Thank you, Stephan!

Dear Stephan,

Your list of contributions to the LibreOffice project is so vast, and spans a list of employers from StarDivision, Sun, Oracle, Red Hat, allotropia, to Collabora, it’s hard to know where to begin.

Most recently, you have continued the Emscripten WASM prototype that Jan-Marek and Thorsten started, and turned it into something that almost works, and is scriptable.

Before that, you worked on bringing the Windows MAR automated updates to production quality; such updates are now available from The Document Foundation.

Whenever a student applied for a GSoC project involving UNO, you provided some good mentoring to them.

You have also started and maintained since many years the official Flatpak LibreOffice build for Linux on Flathub.

And before that, you have implemented the AArch64 GCC/binary UNO bridge, enabling LibreOffice to run on 64-bit ARM.

You added a logical-read-only mode that prevents uses from storing files in temporary directories.

In the first years of the project, you reimplemented the UNO IDL compiler, and service manager, and you converted the Presenter Console from an extension to a core part of Impress.

In the OpenOffice.org days, you rewrote the inscrutable configuration manager code, and implemented the 3-layer Office (aka Dreifaltigkeitsoffice), but that was only something Sun needed, so for LibreOffice you merged the layers again.

But most of your contributions are not visible directly to the user, you care more than most about the quality of the code and your deep knowledge of C++ minutiae has often proven indispensable for the project; my impression is that, except for Luboš, you’re the only developer the LibreOffice project ever had who actually understands C++.

You have implemented many clang compiler plug-ins to improve the code, and you regularly try pre-release builds of GCC and clang to report bugs in them and fix new compiler warnings in LibreOffice before the rest of us run into them.

You added automated generation of backtraces for unit tests so that tests that crash in the CI can be debugged, and you regularly investigate test failures that happen on the special ASAN/UBSan builder and notify the authors of the problematic new code.

You have watched over the stability of our UNO API and ABI and made sure that any changes are documented in the LibreOffice release notes.

Also you have demonstrated how to write really informative git commit messages and that they really don’t have a length limit.

Beyond the code, you served on the MC, the ESC, and the developer certification committee.

For all of your contributions to LibreOffice, which can only be roughly estimated at ~19000 commits, i want to thank you very much indeed, it’s always been a pleasure to collaborate with you.

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