ESC meeting minutes: 2025-03-06
Miklos Vajna
vmiklos at collabora.com
Thu Mar 6 15:29:30 UTC 2025
* Present:
+ Caolan, Cloph, Olivier, Heiko, Hossein, Ilmari, Jonathan, Regina, Stephan, Miklos, Michael S, Xisco
* Completed Action Items:
* Pending Action Items:
+ bump the clang in LODE to version 18 (Hossein)
+ in progress
Bump linux_clang_dbgutil_64 to clang 18.1.8
https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/lode/+/182317
+ core.git has some new warnings with the new clang (Cloph)
+ print preview is dark on macOS, file issue for Heiko (Cloph)
* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
+ 24.8.6 rc1 this week, tagged already
+ 25.2.2 rc1 is also this week, to be tagged later today
+ expect to have rc2
* Documentation (Olivier)
+ Helpcontents2
+ Precisions on appearance feature (S. Horacek)
+ Data provider help page under work (ohallot)
+ Guides
+ Introduced new process to track community work using Deck app
in Nextcloud (Dione Maddern).
+
+ Bugzilla Documentation statistics
219(219) bugs open
+ Updates:
BZ changes 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
created 3(0) 15(0) 124(-1) 316(-2)
commented 6(6) 30(1) 135(-1) 931(-7)
resolved 1(-2) 9(-1) 32(0) 184(-1)
+ top 10 contributors:
Olivier Hallot made 26 changes in 1 month, and 380 changes in 1 year
Ilmari Lauhakangas made 15 changes in 1 month, and 168 changes in 1 year
Bogdan B made 7 changes in 1 month, and 248 changes in 1 year
Kaganski, Mike made 7 changes in 1 month, and 86 changes in 1 year
*UNKNOWN* made 5 changes in 1 month, and 5 changes in 1 year
Robert Großkopf made 4 changes in 1 month, and 5 changes in 1 year
Dieter made 3 changes in 1 month, and 32 changes in 1 year
Dione Maddern made 3 changes in 1 month, and 120 changes in 1 year
Leroy made 1 changes in 1 month, and 3 changes in 1 year
Alex Thurgood made 1 changes in 1 month, and 1 changes in 1 year
* UX Update (Heiko)
+ Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
229(229) (topicUI) bugs open, 17(17) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
+ Updates:
BZ changes 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
added 3(-2) 9(-3) 10(-4) 19(-4)
commented 37(-5) 114(-19) 263(-10) 1384(-30)
removed 0(0) 0(0) 1(0) 12(0)
resolved 7(5) 13(4) 42(5) 219(3)
+ top 10 contributors:
Heiko Tietze made 52 changes in 1 month, and 699 changes in 1 year
Vernon, Stuart Foote made 42 changes in 1 month, and 414 changes in 1 year
Eyal Rozenberg made 40 changes in 1 month, and 215 changes in 1 year
Ilmari Lauhakangas made 33 changes in 1 month, and 187 changes in 1 year
Jan Lachnitt made 18 changes in 1 month, and 18 changes in 1 year
Telesto made 9 changes in 1 month, and 23 changes in 1 year
wodsfort made 8 changes in 1 month, and 8 changes in 1 year
Dieter made 7 changes in 1 month, and 113 changes in 1 year
Henschel, Regina made 7 changes in 1 month, and 40 changes in 1 year
Balazs Varga made 6 changes in 1 month, and 13 changes in 1 year
+ [Bug 165604] Hard to see line color in columns section settings
+ [Bug 165598] Can't define an unordered list with no bullets
+ [Bug 145029] UI: Add-animation requires adding before choosing the effect
-> + [Bug 162055] Placing the text cursor with the mouse in BASIC IDE should behave
in the same way as in Writer
+ not seeing it as controversial, probably doable somewhere in vcl (Miklos)
+ [Bug 165539] Change an item highlighting in the document when you place a
mouse cursor over the item name in Navigator
-> + [Bug 165534] Option to disable CSD dialogs in gtk4 backend
+ Gentoo drops gtk3 support
+ input from Michael W would be nice
+ gtk4 is blocked by lacking a11y on their side (Ilmari)
+ there doesn't seem to be CSD vs not CSD (Caolan)
+ the gtk4 port is stalled at the moment
+ spending time on this would be more interesting than CSD
+ [Bug 165519] Add "To top" and "To bottom" placement buttons when using to
the Customize dialog for menu or toollbar
+ [Bug 165517] macOS: rename LibreOffice Preferences to Settings
-> + [Bug 165516] Impress should have 'Repeat' on the Edit menu by default
(like Writer)
+ https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2025-March/thread.html#93060
-> + Make LO's Start Center thumbnail views available for use from within components
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77590
+ https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2025-March/093072.html
* Crash testing (Caolan)
+ 161(-41) import failure, 30(+0) export failures
- https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Crashtesting
- drop from https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/182069 was offset
by some new entries, one likely fixed since
+ 2 coverity issues
+ 3 ossfuzz issues
- 1 crash, 2 timeouts
+ CVE-2025-1080 published
* Crash Reporting (from crashreport.libreoffice.org) (Xisco)
+ 24.8.5.2 3823(+3571)
+ 25.2.0.2 179(+11)
+ 25.2.0.3 16553(+4787)
+ 25.2.1.2 1308(+0)
- Two most reported crashes in 25.2.0.3 fixed in 25.2.1.2
- https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/signature/sd::CustomAnimationPane::onSelect()
- Thanks to Mike Kaganski
- https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/signature/OutlinerView::GetSelection()
- Thanks to Balazs Varga
- Most reported crash in 25.2.1.2
- https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/signature/SfxItemPool::GetUserOrPoolDefaultItem(unsigned%20short)
- Since 24.8
* Mentoring (Hossein)
+ Reviewd submissions from newcomers
+ Updated Android build instructions
+ Looked into .NET binding binaries and examples, found some issues
committer... 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
open 73(-1) 137(-11) 140(-11) 140(-11)
reviews 412(-64) 1632(28) 3670(-66) 13502(-50)
merged 290(0) 1266(86) 3344(-41) 14171(-35)
abandoned 13(-3) 85(0) 176(0) 728(-13)
own commits 206(12) 840(49) 2187(-40) 10041(-19)
review commits 42(8) 207(8) 614(-9) 3024(-40)
contributor... 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
open 785(481) 1120(-25) 1135(-13) 1135(-13)
reviews 864(4) 3202(114) 7838(-144) 31182(-130)
merged 29(10) 129(11) 326(-6) 1408(5)
abandoned 10(-19) 53(3) 197(-1) 464(-36)
own commits 15(-2) 81(9) 254(-12) 1289(-11)
review commits 0(0) 0(0) 0(0) 0(0)
+ easyHack statistics:
needsDevEval 9(9) needsUXEval 1(1) cleanup_comments 352(352)
total 429(429) assigned 34(34) open 357(357)
+ top 10 contributors:
Simon Chenery made 21 patches in 1 month, and 30 patches in 1 year
Bogdan B made 8 patches in 1 month, and 297 patches in 1 year
Rahul Anand made 5 patches in 1 month, and 5 patches in 1 year
Rashesh Padia made 4 patches in 1 month, and 14 patches in 1 year
Armin Le Grand (allotropia) made 4 patches in 1 month, and 42 patches in 1 year
Mohamed Ali made 3 patches in 1 month, and 10 patches in 1 year
Ismael Olea made 2 patches in 1 month, and 2 patches in 1 year
Manish Bera made 2 patches in 1 month, and 12 patches in 1 year
Shardul Vikram Singh made 2 patches in 1 month, and 4 patches in 1 year
Ujjawal Kumar made 2 patches in 1 month, and 10 patches in 1 year
+ top 10 reviewers:
Weghorn, Michael made 184 review comments in 1 month, and 504 in 1 year
Christian Lohmaier made 136 review comments in 1 month, and 742 in 1 year
Vajna, Miklos made 128 review comments in 1 month, and 1164 in 1 year
Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 108 review comments in 1 month, and 1064 in 1 year
Caolán McNamara made 108 review comments in 1 month, and 1252 in 1 year
Xisco Fauli made 98 review comments in 1 month, and 782 in 1 year
Thorsten Behrens made 94 review comments in 1 month, and 670 in 1 year
Ilmari Lauhakangas made 88 review comments in 1 month, and 762 in 1 year
Hossein made 86 review comments in 1 month, and 316 in 1 year
allotropia jenkins made 70 review comments in 1 month, and 434 in 1 year
+ Patches automatically abandoned:
Add custom Bin Width UI option for Histogram ( Devansh Varshney )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/170909
Force initial exception class on import error in PyUNO ( Augustin Laville )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/177843
PDFium Library update - Text properties ( Tomaž Vajngerl )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/178978
+ big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
Robin Candau
Bingwu Zhang
Taichi Haradaguchi
* GSoC (Ilmari)
+ https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline
+ Add your ideas: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas
+ Next step: applications will open on 24th March
* Commit Access
* Developer Certification (Stephan/Miklos/László/Gabriel)
+ resting since: 17 weeks (limit: 20 weeks)
* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
gerrit_android_aarch64 jobs: 137 ok: 136 ko: 0 fail ratio: 0.00% mean_ok: 10 ( 14) median_ok: 8 ( 11)
gerrit_android_arm jobs: 137 ok: 132 ko: 2 fail ratio: 1.46% mean_ok: 9 ( 12) median_ok: 6 ( 10)
gerrit_android_x86 jobs: 136 ok: 135 ko: 0 fail ratio: 0.00% mean_ok: 10 ( 14) median_ok: 8 ( 12)
gerrit_android_x86_64 jobs: 137 ok: 131 ko: 2 fail ratio: 1.46% mean_ok: 10 ( 13) median_ok: 7 ( 10)
gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil jobs: 292 ok: 221 ko: 60 fail ratio: 20.55% mean_ok: 40 ( 43) median_ok: 36 ( 39)
gerrit_linux_gcc_release jobs: 323 ok: 267 ko: 31 fail ratio: 9.60% mean_ok: 22 ( 24) median_ok: 19 ( 20)
gerrit_mac jobs: 288 ok: 254 ko: 24 fail ratio: 8.33% mean_ok: 55 ( 55) median_ok: 44 ( 45)
gerrit_windows jobs: 320 ok: 244 ko: 65 fail ratio: 20.31% mean_ok: 36 ( 94) median_ok: 35 ( 42)
gerrit_master_ml jobs: 350 ok: 200 ko: 114 fail ratio: 32.57% mean_ok: 123 (123) median_ok: 80 ( 81)
gerrit_master jobs: 59 ok: 37 ko: 16 fail ratio: 27.12% mean_ok: 104 (104) median_ok: 63 ( 63)
gerrit_master_seq jobs: 291 ok: 163 ko: 98 fail ratio: 33.68% mean_ok: 125 (127) median_ok: 84 ( 84)
+ tests that failed more than twice in last seven days
3 CppunitTest_toolkit_a11y gerrit_linux_gcc_release
3 CppunitTest_writerperfect_writer gerrit_windows
3 JunitTest_sw_unoapi_2 gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
3 UITest_sw_navigator gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
3 UITest_sw_ui_frmdlg gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
4 CppunitTest_sc_subsequent_export_test4 gerrit_linux_gcc_release
4 CppunitTest_sw_ooxmlexport3 gerrit_mac
5 CppunitTest_sc_a11y gerrit_linux_gcc_release
5 UITest_sw_sidebar gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil <-
6 UITest_impress_tests gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil <-
9 Killed by the kill-wrapper gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
9 JunitTest_toolkit_unoapi_1 gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
+ list of failures looks worse than it is (Cloph)
+ many failures are from 2 changes before they went in (sc export 4)
+ sc_a11y is only on now abandoned patches
+ ooxmlexport 3 is 24-8 only
+ JunitTest_toolkit_unoapi_1 is related to wip a11y work of Michael W
+ just the 2 UITest ones may be real failures
* What’s cooking (Miklos)
+ A11y update (Michael W)
+ RTL/CTL/CJK update (Jonathan)
+ tdf#165540: Writer kashida position array corrupted during editing
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165540
+ simpler, new implementation
+ Writer tracked changes recording: towards making this per-view (Miklos)
+ toolbar button has a dropdown to decide if just recording for this view or all views
* QA update (Xisco)
+ UNCONFIRMED: 1533 (-64)
+ enhancements: 400 (-2)
+ needsUXEval: 7 (-5)
+ haveBackTrace: 13 (+0)
+ needsDevAdvice: 49 (+1)
+ documentation: 2 (-1)
+ android: 0 (+0)
+ iOS: 0 (+0)
+ Online: 7 (-2)
+ Most pressing bugs:
New:
None
Fixed:
+ CRASH in SfxTabDialogController::ResetHdl(weld::Button &)
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165487
+ Thanks to Samuel
+ New high severity bugs of the week:
+ LibreOffice is getting stuck while loading the .doc document
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165029
+ LibreOffice freezes when opening a specific Word document (.docx)
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165482
+ bisected to Miklos, multi-page floating table problems in Writer
+ Crash when changing master slide AND with extra folder templates
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165504
+ bisected to Caolan, has a proposed Gerrit change
+ macOS: Applying to light/dark from LibreOffice -> Preferences > View doesn't properly refresh the UI until restart
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156855#c6
+ Fixes for native bugs done but unable to force a reload of current theme colors (Patrick)
* QA stats
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
+129 -12 (-103) overall)
many thanks to the top bug squashers:
Buovjaga 10
V Stuart Foote 9
m_a_riosv 7
Heiko Tietze 6
Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 5
Mike Kaganski 4
Olivier Hallot 4
Xisco Faulí 4
raal 4
Dieter 3
+ top 10 bugs reporters:
Eyal Rozenberg 7
Buovjaga 3
Danny Schneider 2
Jeff Fortin Tam 2
Justin L 2
Klaus Kusche 2
Olivier Hallot 2
SATYA SRINIVAS K 2
Sandu 2
Colin 1
+ top 10 bugs fixers:
Kelemen, Gabor 4
Andreas Heinisch 2
Balazs Varga 2
Dieter 2
Michael Stahl 2
Németh, László 2
Patrick Luby 2
Rathke, Eike 2
Vajna, Miklos 2
Vernon, Stuart Foote 2
+ top 10 bugs confirmers:
Xisco Fauli 94
m.a.riosv 16
Ilmari Lauhakangas 11
Heiko Tietze 7
Raal 5
Olivier Hallot 4
Vernon, Stuart Foote 3
Aron Budea 2
Eyal Rozenberg 2
*UNKNOWN* 1
* Bisected bugs open: keyword 'bisected'
+ more accurate - down to a single commit.
+ http://bit.ly/2dyIfDy
+
done by:
libre 3
Raal 3
Xisco Fauli 3
Ilmari Lauhakangas 2
* Bibisected bugs open: keyword 'bibisected'
+ http://bit.ly/2cSCXlS
+
done by:
libre 6
Raal 3
Xisco Fauli 3
Ilmari Lauhakangas 2
Timur Gadzo 1
* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
+ 1263(+2) bugs open of 13967(+17) total 23(+2) high prio.
done by:
Ilmari Lauhakangas 4
Raal 3
Xisco Fauli 2
m.a.riosv 1
Timur Gadzo 1
* ~Component count net * high severity regressions
+ http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
Writer - 9(+1)
Calc - 6(+0)
LibreOffice - 4(+1)
Impress - 2(+0)
Installation - 1(+0)
UI - 1(+0)
by OS:
All - 17(+2)
Linux - 4(+0)
Mac OS X - 0(+0)
Windows - 2(+0)
* ~Component count net * all regressions
+ http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
Writer: other - 421(-3)
Calc - 243(-2)
Impress - 131(+2)
LibreOffice - 58(+1)
Draw - 48(+0)
Writer: docx filter - 45(-2)
Crashes - 44(+0)
UI - 38(+1)
Base - 36(+0)
Borders - 35(+0)
Writer: perf - 35(+0)
Writer: other filter - 29(+0)
Chart - 27(+2)
Printing and PDF export - 25(-1)
filters and storage - 25(+1)
RTL - 22(+0)
BASIC - 19(+0)
Writer: doc filter - 18(+0)
graphics stack - 13(+0)
Formula Editor - 10(+0)
framework - 3(+0)
sdk - 3(+0)
Extensions - 2(+0)
Installation - 2(+0)
Linguistic - 2(+0)
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