LibreOffice's codebase is absolutely massive (~50M lines according to cloc?), and it very much got me beat the other day, when I "speedran" a scant 2 bugfixes in 7 hours.
So today, I'm going for a rematch! Let's see if better tools (rr, ctags) and better understanding of #LibreOffice code is going to be enough for me to get a bugfix in under 2 hours for #BugsDoneQuick! :joy:
(EDIT) Recording: watch.bojidar-bg.dev/w/omkWW7k…
When different systems, applications or organisations need to communicate with each other and actually understand what is being said, interoperability is key.Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
LibreOffice 25.8 will be released as final at the end of August, 2025 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 25.8 Release Candidate 1 (RC1) the third pre-release since the development of version 25.8 started at the beginning of December, 2024.x1sc0 (LibreOffice QA Blog)
Fun with #AI:
I have a spreadsheet containing assignees, with various values on each line. I needed to calculate the sum of certain values for one assignee. This would normally be a simple query in #LibreOffice, but let's try using AI instead. I uploaded the spreadsheet to #GoogleSheets and entered a simple prompt in #Gemini: 'Give me the sum of XY values for assignee "name"' No result.
So I tried a more algorithmic prompt: 'Go through each line, and if the value in column XX is "name", count the value in column XY to the sum, and give me the total sum for all lines'.
The result? 150.
That's nice, but the simple query in LibreOffice gave me 27, which was the correct answer.
No matter how much I try, Gemini is completely useless in Google Sheets.
Following the example of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, which is moving 30,000 PCs from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice, the Danish Ministry of Digitalisation is doing the same.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
General Activities LibreOffice 25.2.4 was announced on June 6 Olivier Hallot (TDF) added help for compact layout Pivot Tables, Writer table formula MOD and improved the help for Writer’s Send menu commands, font colour, text attributes for drawing ob…x1sc0 (LibreOffice QA Blog)
In my last article, I mentioned XML several times, perhaps assuming that all users had a basic understanding of it.Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
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 the month with Episode 3 of the LibreOffice Podcast – this time looking at Quality Assurance (QA) in Fr…Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
The LibreOffice community has great news: the Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, and Math User Guides are now available for version 25.Olivier Hallot (The Document Foundation)
To write this article, I went beyond the limits of my technical knowledge, which is that of an advanced user who has studied standard formats and their characteristics in depth, to understand why standard formats – one of the pillars of digital sover…Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
LibreOffice is a free private office suite backed by a non-profit (The Document Foundation)LibreOffice Merchandising Shop - The Document Foundation
The Open Document Format (ODF) is an open standard format for office documents, which offers a vendor-independent, royalty-free way to encode text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and more.Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
I don't know why @libreoffice didn't toot this yet, but here it goes:
The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it’s time to consider Linux and LibreOffice
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The Document Foundation and LibreOffice support the international campaign @Endof10 endof10.org/
#Linux #LibreOffice #TDF #TheDocumentFoundation #Endof10 #Windows10
The Document Foundation and LibreOffice support the international campaign @endof10 https://endof10.org/ The countdown has begun. On 14 October 2025, Microsoft will end support for Windows 10.Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
Over the course of its 20-year history, the ODF standard has been adopted, or at least recommended, by numerous supranational bodies and several countries on almost every continent.Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
LibreOffice 25.8 will be released as final at the end of August, 2025 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 25.8 Beta1 the second pre-release since the development of version 25.8 started at the beginning of December, 2024.x1sc0 (LibreOffice QA Blog)
Regina Henschel writes: Susanne Mohn asked on the German-language user’s mailing list how to create a colour wheel with LibreOffice. It was not about the colours themselves, but about the geometry.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
The Document Foundation and LibreOffice support the international campaign @endof10 https://endof10.org/ The countdown has begun. On 14 October 2025, Microsoft will end support for Windows 10.Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
General Activities LibreOffice 24.8.7 was announced on May 8 Olivier Hallot (TDF) added a help page for Page Layout, expanded help for paragraph justification, updated menu paths in Help, added help pages for newly-added Calc functions and of-pie cha…x1sc0 (LibreOffice QA Blog)
LibreOffice stands out as a privacy-respecting open source office suite. Unlike proprietary alternatives, the software is designed with privacy, user control and transparency in mind.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
With LibreOffice 24.8 close to end of life, all users are invited to update their free office suite to the latest release Berlin, 6 June 2025 – The Document Foundation is pleased to announce the release of LibreOffice 25.2.Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
At the beginning of May, we began a new Month of LibreOffice campaign, celebrating community contributions all across the project.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
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 May with a new Month of LibreOffice campaign! This is something we do every six months, to say thank yo…Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
Design has been one of the major focus points of LibreOffice in recent years. The design/UX community has continued to support QA by evaluating user reports on Bugzilla, helping development with mockups, and mentoring volunteers and students in diffe…Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
Collabora and allotropia merge
We unite the largest team of corporate Office engineers to deliver on Collabora Productivity’s mission to restore Digital Sovereignty to its users, while making Open Source Office Rock. It supercharges Collabora’s Online Office products and services portfolio with rich German language capability, deeper experience of vertical applications, new Web Assembly skills, and a wider unified partner ecosystem.
#LibreOffice #CollaboraOfficeOnline
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This deal unites the largest team of corporate Office engineers to deliver on Collabora Productivity’s mission to restore Digital Sovereignty to its users, while making Open Source Office Rock. It …allotropia software blog
