ESC meeting minutes: 2025-06-19
Miklos Vajna
vmiklos at collabora.com
Thu Jun 19 14:27:21 UTC 2025
* Present:
+ Luna (bittin), Regina, Ilmari, Jonathan, Cloph, Xisco, Heiko, Miklos, Michael W
* Completed Action Items:
* Pending Action Items:
+ ESC composition: create the gerrit change for the website (Miklos)
+ Cloph will take it to the board, too.
* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
+ 25.2.5 rc1 in 1 week
+ 25.8 beta2 this week
+ optional, will have the rc1 next week instead anyways
* Documentation (Olivier)
+ missing Olivier
+ Bugzilla Documentation statistics
217(217) bugs open
+ Updates:
BZ changes 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
created 5(0) 21(-2) 55(2) 275(3)
commented 4(-3) 38(-16) 184(-6) 827(-11)
resolved 1(-2) 12(-2) 28(0) 149(0)
+ top 10 contributors:
Olivier Hallot made 48 changes in 1 month, and 396 changes in 1 year
Nabet, Julien made 11 changes in 1 month, and 61 changes in 1 year
*UNKNOWN* made 4 changes in 1 month, and 7 changes in 1 year
Vernon, Stuart Foote made 4 changes in 1 month, and 84 changes in 1 year
Cutter made 2 changes in 1 month, and 2 changes in 1 year
Pierre made 2 changes in 1 month, and 25 changes in 1 year
Ilmari Lauhakangas made 2 changes in 1 month, and 171 changes in 1 year
Balland-Poirier, Laurent made 2 changes in 1 month, and 8 changes in 1 year
Kaganski, Mike made 2 changes in 1 month, and 74 changes in 1 year
Celia Palacios Gómez Tagle made 1 changes in 1 month, and 1 changes in 1 year
* UX Update (Heiko)
+ Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
222(222) (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 2(-4) 9(-2) 11(-2) 15(-2)
commented 19(-31) 87(-5) 181(-15) 1023(-25)
removed 0(0) 0(-2) 2(0) 6(-1)
resolved 1(-2) 8(0) 30(-1) 174(-4)
+ top 10 contributors:
Heiko Tietze made 34 changes in 1 month, and 482 changes in 1 year
Vernon, Stuart Foote made 34 changes in 1 month, and 311 changes in 1 year
Eyal Rozenberg made 16 changes in 1 month, and 170 changes in 1 year
Roman Kuznetsov made 11 changes in 1 month, and 66 changes in 1 year
Ilmari Lauhakangas made 11 changes in 1 month, and 187 changes in 1 year
Telesto made 9 changes in 1 month, and 27 changes in 1 year
Dennis Roczek made 7 changes in 1 month, and 11 changes in 1 year
John Mills made 6 changes in 1 month, and 7 changes in 1 year
Sahil Gautam made 6 changes in 1 month, and 9 changes in 1 year
andriimuzhytskyi made 4 changes in 1 month, and 4 changes in 1 year
+ [Bug 167111] Help button for dialog "Select Your Preferred User Interface"
is gone
-> + [Bug 167084] [META] Apply vertical tabs design with large icons to dialogs
with less than 6 tabs
+ Heiko is on it
+ making progress
+ considering doing it even for tab dialogs with less than 6 tabs
+ and an option to choose between the two
+ [Bug 164340] Inform user about missing temporary folder
-> + [Bug 167017] In-cell pictures
+ Excel has this, also scaled when zooming, can be referenced, etc.
* Crash Testing (Caolan)
+ Missing Caolan
+ 170(+38) import failure, 26(-1) export failures
+ ??? coverity issues
+ Google / ossfuzz: ?? fuzzers active now
* Crash Reporting (from crashreport.libreoffice.org) (Xisco)
+ 25.2.1.2 27376(+1079)
+ 25.2.2.2 45949(+15297)
+ 25.2.3.2 19751(+14894)
+ 25.2.4.3 4161(+0)
- Recent fixes
+ <https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/signature/ZipFile::findCentralDirectory()>
- Thanks to Mike Kaganski
+ <https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/signature/SfxTabDialogController::ResetHdl(weld::Button%20&)>
- Thanks to Heiko Tietze
* mentoring/easyhack update (Ilmari)
committer... 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
open 84(11) 163(14) 163(-1) 163(-1)
reviews 368(78) 1294(24) 2974(-90) 13206(-84)
merged 263(78) 973(4) 2941(42) 13843(-89)
abandoned 14(9) 41(-3) 163(0) 715(-3)
own commits 163(36) 705(-60) 2142(27) 9723(-47)
review commits 29(0) 150(-13) 499(-43) 2783(-26)
contributor... 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
open 40(-8) 138(-495) 141(-492) 141(-492)
reviews 792(206) 2622(0) 6868(86) 30444(-140)
merged 10(-3) 98(-5) 255(-18) 1363(1)
abandoned 503(498) 525(487) 1114(489) 1480(497)
own commits 12(3) 57(-4) 193(-15) 1184(-3)
review commits 0(0) 0(0) 0(0) 0(0)
+ easyHack statistics:
needsDevEval 9(9) needsUXEval 1(1) cleanup_comments 344(344)
total 412(412) assigned 48(48) open 326(326)
+ top 10 contributors:
Bogdan B made 14 patches in 1 month, and 305 patches in 1 year
Simon Chenery made 5 patches in 1 month, and 58 patches in 1 year
David Hashe made 5 patches in 1 month, and 10 patches in 1 year
Sam James made 3 patches in 1 month, and 3 patches in 1 year
Mihai Vasiliu made 3 patches in 1 month, and 3 patches in 1 year
Srebotnjak, Martin made 2 patches in 1 month, and 12 patches in 1 year
Weblate made 2 patches in 1 month, and 20 patches in 1 year
Rashesh Padia made 2 patches in 1 month, and 20 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
+ top 10 reviewers:
Xisco Fauli made 134 review comments in 1 month, and 848 in 1 year
Ilmari Lauhakangas made 110 review comments in 1 month, and 790 in 1 year
Vajna, Miklos made 98 review comments in 1 month, and 1186 in 1 year
Christian Lohmaier made 96 review comments in 1 month, and 856 in 1 year
Weghorn, Michael made 84 review comments in 1 month, and 534 in 1 year
Vajngerl, Tomaž made 74 review comments in 1 month, and 400 in 1 year
Kaganski, Mike made 66 review comments in 1 month, and 568 in 1 year
Hossein made 60 review comments in 1 month, and 304 in 1 year
Thorsten Behrens made 60 review comments in 1 month, and 650 in 1 year
Caolán McNamara made 58 review comments in 1 month, and 1166 in 1 year
+ Patches automatically abandoned:
+ see <https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2025-June/093410.html>
+ big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
Laurent DEBOMY
Oscar Megía
Jim Chen
* GSoC (Ilmari)
+ https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline
+ 14 July: midterm evaluations for standard length projects
* Commit Access
* Developer Certification (Stephan/László)
+ resting since: 7 weeks (limit: 20 weeks)
* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
gerrit_android_aarch64 jobs: 177 ok: 166 ko: 6 fail ratio: 3.39% mean_ok: 6 ( 24) median_ok: 5 ( 19)
gerrit_android_arm jobs: 177 ok: 166 ko: 7 fail ratio: 3.95% mean_ok: 6 ( 24) median_ok: 5 ( 19)
gerrit_android_x86 jobs: 177 ok: 167 ko: 6 fail ratio: 3.39% mean_ok: 6 ( 23) median_ok: 5 ( 18)
gerrit_android_x86_64 jobs: 177 ok: 166 ko: 8 fail ratio: 4.52% mean_ok: 6 ( 25) median_ok: 5 ( 20)
gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil jobs: 382 ok: 244 ko: 125 fail ratio: 32.72% mean_ok: 37 ( 52) median_ok: 33 ( 48)
gerrit_linux_gcc_release jobs: 420 ok: 337 ko: 53 fail ratio: 12.62% mean_ok: 20 ( 33) median_ok: 19 ( 25)
gerrit_mac jobs: 551 ok: 274 ko: 261 fail ratio: 47.37% mean_ok: 49 ( 57) median_ok: 47 ( 49)
gerrit_windows jobs: 356 ok: 287 ko: 54 fail ratio: 15.17% mean_ok: 38 ( 56) median_ok: 35 ( 36)
gerrit_master_ml jobs: 492 ok: 200 ko: 241 fail ratio: 48.98% mean_ok: 90 ( 90) median_ok: 75 ( 75)
gerrit_master jobs: 72 ok: 34 ko: 28 fail ratio: 38.89% mean_ok: 70 ( 70) median_ok: 61 ( 61)
gerrit_master_seq jobs: 416 ok: 166 ko: 210 fail ratio: 50.48% mean_ok: 94 ( 94) median_ok: 76 ( 76)
+ tests that failed more than twice in last seven days
4 UITest_impress_tests gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
5 UITest_impress_tests2 gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
8 CppunitTest_svx_unit gerrit_mac
29 CppunitTest_oox_testscene3d gerrit_mac
34 Killed by the kill-wrapper gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
+ apart from macOS failures, not much to report (Cloph)
+ think this is related to macOS Skia default
+ Noel submitted a potential fix
* What’s cooking (Miklos)
+ A11y update (Michael W)
+ Java -> C++ porting for a11y tests
+ not porting all of them now, instead
https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/186680 to keep them working after
upcoming decoupling of vcl::Window a11y from VCLXWindow (toolkit)
+ RTL/CTL/CJK update (Jonathan)
+ tdf#119192: Text pasted from EE to Writer uses font for wrong script
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119192
+ Fixed
+ tdf#163761: Long RTL text in UI renders over itself
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163761
+ Another fallback bug
+ Fixed, but not yet committed
* libreoffice conference call for papers (Cloph)
+
https://events.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice-conference-2025/
+ old deadline was the 15th of June
+ now extended till 30th of June
* QA update (Xisco)
+ UNCONFIRMED: 1659 (+30)
+ enhancements: 468 (+3)
+ needsUXEval: 7 (+1)
+ haveBackTrace: 14 (+0)
+ needsDevAdvice: 47 (+0)
+ documentation: 2 (+0)
+ android: 0 (+0)
+ iOS: 0 (+0)
+ Online: 6 (+0)
+ Most pressing bugs:
New:
None
+ New high severity bugs of the week:
+ Vertical Tab dialogs--Options column in Area section is not wide enough in paragraph style dialog
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161492
+ master only
+ multi GB memory leak caused by "Save AutoRecovery information" since LibreOffice Calc 24.2.7
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165481
+ bisected to Lubos
+ Conditional formatting is not handled properly in 25.8 Beta
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167019
+ bisected to Noel
+ Calc cell comments are deleted on Save
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167042
+ since 4.3, probably from the Calc storange rework
* QA stats
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
+123 -30 (-79) overall)
many thanks to the top bug squashers:
Mike Kaganski 11
V Stuart Foote 8
m_a_riosv 7
Buovjaga 5
Jonathan Clark 4
Noel Grandin 4
Regina Henschel 4
Balázs Varga (allotropia) 3
Heiko Tietze 3
Julien Nabet 3
+ top 10 bugs reporters:
Telesto 9
Eyal Rozenberg 8
Heiko Tietze 8
Michael H 7
Mike Kaganski 5
Timur 4
Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 3
Regina Henschel 3
Colin 1
Dave Gilbert 1
+ top 10 bugs fixers:
Kaganski, Mike 10
Grandin, Noel 4
Jonathan Clark 4
Balazs Varga 3
Henschel, Regina 3
*UNKNOWN* 2
Timur Gadzo 2
Vajna, Miklos 2
Adolfo Jayme Barrientos 1
David Gilbert 1
+ top 10 bugs confirmers:
Heiko Tietze 10
m.a.riosv 10
*UNKNOWN* 8
Ilmari Lauhakangas 7
Xisco Fauli 5
Kaganski, Mike 4
Telesto 4
Olivier Hallot 3
Vernon, Stuart Foote 3
Pierre 2
* Bisected bugs open: keyword 'bisected'
+ more accurate - down to a single commit.
+ http://bit.ly/2dyIfDy
+
done by:
Timur Gadzo 3
Ilmari Lauhakangas 2
Xisco Fauli 2
abecker 1
Kelemen, Gabor 1
vijaya chandra 1
Telesto 1
* Bibisected bugs open: keyword 'bibisected'
+ http://bit.ly/2cSCXlS
+
done by:
Timur Gadzo 3
Ilmari Lauhakangas 2
Kelemen, Gabor 2
vijaya chandra 2
Xisco Fauli 2
abecker 1
Telesto 1
* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
+ 1265(-2) bugs open of 14131(+12) total 21(-1) high prio.
done by:
Xisco Fauli 3
Ilmari Lauhakangas 2
Telesto 2
Timur Gadzo 2
Kelemen, Gabor 1
* ~Component count net * high severity regressions
+ http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
Writer - 9(+0)
Calc - 6(-1)
LibreOffice - 4(+0)
Impress - 1(+0)
UI - 1(+0)
by OS:
All - 16(+0)
Linux - 5(+0)
Mac OS X - 0(+0)
Windows - 0(-1)
* ~Component count net * all regressions
+ http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
Writer: other - 419(-3)
Calc - 250(+1)
Impress - 129(+0)
LibreOffice - 58(+0)
Draw - 47(+0)
Writer: docx filter - 46(+0)
Crashes - 45(-1)
UI - 39(+1)
Base - 35(-1)
Borders - 35(+0)
Writer: other filter - 31(+1)
Writer: perf - 31(+0)
filters and storage - 28(+0)
Chart - 26(-2)
Printing and PDF export - 24(+0)
RTL - 23(+1)
BASIC - 19(+0)
Writer: doc filter - 18(+0)
graphics stack - 15(+0)
Formula Editor - 9(+0)
Extensions - 3(+0)
framework - 3(+0)
sdk - 3(+0)
Linguistic - 2(+0)
Installation - 1(+0)
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