ESC meeting minutes: 2025-07-10
Miklos Vajna
vmiklos at collabora.com
Thu Jul 10 14:25:38 UTC 2025
* Present:
+ Caolan, Cloph, Heiko, Ilmari, Jonathan, Michael W, Olivier, Regina, Xisco, Miklos
* Completed Action Items:
* Pending Action Items:
* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
+ 25.2.5 rc2 this week: to be tagged this evening
+ 25.8.0 rc2 in 2 weeks
+ then libreoffice-25-8-0 branch creation
+ 26.2
+ require VS2022 on master? (Miklos)
+ https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/185538 for motivation
+ prefer to do this later in the summer (Cloph)
+ with the Windows build baseline update
* Documentation (Olivier)
+ Helpcontents
+ Updates and fixes (ohallot)
+ Guides
+ Addressing next guides
+ Bugzilla Documentation statistics
220(220) bugs open
+ Updates:
BZ changes 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
created 2(-3) 14(-2) 58(0) 273(-1)
commented 4(-21) 95(-4) 264(0) 889(-9)
resolved 0(-4) 6(-3) 30(-1) 144(-2)
+ top 10 contributors:
Heiko Tietze made 33 changes in 1 month, and 85 changes in 1 year
Olivier Hallot made 29 changes in 1 month, and 385 changes in 1 year
Lars Jødal made 19 changes in 1 month, and 19 changes in 1 year
Eyal Rozenberg made 13 changes in 1 month, and 47 changes in 1 year
Nabet, Julien made 13 changes in 1 month, and 73 changes in 1 year
Vernon, Stuart Foote made 10 changes in 1 month, and 94 changes in 1 year
nobu made 9 changes in 1 month, and 23 changes in 1 year
Telesto made 6 changes in 1 month, and 13 changes in 1 year
Adalbert Hanßen made 5 changes in 1 month, and 6 changes in 1 year
Pierre made 5 changes in 1 month, and 28 changes in 1 year
* UX Update (Heiko)
+ Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
220(220) (topicUI) bugs open, 12(12) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
+ Updates:
BZ changes 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
added 5(-1) 10(3) 12(3) 16(3)
commented 42(11) 82(19) 152(15) 936(-8)
removed 0(-1) 1(0) 3(0) 7(0)
resolved 1(-1) 10(0) 28(-1) 165(-3)
+ top 10 contributors:
wodsfort made 41 changes in 1 month, and 45 changes in 1 year
Eyal Rozenberg made 27 changes in 1 month, and 159 changes in 1 year
Vernon, Stuart Foote made 26 changes in 1 month, and 286 changes in 1 year
Heiko Tietze made 17 changes in 1 month, and 427 changes in 1 year
Kaganski, Mike made 11 changes in 1 month, and 35 changes in 1 year
Ilmari Lauhakangas made 10 changes in 1 month, and 177 changes in 1 year
Henschel, Regina made 10 changes in 1 month, and 35 changes in 1 year
Xisco Fauli made 6 changes in 1 month, and 11 changes in 1 year
Deepanshu Sharma made 3 changes in 1 month, and 3 changes in 1 year
Eltomito made 3 changes in 1 month, and 3 changes in 1 year
+ [Bug 167416] UI: language selection on the Tools -> AutoCorrect -> Autocorrect
Options... "Localized Options" tab
+ [Bug 167404] Document comparison at unintuitive/insufficiently-discoverable
place in menus
+ [Bug 167393] Add button "editing/correcting/viewing mode" to All apps
+ [Bug 167394] Create "file" page for replacement menu "file"
+ [Bug 167391] Change background colour of selected cells and for background
of selected cells number
* Crash Testing (Caolan)
+ 135(-46) import failure, 27(-2) export failures
- https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Crashtesting
+ 4 coverity issues
+ 4 ossfuzz issues, all timeouts
* Crash Reporting (from crashreport.libreoffice.org) (Xisco)
+ 25.2.1.2 27979(+170)
+ 25.2.2.2 47757(+472)
+ 25.2.3.2 21208(+325)
+ 25.2.4.3 29816(+9966)
* mentoring/easyhack update (Ilmari)
committer... 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
open 79(19) 128(17) 128(17) 128(17)
reviews 368(14) 1114(12) 2600(-14) 11196(-12)
merged 245(-115) 1176(104) 3035(23) 12647(-82)
abandoned 20(4) 62(14) 158(8) 664(-2)
own commits 160(-76) 815(56) 2322(-15) 9756(-63)
review commits 31(1) 156(1) 484(-2) 2654(-4)
contributor... 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
open 43(4) 102(-32) 104(-30) 104(-30)
reviews 834(-112) 3096(226) 7430(54) 31646(-112)
merged 11(0) 65(-21) 339(-22) 2407(22)
abandoned 36(30) 555(32) 1128(26) 1555(27)
own commits 13(6) 52(-3) 169(4) 1112(3)
review commits 0(0) 0(0) 0(0) 0(0)
+ easyHack statistics:
needsDevEval 9(9) needsUXEval 1(1) cleanup_comments 345(345)
total 412(412) assigned 45(45) open 328(328)
+ top 10 contributors:
Bogdan B made 8 patches in 1 month, and 245 patches in 1 year
Simon Chenery made 8 patches in 1 month, and 64 patches in 1 year
Kurt Nordback made 4 patches in 1 month, and 10 patches in 1 year
Sam James made 3 patches in 1 month, and 3 patches in 1 year
Ujjawal Kumar made 3 patches in 1 month, and 15 patches in 1 year
Srebotnjak, Martin made 2 patches in 1 month, and 8 patches in 1 year
Weblate made 2 patches in 1 month, and 21 patches in 1 year
Pierre made 2 patches in 1 month, and 2 patches in 1 year
Oscar Megía made 2 patches in 1 month, and 2 patches in 1 year
Darshan Upadhyay made 1 patches in 1 month, and 8 patches in 1 year
+ top 10 reviewers:
Xisco Fauli made 108 review comments in 1 month, and 796 in 1 year
Vajna, Miklos made 104 review comments in 1 month, and 1152 in 1 year
Ilmari Lauhakangas made 78 review comments in 1 month, and 758 in 1 year
Caolán McNamara made 68 review comments in 1 month, and 1168 in 1 year
Weghorn, Michael made 64 review comments in 1 month, and 518 in 1 year
Kaganski, Mike made 64 review comments in 1 month, and 548 in 1 year
Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 60 review comments in 1 month, and 924 in 1 year
Hossein made 56 review comments in 1 month, and 294 in 1 year
Nabet, Julien made 54 review comments in 1 month, and 716 in 1 year
Christian Lohmaier made 54 review comments in 1 month, and 792 in 1 year
+ Patches automatically abandoned:
WIP: tdf#51779 - Support for SQL datatype INTERVAL ( Devansh Varshney )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/165012
tdf#152943: Add NaN payload check at startup ( Xuan Chen )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/165391
vcl: make ImplGetTextStyle() easier to read ( Chris Sherlock )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/179146
tdf#97102 Implement ProgressBar class for dp_gui_dialog2 refactoring ( Manish Bera )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/182058
chart2: add calculated-y role to use for HistogramChart ( Devansh Varshney )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/182101
tdf#165803 enable per module color customization (part 1) ( Sahil Gautam )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/183186
tdf#150819 sw: add unit test "testTdf150819" ( Karthik Godha )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/183555
tdf#99296 - Disable header/footer by default ( Devashish gupta )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/183644
tdf#89387: Improve performance of ScInterpreter::CalculateSlopeIntercept ( Devashish gupta )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/183735
[API CHANGE]tdf#49602 : Remove deprecated OSL Profile functionality ( Devashish gupta )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/183755
tdf#68675 ODBC: support arbitrarily-sized bookmarks ( Ujjawal Kumar )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/183763
[wip] hackweek 2025 (printfdebugging's project) ( Sahil Gautam )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/183772
[GSoC Proposal] Create Markdown Filter ( Shi Qiu )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/183848
tested an oOo extension, couldn't get it to build ( Sahil Gautam )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/183945
tdf#48140 Remove uno calls from xlsx import ( Manish Mahapatra )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/184056
tdf#93488 Add password protection for VBA export ( Ujjawal Kumar )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/184086
tdf#71414: Replace sal_uLong with std::size_t in chart2 source files ( Baludu Vamsi )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/184092
tdf#75280: Replaced deprecated integer types with standard types in header files ( Baludu Vamsi )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/184093
tdf#71414: Fix ambiguity in OutHex function call in rtfutil.cxx ( Baludu Vamsi )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/184095
Replace sal_uLong with std::size_t (tdf#71414) ( Baludu Vamsi )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/184096
tdf#137316: Fix middle-click paste by passing correct Window pointer ( Baludu Vamsi )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/184099
tdf#67664: Query wizard in need of love ( Devashish gupta )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/184121
vcl: remove unnecessary using namespace ::com::sun::star ( Chris Sherlock )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/184124
tdf#92755 Avoid temporary XML files in winreg configmgr backend ( Mohamed Zaghloul )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/184174
Fix for Bug 103035: Improved Header/Footer dialog UI for text formatting ( Baludu Vamsi )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/184177
tdf#145614 Convert #define to enums ( Jorge Vazquez )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/184249
related tdf#166201 docx import: ST_TextPoint as UniversalMeasure ( Justin Luth )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/184295
solenv: sort excludelist ( Chris Sherlock )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/184345
Markdown Support: Cmark Library Integration ( Mohamed Zaghloul )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/184355
tdf#166223 Fix new row/column borders on 1x1 Table ( Karthik Godha )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/184367
tdf#164970 change MiscSettings function names to match the functionality ( Sahil Gautam )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/184419
new loplugin comparefloattoint ( Noel Grandin )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/184435
tdf#97362 CalcRTL test partially migrated from Java to Python ( Jesus Solis )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/184528
tdf#151245: make video loop defined in anim nodes save/load to ODP ( Sarper Akdemir )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/184563
tdf#158127 Add dash selection to alphabetical index ( Benjamin Johll )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/184657
tdf#166284 Avoid un-neccessary busy timer in IdleHandler ( Samuel Adesola )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/184729
cool#4250 LOK calc export: don't export internal zoom values ( Justin Luth )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/184795
tdf#166391 - Copy screenshot to clipboard ( Olivier Hallot )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/184907
tdf#160032 Writer: Ability to update external links without user consent ( Shi Qiu )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/184973
* GSoC (Ilmari)
+ https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline
+ 14 July: midterm evaluations for standard length projects
+ 5 projects affected
+ 2 more runs further
* Commit Access
+ Shardul Vikram Singh (Thorsten/Ilmari)
+ GSoC work would benefit from a feature branch (Replacing slideshow metafile rendering with primitives)
+ initially for the feature branch only, in practice
+ special group is enough, no need for a full committer role
=> approved (all)
AI: grant the permission (Cloph)
* Developer Certification (Stephan/László)
+ resting since: 9 weeks (limit: 20 weeks)
* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
gerrit_android_aarch64 jobs: 151 ok: 144 ko: 4 fail ratio: 2.65% mean_ok: 7 ( 14) median_ok: 6 ( 10)
gerrit_android_arm jobs: 150 ok: 143 ko: 5 fail ratio: 3.33% mean_ok: 8 ( 15) median_ok: 6 ( 11)
gerrit_android_x86 jobs: 152 ok: 144 ko: 5 fail ratio: 3.29% mean_ok: 7 ( 14) median_ok: 6 ( 11)
gerrit_android_x86_64 jobs: 152 ok: 142 ko: 7 fail ratio: 4.61% mean_ok: 7 ( 14) median_ok: 6 ( 11)
gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil jobs: 312 ok: 220 ko: 80 fail ratio: 25.64% mean_ok: 39 ( 43) median_ok: 38 ( 41)
gerrit_linux_gcc_release jobs: 365 ok: 297 ko: 48 fail ratio: 13.15% mean_ok: 20 ( 24) median_ok: 19 ( 19)
gerrit_mac jobs: 300 ok: 267 ko: 14 fail ratio: 4.67% mean_ok: 54 ( 55) median_ok: 48 ( 49)
gerrit_windows jobs: 336 ok: 259 ko: 68 fail ratio: 20.24% mean_ok: 40 ( 43) median_ok: 37 ( 38)
gerrit_master_ml jobs: 407 ok: 198 ko: 171 fail ratio: 42.01% mean_ok: 73 ( 73) median_ok: 70 ( 70)
gerrit_master jobs: 51 ok: 26 ko: 20 fail ratio: 39.22% mean_ok: 57 ( 57) median_ok: 59 ( 59)
gerrit_master_seq jobs: 354 ok: 173 ko: 148 fail ratio: 41.81% mean_ok: 75 ( 75) median_ok: 72 ( 72)
+ tests that failed more than twice in last seven days
3 CppunitTest_sw_uibase_shells gerrit_linux_gcc_release
4 JunitTest_sfx2_complex gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
6 aborted by jenkins job timeout gerrit_windows
6 Killed by the kill-wrapper gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
6 UITest_autofilter2 gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
7 CppunitTest_sw_filter_md gerrit_windows
+ nothing special with the failure rate (Cloph)
+ one Linux builder has problem, cloud provider issue, it fails a couple of builds
+ the bot is now offline
+ the throughput is now a bit smaller than usual
* What’s cooking (Miklos)
+ A11y update (Michael W)
+ Orca gained support for structural navigation in non-web apps:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/orca/-/commit/1a10f8c5c738d0cedb2c82a85f14724d23af6f99
+ looking into what's needed to support that for LO
+ fixed a related KWin bug: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=506715
+ looking into implementing AT-SPI Collection support in Qt
(and possibly GTK 4)
+ RTL/CTL/CJK update (Jonathan)
+ tdf#70102: Flipped RTL icons don't always look suitable
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70102
+ Migrated existing localized icons for use as writing direction variants
+ tdf#64991: Opening a long RTL DOC file is extremely slow
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64991
+ Bug affects all non-Latin; ~94% performance improvement
+ new way for tabbed dialogs crashes previous configuration (Heiko)
+ https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/187307 (icons with gtk)
+ https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/187565 (VT/HT option)
+ expected for now: e.g. hyperlink dialog to crash if the new option is off (not default)
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167451
+ ongoing on master
* Bump Linux baseline for master to AlmaLinux 9? (Michael W)
+ released in May 2022
+ AI: ping Rene re Debian (Michael W)
+ didn't get to this yet
* QA update (Xisco)
+ UNCONFIRMED: 1771 (+25)
+ enhancements: 484 (+4)
+ needsUXEval: 9 (+3)
+ haveBackTrace: 15 (+0)
+ needsDevAdvice: 47 (+0)
+ documentation: 2 (-1)
+ android: 0 (+0)
+ iOS: 0 (+0)
+ Online: 6 (+0)
+ Most pressing bugs:
New:
Fixed:
+ LibreOffice 25.2.4 Writer cannot open PDFs on macOS
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167080
+ fixed, thanks to Cloph
+ New high severity bugs of the week:
+ Dialog for the inserting/opening of images/pdfs with multiple pages
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114234
+ convert to easyhack ?
+ installation crashing when using georgian text
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166813
+ Fixed. Thanks to Cloph
* QA stats
+ propose is to drop the "bibisected" keyword from Bugzilla + ESC minutes (Mike)
+ see https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2025-July/093479.html
+ Áron's proposal: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2025-July/093516.html "use bibisected for the complete and partlyBibisected for the incomplete case"
+ made sense in the past (Xisco)
+ bibisect: not a specific commit, just a range
+ bisect: specific commit
+ "range" commits are quite rare by now
+ same at the end usually: both bibisect and bisect for most bugs
+ can look at the bibisect removal (Xisco)
+ AI: do this (Xisco)
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
+96 +46 (-54) overall)
many thanks to the top bug squashers:
Buovjaga 6
Mike Kaganski 4
Xisco Faulí 4
m_a_riosv 3
Alec K 2
Andreas Heinisch 2
Dieter 2
Jonathan Clark 2
Justin L 2
Michael Weghorn 2
+ top 10 bugs reporters:
Telesto 4
wodsfort 4
Ken Scott 3
nobu 3
Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 2
Mike Kaganski 2
anixxsus 2
Elmar 1
Eltomito 1
Eyal Rozenberg 1
+ top 10 bugs fixers:
Ilmari Lauhakangas 3
Jonathan Clark 2
Weghorn, Michael 2
1
Adolfo Jayme Barrientos 1
Alexandru Babacea 1
Andreas Heinisch 1
Eyal Rozenberg 1
Grandin, Noel 1
Henschel, Regina 1
+ top 10 bugs confirmers:
m.a.riosv 14
Vernon, Stuart Foote 6
Pierre 3
Weghorn, Michael 3
Xisco Fauli 3
nobu 3
Heiko Tietze 2
Jessica 2
Kaganski, Mike 2
Nabet, Julien 2
* Bisected bugs open: keyword 'bisected'
+ more accurate - down to a single commit.
+ http://bit.ly/2dyIfDy
+
done by:
vijaya chandra 4
Xisco Fauli 4
Telesto 1
Timur Gadzo 1
* Bibisected bugs open: keyword 'bibisected'
+ http://bit.ly/2cSCXlS
+
done by:
vijaya chandra 4
Xisco Fauli 4
Telesto 1
Timur Gadzo 1
* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
+ 1264(+7) bugs open of 14167(+9) total 21(+1) high prio.
done by:
nobu 2
Telesto 2
Kaganski, Mike 1
Robert Großkopf 1
Vernon, Stuart Foote 1
Xisco Fauli 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(+1)
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 - 421(+4)
Calc - 253(+4)
Impress - 128(-1)
LibreOffice - 57(+1)
Draw - 48(+0)
Writer: docx filter - 44(+0)
Crashes - 43(+1)
UI - 38(+0)
Borders - 36(+1)
Base - 35(+0)
Writer: perf - 32(+0)
Writer: other filter - 30(+0)
filters and storage - 29(+0)
Chart - 26(+0)
Printing and PDF export - 23(+0)
RTL - 22(+0)
BASIC - 18(+0)
Writer: doc filter - 18(+0)
graphics stack - 15(+0)
Formula Editor - 9(+0)
framework - 3(+0)
sdk - 3(+0)
Extensions - 2(+0)
Linguistic - 2(+0)
Installation - 1(+0)
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