ESC meeting minutes: 2025-08-07
Stephan Bergmann
stephan.bergmann at collabora.com
Thu Aug 7 14:17:05 UTC 2025
* Present:
+ Regina, Caolan, Cloph, Jonathan, Michael W. Ilmari, Heiko,
Olivier, Stephan, Xisco
* Completed Action Items:
* Pending Action Items:
+ QA stats: bibisect duplication removal from the script (Xisco)
* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
+ 25.8.0 rc3 this evening
+ meant to be the final rc
+ one regression-fix commit waiting (Xisco)
+ 25.2.6 rc1 in 1 week
+ No daily build for Windows since 23 July. Reason? Fix? (Regina)
+ build breaks, not yet tracked down (Cloph)
+ Noel says works with more recent VS, so maybe baseline update
will make that issue go away
* Documentation (Olivier)
+ Helpcontents
+ Updates and fixes, bug squashing (ohallot, J Nabet)
+ Guides
+ Stalled.
+ skip 25.8, go directly to 26.2 (once there's code there to
document)
+ Bugzilla Documentation statistics
214(214) bugs open
+ Updates:
BZ changes 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
created 4(2) 15(-1) 43(-8) 251(-20)
commented 18(14) 41(4) 207(-6) 851(-15)
resolved 2(2) 10(0) 29(0) 130(-18)
+ top 10 contributors:
Olivier Hallot made 33 changes in 1 month, and 375 changes in
1 year
Nabet, Julien made 15 changes in 1 month, and 88 changes in 1
year
Leroy made 6 changes in 1 month, and 9 changes in 1 year
Pierre made 4 changes in 1 month, and 29 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
lol made 2 changes in 1 month, and 3 changes in 1 year
*UNKNOWN* made 2 changes in 1 month, and 2 changes in 1 year
Henschel, Regina made 2 changes in 1 month, and 16 changes in
1 year
nobu made 2 changes in 1 month, and 22 changes in 1 year
* UX Update (Heiko)
+ Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
221(221) (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 4(-2) 13(-4) 13(-4) 19(-4)
commented 39(-5) 105(-38) 164(-33) 881(-38)
removed 0(0) 0(0) 2(0) 6(0)
resolved 1(-2) 4(-3) 20(-4) 143(-10)
+ top 10 contributors:
Heiko Tietze made 35 changes in 1 month, and 396 changes in 1
year
Vernon, Stuart Foote made 26 changes in 1 month, and 284
changes in 1 year
Ilmari Lauhakangas made 25 changes in 1 month, and 194
changes in 1 year
Telesto made 24 changes in 1 month, and 40 changes in 1 year
Roman Kuznetsov made 18 changes in 1 month, and 72 changes in
1 year
m.a.riosv made 16 changes in 1 month, and 39 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
nobu made 8 changes in 1 month, and 17 changes in 1 year
+ [Bug 167769] UI: better feedback of being inside a group of shapes
-> + [Bug 85170] FillAuto doesn't fill formulas in hidden columns
+ interesting discussion, input welcome
+ [Bug 167785] "Freeze rows and columns" context menu item should
indicate
which columns will be frozen
+ [Bug 167791] UI: Tools > Options > Load/Save > Microsoft Office
3x without
"or reverse"
* Crash Testing (Caolan)
+ 129(+0) import failure, 26(+0) export failures
- 118 https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Crashtesting
- an improvement
+ 249 coverity issues
- an improvement
+ new version even found something worth finding
+ Google / ossfuzz: ?? fuzzers active now
- 6 issues, 4 timeouts, 2 OOM
- OOM is triggered since combined alpha + rgb bitmaps, hopefully
temporary
- replaced default setjmp/longjmp thing in png importer with a
callback
that does a c++ throw
* Crash Reporting (from crashreport.libreoffice.org) (Xisco)
+ 25.2.3.2 22169(+240)
+ 25.2.4.3 65771(+8378)
+ 25.2.5.2 5167(+2607)
+ 25.8.0.1 225(+30)
+ 25.8.0.2 51(+0)
* mentoring/easyhack update (Ilmari)
committer... 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
open 87(6) 159(-14) 159(-16) 159(-16)
reviews 386(34) 1342(-18) 2782(32) 11136(-60)
merged 349(22) 1289(79) 3353(179) 12796(148)
abandoned 19(11) 61(-3) 154(4) 643(-2)
own commits 307(80) 949(133) 2547(193) 9855(151)
review commits 38(8) 140(13) 454(-1) 2561(-32)
contributor... 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
open 71(35) 123(10) 130(13) 130(13)
reviews 1044(156) 3302(140) 8050(396) 31792(306)
merged 20(3) 77(7) 301(4) 2340(-27)
abandoned 29(28) 42(-7) 637(-200) 1563(32)
own commits 16(4) 70(4) 176(2) 1085(-18)
review commits 0(0) 0(0) 0(0) 0(0)
+ easyHack statistics:
needsDevEval 9(9) needsUXEval 1(1) cleanup_comments 343(343)
total 408(408) assigned 47(47) open 321(321)
+ top 10 contributors:
Armin Le Grand (collabora) made 14 patches in 1 month, and 14
patches in 1 year
Ujjawal Kumar made 8 patches in 1 month, and 21 patches in 1 year
Pierre Vacher made 3 patches in 1 month, and 8 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 67 patches in 1 year
Marc Mondesir made 3 patches in 1 month, and 10 patches in 1 year
Manish Mahapatra made 3 patches in 1 month, and 7 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
Weblate made 2 patches in 1 month, and 19 patches in 1 year
+ top 10 reviewers:
Vajna, Miklos made 190 review comments in 1 month, and 1248
in 1 year
Kaganski, Mike made 100 review comments in 1 month, and 590
in 1 year
Ilmari Lauhakangas made 96 review comments in 1 month, and
766 in 1 year
Grandin, Noel made 86 review comments in 1 month, and 458 in
1 year
Weghorn, Michael made 72 review comments in 1 month, and 522
in 1 year
Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 70 review comments in 1 month,
and 864 in 1 year
Christian Lohmaier made 70 review comments in 1 month, and
782 in 1 year
Hossein made 58 review comments in 1 month, and 284 in 1 year
Kłos, Szymon made 56 review comments in 1 month, and 278 in 1
year
Caolán McNamara made 54 review comments in 1 month, and 1126
in 1 year
+ Patches automatically abandoned:
tdf#163486: PVS V1028 Possible overflow. Consider casting
operands, ( Bogdan Buzea )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/177083
tdf#163486: PVS V1028 Possible overflow. Consider casting
operands, ( Bogdan Buzea )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/177084
tdf#163486: PVS V1028 Possible overflow. Consider casting
operands, ( Bogdan Buzea )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/177085
tdf#163486: PVS V1028 Possible overflow. Consider casting
operands, ( Bogdan Buzea )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/177086
tdf#163486: PVS V1028 Possible overflow. Consider casting
operands, ( Bogdan Buzea )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/177103
tdf#163486: PVS V1028 Possible overflow. Consider casting
operands, ( Bogdan Buzea )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/177110
tdf#163486: PVS V1028 Possible overflow. Consider casting
operands, ( Bogdan Buzea )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/177114
tdf#163486: PVS V1028 Possible overflow. Consider casting
operands, ( Bogdan Buzea )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/177116
tdf#85976 XSelectionSupplier::getSelection() shouldn't remove
filtered out rows ( Sahil Gautam )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/177306
tdf#164933: increase number of arguments to 255 ( Xisco Fauli )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/180905
tdf#46180 - FILEOPEN - LO Base fails to connect to "*.DBF"
files but connects ( Rafał Dobrakowski )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/181857
tdf#42982 Improve UNO API error reporting ( Ahmed Khaled )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/182975
tdf#104888 change mode to Matrix is a modification ( Laurent
Balland )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/183236
tdf#143193: Remove SbxBasicFormater ( Devashish gupta )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/183575
tdf#165309 Move, relabel template choice in File > New (
Benjamin Johll )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/184520
tdf#166195 fix periodic year invalid issue ( pei Ga )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/184526
tdf#145614 Convert #define to constexpr ( Pierre )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/184527
tdf#48140 Replace CellRangeAddress with ScRange ( Jesus Solis )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/184660
tdf#165447 Drop skipping moving to the next node if at
beginning/end ( Mateusz Wlazłowski )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/185135
tdf#165233 Use lambdas instead of std::bind ( Roberto Epure )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/185359
tdf#158803 Remove unused import ( Bogdan Buzea )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/186113
* GSoC (Ilmari)
+ https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline
+ next update closer to the deadline (end of August)
* Commit Access
* Developer Certification (Stephan/László)
+ resting since: 11 weeks (limit: 20 weeks)
* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
gerrit_android_aarch64 jobs: 214 ok: 205 ko: 2 fail ratio: 0.93%
mean_ok: 14 ( 31) median_ok: 12 ( 22)
gerrit_android_arm jobs: 214 ok: 205 ko: 2 fail ratio: 0.93%
mean_ok: 14 ( 31) median_ok: 12 ( 21)
gerrit_android_x86 jobs: 214 ok: 202 ko: 4 fail ratio: 1.87%
mean_ok: 14 ( 31) median_ok: 12 ( 24)
gerrit_android_x86_64 jobs: 214 ok: 202 ko: 3 fail ratio: 1.40%
mean_ok: 13 ( 31) median_ok: 11 ( 23)
gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil jobs: 446 ok: 338 ko: 82 fail ratio: 18.39%
mean_ok: 47 ( 61) median_ok: 44 ( 54)
gerrit_linux_gcc_release jobs: 510 ok: 420 ko: 59 fail ratio: 11.57%
mean_ok: 26 ( 40) median_ok: 20 ( 32)
gerrit_mac jobs: 547 ok: 366 ko: 148 fail ratio: 27.06%
mean_ok: 60 ( 77) median_ok: 54 ( 69)
gerrit_windows jobs: 461 ok: 369 ko: 59 fail ratio: 12.80%
mean_ok: 45 (114) median_ok: 38 ( 56)
gerrit_master_ml jobs: 544 ok: 301 ko: 172 fail ratio: 31.62%
mean_ok: 157 (158) median_ok: 107 (107)
gerrit_master jobs: 72 ok: 42 ko: 17 fail ratio: 23.61%
mean_ok: 111 (115) median_ok: 76 ( 76)
gerrit_master_seq jobs: 473 ok: 261 ko: 154 fail ratio: 32.56%
mean_ok: 157 (162) median_ok: 111 (111)
+ tests that failed more than twice in last seven days
4 CppunitTest_sc_subsequent_export_test4
gerrit_linux_gcc_release
4 UITest_sw_sidebar gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
5 CppunitTest_filter_dialogs_test
gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
5 CppunitTest_vcl_png_test gerrit_linux_gcc_release
9 Killed by the kill-wrapper
gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
13 aborted by jenkins job timeout gerrit_windows
+ almost all Linux builder are on Alma Linux 9 now
+ (their ccaches need to fill up, so longer build times atm)
* What’s cooking (Miklos)
+ A11y update (Michael W)
+ tdf#163802 "Back-to-back name-changed events are causing Orca to
interrupt speech in spellcheck dialog")
+ and related GTK 3 fix:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/merge_requests/8814
+ plan to look into implementing AT-SPI Collection support in Qt 6
(and maybe GTK 4)
for Orca browse mode support
+ RTL/CTL/CJK update (Jonathan)
+ tdf#150822 OOXML strict vertical text direction not parsed
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150822
+ tdf#167740 LO repeating last char with Win10 Microsoft Korean IME
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167740
+ ODF-TC (Olivier + Regina)
+ weekly meeting
+ ongoing work on existing issues
+ don't have suggestions for all new functions introduced in Calc;
missing
proposals
+ shall I write the specs? (Olivier)
+ hope the devs do that (Regina)
+ can't hurt if Olivier steps in (but LET is really complex)
+ is there a template? (Cloph)
+ in the OASIS wiki (Regina)
* QA update (Xisco)
+ UNCONFIRMED: 1892 (+33)
+ enhancements: 507 (+5)
+ needsUXEval: 9 (-5)
+ haveBackTrace: 15 (+0)
+ needsDevAdvice: 48 (+0)
+ documentation: 1 (-3)
+ android: 0 (+0)
+ iOS: 0 (+0)
+ Online: 6 (+0)
+ Most pressing bugs:
New:
None
+ New high severity bugs of the week:
None
* QA stats
+
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
+97 -9 (-64) overall)
many thanks to the top bug squashers:
m_a_riosv 5
Heiko Tietze 3
Jonathan Clark 3
Mike Kaganski 3
Timur 3
nobu 3
Adolfo Jayme Barrientos 2
BogdanB 2
Buovjaga 2
Julien Nabet 2
+ top 10 bugs reporters:
Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 8
Michael Otto 5
Jaroslaw 4
vic 4
Justin L 3
Telesto 3
nobu 3
prrvchr 3
Igor Támara 2
Jürgen Kirsten 2
+ top 10 bugs fixers:
Jonathan Clark 3
2
Adolfo Jayme Barrientos 2
Justin Luth 2
Nabet, Julien 2
Timur Gadzo 2
Vajna, Miklos 2
Balazs Varga 1
Bogdan B 1
Deepanshu Sharma 1
+ top 10 bugs confirmers:
Vernon, Stuart Foote 6
Heiko Tietze 5
Nabet, Julien 3
Raal 3
m.a.riosv 3
nobu 3
Olivier Hallot 2
Pierre 2
Roman Kuznetsov 2
yosi3260+libre at gmail.com 2
* Bisected bugs open: keyword 'bisected'
+ more accurate - down to a single commit.
+ http://bit.ly/2dyIfDy
+
done by:
vijaya chandra 7
Ilmari Lauhakangas 1
Timur Gadzo 1
* Bibisected bugs open: keyword 'bibisected'
+ http://bit.ly/2cSCXlS
+
done by:
vijaya chandra 7
Ilmari Lauhakangas 1
Timur Gadzo 1
* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
+ 1278(+4) bugs open of 14223(+9) total 21(+0) high prio.
done by:
Ilmari Lauhakangas 1
vijaya chandra 1
m.a.riosv 1
Robert Großkopf 1
Timur Gadzo 1
* ~Component count net * high severity regressions
+ http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
Writer - 10(+1)
Calc - 5(-1)
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 - 423(+3)
Calc - 249(+1)
Impress - 131(+2)
LibreOffice - 60(+0)
Draw - 47(+0)
Crashes - 45(+1)
Writer: docx filter - 45(+1)
Borders - 39(+1)
UI - 39(-1)
Base - 35(+0)
Writer: perf - 33(+1)
Writer: other filter - 29(-1)
filters and storage - 29(+0)
Chart - 25(+0)
Printing and PDF export - 24(+0)
RTL - 20(-1)
BASIC - 18(+0)
Writer: doc filter - 18(+0)
graphics stack - 15(+0)
Formula Editor - 9(+0)
Linguistic - 3(+0)
framework - 3(+0)
sdk - 3(+0)
Extensions - 2(+0)
Installation - 1(+0)
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