2013 t-dose - libre office easyhacks
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This document discusses easy hacks that new developers can contribute to LibreOffice. It encourages starting with small, easy tasks like fixing comments, writing unit tests, or confirming bugs to learn the codebase. Examples of easy hacks include converting unit tests, signing binaries during build, translating documentation, and improving dialog design. Developers are guided to the LibreOffice wiki for a list of easy hack ideas and instructions for getting started, building the code, submitting patches for review, and other ways to contribute without coding like helping users or testing daily builds.
2013 t-dose - libre office easyhacks
- 1. Easy Hacking LibreOffice Cor Nouws – Rob Snelders T-Dose 2013
- 3. New LibreOffice 4.0/4.1 VISIO Import Publisher Import
- 4. New LibreOffice 4.0/4.1 CMIS support
- 5. New LibreOffice 4.0/4.1 • Better interopability with MSOffice • Breaking old UNO API • Dropped support old formats • LibreOffice theme
- 7. In the background... • Gerrit for code-review • Ported to gnumake • Authomatic builds for different platforms • More cleanups and code simplifications
- 8. But also... ● ~500 dialog-markups moved to glade2 ● Add keywords to *.desktop files ● Add Hide/Show to tabs-menu in Calc ● Add Shift-F5 to start presentation on current slide ● Only en-US-helppack should contain en-US-help ● And ~135 other EasyHacks
- 9. Easy Hacks?!
- 10. Why Easy Hacks?! • Easy to start for new developers • Pointers & Help from experienced developers • learn to know code & developers • Very good for LibreOffice • You become ready for larger hacks
- 11. Easy Hacks … how ?! • build & run • Choose easyhack • Send patch
- 13. Choose easyhack • Clean code • Translate comments • Fix bugs • Make extra funcionality •wiki.documentfoundation .org/Development/Easy_Hacks
- 14. Send patch • License: LGPLv3+ / MPL • Gerrit for review • Features included in next major release • Bugs mainly faster
- 15. Examples • Convert C++ unit test from JUnit to CppUnit • Write more unittests for regression hotspots • sign windows binaries during build • Remove LibreOffice icon themes hardcoding • Move dialog-markups to glade2 (~100 dialogs to go) • Translate comments • Move BSA from parsing HTML to XML-RPC • … etc. (wiki.documentfoundation .org/Development/Easy_Hacks) • … your own idea
- 16. Not coding? • Confirm bugs (bugs.freedesktop.org) • Provide stacktraces for crashes • Bibisect regressions in LibreOffice • Translate Documentation • Help users on ask.libreoffice.org • Run, test and torture daily builds • Improve dialog-design in glade2 • … etc. (wiki.documentfoundation .org/Development/Easy_Hacks) • … your own idea
- 17. Questions? Attribution-NonCommercial-Sh areAlike CC BY-NC-SA Rob Snelders – libreoffice AT ertai DOT nl Cor Nouws – cno AT nouenoff DOT nl
- 18. Dutch Comminity • • • • • https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Main_Page/nl Wiki with dates for Dutch Community events users@nl.libreoffice.org ← Dutch Userslist discuss@nl.libreoffice.org ← Dutch Communitylist http://nl.libreoffice.org ← Dutch website