypress desktop/mobile/multi tests as 1 job, will be split again in the future
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nice benefit: core changes get cypress testing!
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Also build config better matches the real product
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everyone is encouraged to use the monorepo for ‘main’ development
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makes live of Andras easier
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Still to be added on main:
- –enable-coplugin, fuzzer, lighthouse
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Next steps: make github readonly, moving patches across, then translations.
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Branches: this remains unchanged for now, only GitHub has CI (Andras)
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Releases (Andras)
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plan to have a 26.04 Beta before COOL-days
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like to release new Collabora Office from same 26.04 code-base
- for Windows/Mac/Linux etc.
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https://groups.google.com/g/collaboraonline-commits now tracks cogerrit/core.git and cogerrit/online.git, too (Miklos)
CI status (Szymon)
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‘gerrit_macos_app_main’ times out a lot
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https://cpci.cbg.collabora.co.uk:8080/job/gerrit_macos_app_main/
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AI: for next week set stats tool to monitor monorepo (Szymon)
Patch review (Darshan)
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Top contributors with un-reviewed open patches
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**73 PR merged last week : https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Amerged+base%3Amain+merged%3A2026-04-15..2026-04-22 **
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**94 PR open and needs review : https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+review%3Anone **
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Contributors (with PR count):
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For next week: to include gerrit data + ignore draft PRs on github
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Gerrit Weekly Summary : https://www.collaboraonline.com/blog/open-source-in-action-2/
Bug reporting
- Week 17: 904 open issues this week on github
TTT talks
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on hold this week & next week, due to COOL days
COOL days
- Next week, working on slides
What’s cooking
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Michael S
- reworking the table handling in Writer’s RTF import, improving Word compat
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Stephan
- remote documents / CODA, to have a demo next week
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Szymon
- DOCX qFormat export improvement (ignore guessing if it was imported from the original file already)
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Quikee
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Issue with Carlito font, first part is in
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Migrating to font-independent line spacing in Impress, improving PowerPoint compat
- Calc, charts have the same problem
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Darshan
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Calc: Fix read-only file opening in edit mode #15568
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Sahil
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skia build failures on core/25.04, --disable-skia fixed that
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setup an integrator Nex… ahm.. created a script to automate that
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it was using IPv6 localhost (::1)
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had to disable ssl, found https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/unable-to-restrict-allowed-wopi-hosts/2611/3 helpful
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backported fixedtext & spinfield patches to 25.04, Henry needed them
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https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/15593 (this was merged in a “little haste” late at night, though i tested things locally
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investigated browser zoom changes and it’s effect on scaling and document alignment
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now working on making smart/dynamic zoom optional in writer
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Miklos
- https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/15535 markdown paste improvements
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Caolán
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bisecting a redrawing problem → Szymon
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then a11y improvements
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Leif
- trying to get used to the monorepo, reproducing builds with the newer Online