COOL TC meeting minutes: 2026-09-09

[vmiklos]

Date: 2026-09-09

Present:

• Adria, Stephan, Tomaz, Regina, Caolan, Adrias, Szymon, Miklos

Completed action items

Pending action items

• check that no builds are incremental anymore (Adria)

  • the important ones (Windows) are fixed, still need to check

• clang loplugin in code outside engine/, look at this (Adria)

  • so build not only engine/ code in this config

Release Engineering update (Andras)

• Releases

  • CODE 26.04: 26.04.4.1 later this week

  • also a CODA release

  • hope to tag tomorrow

Patch review (Miklos)

• All changes

  • Week 37: 251(+36)

• GitHub PRs

  • Week 37: 3(-2)

  • https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/16085 looks outdated, Stephan to abandon it

• New contributors since last week

  • Week 37: ABCraft19, DrLous, Loto-dev1

• Top 10 reviewers since last week

  • Week 37: Miklos Vajna (102), Caolán McNamara (87), Noel Grandin (55), Tomaž Vajngerl (21), Stephan Bergmann (18), Szymon Kłos (17), Samuel Mehrbrodt (14), Mike Kaganski (11), Andras Timar (8), Tor Lillqvist (3)

Bug reporting

• Regression issues

  • Week 37: 8(+2)

Jenkins / CI update (Adria)

• New agents/builders are being prepared for iOS and Windows (Adria)

  • in progress, should be ready for the next week

• Mohit’s monorepo test change

• Szymon’s monitoring: “last builds” monitoring → 12% clean pass of cypress (was 40% 3 weeks ago)

  • less clean passes, not good

  • but no specific cypress test to point at

  • the above numbers, are these for main only? (Caolan)

    • yes (Szymon)

• Gerrit for online main

  • Week 37: Success rate is 46%, failed builds are 22/41

  • Week 37: Turnaround time is 1 hr 59 min (median of last 28 SUCCESS/FAILURE builds)

Crash testing (Caolan)

• 2026-09-05: 21 (-69, +4)

  • best numbers yet, new run underway might reduce further

• 2026-08-19: 76 (-44, +31)

  • most of the + is a dubious assert which is now gone

TTT talks

• TTT talks.ods

• Have talks for the next two weeks

What’s cooking

• Regina

  • still working on SmartArt

  • currently investingating a PPTX export issue, powerpoint reports a corruptin there

• Miklos

  • https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/16179 async paste special html/plain text problem

• Szymon

  • merging the impress feature for the slide sorter

  • online.git main debug tool, tile preloading seems to be broken, will look at fixing it

• Stephan

  • still JS extension stuff (UNO method overloading)

• Caolan

  • default –enable-qtapp to also build the normal server mode, so you can have both at the same time

    • **https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/7708**

  • land lock work, add landlock to end of the automatic fallback chain of:

    • namespace->caps->landlock

    • https://gerrit.collaboraoffice.com/c/online/+/10942 (merged to main, nice to have for co-26.04)

• Andras

  • FreeBSD port of CODA-Q is in main now

  • LibreLogo extension for COOL, in JavaScript, an interesting demo

  • Bugfixes, l10n fixes

• Adrià

  • Windows new builder setting up in new Hardware “wilson” as incus VM

  • Mac minis M4 Abe and Zoe, finishing setup

  • Job for checking tarball build for collabora online main

• Tomaz

  • Working on OOXML function test (LET, LAMBDA, dynamic arrays) that self-test and do import/export test at the same time. Also ODS

  • **Dynamic array fixes – should now hopefully work well **

  • Dynamic array UI – show border where the dynamic array extends to (or should extend to on #spill! Error)

  • Vector rendering

  • Improved glow effect – better looking and faster