ESC Meeting Minutes 2026-10--01

ohallot · October 1, 2026, 5:22pm

Present: Bogdan, Regina, Heiko, Xisco, cloph, Neil R, Ilmari, Michael
W, Jonathan C, Dan W, Hossein
Completed action items
- Announce Win x86 build support removal in wiki (Ilmari)
  +
  ReleaseNotes/27.2 - The Document Foundation Wiki
Pending action items:
Release Engineering
- 26.2.7 rc1 in 1 weeks
- 26.8.2 branch this week
- 26.8.2 rc1 in 2 weeks
MAR Updater (Cloph)
- 25.8 branch: to 25.8.7, from there cross-update to 26.2.6
- 26.2 branch: updated to 26.2.6
- cross-update to 26.8 not before 26.8.3, before that updates to
  26.8.x only for users of 26.8.x
App stores (Cloph)
- MacOS: 25.8.7
- Windows: 25.8.7
- Mac & Win 26.2.6 version is on submittion (Cloph)
Documentation (Olivier)
- New Help
  - Added hreflang= to online pages (ohallot)
- Helpcontents
  - Updates and fixes (ohallot, L. Nemeth, A. Romedenne)
- Guides
  - Update in progress
- Bugzilla Documentation statistics
  205(205) bugs open
- Updates:
  BZ changes 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
  created 21(5) 39(10) 100(6) 241(-1)
  commented 38(23) 77(37) 227(16) 759(29)
  resolved 3(-1) 14(2) 68(2) 168(-4)
- top 10 contributors:
  Bogdan B made 91 changes in 1 month, and 194 changes in 1 year
  Olivier Hallot made 60 changes in 1 month, and 713 changes in
  1 year
  Nabet, Julien made 13 changes in 1 month, and 22 changes in 1
  year
  Jürgen Kirsten made 9 changes in 1 month, and 9 changes in 1 year
  nutka made 5 changes in 1 month, and 13 changes in 1 year
  jan made 4 changes in 1 month, and 5 changes in 1 year
  Ilmari Lauhakangas made 4 changes in 1 month, and 156 changes
  in 1 year
  Ledure, Jean-Pierre made 4 changes in 1 month, and 4 changes
  in 1 year
  Roman Kuznetsov made 3 changes in 1 month, and 9 changes in 1
  year
  nobu made 3 changes in 1 month, and 62 changes in 1 year
UX Update (Heiko)
- Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
  195(195) (topicUI) bugs open, 42(42) (needsUXEval) needs to be
  evaluated by the UXteam
- Updates:
  BZ changes 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
  added 9(-3) 28(1) 39(3) 42(4)
  commented 47(-45) 193(-20) 276(4) 709(27)
  removed 0(0) 0(0) 0(0) 2(0)
  resolved 1(-3) 6(-1) 19(0) 72(1)
- top 10 contributors:
  Heiko Tietze made 88 changes in 1 month, and 276 changes in 1
  year
  Eyal Rozenberg made 66 changes in 1 month, and 178 changes in
  1 year
  Bogdan B made 53 changes in 1 month, and 67 changes in 1 year
  jan made 23 changes in 1 month, and 37 changes in 1 year
  Ilmari Lauhakangas made 22 changes in 1 month, and 124
  changes in 1 year
  Vernon, Stuart Foote made 22 changes in 1 month, and 94
  changes in 1 year
  Dieter made 21 changes in 1 month, and 34 changes in 1 year
  Nabet, Julien made 15 changes in 1 month, and 15 changes in 1
  year
  Ady made 9 changes in 1 month, and 27 changes in 1 year
  m.a.riosv made 7 changes in 1 month, and 15 changes in 1 year
  → + bug 173791 Make it easier to alter Heading Numbering choices when
  interacting
  with Heading N styles
  - bug 104206 Allow Paragraph Styles to bind to List Styles’
    levels, like
    with Outline Numbering
    → + bug 173772 Adopt the “ghost-cut” approach to cutting
    → + bug 167980 FORMATTING: Ctrl+V mapped to “Paste unformatted text”
    still
    pastes formatting in cell edit mode
    → + bug 170776 Feature Requests: Enable Different Document Background
    Color by
    Program in Appearance Options
    → + bug 166447 upload my blog posts from LO Writer to my Blogger
  - could be similar to MediaWiki Publisher
    (–enable-ext-wiki-publisher);
    both make more sense as extensions (Michael)
Crash Testing (Xisco/Cloph)
- 93 import failure, 3 export failures (last week’s numbers,
  current one still running) (no current results, previous run was once
  more interrupted)
- still no current results, need to decouple it from jenkins
  again/having the job be interrupted without a way to resume doesn’t work
  for multi-day runs
- will change it to a hook (job notifies jenkins when it starts/is
  done) or a polling job (only probe whether the job is still running
  instead of controlling the job itself)
- Coverity issues
- New build from last week - no new issues
- Google / ossfuzz:
- Access granted after half a year
  (https://github.com/google/oss-fuzz/pull/15475)
- 7 new CVEs disclosed last week:
- Security advisories — LibreOffice
Crash Reporting (from crashreport.libreoffice.org)
- 26.2.0.3 68706(+1309)
- 26.2.1.2 85299(+1544)
- 26.2.2.2 44089(+1211)
- 26.2.3.2 50556(+410)
- 26.2.4.2 88926(+1064)
- 26.2.5.2 112027(+5479)
- 26.2.6.3 4521(+4110)
- 26.8.0.2 128(+5)
- 26.8.0.3 42710(+11977)

https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/signature/SalInstanceTreeView::get_children_on_demand(weld::TreeIter%20const%20&)

 - Third most reported crash in 26.8.0.3

 - Fixed thanks to Michael W.

mentoring/easyhack update (Hossein)
committer… 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
open 58(12) 125(25) 127(27) 127(27)
reviews 302(38) 1060(-732) 3110(22) 14096(-154)
merged 171(-170) 943(-284) 3014(-44) 15181(-58)
abandoned 7(0) 33(0) 95(-6) 713(-10)
own commits 132(-109) 719(-231) 2375(-24) 9994(-22)
review commits 88(1) 336(-232) 1318(42) 3860(41)
contributor… 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
open 64(-11) 1147(0) 1155(8) 1155(8)
reviews 600(-148) 2302(-430) 6442(-74) 33184(-136)
merged 41(29) 82(17) 245(26) 1882(-7)
abandoned 6(-5) 35(-74) 191(-15) 1165(-6)
own commits 18(15) 46(1) 183(2) 952(3)
review commits 0(0) 0(0) 0(0) 0(0)
- easyHack statistics:
  needsDevEval 8(8) needsUXEval 0(0) cleanup_comments 336(336)
  total 397(397) assigned 20(20) open 335(335)
- top 10 contributors:
  Apurv Rajput made 9 patches in 1 month, and 32 patches in 1 year
  Devansh Varshney made 5 patches in 1 month, and 27 patches in
  1 year
  Tulio Macedo made 4 patches in 1 month, and 8 patches in 1 year
  Bogdan B made 4 patches in 1 month, and 35 patches in 1 year
  Noel Grandin made 3 patches in 1 month, and 3 patches in 1 year
  Jason Whitmore made 2 patches in 1 month, and 5 patches in 1 year
  Weblate made 1 patches in 1 month, and 14 patches in 1 year
  Danh Doan made 1 patches in 1 month, and 2 patches in 1 year
  Dev Lo made 1 patches in 1 month, and 2 patches in 1 year
  Méven Car made 1 patches in 1 month, and 7 patches in 1 year
- top 10 reviewers:
  Hossein made 208 review comments in 1 month, and 704 in 1 year
  Christian Lohmaier made 136 review comments in 1 month, and
  1082 in 1 year
  Nabet, Julien made 100 review comments in 1 month, and 1198
  in 1 year
  Xisco Fauli made 80 review comments in 1 month, and 616 in 1 year
  Ilmari Lauhakangas made 64 review comments in 1 month, and
  1166 in 1 year
  Weghorn, Michael made 54 review comments in 1 month, and 484
  in 1 year
  Dan Williams made 42 review comments in 1 month, and 334 in 1
  year
  Heiko Tietze made 38 review comments in 1 month, and 304 in 1
  year
  Jonathan Clark made 38 review comments in 1 month, and 298 in
  1 year
  Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 34 review comments in 1 month,
  and 866 in 1 year
- Patches automatically abandoned:
  tdf#171153 Fix math formula resize ( Aung, Khant Oo )
  - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/201238
  tdf#66185 BASIC IDE: use IdeDataProvider for dot completion (
  Madhura Hegde )
  - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/202257
  XLSX export: Fix dangling dxf id in XclExpDxfs(xestyle.cxx)
  ctor ( Xisco Fauli )
  - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/204662
- big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged
  patch, since last report:
  Christopher Ross
  Zesen Liu
  Matthieu (403)
GSoC (Ilmari)
- OpenType Math evaluation deadline 9 Nov
macOS baseline bump (Ilmari)
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/211683
- build fails with macOS 13/Xcode 14 already since 26-2 branch off
  → bump to macOS 14 with Xcode 16
  - also works with the bump to -std:c++23
  - (Xcode 15 does not work with c++2b)
  - only openldap needed a syntax patch
    ( https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/211633 )
  - when doing non-default configuration with fontconfig: older
    versions also need xlocale.h for locale_t :
    https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/211630
    - “non-default configuration” == headless mode enabled
- can we have CI use different OS/Compiler versions? (hossein)
  - can dedicate a macOS tinderbox to have it on old baseline (Dan)
  - for windows we can have different compiler versions but not
    different OS versions (cloph)
  - on linux we deliberately use old baseline so switching that up
    is hard (cloph)
  - but if anyone is willing to host systems with
    experimental/extreme configs, I’d be happy to integrate those into
    jenkins (cloph)
  - with the mac we should at least cover the minimal baseline we
    document on all systems.
  - I’ve been using https://xcodereleases.com/ to get links to older
    Xcode versions to test; links go to Apple where you must log in with a
    developer account (so not suitable for most people) but useful for
    testing older stuff
  - Old MacOS installers (macOS 14+): softwareupdate
    –fetch-full-installer --full-installer-version (where ver ==
    14.8.9 for example) and it downloads a full upgrade installer to
    /Applications
Qt on macOS and Windows: prospects for offering an experimental option
to turn it on? (Ilmari
- Adding build option to CI should come first (Hossein)
- Build issues with headless (fontconfig) is a blocker on Windows
- Also build issues on macOS in avmedia
  - Add qt to the external bundle (M. Weghorn)
  - CMake is not a problem, already supported / available on CI (Cloph)
Commit Access
Developer Certification (Hossein/Jonathan/Laszlo/Stephan)
+ resting since: 20 weeks (limit: 20 weeks)
+ Overhaul Dev certification program (Jonathan)
Jenkins (Cloph)
gerrit_android_aarch64 jobs: 303 ok: 292 ko: 9 fail ratio: 2.97%
mean_ok: 6 ( 23) median_ok: 5 ( 16)
gerrit_android_arm jobs: 303 ok: 292 ko: 9 fail ratio: 2.97%
mean_ok: 5 ( 21) median_ok: 4 ( 14)
gerrit_android_x86 jobs: 304 ok: 293 ko: 9 fail ratio: 2.96%
mean_ok: 6 ( 20) median_ok: 5 ( 12)
gerrit_android_x86_64 jobs: 304 ok: 293 ko: 9 fail ratio: 2.96%
mean_ok: 6 ( 20) median_ok: 5 ( 13)
gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil jobs: 315 ok: 260 ko: 48 fail ratio: 15.24%
mean_ok: 47 ( 59) median_ok: 45 ( 55)
gerrit_linux_gcc_release jobs: 367 ok: 289 ko: 71 fail ratio: 19.35%
mean_ok: 25 ( 35) median_ok: 21 ( 32)
gerrit_mac jobs: 425 ok: 245 ko: 176 fail ratio: 41.41%
mean_ok: 38 ( 48) median_ok: 35 ( 40)
gerrit_windows_wsl jobs: 409 ok: 263 ko: 141 fail ratio: 34.47%
mean_ok: 66 (101) median_ok: 69 ( 83)
gerrit_master_ml_p jobs: 295 ok: 166 ko: 114 fail ratio: 38.64%
mean_ok: 8 (148) median_ok: 0 (122)
gerrit_268_p jobs: 89 ok: 29 ko: 60 fail ratio: 67.42%
mean_ok: 90 (101) median_ok: 85 ( 85)
gerrit_262_p jobs: 27 ok: 16 ko: 11 fail ratio: 40.74%
mean_ok: 96 ( 96) median_ok: 96 ( 96)
- tests that failed more than twice in last seven days
  3 CppunitTest_vcl_pdfexport3 gerrit_mac
  3 JunitTest_forms_unoapi_2 gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
  5 Killed by the kill-wrapper gerrit_linux_gcc_release
  6 UITest_cui_dialogs gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
  45 Segfault on Mac on framework_loadenv test gerrit_mac
- notably the JunitTest_toolkit_complex one is gone from the
  top-failures, seems like the fix helped \o/
- since macOS 15 seems to not run into the framework_loadenv failure
  will gradually downgrade machines if possible
  - didn’t check effect of different versions of Xcode vs macOS
    though, so could also be a matter of the version of Xcode affecting things
- maybe a workaround for jar/zip copying issues with granting manage
  apps permissions to terminal, but still needs to be verified/investigated
What’s cooking (all)
- ODF-TC: First meeting on a standard for functions
  - Test files to check when it fails (Regina)
    - collect in github (>700 functions)
    - OOXML and ODF have math definition, MS Excel has no math
      definition
- On going work in C’bra for smart art (Regina)
  - Patches in, ongoing work
  - Look at C’bra dev’
  - Better rendering but not yet finished
QA update (Xisco)
- UNCONFIRMED: 2552 (+3)
  - enhancements: 725 (+2)
  - needsUXEval: 26 (-4)
  - haveBackTrace: 15 (+0)
  - needsDevAdvice: 52 (+0)
  - documentation: 5 (-6)
  - 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
  11 issues (0)
esp annoying: white lines in images & audio issues with presentations
on windows (bogdan)
- 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
  28 issues (+2)
- Most pressing bugs:
  New:
None
- New high severity bugs of the week:
  - rework document Language Setting into a dedicated dialog
    (comment 7, comment 17)
    - https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103036
    - GSOC project ?
QA stats
+
Weekly Bug Summary
+121 -13 (-97) overall)
many thanks to the top bug squashers:
BogdanB 10
Andreas Heinisch 9
Justin L 9
Julien Nabet 7
Heiko Tietze 6
Michael Weghorn 5
m_a_riosv 5
Buovjaga 4
QA Administrators 4
V Stuart Foote 4
- top 10 bugs reporters:
  Eyal Rozenberg 10
  Dmytro 7
  questions2000 7
  Ismail 6
  nobu 6
  Adalbert Hanßen 2
  Buovjaga 2
  Ken Shirriff 2
  Olivier Hallot 2
  jan d 2
- top 10 bugs fixers:
  Justin Luth 7
  Andreas Heinisch 6
  Weghorn, Michael 4
  Ilmari Lauhakangas 3
  Nabet, Julien 3
  Vissarion Fisikopoulos 3
  Bogdan B 2
  Dan Williams 2
  Heiko Tietze 2
  UNKNOWN 1
- top 10 bugs confirmers:
  Bogdan B 38
  Heiko Tietze 16
  Ilmari Lauhakangas 7
  Raal 6
  m.a.riosv 5
  Nabet, Julien 3
  Vernon, Stuart Foote 3
  Dan Williams 2
  Dieter 2
  Eyal Rozenberg 2
Bisected bugs open: keyword ‘bisected’
- more accurate - down to a single commit.
- http://bit.ly/2dyIfDy
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done by:
   Bogdan B               8
   Raal                   4
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all bugs tagged with ‘regression’
- 1270(+2) bugs open of 14836(+15) total 21(-1) high prio.
  
  done by:
  Bogdan B 5
  nobu 4
  Raal 3
  Ilmari Lauhakangas 2
  Vernon, Stuart Foote 1
~Component count net * high severity regressions
- http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
  Writer - 12(-1)
  Calc - 5(+0)
  LibreOffice - 2(+0)
  UI - 2(+0)
by OS:
All - 17(-1)
Linux - 4(+0)
Mac OS X - 0(+0)
Windows - 0(-7)
~Component count net * all regressions
- http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
  Writer: other - 435(+1)
  Calc - 246(+0)
  Impress - 127(-1)
  LibreOffice - 63(+0)
  Crashes - 55(-1)
  Draw - 49(+1)
  Writer: docx filter - 41(+1)
  UI - 40(+2)
  Base - 34(-1)
  Borders - 33(+0)
  Writer: other filter - 27(+1)
  Writer: perf - 27(+0)
  Printing and PDF export - 24(+0)
  Chart - 23(+0)
  filters and storage - 22(+0)
  RTL - 19(+1)
  Writer: doc filter - 17(+0)
  BASIC - 16(-1)
  graphics stack - 12(+0)
  Formula Editor - 8(+0)
  framework - 4(+1)
  sdk - 3(+0)
  Extensions - 2(+0)
  Linguistic - 2(+0)
  Installation - 1(+0)