ESC Meeting Minutes 2026-07-30

[ohallot]

• Present: Hossein, Jonathan, Cloph, Olivier, Michael, Regina, Ilmari,
  Michael W, Neil, Vissarion, Xisco, Heiko, Dan.

• Completed Action Items:
  + take over our role at CNA (cloph)
  Caolán ok to keep doing it, will add more users to be able to
  file CSVs
  + Thanks Caolan for the assistance
  + Add a wiki page for the hackfest (Olivier)
  + Hackfest for LibreOffice Conference hackfest
  +
  Events/2026/LibreOffice Annual Conference - The Document Foundation Wiki
  + Write instruction on WIP in wiki (Hossein / Cloph)
  Development/WIP - The Document Foundation Wiki
  Is it a duplicated of
  Development/gerrit/SubmitPatch - The Document Foundation Wiki
  ?
  + Will merge the two, and improve them (Hossein)

• Pending Action Items:
  AI: + https://conference.libreoffice.org/2025/ not working (cloph)

• Release Engineering update (Cloph)

  • 26.8.0 RC2 tag this week
    • patches waiting for review:

https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/q/status:open+branch:libreoffice-26-8

  + off-by-one errors on arm64 (cross-platform)
    Chart2XShapeTest has various failures
    - Expected: 3819
    - Actual  : 3820
    - Delta   : 1e-08
    https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171858
    can be fixed with CPPUNIT_ASSERT_DOUBLES_EQUAL ? (Xisco)
    + Xisco to look at it soon
+ 26.2.6 rc1 in two weeks
+ Question: will the weblate project for 26.8 be made before RC3? 

The strings in master and the 26.8 branch have diverged so as far as I
can tell it’s currently impossible to get a 100% translation for RC2 (Neil)
+ weblate’s “master” projects are following 26-8 until dedicated
26-8 projects are created in weblate, that’ll happen with the 26-8-0
branchoff this week
+ so if you’re 100% translated in weblate, it will be 100%
translated in rc2 (unless someone broke string freeze and a new string
slipped by)

• MAR Updater (Cloph)

  • 25.8 branch: to 25.8.7, from there cross-update to 26.2.5
  • 26.2 branch: updated to 26.2.5
  • Cross update: to 26.2.5 enabled
  • Versions in appstores still pending review

• Documentation (Olivier)

  • Helpcontent2

    • New page for Matrix input dialog (smath)
    • Updates and fixes (J. Luth, ohallot)

  • Guides

    • Work ip progress

  • Bugzilla Documentation statistics
    204(204) bugs open

  • Updates:
    BZ changes 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
    created 4(-20) 49(-4) 72(-12) 230(0)
    commented 13(-17) 103(-7) 188(-15) 713(9)
    resolved 2(-20) 38(1) 51(-3) 159(2)

  • top 10 contributors:
    Olivier Hallot made 199 changes in 1 month, and 690 changes
    in 1 year
    Xisco Fauli made 36 changes in 1 month, and 55 changes in 1 year
    Ilmari Lauhakangas made 26 changes in 1 month, and 139
    changes in 1 year
    nobu made 23 changes in 1 month, and 51 changes in 1 year
    Bogdan B made 20 changes in 1 month, and 115 changes in 1 year
    Martin made 9 changes in 1 month, and 9 changes in 1 year
    UNKNOWN made 6 changes in 1 month, and 6 changes in 1 year
    Henschel, Regina made 5 changes in 1 month, and 69 changes in
    1 year
    Lars Jødal made 4 changes in 1 month, and 5 changes in 1 year
    MarjaE made 3 changes in 1 month, and 3 changes in 1 year

• UX Update (Heiko)

  • Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
    199(199) (topicUI) bugs open, 26(26) (needsUXEval) needs to be
    evaluated by the UXteam
  • Updates:
    BZ changes 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
    added 6(5) 16(5) 25(7) 28(7)
    commented 27(8) 120(39) 228(58) 640(58)
    removed 1(1) 1(1) 1(1) 4(1)
    resolved 1(1) 7(-1) 21(-1) 70(-2)
  • top 10 contributors:
    Heiko Tietze made 41 changes in 1 month, and 232 changes in 1
    year
    Eyal Rozenberg made 37 changes in 1 month, and 113 changes in
    1 year
    Bogdan B made 36 changes in 1 month, and 52 changes in 1 year
    Vernon, Stuart Foote made 22 changes in 1 month, and 114
    changes in 1 year
    Ilmari Lauhakangas made 20 changes in 1 month, and 119
    changes in 1 year
    Verhoeckx made 12 changes in 1 month, and 12 changes in 1 year
    Mr. Beedell, Roke Julian Lockhart (RJLB) made 10 changes in 1
    month, and 11 changes in 1 year
    Justin Luth made 7 changes in 1 month, and 33 changes in 1 year
    Khaled Hosny made 7 changes in 1 month, and 10 changes in 1 year
    True River made 7 changes in 1 month, and 7 changes in 1 year
  • [Bug 172923] CSV File opening
  • [Bug 172884] Character set setting in Import Text dialog seems to
    be ignored
  • [Bug 172899] Problems with the display of soft (conditional)
    hyphens in
    LibreOffice Writer
  • [Bug 172900] autohide mouse pointer – not a bug, an enhancement

• Crash Reporting (Xisco, Cloph)

  • 114 (-2) import failures, 17 (-6) export crashes

https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/crashtest/67bf3bc2cc96b8e9f71346039caf7fe557e5680a/
+ did run the tests on the same build multiple times and numbers
are stable
+ No new numbes for the time being (still was using the config
to not update the checkout, so did further builds with the same
codebase… fixed build still running)
+ 75 coverity issues

     - Submitted a new build earlier this week but it failed so I 

resubmitted it again today. Waiting in queue ( 28 builds ahead of it )

 + Google / ossfuzz: 2 issues

• Crash Reporting (Xisco)

  • 26.2.0.3 55340(+1326)
  • 26.2.1.2 70210(+1792)
  • 26.2.2.2 36691(+450)
  • 26.2.3.2 45986(+605)
  • 26.2.4.2 71458(+12889)
  • 26.2.5.2 831(+0)

  • Fixed in 26.2.5.2

https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/signature/sw::mark::FindFieldSep(sw::mark::Fieldmark%20const%20&)

 Most reported crash in previous versions

 - Skia related crashes

• mentoring/easyhack update (Hossein)

  • Reviewed submissions from the newcomers
    committer… 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
    open 51(-63) 103(-67) 104(-69) 104(-69)
    reviews 288(-192) 1218(-50) 2562(-222) 14170(-70)
    merged 362(114) 1079(26) 3119(-16) 15504(79)
    abandoned 9(-10) 49(-4) 149(-8) 777(2)
    own commits 293(109) 832(21) 2473(15) 10204(76)
    review commits 131(66) 370(61) 1295(-13) 3275(106)
    contributor… 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
    open 506(-11) 709(-4) 712(-1) 712(-1)
    reviews 928(206) 2626(-26) 6660(-56) 35010(-28)
    merged 22(8) 75(10) 269(-18) 2252(-29)
    abandoned 8(-5) 54(-9) 228(-17) 1174(0)
    own commits 21(9) 59(10) 224(-17) 957(12)
    review commits 0(0) 0(0) 0(0) 0(0)
    • easyHack statistics:
      needsDevEval 8(8) needsUXEval 1(1) cleanup_comments 339(339)
      total 399(399) assigned 33(33) open 324(324)
    • top 10 contributors:
      Benjamin Urban made 10 patches in 1 month, and 10 patches in
      1 year
      Parag Nemade made 6 patches in 1 month, and 16 patches in 1 year
      Apurv Rajput made 5 patches in 1 month, and 5 patches in 1 year
      Devansh Varshney made 4 patches in 1 month, and 24 patches in
      1 year
      Manish Bera made 4 patches in 1 month, and 10 patches in 1 year
      Aya Jamal made 4 patches in 1 month, and 14 patches in 1 year
      Furkan Ahmet Kara made 3 patches in 1 month, and 11 patches
      in 1 year
      Srebotnjak, Martin made 2 patches in 1 month, and 16 patches
      in 1 year
      Bogdan B made 2 patches in 1 month, and 34 patches in 1 year
      David Hashe made 2 patches in 1 month, and 5 patches in 1 year
    • top 10 reviewers:
      Hossein made 232 review comments in 1 month, and 680 in 1 year
      Christian Lohmaier made 162 review comments in 1 month, and
      912 in 1 year
      Ilmari Lauhakangas made 142 review comments in 1 month, and
      1194 in 1 year
      Xisco Fauli made 94 review comments in 1 month, and 654 in 1 year
      Dan Williams made 74 review comments in 1 month, and 274 in 1
      year
      Weghorn, Michael made 72 review comments in 1 month, and 502
      in 1 year
      Jonathan Clark made 68 review comments in 1 month, and 214 in
      1 year
      Nabet, Julien made 34 review comments in 1 month, and 564 in
      1 year
      Kaganski, Mike made 30 review comments in 1 month, and 546 in
      1 year
      Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 30 review comments in 1 month,
      and 918 in 1 year
    • Patches automatically abandoned:
      Use std::unordered_map instead of boost::unordered_map (
      Stephan Bergmann )
      - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/161148
      postgresql: upgrade to 16.10 (master only) ( Xisco Fauli )
      - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/186660
      tdf#170934 added better version information for command line
      and headless mode ( Rahul Anand )
      - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/201146
      tdf#45904: test: add C++ ShadowProperties interface test (
      Chris Sena )
      - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/201203
      hsqldb: upgrade to 1.8.1.3 ( Xisco Fauli )
      - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/203118
      sd: add Practice Presentation mode for single-monitor rehearsal
      ( Brian Exelbierd )
      - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/203186
      tdf#170269 Use std::ranges::any_of instead of std::find in SC
      data pivot code ( Asmat Zahra )
      - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/205036
      tdf#172111 reload theme colors when system appearance changes
      ( Ryan Johnson )
      - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/205242
      PDF export: use exact page dimensions for Form XObject geometry
      ( Xisco Fauli )
      - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/205642
      vcl: move method to the only place where it’s used ( Xisco Fauli )
      - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/205690
      loplugin:unusedfields ( Xisco Fauli )
      - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/205730
    • big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged
      patch, since last report:
      Andrey Ovsyhno
      Sofia Gazizova
      Marios Mitsios

• GSoC (Ilmari)

  • WIP

• Commit Access (all)

  • No news

• Developer Certification (Hossein/Jonathan/Laszlo/Stephan)
  + resting since: 11 week (limit: 20 weeks)
  + No news

• Jenkins (Cloph)
  gerrit_android_aarch64 jobs: 409 ok: 399 ko: 10 fail ratio: 2.44%
  mean_ok: 6 ( 49) median_ok: 5 ( 35)
  gerrit_android_arm jobs: 408 ok: 398 ko: 9 fail ratio: 2.21%
  mean_ok: 6 ( 47) median_ok: 5 ( 33)
  gerrit_android_x86 jobs: 412 ok: 400 ko: 11 fail ratio: 2.67%
  mean_ok: 6 ( 43) median_ok: 5 ( 29)
  gerrit_android_x86_64 jobs: 409 ok: 400 ko: 8 fail ratio: 1.96%
  mean_ok: 6 ( 46) median_ok: 5 ( 31)
  gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil jobs: 446 ok: 360 ko: 79 fail ratio: 17.71%
  mean_ok: 52 ( 84) median_ok: 47 ( 73)
  gerrit_linux_gcc_release jobs: 491 ok: 434 ko: 46 fail ratio: 9.37%
  mean_ok: 24 ( 53) median_ok: 20 ( 38)
  gerrit_mac jobs: 474 ok: 373 ko: 86 fail ratio: 18.14%
  mean_ok: 37 (187) median_ok: 36 (112)
  gerrit_windows_wsl jobs: 700 ok: 356 ko: 339 fail ratio: 48.43%
  mean_ok: 54 (120) median_ok: 54 (114)
  gerrit_master_ml_p jobs: 446 ok: 270 ko: 131 fail ratio: 29.37%
  mean_ok: 11 (299) median_ok: 0 (245)
  gerrit_268_p jobs: 55 ok: 30 ko: 14 fail ratio: 25.45%
  mean_ok: 322 (382) median_ok: 243 (243)
  gerrit_262_p jobs: 17 ok: 15 ko: 2 fail ratio: 11.76%
  mean_ok: 193 (193) median_ok: 168 (169)

  • tests that failed more than twice in last seven days
    3 CppunitTest_sc_uicalc gerrit_linux_gcc_release
    3 CppunitTest_vcl_gtk3_a11y gerrit_linux_gcc_release
    3 CppunitTest_vcl_pdfexport gerrit_linux_gcc_release
    4 Killed by the kill-wrapper gerrit_mac
    4 UITest_impress_tests gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
    4 UITest_writer_tests5 gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
    5 Killed by the kill-wrapper
    gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
    5 CppunitTest_chart2_geometry gerrit_windows_wsl
    5 CppunitTest_sfx2_doc gerrit_linux_gcc_release
    11 CppunitTest_sw_uwriter gerrit_mac
    16 UITest_cui_dialogs gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
  • new Windows 11 Enterprise based jenkins agents coming soon
    • weird qemu/kvm performance issues, but managed to get a config
      that builds in ~1h, similar to what the currents bot do
  • weird macOS issue on one of the bots - aarch64 builds work OK, but
    x86_64 builds get treated as malware…

• Weekly report (all)

  • A11y update (Michael W)

    • tdf#172831 (“LO26.8 RC1: names of changed/updated strings -
      names of tabs in
      tabbed notebook bar are not localized if Notebookbar was
      customized in earlier version”)

  • RTL/CTL/CJK update (Jonathan)

    • tdf#171218 Make gallery independent from its localized name
      • 171218 – Make gallery independent from its name
      • Was already implemented
      • Language-independent ID lost from data files due to bad tooling
    • tdf#172932 Writer: Cannot increase/decrease font size
      • 172932 – Writer: Cannot Increase/Decrease font size
      • “Regression” to change that made this behave better for CTL
        and CJK
      • Commands very buggy

  • macOS / UI (Dan)

    • Working on the 26.2 regression list, starting with
      169919 – [26.2] Named hyperlinks don't work when exporting to PDF

    • More generic widget/layout margins handling in Qt plugin

  • Base (Vissarion)

    • Set of commits merged after some minor tweaks
      https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/208316. This is the first
      version of the C++ report builder refactoring.
    • Reviewed https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/203433 about
      mysql connection timeout
    • Fixed 46841 – EDITING: SQL of queries loses returns when saving and reopening
      by https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/208786 (SQL formating)

  • Scripting (Neil)

    • Exporting a BASIC macro as an extension is currently hitting
      an assert failure in debug builds. It works fine if the assert is
      removed. I made a patch for that and also a unit test but I’m not really
      sure if it’s a good idea. https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/208677
    • Looking into making XSelectionSupplier::select accept
      multiple ranges for a text document.

  • ODF-TC (Olivier + Regina)
    + Submit new functions for ODFF 1.5 (on-going, Olivier)

    • More on “TAKE()”, OFFICE-4204, and “DROP()”, OFFICE-4205,
      (Olivier)
    • Continue with discussing public comment on IRR function
    • No meeting next 2 weeks

• LibreOffice Conference

  • https://conference.libreoffice.org/
  • Set 10-12
  • Workshop
  • Hackfest

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Events/2026/LibreOffice_Annual_Conference
+ add topics you’re interested in, etc.
+ if you attending, add yourself to the list

AI: Cloph to provide the ESC meeting template, next 2 weeks

• QA update (Xisco)

  • UNCONFIRMED: 2445 (+25)

    • enhancements: 738 (+8)
    • needsUXEval: 15 (-3)
    • haveBackTrace: 15 (+0)
    • needsDevAdvice: 51 (+0)
    • documentation: 5 (+0)
    • android: 3 (+0)
    • iOS: 0 (+0)
    • Online: 3 (+0)

  • Bisected regressions in 26.8

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&f1=version&keywords=regression%2C%20bisected%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&list_id=1999780&o1=regexp&order=Importance&resolution=---&v1=^26\.8
4 issues (-3)

 + Bisected regressions in 26.2

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&f1=version&keywords=regression%2C%20bisected%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&o1=regexp&order=Importance&resolution=---&v1=^26\.2
30 issues (-21)

 + Most pressing bugs:
  New:

 None



 + New high severity bugs of the week:
    None

• QA stats
  +
  Weekly Bug Summary
  +72 +13 (-107) overall)
  many thanks to the top bug squashers:
  Justin L 24
  Olivier Hallot 22
  QA Administrators 12
  Buovjaga 7
  BogdanB 6
  Heiko Tietze 5
  V Stuart Foote 5
  Khaled Hosny 3
  m_a_riosv 3
  sophie 3

  • top 10 bugs reporters:
    Tyler 3
    Ben Urban 2
    Elmar 2
    Eyal Rozenberg 2
    Gerald Pfeifer 2
    Heiko Tietze 2
    Olivier Hallot 2
    Jens 1
    Martin Srebotnjak 1
    Ralf Kalinowski 1

  • top 10 bugs fixers:
    Olivier Hallot 22
    Justin Luth 18
    Ilmari Lauhakangas 2
    Sophie Gautier 2
    Andreas Heinisch 1
    Heiko Tietze 1
    Jim Raykowski 1
    Khaled Hosny 1
    Neil Roberts 1
    Patrick Luby 1

  • top 10 bugs confirmers:
    Bogdan B 13
    m.a.riosv 4
    Benjamin Urban 2
    Weghorn, Michael 2
    1
    Leroy 1
    Marios Mitsios 1
    Patrick Luby 1
    Raal 1
    Srebotnjak, Martin 1

• Bisected bugs open: keyword ‘bisected’

  • more accurate - down to a single commit.
  • Bug List: LibreOffice Bi-bisected

  done by:
     Bogdan B               3
     Justin Luth            1
  

• all bugs tagged with ‘regression’

  • 1303(+4) bugs open of 14757(+8) total 20(+0) high prio.

    done by:
    Bogdan B 4
    anixxsus 3
    Justin Luth 1
    Jonathan Clark 1
    nobu 1

• ~Component count net * high severity regressions

  • Bug List
    Writer - 12(+0)
    Calc - 5(+0)
    LibreOffice - 2(+0)
    UI - 1(+0)

  by OS:
  All - 16(+0)
  Linux - 4(+0)
  Mac OS X - 0(+0)
  Windows - 0(+0)

• ~Component count net * all regressions

  • Bug List
    Writer: other - 445(+1)
    Calc - 255(+1)
    Impress - 126(+1)
    LibreOffice - 67(-1)
    Crashes - 55(+1)
    Draw - 48(+0)
    Writer: docx filter - 44(+0)
    UI - 39(+1)
    Base - 37(+0)
    Borders - 33(+0)
    Writer: other filter - 27(+0)
    Writer: perf - 26(+0)
    Printing and PDF export - 25(+0)
    Chart - 23(+0)
    filters and storage - 23(+0)
    Writer: doc filter - 20(+0)
    BASIC - 19(+0)
    RTL - 19(+0)
    graphics stack - 14(+1)
    Formula Editor - 9(+0)
    framework - 3(+0)
    sdk - 3(+0)
    Extensions - 2(+0)
    Linguistic - 2(+0)
    Installation - 1(+0)