COOL TC meeting minutes: 2026-05-20

[vmiklos]

Date: 2026-05-20

Present:

• Andras, Michael S, Stephan, Leif, Adria, Caolan, Heiko, Tomaz, Miklos

Completed action items

• File a github issue for the postgresql cleanup (Miklos)

  • See https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/15811

• File a github issue for the wiki publisher cleanup (Michael S)

  • https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/15809

• File a github issue for the comphelper::string cleanup (Stephan)

  • <https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/15814> “engine/include/comphelper/string.hxx cleanup”

Pending action items

• File a github issue for the canvas / slideshow cleanup (Thorsten)

• File a github issue for the report builder cleanup (Miklos)

• File a github issue for the vcl XML-based theming cleanup (Tomaz)

Release Engineering update (Andras)

• Monorepo status

  • Github mirror is up and running: GitHub - CollaboraOnline/online.mirror: Read-only Collabora Office/Collabora Online monorepo - no pull requests (use gerrit instead https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/) · GitHub

  • CI, done: Windows & Android

  • Still to be added on main: --enable-coplugin, fuzzer, lighthouse

  • Branches: this remains unchanged for now, only GitHub has CI

  • then github online.git: refer to gerrit

• Releases (Andras)

  • CODE 26.04: first RC is expected later this week

Patch review

• All changes

  • Week 21: 203(+17)

• PRs to migrate from GitHub

  • Week 21: 74(-4)

• New contributors since last week

  • Week 21: Dragos Alexandru Onu, Gabriel, Libre, Matei Vasiliu, Nistor Mario Peter, Ron Dallas, Stefan Alexandru Vladut, reducedradius

Bug reporting

• Regression issues

  • Week 21: 16(-1)

Jenkins / CI update (Szymon)

• Mohit’s monorepo test change

• Szymon’s monitoring: “last builds” monitoring

• Gerrit for online main

  • Week 21: Success rate is 34%, failed builds are 33/50

• Fixed a number of unstable tests, it’s getting better, but the backlog is large (Caolan)

  • Possible Jenkins plugin: prioritize test fixes?

  • Current test fix change from Mohit:

    • https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/2968

• Another issue: sometimes it’s hard to know if it is worth rebasing (on top of a fix) or just resume (Stephan)

  • good to announce test fixes on Matrix

• UITests tweak: https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/2950 (Miklos)

• Cypress split: desktop/mobile/multi, then could resume just that? (Tomaz)

  • can do this, yes (Andras)

• Resume: important that you resume the main job, not the sub-job

Git hooks (Stephan)

• Seems the core one is not enabled for many

• clang-formatted files are modified, need to extend the denylist

• Any idea how people manage to get around the clang format enforcement? (Stephan)

• Perhaps: build tree + commit/push in a push-tree, then this happens (Miklos)

Crash testing (Caolan)

• 2026-05-19 282 (-401, +163)

• 2026-05-05 547 (-471, +286)

  • various fixed, build in progress

TTT talks

• TTT talks.ods

• Have a plan for the next 2 weeks

What’s cooking

• Michael S

  • working on an RTF import problem

• Stephan

  • JS extension example is now up on gerrit + collaboration

  • jsuno is built by default on Linux, but still experimental at runtime

• Andras

  • Windows shell extensions now work with CODA-W, crash fixes

• Quikee

  • Pivot table format improvements: new cases for cell format of subtotals and grand totals

  • vector rendering of primitives in JS: first change is in, lots of more primitive support still has to be added still

• Miklos

  • https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/15779 “Hang during idle spellcheck in Writer”

• Caolán

  • cypress stability fixes with Szymon

  • 3-4 patches left to prompt when remote graphics would be fetched, almost there

  • a11y work: Impress sidebar is now clean