Collabora Online Community Roundup #10

On 1 October 2020, Collabora Online moved to its new home on GitHub, and started settling in the new infrastructure, expanding its fantastic community, and continuing the work to deliver the latest and greatest developments in productivity and collaboration together. Check our new community website for all the details! 😉

Collabora developers also keep fixing and improving our lovely mother project LibreOffice. As all the good work requires some appreciation, let’s take a look at what the seasoned developers of the Collabora team and the volunteer contributors from our community have been doing during the last 2 weeks.

Week in Numbers

On the Collabora Online code repository in the last week, 11 authors have pushed 42 commits to master and 72 commits to all branches. On master, 48 files have changed and there have been 1,567 additions and 835 deletions.

Screenshot of GitHub Pulse for Collabora Online
Development Activity on Collabora Online GitHub Repository from February 15, 2021 to February 22, 2021

New Contributors

Congratulations to Gianni154, Samuel, sowoi, oiselarius and SerjSX for reporting their first issues and improvement requests on our GitHub repository!

  • Thanks to Gianni154 for reporting multiple issues around the iOS app such as the comment function not working properly while the keyboard is active[0], thus giving us the opportunity to improve the experience for our users on iOS even further.
  • Thanks to Samuel for opening an enhancement request to add the Libertinus Font to the CODE docker image, thus letting us know about the preferences of our users on certain configurations.
  • Thanks to sowoi for reporting that empty menus are being shown even when all of their items are disabled on certain integrations, thus giving us the opportunity to improve the user experince of Collabora Online even more.
  • Thanks to oiselarius for letting us know about issues encountered while opening files with the iOS app which reside on some cloud storage services.
  • Thanks to SerjSX for reporting a potential issue on the Android app, and then helping triage the issue which turned out to be a false positive.

Thank you all, and welcome aboard! 🙂

Join the fun!

You can also join the fun, and be part of our next list of new contributors! 🙂

Just go to our GitHub repo, fork it, build it (on Linux or on any platform), grab one of our newcomer-friendly easy hacks, and send your first pull request. And if you get stuck at any point, just drop by one of our communication channels. 😉

Highlights

Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #13

COOL Weekly Meeting #13 has taken place on Thursday, February 18, 2021 at 11:00:00 am (UTC) with participants both from the community contributors and the Collabora team. We have got a quick update on what’s going on and discussed matters raised by the contributors, as well as having the chance to say hi to fellow members of the community. Topics discussed in the meeting include:

  • During the quick update part by Muhammet Kara, it’s been reported that COOL has got more than 75 new contributors (25+ code contributors) since the move to GitHub, and the COOL Roundup #9, covering more than 2 months of time, is finally out.
  • Pedro Silva has reported that multiple new categories have been added to the Collabora Online community forum along with new icons, and a new navigation bar on the top making it easier to find your way around.

    New navigation bar on the forum
  • Nicolas Christener has given an update on the template contest, informing us that there are 33 submissions so far, with 10 of them being quite promising, and that they will finish the evaluations by Feb 25.
  • Gabriel Masei has confirmed that all the work towards allowing users and integrations to change/choose a toolbar type dynamically has been completed and landed on the main (master) branch.
  • Gökay Şatır has shared the latest status of the ongoing CanvasTileLayer work, stating that they are now removing the custom scrollbars using the canvas section container and also updating the canvas section container as well, which would improve the user experience on different platforms with an even smoother and more natural look and behavior of scrolling.
  • On the Icon Theming topic, Pedro Silva has reported that Andreas Kainz is going to do some manual tests before moving on.
  • About the ongoing effort of Async Saving, which would improve the performance and the user experience of Collabora Online by allowing seamless/smooth save operations especially when multiple users are working on the same document collaboratively, Jan Holesovsky shared that Ashod Nakashian has already merged some of the initial/preparatory work, doing some clean-up and under-the-hood improvements, and the first step of the good stuff is already on GitHub as pull requests.
  • Andras Timar, on the new release schedule, has informed us that CODE is expected to have more frequent updates with the bleeding edge features and improvements before they go into the next release of COOL.
  • Pedro Silva has reported that the bug which prevented the notebookbar from being scrolled on small screens is now fixed, and all the work has already been merged.
  • Pranam Lashkari has reported that the Invalidation Debugging work by Rashesh Padia has been completed and merged.
  • Muhammet Kara has brought up that there is a small pull request by Gleb Popov which allegedly fixes a build issue on FreeBSD and looks okay, and he has requested a review from Ashod Nakashian, and he is going to merge it if no response or objection in a few days.

Check out the meeting minutes for the details of the meeting, and join us on Thursday, March 04, 2021, at 11:00 am (UTC) to stay in touch with the rest of the community. You may also make your own suggestions for the next meeting by following the link shared in the COOL Telegram group before the next meeting. We’re looking forward to hearing from you live. 😉

Collabora Online (COOL)

  • Thanks to Gökay Şatır for his work on CanvasTileLayer, which would make COOL have a much crisper and smoother look and feel. See the Weekly Meeting notes above for some more details.
  • Thanks to Pranam Lashkari for fixing a bug which caused the composed shortcuts, such as Ctrl+P to print the document, not to work in read-only mode, and also for making sure the right-click menu properly works also on the first row & column of Calc documents.
  • Thanks to Andras Timar for adding the info on how to build Collabora Online 6.4 docker to the README file, thus improving the documentation for potential new contributors and adopters of COOL, along with various other improvements and maintenance around localization and containerization.
  • Thanks to Dennis Francis for various fixes and improvements around the Canvas layer, which brings a lot of visual and user experience improvements such as smooth zoom animations. You can also now add Mocha tests in Collabora Online to test any existing typescript classes or functions of it, again thanks to him. Check out his blog post for the details.

    Logo of Mocha testing framework
    Mocha is a feature-rich JavaScript test framework running on Node.js and in the browser, making asynchronous testing simple and fun.
  • Thanks to Szymon Kłos for various improvements and fixes especially around the notebookbar and various dialogs, such as adding the Fontwork feature to Calc and making sure dialogs are closed when the user hits the ESC key without the need of explicitly clicking the close button, thus helping COOL become richer in feature and have an even better user experience.
  • Thanks to Tor Lillqvist for adding a new toString() method to use while debugging Collabora Online, thus helping to make the lives of developers a bit easier, and for making sure the view id is included in the tunneled dialogs’ image hash to prevent possible issues while users are collaboratively editing a document.
  • Thanks to Ashod Nakashian for various fixes and improvements towards increasing general stability of COOL and maintainability of the code-base along with tests to make our code-base future-proof, working on the async save feature which will be a major leap towards a much smoother experience for users while collaboratively editing documents, and also for reviewing pull requests of other contributors, and for mentoring them through tough issues.
  • Thanks to Gabriel Masei for adding support for changing the UI mode dynamically between the classical toolbar and the new notebookbar, effectively making Collabora Online easier to customize based on user needs or taste.
    A screenshot of the Collabora Online’s classic toolbar on the Writer module

    A screenshot of the Collabora Online’s new Notebookbar on the Writer module
  • Thanks to Rashesh Padia for improving the debugging facilities of COOL, by adding a separate option in debug mode for sidebar invalidation re-rendering.
  • Thanks to Pedro Silva for various fixes and improvements around the user interface of COOL to make it have a better and more consistent look and feel, especially focusing on the vex widgets lately.
  • Thanks to Henry Castro for making it easier to debug Collabora Online by adding a tag string to extract backtrace logs.
  • Thanks to Umut Bayramoğlu for removing some unused variables, thus helping our code-base to become even lighter and easier to maintain.
  • Thanks to Gleb Popov for fixing the build with libc++ by ensuring that std:min() function has the same type of parameters in the code-base.
  • Thanks to Tamás Zolnai for a lot of fixes and improvements around cypress (testing framework), and the testing facilities, and also documenting the interface testing on the README file, thus helping new potential contributors to ensure stability and future-proofness of COOL.
  • Thanks to Miklos Vajna for adding support for gutter margins on Writer documents, which makes it much easier to adhere to binding standards of governments and other institutions for printed materials. Checkout his blog post for details!

    UI for the new gutter margins on Collabora Online

Collabora Online Integrations

  • Thanks to Julius Härtl for reviewing and merging pull requests from other contributors on Collabora Online’s Nextcloud integration.
  • Thanks to Szymon Kłos for improving the user experience of Collabora Online’s Nextcloud integration by making sure the Save As dialog shows the new name after the file is renamed from within the editor.
  • Thanks to Phil Davis for improving the CI and test facilities of Collabora Online’s ownCloud integration by applying latest drone starlark code.
  • Thanks to Artur Neumann for reviewing and merging pull requests from other contributors on Collabora Online’s ownCloud integration.
  • Thanks to Cindy PIASSALE of Jeci for various improvements and clean-ups on Collabora Online’s Alfresco integration, such as adding Collabora Online as a viewer option for supported formats, documenting the new feature on the README file, and also releasing a new version of the integration app.

Honorable Mentions

  • Thanks to Cor Nouws for leading the marketing team, and not stopping there but continuing with testing & reporting bugs, attending to community events, and keeping us all informed about what’s going on. He also attends LibreOffice Design meetings from time to time to help COOL’s mother project LibreOffice have a better UI & UX.
  • Thanks to Eloy Crespo for his efforts to help the project well-funded as always.
  • Thanks to Marc Rodrigues for continuing to keep us updated on various news around Collabora Online and related FOSS projects, and creating a lot of yummy content to read!
  • Thanks to Pedro Silva for improving various points around the COOL Community Page and forum, and also for helping other contributors by providing instructions on their pull requests as well as reviewing them.
  • Thanks to Andras Timar for keeping us organized, maintaining our translation project on Weblate, and delivering hot new releases of our software!
  • Thanks to Yunusemre Şentürk for various tasks towards keeping our CI chains healthy.
  • Thanks to Jan Holesovsky for doing a lot of research on different topics, and providing mentoring/patch-reviewing/hand-holding/wisdom within the team, in our communication channels, and also on various channels of our lovely mother project LibreOffice.
  • Thanks to Mike Kaganski for his recent work on upgrading our partner & customer ticketing system to make things even sweeter for all of our users. Feel free to check his blog post on Reading from MySQL data with BLOBs dumped to CSV.
  • Your friendly community mentor, Muhammet Kara, is also creating & improving easy hacks, running workshops, helping new contributors solving their setup & build issues and reviewing their pull requests, working on easing the build procedure, improving our GitHub presence bit by bit based on its community guidelines, compiling/composing these community updates…

Translators

Last but not least, we can’t thank enough to our translators who constantly help COOL and its friends talk many languages on this earth. Collabora Online speaks many languages, thanks to all of our translators in our translation project, and all of those who previously contributed and keeps contributing to our mother project, LibreOffice.

We’re continuing to work to find good ways to credit translators’ hard work in the product. Please see a list of those involved, and please get in touch if you’re not listed. Many thanks to all those who have worked on translating Online, you rock!

If you would like to help COOL speak your language, you can just go to our translation project on weblate, and start contributing! 😉

Collabora Online translation project on Weblate
Collabora Online translation project on Weblate

Collabora loves LibreOffice!

We’re still contributing to LibreOffice and encourage you too to do so because LibreOffice rocks. 😉

  • Thanks to Miklos Vajna for many improvements and fixes especially around ensuring better support for OOXML formats thus better interoperability with other office suites, such as making sure the creation time of an imported DOCX file ispreserved, and adding support[0][1][2] for gutter margins of DOCX, DOC, ODF and RTF documents. Check out his blog post for details! He also had a FOSDEM talk on Handling PDF digital signatures with PDFium.
    Old render result, missing gutter, in Writer

    New render result, with gutter, in Writer
  • Thanks to Tomaž Vajngerl for continuing his work towards developing a built-in Xray-like UNO object inspector. This effort has been funded by The Document Foundation, so also thanks a lot to the TDF Board of Directors, and the TDF donors who made the work on this tool possible!
  • Thanks to Gülşah Köse for various fixes and improvements around importing custom shapes such as making sure crop positions are imported properly and greysale effect is handled properly, and also for adding corresponding tests to ensure those features keep working in the future, thus improving interoperability with other office suites.
  • Thanks to Noel Grandin for doing various code-quality improvements and modernization all around the LibreOffice code-base.
  • Thanks to Tor Lillqvist for a lot of fixes and improvements especially towards better support on macOS and iOS.

Collabora Online Community Roundup #9 (New Year Edition!)

On 1 October 2020, Collabora Online moved to its new home on GitHub, and started settling in the new infrastructure, expanding its fantastic community, and continuing the work to deliver the latest and greatest developments in productivity and collaboration together. Check our new community website for all the details! 😉

Collabora developers also keep fixing and improving our lovely mother project LibreOffice. As all the good work requires some appreciation, let’s take a look at what the seasoned developers of the Collabora team and the volunteer contributors from our community have been doing during the last two months.

Month in Numbers

On the Collabora Online code repository in the last month, 27 authors have pushed 269 commits to master and 538 commits to all branches. On master, 340 files have changed and there have been 13,568 additions and 6,539 deletions.

Screenshot of GitHub Pulse for Collabora Online
Development Activity on Collabora Online GitHub Repository from December 23, 2020 to January 23, 2021

New Contributors

Congratulations to Bayram Çiçek, Umut Bayramoğlu, Gabriel Masei, Shubham Goyal, and Martin Hoffmann for their first pull requests, and congratulations to Fly, kt-solutions, kevdogg, sseide, kratzersmz, Willem-Jan de Hoog, erikfdev, baffclan, duggalsu, Pascal R. sebastiaanveld, Roland Meier, Timmy183-ui, TijZwa, Christian Raue, pieter-groeneweg, RegisPerdreau, Tobias Kaminsky nabilys, shock, Furkan Ünlütürk, Parrenin Frédéric, mrslavutich, Bond Keevil, yaohao0814, Dan Smolik, Sven, dossantg, William Reed for reporting their first issues and improvement requests on our GitHub repository!

  • Thanks to Bayram Çiçek for contributing to one of our easy hacks, by porting some usages of unique pointers to leverage the Util::make_unique() function, and thus helping us make COOL future-proof by preventing certain potential memory leaks.
  • Thanks to Umut Bayramoğlu for helping us make COOL look even cooler by contributing a new top bar comment icon.
  • Thanks to Gabriel Masei for making it possible for users to have their own settings for UI mode (tabbed or classical toolbar) separate from the default configuration of the installation on the server, thus helping COOL to be even more customizable.
  • Thanks to Shubham Goyal for removing now unneeded Poco::Timestamp functions, thus making the Collabora Online code-base a bit cleaner and more lightweight.
  • Thanks to Martin Hoffmann for fixing our Docker build script for the from-the-source option, thus ensuring it doesn’t cause issues with certain configuration options like –with-lo-path later.
  • Thanks to Fly for letting us know about an issue which caused some certain docker containers being restarted repeatedly. And the issue has already been fixed by Andras Timar.
  • Thanks to kt-solutions for reporting a DOM exception specific to the Chrome browser.
  • Thanks to kevdogg for reporting a permisson issue which was causing COOL 6.4.2.2 docker container failing to start. And the issue is again already fixed by Andras Timar. 🙂
  • Thanks to sseide for reporting multiple docker image issues related to time zones, and access permissions.
  • Thanks to kratzersmz for reporting outdated libpoco causing issues with elliptic curve configuration, which has been now fixed by Andras Timar.
  • Thanks to Willem-Jan de Hoog for letting us know about the COOL start script overriding the classic/tabbed menu preference set in loolwsd.xml, thus giving us the opportunity to improve the installation and configuration experience.
  • Thanks to erikfdev for providing valuable feedback on their specific installation, having an unexpectedly large systemplate, caused by the need for fonts in systemplate. Ashod Nakashian is already working on fixing that, which will potentially make specific large COOL installations much thinner.
  • Thanks to baffclan for taking the time to report a potential problem on mobile, and then also clarifying that it was in fact a bug on another product but not COOL.
  • Thanks to duggalsu for reporting a potential CSV open issue (yet to be confirmed) encountered on Collabora Office mobile version installed from F-Droid.

    The search results for Collabora Office on F-Droid when our third party repo has been defined.
    The search results for Collabora Office on F-Droid when our third party repo has been defined.
  • Thanks to Pascal R. for filing a feature request to add the Line command, to be able to add arrows on presentations on mobile/web, thus giving us the opportunity to improve the user experience of Collabora Online. Pedro Silva has already started working on resolving the request.
  • Thanks to sebastiaanveld for letting us know about the room for improvement on our iOS app’s user experience by allowing the user to choose a proper name for a newly created document.
  • Thanks to Roland Meier for reporting an issue he encountered with the docker image after upgrading COOL, thus leading to the discovery of a discrepancy in the documentation.
  • Thanks to Timmy183-ui for letting us know about our users on F-Droid not being notified about the latest snapshots of the Collabora Office Android App. F-Droid releases are in sync with Play Store and users are notified properly now, thanks to Yunusemre Şentürk.
  • Thanks to TijZwa for filing an enhancement request to improve the way how documents with unsaved changes are handled.
  • Thanks to Christian Raue for reporting an issue that was making it very hard to pass multiple dictionaries to the Docker container. It has now been fixed by Andras Timar.
  • Thanks to pieter-groeneweg for reporting an issue which happened after upgrading their installed version of COOL, which was then followed-up by the Collabora team, and seems to be fixed by a configuration change on their setup.
  • Thanks to RegisPerdreau for letting us know about an issue on Writer, which was causing the resolved state of a single-point comment not being saved. It has been fixed now by Miklos Vajna for COOL, Collabora Office and LibreOffice! 🙂
  • Thanks to Tobias Kaminsky for reporting an issue which caused the COOL Docker image to fail with double escaped domains, which has now been fixed by Andras Timar.
  • Thanks to nabilys for letting us know about the on-screen keyboard sometimes getting in the way of the user while interacting with menus on iOS. It will help us improve UX of COOL for all of our mobile users.
  • Thanks to shock for taking the time to report a missing feature on the Android app, which already exists on COOL.
  • Thanks to Furkan Ünlütürk for creating an issue about a specific type of image file causing an error while being inserted into a document on our mobile app.
  • Thanks to Parrenin Frédéric for testing our demo instance of Collabora Online, and providing technical feedback along with suggestions to improve the user experience even further.
  • Thanks to mrslavutich for reporting an issue they encountered while integrating COOL into their own application.
  • Thanks to Bond Keevil for filing an enhancement request for the hyperlink dialog, to recognize/support mailto links.
  • Thanks to yaohao0814 for letting us know about a potential issue while reading documents with our Android app.
  • Thanks to Dan Smolik for reporting a crash that happens on their installation of Collabora Online along with Nextcloud on Debian Buster. It will help us ensure a smoother experience on various platforms.
  • Thanks to Sven for creating an issue for the problem he encountered while trying to sign a document on his installation. It will potentially help us either to ensure it works properly on even more configuration scenarios or help us expand our help documents.
  • Thanks to dossantg for filing an enhancement request regarding font sizes on the Notebookbar (new toolbar UI), thus helping us improve the user experience even further.
  • Thanks to William Reed for sharing his experience while trying to build our docker image from source for ARM64, which might potentially help us improve build support on different platforms.

Thank you all, and welcome aboard! 🙂

Join the fun!

You can also join the fun, and be part of our next list of new contributors! 🙂

Just go to our GitHub repo, fork it, build it (on Linux or on any platform), grab one of our newcomer-friendly easy hacks, and send your first pull request. And if you get stuck at any point, just drop by one of our communication channels. 😉

Highlights

Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #11

COOL Weekly Meeting #11 has taken place on Thursday, February 04, 2021 at 11:00:00 am (UTC) with participants both from the community contributors and the Collabora team. We have got a quick update on what’s going on and discussed matters raised by the contributors, as well as having the chance to say hi to fellow members of the community. Topics discussed in the meeting include:

  • During the quick update part by Muhammet Kara, it’s been reported that COOL has got more than 60 new contributors (24+ code contributors) since the move to GitHub. It has also been mentioned that there are multiple talks by Collabora Online developers in the LibreOffice devroom of the upcoming FOSDEM in the weekend.
  • Pedro Silva has reported that the pull request for the CSV handling work has been tested and is ready to be merged, which will allow users to download Calc documents directly as CSV files, which also has a new icon contributed by Rizal Muttaqin. He has also shared an update on setup and workflow issues some design contributors have been experiencing, which turned out to be solvable by using our Gitpod (cloud IDE) integration and the daily built LibreOffice core archives which came as a nice side effect of it, to lift the burden of building LibreOffice core from scratch on the contributors.

    Collabora Online repo on Gitpod
    It is possible to start hacking COOL in 10 minutes, independent of your operating system!
  • Nicolas Christener has shared an update on the status of the LibreOffice Template Contest, run by Adfinis, stating that they have got some good-looking submissions and they are considering extending the submission deadline.
  • Regarding the “JSON Toolbar / Notebookbar changes” topic, Jan Holesovsky has reported that they are currently working on improving style previews by converting the styles list into a scrollable, responsive list. He has also shared the latest status of the Async Saving effort, which would result in a much smoother experience when saves happen during a collaborative editing session, such as a lot of code refactoring on master and splitting of states into different classes.
  • Gökay Şatır has shared the latest developments on the CanvasTileLayer bits, which would let us have a much crisper look, especially on different zoom levels for all document types. It looks like the latest changes have been related to the columns and headers on Calc documents, along with some bits being moved to typescript, and a custom scrollbar is the next in line.
  • Michael Meeks has been working on load testing with an emphasis on Calc performance and bogus full-page invalidations which cause unnecessary performance penalties.
  • It has also been discussed that new CODE releases are being planned for the upcoming week, consisting of new improvements such as FontWork, incremental dialog / JSON update work, and async save.
  • Availability of COOL on Plasma phone has been brought up by Andreas Kainz, with a conclusion that some funding would be needed to port Collabora Online to Pine64. He has also reported that latest CSS changes for better alignment caused some scrolling issues, along with an issue on the Notebookbar container, which will be looked into by Pedro Silva and Szymon Kłos.
  • Padia Rashesh asked for some elaboration on an easy-hack related to invalidation debugging, and Michael Meeks explained the topic with a live demonstration. Padia has contributed through multiple easy-hacks so far, and it seems like he is just getting started. Pedro Silva is also providing some guidance via comments on pull requests.
  • Muhammet Kara has brought up that master and the 6.4 branch having different ESLint versions has been reported to be causing issues while backporting patches to 6.4. It has been concluded that many safe patches can be backported next week and tested on new CODE releases.

Check out the meeting minutes for the details of the meeting, and join us on Thursday, February 11, 2021, at 11:00 am (UTC) to stay in touch with the rest of the community. You may also make your own suggestions for the next meeting by following the link shared in the COOL Telegram group before the next meeting. We’re looking forward to hearing from you live. 😉

Collabora Online (COOL)

  • Thanks to Andras Timar for various fixes and improvements around our docker images and documentation as well as for cleaning up the code-base by removing some unnecessary bits and updating localizations.
  • Thanks to Ashod Nakashian for various fixes and improvements towards increasing general stability of COOL and maintainability of the code-base along with tests to make our code-base future-proof, working on the async save feature which will be a major leap towards a much smoother experience for users while collaboratively editing documents, and also for reviewing pull requests of other contributors, and for mentoring them through tough issues.
  • Thanks to Michael Meeks for his recent efforts on stress testing tooling, which will help us ensure COOL continues performing well under pressure on large scales, and also for various other improvements and fixes towards improving the debugging facilities[0][1] and the general code quality.
  • Thanks to Pranam Lashkari for various user interface and user experience fixes and improvements such as making sure hyperlink popup is properly positioned around the edge, and adding support for reordering sheet tabs via drag & drop, thus helping COOL be even more feature-rich and user-friendly.
  • Thanks to Miklos Vajna for improving the performance and stability of COOL by fixing an issue that was causing a crash in a specific scenario, as well as various other fixes and improvements such as adding an explanation to the g review command on how to update an existing pull request in the case of local and remote branches having different names.
  • Thanks to Jan Holesovsky for various code-quality improvements and fixes such as making sure proper C++ practices are in place, and helping COOL become lighter by removing unused functions.
  • Thanks to Henry Castro for various fixes and improvements especially around the Macro Selector dialog to get VBA macros working on COOL, and also adding the related menu item Run Macro to the Tools menu for Calc documents.

    Collabora Online Macro Selector Dialog
    Collabora Online Macro Selector Dialog
  • Thanks to Szymon Kłos for various improvements and fixes on the notebookbar and various dialogs such as the statistics dialog and the Fontwork dialog, turning them into native widgets for COOL, thus allowing a more natural look & feel along with less clutter and possibly better user experience.
  • Thanks to Nnamani Ezinne Martina for adding more cypress tests to ensure the quality of Collabora Online on various features of Calc such as Merge Cells, Text Wrap, and Save and Print commands, as well as fixing the Clear Direct Formatting command of Impress, and updating the screenshots of Online Help.
  • Thanks to Pedro Silva for various fixes and improvements around the user interface of COOL to make it have a better and consistent look and feel across different platforms, as well as adding new features such as CSV as a download option besides many other improvements on different dialogs and user interface items.
  • Thanks to Gökay Şatır for his work on CanvasTileLayer, which would make COOL have a much crisper and smoother look and feel.[0][1][2][3][4][5] See the Weekly Meeting notes above for some more details.
  • Thanks to Andreas Kainz for a lot of design and user interface improvements and fixes especially around the Notebookbars towards bringing the new toolbar design in alignment with the mother project and the expectations of common users. He has also made sure that the sidebar icon sizes match the toolbar icon sizes for visual consistency.
  • Thanks to Thaís Vieira for adding cypress tests to ensure the quality of Collabora Online on various toolbar items of Impress, such as Font Size.
  • Thanks to Ayhan Yalçınsoy for adding the Recalculate command to the Data menu, thus helping COOL be even richer in features.
  • Thanks to Rashesh Padia for various fixes and improvements on comments[0][1][2], and also for making sure that the correct number of characters is displayed in the status bar.
  • Thanks to Tor Lillqvist for improving the logging and debugging facilities of COOL by making sure the debug messages from the client are properly logged, are correctly described, and also by adding an ERROR message to be logged, thus improving the developer experience for all of us, as well as various other improvements and fixes.
  • Thanks to Gleb Popov for continuing his work on bringing Collabora Online to FreeBSD, with many commits.
  • Thanks to Dennis Francis for various fixes and improvements around the Canvas layer, which brings a lot of visual and user experience improvements such as smooth zoom animations.
  • Thanks to Mert Tümer for adding the Insert Connectors pop-up dialog, along with various other fixes and improvements such as adding support for pre-fetching next or previous slide tiles based on the direction of the navigation, thus preventing the tear effect while browsing on an Impress document.
  • Thanks to Tamás Zolnai for a lot of fixes and improvements around cypress (testing framework), and the testing facilities for certain integrations, thus helping COOL have an even better automated quality assurance process, and also for mentoring other contributors while writing new cypress tests. Check out his blog post where he summarizes the different loggings available for cypress tests!

    Cypress Logo
    Cypress is a JavaScript end to end testing framework for any project running in a browser.
  • Thanks to Tomaž Vajngerl for working towards bringing support for Draw documents to Collabora Online.[0]
  • Thanks to Marco Cecchetti for improving the documentation thus making it easier to work on and with COOL for both internal and external developers.
  • Thanks to Yunusemre Şentürk for working on bringing Kubernetes cluster support by adding a proof-of-concept setup with just COOL.
  • Thanks to Rizal Muttaqin for contributing an icon for the new Download as CSV option.
  • Thanks to Aron Budea for improving the logging of SSL status by making it properly report the enabled/disabled state.

Collabora Office on Android & iOS

  • Thanks to Tor Lillqvist for various fixes and improvements on the iOS app such as fixing a crash that could happen in certain scenarios, and removing unused functions and constants.
  • Thanks to Mert Tümer for fixing a focus issue on text input of Calc documents on the Android app.

Collabora Online Integrations

  • Thanks to Julius Härtl for various improvements and fixes on Collabora Online’s Nextcloud integration such as making sure a proper error message is given when a user tries to open a document on unsupported external storage, and also for reviewing and merging many pull requests from other contributors.
  • Thanks to Szymon Kłos for improving the user experience of built-in CODE support of Collabora Online’s Nextcloud integration by making sure no unintended timeout happens when AppImage of COOL is still starting, and also by making sure an open file is properly renamed after a Save As operation.
  • Thanks to Joas Schilling for improving the stability of Collabora Online’s Nextclsoud integration by making sure guest names are properly shortened when they are too long to fit in the database.
  • Thanks to Roeland Jago Douma for various under-the-hood improvements and fixes on Collabora Online’s Nextclsoud integration such as making sure certain exceptions are properly logged for inspection and debugging later.
  • Thanks to Dipak Acharya for his contribution towards faster CI and testing cycles for Collabora Online’s ownCloud integration.
  • Thanks to Piotr Mrówczyński for various under-the-hood improvements on Collabora Online’s ownCloud integration.
  • Thanks to Semih Serhat Karakaya[0], Michael Barz[1], Thomas Müller[2], Artur Neumann[3], Benedikt Kulmann[4] for reviewing and merging pull requests of other contributors on Collabora Online’s ownCloud integration.
  • Thanks to Phil Davis for various improvements on the CI and test facilities of Collabora Online’s ownCloud integration.
  • Thanks to Juan Pablo Villafañez for various contributions around versioning and licensing of Collabora Online’s ownCloud integration.
  • Thanks to Swoichha Adhikari for adding SonarCloud badges to Collabora Online’s ownCloud integration.
  • Thanks to Jérémie Lesage for updating documentation and license information of Collabora Online’s Alfresco integration.
  • Thanks to Andras Timar for adding localization support to Collabora Online’s Alfresco integration along with other small fixes.[0]
  • Thanks to Cindy PIASSALE for various improvements and clean-ups on Collabora Online’s Alfresco integration.[0][1][2][3]

Honorable Mentions

  • Thanks to Cor Nouws for leading the marketing team, and not stopping there but continuing with testing & reporting bugs, attending to community events, and keeping us all informed about what’s going on. He also attends LibreOffice Design meetings from time to time to help COOL’s mother project LibreOffice have a better UI & UX.
  • Thanks to Eloy Crespo for his efforts to help the project well-funded as always.
  • Thanks to Marc Rodrigues for continuing to keep us updated on various news around Collabora Online and related FOSS projects, and creating a lot of yummy content to read!
  • Thanks to Pedro Silva for improving various points around the COOL Community Page, and also for helping other contributors by providing instructions on their pull requests as well as reviewing them.
  • Thanks to Andras Timar for keeping us organized, maintaining our translation project on Weblate, and delivering hot new releases of our software!
  • Thanks to Yunusemre Şentürk for various tasks towards keeping our CI chains healthy.
  • Thanks to Jan Holesovsky for doing a lot of research on different topics, and providing mentoring/patch-reviewing/hand-holding/wisdom within the team, in our communication channels, and also on various channels of our lovely mother project LibreOffice.
  • Your friendly community mentor, Muhammet Kara, is also creating & improving easy hacks, running workshops, helping new contributors solving their setup & build issues and reviewing their pull requests, working on easing the build procedure, improving our GitHub presence bit by bit based on its community guidelines, compiling/composing these community updates…

Translators

Last but not least, we can’t thank enough to our translators who constantly help COOL and its friends talk many languages on this earth. Collabora Online speaks many languages, thanks to all of our translators in our translation project, and all of those who previously contributed and keeps contributing to our mother project, LibreOffice.

We’re continuing to work to find good ways to credit translators’ hard work in the product. Please see a list of those involved, and please get in touch if you’re not listed. Many thanks to all those who have worked on translating Online, you rock!

If you would like to help COOL speak your language, you can just go to our translation project on weblate, and start contributing! 😉

Collabora Online translation project on Weblate
Collabora Online translation project on Weblate

Collabora loves LibreOffice!

We’re still contributing to LibreOffice and encourage you too to do so because LibreOffice rocks. 😉

  • Thanks to Miklos Vajna for his work towards better PDF signature verification in Draw, thus potentially improving the user experience of LibreOffice for related scenarios. Check out his blog post for the whole story!
  • Thanks to Miklos Vajna for improving support for shadows of table shapes for PPTX files, thus ensuring better interoperability with other office suites and non-native file formats. Check out his blog post for details!
    Before: Old render result in Impress

    After: New render result in Impress
  • Thanks to Tomaž Vajngerl for his work towards developing a built-in Xray-like UNO object inspector. Check out his blog post to see what has been done so far and what is planned next. This effort has been funded by The Document Foundation, so also thanks a lot to the TDF Board of Directors, and the TDF donors who made the work on this tool possible!
    Development Tool in the menu

    Development tool dockable window
  • Thanks to Gülşah Köse for fixing a bug that was causing certain images on a PPTX file to be shown as mirrored when opened with LibreOffice, and also for fixing a bug that was causing certain images on PPTX files being rendered with unusual aspect ratios, thus improving interoperability with other office suites.
  • Thanks to Noel Grandin for doing various code-quality improvements and modernization all around the LibreOffice code-base.
  • Thanks to Tor Lillqvist for a lot of fixes and improvements especially towards better support on macOS.

Collabora Online Community Roundup #8

On October 1st, Collabora Online moved to its new home on GitHub, and started settling in the new infrastructure, expanding its fantastic community, and continuing the work to deliver the latest and greatest developments in productivity and collaboration together. Check our new community website for all the details! 😉

Collabora developers also keep fixing and improving our lovely mother project LibreOffice. As all the good work requires some appreciation, let’s take a look at what the seasoned developers of the Collabora team and the volunteer contributors from our community have been doing during the last week.

Week in Numbers

On the Collabora Online code repository in the last week, 19 authors have pushed 77 commits to master and 156 commits to all branches. On master, 164 files have changed and there have been 15,979 additions and 12,825 deletions.

Screenshot of GitHub Pulse for Collabora Online
Development Activity on Collabora Online GitHub Repository from November 27, 2020 to December 04, 2020

New Contributors

Congratulations to Lawrence D’Anna, Triopsi, baffclan, Jairo Llopis for reporting their first issues and improvement requests on our GitHub repository!

  • Thanks to Lawrence D’Anna for letting us know about an issue with zoom levels on macOS Big Sur.
  • Thanks to Triopsi for reporting an issue about permissions in the COOL docker image.
  • Thanks to baffclan for opening an enhancement request for the iOS app to enhance the UX by adding an about dialog to the main menu.
  • Thanks to Jairo Llopis for letting us know about the lack of mouse support on tablets with DeX mode.

Thank you all, and welcome aboard! 🙂

Join the fun!

You can also join the fun, and be part of our next list of new contributors! 🙂

Just go to our GitHub repo, fork it, build it (on Linux or on any platform), grab one of our newcomer-friendly easy hacks, and send your first pull request. And if you get stuck at any point, just drop by one of our communication channels. 😉

Highlights

Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #4

COOL Weekly Meeting #4 has taken place on Thursday, December 03, 2020 at 11:00:00 am (UTC) with participants both from the community contributors and the Collabora team. We have got a quick update on what’s going on and discussed matters raised by the contributors, as well as having the chance to say hi to fellow members of the community. Topics discussed in the meeting include:

  • During the quick update part by Muhammet Kara, it’s been reported that COOL has got 41 new contributors (20+ code contributors) since the move to GitHub.
  • Toolbar changes (by Andreas Kainz) now has a new issue opened for UI changes which is waiting for review from Pedro Silva. Then new pieces of change will be pushed to master based on feedback.

    Ellipsis button proposed to provide a way of opening related dialogs directly from toolbars
  • Contextual toolbars (by Andreas Kainz) also got a new issue for communication and tracking the progress. It has been reported that JavaScript file looks more complicated than the file for the menu bar, and it is proposed to be chopped into smaller pieces to reduce complexity.
  • On the topic of Dynamic Changes of Toolbar Type (by Gabriel Masei), the results of the initial experimentation has been shared, and further options such as making use of a per-user option on the core side for toolbar preference have been discussed. Gabriel Masei will continue working on the topic with the help of Szymon Szymon Kłos, and discussing certain options with Jan Holesovsky. Miklos Vajna has also shared a nice blog post on effective code review and backporting for Collabora Online.
  • Gökay Şatır shared an update on his work of CanvasTileLayer which means a better look with crisp pixels at every zoom level. It’s been reported that Writer and Impress are the latest winners who got some improvements on this. It will also be backported to the 6.4.x series.
  • Pedro Silva and Andreas Kainz shared updates and discussed the next steps regarding the CSS class names step of the icon theming topic. It’s been decided that details will be discussed on a separate call involving the related parties.
  • It’s been reported that Impress got some recent speedup improvements by Mert Tümer (Impress tile rendering and watermarks) and Tomaž Vajngerl (PDF rendering).
  • Szymon Kłos has shared updates on his work around auto-filters and pivot table dialogs, which are still work in progress.
  • Andreas Kainz proposed a coherent approach to maintain user interfaces of COOL, and it has been discussed from different angles. Details of the discussion can be found in the minutes of the meeting.
  • Nicolas Christener shared an update on his work to prepare a blog post about the iOS app upgrade and provided a link to preview the draft.
  • It’s been mentioned that now everything -PC, Online, mobile, etc.- are all on the same 6.4.x base, which makes it easier to coherently maintain all for the developers, and easier to follow for the deployers and the users alike.

Check out the meeting minutes for the details of the meeting, make your own suggestions for the next meeting, and join us on Thursday, December 10, 2020, at 11:00 am (UTC) to stay in touch with the rest of the community. We’re looking forward to hearing from you live. 😉

Collabora Online (COOL)

  • Thanks to Henry Castro for fixing[0][1] an issue which caused a Writer document to partially fall outside the visible area after certain operations like zoom in and zoom out, and also for doing some under-the-hood improvements on our build system.
  • Thanks to Szymon Kłos for various improvements and fixes on the notebookbar and various dialogs such as the pivot table dialog, turning them into native widgets for COOL, thus allowing a more natural look & feel along with less clutter and possibly better user experience.
  • Thanks to Jan Holesovsky for improving the performance of change tracking by removing some unnecessary checks and iterations, and also for making sure the correct document is used while copying and moving around Calc’s sheet tabs.
  • Thanks to Ashod Nakashian for various fixes and improvements towards increasing general stability of COOL and maintainability of the code-base along with tests to make our code-base future-proof, and also for reviewing pull requests of other contributors, and for mentoring them through tough issues.
  • Thanks to Tamás Zolnai for a lot of fixes and improvements around cypress (testing framework), and the testing facilities for certain integrations, thus helping COOL have an even better automated quality assurance process, and also for mentoring other contributors while writing new cypress tests.
  • Thanks to Thaís Vieira for adding cypress tests to ensure the quality of Collabora Online on various toolbar items of Impress, such as font color and highlight color.
  • Thanks to Pedro Silva for various fixes and improvements around the user interface of COOL to make it have a better and consistent look and feel across different platforms.
  • Thanks to Andras Timar for various fixes and improvements around our docker images and documentation as well as for cleaning up the code-base by removing some unnecessary bits and updating localizations.

    With the Collabora Online Development Edition (CODE) Docker Image you can host your own online Office Suite at home!
  • Thanks to Pranam Lashkari for various user interface and user experience fixes and improvements such as making sure menu entries are not overlapped by the menu bar, and adding new easy ways to arrange Calc sheets through commands move sheet left and move sheet right as well as the move/copy dialog on the desktop browsers.
  • Thanks to Michael Meeks for helping COOL have a less-cluttered code-base and potentially perform better by removing obsolete locking and conditions around MessageQueue.
  • Thanks to Mert Tümer for various performance fixes and improvements especially around watermarks and PDF handling.
  • Thanks to Miklos Vajna for improving the performance and stability of COOL by fixing an issue that caused certain text documents with tables to trigger a continuous loop of tile requests, as well as various other fixes and improvements such as adding a subcommand to our g script to easily backport all commits of a pull request, thus making lives of contributors a bit easier.
  • Thanks to Rashesh Padia for adding a message box to the admin console to indicate when the server is shut down, thus improving UX for the administrators.

Collabora Office on Android & iOS

  • Thanks to Tor Lillqvist for various fixes and improvements on the iOS app such as making sure emojis work properly.

    Using the Emoji keyboard on the Collabora Office iOS app
  • Thanks to Yunusemre Şentürk for updating the target SDK version for Android app from 28 to 29, thus helping it keep up with the current technology.

Collabora Online Integrations

  • Thanks to Julius Härtl for improving domain configuration and handling of Collabora Online’s Nextcloud integration, along with various other improvements under-the-hood.
  • Thanks to Szymon Kłos for improving the user experience of built-in CODE support of Collabora Online’s Nextcloud integration by making sure the timeout is long enough for the server to start and proper checks are in place for it.
  • Thanks to Jan Ackermann for helping Collabora Online’s ownCloud integration provide a better user experience and be future-proof by updating the context menu entry “Edit” as “Open with Collabora”, and replacing a deprecated function call with its modern alternative.
  • Thanks to Thomas Müller for updating translations of Collabora Online’s ownCloud integration thus helping it to have better support for different languages.
  • Thanks to Andreas Grabs for improving the user interface and experience of Collabora Online’s Moodle integration by fixing iframe height to make sure COOL status bar is shown properly.

Honorable Mentions

  • Thanks to Cor Nouws for leading the marketing team, and not stopping there but continuing with testing & reporting bugs, attending to community events, and keeping us all informed about what’s going on. He also attends LibreOffice Design meetings from time to time to help COOL’s mother project LibreOffice have a better UI & UX.
  • Thanks to Eloy Crespo for his efforts to help the project well-funded as always.
  • Thanks to Marc Rodrigues for continuing to keep us updated on various news around Collabora Online and related FOSS projects, and creating a lot of yummy content to read!
  • Thanks to Pedro Silva for improving various points around the COOL Community Page, and also for helping other contributors by providing instructions on their pull requests as well as reviewing them.
  • Thanks to Andras Timar for keeping us organized, maintaining our translation project on Weblate, and delivering hot new releases of our software!
  • Thanks to Yunusemre Şentürk for various tasks towards keeping our CI chains healthy.
  • Thanks to Jan Holesovsky for doing a lot of research on different topics, and providing mentoring/patch-reviewing/hand-holding/wisdom within the team, in our communication channels, and also on various channels of our lovely mother project LibreOffice.
  • Your friendly community mentor, Muhammet Kara, is also creating & improving easy hacks, running workshops, helping new contributors solving their setup & build issues and reviewing their pull requests, working on easing the build procedure, improving our GitHub presence bit by bit based on its community guidelines, compiling/composing these community updates…

Translators

Last but not least, we can’t thank enough to our translators who constantly help COOL and its friends talk many languages on this earth. Collabora Online speaks many languages, thanks to all of our translators in our translation project, and all of those who previously contributed and keeps contributing to our mother project, LibreOffice.

We’re continuing to work to find good ways to credit translators’ hard work in the product. Please see a list of those involved, and please get in touch if you’re not listed. Many thanks to all those who have worked on translating Online, you rock!

If you would like to help COOL speak your language, you can just go to our translation project on weblate, and start contributing! 😉

Collabora Online translation project on Weblate
Collabora Online translation project on Weblate

Collabora loves LibreOffice!

We’re still contributing to LibreOffice and encourage you too to do so because LibreOffice rocks. 😉

  • Thanks to Gülşah Köse for making sure dotted lines in PPTX files don’t disappear during presentations, thus improving interoperability with other office suites.
  • Thanks to Tor Lillqvist for fixing the Firebird build on macOS on arm64, thus ensuring macOS users on certain platforms will be able to get better support for using databases with LibreOffice.
  • Thanks to Tomaž Vajngerl for fixing an issue that caused certain PDF files with a lot of graphics to use an excessive amount of disk space for caching, thus improving overall stability and performance of LibreOffice while working with PDF files.
  • Thanks to Noel Grandin for doing various code-quality improvements and modernization all around the LibreOffice code-base.
  • Thanks to Miklos Vajna for his work towards better handling of cached field results in Writer, thus potentially improving the performance and user experience of LibreOffice. Check out his blog post for the whole story!
    Old, broken render result in Writer

    New render result in Writer

Collabora Online Community Roundup #7

On October 1st, Collabora Online moved to its new home on GitHub, and started settling in the new infrastructure, expanding its fantastic community, and continuing the work to deliver the latest and greatest developments in productivity and collaboration together. Check our new community website for all the details! 😉

Collabora developers also keep fixing and improving our lovely mother project LibreOffice. As all the good work requires some appreciation, let’s take a look at what the seasoned developers of the Collabora team and the volunteer contributors from our community have been doing during the last week.

Week in Numbers

On the Collabora Online code repository in the last week, 29 authors have pushed 102 commits to master and 193 commits to all branches. On master, 150 files have changed and there have been 2,357 additions and 1,480 deletions.

Screenshot of GitHub Pulse for Collabora Online
Development Activity on Collabora Online GitHub Repository from November 13, 2020 to November 20, 2020

New Contributors

Congratulations to SaschaT667, JensTheCoder, BernhardGehl, accolon and Gabriel Filion for reporting their first issues and improvement requests on our GitHub repository!

  • Thanks to SaschaT667 for opening an enhancement request for adding editable and dynamically-calculated formulas support to Writer documents.
  • Thanks to JensTheCoder for reporting an issue about frozen lines in Calc documents.
  • Thanks to BernhardGehl for letting us know about some unexpected log messages from COOL, integrated with Nextcloud.
  • Thanks to accolon for reporting an issue about zoom factors of spreadsheets on macOS Big Sur.
  • Thanks to Gabriel Filion for reporting a bug which caused COOL packages for some distros to fail to start, and thanks to Andras Timar for fixing it quickly.

Thank you all, and welcome aboard! 🙂

Join the fun!

You can also join the fun, and be part of our next list of new contributors! 🙂

Just go to our GitHub repo, fork it, build it (on Linux or on any platform), grab one of our newcomer-friendly easy hacks, and send your first pull request. And if you get stuck at any point, just drop by one of our communication channels. 😉

Highlights

Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #3

COOL Weekly Meeting #3 has taken place on Thursday, November 26, 2020 at 11:00:00 am (UTC) with participants both from the community contributors and the Collabora team. We have got a quick update on what’s going on and discussed matters raised by the contributors, as well as having the chance to say hi to fellow members of the community. Topics discussed in the meeting include:

  • Contextual toolbars for COOL (suggested by Andreas Kainz) got a new patch merged to master with some initial bits of implementation. Andreas Kainz will test it and give feedback.
  • Icon theming for COOL leveraging SVG files (suggested by Andreas Kainz) has been decided to be turned into an issue on GitHub to keep track of the initial work of defining the class names. Below is a proof of concept screenshot by Andreas Kainz demonstrating how two different sets of icons can be obtained just by using two different SVG classes.

    A proof of concept screenshot by Andreas Kainz demonstrating two different sets of icons with two different SVG classes
  • The blog post about iOS app upgrade (suggested by Nicolas Christener) is planned to be written/published when the new upgrade is out. It was also mentioned that new beta testers should ask Kendy for access to the testing versions.
  • Regarding Mobile / iOS versions, Pedro Silva has reported that the Notebookbar for iPad has been improved, and many fixes and improvements have already been included in 6.4 for a more clutter-free notebookbar with better user experience for iOS users. He has also touched up the community website to add a prominent link to the forum.
  • Gökay Şatır has shared some update about his work on CanvasTileLayer
  • Gabriel Masei asked about the ways to avoid duplicated effort, and was suggested to keep in touch with the team in the #cool-dev channel on Freenode, and also participate in the following sessions of the COOL Weekly Meeting. He is interested in contributing to COOL to make it possible to dynamically change between the classic toolbar and the new notebookbar views.

Check out the meeting minutes for the details of the meeting, make your own suggestions for the next meeting, and join us on Thursday, December 03, 2020, at 11:00 am (UTC) to stay in touch with the rest of the community. We’re looking forward to hearing from you live. 😉

Collabora Online (COOL)

Collabora Office on Android & iOS

  • Thanks to Tor Lillqvist for fixing an issue which caused the on-screen keyboard not coming back after being dismissed once in a session in the iOS app. He has also made sure that no auto-scrolling of a page on a Writer document happens if user is making a selection by dragging the selection handles in the iOS app.
  • Thanks to Jan Holesovsky for making sure that plain text content copied from browser is properly pasted without additional characters in the Android app.

Collabora Online Integrations

  • Thanks to Roeland Jago Douma for improving performance of Collabora Online’s Nextcloud integration by making sure extra queries and steps are avoided by obtaining the appdata folder in one go. He has also improved handling of empty files to avoid possible issues.
  • Thanks to Julius Härtl and Andras Timar for reviewing and merging pull requests on Collabora Online’s Nextcloud integration.
  • Thanks to Phil Davis for upgrading phan version on Collabora Online’s ownCloud integration, thus helping to maintain a high PHP code-quality for the project.
  • Thanks to Semih Serhat Karakaya for making Collabora Online’s ownCloud integration future-proof by changing the code to use the path from the appManager instead of a static one.
  • Thanks to Jan Ackermann for helping Collabora Online’s ownCloud integration stay up-to-date by replacing some deprecated functions with current ones, as well as making sure the integration app has the correct default name.

Honorable Mentions

  • Thanks to Marc Rodrigues for continuing to keep us updated on various news around Collabora Online and related FOSS projects, and creating a lot of yummy content to read!
  • Thanks to Andras Timar for keeping us organized, maintaining our translation project on Weblate, and delivering hot new releases of our software!
  • Thanks to Cor Nouws for leading the marketing team, and not stopping there but continuing with testing & reporting bugs, attending to community events, and keeping us all informed about what’s going on. He also attends LibreOffice Design meetings from time to time to help COOL’s mother project LibreOffice have a better UI & UX.
  • Thanks to Jan Holesovsky for doing a lot of research on different topics, and providing mentoring/patch-reviewing/hand-holding/wisdom within the team, in our communication channels, and also on various channels of our lovely mother project LibreOffice.
  • Thanks to Eloy Crespo for his efforts to help the project well-funded as always.
  • Your friendly community mentor, Muhammet Kara, is also creating & improving easy hacks, running workshops, helping new contributors solving their setup & build issues and reviewing their pull requests, working on easing the build procedure, improving our GitHub presence bit by bit based on its community guidelines, compiling/composing these community updates…

Translators

Last but not least, we can’t thank enough to our translators who constantly help COOL and its friends talk many languages on this earth. Collabora Online speaks many languages, thanks to all of our translators in our translation project, and all of those who previously contributed and keeps contributing to our mother project, LibreOffice.

We’re continuing to work to find good ways to credit translators’ hard work in the product. Please see a list of those involved, and please get in touch if you’re not listed. Many thanks to all those who have worked on translating Online, you rock!

If you would like to help COOL speak your language, you can just go to our translation project on weblate, and start contributing! 😉

Collabora Online translation project on Weblate
Collabora Online translation project on Weblate

Collabora loves LibreOffice!

We’re still contributing to LibreOffice and encourage you too to do so because LibreOffice rocks. 😉

  • Thanks to Gülşah Köse for making sure documents with text camera z rotation are properly opened and saved for PPTX files, thus improving interoperability with other office suites.
  • Thanks to Miklos Vajna for fixing a bug that caused LibreOffice to not update all preview images on an ODT file after issuing the UpdateAll command, as well as various other fixes for issues encountered while opening certain DOCX files,[0][1] and also for improving PPT support by resolving an issue which caused some images being lost after opening a PPTX file and saving it as PPT.
  • Thanks to Noel Grandin for doing various code-quality improvements and modernization all around the LibreOffice code-base.

Jeci and Collabora Online announce partnership for Alfresco Community

Dijon, France – Cambridge, United Kingdom – November 23, 2020 – Collabora, the driving force behind creating the online LibreOffice, ‘Collabora Online’, and Jeci, an IT service company that specializes in free and open source technologies (FLOSS), are happy to announce a partnership around Collabora Online and Jeci’s Alfresco integration.

“We are excited to work with Jeci as our partner” said Michael Meeks, General Manager at Collabora Productivity. “we love their work enhancing collaboration with Alfresco, and the open source spirit of the team.”

“We are delighted to be able to offer Collabora Online as part of our services for Alfresco” said Jérémie Lesage, founder and CEO at Jeci. “With the rich editing and collaboration features in Collabora Online, we are able to create more value for our customers.”

Jeci provides various open source expertise on, among others, containers and software development, with a specialty on Alfresco Community Platform, using Docker for a quick and reproducible deployment. Jeci created an open source integration for Alfresco with Collabora Online, which was also recently updated for Alfresco version 6. Alfresco is the open, cloud-native ECM, to help manage content from anywhere, connect information with users everywhere. Integration with Collabora Online helps businesses in increasing worker productivity, securing online working, and in effectively delivering exceptional customer experiences. You can see how the integration works on Jeci’s youtube channel.

Collabora Online is the powerful LibreOffice-based online office that supports all major document-, spreadsheet- and presentation-file formats, which can be easily integrated in many infrastructures and solutions. Key features are collaborative editing and excellent office file format support. Collabora Online is excellent for enterprises that need a powerful office suite in the cloud, or on-premises, that protects their privacy and allows them to keep full control of their sensitive corporate data. Collabora Online enables Hosting and Cloud businesses to include document viewing and collaborative editing functionality into their service offerings.
Collabora Online can also be used in combination with our PC based office suites: Collabora Office, as well as natively on iOS, Android and ChromeOS. This gives organizations flexibility to choose where to run their Office workloads, without being forced to use third party servers.

For more information about this press release, please contact info@jeci.fr or sales@collaboraoffice.com.

About Collabora Productivity
Collabora Productivity created Collabora Online and therefore is the driving force behind putting LibreOffice in the cloud. Collabora provides a wide range of products, as well as consulting services for enterprises and governments. Powered by the largest team of certified LibreOffice engineers in the world, Collabora is a leading contributor to the LibreOffice codebase and community. Collabora Office for Desktop and Collabora Online provide a business-hardened office suite with long-term support. Collabora’s multi-platform policy is completed with Collabora Office for iOS and Android. Collabora Productivity is a division of Collabora, the global software consultancy dedicated to providing benefits of Open Source to the commercial world, specializing in mobile, automotive and consumer electronics industries. For more information, visit page on www.collaboraoffice.com or follow @CollaboraOffice on Twitter.

About Jeci
Jeci is an Information Technology services company that specializes in Free and Open Source technologies (FLOSS). Set near Dijon in Burgundy, Jeci mostly works remotely but also on site in France, Belgium and Switzerland. We provide turnkey ready Alfresco Community Platforms. The platforms use Docker for a quick and reproducible deployment. We also provide services around containers, kubernetes, and cloud native software development. More details on jeci.fr.