[libreoffice-projects] [ANN] LibreOffice 4.4.2 RC1 available
Dear Community, The Document Foundation is pleased to announce the first release candidate of LibreOffice 4.4.2. The upcoming 4.4.2 will be the second in a sequence of frequent bugfix releases for our feature-packed 4.4 line. Please be aware that LibreOffice 4.4.2 RC1 has not been flagged as ready for production use yet, however feel free to give it a try instead of 4.4.1. A work-in-progress list of new features in LibreOffice 4.4 can be found at https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.4 The release is available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X from our QA builds download page at http://www.libreoffice.org/download/pre-releases/ Developers and QA might also be interested in the symbol server for windows debug information (see the release notes linked below for details) Should you find bugs, please report them to our Bugzilla: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org A good way to assess the release candidate quality is to run some specific manual tests on it, our TCM wiki page has more details: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Testing/Regression_Tests#Full_Regression_Test For other ways to get involved with this exciting project - you can e.g. contribute code: http://www.libreoffice.org/community/developers/ translate LibreOffice to your language: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/LibreOffice_Localization_Guide or help with funding our operations: http://donate.libreoffice.org/ A list of known issues and fixed bugs compared to 4.4.1 final (rc2) is available from our wiki: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/4.4.2/RC1 Let us close again with a BIG Thank You! to all of you having contributed to the LibreOffice project - this release would not have been possible without your help. On behalf of the Community, Christian -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: projects+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/projects/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-projects] minutes of ESC call ...
* Present: + Muthu, Sophie, Eike, Nobert, Bjoern, Miklos, Lionel, Robinson, Caolan, Kendy, Michael M, Bjoern, Thorsten, Andras, Cedric, Cloph, Jan-Marek, Michael S * Completed Action Items: + fix hackfest wiki to prefer rather than mandate room sharing (Bjoern) + create a simple feature / fix wiki page to extend Easy Hacks (Markus) [ please add your own items https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/CoreHacks ] + GSOC mentors - please fill out these two guys: ** NB. Students are not mentors and should wait until the 16th ** [ http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/profile/register/org_member/google/gsoc2015 http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/connection/pick/google/gsoc2015 ] * Pending Action Items: + please file an Easy-Hack this week: just a bug with whiteboard: (All) EasyHack DifficultyBeginner SkillCpp TopicCleanup + thanks to: Bjoern Caolan + http://bit.ly/1KR4HWX + make sure to create a new openid if you are using the Google openID (all) [ tried it with Fedora; ~five minutes, easy enough. initial log-in says: This is the Federated Open Authentication provider homepage. ERROR: Transaction missing You will be redirected to this application whenever another application requires you to authenticate. (Michael) + but it works. oddly had 30x duplicate 'Google Account' entries in gerrit 'Identies' (Michael) + noticed, no idea why (Norbert) ] * GSoC (Cedric/Thorsten) + student application period: March 16 to March 27th + unknown mentor requests ... sorted them out. + if you've been rejected in error poke Cedric. + students should not apply as mentors - it is not published yet. + anyone contacted by students ? + Wiki page there; we still have time to add tasks here: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Gsoc/Ideas + more ideas much appreciated * Release Engineering update (Cloph) + 4.4.2 RC1 status + built, made available as early-testing; pushing to mirrors after the call for general announce + 4.4.2 RC2 week after next (after the hack-fest) + 4.3.7 RC1 April 7th or so + the last of the 4.3.x series. + last 10.6 32bit build for Mac (Norbert) + 4.5.0 / 5.0.0? - 1st Alpha release - April 13th + Android iOS Remote + patches reviewed for the Android remote + new build to up-load - beta channel today + also includes new translations. * Crashtest update (Markus) + import side is looking good (Miklos) + export more involved still. + bug in the script - overwriting the last line of importCrash.log + fixed by cloph, was writing and reading at the same time. * LibreOffice Developer / Job adverts on dev-list ? (Michael) + thoughts / rules / feedback on this appreciated; + can't really be prevented (Norbert) + CIB Collabora are hiring (at least) etc. + how best to do that ? (Michael) + infrequent posts eg. + not more regular than 1x per month (Bjoern) + no issues with it occasionally (Thorsten) + as long as they behave (Eike) + plain-text, direct requests only - no recruiters. + LibreOffice jobs only (Eike) * Hackfests (Bjoern) + Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain + happy to have us back + suggested March 19th, 20th: Thur / Fri. + happens during GSOC application phase. Date is confirmed, sign up book travel! https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Hackfest/GranCanaria2015 + Bjoern won't be there, but will help organize. + if you are going, please add your name to the wiki! + be good to pick a hotel; if people have suggestions. + 8 people registered so far ... + hopefully again get the opportunity to speak to students (Thorsten) + great to have some sexy lightning talks, re-use FOSDEM content eg. ? + simple intros on how to build / find easy hacks (Bjoern) + Cambridge, UK - May 2015 - contact (Michael) + Dates of 21st - 23rd May confirmed Thur / Fri / Sat. + Cambridge Beer Festival overlap / Punting Excursion planned etc. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Hackfest/Cambridge2015 * UX Update (Kendy) + lots of people in the call + 1x guy - Andreas: did ~1000 Breeze icons for LibreOffice + awesome work; nearly 80% complete looking great. + web-page: http://arsenalrace.at/analytics/ak/libreoffice/ + approved commit access + to shrink calls; have 1x additional Friday call. + dedicated to a theme. + last Friday - designing of the TOC dialog. + more understandable for users. + this
[libreoffice-projects] Minutes of the Design Hangout: 2015-02-25
* Present: Cor, Heiko, Ibrahim, Jay, Kendy, Octavio, Stuart * Pending Action Items: + Default document view for Writer, single page rather than automatic https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88001 + Stuart: Change the default to single page + Jay/Stuart: Change the tooltip to Multipage view or Multiple page view [https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88001#c5 - would be great to get that to gerrit] AI: Stuart -- figure it out and get it posted. + Jay: Double check if we can change 'Spelling' to 'Spelling and Grammar' https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87648 + Jay: Send a mail to documentat...@global.libreoffice.org with the wiki page that collects changes in menus + Kendy: Collecting of the user information should be incremental, somewhere in the user's profile + Ahmed: Push the new Sifr icons he's done recently + Kendy: Talk to Milos wrt. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48622 + Alex: Gnome 2.20-style 'a' icons Gnome 3-style text line icons + Samuel: Formulas and Navigator should open in the sidebar, not as a special window https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85897 + Is that issue for the Navigator too (I dont read it from the issue) and in Writer the choice anycase was to allow opening separate too. (Cor, after discussion on 20150128) + the bug report only discusses the separate formulas sidebar in calc (Jay) * Easy Hacks to be filed: + Kendy: The Window's closing button should indeed close the window, not dock the sidebar https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87217 + Kendy: Do / find someone / easy-hack-ize automatic opening of the Track changes toolbar when there are tracked changes + Kendy: Check how hard it is to make sidebar honor the icon size setting + Kendy: Easy Hack-ize fixing of uno commands that need to be duplicated in Draw and Impress + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84258#c2 + Kendy: Create Easy Hack for the Hi-contrast Sifr + Kendy: Adding 1.15 to the drop down list - https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85949 + Kendy: Research what is needed to do to only disable (not hide) the formula bar in Calc when Chart component is activated + Kendy: Tell Jay how to fiddle with the default position of toolbars (so that he can tweak the Chart's toolbars) + Kendy: Only activate image toolbar when an image is selected - https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87362 + Adolfo: Create easy hacks for the options Design decided to drop since 2012: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/Options/Global + Kendy: Should border around an image have no padding by default https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87360 * GSoC tasks to be filed: + Jay: add a Styles usability improvements section + list the various things to implement to GSoC-next ideas + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/GenialIdeas [styles previews in the sidebar etc.] + Ahmed, Jay: Brainstorm about some nice / more styles for Calc https://redmine.documentfoundation.org/boards/1/topics/493 [longer term - maybe better to add to the GSoC Styles task?] + Jay: Impress also needs more default object styles (only 2 are available) + Kendy: On-demand / programmatic colorization of the Sifr icons * Code to push to 4.4 + https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/14613/2 + done now * UI changes integrated the last week: + Master view toolbar docked (Jay) + Three contextual toolbars hidden in impress (Jay) + Rearrange Impress's drawing toolbar (Jay) + Improved Sifr, Tango, Oxygen icons (Jay) * Change tracking sidebar proposal (Heiko) + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87695 + published, got a couple of comments + talked to Jay, got some improvements, they are on its way + protect document, compare document (Jay) + split button (button with the listbox) - yes or no? (Heiko / Jay) + technically it is possible to change to that, or not, let's decide this later (Kendy) * UX advise bugs in bugzilla (Stuart) (281 bugs in ux-advice today) + recurring topic to be used for UX advise bugs that need action + keeps piling up, unfortunately (Stuart) + everyone should feel empowered to look at that + act (Stuart) + but don't want to be a gatekeeper :-) (Stuart) + for the moment, Stuart will pick 5 for each meeting - the most burning ones (Kendy) + and let's see how it develops (Kendy) * Uncluttering Impress/Draw default view and stop toolbars from poping up and hiding (Jay) + With 3 default toolbars (2 on top and 1 down), view tabs area, and two sidebars on the left and right, the default UI of impress is very cluttered, which
[libreoffice-projects] Minutes of the Design Hangout: 2015-02-18
* Present: Cor (bit later), Jay (bit later), Heiko, Ibrahim, Kendy, Mattias * Completed Action Items: * Pending Action Items: + Default document view for Writer, single page rather than automatic https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88001 + Stuart: Change the default to single page + Jay/Stuart: Change the tooltip to Multipage view or Multiple page view [https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88001#c5 - would be great to get that to gerrit] AI: Stuart -- figure it out and get it posted. + Jay: Double check if we can change 'Spelling' to 'Spelling and Grammar' https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87648 + Jay: Send a mail to documentat...@global.libreoffice.org with the wiki page that collects changes in menus + Kendy: Collecting of the user information should be incremental, somewhere in the user's profile + Ahmed: Push the new Sifr icons he's done recently + Kendy: Talk to Milos wrt. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48622 + Alex: Gnome 2.20-style 'a' icons Gnome 3-style text line icons + Samuel: Formulas and Navigator should open in the sidebar, not as a special window https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85897 + Is that issue for the Navigator too (I dont read it from the issue) and in Writer the choice anycase was to allow opening separate too. (Cor, after discussion on 20150128) + the bug report only discusses the separate formulas sidebar in calc (Jay) * Easy Hacks to be filed: + Kendy: The Window's closing button should indeed close the window, not dock the sidebar https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87217 + Kendy: Do / find someone / easy-hack-ize automatic opening of the Track changes toolbar when there are tracked changes + Kendy: Check how hard it is to make sidebar honor the icon size setting + Kendy: Easy Hack-ize fixing of uno commands that need to be duplicated in Draw and Impress + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84258#c2 + Kendy: Create Easy Hack for the Hi-contrast Sifr + Kendy: Adding 1.15 to the drop down list - https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85949 + Kendy: Research what is needed to do to only disable (not hide) the formula bar in Calc when Chart component is activated + Kendy: Tell Jay how to fiddle with the default position of toolbars (so that he can tweak the Chart's toolbars) + Kendy: Only activate image toolbar when an image is selected - https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87362 + Adolfo: Create easy hacks for the options Design decided to drop since 2012: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Whiteboards/Options/Global + Kendy: Should border around an image have no padding by default https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87360 * GSoC tasks to be filed: + Jay: add a Styles usability improvements section + list the various things to implement to GSoC-next ideas + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/GenialIdeas [styles previews in the sidebar etc.] + Ahmed, Jay: Brainstorm about some nice / more styles for Calc https://redmine.documentfoundation.org/boards/1/topics/493 [longer term - maybe better to add to the GSoC Styles task?] + Jay: Impress also needs more default object styles (only 2 are available) + Kendy: On-demand / programmatic colorization of the Sifr icons + Kendy: Change tracking UI in the document * Change tracking sidebar proposal (Heiko) + https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UuZUJYOLPM3_LdW77OSAaUBpDhRg3iHSjo31DTUEEzk + lots of great discussions how to finalize the sidebar's look (all) + looks beautiful :-) + comment button (Jay) + for standard comments - track changes comments are in the ODF focuments only (Jay) + does it affect the sidebar design? + icons for changes (Jay / Heiko) + concerned about using icons (Jay) + would a tooltip be a solution? (Kendy) + many actions - insert / delete / ... (Jay) + hopefully could be simple enough (Jay) + but a tooltip would be really good (Jay) + not necessary to set the icons in stone - possible to change to text if the icons do not work (Kendy) * Last week's discussions that need a resolution: + Residual issues with BZ migration? Heiko not receiving digest subscription of ux-advise issues, while those taking all UX-advise seeing issues. (Stuart) + bugzilla was not sending the mails; fixed now (Stuart) - is fixed (Heiko) * UX advise bugs in bugzilla (Stuart) + recurring topic to be used for UX advise bugs that need action + keeps piling up, unfortunately (Stuart) + everyone should feel empowered to look at that + act (Stuart) + but don't want to be a
