Author: Florian Effenberger

The Document Foundation (TDF), the charitable entity behind the world’s leading free office suite LibreOffice, seeks for companies or individuals to

design and implement improved format validity checks

to start work as soon as possible.

We would like to ensure that the files the LibreOffice applications write are valid, using the most powerful freely available tools at hand.…

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The Document Foundation (TDF), the charitable entity behind the world’s leading free office suite LibreOffice, seeks for companies or individuals to

design and implement automated help/documentation screenshot creation

to start work as soon as possible.

Currently the LibreOffice documentation as well as the on-line help contain a large number of screenshots. This increases singificantly the cost of changing the UI, as it involves manual re-taking of screenshots and getting them translated.…

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The Document Foundation (TDF), the charitable entity behind the world’s leading free office suite LibreOffice, seeks for companies or individuals to

implement cross-platform font/shaping stubs for layout tests

to start work as soon as possible.

TDF looks into funding reliable layout tests, extending those that currently exist (e.g. those for charting, which are currently not reproducible on all machines due to font/platform shaping differences).…

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The Document Foundation (TDF), the charitable entity behind the world’s leading free office suite LibreOffice, seeks for companies or individuals to

design and implement Automated a11y based UI testing into the LibreOffice code base

to start work as soon as possible.

TDF looks into investing into a Python based, cross-platform LO testing framework which

• Allows concise UI tests to be written in a simple manner
• Provides coverage of as much LO UI functionality as possible, preventing regressions and supporting future refactoring work
• Can be targeted to a selection of historical LO versions in order to help track down existing bugs (preferably at least back to the 4.1-4.2 region)

TDF is looking for an individual or company to, as a turnkey project, design and implement the following:

• Upgrade PyUNO to make it easier to work with overall
  • e.g.

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The Document Foundation (TDF), the charitable entity behind the world’s leading free office suite LibreOffice, seeks for companies or individuals to

design and implement a crash reporter functionality in the LibreOffice desktop client application

to start work as soon as possible.

TDF wants to further improve the stability of its desktop office application, and get statistics and details on program crashes, based on the Socorro and Breakpad toolkit.…

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The Document Foundation (TDF), the charitable entity behind the world’s leading free office suite LibreOffice, seeks for companies or individuals to

develop and incorporate usability metrics collection for LibreOffice

to start work as soon as possible.

In order to improve the user interface, human interaction and usability of LibreOffice, The Document Foundation is looking for an individual or company to, as a turnkey project, implement a usability metrics collection feature to be incorporated into the Windows, Linux and Mac OS X versions of the free office suite.…

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