Reminder: write release notes about your nice work

[Ilmari Lauhakangas]

On 5/20/25 17:55, Basile Starynkevitch wrote:
> On Tue, 2025-05-20 at 11:03 +0300, Ilmari Lauhakangas wrote (about Libreoffice)
> 
>> Beta1 for 25.8 will be released in a couple of weeks, so I thought to
>> bring this up. In April, I added over thirty entries to release notes
>> wiki pages.
> 
> I am French and a long time Libreoffice user, but not contributor. I did
> contribute to a few open source projects (e.g. the GCC compiler)
> 
> BTW, did Libreoffice developed any GCC plugin related to Libreoffice build and
> compilation (see https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.0779 - sorry PDF formatted with
> LaTeX)

If I count correctly, we have 158 Clang plugins. You can find them in 
the directory "compilerplugins" in the source code. At the time Clang 
plugins started to be written, the GCC plugin API was not very mature or 
easy to use.

> The open source project I am working on is an inference engine.
> Its source code is on github and in C++ (GPL licensed).
> 
> I am also interested in how to write simple Libreoffice plugins (open source
> with open source examples) interacting (on Linux) with external open source
> software. or does Libreoffice has already code to interact (using JSONRPC?) with
> a external program? Then how to start it?

You may look at these resources:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Extensions
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/DevGuide/Extensions
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/DevGuide

Ilmari