Thank you, Sahil!

Dear Sahil,

Only 2.5 years ago, you began to contribute to LibreOffice.

You started by doing trivial code cleanups, then you discovered your love of printfdebugging and went on to fix various not-too-difficult issues with the UI, such as adding row/column highlighting to Calc’s document view, and adding a lock checkbox to Calc’s autofilter dropdown.

You learnt from your mistakes and thanks to mentors like Mike K looking out, you wrote sensible commit messages and avoided pointless formatting changes.

Your GSoC 2024 project was to implement theming in the VCL toolkit, a challenging task as it has to work with a multitude of platform dependent backends, and the themes are deployed as extensions, but your mentors Rafael and Heiko supported you well. Furthermore, you improved the Appearance options dialog.

Then you started to work as an intern at allotropia, and now Collabora.
In addition to the LibreOfficeKit related tasks you got from your employer, you also spent some of your spare time writing patches for LibreOffice. This resulted in a bunch more improvements to the UI.

Recently, you went back to where you started, and fixed a crash in the autofilter dropdown that was introduced by one of your earliest patches, and you significantly reworked the autofilter code to prevent the problem, showing how much you have grown since the beginning.

For all of your contributions to LibreOffice, which now stand at 136 commits, i want to thank you, you’ve done some good work, and i’m sure we will continue to, well, collaborate in the future!

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