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LibreOffice Online Project Reopened With New Community Focus (linuxiac.com)

submitted 1 month ago by cm0002@lemy.lol to c/opensource@programming.dev

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The Document Foundation has formally revived LibreOffice Online, reversing its 2022 decision that had frozen the project and moved it to the “attic.” The Board has rescinded the previous votes, reopened the repository, and invited the community to resume development under upstream stewardship.

It’s worth noting that the whole thing is still a long way from being a ready-to-use product, with the code requiring further work, review, and modernization before it is production-ready.

For those unfamiliar with LibreOffice Online, it’s the web-based version of LibreOffice. In other words, instead of installing the desktop application, users access the office suite through a web browser, with LibreOffice Online rendering documents on a server and streaming the interface to the browser.

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[–] exu@feditown.com 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's getting somewhat confusing with LibreOffice, Collabora Online, Collabora Classic(?), the new Collabora desktop thing and now LibreOffce Online

[–] cschreib@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There is actually a fair bit of drama around this relationship with Collabora, it would seem: https://community.documentfoundation.org/t/vote-revoke-votes-related-to-libreoffice-online-atticiziation-and-freezing-of-repository/13495

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago

Huh. Kinda wild to see the Collabora dude posting his own comics to try to defend their actions of ensuring Collabora keeps getting corporate contracts. Odd situation.