ESC meeting minutes: 2025-05-15
Miklos Vajna
vmiklos at collabora.com
Thu May 15 14:52:49 UTC 2025
* Present:
+ Olivier, Caolan, Heiko, Ilmari, Jonathan, Michael S, Michael W, Regina, Stephan, Xisco, Miklos
* Completed Action Items:
* Pending Action Items:
* Release Engineering update (Xisco)
+ 25.2.4 rc1 this week, will decide later when to tag
+ 25.8: beta 1 / feature freeze in 3 weeks
* Documentation (Olivier)
+ Helpcontents2
+ Rework on some Chart2 help pages (ohallot)
+ add missing info
+ Question: Histogram chart?
+ was a GSOC project last year (Miklos)
+ it's not in a state that it can be released (Regina)
+ export to ODF doesn't work, can't copy from one module to an other
+ probably can't be finished in 3 weeks
+ experimental at best
+ Help pages for TEXTSPLIT, TEXTBEFORE, TEXTAFTER. (ohallot)
+ Guides
+ WIP for Calc Guide (C. Palacios, D, Maddern, Ed Olson)
+ Bugzilla Documentation statistics
225(225) bugs open
+ Updates:
BZ changes 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
created 10(-6) 38(5) 59(2) 290(-5)
commented 20(3) 108(21) 169(5) 891(11)
resolved 3(0) 14(3) 27(1) 157(-4)
+ top 10 contributors:
Olivier Hallot made 73 changes in 1 month, and 376 changes in 1 year
Ilmari Lauhakangas made 32 changes in 1 month, and 177 changes in 1 year
Nabet, Julien made 24 changes in 1 month, and 51 changes in 1 year
Eyal Rozenberg made 11 changes in 1 month, and 27 changes in 1 year
gmarco made 9 changes in 1 month, and 10 changes in 1 year
Christian Lohmaier made 8 changes in 1 month, and 8 changes in 1 year
Kaganski, Mike made 8 changes in 1 month, and 79 changes in 1 year
Philippe Cloutier made 6 changes in 1 month, and 6 changes in 1 year
Heiko Tietze made 6 changes in 1 month, and 65 changes in 1 year
Balland-Poirier, Laurent made 6 changes in 1 month, and 6 changes in 1 year
* UX Update (Heiko)
+ Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
221(221) (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(-2) 9(-2) 10(-1) 14(-1)
commented 19(-4) 70(-16) 209(-5) 1127(-25)
removed 0(-1) 1(0) 1(0) 6(0)
resolved 1(-2) 11(-5) 39(0) 195(-5)
+ top 10 contributors:
Vernon, Stuart Foote made 31 changes in 1 month, and 313 changes in 1 year
Heiko Tietze made 25 changes in 1 month, and 557 changes in 1 year
Eyal Rozenberg made 17 changes in 1 month, and 193 changes in 1 year
Ilmari Lauhakangas made 7 changes in 1 month, and 186 changes in 1 year
Bogdan B made 6 changes in 1 month, and 61 changes in 1 year
m.a.riosv made 6 changes in 1 month, and 33 changes in 1 year
Karthik Godha made 5 changes in 1 month, and 29 changes in 1 year
Samuel Mehrbrodt made 5 changes in 1 month, and 12 changes in 1 year
*UNKNOWN* made 4 changes in 1 month, and 4 changes in 1 year
Franz made 4 changes in 1 month, and 4 changes in 1 year
+ [Bug 166588] Meta: new Welcome / First launch dialog fine-tuning suggestions /
feedback
+ [Bug 166570] Formula indicator is too big
+ [Bug 166560] multiple columns in a paragraph cannot be reverted back to one
single column
-> + [Bug 166555] formatting date as dd.mm.yyyy instead of dd.mm.yy as default as
an option
+ easyhack but breaks existing documents
+ recommend to not do this (Heiko, Eike)
-> + [Bug 166507] Hardware Acceleration Enabled by Default Causes Serious
Usability Issues
+ original cause discussed in bug 166122
+ "ForceSkiaRaster" to true (Tomaz)
+ if Vulkan is problematic, not an unreasonable suggestion (Miklos)
+ probably the denylist mechanism is enough (Ilmari)
+ google is working on new skia backends, code name Graphite. Tracking issue for shipping it on Chromium: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40275700 Last discussion of status: https://groups.google.com/g/skia-discuss/c/Pd92csb5o4o (Ilmari)
+ not sure if the context sharing in the skia backend is working correctly (Jonathan)
* Crash testing (Caolan)
+ 148(+0) import failure, 29(+0) export failures
- https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Crashtesting
- checkGlyphsEqual believed fixed, last run stalled for some reason though
+ 4 coverity issues
+ 3 ossfuzz issues
- 1 crash (fix pushed), 1 OOM, 1 Timeout
* Crash Reporting from crashreport.libreoffice.org (Xisco)
+ 25.2.0.3 33831(+356)
+ 25.2.1.2 26068(+381)
+ 25.2.2.2 27610(+4708)
+ 25.2.3.2 3025(+2012)
* Mentoring (Hossein)
+ Missing Hossein
committer... 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
open 74(28) 140(4) 155(12) 155(12)
reviews 362(-46) 1320(-46) 3400(-176) 13352(-96)
merged 232(30) 1008(-36) 3081(-78) 13920(-115)
abandoned 8(-14) 73(-3) 207(-7) 742(-14)
own commits 190(67) 733(-9) 2132(10) 9732(-51)
review commits 59(24) 187(25) 585(8) 2867(16)
contributor... 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
open 37(5) 122(-503) 635(-1) 635(-1)
reviews 674(88) 2614(-94) 7238(-116) 30624(-222)
merged 18(-2) 80(5) 282(-9) 1322(2)
abandoned 5(-220) 496(-28) 657(-2) 998(3)
own commits 21(9) 67(13) 231(6) 1204(6)
review commits 0(0) 0(0) 0(0) 0(0)
+ easyHack statistics:
needsDevEval 9(9) needsUXEval 1(1) cleanup_comments 349(349)
total 415(415) assigned 56(56) open 323(323)
+ top 10 contributors:
Simon Chenery made 9 patches in 1 month, and 51 patches in 1 year
Juraj Šarinay made 6 patches in 1 month, and 7 patches in 1 year
Kurt Nordback made 5 patches in 1 month, and 6 patches in 1 year
Shantanu Oak made 4 patches in 1 month, and 23 patches in 1 year
Karthik Godha made 4 patches in 1 month, and 12 patches in 1 year
Akshay Dubey made 3 patches in 1 month, and 10 patches in 1 year
Ahmed Khaled made 3 patches in 1 month, and 4 patches in 1 year
Weblate made 2 patches in 1 month, and 27 patches in 1 year
Deepanshu Sharma made 2 patches in 1 month, and 7 patches in 1 year
David Hashe made 2 patches in 1 month, and 5 patches in 1 year
+ top 10 reviewers:
Christian Lohmaier made 136 review comments in 1 month, and 828 in 1 year
Ilmari Lauhakangas made 112 review comments in 1 month, and 800 in 1 year
Caolán McNamara made 104 review comments in 1 month, and 1232 in 1 year
Vajna, Miklos made 100 review comments in 1 month, and 1192 in 1 year
Weghorn, Michael made 98 review comments in 1 month, and 540 in 1 year
Vajngerl, Tomaž made 84 review comments in 1 month, and 350 in 1 year
Hossein made 78 review comments in 1 month, and 338 in 1 year
Nabet, Julien made 70 review comments in 1 month, and 874 in 1 year
Thorsten Behrens made 60 review comments in 1 month, and 666 in 1 year
Kaganski, Mike made 56 review comments in 1 month, and 564 in 1 year
+ Patches automatically abandoned:
[WIP] tdf#134526 Firebird: upgrade to release 5.0.0 ( Taichi Haradaguchi )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/168449
tdf#163486: PVS: remove unused code ( Xisco Fauli )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/175479
tdf#88918: Draw: Enable hyperlink option in menu for shapes ( Aditya (Addy) Sahu )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/176095
[WIP - build fails] implement wrapper classes around win32 widgets ( Sahil )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/182407
tdf#165660 Fix resize behavior in Data Provider dialog ( Rafael Lima )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/182733
+ big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
Alexandru Diaconu
Kate Liu
Rohan Sinha
Musuroi David
Bogdan-Emilian Visanescu
Razvan Andrei Degeratu
* GSoC (Ilmari)
+ https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline
+ https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/05/15/projects-selected-for-libreoffice-in-the-google-summer-of-code-2025/
+ Mentors: ask your mentees, if they want to extend the project time. When the final evaluation period starts, it is too late to extend.
+ the mentor summit will be in Munich this year (Ilmari)
+ This year the GSoC Mentor Summit will be held at the Munich Marriott Hotel, Thursday, October 23 - Saturday October 25, 2025.
+ Contact Ilmari, if interested in attending
* Commit Access
* Developer Certification (Stephan/Miklos/László)
+ resting since: 2 weeks (limit: 20 weeks)
* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
gerrit_android_aarch64 jobs: 170 ok: 167 ko: 2 fail ratio: 1.18% mean_ok: 9 ( 15) median_ok: 7 ( 12)
gerrit_android_arm jobs: 169 ok: 162 ko: 4 fail ratio: 2.37% mean_ok: 8 ( 15) median_ok: 6 ( 11)
gerrit_android_x86 jobs: 170 ok: 167 ko: 1 fail ratio: 0.59% mean_ok: 9 ( 15) median_ok: 7 ( 12)
gerrit_android_x86_64 jobs: 170 ok: 161 ko: 4 fail ratio: 2.35% mean_ok: 8 ( 15) median_ok: 7 ( 12)
gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil jobs: 392 ok: 248 ko: 133 fail ratio: 33.93% mean_ok: 39 ( 43) median_ok: 35 ( 38)
gerrit_linux_gcc_release jobs: 478 ok: 321 ko: 130 fail ratio: 27.20% mean_ok: 21 ( 25) median_ok: 19 ( 20)
gerrit_mac jobs: 393 ok: 300 ko: 77 fail ratio: 19.59% mean_ok: 56 ( 57) median_ok: 49 ( 50)
gerrit_windows jobs: 356 ok: 298 ko: 41 fail ratio: 11.52% mean_ok: 38 ( 72) median_ok: 36 ( 37)
gerrit_master_ml jobs: 545 ok: 225 ko: 277 fail ratio: 50.83% mean_ok: 90 ( 91) median_ok: 73 ( 73)
gerrit_master jobs: 111 ok: 55 ko: 49 fail ratio: 44.14% mean_ok: 84 ( 84) median_ok: 61 ( 61)
gerrit_master_seq jobs: 433 ok: 170 ko: 227 fail ratio: 52.42% mean_ok: 92 ( 92) median_ok: 78 ( 78)
+ tests that failed more than twice in last seven days
3 JunitTest_svx_unoapi gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
3 UITest_sw_ui_frmdlg gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
4 CppunitTest_sw_tiledrendering gerrit_linux_gcc_release
11 aborted by jenkins job timeout gerrit_windows
14 CppunitTest_sw_tiledrendering gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
20 Killed by the kill-wrapper gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
41 CppunitTest_sd_svg_export_tests gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
+ was checking gerrit, started to happen on 12th May (Xisco)
+ maybe connected to the embedded fonts, libeot
* What’s cooking (Miklos)
+ A11y update (Michael W)
+ ongoing a11y refactoring/streamlining (currently mostly Impress)
+ RTL/CTL/CJK update (Jonathan)
+ tdf#151336 editeng: Fix bad cursor positioning when moving between LTR and RTL paragraphs
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151336
+ In flight
+ tdf#88752 DOC/DOCX: Incorrect line spacing when combining CJK grid with tables
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88752
+ Fixed
* QA update (Xisco)
+ UNCONFIRMED: 1665 (-10)
+ enhancements: 457 (+7)
+ needsUXEval: 6 (+0)
+ haveBackTrace: 14 (+0)
+ needsDevAdvice: 47 (+0)
+ documentation: 1 (-1)
+ android: 0 (+0)
+ iOS: 0 (+0)
+ Online: 7 (+0)
+ Most pressing bugs:
New:
None
+ New high severity bugs of the week:
+ Cells far from [A1] only showing first character while typing into cell
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166520
+ Armin?
* QA stats
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
+83 +7 (-65) overall)
many thanks to the top bug squashers:
Buovjaga 11
m_a_riosv 5
Michael Weghorn 4
Olivier Hallot 4
Xisco Faulí 4
Heiko Tietze 3
Mike Kaganski 3
Hossein 2
Juraj Šarinay 2
Noel Grandin 2
+ top 10 bugs reporters:
Justin L 8
nobu 4
raal 4
Aron Budea 2
HTK300 2
Heiko Tietze 2
Naya 2
Seán Ó Séaghdha 2
Telesto 2
V Stuart Foote 2
+ top 10 bugs fixers:
Heiko Tietze 3
Kaganski, Mike 3
Olivier Hallot 3
Xisco Fauli 3
Grandin, Noel 2
Juraj Šarinay 2
Weghorn, Michael 2
1t1is2+libreoffice at gmail.com 1
Balazs Varga 1
David Gilbert 1
+ top 10 bugs confirmers:
*UNKNOWN* 15
Ilmari Lauhakangas 13
m.a.riosv 9
Heiko Tietze 7
Mateusz Wlazłowski 6
Pierre 6
Weghorn, Michael 4
Telesto 3
Xisco Fauli 3
Vernon, Stuart Foote 2
* Bisected bugs open: keyword 'bisected'
+ more accurate - down to a single commit.
+ http://bit.ly/2dyIfDy
+
done by:
libre 5
Raal 3
Xisco Fauli 1
* Bibisected bugs open: keyword 'bibisected'
+ http://bit.ly/2cSCXlS
+
done by:
libre 5
Raal 3
Xisco Fauli 1
* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
+ 1263(+6) bugs open of 14072(+16) total 22(+0) high prio.
done by:
nobu 3
Telesto 2
Ilmari Lauhakangas 1
libre 1
maximilian-schindler 1
m.a.riosv 1
Raal 1
Xisco Fauli 1
* ~Component count net * high severity regressions
+ http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
Writer - 9(+0)
Calc - 6(+0)
LibreOffice - 4(+0)
Impress - 1(+0)
Installation - 1(+0)
UI - 1(+0)
by OS:
All - 17(+0)
Linux - 4(+0)
Mac OS X - 0(+0)
Windows - 1(+0)
* ~Component count net * all regressions
+ http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
Writer: other - 419(+3)
Calc - 250(+5)
Impress - 128(+0)
LibreOffice - 55(+0)
Draw - 48(+1)
Writer: docx filter - 46(+0)
Crashes - 43(+0)
Base - 37(+0)
Borders - 36(+1)
UI - 36(-1)
Writer: perf - 32(+0)
Writer: other filter - 31(-1)
filters and storage - 29(+0)
Chart - 27(+0)
RTL - 24(-1)
Printing and PDF export - 23(+0)
BASIC - 19(-1)
Writer: doc filter - 18(+0)
graphics stack - 13(+0)
Formula Editor - 9(+0)
framework - 3(+0)
sdk - 3(+0)
Extensions - 2(+0)
Installation - 2(+0)
Linguistic - 2(+0)
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