Earlier in the week we talked to Jan Iversen who is mentoring new contributors to the development team. Let’s now look at some of the people involved, statistics from recent months, and the tools used by developers in their daily work.
Who’s who
As with other large free and open source software projects, LibreOffice developers come from a variety of backgrounds: some are paid to work on the code by companies that use or offer support for LibreOffice; others contribute in their spare time because they enjoy programming and working with the community.…
Last week we looked at the documentation team’s role in the LibreOffice project, and this week we move on to development. As you’d expect, the development team is responsible for updating and maintaining LibreOffice’s source code – adding new features, fixing bugs, and making sure that the suite builds correctly across various operating systems.
Development may seem like the most daunting sub-project in LibreOffice, but there are many ways to get involved, even for less-experienced programmers or those with just a couple of spare hours every week.…
LibreOffice is approaching the 5.3 release season with the first bug hunting session, on Friday, October 21, 2016. Tests will be performed on the Alpha version of LibreOffice 5.3, which will be available on the pre-releases server (http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/pre-releases/) a few days before the event. Builds will be available for Linux (DEB and RPM), MacOS and Windows, and will run in parallel with the actual installation.…
Earlier in the week we talked to Olivier Hallot who’s heading up the documentation team in LibreOffice. But other people are contributing as well, so if you want to help out, here are some names to look out for:
- Jean Weber is the author and original producer of the LibreOffice guides
- Stan Horacek, Gabor Kelemen, Adolfo Jaime Barrientos and others are contributors to the help contents
- Dennis Roczek and Lera Goncharuk work mostly on the wiki
- Andrea Mussap just joined and under Olivier’s advice produced a help page for LibreOffice
The team communicates via the documentation mailing list (see the archives here), where you can post suggestions for updates or ask for areas that need help.…
The LibreOffice project is made up of many communities working on different aspects of the software: source code, documentation, quality assurance, design and other matters. Some people are working full time, many others are volunteers, and we always try to make new contributors feel welcome.
So throughout October we’ll be running LibreOffice Community Weeks, looking at the different sub-projects in LibreOffice, what they do, and how to get involved.…
