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Hacky new year

First I wish you a happy new year intensively hacking open source projects (mostly LibreOffice I hope). This is a nice occasion to show you what happened in 2010 on the LibreOffice development front. I ran again gource on the git logs again to create a new video showing the …

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LibreOffice Contributions stats

We had a really important amount of new contributions, but people tends to prefer figures to see it. I used the git repositories logs and gitdm to get the data and produce some graphs showing the intense activity around LibreOffice. The gitdm configuration and scripts to extract the data can …

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Which OOo bugs are fixed in LibreOffice?

Laurent asked me quite a good question this afternoon: should we add some comment in IssueZilla to indicate that a bug has been fixed in LibreOffice? It's pretty obvious to me that it's politically incorrect to do that... but we can extract the bug numbers from the LibreOffice git logs …

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GSoc 2010 Wrap-Up

GSoc 2010 LogoEnd of september: it's time for Go-oo GSoc 2010 wrap-up. This term again, 6 students have been working hard during their summer holidays to improve Go-oo. This year, the students needed to get rid of the building problem before applying. That tiny exercise helped us a lot to chose motivated …

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Holidays in China

This summer, I have spent a whole month traveling in China with my wife. This experience was even better because we organized it all by ourselves. Hopefully some friends and colleagues helped and welcomed us. We arrived in Shanghai and did some round trip via famous places like Hangzhou, the …

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Word binary files dumper

I have been away quite a long time for vacation: a one month trip around China with my wife. I wanted to write some blog post, but I still couldn't find time for it... but I have something cooking here that is worth talking about. I have started to write …

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