ESC meeting minutes: 2025-07-17
Miklos Vajna
vmiklos at collabora.com
Thu Jul 17 14:39:06 UTC 2025
* Present:
+ Ilmari, Caolan, Cloph, Jonathan, Michael W, Olivier, Stephan, Rohit, Regina, Miklos
* Completed Action Items:
+ Shardul Vikram Singh commit bit for the slideshow primitives gsoc project (Cloph)
+ Linux baseline update to RHEL9: ping Rene re Debian (Michael W)
+ discussed with Rene and Rico (Debian + Ubuntu maintainers)
+ no objections in general
+ would be good if it still worked on Ubuntu 22.04, Debian stable
+ relevant libs seem recent enough on Debian/Ubuntu as compared to AlmaLinux 9
+ except for gtk4 and qt6
+ did a test with AlmaLinux 9 build on Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04, Debian stable (12)
+ gen, gtk3 and kf5 work everywhere
+ SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk4 worked in a quick test on Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04, but crashed on Debian stable
+ SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=qt6 -> not used anywhere, fallback to default VCL plugin worked fine
+ suggestion:
+ bump baseline to AlmaLinux 9, enable gtk4 and qt6 at least in CI and bibisect builds
+ presumably also enable qt6 in daily/release builds (not used by default)
+ enable or disable gtk4 for daily/release builds (but not used by default anywhere anyway)?
-> sounds like it's safe to bump the baseline to AlmaLinux 9 on master (Michael W)
* Pending Action Items:
+ QA stats: bibisect duplication removal from the script (Xisco)
* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
+ 25.2.5 release this week: announced as final earlier today
+ 25.8.0 rc2 in 1 week
+ then libreoffice-25-8-0 branch creation
+ 26.2
+ Windows build baseline update later in the summer
+ looking into this, will probably happen later in the month (Cloph)
+ plan: no cygwin, wsl-as-helper style of build
+ new baseline to be used also for the 25.8 builds?
+ will so, depends also on the performance
+ life is simpler if the baseline can be shared
+ similar for Linux, but there it's easier because it needs no dedicated HW, like with Windows
+ 32bit Windows builds to drop? (Cloph)
+ 1.5 million downloads / 3-4% percent of the downloads
+ not sure how many of those are accidental (i.e. how many could run 64bit) (Ilmari)
+ already deprecated -> next step is to hide it from download page (Cloph)
+ suggest to do the download page tweaking now, was already planned for 25.8
+ Cloph will do this for the download page for 26.2
+ Linux build baseline update to AlmaLinux 9? (Michael W)
* Documentation (Olivier)
+ Helpcontents
+ updates and fixes (ohallot)
+ Guides
+ Work in progress.
+ Bugzilla Documentation statistics
214(214) bugs open
+ Updates:
BZ changes 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
created 9(7) 16(2) 55(-3) 272(-1)
commented 11(7) 98(3) 255(-9) 881(-8)
resolved 7(7) 12(6) 33(3) 149(5)
+ top 10 contributors:
Heiko Tietze made 31 changes in 1 month, and 85 changes in 1 year
Olivier Hallot made 31 changes in 1 month, and 396 changes in 1 year
Lars Jødal made 17 changes in 1 month, and 19 changes in 1 year
Nabet, Julien made 13 changes in 1 month, and 74 changes in 1 year
Eyal Rozenberg made 12 changes in 1 month, and 47 changes in 1 year
Vernon, Stuart Foote made 10 changes in 1 month, and 92 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 30 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 8(3) 9(-1) 11(-1) 15(-1)
commented 35(-7) 61(-21) 130(-22) 890(-46)
removed 0(0) 0(-1) 2(-1) 6(-1)
resolved 1(0) 8(-2) 24(-4) 163(-2)
+ top 10 contributors:
Ilmari Lauhakangas made 26 changes in 1 month, and 195 changes in 1 year
Vernon, Stuart Foote made 24 changes in 1 month, and 283 changes in 1 year
Roman Kuznetsov made 14 changes in 1 month, and 69 changes in 1 year
Eyal Rozenberg made 12 changes in 1 month, and 142 changes in 1 year
Kaganski, Mike made 10 changes in 1 month, and 34 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
Bogdan B made 7 changes in 1 month, and 66 changes in 1 year
nobu made 5 changes in 1 month, and 16 changes in 1 year
Xisco Fauli made 4 changes in 1 month, and 9 changes in 1 year
* Crash Testing (Caolan)
+ 506(+371) import failure, 292(+265) export failures
- the SetLineColor assert that was since removed, restarted
+ 4 coverity issues
+ 4 ossfuzz issues
- all timeouts
* Crash Reporting (from crashreport.libreoffice.org) (Xisco)
+ 25.2.2.2 48110(+353)
+ 25.2.3.2 21469(+261)
+ 25.2.4.3 39360(+9544)
+ 25.8.0.1 56(+0)
* mentoring/easyhack update (Ilmari)
committer... 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
open 95(16) 142(14) 143(15) 143(15)
reviews 492(124) 1258(144) 2792(192) 11252(56)
merged 335(90) 1278(102) 3113(78) 12678(31)
abandoned 22(2) 73(11) 158(0) 670(6)
own commits 201(41) 868(53) 2320(-2) 9729(-27)
review commits 36(5) 154(-2) 487(3) 2630(-24)
contributor... 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
open 41(-2) 104(2) 106(2) 106(2)
reviews 984(150) 3292(196) 7546(116) 31662(16)
merged 22(11) 67(2) 332(-7) 2382(-25)
abandoned 3(-33) 56(-499) 1096(-32) 1555(0)
own commits 20(7) 55(3) 183(14) 1107(-5)
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 47(47) open 326(326)
+ top 10 contributors:
Simon Chenery made 7 patches in 1 month, and 65 patches in 1 year
Ujjawal Kumar made 7 patches in 1 month, and 19 patches in 1 year
Kurt Nordback made 6 patches in 1 month, and 12 patches in 1 year
Bogdan B made 5 patches in 1 month, and 242 patches in 1 year
Weblate made 2 patches in 1 month, and 20 patches in 1 year
Pierre Vacher made 2 patches in 1 month, and 7 patches in 1 year
Armin Le Grand (allotropia) made 2 patches in 1 month, and 2 patches in 1 year
Sam James made 1 patches in 1 month, and 3 patches in 1 year
Darshan Upadhyay made 1 patches in 1 month, and 8 patches in 1 year
Mihai Vasiliu made 1 patches in 1 month, and 4 patches in 1 year
+ top 10 reviewers:
Vajna, Miklos made 138 review comments in 1 month, and 1206 in 1 year
Ilmari Lauhakangas made 102 review comments in 1 month, and 762 in 1 year
Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 96 review comments in 1 month, and 932 in 1 year
Xisco Fauli made 92 review comments in 1 month, and 780 in 1 year
Caolán McNamara made 80 review comments in 1 month, and 1172 in 1 year
Weghorn, Michael made 78 review comments in 1 month, and 530 in 1 year
Kaganski, Mike made 72 review comments in 1 month, and 558 in 1 year
Christian Lohmaier made 72 review comments in 1 month, and 786 in 1 year
Hossein made 52 review comments in 1 month, and 292 in 1 year
Nabet, Julien made 46 review comments in 1 month, and 710 in 1 year
+ Patches automatically abandoned:
tdf#125969 cui: add in-use area gradient to gradient list ( Justin Luth )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/177379
tdf#160032 related: Add ability to create an dialogue with checkbox ( Shi Qiu )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/183276
tdf#153294 simplify for loop to std::find calls ( Simon Chenery )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/183466
Slideshow: Start using more Primitives ( Armin Le Grand )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/184018
tdf#148415 - More detailed, better explained loplugin errors ( Devansh Varshney )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/185101
Translate comment ( Andrea Gelmini )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/185303
+ big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
Bojidar Marinov
* 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:
+ Rust UNO Language Binding (Jul 25, 2025)
+ Import Markdown files into LibreOffice Writer (Aug 01, 2025)
* Commit Access
* Developer Certification (Stephan/László)
+ resting since: 10 weeks (limit: 20 weeks)
* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
gerrit_android_aarch64 jobs: 195 ok: 176 ko: 10 fail ratio: 5.13% mean_ok: 7 ( 39) median_ok: 5 ( 22)
gerrit_android_arm jobs: 195 ok: 184 ko: 4 fail ratio: 2.05% mean_ok: 7 ( 37) median_ok: 5 ( 22)
gerrit_android_x86 jobs: 191 ok: 180 ko: 4 fail ratio: 2.09% mean_ok: 7 ( 37) median_ok: 5 ( 22)
gerrit_android_x86_64 jobs: 195 ok: 184 ko: 3 fail ratio: 1.54% mean_ok: 7 ( 37) median_ok: 5 ( 24)
gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil jobs: 401 ok: 293 ko: 89 fail ratio: 22.19% mean_ok: 39 ( 66) median_ok: 38 ( 50)
gerrit_linux_gcc_release jobs: 431 ok: 357 ko: 37 fail ratio: 8.58% mean_ok: 20 ( 48) median_ok: 19 ( 31)
gerrit_mac jobs: 385 ok: 306 ko: 62 fail ratio: 16.10% mean_ok: 55 ( 63) median_ok: 48 ( 52)
gerrit_windows jobs: 441 ok: 282 ko: 134 fail ratio: 30.39% mean_ok: 42 (121) median_ok: 38 ( 59)
gerrit_master_ml jobs: 488 ok: 234 ko: 194 fail ratio: 39.75% mean_ok: 184 (186) median_ok: 120 (120)
gerrit_master jobs: 71 ok: 31 ko: 27 fail ratio: 38.03% mean_ok: 111 (119) median_ok: 89 ( 89)
gerrit_master_seq jobs: 417 ok: 203 ko: 167 fail ratio: 40.05% mean_ok: 190 (194) median_ok: 124 (125)
+ tests that failed more than twice in last seven days
3 UITest_calc_tests4 gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
6 CppunitTest_sw_uwriter gerrit_linux_gcc_release
7 aborted by jenkins job timeout gerrit_windows
9 Killed by the kill-wrapper gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
9 CppunitTest_editeng_core gerrit_windows (bot/display-scaling issue)
9 CppunitTest_sc_anchor_test gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
14 CppunitTest_chart2_export2 gerrit_mac
14 CppunitTest_sw_uiwriter6 gerrit_windows
+ this week:
+ 1 Windows box had failures, forgot to reset display settings, fixed (Cloph)
+ CppunitTest_chart2_export2 failures are new
+ CppunitTest_sw_uiwriter6 is not new
+ still 1 of the Windows builders needs to be brought up manually, affects the throughput during the morning hours (Cloph)
+ problem with Hetzner
* What’s cooking (Miklos)
+ A11y update (Michael W)
+ Qt changes to notify about a11y role changes + corresponding LO change
+ RTL/CTL/CJK update (Jonathan)
+ tdf#167297: DOC/DOCX support for script type hinting
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167297
+ glad to see the emulation part going away (Caolan)
* QA update (Xisco)
+ UNCONFIRMED: 1775 (+4)
+ enhancements: 485 (+1)
+ needsUXEval: 6 (-3)
+ haveBackTrace: 15 (+0)
+ needsDevAdvice: 48 (+1)
+ documentation: 2 (+0)
+ android: 0 (+0)
+ iOS: 0 (+0)
+ Online: 6 (+0)
+ Most pressing bugs:
New:
Old:
Fixed:
+ New high severity bugs of the week:
+ Published Appearance theme extensions for 25.2 will no longer work at 25.8 release
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166942
+ think the config changed deliberately, related to Sahil's work (Michael W)
+ encouraged Sahil to push fixes to 25.8 wrt polishing this feature (Ilmari)
* QA stats
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
+89 +7 (-94) overall)
many thanks to the top bug squashers:
Olivier Hallot 9
Heiko Tietze 8
prrvchr 8
V Stuart Foote 5
Xisco Faulí 5
Justin L 4
Noel Grandin 4
m_a_riosv 4
Buovjaga 3
Jonathan Clark 3
+ top 10 bugs reporters:
Telesto 6
Eyal Rozenberg 3
prrvchr 3
Timur 2
Vas 2
jasonkres 2
nobu 2
Buovjaga 1
Heiko Tietze 1
Pierre Fortin 1
+ top 10 bugs fixers:
Olivier Hallot 8
Pierre Vacher 6
Grandin, Noel 4
Xisco Fauli 4
Heiko Tietze 3
Jonathan Clark 3
Kaganski, Mike 3
Patrick Luby 3
Sahil Gautam 3
Hossein 2
+ top 10 bugs confirmers:
Ilmari Lauhakangas 10
m.a.riosv 9
Heiko Tietze 7
Xisco Fauli 6
yosi3260+libre at gmail.com 4
Jessica 3
Roman Kuznetsov 3
Aron Budea 2
Dieter 2
Raal 2
* Bisected bugs open: keyword 'bisected'
+ more accurate - down to a single commit.
+ http://bit.ly/2dyIfDy
+
done by:
vijaya chandra 10
Raal 2
Xisco Fauli 2
Aron Budea 1
Ilmari Lauhakangas 1
Weghorn, Michael 1
Telesto 1
* Bibisected bugs open: keyword 'bibisected'
+ http://bit.ly/2cSCXlS
+
done by:
vijaya chandra 10
Raal 2
Xisco Fauli 2
Ilmari Lauhakangas 1
Weghorn, Michael 1
* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
+ 1259(-5) bugs open of 14180(+13) total 20(-1) high prio.
done by:
Ilmari Lauhakangas 3
m.a.riosv 2
vijaya chandra 1
Weghorn, Michael 1
Mateusz Wlazłowski 1
Raal 1
nobu 1
Telesto 1
Xisco Fauli 1
* ~Component count net * high severity regressions
+ http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
Writer - 9(+0)
Calc - 6(+0)
LibreOffice - 2(-1)
Impress - 1(+0)
UI - 1(+0)
filters and storage - 1(+0)
by OS:
All - 14(-1)
Linux - 5(+0)
Mac OS X - 0(+0)
Windows - 0(+0)
* ~Component count net * all regressions
+ http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
Writer: other - 419(-2)
Calc - 250(-3)
Impress - 128(+0)
LibreOffice - 59(+2)
Draw - 47(-1)
Crashes - 44(+1)
Writer: docx filter - 44(+0)
Borders - 38(+2)
UI - 37(-1)
Base - 35(+0)
Writer: perf - 32(+0)
Writer: other filter - 30(+0)
filters and storage - 29(+0)
Chart - 25(-1)
Printing and PDF export - 24(+1)
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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