ESC meeting minutes: 2025-07-31
Miklos Vajna
vmiklos at collabora.com
Thu Jul 31 15:07:53 UTC 2025
* Present:
+ Cloph, Michael W, Olivier, Caolan, Heiko, Ilmari, Jonathan, Stephan, Miklos
* Completed Action Items:
* Pending Action Items:
+ QA stats: bibisect duplication removal from the script (Xisco)
* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
+ 25.8.0 rc3 next week
+ meant to be the final rc
+ 25.2.6 rc1 in 2 weeks
* Documentation (Olivier)
+ Helpcontents2
+ No news
+ Guides
+ Preparing next editions for 26.2
+ Skip 25.8
+ Bugzilla Documentation statistics
216(216) bugs open
+ Updates:
BZ changes 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
created 2(-1) 16(0) 51(-1) 271(-1)
commented 4(-1) 37(-19) 213(-9) 866(-19)
resolved 0(-1) 10(-2) 29(0) 148(-1)
+ top 10 contributors:
Olivier Hallot made 23 changes in 1 month, and 387 changes in 1 year
Pierre made 9 changes in 1 month, and 34 changes in 1 year
Leroy made 6 changes in 1 month, and 9 changes in 1 year
nobu made 6 changes in 1 month, and 25 changes in 1 year
Adalbert Hanßen made 5 changes in 1 month, and 6 changes in 1 year
Nabet, Julien made 4 changes in 1 month, and 76 changes in 1 year
vijaya chandra made 3 changes in 1 month, and 4 changes in 1 year
Bogdan B made 2 changes in 1 month, and 243 changes in 1 year
Heiko Tietze made 2 changes in 1 month, and 85 changes in 1 year
lol made 2 changes in 1 month, and 3 changes in 1 year
* UX Update (Heiko)
+ Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
221(221) (topicUI) bugs open, 22(22) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
+ Updates:
BZ changes 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
added 6(3) 17(6) 17(4) 23(6)
commented 44(-3) 143(39) 197(27) 919(17)
removed 0(0) 0(0) 2(0) 6(0)
resolved 3(2) 7(0) 24(2) 153(-3)
+ top 10 contributors:
Vernon, Stuart Foote made 46 changes in 1 month, and 309 changes in 1 year
Eyal Rozenberg made 37 changes in 1 month, and 164 changes in 1 year
Ilmari Lauhakangas made 29 changes in 1 month, and 195 changes in 1 year
Weghorn, Michael made 23 changes in 1 month, and 30 changes in 1 year
Telesto made 23 changes in 1 month, and 39 changes in 1 year
Roman Kuznetsov made 18 changes in 1 month, and 72 changes in 1 year
m.a.riosv made 14 changes in 1 month, and 37 changes in 1 year
nobu made 13 changes in 1 month, and 22 changes in 1 year
wodsfort made 10 changes in 1 month, and 14 changes in 1 year
Rosalio Morales made 8 changes in 1 month, and 8 changes in 1 year
+ [Bug 167683] check documents for used fonts and list them at the top of
the font selector drop down menu
+ [Bug 167686] Prefer a radio button pair over drop-down listboxes for
2-option font features
+ [Bug 167674] Excessive number of rows and columns
+ [Bug 167658] The dialog of Borders seems to be different from that intended
-> + [Bug 167685] Horizontal scrollbar: use the bar for showing the 'used' range,
and the arrows to expand the sheet
-> + [Bug 167647] [RFE] Find & Replace dialog: Add tabs and make it default
+ Sahil's proposal
+ [Bug 167586] Single page/blank document in Writer is displayed too high
on a vertical (portrait) screen
+ [Bug 167635] In Chart, there is no Rotation item in Sidebar Properties
+ [Bug 167618] Missing support for non-oriented (non-"right"-nor-"left") pages
+ [Bug 167567] UI: Underlined letter in Arabic labels drawn as disconnected form
-> + [Bug 167580] Writer table formulas: hide "phd"
+ weird feature, don't remove it, but hide it from the UI
+ [Bug 167491] FEATURE REQUEST : add alphabetization of sections by headers
+ [Bug 166053] When the font format of a cell is bold, the corresponding
parentheses in the formula cannot be identified
+ [Bug 167312] The txt file in the "/readmes/" folder contains a URL that has
no link destination
+ [Bug 167490] PDF export: extend PDFViewSelection parameter with value to
remove external links
+ [Bug 167484] When no text is selected, font controls should reflect the
chosen keyboard layout
+ [Bug 167476] The button selection for the border presets are 'invisible'
in Dark-Mode
+ [Bug 167464] The default bullets have changed between version 24 and
version 25.2.
* Crash Testing (Caolan)
+ 129(-5) import failure, 26(-2) export failures
- https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Crashtesting
+ 843 coverity issues
- coverity version is EOL, so forced to bump
- 2024-12-1 fails to build, so using 2024-6-1
+ ossfuzz issues
- 4 timeouts
- but build is broken
- fix pushed
* Crash Reporting (from crashreport.libreoffice.org) (Xisco)
+ 25.2.3.2 21929(+218)
+ 25.2.4.3 57393(+8496)
+ 25.2.5.2 2560(+1819)
+ 25.8.0.1 195(+65)
* mentoring/easyhack update (Ilmari)
committer... 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
open 81(12) 173(17) 175(18) 175(18)
reviews 352(64) 1360(30) 2750(-40) 11196(-10)
merged 327(118) 1210(-31) 3174(57) 12648(67)
abandoned 8(-1) 64(-4) 150(-6) 645(-18)
own commits 227(65) 816(-25) 2354(28) 9704(35)
review commits 30(9) 127(-10) 455(-9) 2593(-17)
contributor... 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
open 36(-7) 113(-1) 117(3) 117(3)
reviews 888(206) 3162(-82) 7654(56) 31486(-36)
merged 17(2) 70(4) 297(-30) 2367(-26)
abandoned 1(-2) 49(1) 837(-32) 1531(-21)
own commits 12(-4) 66(3) 174(-14) 1103(-6)
review commits 0(0) 0(0) 0(0) 0(0)
+ easyHack statistics:
needsDevEval 9(9) needsUXEval 1(1) cleanup_comments 345(345)
total 411(411) assigned 47(47) open 324(324)
+ top 10 contributors:
Ujjawal Kumar made 8 patches in 1 month, and 21 patches in 1 year
Armin Le Grand (allotropia) made 7 patches in 1 month, and 7 patches in 1 year
Kurt Nordback made 4 patches in 1 month, and 12 patches in 1 year
Weblate made 3 patches in 1 month, and 18 patches in 1 year
Hubert Figuière made 3 patches in 1 month, and 11 patches in 1 year
Simon Chenery made 3 patches in 1 month, and 66 patches in 1 year
Marc Mondesir made 3 patches in 1 month, and 10 patches in 1 year
Parth Raiyani made 3 patches in 1 month, and 5 patches in 1 year
Paul McQuade made 3 patches in 1 month, and 3 patches in 1 year
Bogdan B made 2 patches in 1 month, and 241 patches in 1 year
+ top 10 reviewers:
Vajna, Miklos made 184 review comments in 1 month, and 1268 in 1 year
Ilmari Lauhakangas made 104 review comments in 1 month, and 762 in 1 year
Kaganski, Mike made 80 review comments in 1 month, and 582 in 1 year
Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 80 review comments in 1 month, and 884 in 1 year
Xisco Fauli made 80 review comments in 1 month, and 748 in 1 year
Weghorn, Michael made 78 review comments in 1 month, and 520 in 1 year
Caolán McNamara made 74 review comments in 1 month, and 1146 in 1 year
Grandin, Noel made 72 review comments in 1 month, and 448 in 1 year
Christian Lohmaier made 60 review comments in 1 month, and 772 in 1 year
Hossein made 56 review comments in 1 month, and 286 in 1 year
+ big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
Neil Fachin
* GSoC (Ilmari)
+ https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline
* Commit Access
* Developer Certification (Stephan/László)
+ resting since: 11 weeks (limit: 20 weeks)
* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
gerrit_android_aarch64 jobs: 174 ok: 170 ko: 3 fail ratio: 1.72% mean_ok: 12 ( 25) median_ok: 10 ( 20)
gerrit_android_arm jobs: 171 ok: 165 ko: 4 fail ratio: 2.34% mean_ok: 12 ( 25) median_ok: 11 ( 19)
gerrit_android_x86 jobs: 174 ok: 167 ko: 6 fail ratio: 3.45% mean_ok: 13 ( 25) median_ok: 11 ( 19)
gerrit_android_x86_64 jobs: 171 ok: 166 ko: 2 fail ratio: 1.17% mean_ok: 13 ( 25) median_ok: 11 ( 19)
gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil jobs: 361 ok: 287 ko: 69 fail ratio: 19.11% mean_ok: 48 ( 58) median_ok: 48 ( 54)
gerrit_linux_gcc_release jobs: 388 ok: 353 ko: 30 fail ratio: 7.73% mean_ok: 25 ( 32) median_ok: 19 ( 26)
gerrit_mac jobs: 400 ok: 327 ko: 68 fail ratio: 17.00% mean_ok: 57 ( 59) median_ok: 50 ( 51)
gerrit_windows jobs: 391 ok: 281 ko: 99 fail ratio: 25.32% mean_ok: 47 (103) median_ok: 37 ( 58)
gerrit_master_ml jobs: 447 ok: 246 ko: 169 fail ratio: 37.81% mean_ok: 141 (142) median_ok: 107 (107)
gerrit_master jobs: 56 ok: 27 ko: 28 fail ratio: 50.00% mean_ok: 107 (107) median_ok: 69 ( 69)
gerrit_master_seq jobs: 389 ok: 219 ko: 141 fail ratio: 36.25% mean_ok: 144 (145) median_ok: 113 (114)
+ tests that failed more than twice in last seven days
3 JunitTest_svx_unoapi gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
6 UITest_impress_tests gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
8 CppunitTest_xmloff_style gerrit_windows
12 aborted by jenkins job timeout gerrit_windows
24 Killed by the kill-wrapper gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
+ nothing too unusual wrt random test failures (Cloph)
+ had a Windows problem that doubled the build time -> Noel fixed it
+ lost Windows builders today -> hypervisor needs fixing
+ backup quickly failed all the pending builds -> re-queued already
+ one Linux builder is moved to almalinux9
+ plan: move the rest over, too
+ Windows build covers 32bit currently
+ proposal: Windows 64bit to be covered for pre-submit CI
+ and keep a tinderbox for 32bit
=> no objections (all)
+ then the Windows baseline update, pending paperwork
* What’s cooking (Miklos)
+ A11y update (Michael W)
+ further a11y code refactoring
(use OAccessible directly instead of XAccessible in some places)
+ plan to look into adding support for AT-SPI Collection to Qt (and maybe GTK 4),
required for Orca browse mode support
+ RTL/CTL/CJK update (Jonathan)
+ tdf#117636 Multi-page block of Chinese glyphs slows down file navigation
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117636
+ Working on landing fix
+ ODF-TC (Olivier + Regina)
+ weekly meeting -> tables in ODF, familiarizing with the topic (Olivier)
+ Split alpha removal progress (Noel)
+ https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/173937
* QA update (Xisco)
+ UNCONFIRMED: 1859 (+30)
+ enhancements: 502 (+6)
+ needsUXEval: 14 (+5)
+ haveBackTrace: 15 (+0)
+ needsDevAdvice: 48 (+0)
+ documentation: 4 (+2)
+ android: 0 (+0)
+ iOS: 0 (+0)
+ Online: 6 (+0)
+ Most pressing bugs:
New:
Old:
Fixed:
+ New high severity bugs of the week:
* QA stats
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
+88 +32 (-52) overall)
many thanks to the top bug squashers:
Mike Kaganski 9
nobu 6
Buovjaga 4
V Stuart Foote 3
Balázs Varga (allotropia) 2
Jonathan Clark 2
Noel Grandin 2
Regina Henschel 2
Timur 2
m_a_riosv 2
+ top 10 bugs reporters:
Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 7
Mike Kaganski 6
Justin L 4
vic 4
Gerald Pfeifer 3
Michael Weghorn 3
Telesto 3
Eyal Rozenberg 2
László Németh 2
david 2
+ top 10 bugs fixers:
Kaganski, Mike 6
Balazs Varga 2
Grandin, Noel 2
Adolfo Jayme Barrientos 1
Aron Budea 1
Caolán McNamara 1
Eyal Rozenberg 1
Jonathan Clark 1
Justin Luth 1
Michael Stahl 1
+ top 10 bugs confirmers:
m.a.riosv 5
yosi3260+libre at gmail.com 5
nobu 4
Kaganski, Mike 3
Raal 3
Weghorn, Michael 3
Aron Budea 2
Németh, László 2
Telesto 2
Vernon, Stuart Foote 2
* Bisected bugs open: keyword 'bisected'
+ more accurate - down to a single commit.
+ http://bit.ly/2dyIfDy
+
done by:
vijaya chandra 7
jussuom 2
Kelemen, Gabor 2
Aron Budea 1
Weghorn, Michael 1
Raal 1
* Bibisected bugs open: keyword 'bibisected'
+ http://bit.ly/2cSCXlS
+
done by:
vijaya chandra 7
jussuom 2
Kelemen, Gabor 2
Aron Budea 1
Ilmari Lauhakangas 1
Weghorn, Michael 1
Raal 1
* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
+ 1274(+11) bugs open of 14214(+21) total 21(+0) high prio.
done by:
vijaya chandra 2
nobu 2
Aron Budea 1
Bogdan B 1
Ilmari Lauhakangas 1
Kelemen, Gabor 1
Weghorn, Michael 1
Németh, László 1
Raal 1
Timur Gadzo 1
* ~Component count net * high severity regressions
+ http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
Writer - 9(+0)
Calc - 6(+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 - 420(+0)
Calc - 248(+1)
Impress - 129(+2)
LibreOffice - 60(+0)
Draw - 47(+0)
Crashes - 44(+0)
Writer: docx filter - 44(+0)
UI - 40(+2)
Borders - 38(+0)
Base - 35(+0)
Writer: perf - 32(+0)
Writer: other filter - 30(-1)
filters and storage - 29(+0)
Chart - 25(+0)
Printing and PDF export - 24(+0)
RTL - 21(-2)
BASIC - 18(+0)
Writer: doc filter - 18(+0)
graphics stack - 15(+0)
Formula Editor - 9(+0)
Linguistic - 3(+1)
framework - 3(+0)
sdk - 3(+0)
Extensions - 2(+0)
Installation - 1(+0)
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