ESC meeting minutes: 2025-01-16
Miklos Vajna
vmiklos at collabora.com
Fri Jan 17 12:22:54 UTC 2025
* Present:
+ Caolan, Cloph, Eike, Michael S, Heiko, Ilmari, Jonathan, Michael W, Olivier, Stephan, Hossein, Xisco, Thorsten, Miklos
* Completed Action Items:
* Pending Action Items:
* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
+ 24.8.5 rc1 in 2 weeks
+ 25.2 (final) rc3 next week
+ branch rules: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Branches
+ 1 review needed
+ another 2 for the libreoffice-25-2-0 branch, as usual
+ late features:
+ Quick Look plugin for macOS implementation complete and
installation/troubleshooting page added to wiki (Patrick):
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/MacOS/Quick_Look
+ new UI language: Abkhaz (ab) (cloph)
+ now also allowed as a document language
+ Mac App Store paperwork is sorted out, can publish releases there again (Cloph)
* Documentation (Olivier)
+ New Help
+ Add dark mode (ohallot)
+ Does that mean the new workflow for apparance? (Heiko)
+ no, the help pages itself can be dark (Olivier)
+ better grid solution in pages (buovjaga)
+ Simpler solution for no-JS browsers (ohallot, after cloph's idea)
+ Helpcontents2
+ Details on PDF passwords (G. Kelemen)
+ Sidebar cell appearance deck (D. Maddern)
+ Watchlist: New Calc functions: TOCOL, etc...
+ Guides
+ Published Calc Guide 24.8
+ Bugzilla Documentation statistics
223(223) bugs open
+ Updates:
BZ changes 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
created 1(-11) 95(-7) 121(-2) 318(0)
commented 3(-23) 55(-12) 154(1) 997(-1)
resolved 0(-4) 12(-2) 26(-2) 180(0)
+ top 10 contributors:
Bogdan B made 186 changes in 1 month, and 238 changes in 1 year
Olivier Hallot made 20 changes in 1 month, and 371 changes in 1 year
Vernon, Stuart Foote made 17 changes in 1 month, and 184 changes in 1 year
Heiko Tietze made 11 changes in 1 month, and 97 changes in 1 year
Kelemen, Gabor made 4 changes in 1 month, and 10 changes in 1 year
John made 4 changes in 1 month, and 4 changes in 1 year
Sahil Gautam made 4 changes in 1 month, and 4 changes in 1 year
*UNKNOWN* made 3 changes in 1 month, and 3 changes in 1 year
Dieter made 3 changes in 1 month, and 29 changes in 1 year
Dione Maddern made 3 changes in 1 month, and 120 changes in 1 year
* UX Update (Heiko)
+ Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
228(228) (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 1(-4) 6(-9) 10(-14) 17(-13)
commented 24(-13) 93(-16) 277(-37) 1454(-33)
removed 1(1) 1(1) 5(1) 12(1)
resolved 4(-2) 16(-1) 51(2) 242(-1)
+ top 10 contributors:
Heiko Tietze made 56 changes in 1 month, and 780 changes in 1 year
Vernon, Stuart Foote made 47 changes in 1 month, and 423 changes in 1 year
Bogdan B made 31 changes in 1 month, and 51 changes in 1 year
Roman Kuznetsov made 17 changes in 1 month, and 39 changes in 1 year
Dieter made 11 changes in 1 month, and 113 changes in 1 year
Eyal Rozenberg made 7 changes in 1 month, and 185 changes in 1 year
Ilmari Lauhakangas made 7 changes in 1 month, and 159 changes in 1 year
Samuel Mehrbrodt made 5 changes in 1 month, and 8 changes in 1 year
Dennis Roczek made 4 changes in 1 month, and 4 changes in 1 year
m.a.riosv made 4 changes in 1 month, and 46 changes in 1 year
+ [Bug 164044] Calc: Auto fill only works on one sheet. it should work across
all sheets.
+ request is not clear, needinfo
+ [Bug 164679] Hide "save as" formats you never use
* Crash testing (Caolan)
+ 184(-27) import failure, 16(+2) export failures
- https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Crashtesting
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164056 (writer, layout?)
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164421 (writer, rtf)
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164249 (calc)
+ 0 coverity issues
+ new version is out, not yet upgrading
+ 1 ossfuzz issue
- Integer overflow
* Crash Reporting (from crashreport.libreoffice.org) (Xisco)
+ 24.8.2.1 55962(+351)
+ 24.8.3.2 39595(+2583)
+ 24.8.4.2 8922(+4869)
+ 25.2.0.2 2(+0)
- New in 25.2: https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/signature/SwDocShell::MakeInlineHeading(SwWrtShell%20*,SwTextFormatColl%20*,unsigned%20short)
- Plausible fix: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/180356
* Mentoring (Hossein)
+ New blog post on dev blog
Outlook for the new year 2025
https://dev.blog.documentfoundation.org/2025/01/16/outlook-for-the-new-year-2025/
committer... 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
open 78(0) 141(-11) 147(-6) 147(-6)
reviews 394(-2) 1262(-108) 3970(98) 13530(-68)
merged 267(111) 919(-79) 3587(73) 14208(-31)
abandoned 8(3) 42(-5) 155(2) 707(-5)
own commits 150(55) 568(-43) 2466(23) 9982(-54)
review commits 57(4) 221(9) 846(28) 3201(-36)
contributor... 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
open 355(-624) 1125(35) 1128(34) 1128(34)
reviews 816(194) 2636(-122) 8610(186) 31460(-96)
merged 30(16) 111(11) 487(19) 1420(6)
abandoned 11(-1) 46(-52) 198(8) 629(-6)
own commits 32(17) 108(10) 454(21) 1406(11)
review commits 0(0) 0(0) 0(0) 0(0)
+ easyHack statistics:
needsDevEval 9(9) needsUXEval 1(1) cleanup_comments 340(340)
total 423(423) assigned 29(29) open 356(356)
+ top 10 contributors:
Bogdan B made 24 patches in 1 month, and 286 patches in 1 year
Shantanu Oak made 17 patches in 1 month, and 17 patches in 1 year
Alin, Andrei Abahnencei made 8 patches in 1 month, and 9 patches in 1 year
Kushagra Kasliwal made 7 patches in 1 month, and 7 patches in 1 year
Rashesh Padia made 5 patches in 1 month, and 10 patches in 1 year
Manish Bera made 4 patches in 1 month, and 9 patches in 1 year
Srebotnjak, Martin made 2 patches in 1 month, and 14 patches in 1 year
Weblate made 2 patches in 1 month, and 32 patches in 1 year
Theppitak Karoonboonyanan made 2 patches in 1 month, and 9 patches in 1 year
Darshan Upadhyay made 2 patches in 1 month, and 9 patches in 1 year
+ top 10 reviewers:
Ilmari Lauhakangas made 136 review comments in 1 month, and 768 in 1 year
Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 130 review comments in 1 month, and 948 in 1 year
Vajna, Miklos made 118 review comments in 1 month, and 1204 in 1 year
Caolán McNamara made 112 review comments in 1 month, and 1384 in 1 year
Kaganski, Mike made 68 review comments in 1 month, and 524 in 1 year
Xisco Fauli made 64 review comments in 1 month, and 782 in 1 year
Nabet, Julien made 56 review comments in 1 month, and 880 in 1 year
allotropia jenkins made 54 review comments in 1 month, and 360 in 1 year
Michael Stahl made 50 review comments in 1 month, and 876 in 1 year
David Gilbert made 48 review comments in 1 month, and 220 in 1 year
+ Patches automatically abandoned:
tdf#38844 - Reduce XOR rendering (search RasterOp::Xor) ( Devansh Varshney )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/164949
tdf#97362 Rewrite PasswordContainer tests in python ( Ritobroto Mukherjee )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/165038
tdf#95174 - SQL parser support for catalog and schema ( Devansh Varshney )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/165279
tdf#163646 Writer Navigator enhancement to show in the tooltip for ( Jim Raykowski )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/175895
tdf#57274 - Paste special as link: consider empty cells ( Andreas Heinisch )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/176523
+ big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
Akshay Dubey
* Commit Access
* Developer Certification (Stephan/Miklos/László/Gabriel)
+ resting since: 10 weeks (limit: 20 weeks)
* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
gerrit_android_aarch64 jobs: 156 ok: 147 ko: 3 fail ratio: 1.92% mean_ok: 8 ( 15) median_ok: 8 ( 10)
gerrit_android_arm jobs: 155 ok: 151 ko: 4 fail ratio: 2.58% mean_ok: 8 ( 15) median_ok: 8 ( 11)
gerrit_android_x86 jobs: 156 ok: 147 ko: 3 fail ratio: 1.92% mean_ok: 8 ( 14) median_ok: 7 ( 10)
gerrit_android_x86_64 jobs: 155 ok: 151 ko: 3 fail ratio: 1.94% mean_ok: 8 ( 15) median_ok: 8 ( 10)
gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil jobs: 320 ok: 240 ko: 65 fail ratio: 20.31% mean_ok: 39 ( 45) median_ok: 37 ( 40)
gerrit_linux_gcc_release jobs: 387 ok: 299 ko: 52 fail ratio: 13.44% mean_ok: 22 ( 27) median_ok: 19 ( 20)
gerrit_mac jobs: 355 ok: 264 ko: 74 fail ratio: 20.85% mean_ok: 55 ( 60) median_ok: 49 ( 51)
gerrit_windows jobs: 320 ok: 277 ko: 32 fail ratio: 10.00% mean_ok: 41 ( 42) median_ok: 35 ( 35)
gerrit_master_ml jobs: 423 ok: 212 ko: 163 fail ratio: 38.53% mean_ok: 93 ( 94) median_ok: 78 ( 79)
gerrit_master jobs: 45 ok: 20 ko: 19 fail ratio: 42.22% mean_ok: 66 ( 66) median_ok: 69 ( 69)
gerrit_master_seq jobs: 379 ok: 194 ko: 143 fail ratio: 37.73% mean_ok: 89 ( 95) median_ok: 79 ( 80)
+ tests that failed more than twice in last seven days
3 CppunitTest_sw_tiledrendering gerrit_linux_gcc_release
3 CppunitTest_vcl_pdfexport2 gerrit_linux_gcc_release
3 PythonTest_sw_python gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
4 JunitTest_svx_unoapi gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
5 aborted by jenkins job timeout gerrit_windows
10 Killed by the kill-wrapper gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
+ this week was a good week (Cloph)
+ one mac builder had problems with the poppler update, fixed now
+ thanks to Michael S's patch
+ also to Xisco for fixing the xcode baseline
* What’s cooking (Miklos)
+ A11y update (Michael W)
+ tdf#163335 ("Linux (qt6): crash whenever selecting text using cursor or keyboard
going from right to left")
+ worked around in our qt a11y bridge for release branches, fixed in Writer
for master
+ VPAT/ACR (Accessibility Conformance Report)
+ discussion: https://community.documentfoundation.org/t/publish-vpat-based-accessibility-conformance-report-s-acr/12624
+ RTL/CTL/CJK update (Jonathan)
+ tdf#34837: Merged cell borders don't render in RTL sheets
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34837
+ Fixed
+ PDF 2.0 support (Tomaz)
+ not yet changing the 1.7 default, can try it out in the PDF export dialog
+ Python bumped to 3.11 in master (Xisco)
- 3.10 EOF: 2026-10
- 3.11 EOF: 2027-10
+ curl deprecating the old macOS (TLS 1.2) backend
+ https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2025-January/092910.html
+ this is only about macOS (Michael S)
+ is the system libcurl new enough for our needs?
+ Linux's NSS backend was also removed recently, that's why we switched to openssl now
+ doesn't affect Windows
* FOSDEM 2025 (Xisco)
- DevRoom: Saturday, February 1, from 10AM to 2PM. -- in 3 weeks
- schedule URL: <https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/track/libreoffice/>
- in 2 weeks!
- wiki page https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Events/2025/FOSDEM
- if you plan to attend the community dinner, please add your name (Thorsten)
* QA update (Xisco)
+ UNCONFIRMED: 1448 (+7)
+ enhancements: 365 (-5)
+ needsUXEval: 5 (-9)
+ haveBackTrace: 12 (+0)
+ needsDevAdvice: 47 (-2)
+ documentation: 7 (-1)
+ android: 0 (+0)
+ iOS: 0 (+0)
+ Online: 9 (+0)
+ Most pressing bugs:
New:
None
+ New high severity bugs of the week:
+ List bullets formatting changed
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164640
+ Noel?
* QA stats
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
+89 +1 (-115) overall)
many thanks to the top bug squashers:
Mike Kaganski 13
BogdanB 11
QA Administrators 11
Heiko Tietze 9
Aron Budea 8
Buovjaga 7
Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 4
Michael Weghorn 4
Patrick (volunteer) 3
Sierk Bornemann 3
+ top 10 bugs reporters:
Aron Budea 3
Artem 3
Eyal Rozenberg 3
Saburo 3
Jordi 2
Sahil Gautam 2
Steve Kelem 2
elias estatistics 2
Andy 1
Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 1
+ top 10 bugs fixers:
Kaganski, Mike 8
Aron Budea 3
Patrick Luby 3
Balazs Varga 2
Jonathan Clark 2
Vajngerl, Tomaž 2
Weghorn, Michael 2
1
Andreas Heinisch 1
Balland-Poirier, Laurent 1
+ top 10 bugs confirmers:
Bogdan B 11
Heiko Tietze 7
Ilmari Lauhakangas 6
Aron Budea 5
Roman Kuznetsov 5
Raal 4
Kaganski, Mike 3
Weghorn, Michael 3
yosi3260+libre at gmail.com 3
m.a.riosv 2
* Bisected bugs open: keyword 'bisected'
+ more accurate - down to a single commit.
+ http://bit.ly/2dyIfDy
+
done by:
Aron Budea 5
Bogdan B 2
Ilmari Lauhakangas 2
Raal 2
Serg Bormant 1
Jonathan Clark 1
* Bibisected bugs open: keyword 'bibisected'
+ http://bit.ly/2cSCXlS
+
done by:
Aron Budea 14
Ilmari Lauhakangas 2
Raal 2
Serg Bormant 1
Bogdan B 1
* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
+ 1228(-6) bugs open of 13839(+11) total 22(+0) high prio.
done by:
Aron Budea 2
Serg Bormant 1
Ilmari Lauhakangas 1
Alex Thurgood 1
m.a.riosv 1
Raal 1
nobu 1
* ~Component count net * high severity regressions
+ http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
Writer - 10(+0)
Calc - 6(+0)
LibreOffice - 3(+0)
Impress - 2(+0)
UI - 1(+0)
by OS:
All - 14(+0)
Linux - 5(+0)
Mac OS X - 0(+0)
Windows - 3(+0)
* ~Component count net * all regressions
+ http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
Writer: other - 417(+0)
Calc - 243(-1)
Impress - 127(+1)
LibreOffice - 51(+0)
Draw - 49(+0)
Crashes - 45(-2)
Writer: docx filter - 40(+0)
Base - 37(-1)
Borders - 33(+0)
UI - 33(-1)
Writer: perf - 32(+0)
Writer: other filter - 30(+0)
Printing and PDF export - 26(+0)
Chart - 24(+0)
RTL - 23(+0)
BASIC - 21(-1)
filters and storage - 21(+2)
Writer: doc filter - 17(+0)
graphics stack - 12(-1)
Formula Editor - 11(-1)
framework - 3(+0)
sdk - 3(+0)
Extensions - 2(+0)
Linguistic - 2(+0)
Installation - 1(+0)
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