* Present:
+ Jonathan, Caolan, Regina, Cloph, Ilmari, Stephan, Miklos, Olivier, Xisco,
Hossein, Dan W
* Completed Action Items:
+ wiki: remove references to cygwin in the default "build on windows" page
(Ilmari)
+ look at Jenkins to set code-style+1 (Cloph)
+ instead: no longer a field one can set
* Pending Action Items:
* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
+ 26.2 beta1 this week
+ 1 failing test on the release config (Cloph)
+ will create the branch, though; no need for a 2nd review till RC1
+ 25.8.4 RC2 next week
* Documentation (Olivier)
+ Helpcontents2
+ Update and fixes on A11y and Appearance (ohallot)
+ Extended tips in some dialogs (ohallot)
+ Guides
+ WIP
+ Bugzilla Documentation statistics
194(194) bugs open
+ Updates:
BZ changes 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
created 13(0) 31(0) 79(4) 241(3)
commented 18(3) 71(6) 187(13) 711(5)
resolved 6(1) 15(-1) 52(5) 132(4)
+ top 10 contributors:
Olivier Hallot made 44 changes in 1 month, and 461 changes in 1 year
Henschel, Regina made 22 changes in 1 month, and 47 changes in 1 year
Philippe Cloutier made 10 changes in 1 month, and 24 changes in 1 year
Ilmari Lauhakangas made 10 changes in 1 month, and 99 changes in 1
year
Heiko Tietze made 8 changes in 1 month, and 90 changes in 1 year
Vernon, Stuart Foote made 8 changes in 1 month, and 61 changes in 1
year
Xisco Fauli made 7 changes in 1 month, and 22 changes in 1 year
Eyal Rozenberg made 4 changes in 1 month, and 55 changes in 1 year
Andreas Heinisch made 3 changes in 1 month, and 3 changes in 1 year
nutka made 3 changes in 1 month, and 5 changes in 1 year
* UX Update (Heiko)
+ Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
213(213) (topicUI) bugs open, 31(31) (needsUXEval) needs to be
evaluated by the UXteam
+ Updates:
BZ changes 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
added 7(-2) 19(-9) 24(-5) 25(-6)
commented 37(-24) 116(-64) 201(-51) 691(-54)
removed 0(0) 0(0) 0(0) 1(-1)
resolved 6(1) 12(5) 23(4) 108(3)
+ top 10 contributors:
Vernon, Stuart Foote made 50 changes in 1 month, and 247 changes in 1
year
Heiko Tietze made 41 changes in 1 month, and 235 changes in 1 year
Eyal Rozenberg made 32 changes in 1 month, and 105 changes in 1 year
Ilmari Lauhakangas made 19 changes in 1 month, and 144 changes in 1
year
Roman Kuznetsov made 12 changes in 1 month, and 57 changes in 1 year
Danat made 11 changes in 1 month, and 15 changes in 1 year
Coarse Rosinflower made 6 changes in 1 month, and 6 changes in 1 year
*UNKNOWN* made 5 changes in 1 month, and 5 changes in 1 year
Kelemen, Gabor made 5 changes in 1 month, and 8 changes in 1 year
Philips, Yousuf made 5 changes in 1 month, and 5 changes in 1 year
+ Do not use localized dummy text for master slide templates
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168080
+ input is welcome here on how to solve this
+ PDF files from remote/server locations are handled with Writer instead of
Draw
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169782
+ from samba drive on Windows
+ Add keyboard shortcut from right click menu of menu entry / UI button
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169661
+ Options Window - Show blank pages when sidebar categories highlighted
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169642
+ root items don't have their own tabs, the content remains the previous
one, weird, to replace it with something more meaningful
+ Transparent comments are hard to read
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169504
+ recently: calc comments, these are semi-transparent
+ Armin says it's intentional
+ discussion is ongoing, maybe an expert option, we'll see
+ figuring out new workflow for bugzilla rss -> unauthenticated access is
no longer given (Heiko)
* Crash Testing (Caolan)
+ 109(-4) import failure, 27(+1) export failures
- https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Crashtesting
- 100 issues, crashtesting appears to be inaccessible/down
+ will take a look if Guilhem is not faster (Cloph)
+ 0 coverity issues
+ 10 ossfuzz issues
- 3 int overflows, 6 timeouts, 1 OOM
- build broke, fix submitted now
* Crash Reporting (from crashreport.libreoffice.org) (Xisco)
+ 25.8.0.4 27313(+209)
+ 25.8.1.1 39144(+790)
+ 25.8.2.2 30954(+2171)
+ 25.8.3.2 8012(+4839)
+
https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/signature/ImplListBoxFloatingWindow::CalcFloatSize(tools::Rectangle%20const%20&)
- New in 25.8.3.2
* Mentoring/easyhack update (Hossein)
+ Reviewed submissions from the newcomers
+ Started documentation and examples for weld widgets
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/VCL/widgets
+ Create a sample for weld::Window
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/VCL/widgets/Window
+ Suggestions are welcome for improvements
+ Found issues
tdf#169688 - VCL demo applications do not display any window on macOS as
they should
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169688
+ Fixed build issues with headless on macOS
+ looking at this, inital patch thanks to Kendy
+ Fix cairo / pixman build for headless macOS
https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/194931
+ end goal: more cross-platform LOK
committer... 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
open 45(-12) 103(-30) 105(-28) 105(-28)
reviews 542(152) 1644(154) 3830(174) 11636(120)
merged 376(77) 1385(125) 3527(130) 13081(35)
abandoned 24(3) 74(10) 169(2) 668(13)
own commits 191(-26) 832(43) 2197(14) 9286(-59)
review commits 39(-14) 197(1) 539(4) 2213(-20)
contributor... 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
open 161(105) 244(4) 249(7) 249(7)
reviews 960(100) 3300(194) 8086(190) 31276(-72)
merged 25(-11) 119(-9) 412(2) 1950(-29)
abandoned 8(-4) 68(0) 248(-10) 1719(-1)
own commits 9(-19) 75(-14) 228(-4) 867(-24)
review commits 0(0) 0(0) 0(0) 0(0)
+ easyHack statistics:
needsDevEval 9(9) needsUXEval 1(1) cleanup_comments 333(333)
total 402(402) assigned 44(44) open 319(319)
+ top 10 contributors:
Karthik Godha made 11 patches in 1 month, and 18 patches in 1 year
Nick Wingate made 5 patches in 1 month, and 5 patches in 1 year
Simon Chenery made 5 patches in 1 month, and 89 patches in 1 year
Daniel Lee made 5 patches in 1 month, and 6 patches in 1 year
siddhi salunkhe made 3 patches in 1 month, and 9 patches in 1 year
Arindam Hore made 3 patches in 1 month, and 12 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 19 patches in 1 year
Méven Car made 2 patches in 1 month, and 3 patches in 1 year
Pierre made 2 patches in 1 month, and 8 patches in 1 year
+ top 10 reviewers:
Michael Stahl made 220 review comments in 1 month, and 498 in 1 year
Caolán McNamara made 138 review comments in 1 month, and 1094 in 1
year
Ilmari Lauhakangas made 132 review comments in 1 month, and 838 in 1
year
Vajna, Miklos made 124 review comments in 1 month, and 1486 in 1 year
Hossein made 116 review comments in 1 month, and 388 in 1 year
Timar, Andras made 100 review comments in 1 month, and 254 in 1 year
Stephan Bergmann made 86 review comments in 1 month, and 176 in 1 year
Grandin, Noel made 78 review comments in 1 month, and 488 in 1 year
allotropia jenkins made 76 review comments in 1 month, and 466 in 1
year
Vajngerl, Tomaž made 70 review comments in 1 month, and 392 in 1 year
+ Patches automatically abandoned:
tdf#158545 sw: Fix invalid W/H ratio when cropping page size exceeding
images ( Buo-ren Lin (OSSII) )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/190359
vcl: split PDFPage and utility functions into their own files ( Chris
Sherlock )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/190884
vcl: split PDFPage into own source file ( Chris Sherlock )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/191134
vcl: make nNumb const ( Chris Sherlock )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/191151
Guard cairo usage on windows ( Shardul, Vikram Singh )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/191414
Attempt to render primitives on directxcanvas ( Shardul, Vikram Singh )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/191415
Turn HyperLink dialog into a SfxTabDialog ( Heiko Tietze )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/191538
+ big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch,
since last report:
Nicolae Coscodan
Sebastian Gilma
* Outreachy (Ilmari)
+ Siddhi Salunkhe will work on the project "Transform the existing Hyperlink
dialog into a standard SfxTabDialog" mentored by Heiko Tietze
+ https://www.outreachy.org/alums/2025-12/
+ timeline is in https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/
+ starts next week on Mon
* Commit Access
* Developer Certification (Hossein/Jonathan/Laszlo/Stephan)
+ resting since: 0 weeks (limit: 20 weeks)
* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
gerrit_android_aarch64 jobs: 142 ok: 137 ko: 1 fail ratio: 0.70% mean_ok:
16 ( 26) median_ok: 11 ( 15)
gerrit_android_arm jobs: 141 ok: 137 ko: 3 fail ratio: 2.13% mean_ok:
16 ( 26) median_ok: 7 ( 13)
gerrit_android_x86 jobs: 142 ok: 137 ko: 2 fail ratio: 1.41% mean_ok:
12 ( 23) median_ok: 7 ( 13)
gerrit_android_x86_64 jobs: 140 ok: 138 ko: 1 fail ratio: 0.71% mean_ok:
16 ( 25) median_ok: 7 ( 13)
gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil jobs: 315 ok: 218 ko: 89 fail ratio: 28.25%
mean_ok: 48 ( 57) median_ok: 44 ( 54)
gerrit_linux_gcc_release jobs: 345 ok: 277 ko: 45 fail ratio: 13.04%
mean_ok: 28 ( 35) median_ok: 20 ( 26)
gerrit_mac jobs: 292 ok: 246 ko: 35 fail ratio: 11.99%
mean_ok: 73 ( 76) median_ok: 68 ( 70)
gerrit_windows_wsl jobs: 405 ok: 247 ko: 143 fail ratio: 35.31%
mean_ok: 63 ( 86) median_ok: 64 ( 68)
gerrit_master_ml jobs: 371 ok: 201 ko: 134 fail ratio: 36.12%
mean_ok: 145 (146) median_ok: 120 (120)
gerrit_master jobs: 37 ok: 22 ko: 10 fail ratio: 27.03%
mean_ok: 115 (115) median_ok: 89 ( 89)
gerrit_master_seq jobs: 333 ok: 179 ko: 123 fail ratio: 36.94%
mean_ok: 149 (149) median_ok: 124 (124)
+ tests that failed more than twice in last seven days
3 CppunitTest_sw_ooxmlexport23 gerrit_mac
3 JunitTest_ridl_remote gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
3 JunitTest_ridl_remote gerrit_linux_gcc_release
3 UITest_edit_field gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
8 UITest_query gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
9 Killed by the kill-wrapper gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
+ good news: slideshow test fix from Stephan seems to have helped
+ JUnit failures are bit-specific, not a big problem
+ Linux clang builders use clang-18 now (branch: still uses clang-12)
+ clang with gcc-13 toolchain
+ Does that enable us to use std::ranges? (Hossein)
+ Ranges library (since C++20)
https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/ranges.html
+ Still need to take other platforms into account (Cloph)
+ did some research here, will send a mail to the dev list (Ilmari)
* What’s cooking (Miklos)
+ A11y update (Michael W)
+ mostly working on Qt upstream fixes like
https://codereview.qt-project.org/c/qt/qtbase/+/696041
+ RTL/CTL/CJK update (Jonathan)
+ ODF-TC (Olivier + Regina)
+ We are working on simplifying the description of the parameters of the
conversion functions BIN2DEC, DEC2HEX, etc. Problems have been reported by Mike
Kaganski.
+ ODF 1.4 is now an official OASIS standard, see blog post
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/12/03/tdf-announces-odf-v14-as-oasis-standard/
+ link the spec from the libreoffice books website? (Hossein)
+ it's up here: <https://docs.oasis-open.org/office/OpenDocument/v1.4/>
(Olivier)
AI: Add entry in books.libreoffice.org (Olivier)
+ Submitted WRAPCOLS, WRAPROWS for ODFF (ohallot)
https://issues.oasis-open.org/browse/OFFICE-4185
https://issues.oasis-open.org/browse/OFFICE-4184
* FOSDEM https://fosdem.org/2026/ (Cloph)
+ libreoffice got a booth/stand, we'll be present
* Welcome Dan!
+
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/12/04/welcome-dan-williams-new-libreoffice-developer-focusing-on-ui-ux/
* QA update (Xisco)
+ UNCONFIRMED: 2229 (-28)
+ enhancements: 616 (-8)
+ needsUXEval: 24 (-5)
+ haveBackTrace: 13 (-1)
+ needsDevAdvice: 49 (+1)
+ documentation: 3 (+1)
+ android: 0 (+0)
+ iOS: 0 (+0)
+ Online: 4 (-2)
+ Most pressing bugs:
New:
None
Old:
+ Using the Lock feature in an AutoFilter with dates causes a crash
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167395
+ Sahil ?
+ No icons show in the UI AARM64 Win64 builds with skia lib rendering
(neither raster nor Vulkan), GDI+ works but slow (comment 22 for workaround)
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166803
+ specific to arm64/windows, so can't really bisect
+ EDITING LibreOffice 25.8.1 keeps crashing when changing the anchor
for a graphic
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168703
+ macOS 26.1 only. bisection appreciated
+ maybe Dan can reproduce
+ New high severity bugs of the week:
+ In a three column section, typing into the first column makes
LibreOffice hang when the text reaches the second one
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169498
+ Crash swlo!SwFlyFreeFrame::IsNoMoveOnCheckClip while Undo with Record
changes ON and Show changes OFF
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169578
+ Laszlo?
* QA stats
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
+109 +54 (-113) overall)
many thanks to the top bug squashers:
Buovjaga 14
Heiko Tietze 12
Olivier Hallot 10
V Stuart Foote 8
m_a_riosv 6
Xisco Faulí 4
Jim Raykowski 3
Michael Weghorn 3
Alex Thurgood 2
Caolán McNamara 2
+ top 10 bugs reporters:
Danat 8
Eyal Rozenberg 8
questions2000 4
Karthik 3
nobu 3
Alex Thurgood 2
Aron Budea 2
Mihai Vasiliu 2
Olivier Hallot 2
Telesto 2
+ top 10 bugs fixers:
Olivier Hallot 6
Ilmari Lauhakangas 4
Jim Raykowski 3
Weghorn, Michael 3
Xisco Fauli 3
Aron Budea 2
Caolán McNamara 2
Grandin, Noel 2
Karthik Godha 2
Michael Stahl 2
+ top 10 bugs confirmers:
Ilmari Lauhakangas 17
*UNKNOWN* 10
Xisco Fauli 9
Heiko Tietze 8
Alex Thurgood 7
Olivier Hallot 7
m.a.riosv 7
Vernon, Stuart Foote 6
Dieter 4
Henschel, Regina 4
* Bisected bugs open: keyword 'bisected'
+ more accurate - down to a single commit.
+ http://bit.ly/2dyIfDy
+
done by:
Ilmari Lauhakangas 3
vijaya chandra 2
Weghorn, Michael 1
* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
+ 1288(+2) bugs open of 14470(+13) total 22(+0) high prio.
done by:
Ilmari Lauhakangas 2
nobu 2
Aron Budea 1
Hossein 1
vijaya chandra 1
Weghorn, Michael 1
m.a.riosv 1
OfficeUser 1
Telesto 1
* ~Component count net * high severity regressions
+ http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
Writer - 12(+0)
Calc - 5(+0)
LibreOffice - 3(+0)
Impress - 1(+0)
UI - 1(+0)
by OS:
All - 16(+0)
Linux - 5(+0)
Mac OS X - 0(+0)
Windows - 0(+0)
* ~Component count net * all regressions
+ http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
Writer: other - 441(+5)
Calc - 237(-2)
Impress - 135(+0)
LibreOffice - 60(+0)
Crashes - 47(+2)
Draw - 47(-1)
Writer: docx filter - 46(+0)
Borders - 37(+0)
UI - 35(+0)
Base - 33(+0)
Writer: perf - 31(+0)
filters and storage - 31(+0)
Writer: other filter - 30(+0)
Printing and PDF export - 25(+0)
Chart - 22(+0)
RTL - 20(+0)
BASIC - 19(+0)
Writer: doc filter - 19(+0)
graphics stack - 17(-1)
Formula Editor - 8(+0)
framework - 3(+0)
Extensions - 2(+0)
Linguistic - 2(+0)
sdk - 2(+0)
Installation - 1(+0)
