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Getting Started with Development

• Get Involved
• LibreOffice Learning Materials
• LibreOffice Development Blog
• Getting Started with LibreOffice Development – Video Tutorial
• Using an IDE to work on LibreOffice
• Developer's Guide (UNO API)
• Pick a Task:
  • EasyHacks
  • UI and design related Easy Hacks
  • Most Annoying Bugs
  • GSoC Ideas
  • Crazy Ideas (suggestions and enhancement)
• Setting yourself for sending a Patch for Review (Gerrit)
• If you need help getting started, contact us:
  • via IRC #libreoffice-dev ^IRC://
  • via email to the mailing list
• Google Summer of Code
• Tender suggestions for budget 2022

General Programming Guidelines

• Building LibreOffice -- Tips and Tricks:
  • ... on Linux and *BSD systems
  • ... on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
  • ... on macOS
  • ... on Windows
  • ... for Android
  • ... on any platform (platform-independent hints)
  • ... GTK4 interface
  • ... online
  • ClangTidy
  • Release builds
  • Branches
• Debugging:
  • How to debug
• DSCM:
  • Gerrit for LibreOffice Developers
  • Git For LibreOffice Developers
  • Getting Unrestricted Commit Access
  • Review bot
• Recent Changes:
  • Changes waiting for review
    • ... on master branch
    • ... on all branches
  • Changes recently pushed to master
• General Programming Guidelines
• LibreOffice Code Conventions

Code Conventions, Code Documentation and HOWTOs

• Code Overview
• Code Conventions / coding style:
  • Trusty old Code Conventions
  • Trusty old Writer Code Conventions, specifically the Naming Conventions
  • Using clang-format
• Code Documentation:
  • use OpenGrok for searching the Code
  • Source Code Documentation
  • Writing Source Code Documentation
  • Public LibreOffice APIs
  • Information from training sessions
• HOWTOs:
  • Write a new-style dialog
  • Debugging
  • Dealing with Dictionaries
  • Hints when developing more Complex Features
  • When and how to make large scale changes
  • How to internationalize templates
  • Removing unnecessary headers from LibreOffice sources

Current Build and Test Status

• Build Status: see overview on Jenkins
• Unit tests:
  • Cpp unit tests
  • Python unit tests
  • Unit tests by non developers
  • LCOV Code Coverage reports
  • Regression Hotspots
  • Crashtests
  • UI Tests
• Static code analysis
  • Clang static Source Code Analysis
  • Cppcheck static Code Analyzer
  • Clang tidy source code improver
• Builds
  • Daily builds
  • Pre-Releases
• Fuzz testing
  • Fuzz testing using OSSfuzz

Misc.

• Applications:
  • Writer
  • Calc
  • Impress
  • Base
  • Impress Remote
• Specific areas:
  • Analyzing Documents
  • Build System
  • Environment variables
  • Configuration options
  • Some Notes on String Classes used in the Source Code
  • Some Notes on Sal Types
  • Assertions and Logging
  • Accessibility for developers
  • List of all dispatch commands
• Release Plan
• Acronymia
• Vim Tips & Tricks
• Extension Development
• FOSDEM 2012 Slides of Talks
• Developer Central
• Archive is a page containing links to historic information.