Free and open source software (FOSS) is all about sharing and working together. And while LibreOffice focuses on being the best open source office suite, our community also helps out with other related FOSS projects (just like many other projects help us!). We’ve made an infographic showing “upstream” contributions from LibreOffice developers and The Document
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04 Mar 2018
LibreOffice contributor interview: Anxhelo Lushka
This year’s LibreOffice Conference will take place in late September in Albania. One of the organisers is Anxhelo Lushka, a member of the Albanian LibreOffice community – we caught up with him at the last conference to talk about his experiences of building a community, how developers and designers can work together, and what
20 Feb 2018
LibreOffice 6.0: Exploring the QA statistics
By Xisco Faulí, Quality Assurance (QA) engineer
LibreOffice 6.0 was released on January 31 and this is what happened during its development in LibreOffice’s Bugzilla, which started when the 5.4 branch was branched off from master on May 18 2017.
Note: This blog post has been created based on bugs in Bugzilla that have the whiteboard ‘target:6.0.0’,
15 Feb 2018
LibreOffice 6.0: The stats so far
On January 31, we released LibreOffice 6.0 (shortly followed up by 6.0.1). So what has happened in the last two weeks? Let’s look at some statistics…
969,108 downloads
Yes, there have been almost 1 million downloads of LibreOffice 6.0 since release day. Of course, this is just part of the overall downloads
14 Feb 2018
LibreOffice talks and presentations at FOSDEM 2018
FOSDEM is a major event in the free and open source software world – thousands of FOSS supporters get together to discuss new features, work on bugs, make new contacts, and just have a great time.
This year, many members of the LibreOffice community were there too, and gave talks and presentations in the
29 Jan 2018
LibreOffice community focus: Development
Over the past few weeks, we’ve talked to the documentation, localisation, QA (quality assurance) and design communities about their preparations for LibreOffice 6.0, which is due to be released this week. For our final Community Focus, we turn to the developer community, which has helped to implement