ESC meeting minutes: 2025-02-13

Miklos Vajna vmiklos at collabora.com
Thu Feb 13 15:26:18 UTC 2025


* Present:
   + Cloph, Hossein, Jonathan, Michael W, Olivier, Caolan, Heiko, Ilmari, mmachine, Michael S, Stephan, Thorsten, Xisco, Miklos

* Completed Action Items:

* Pending Action Items:

* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
   + 24.8.5 rc2 was tagged yesterday
   + 25.2.1 rc2 next week
     + MS VC redist will be also fixed with this
   + Recent download page macOS switch to "Mac Silicon" as default: so far this week I have seen and responded to a bugzilla bug and an r/libreoffice thread. Both were resolved by instructing users how to change the download to "Mac Intel". Although the number of support requests is small, it has only been a week since the change so should we consider a Universal build as a fallback plan? (Patrick)
     + can't do browser detection here, unfortunately (Cloph)
     + think no need to invest in universal builds, let's see
   + Require VS 2022 (instead of 2019) for 25.8? (Miklos)
     + Suggest to do this when the Windows baseline will be W11 (Cloph)
     + And also switch CI to wsl-as-helper

* Documentation (Olivier)
     + Helpcontents
        + New pages for Excel array functions (TOCOL, TOROW, etc) (ohallot)
        + Enabled Data Provider + Help pages (ohallot)
        + Updates and fixes (ohallot, Simon Chenery, etc...
     + Guides
        + Work in progress for Calc guide 25.2 and Getting Started Guide 25.2

     + Bugzilla Documentation statistics
         224(224) bugs open
     + Updates:
         BZ changes   1 week   1 month   3 months   12 months
            created      5(1)    22(-2)    126(2)     323(-2)
          commented     16(8)    45(1)     150(10)    975(-15)
           resolved      2(-1)   10(-2)     27(0)     185(-2)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Olivier Hallot made 32 changes in 1 month, and 394 changes in 1 year
           Ilmari Lauhakangas made 17 changes in 1 month, and 168 changes in 1 year
           Kaganski, Mike made 12 changes in 1 month, and 91 changes in 1 year
           Bogdan B made 8 changes in 1 month, and 246 changes in 1 year
           Heiko Tietze made 7 changes in 1 month, and 97 changes in 1 year
           Dione Maddern made 6 changes in 1 month, and 124 changes in 1 year
           Eyal Rozenberg made 6 changes in 1 month, and 13 changes in 1 year
           *UNKNOWN* made 5 changes in 1 month, and 5 changes in 1 year
           Nabet, Julien made 5 changes in 1 month, and 43 changes in 1 year
           Vernon, Stuart Foote made 4 changes in 1 month, and 158 changes in 1 year

* UX Update (Heiko)
     + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
         230(230) (topicUI) bugs open, 26(26) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
     + Updates:
         BZ changes   1 week   1 month   3 months   12 months
              added      8(3)     17(6)     19(6)       28(6)
          commented     43(-7)   143(-6)   296(2)     1468(0)
            removed      0(0)      1(0)      2(-2)      12(0)
           resolved      1(-4)    14(-2)    41(-1)     227(-5)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Heiko Tietze made 80 changes in 1 month, and 752 changes in 1 year
           Eyal Rozenberg made 45 changes in 1 month, and 225 changes in 1 year
           Vernon, Stuart Foote made 42 changes in 1 month, and 428 changes in 1 year
           Roman Kuznetsov made 28 changes in 1 month, and 62 changes in 1 year
           Fortin Tam, Jean-François made 21 changes in 1 month, and 40 changes in 1 year
           Telesto made 16 changes in 1 month, and 30 changes in 1 year
           Ilmari Lauhakangas made 14 changes in 1 month, and 168 changes in 1 year
           m.a.riosv made 10 changes in 1 month, and 54 changes in 1 year
           Dieter made 9 changes in 1 month, and 115 changes in 1 year
           Stéphane Guillou made 8 changes in 1 month, and 272 changes in 1 year
     + [Bug 165229] [UI] Data provider dialog needs better wording/labels
     + [Bug 165225] Text is not visible on selected inactive menu bars on
             LibreOffice v.25.2.0.3
     + [Bug 165223] SB Navigator 'Reminder' objects set in a block of text are
            copied and pasted with that text, corrupts the movement stack
     + [Bug 165206] Ctrl+LShift, Ctrl+RShift behavior vis-a-vis direction
            & alignment - inconsistent?
     + [Bug 165200] Style dialog: Allow copying of textual style content
  -> + [Bug 165162] Improve UX around Conditional Formatting
            + GSoC topic
            + following discussion at FOSDEM
     + [Bug 158119] Alphabetical index: "Combine with -" only works for more than
            two pages
  -> + [Bug 158994] Update notification bubble at wrong position (Wayland)
            + wayland issue but rather replace with infobar
            + update bubble was probably added earlier than the infobars (Miklos)
            + very unusual widget, getting rid of it is a good idea (Caolan)
     + [Bug 165043] Missing initial series value causes unexpected connecting
            line behaviour for Net Chart Type with Plot Options - Plot Missing
            Values - Continue Line (true)
     + [Bug 165087] Difficult to find radio group for toolbar command display
            style (Icon/Text/Both)

* Crash testing (Caolan)
     + 173(-27) import failure, 23(-8) export failures
       - https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Crashtesting
     + 0 coverity issues
     + 2 Google / ossfuzz issues
       - 1 crash, 1 oom, unchanged

* Crash Reporting (from crashreport.libreoffice.org) (Xisco)
     + 24.8.3.2    41460(+313)
     + 24.8.4.2    38852(+7906)
     + 25.2.0.2    133(+33)
     + 25.2.0.3    2167(+2044)

  - New in 25.2.0.3

     -https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/signature/sd::CustomAnimationPane::onSelect()

     - https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165099

     - Fixed. Thanks to Mike Kaganski


     - https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/signature/OutlinerView::GetSelection()

     - https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164855

     - Fixed. Thanks to Balazs Varga


     - https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/signature/ZipFile::findCentralDirectory()

     - https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/signature/SfxTabDialogController::ResetHdl(weld::Button%20&)

     - one of the most reported crashes in the 24.8 -> fixed in 25.2, great

     - https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/signature/SfxItemSet::GetByOffset(unsigned%20short,unsigned%20short)


* Mentoring (Hossein)
  + Added two new (related) EasyHacks
    + tdf#165233 - Use lambdas instead of std::bind
      https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165233
    + tdf#165234 - Use lambdas instead of boost::bind
      https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165234
           committer...   1 week     1 month     3 months     12 months
                   open      77(0)      145(-9)     146(-12)      146(-12)
                reviews     546(134)   1466(62)    3822(94)     13526(124)
                 merged     292(36)    1107(22)    3383(-71)    14203(43)
              abandoned      18(1)       62(9)      177(6)        717(5)
            own commits     168(0)      728(13)    2226(-118)    9996(26)
         review commits      47(1)      191(-18)    658(-32)     3142(1)
         contributor...   1 week     1 month     3 months     12 months
                   open     818(337)   1123(206)   1124(-5)      1124(-5)
                reviews     842(34)    2914(2)     8104(-140)   31412(62)
                 merged      26(-2)      91(-4)     359(-6)      1433(12)
              abandoned       8(0)       46(-9)     226(4)        632(5)
            own commits      12(-4)      59(-19)    300(-25)     1374(-1)
         review commits       0(0)        0(0)        0(0)          0(0)
     + easyHack statistics:
        needsDevEval 9(9)   needsUXEval 1(1)   cleanup_comments 348(348)
        total 426(426)   assigned 29(29)   open 359(359)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Simon Chenery made 10 patches in 1 month, and 16 patches in 1 year
           Ujjawal Kumar made 9 patches in 1 month, and 9 patches in 1 year
           Bogdan B made 5 patches in 1 month, and 291 patches in 1 year
           Manish Bera made 3 patches in 1 month, and 12 patches in 1 year
           Srebotnjak, Martin made 2 patches in 1 month, and 12 patches in 1 year
           Dione Maddern made 2 patches in 1 month, and 12 patches in 1 year
           Shardul Vikram Singh made 2 patches in 1 month, and 3 patches in 1 year
           Akshay Dubey made 2 patches in 1 month, and 4 patches in 1 year
           David Hashe made 2 patches in 1 month, and 2 patches in 1 year
           Weblate made 1 patches in 1 month, and 30 patches in 1 year
     + top 10 reviewers:
           Vajna, Miklos made 122 review comments in 1 month, and 1210 in 1 year
           Weghorn, Michael made 118 review comments in 1 month, and 432 in 1 year
           Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 110 review comments in 1 month, and 1012 in 1 year
           Christian Lohmaier made 104 review comments in 1 month, and 704 in 1 year
           Ilmari Lauhakangas made 98 review comments in 1 month, and 778 in 1 year
           Xisco Fauli made 98 review comments in 1 month, and 778 in 1 year
           Caolán McNamara made 92 review comments in 1 month, and 1298 in 1 year
           Grandin, Noel made 78 review comments in 1 month, and 692 in 1 year
           Kaganski, Mike made 62 review comments in 1 month, and 542 in 1 year
           Thorsten Behrens made 62 review comments in 1 month, and 656 in 1 year
     + Patches automatically abandoned:
         tdf#144208 speedup doc with lots of redline (X) ( Noel Grandin )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/168352
         vcl: make control/calendar.cxx more readable ( Chris Sherlock )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/174727
         vcl: use css prefix and remove unnecessary using namespace ( Chris Sherlock )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/174732
         tdf#158068: Replace with static constexpr O(U)String ( Bogdan Buzea )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/176803
             -> Restored
         vcl: move functionality into BlendFrameCache constructor ( Chris Sherlock )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/177803
         tdf#132293: Fix issues found by pyflakes ( Dan Frantes )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/177822
             -> Restored
         Drop lines in SvxScriptSelectorDialog for support style commands ( Jim Raykowski )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/178268
     + big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
           افشین ‌
           David Hashe

* GSoC (Hossein)
   + https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline
   + Add your ideas: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas
   + Next step: February 27:
     List of accepted mentoring organizations published
   + more small project ideas is still appreciated (Ilmari)
     + non-350 hours would be nice to have
     + Possible sizes: 90, 175 or 350 hours

* Commit Access

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Miklos/László/Gabriel)
   + resting since: 14 weeks (limit: 20 weeks)

* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
gerrit_android_aarch64     jobs: 101 ok:  98 ko:   2 fail ratio: 1.98% mean_ok:   7 ( 14) median_ok:   5 ( 11)
gerrit_android_arm         jobs: 101 ok:  96 ko:   3 fail ratio: 2.97% mean_ok:   8 ( 13) median_ok:   5 ( 11)
gerrit_android_x86         jobs: 101 ok:  98 ko:   2 fail ratio: 1.98% mean_ok:   7 ( 14) median_ok:   5 ( 11)
gerrit_android_x86_64      jobs: 101 ok:  96 ko:   3 fail ratio: 2.97% mean_ok:   7 ( 13) median_ok:   5 ( 11)
gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil jobs: 345 ok: 271 ko:  60 fail ratio: 17.39% mean_ok:  39 ( 46) median_ok:  35 ( 39)
gerrit_linux_gcc_release   jobs: 407 ok: 318 ko:  61 fail ratio: 14.99% mean_ok:  21 ( 27) median_ok:  19 ( 20)
gerrit_mac                 jobs: 353 ok: 298 ko:  43 fail ratio: 12.18% mean_ok:  50 ( 51) median_ok:  44 ( 44)
gerrit_windows             jobs: 337 ok: 285 ko:  40 fail ratio: 11.87% mean_ok:  38 ( 47) median_ok:  36 ( 38)
gerrit_master_ml           jobs: 431 ok: 248 ko: 143 fail ratio: 33.18% mean_ok:  84 ( 85) median_ok:  74 ( 74)
gerrit_master              jobs:  60 ok:  32 ko:  22 fail ratio: 36.67% mean_ok:  53 ( 53) median_ok:  51 ( 51)
gerrit_master_seq          jobs: 369 ok: 216 ko: 119 fail ratio: 32.25% mean_ok:  88 ( 88) median_ok:  82 ( 82)
    + tests that failed more than twice in last seven days
       3 JunitTest_svx_unoapi                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       3 UITest_calc_tests8                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       4 CppunitTest_vcl_pdfexport2                gerrit_linux_gcc_release
       4 CppunitTest_writerperfect_writer                gerrit_windows
       6 JunitTest_sw_unoapi_2                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       9 aborted by jenkins job timeout                gerrit_windows
       9 Killed by the kill-wrapper                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
   + this week: no issues with the bots, but Jenkins itself had a problem (Cloph)
     + update + rebooted it on Monday, not planned, but then this fixed the problem

* What’s cooking (Miklos)
   + A11y update (Michael W)
     + GTK 4 presumably getting support to notify about "platform state" changes
      (like focus):
       + https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/6272
       + https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/merge_requests/8203
     + tdf#153131 "Copy causes Calc to Freeze on Windows 11 with Speech Recognition"
       + with LO 25.2 also seen with other tools querying infos on a11y level on Win 11
     + further a11y code refactoring and related fixes
   + RTL/CTL/CJK update (Jonathan)
     + MS Word CJK grid area:
     + tdf#164871 sw: Implemented exact and at-least line spacing for grid
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164871
     + tdf#149089 sw: DOC/DOX portions should not be snapped to char grid
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149089
     + what is the status for this area? (Hossein)
       + in short: we have 2 version of the text grids (Jonathan)
       + LO vs MS Word compatibility
       + if you author a new document, you would want the LO one
   + native Windows/arm64 build (Cloph)
     + VS 2022 17.12 and 17.13 cause issues compiling openssl
       17.9.6 works fine
     + goal is to have make check running and passing
       currently some color issues
       + need to check: if this is a problem with the environment vs real arm problems
       + end goal: tinderbox with make check enabled
   + 4.4.1 make on win32: tried it, but doesn't make a difference (Cloph)
     + no speedup by just upgrading

* QA update (Xisco)
     + UNCONFIRMED: 1599 (+33)
         + enhancements: 390  (+10)
         + needsUXEval: 15 (+5)
         + haveBackTrace: 12 (+0)
         + needsDevAdvice: 49 (-1)
         + documentation:  4 (+0)
         + android:  2 (+2)
         + iOS:  0 (+0)
         + Online:  9 (+0)


     + Most pressing bugs:
      New:

     None

      Old:
         + Crash on Clone Formatting when selecting more than one table cell
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164949
             + Oliver already working on it
      Fixed:
         + CRASH: selecting an animation after slideshow
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165099
             + Fixed. Thanks to Mike Kaganski

         + LibreOffice_25.2.0.3_Win_x86-64.msi installation doesn't install VCRUNTIME140_1.dll
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165149
             + Fixed. Thanks to Christian Lohmaier

     + New high severity bugs of the week:
         + LibreOffice may have no response when launched for the first time on macOS
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164432

* QA stats
     + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
       +156  -11 (-86) overall)
       many thanks to the top bug squashers:
        V Stuart Foote          14
        Xisco Faulí             10
        Buovjaga                9
        Michael Weghorn         7
        Mike Kaganski           7
        m_a_riosv               6
        Sahil Gautam (allotropia) 4
        Aron Budea              3
        Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 3
        Justin L                3

     + top 10 bugs reporters:
        Justin L                13
        Eyal Rozenberg          8
        Jeff Fortin Tam         4
        Mike Kaganski           4
        Aron Budea              3
        Buovjaga                3
        Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 3
        jan d                   3
        Olivier Hallot          2
        Radish                  2

     + top 10 bugs fixers:
        Kaganski, Mike          4
        Sahil Gautam            4
        Justin Luth             3
        Weghorn, Michael        3
        Grandin, Noel           2
        Kelemen, Gabor          2
        Aron Budea              1
        Balazs Varga            1
        Jerzy Moruś             1
        Jim Raykowski           1

     + top 10 bugs confirmers:
        m.a.riosv               17
        Ilmari Lauhakangas      9
        Vernon, Stuart Foote    7
        *UNKNOWN*               6
        Bogdan B                5
        Heiko Tietze            5
        Justin Luth             5
        Xisco Fauli             5
        Henschel, Regina        4
        Raal                    4


* Bisected bugs open: keyword 'bisected'
    + more accurate - down to a single commit.
    + http://bit.ly/2dyIfDy
    +

      done by:
         Bogdan B               5
         Raal                   3
         Xisco Fauli            2
         Ilmari Lauhakangas     1
         Justin Luth            1
         Timur Gadzo            1


* Bibisected bugs open: keyword 'bibisected'
    + http://bit.ly/2cSCXlS
    +

      done by:
         libre                  5
         Raal                   3
         Ilmari Lauhakangas     2
         Xisco Fauli            2
         m.a.riosv              1
         Octavio Alvarez        1
         Timur Gadzo            1


* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
    + 1253(+14) bugs open of 13918(+24) total 21(+1) high prio.

      done by:
         m.a.riosv              5
         Xisco Fauli            2
         Raal                   1
         Vernon, Stuart Foote   1


* ~Component   count net * high severity regressions
    + http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
      Writer        - 9(+1)
      Calc          - 6(+0)
      LibreOffice   - 3(+0)
      Impress       - 2(+0)
      UI            - 1(+0)

    by OS:
      All           - 15(+1)
      Linux         - 4(+0)
      Mac OS X      - 0(+0)
      Windows       - 2(+0)


* ~Component   count net * all regressions
    + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
      Writer: other            - 421(+1)
      Calc                     - 243(+0)
      Impress                  - 124(-2)
      LibreOffice              - 55(+4)
      Draw                     - 48(-1)
      Writer: docx filter      - 45(+2)
      Crashes                  - 44(+0)
      Base                     - 36(+0)
      Borders                  - 35(+0)
      UI                       - 35(+3)
      Writer: perf             - 34(+0)
      Writer: other filter     - 30(+0)
      Printing and PDF export  - 26(+1)
      Chart                    - 24(+1)
      RTL                      - 23(+0)
      filters and storage      - 21(-1)
      BASIC                    - 20(+0)
      Writer: doc filter       - 18(+0)
      graphics stack           - 13(+0)
      Formula Editor           - 10(+0)
      framework                - 3(+0)
      sdk                      - 3(+0)
      Extensions               - 2(+0)
      Linguistic               - 2(+0)
      Installation             - 1(+0)


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