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Opening Apache Open OfficeTeam Drawing a Blank

Patrick Lynn, Logan Minnix, Erik Engstrom, Nick Bechtol, Kenneth Startin

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Abstract

The goal of this project was to get more familiar with open source software and learn how to work on large software systems in groups. We were to choose a Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software (HFOSS) project in which to compile and contribute. We decided on Apache Open Office which is a rather large but well supported project.

What is OpenOffice?Apache OpenOffice is an open source productivity suite, which includes software for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics and databases. Government agencies, schools, nonprofit organizations and others use this software. It has an enormous developer community and extensive documentation on their wiki. Due to this, OpenOffice is a polished open source project.

Bug FixesThe main component of our project was to search for and attempt to fix existing bugs in the software. OpenOffice has multiple modules so we chose to focus on general fixes and the Writer program's module. OpenOffice has a bug tracker in the form of Bugzilla that contains all the bugs and the status regarding the bugs.

This bug dealt with differentiating between two shades of blue that has been misrepresented in the color palette. The hex value of the color “Sky Blue 1” was changed to its intended value so it did not conflict with regular blue.

The second bug entailed removing links to older search engines which threw errors when selected. To fix the bug, the links to the outdated search engines were deleted.

Bug 2

Bug 3

The word count feature in the Writer module would produce an incorrect word count when dealing with quotation marks that begin a line and are also followed by characters. The word count was unnecessarily increased by one for each line of the occurrence. This was solved by skipping the first quotation mark of the new line.

Bug 4

In the fourth and final bug, users requested shortcut keys to increase and decrease text font size. A new feature was added utilizing the Alt+Up and Alt+Down shortcut keys.

Bug 1