# Status report: consultancy team, week 34, 2024 **URL:** \ **Category:** Status reports\ **Created:** [August 26, 2024, 9:10am UTC](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/status-report-consultancy-team-week-34-2024/2893 "2024-08-26T09:10:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![vmiklos](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/forum.collaboraonline.com/vmiklos/32/787_2.png) [@vmiklos](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/u/vmiklos)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2024, 9:10am UTC](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/status-report-consultancy-team-week-34-2024/2893/1 "2024-08-26T09:10:15Z")
# Caolan - debug + fix annotation cypress failure seen frequently in Sven’s keep-alive pr → [this 'undefined' check doesn't look right by caolanm · Pull Request #9847 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/9847) → [on reconnect of calc, annotations requested before geometry is available by caolanm · Pull Request #9848 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/9848) - merge the “podman unshare” workaround for make run, etc for Ubuntu 24.04 and its default apparmor blocking of namespaces → [test and workaround Ubuntu 24.04 apparmor defaults for make run by caolanm · Pull Request #9716 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/9716) - fix ups from review of async dns extension → [Private/caolan/async dns tidy by caolanm · Pull Request #9843 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/9843) - look at chart things → but all closed - look to see what the “error bars” issue might be - we do seem to have error bars and even error bar sidebar panels - but tricky to get them visible in online, general issue there I think around activating elements of the chart when clicked on - fix and old upstream regression of mine → [https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/172086](https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/172086) - investigate chart error bars in online - staging-perf collab testing - failed to start, worrying - just a problem of assuming a new config option will exist → fix [survive if config.xml is missing indirection\_endpoint.geolocation\_set… by caolanm · Pull Request #9855 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/9855) - patch reviews and merging “code red” backlog - create a local wasm image to test if the changes for this android/iOS bug build and work in wasm too - rework improvement to elide duplicate tilecombine tests while scrolling → [during a scroll don't reissue tilecombines requests already issued by caolanm · Pull Request #9878 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/9878) - richdocumentscode failure to start with the default to using namespaces, debug that → quick fix [richdocumentscode AppImage isn't chroot compatible by caolanm · Pull Request #9873 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/9873) - start work on a better fix but there is a mystery snap use case of some kind - Tech Planning, COOL Call, ESC - The “snap” is nextcloud’s snap, so not our snap but their snap in which we appear as richdocumentscode (appimage) inside that snap env - crash course on unpacking, repacking appimages, starting and stopping snap services, etc - fix null deref crash seen during COOL Call → [https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/172249](https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/172249) - fix another hyphenation crash seen in crashtesting → [https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/172287](https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/172287) - clear an ofz timeout with too narrow page area for calc headers → [https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/172298](https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/172298) - work on figuring out snaps and if we can use, or at least not fall over fatally with, the same setup as every where else - rats nest of snap, namespaces, richproxy and appimage - fix a csv dialog import height apparent regression → [https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/172307](https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/172307) - chart datarange regression of ours → [https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/172336](https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/172336) - tdf#161941 add --with-docrepair-fonts option to try → [https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/172337](https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/172337) # Mike - Two calls regarding blocking Writer issues - A mentoring call with Jaume; he’s unblocked and on track - “Diagnosing a display/layout issue”: - required me to introduce a (hopefully generally useful!) mechanism to report the “why I couldn’t grow” reason back to callers of SwFrame::Grow[Frame] - quite invasive; required me to have some refactoring first, to understand the code better - Some upstream regressions fixed after my previous commits # Tomaz New slideshow presentation - VCL / Drawinglayer slide rendering - Flexible rendering - we remember which object were rendered and don’t render the object again - Master slide, slide layer separation not hardcoded - can render part of master and main into one layer - useful to add objects with fields + slide object into one layer - figuring out which object are in animation - working on that - then render those objects into own layer - rendering objects separately - into own buffer, which size is the size of the object - needs change to LOKit API - TODO - Code review, testing,… # Miklos Worked on: [Unwanted synchronous layout for the full document in Writer after a full-document invalidation · Issue #9735 · CollaboraOnline/online · GitHub](https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/9735), the registerAnyInputCallback() part.