ESC meeting minutes: 2025-08-14
Miklos Vajna
vmiklos at collabora.com
Thu Aug 14 14:34:46 UTC 2025
* Present:
+ Ilmari, Jonathan, Stephan, Cloph, Miklos, Michael W, Xisco, Olivier, Heiko, Caolan, Regina
* Completed Action Items:
* Pending Action Items:
+ QA stats: bibisect duplication removal from the script (Xisco)
* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
+ 25.8.0: additional rc4 for a crashfix + follow-up fix
+ on the mirrors
+ redoing the arm64 windows build
+ also 25.2.5
+ not building on the baseline as a fix
+ 25.2.6 rc1 this week
+ will do the tagging after the rebuilds, probably tomorrow
* Documentation (Olivier)
+ Helpcontents
+ updates and fixes (ohallot)
+ Guides
+ Community discussing book template
+ q: New brand logo?
+ there was no discussion about a new splash screen so far (Heiko)
+ Bugzilla Documentation statistics
215(215) bugs open
+ Updates:
BZ changes 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
created 6(2) 13(-2) 40(-3) 246(-5)
commented 8(-10) 36(-5) 197(-10) 825(-26)
resolved 1(-1) 4(-6) 28(-1) 126(-4)
+ top 10 contributors:
Olivier Hallot made 27 changes in 1 month, and 377 changes in 1 year
Nabet, Julien made 15 changes in 1 month, and 89 changes in 1 year
Pierre made 5 changes in 1 month, and 25 changes in 1 year
nobu made 4 changes in 1 month, and 24 changes in 1 year
vijaya chandra made 3 changes in 1 month, and 4 changes in 1 year
Jürgen Kirsten made 2 changes in 1 month, and 2 changes in 1 year
Kaganski, Mike made 2 changes in 1 month, and 64 changes in 1 year
*UNKNOWN* made 2 changes in 1 month, and 2 changes in 1 year
Werner Tietz made 2 changes in 1 month, and 2 changes in 1 year
Philippe Cloutier made 1 changes in 1 month, and 7 changes in 1 year
* UX Update (Heiko)
+ Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
220(220) (topicUI) bugs open, 18(18) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
+ Updates:
BZ changes 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
added 1(-3) 11(-2) 13(0) 19(0)
commented 17(-22) 108(3) 173(9) 872(-9)
removed 0(0) 0(0) 2(0) 6(0)
resolved 1(0) 3(-1) 20(0) 139(-4)
+ top 10 contributors:
Heiko Tietze made 38 changes in 1 month, and 392 changes in 1 year
Telesto made 25 changes in 1 month, and 41 changes in 1 year
Roman Kuznetsov made 22 changes in 1 month, and 72 changes in 1 year
Vernon, Stuart Foote made 21 changes in 1 month, and 280 changes in 1 year
Ilmari Lauhakangas made 20 changes in 1 month, and 195 changes in 1 year
m.a.riosv made 13 changes in 1 month, and 37 changes in 1 year
vic made 12 changes in 1 month, and 12 changes in 1 year
Rosalio Morales made 9 changes in 1 month, and 9 changes in 1 year
Ivan Stephen made 9 changes in 1 month, and 9 changes in 1 year
*UNKNOWN* made 6 changes in 1 month, and 6 changes in 1 year
+ [Bug 167949] Styles: add "Custom and Applied Styles" option
-> + [Bug 167905] Writer should can import autotext items from not only MS Word
files but from ODT/OTT files too
+ remove the function to load AT from Word 2007 (and earlier)
+ would suggest to be careful with just removing (Miklos)
+ seems there are existing users of the "import from DOCX" part
+ a "document" for hosting autotext templates sounds weird (Heiko)
+ [Bug 167868] It is too difficult to change the order of columns (or rows)
-> + Vertical tabs
+ done (except some Base dialogs, Hyperlink, and Welcome)
+ please check carefully for inapproprioate icons, wrong labels
bad alignment, positioning, artifacts etc.
+ list of dialogs attached to
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167084
* Crash Testing (Caolan)
+ 134(+5) import failure, 27(+1) export failures
- 116 issues
- https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Crashtesting
+ 79 coverity issues
+ 6 ossfuzz issues
- 4 timeouts, 1 OOM, 1 crash
* Crash Reporting (from crashreport.libreoffice.org) (Xisco)
+ 25.2.4.3 73421(+7650)
+ 25.2.5.2 8811(+3644)
+ 25.8.0.1 245(+20)
+ 25.8.0.2 188(+137)
+ https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/signature/StyleItemController::DrawEntry(OutputDevice%20&,SfxStyleSheetBase%20*)
- New in 25.8
- font previews in notebookbar
- trying to find the steps to reproduce
+ https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/signature/SwTableShell::GetState(SfxItemSet%20&)
- Fixed in 25.8.0 RC4
+ https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/signature/ScDocument::FillInfo(ScTableInfo%20&,short,long,short,long,short,double,double,bool,bool,ScMarkData%20const%20*)
- Fixed in 25.8.0 RC4
* Mentoring/easyhack update (Ilmari)
committer... 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
open 98(11) 155(-4) 156(-3) 156(-3)
reviews 474(88) 1336(-6) 2892(110) 11240(104)
merged 434(85) 1435(146) 3561(208) 13024(228)
abandoned 10(-9) 53(-8) 153(-1) 625(-18)
own commits 258(-49) 1021(72) 2613(66) 9940(85)
review commits 55(17) 149(9) 458(4) 2575(14)
contributor... 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
open 94(23) 151(28) 154(24) 154(24)
reviews 1206(162) 3602(300) 8398(348) 32132(340)
merged 39(19) 95(18) 293(-8) 2321(-19)
abandoned 12(-17) 39(-3) 633(-4) 1560(-3)
own commits 18(2) 67(-3) 176(0) 1092(7)
review commits 0(0) 0(0) 0(0) 0(0)
+ easyHack statistics:
needsDevEval 9(9) needsUXEval 1(1) cleanup_comments 343(343)
total 407(407) assigned 49(49) open 318(318)
+ top 10 contributors:
Armin Le Grand (collabora) made 13 patches in 1 month, and 15 patches in 1 year
Pierre Vacher made 6 patches in 1 month, and 12 patches in 1 year
Simon Chenery made 5 patches in 1 month, and 70 patches in 1 year
Ujjawal Kumar made 4 patches in 1 month, and 23 patches in 1 year
Weblate made 3 patches in 1 month, and 20 patches in 1 year
Hubert Figuière made 3 patches in 1 month, and 11 patches in 1 year
Manish Mahapatra made 3 patches in 1 month, and 8 patches in 1 year
Paul McQuade made 3 patches in 1 month, and 3 patches in 1 year
Marc Mondesir made 2 patches in 1 month, and 10 patches in 1 year
Parth Raiyani made 2 patches in 1 month, and 5 patches in 1 year
+ top 10 reviewers:
Vajna, Miklos made 128 review comments in 1 month, and 1224 in 1 year
Christian Lohmaier made 110 review comments in 1 month, and 834 in 1 year
Grandin, Noel made 100 review comments in 1 month, and 482 in 1 year
Michael Stahl made 90 review comments in 1 month, and 108 in 1 year
Xisco Fauli made 90 review comments in 1 month, and 784 in 1 year
Ilmari Lauhakangas made 86 review comments in 1 month, and 778 in 1 year
Kaganski, Mike made 80 review comments in 1 month, and 570 in 1 year
Hossein made 64 review comments in 1 month, and 280 in 1 year
Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 60 review comments in 1 month, and 838 in 1 year
Weghorn, Michael made 56 review comments in 1 month, and 530 in 1 year
+ Patches automatically abandoned:
tdf#145614 ( Khanh Nguyen )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/185600
libxml2: replace deprecated recovery ( Xisco Fauli )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/186286
+ big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
George-Alexandru Berea alexberea05 at gmail.com
sahibjot sahibjot70 at gmail.com
* GSoC (Ilmari)
+ https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline
+ next update closer to the deadline (end of August)
+ mentors: if the project time is to be expanded, let Ilmari know
+ 2 projects are already expanded
* Commit Access
* Developer Certification (Stephan/László)
+ resting since: 12 weeks (limit: 20 weeks)
* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
gerrit_android_aarch64 jobs: 229 ok: 216 ko: 6 fail ratio: 2.62% mean_ok: 14 ( 25) median_ok: 11 ( 19)
gerrit_android_arm jobs: 229 ok: 217 ko: 5 fail ratio: 2.18% mean_ok: 14 ( 26) median_ok: 12 ( 19)
gerrit_android_x86 jobs: 228 ok: 219 ko: 6 fail ratio: 2.63% mean_ok: 13 ( 24) median_ok: 11 ( 19)
gerrit_android_x86_64 jobs: 229 ok: 216 ko: 5 fail ratio: 2.18% mean_ok: 14 ( 26) median_ok: 12 ( 20)
gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil jobs: 476 ok: 371 ko: 82 fail ratio: 17.23% mean_ok: 46 ( 56) median_ok: 43 ( 51)
gerrit_linux_gcc_release jobs: 534 ok: 429 ko: 72 fail ratio: 13.48% mean_ok: 26 ( 34) median_ok: 20 ( 27)
gerrit_mac jobs: 539 ok: 383 ko: 124 fail ratio: 23.01% mean_ok: 57 ( 60) median_ok: 49 ( 54)
gerrit_windows jobs: 498 ok: 378 ko: 94 fail ratio: 18.88% mean_ok: 48 ( 55) median_ok: 38 ( 42)
gerrit_master_ml jobs: 594 ok: 309 ko: 222 fail ratio: 37.37% mean_ok: 100 (100) median_ok: 90 ( 90)
gerrit_master jobs: 66 ok: 27 ko: 28 fail ratio: 42.42% mean_ok: 86 ( 86) median_ok: 77 ( 77)
gerrit_master_seq jobs: 532 ok: 286 ko: 194 fail ratio: 36.47% mean_ok: 100 (100) median_ok: 91 ( 91)
+ tests that failed more than twice in last seven days
3 CppunitTest_sw_embedded_fonts gerrit_linux_gcc_release
3 CppunitTest_sw_ooxmlexport25 gerrit_linux_gcc_release
3 JunitTest_sw_unoapi_3 gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
4 CppunitTest_vcl_pdf_encryption gerrit_linux_gcc_release
4 CppunitTest_vcl_text gerrit_linux_gcc_release
4 UITest_impress_tests gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
6 CppunitTest_vcl_pdfexport2 gerrit_linux_gcc_release
11 Killed by the kill-wrapper gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
12 aborted by jenkins job timeout gerrit_windows
+ this week: many more builds again, good
+ number of failures are also scaling, though
+ CppunitTest_vcl_pdfexport2 -> related to the Bitmap work; caught in time (pre-submit)
+ Xisco reworked this to be useful again
* What’s cooking (Miklos)
+ A11y update (Michael W)
+ tdf#167930: "Removing the accessible selection unexpectedly sets the caret
offset to 0"
+ planning to look into implementing AT-SPI Collection support in Qt (and possibly GTK 4)
+ RTL/CTL/CJK update (Jonathan)
+ tdf#167567 UI: Underlined letter in Arabic labels drawn as disconnected form
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167567
+ Bug in Qt, several years old
+ Have a local fix; working on submitting to upstream
+ ODF-TC (Olivier + Regina)
+ ongoing maintenance (Regina)
+ discussing the terminology of the LOOKUP function (Olivier)
* QA update (Xisco)
+ UNCONFIRMED: 1911 (+19)
+ enhancements: 512 (+5)
+ needsUXEval: 10 (+1)
+ haveBackTrace: 16 (+1)
+ needsDevAdvice: 49 (+1)
+ documentation: 1 (+0)
+ android: 0 (+0)
+ iOS: 0 (+0)
+ Online: 6 (+0)
+ Most pressing bugs:
New:
None
Fixed:
+ Writer crashes if you right click in latest table in the big document
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167875, thanks Xisco
+ Creating or editing secondary x-axis in a chart crashes program
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167859, thanks Xisco
+ New high severity bugs of the week:
None
* QA stats
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
+103 -6 (-58) overall)
many thanks to the top bug squashers:
Buovjaga 6
Heiko Tietze 6
Xisco Faulí 6
Saburo 4
m_a_riosv 4
Markus Mohrhard 3
Mike Kaganski 3
Julien Nabet 2
Regina Henschel 2
opensuse.lietuviu.kalba 2
+ top 10 bugs reporters:
Heiko Tietze 6
Mike Kaganski 4
nobu 4
Buovjaga 3
Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 3
Gerald Pfeifer 3
林博仁 Buo-ren Lin 3
Jim Avera 2
LeroyG 2
Roman Kuznetsov 2
+ top 10 bugs fixers:
Heiko Tietze 6
Xisco Fauli 4
Henschel, Regina 2
Kaganski, Mike 2
Mohrhard, Markus 2
*UNKNOWN* 1
Caolán McNamara 1
David Gilbert 1
Justin Luth 1
Kosiorek, Bartosz 1
+ top 10 bugs confirmers:
m.a.riosv 10
Raal 8
Heiko Tietze 5
Xisco Fauli 5
Jesus Solis 4
Kaganski, Mike 4
Pierre 4
Henschel, Regina 3
Ilmari Lauhakangas 3
Olivier Hallot 3
* Bisected bugs open: keyword 'bisected'
+ more accurate - down to a single commit.
+ http://bit.ly/2dyIfDy
+
done by:
vijaya chandra 7
Raal 4
Xisco Fauli 4
jussuom 1
* Bibisected bugs open: keyword 'bibisected'
+ http://bit.ly/2cSCXlS
+
done by:
vijaya chandra 7
Raal 4
Xisco Fauli 4
jussuom 1
* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
+ 1288(+10) bugs open of 14244(+21) total 21(+0) high prio.
done by:
vijaya chandra 4
Raal 3
Xisco Fauli 3
Ilmari Lauhakangas 2
nobu 2
Roman Kuznetsov 1
m.a.riosv 1
Kaganski, Mike 1
* ~Component count net * high severity regressions
+ http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
Writer - 10(+0)
Calc - 5(+0)
LibreOffice - 3(+0)
Impress - 1(+0)
UI - 1(+0)
filters and storage - 1(+0)
by OS:
All - 15(+0)
Linux - 5(+0)
Mac OS X - 0(+0)
Windows - 0(+0)
* ~Component count net * all regressions
+ http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
Writer: other - 428(+5)
Calc - 247(-2)
Impress - 133(+2)
LibreOffice - 61(+1)
Draw - 47(+0)
Writer: docx filter - 46(+1)
Crashes - 44(-1)
UI - 42(+3)
Borders - 38(-1)
Base - 35(+0)
Writer: perf - 33(+0)
Writer: other filter - 29(+0)
filters and storage - 29(+0)
Chart - 25(+0)
Printing and PDF export - 24(+0)
RTL - 20(+0)
BASIC - 18(+0)
Writer: doc filter - 18(+0)
graphics stack - 15(+0)
Formula Editor - 9(+0)
framework - 3(+0)
sdk - 3(+0)
Extensions - 2(+0)
Linguistic - 2(-1)
Installation - 1(+0)
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