Hello, I am doing research into LibreOffice and the source code to see if this is something I could handle. It sounds interesting. I have a lot of experience developing Windows applications using C++ and C, so I'm hoping I can be of some help.
Best Regards, Chuck M.
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Hi! I got a private message from one person some days ago, saying they would like to investigate this. Now we have two options: let's build a team or I find you other stuff to work on.
In any case, I can be your personal assistant while you get into the world of LibreOffice :)
I'm not a LibO dev myself, but I do a ton of QA work for it, so I have a pretty good perspective on the weak areas of the software.
You can get general dev help from IRC @ Freenode: #libreoffice-dev and #videolan
#libreoffice-dev is active mostly on weekdays, weekends are a bit quiet.
So using the webchat you could get there with this: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=libreoffice-dev,videolan
I usually hang out at #libreoffice-qa which is the quality assurance team's
channel.
I use the nickname beluga_ there.
Here's the original idea from Google Summer of Code 2013: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Successfully_Implemented_Ideas#VLC_integration
Apparently the VLC API proved to be too difficult to work with and the feature was left unfinished.
There have been new developments in VLC-land since then. Libvlc has matured and a VLC core developer has released a C++ wrapper, which should make it more straighforward to integrate:
http://www.beauzee.fr/2015/03/05/introducing-libvlcpp/
http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc-bindings/libvlcpp.git;a=summary
Here is the 2013 code in LibreOffice:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/tree/avmedia/source/vlc
Getting into LibreOffice development: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development
We have a quality assurance team that can test experimental features in the master branch on different operating systems.
Please contact me, if you are interested in this task.
Hello, I am doing research into LibreOffice and the source code to see if this is something I could handle. It sounds interesting. I have a lot of experience developing Windows applications using C++ and C, so I'm hoping I can be of some help.
Best Regards, Chuck M.
Hi! I got a private message from one person some days ago, saying they would like to investigate this. Now we have two options: let's build a team or I find you other stuff to work on.
In any case, I can be your personal assistant while you get into the world of LibreOffice :)
I'm not a LibO dev myself, but I do a ton of QA work for it, so I have a pretty good perspective on the weak areas of the software.
You can get general dev help from IRC @ Freenode: #libreoffice-dev and #videolan
#libreoffice-dev is active mostly on weekdays, weekends are a bit quiet.
So using the webchat you could get there with this: http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=libreoffice-dev,videolan
I usually hang out at #libreoffice-qa which is the quality assurance team's
channel.
I use the nickname beluga_ there.
Here's a nice "who's who" -table of sorts: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/FindTheExpert
Last edit: Buovjaga 2015-04-25
Just a note to everyone that we are still looking for a developer for this. The two persons who contacted me have not kept in touch.
Are you willing to work as volunteers with no compensation?