I have previously discussed fixing crashes in 2 parts (segfaults , aborts ). Here I discuss testing crashes to avoid creating re-creating regressions. WHY TESTING CRASHES? When you fix a crash...
https://dev.blog.documentfoundation.org/2024/04/18/crash-fixes-part-3-testing-crashes/
Here’s a LibreOffice feature you may not know about: when exporting a PDF, the “Hybrid PDF” option embeds the original file. Then anyone with a PDF reader can view the file – and LibreOff...
GENERAL ACTIVITIES LibreOffice 7.6.6 and LibreOffice 24.2.2 were released on March 28 Olivier Hallot (TDF) renamed Fontwork to Text along Path in the UI while updating Help, added Help content...
https://qa.blog.documentfoundation.org/2024/04/11/qa-dev-report-march-2024/
OUR CZECH COMMUNITY REPORTS BACK FROM A RECENT EVENT… For the third time, the LibreOffice project had its own booth at InstallFest 2024 , and here we present our experiences from the event. ...
TELL US A BIT ABOUT YOURSELF! My name is Adam Seskunas and I currently live in San Diego, California. In my free time I enjoy outdoor activities, hiking, backpacking in the Sierra, rock climbing...
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/04/08/community-member-monday-adam-seskunas/
Following a successful pilot project, the northern German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein has decided to move from Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office to Linux and LibreOffice (and other ...
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/04/04/german-state-moving-30000-pcs-to-libreoffice/
Calc now supports much better copy&paste when you transfer data between Google Sheets and Calc. This work is primarily for Collabora Online , but the feature is fully available in desktop Calc ...
Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more… We started March by announcing the new Board of Direc...
Up lateish; drove to St Albans with the family to meet up with Sue & family. Removed 4% of CPU from a week-long profile of our demo servers: avoiding lots of extension querying with a one line c...
Played with H. and a stand-in Chris at Church for Easter Sunday, good congregation & singing, H. doing well on the Organ. David & Jocelyn over for lunch, caught up with them. J. out for a run, g...
Pottered around, poked at tax planning with J. Bruce & Anne over for a fine lamb lunch, lovely to see them. Re-worked SocketPoll to improve (somewhat hypothetical) re-entrancy issues for fun. Wa...
Off with the family; out to Nowton Park for a wander in the sun. Into central Bury to have some Greggs in the Cathedral Gardens. Wandered The Range with H. and E. - got some potential earth cont...
The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) has found that the European Commission (Commission) has breached several provisions of Regulation (EU) 2018/1725, the EU data protection law for EU ...
LibreOffice’s localisation community translates the software’s user interface, along with its documentation and websites . Julia Spitters , Heiko Tietze and Sophie Gautier ran a survey am...
Mail, admin, tech planning, COOL community call. Group of partners call, marketing strategy call; lots of calls. Discovered that using an A2 M8 bolt as a die to thread a pencil makes a great fid...
Berlin, 28 March 2024 – Today the Document Foundation releases LibreOffice 24.2.2 Community and LibreOffice 7.6.6 Community , both minor releases that fix bugs and regressions to improve qual...
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/03/28/libreoffice-24-2-2-and-7-6-6-community/
Early partner training call, partner call, sync with Caolan on the not entirely obvious SfxMedium code. Lunch. Catch up with Naomi & Lily. Sales call, poked at background save. Band practice in ...
Today is Document Freedom Day , which raises awareness of how open standards and open document formats provide us with the freedom to read and write as we wish: > Remember when you were se...
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/03/27/celebrating-document-freedom-day-2024/
Up early; off to a French ministry customer meeting with Philippe & Meven. Lots of useful feedback - and a chance to improve my French comprehension. Out for a nice Italian lunch, and back on th...
Mail chew, 1:1's with Lily, Miklos, lunch, H. dropped to the station; mail & admin and COOL-days slide creation on various trains to Paris. Met up with Meven, had some Crepes, up late chatting.
Zdeněk Crhonek (aka “raal”) from the Czech LibreOffice community writes: > The Czech team has finished translating the LibreOffice Writer Guide > 24.2. As usual it was a ...
All Saints, played violin & orchestrated the organ for Peter. Home for a lovely roast lamb lunch, exhausted relaxation - movies, crisps, rest.
Up earlyish, packed tools variously; off to David S' with H. joined by Chance & David M. Managed to get the next stair flight up-stairs, and to fit the work platform. Dry-fitted stairs, and cut/...
Check-in with Rash, Quikee & Lily on K8s, sync with Lily. Finished E-mail, and got to some hacking. Polished background save a lot; eventually got to something good, only to discover that CoW of...
Tech planning call, COOL community call and some testing action; new staff on-boarding / three month orientation catch-up. Sync with wider marketing group. Interesting start-up demo / pitch. Plu...
Up early, out for a run with J. Early customer call, sync with Lily, mail chew, all hands meeting. Poked at socket lifecycle management, and SocketPoll workings in much more detail. Band practic...
Mail chew, planning call, sync with Naomi & Lily, lunch, monthly mgmt meeting, poked at some overdue 24.04 coding treats - discovered some corner-case performance issue by lengthing our fallback...
Mail chew; day of 1:1's and catch-up admin & planning. Reflecting on why I get -so- spam these days, I suspect LinkedIn likes to target on 'CEO' job title instead of the much more opaque 'Genera...
One of the areas that can help LibreOffice, but may not directly be visible to the users even though it has a big impact is the quality assurance , is AUTOMATED TESTING. Here, I discuss some ar...
Up earlyish, breakfast with the parents, bid a fond farewell & drove home. N. cooked lunch; J. and N. went to visit Izzie, H.M. & E. to StAG; relaxed variously - watched The King - interesting; ...