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Bjarki Kristinsson

OSSD 2013

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Licence and Origins

Gnu Lesser General Public License

LibreOffice is licensed under the terms of the LGPLv3(new contributions are dual-licensed under bothLGPLv3+ and MPL)

Forked from OpenOffice.org September 2010

They were afraid what Oracle would do toOpenOffice.org after they bought Sun Microsystems.

The Document Foundation

Founded to maintain the new fork.

Charitable Foundation under German law.

Handles all Legal and Financial transactions.

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What can you do for the project?

Get involved

Develop code

Do Quality Assurance

Help Produce Documentation Do Localization

Do User Experience and Visual Design

Do Marketing

Do Web infrastructure administration and development

Be a generally active member

Donate Money to the Project

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Where to start!?

On the LibreOffice website there are links to what areconsidered as entry level hacks.

Create an account on bug reporting forum.

Download daily versions of LibreOffice that can be runwithout installing, so you can be running multiple versionsto test bugs.

Hack away!

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Develop Code

Use Bugzilla!

It is a bug reporting forum used for a variety of opensource projects

Bugs are sorted:

Unconfirmed

Assigned

Resolved

Verified Need More info

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Insert File naming in Draw

Some bugs are confusing!

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62099

Listed as a bug for the Draw component in LibreOffice

Talks about components related to Writer

Links to another bug that proposes a change for allcomponents but was only intended for Writer

Marked bug as Need more info! No response
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62099https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62099

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Writer not maximized on first run

Some are trivial


Not fixed for almost 2 years because:

It hardly matters

Some can't verify the bug

Was able to verify it on two different versions, changed

bug status.

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CTRL + C Crashes Calc

Some needed to be marked as verified


A fix was already in place and bug marked as resolvedbut needed verification

Bug marked for Linux platforms. Didn't notice that andtherefore tried it first on Windows. Later the newestdaily build was fetched on Linux and verified as fixed

Make sure to read the bug thoroughly before you startworking on it!

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Writer forgets watermark

When the document was saved as docx, the watermarkbackground would disappear


Verified bug asfixed and changedthe status

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Icelandic spelling dictionary

Another open source project I took a brief look at

http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/hunspell-is-the-icelandic-spelling-dictionary-project

Source: https://github.com/nifgraup/hunspell-is

Noticed a very important missing word and added it.Project owners didn't want words added to the wordlist inside the source, but rather add the word through

their wiki: http://is.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wikior%C3%B0ab%

C3%B3k:Fors%C3%AD%C3%B0a
http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/hunspell-is-the-icelandic-spelling-dictionary-projecthttp://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/hunspell-is-the-icelandic-spelling-dictionary-projecthttps://github.com/nifgraup/hunspell-ishttp://is.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wikior%C3%B0ab%C3%B3k:Fors%C3%AD%C3%B0ahttp://is.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wikior%C3%B0ab%C3%B3k:Fors%C3%AD%C3%B0ahttp://is.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wikior%C3%B0ab%C3%B3k:Fors%C3%AD%C3%B0ahttp://is.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wikior%C3%B0ab%C3%B3k:Fors%C3%AD%C3%B0ahttps://github.com/nifgraup/hunspell-ishttp://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/hunspell-is-the-icelandic-spelling-dictionary-projecthttp://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/hunspell-is-the-icelandic-spelling-dictionary-project

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Word added

Drykkfelldur

http://is.wiktionary.org/wiki/drykkfelldur
http://is.wiktionary.org/wiki/drykkfelldurhttp://is.wiktionary.org/wiki/drykkfelldur

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