LibreOffice monthly recap: April 2018

Lots of things are happening in the LibreOffice community – in development, documentation, design, QA, translations and much more. Here’s a summary of news and updates in April…

  • LibreOffice 6.0.3 was released on April 3. It includes over 70 bug and regression fixes – see the release announcement for more details.
  • From April 6 – 8, we had a LibreOffice community meeting and Hackfest in Hamburg.

LibreOffice community focus: QA (quality assurance)

With LibreOffice 6.0 due to be released at the end of the month, we’ve been talking to various communities involved in the project. In the last couple of weeks, we’ve chatted with the localisation and documentation teams, and today it’s the turn of QA (quality assurance), which is coordinated by Xisco Fauli

What has the QA community been working on in preparation for LibreOffice 6.0?

LibreOffice Conference 2017 in Rome – video wrap-up

This year’s LibreOffice Conference, held from 11 – 13 October, was a great success with over 200 attendees from around the world. Thanks to everyone who took part, and the hard-working organisers! Check out our short video wrap-up of the event:

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LibreOffice Community Weeks: Wrapping up

LibreOffice Community Weeks

We’re already in to a new Month of LibreOffice, but in October we ran a series of Community Weeks, looking at what different teams in the LibreOffice project do, and how you can help them. So firstly, here’s a reminder of the articles, and then we’ll find out what effect they had…

Documentation

Development

Quality Assurance (QA)

Design

 

Feedback from the teams

So what effect did the Community Weeks have on the projects?…

Community Week: QA – get involved

LibreOffice Community Weeks

Earlier this week we talked to LibreOffice’s quality assurance (QA) engineer, Xisco Fauli, about how the QA team works, what they’re involved with at the moment, and where they need help. Let’s now look at how regular LibreOffice users can get involved: even if you can only spare a little bit of time each week, you can really make a difference to strengthen and improve the software.…

Community Week: QA – meet the team

LibreOffice Community Weeks

Having covered development and documentation, we’re now into our third LibreOffice Community Week: Quality Assurance (or just “QA” for short). QA is an essential element of the LibreOffice development process, and affects the suite in many ways. For the benefit of end users, QA helps to identify and fix bugs – whether they’re glitches in the behaviour of the office suite, or problems that arise when importing certain files, or just issues with the user interface.…