Infrastructure

There might be someone taking care of that already - before looking into doing yourself, can you check who's doing that, and how you could support them/co-maintain things?

still waiting for feedback/will reping

Christian Lohmaier wrote:

still waiting for feedback/will reping

Any feedback?

For the next F-Droid release, can we do some description text updates, like we've done on the Play Store:

LibreOffice is the best free office suite on the desktop, and is now available on Android as a native application. LibreOffice Viewer supports many document formats:

• Open Document Format (odt, ods and odp)
• Microsoft Office 2007/2010/2013 (docx, xlsx and pptx)
• Microsoft Office 97/2000/XP/2003 (doc, xls and ppt)

LibreOffice Viewer also comes with a preview of the editing functionality, which is considered an experimental feature and not stable enough for mission critical tasks. (Visit the Settings to enable this feature.)

Feedback and bug reports are very welcome, to help developers improve the quality of the application on its way to being a full-featured editor. You can report bugs and attach files that trigger them here: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org

LibreOffice Viewer is using the same engine as LibreOffice for Windows, macOS and Linux. This, combined with a new front end based on Firefox for Android, reads documents similarly to LibreOffice on the desktop.

Also, I'm not sure if these fields are generated automatically in the listing from meta-data, but it'd be good to keep them:

License: Mozilla Public License 2.0

Website: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Android
Issue Tracker: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org
Source Code: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/tree
Changelog: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/release-notes/
Donate: https://donate.libreoffice.org

Would be good to see some progress here before you (Cloph) go on vacation

Florian Effenberger wrote:

Can you give me a summary of the status quo? What are the next steps to get this done?
I checked https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.libreoffice.impressremote/ and did see no point of contact, so whom were you actually mailing? ;-)

Isn't it just that we have to follow https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md ?

Any update on that, Cloph?

sent a poke, this time with Flo in cc

yes, using the repo would be the case if the LibreOffice Viewer would use one of the default android build-methods, but AFAICT there is only ant, gradle or maven defaults, not something like LO does (./autogen.sh --someopts; make; and only then run gradle/build)

In Bug 103067 MTest31@outlook.com presented himself as F-droid packager and the last message was build error in https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103442#c5.

Cloph, is there a status update? ;-)

Ping?

there's some probs with the android build atm, so some things need to be ironed out with updated gradle/build-deps first.

Is there anyone working on that, is help needed?

Android build was fixed, and tinderbox does provide daily builds again

Great news! Do we need to ping the F-Droid people again or will they
build it automatically/take our build?

Florian Effenberger wrote:

Everything should be ready from our side
When the next Android release will be done, Cloph will tag it accordingly, then we'll see if things at F-Droid work out (they should, if not we need to investigate)

Any updates in the meantime?

Has there been any update/progress?

Is the Impress Remote mentioned in the release howto, so will it be
updated at F-Droid when a new release occurs?