Hi,
Thanks to Mike for his 4500+ commits since 2015, a remarkable success
story of a heating engineer who became an awesome software hacker:
• Community support: Actively helping users on ask.libreoffice.org,
bridging the gap between end users and the codebase.
• Code modernization: Continuous efforts, including threading fixes,
type safety and dropping legacy code.
• Windows platform expert: MSVC/PCH build fixes, Firebird/cygpath
optimization, UTF-8 on Windows 10+, GDI handle leak fixes.
Consistently the person fixing Windows breakage.
• Writer layout & export: Floating tables, footnote hiding, TOC
fields, DOCX image rotation, redline handling, all complex
layout-level work.
• Full-stack breadth: Writer, Calc, Impress, VCL, UNO, build system,
LOK, exceptional depth in every area touched.
A truly inspiring contributor journey and one of the project's most
versatile developers.
Regards,
Miklos
