Resolving issues and bringing improvements to LibreOffice is usually the result of team work – a team often made up of people who have never met each other! As a Free / Open Source project, LibreOffice has contributors in the space of translation, documentation, development, design… and Quality Assurance (QA) from around the globe. Some might have contributed for decades, others just reported a bug for the first time yesterday. Let’s have a look at three stories in which issues were identified, triaged and resolved in different ways, but always through a combined effort. Many hands make light work Take for example bug 153790 on Bugzilla. At least six contributors were involved in its resolution: Ruud reported an issue in sheet referencing in Calc formulas; Stéphane confirmed the issue, provided more precise steps and let others know that the issue is a regression; ady pinpointed more precisely in which version the issue started; raal bibisected the issue to a precise commit by Eike – the issue started in version 7.4; Eike provided a fix for version 7.5; Finally, Xisco created a unit test so the issue does not reappear in the future. Looking into an issue reveals another Here’s another
Month: September 2023
QA/Dev Report: August 2023
General Activities LibreOffice 7.6.0 was released on August 21 Olivier Hallot (TDF) continued adding Tabbed UI examples into help instructions, updated help for command line PDF export and anchoring of images in Writer, improved help for Title Page and added extended tips to its dialog and added help pages for tooltips when dragging scrollbars and document themes Juan C. Sanz added Firebird’s DATEADD and DATEDIFF functions to the SQL parser Stéphane Guillou (TDF) updated help for PDF export regarding comments in margin Rafael Lima fixed issues with F1 help shortcut not working in some contexts, made the table toolbar hidden when Notebookbar is active and updated help for ScriptForge Seth Chaiklin updated help for AutoRecovery Laurent Balland extended ODF support to include reserved blank spaces in Calc custom number formats Miklós Vajna (Collabora) worked on multi-page floating tables in Writer. He also made improvements to automated tests Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library Szymon Kłos (Collabora) worked on jsdialog used by Collabora Online Marco Cecchetti and Attila Szűcs (Collabora) worked on LOKit used by Collabora Online. Attila also added an Excel compatibility option to limit the creation of hyperlinks to only one per cell Áron Budea (Collabora) fixed a