POI (Points of Interest)

This List is a incomplete collection of tasks bugs and Management Points that needs to be developed. The Goal is to achieve a better transparency what to work on. There is no Priorization on this list or time scope.

Generic Project Tasks

• Documentation of the 2 VMs
• Migration of VMs
  

Release 4.2.0

• Test organization
  

Going Agile

• Document Consent
  
• Setting up JIRA with Kanban
• Writing up a Kanban Guide
  
• Define a timeframe after review occurs
• Define acceptance / success criterias - Peter Kovacs
  

Build Enviroment

• Build with SCon
  • Create a master program to replace the current build.pl script (still using dmake and make) - Peter Kovacs
    
  • transformation function for dmake
  • transformation function for make
  • pootle/language integration
  • integrate the handle of idl files
  • adding code signing infrastructure
  • dependency tracer
• generic improvments

  • Something else to consider is that it would be nice to use a different value of
    $COM for Apple's clang, maybe "ACLANG" or "APPLECLANG" since it  has a
    different version numbering scheme that the open-source version of clang
    and having a unique identifier would simplify version checking when
    applying compiler bug workarounds.

•  test modification on Mac and OS/2

If you have an existing, populated build tree, then the most important
tests can be done without even doing a build.  Start off by copying the
*env.set.sh script and solver/420/*/inc/comp_ver.mk to a safe location.
Next apply the patch below, run autoconf, and then run configure.
Compare the values of $COMNAME, $COMID, $CCNUMVER, and $CCVER from the
new *.env.set.sh with the values of those variables from the saved copy
of comp_ver.mk.  Also compare the values of $COM in the new and saved
versions of *.env.set.sh.

• Note: I think the old value of $CCNUMVER on the Mac is wrong.  It should
  look something like 000800010000 or 000700030000, depending on the
  installed version.

Recruiting

• write a guide how to debug build results
• write a guide how to get started with development
  

Code Documentation

• translation of german comments (link to bugzilla)
• build.pl documentation

Microsoft Windows next steps (Discussion)

• upgrade from MSCV2008 (to newest possible; keep WinXP compatibility for now, to keep support for ReactOS
• Upgrade to Java9 (keep Win32 with Java 8 for now)
  • Does it make sense to update to Java 9?
    
• Windows 64 transformation
• MSI update version
  • complete MSI updater
  • create a new installer with Wix?
    

MacOSx next Steps

•  Request Apache Open Office Install package is signed with an Apple Developer ID 

Code health

•  risky code string [strlen(string) - 1]
• inspect and update Array code

Bugs

•  soffice bin 100% CPU in linux in headless mode? 
• Base crashes with macro autoexec
• Bizarre font size input filter behavior
• better html filter
  • paste to AOO reads SDVAL or SDNUM instead of <td> value </td>
  • Generation of clean HTML code from Excel documents, i.e. simple HTML code without unnecessary data
• copy&paste
  • accepting PDF as a vector clipboard format
• Print preview and incorrect margins
• Calc will duplicate the content of MS excel file cells which have line breaks
• crashes and freezes
  
  •  Closing Math without saving the document crashes AOO
  • Extension Manager's window frozen

Features

• OOXML integration
•   multimedia Gstreamer backend
  
  • update to gstreamer 1.0 API
  • Document the stuff