General Activities Adolfo Jayme Barrientos, Steve Fanning, Gábor Kelemen, Olivier Hallot (TDF) and Johnny_M made many Help improvements and cleanups Jan-Marek Glogowski improved the Writer comments ruler UI control and fixed a few Qt-related issues Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) implemented searching inside PDFs inserted as a graphic and added support for reading annotations in PDFs Chris Sherlock did graphics-related refactoring work Mike Kaganski (Collabora) improved the look of soft edges and shadows in slideshows Martin van Zijl added the ability to reset standard filter in Calc Luboš Luňák (Collabora) continued with the Skia graphics engine integration and improved the performance of undo operations in Calc Xisco Faulí (TDF) made over 40 additions and fixes to unit and UI tests Vasily Melenchuk (CIB) fixed many issues with DOCX lists and fixed a DOCX paragraph spacing issue Noel Grandin (Collabora) made many code cleanups and made performance improvements in Calc in the areas of autofilling, loading of spreadsheets with huge autofilters and sorting data Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) continued the crucial user interface backend work and did many cleanups and crash fixes Rizal Muttaqin made many improvements in the icon themes and refreshed the Presenter Screen Balázs Varga (NISZ) fixed some OOXML chart
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QA/Dev Report: May 2020
General Activities LibreOffice 6.4.4 was released as final on May, 21 The fist Bug Hunting Session for LibreOffice 7.0 took place on May, 11 Roman Kuznetsov wrote a nice post explaining how to create new patches directly in Gerrit Michael Stahl (CIB) made ODF 1.3 Extended the default ODF version. See the current status for more information Mike Kaganski (Collabora) improved how glow effects and soft edge effects are imported into LibreOffice Adolfo Jayme Barrientos, Steve Fanning, Olivier Hallot and Johnny_M made many Help improvements and cleanups Xisco Fauli (TDF) rewrote all the office-interoperability-tools scripts in python, used for finding interoperability regressions of different formats. The code has been simplified and cleaned up, and execution time has halved from 10 days to 5 days. Jim Raykowski added a tooltip to Navigator displaying the word count of sections Noel Grandin (Collabora) made many code cleanups and made Calc autofilling and searching in autofilter much faster Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) continued the crucial user interface backend work and did many cleanups and crash fixes Andreas Kainz continued to improve the galleries, dialog layouts and Impress templates. He also made improvements to the Notebookbar interfaces Xisco Faulí (TDF) made nearly 60 additions and
QA/Dev Report: April 2020
General Activities LibreOffice 6.4.3 was released on April, 16 LibreOffice 6.3.6 was released on April, 30 Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) published a couple of blogposts showing the progress done by the PPTX Team and the Macro Team in the last months Adolfo Jayme Barrientos and Steve Fanning made many Help improvements and cleanups Andreas Kainz continued to improve the galleries and dialog layouts. As a new task he took on improving Impress templates Rizal Muttaqin made many improvements in most of the icon themes and removed Tango icon theme from the core Miklos Vajna (Collabora) fixed import and export issues with PDF, SVG, HTML and DOCX. He also continued with padded numbering support in Writer Gábor Kelemen (NISZ) dropped Flash export filter and made many code cleanups Noel Grandin (Collabora) cleaned up the code in many places while improving readability Michael Weghorn fixed issues with the Android application and mail merge Luboš Luňák (Collabora) continued with the Skia engine integration and fixed a chart wizard freezing issue Justin Luth (SIL & Collabora) made many DOC/DOCX import improvements and did a lot of quality assurance work on DOC issues Balázs Varga (NISZ) fixed several chart label issues, related to both ODF and
QA/Dev Report: March 2020
General Activities LibreOffice 6.4.2 was announced on March, 19 Luca Carlon and Jan-Marek Glogowski introduced basic HiDPI scale for Qt5 in LibreOffice (tdf#127687) Mark Hung improved Impress/Draw table perfomance (tdf#120216) Seth Chaiklin, Sophia Schröder, Adolfo Jayme Barrientos and Steve Fanning made many Help improvements and cleanups Ilmari Lauhakangas and Olivier Hallot updated some menu references in Help Samuel Thibault (Hypra) improved accessibility testing and functionality László Németh (NISZ) fixed many DOCX table issues Xisco Fauli (TDF) created a new QA related easyhack to convert UItests to CppunitTest. Some UItests are not used to test UI elements. Converting them to CppunitTests makes them to run faster and on more platforms. UITests are only run on Linux Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) continued the crucial user interface backend work and did many cleanups and crash fixes Eike Rathke (Red Hat) improved named ranges and function wizard Andreas Kainz improved context menus, updated the Area Fill presets, arrows gallery, bullets, added a new gallery for Business Process Model and Notation. He also created a new icon gallery as an extension. See link 1, link 2 and link 3 Jun Nogata created new fontwork styles Muhammet Kara (Collabora) made it easy to work on LibreOffice