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Presenting Xisco Fauli, the new QA Engineer

Xisco Fauli, a Spanish LibreOffice developer working in Madrid as a Quality Assurance (QA) specialist, will be a consultant for The Document Foundation effective from September 1st, as QA Engineer. Xisco got a bachelor’s degree in system data processing at the Polytechnic University of València in 2011. Since then, he has worked for four years as a QA Engineer for a company providing Digital TV solutions, where he has focused mainly on testing software for PCs and portable devices. Xisco has recently been interviewed by Mike Saunders based on his volunteer development activity and his involvement in the project. Xisco’s main responsibilities will be the following: Monitor and report about the state of LibreOffice QA, fostering communications between QA and other teams and encouraging people to join the QA team (and help onboarding new contributors); Provide and maintain bibisect repositories of the LibreOffice codebase; Maintain, update and create feature patches for TDF Bugzilla instance; Organize and coordinate bug hunting sessions, test LibreOffice development builds daily on multiple platforms, run master to try to find regressions early in release cycles, and run release tests on alphas, betas and release candidates to identify blockers; Triage unconfirmed bugs on master; Create, improve and

Behind the scenes at TDF: LibreOffice major releases

LibreOffice has a time-based release schedule (https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan), with a major announcement every six months: early February, and early August. A time-based release schedule is predictable, and as such makes it easier to plan large deployments and subsequent updates. On the other hand, a major announcement every six months translates to a “project that never sleeps”. In fact, you start thinking about the next major release a few weeks after the previous one is over. In advance of every release, we listen to end users about requested features and changes requested to support the individual workflow. We do not only listen but iteratively present proposals in order to create a user experience that is in alignment with our long-term vision of being the best free office suite, easy for beginners and powerful for experts. Let’s take the just-released LibreOffice 5.2 as an example of the many activities which have been carried out during five full months – from early March to early August – by several members of the team, and a very large number of community members in every geography. LibreOffice is available in a large number of native languages (actually, it is the office suite available in the largest

Tender for a Quality Assurance Engineer (#201601-01)

The Document Foundation (TDF), the charitable entity behind the world’s leading free office suite LibreOffice, seeks a Quality Assurance Engineer to start work as soon as possible. The role, which is scheduled for 20 hours a week, includes amongst other items: keep a continuous overview and reporting on the state and progress of LibreOffice QA as seen on its bug trackers, mailing lists, Gerrit, and other tools and communication channels (e.g. Jenkins, IRC) foster communication between QA and other teams help community outreach to encourage more people to join the QA team and help onboarding new QA contributors provide and regularly maintain bibisect repositories of the LibreOffice codebase maintain, update and create feature patches for our Bugzilla instance organize and coordinate bug hunting sessions stress test LibreOffice development builds daily on multiple platforms triage unconfirmed bugs on master run master to try to find regressions early in release cycles run release tests on alphas, betas and release candidates to identify blockers create, improve, and keep up-to-date and understandable documentation, howtos and introductions for volunteers to LibreOffice QA represent the QA project during weekly ESC calls The role requires the following: an established relationship within the quality assurance team as well as with other teams including development and marketing, and with

LibreOffice 5.1 in final development stage

Over 19,000 commits from 300 developers in the last 12 months Berlin, October 28, 2015 – LibreOffice 5.1 has officially entered the final stage of development with the release of the Alpha version, which is available to technology enthusiasts and community members for the 1st Bug Hunting Session organized from Friday, October 30, to Sunday, November 1. LibreOffice 5.1 starts twice as fast than the previous version, and adds to the usual incremental interoperability improvements with MS Office file formats (including MS Office 2016) some nice features, such as the Chart Sidebar to change settings in a more intuitive way, an easier workflow with Google Drive, OneDrive and SharePoint, and a Style Menu in Writer which will help user to access this fundamental LibreOffice feature. The first release candidate of LibreOffice 5.1 will be available in mid December, and will be the first version to offer a good overview of all the features for product reviews and deployment evaluations (not to be used for the production of real documents). In January 2016, a second and a third release candidate will come before the final availability of the application in early February, just after FOSDEM 2016 (where LibreOffice developers will provide

Behind the scenes at TDF: Marketing and Communications

The months between April and the first half of August have been rather busy, as I have been working – together with the other members of TDF staff and several volunteers – at different projects: the first TDF Annual Report, the final development stage of LibreOffice 5.0, including two bug hunting sessions, the announcement of the publication of ODF 1.2 by ISO, and the launch of LibreOffice 5.0. In addition, I have worked at smaller tasks such a announcements of minor releases. The bigger task, as everyone can imagine, has been the launch of LibreOffice 5.0, as we wanted to make a real impact with this new major release. First of all, I started to update the mailing lists for the distribution of press releases, which are a fundamental tool for the success of the launch. Since January, TDF is using a dedicated open source tool – phpList – which is saving a lot of work, especially when keeping mailing lists updated. In fact, phpList keeps track of all bounces, which are stored in each record, making it easier to spot old or wrong email addresses. Journalists move around quite frequently, and only a small percentage remembers to update their record. For

The Document Foundation announces LibreOffice 4.4.4

Berlin, June 30, 2015 – The Document Foundation (TDF) announces LibreOffice 4.4.4, the fourth minor release of the LibreOffice 4.4 family, with over 70 fixes over LibreOffice 4.4.3. New features introduced by LibreOffice 4.4 are listed on this wiki page: . The Document Foundation suggests to deploy LibreOffice in enterprises and large organizations with the backing of professional support by certified people (a list is available at: http://www.documentfoundation.org/certification/). People interested in technical details about the release can access the change log here: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/4.4.4/RC1 (fixed in RC1), https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/4.4.4/RC2 (fixed in RC2) and https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Releases/4.4.4/RC3 (fixed in RC3). Get involved: LibreOffice 5.0 and LibreOffice Conference The LibreOffice community is actively working at next major release, LibreOffice 5.0, expected in early August 2015. After two successful bug hunting sessions, developers are putting the finishing touches to the software. Preliminary release notes are available at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/5.0. Also, the Call for Paper for LibreOffice Conference 2015, which will be hosted by the Danish city of Aarhus from September 23 to September 25, is open until July 15, with further details on the website: http://conference.libreoffice.org/2015/call-for-papers/. The LibreOffice community is growing, and these are exceptional opportunities to join the fun together with over 900 developers who have contributed to

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Announcement of LibreOffice 25.8.4

Berlin, 18 December 2025 – LibreOffice 25.8.4, the fourth minor update to the free office suite developed by volunteers for…

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