Documentation team meeting minutes Friday June 12th, 2026 --** 15:00 UTC **--

Presents: Ed Olson, Peter Shofield, Dione Maddern, Olivier

Completed Actions Items:

  • Added Draw Guide 27.2 deck (Olivier)
  • More chapters on Contributor Guide (Peter)
  • preparing final Getting Started Guide 26.2 (Dione)

Pending Action Items:

  • Access2Base

    • Offered to discuss with JP Ledure migration to mediawiki (Dennis)
    • Will handle installation of A2B in TDF premises (DR)
  • New features for Guides

    • Draft Mode for Writer
    • Paragraph composer for writer
    • Slide sections for Impress
    • Calculated fields for Calc

AI: GS262: update the preface and shortcuts (olivier)

AI: New GSOC Improvements

Misc Topics

  • New design for Help pages (Olivier)

Help pages (recurring)

  • Updates and fixes
  • New pages for new features
    • “Canvas Slide” (not yet visible)
    • Table Styles (exclusive for XLXS files)

Documentation website pages

Guide Bugs reported in Bugzilla

Meta bug opened for collecting Guide bugs
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171695

Getting Started Guide (recurring)

AI: Getting started with Base chapter needs rewrite?

+ Need to finish chapter 12 (peter)

Calc Guide (recurring)

Writer guide (recurring)

Draw Guide (recurring)

Base Guide (Recurring)

Other

Help Chatbot
+ stalled
+ See Franklin Weng p
resentation in Budapest on LLM for LibreOffice

File management in NextCloud.
+ pending

Provide sample spreadsheets?

  • Will resume this topic later

Videos
+ Stalled - under evaluation

Sanity check extension

  • Version 26.4 publshed. Thanks to B. Antonio Fernandez

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Hello Olivier

What style of LO version numbering should I use on the chapters and user guides?

I do believe there was an idea that the version numbering would only be LO 26 anf not the present style of LO 26.2.

Some advice would be appreciated.

Regards
PeeWee
psauthor@gmail.com