COOL TC meeting minutes: 2026-07-15

[vmiklos]

Date: 2026-07-15

Present:

• Szymon, Miklos, Adria, Caolan, Michael S, Tomaz, Noel, Miklos

Completed action items

• Only consider online.git main changes when counting gerrit changes (Miklos)

  • **https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/6962 **

• Jenkins: Install PrioritySorter and re-start at the weekend (Adria/Timar)

  • need to plan this, not yet done; will do it when upgrading Jenkins anyway

  • ticket is file, no need to track it here anymore (Adria)

Pending action items

Release Engineering update (Adria)

• Releases

  • next: COOL 26.04 next week (Andras)

  • development can continue on main branch

    • Need to explicitly port to 26.04, again

Patch review

• All changes

  • Week 29: 220(-64)

  • The delta is probably not this large, we now exclude non-online or non-main changes (Miklos)

• PRs to migrate from GitHub

  • Week 29: 4(-2)

• New contributors since last week

  • Week 29: DatVex, FarmYard Gaming

• Top 10 reviewers since last week

  • Week 29: Caolán McNamara (59), Miklos Vajna (31), Michael Stahl (24), Noel Grandin (20), Tomaž Vajngerl (18), Stephan Bergmann (12), Mike Kaganski (9), Szymon Kłos (7), Andras Timar (7), Tor Lillqvist (6)

Bug reporting

• Regression issues

  • Week 29: 12(+0)

Jenkins / CI update (Andras)

• Mohit’s monorepo test change

• Szymon’s monitoring: “last builds” monitoring

  • better state (12 → 17% clean pass)

  • no cypress test which fails much more than others,

  • Mohit fixed writer3/reconnect_spec.js it seems

• Gerrit for online main

  • Week 29: Success rate is 34%, failed builds are 33/50

  • Week 29: Turnaround time is 1 hr 40 min (median of last 48 SUCCESS/FAILURE builds)

• Last week CI was out Thu/Fri (Adria)

  • The fermat builder is now back

  • Preparing a new almalinux9 builder on another builder, to improve capacity

  • One new executor for Windows in VM

Crash testing (Caolan)

• 2026-07-15: 92 (-79, +0)

  • progress on the new crashes, and some more of those hopefully fixed in the next pending run

• 2026-07-08: 171 (-3, +115)

  • unfortunate increase in calc issues, various fix efforts merged

TTT talks

• TTT talks.ods

• Have a plan for the next 2 weeks

What’s cooking

• Stephan

  • vacation

• Quikee

  • editeng hyperlink handling: turning that from a field into character attributes

    • have a patch, but need to consider compatibility

    • this now works nicely when the URL is long enough to not fit into a single line

• Miklos

  • https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/16002 “Writer markdown paste: unexpected join of bullets”

• Caolán

  • new thought on taking 2 minutes off the windows build

    • https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/6932

  • CODA-Q Presentations

    • fix a crash on full-screen presentations

      • https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/6819

    • keep last frame visible on slide-end

      • https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/6797

    • auto-start videos on slide start

      • https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/6783

• Adrià

  • Windows Garnder new executors monitoring and pre-warm

  • Almalinux9 in mersenne – ccache prefetch with sample jobs

  • VM to execute k6 performance tests

• Szymon

  • done some logs review with weird error in saving, added fix proposal

    • **https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/6772**

  • trying mocha tests for clipboard code:

    • **https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/6917/**

    • (fragile, lots of special cases)

  • working on rendering corruption in Calc

    • could be edited vs static cell dimension rectangle difference (on tile edge?)

    • testing now…

• Andras

  • excused

• Michael M

  • traveling

• Michael S

  • helped Stephan with GPG removal

  • security fix backporting & build fixing