QA/Dev Report: February 2020

General Activities

1. LibreOffice 6.3.5 was announced on February, 20
2. LibreOffice 6.4.1 was announced on February, 27
3. LibreOffice was present at FOSDEM and many presentations about LibreOffice were given on February, 1
4. A 2 days Hackfest took place in Brussels right after FOSDEM
5. Michael Weghorn implemented native PopupMenus for the qt5/kf5 VCL plugin
6. Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat) fixed blurry text in macOS and did many code cleanups
7. Jim Raykowski continued to improve Navigator in general and its context menu
8. Seth Chaiklin made many Help update patches
9. Luboš Luňák (Collabora) continues to polish Skia library in LibreOffice
10. Maxim Monastirsky added Highlighting tab for shapes and comments to Format>Character dialog in Writer and in Calc
11. Noel Grandin (Collabora) did many cleanups under the hood, including changes that speed up development
12. Jan Holešovský (Collabora) enabled spell-checking on Android
13. Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) continued the crucial user interface backend work and also did many cleanups to the code
14. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) made it so decimals input into Calc are represented with the correct precision value
15. Michael Stahl (CIB) improved DOCX exporting of footnote separators and rotated text fields
16. Jan-Marek Glogowski (CIB) fixed several qt5/kf5 issues
17. Xisco Fauli (TDF) added basic unittests for LWP files
18. Gábor Kelemen (NISZ) fixed issues with missing titles and period separators in charts
19. Tünde Tóth (NISZ) improved label placement for stacked area charts and fixed XLSX exporting of chart line markers
20. Bakos Attila (NISZ) fixed chart wrap setting with DOCX import and shape anchoring to table with DOCX export
21. László Németh (NISZ) fixed several issues with tables in imported DOCX files
22. Szabolcs Tóth (NISZ) fixed inherited list level of custom styles with DOCX import
23. Balázs Varga (NISZ) fixed several issues with chart label positioning with OOXML import and export
24. Miklos Vajna (Collabora) fixed several DOCX import and export issues and implemented semi-transparent text for Writer
25. Eike Rathke (Red Hat) improved handling of named references in Calc
26. Julien Nabet fixed the precision and scale for decimal and numeric fields in Firebird databases
27. Armin Le Grand improved the performance of rendering dashed lines
28. Arnaud Versini added minimum support for PDF/A3
29. Serge Krot (CIB) fixed DOCX exporting of bold text under certain conditions
30. Andreas Kainz made many UI improvements in Sidebar
31. Rizal Muttaqin made many improvements in most of the icon themes
32. Heiko Tietze (TDF) added a note in the UI for Draw page renaming conflicts
33. Jens Carl moved several Java tests to C++

Reported Bugs

679 bugs, 98 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 442 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. Xisco Faulí ( 32 )
2. sdc.blanco ( 22 )
3. Roman Kuznetsov ( 21 )
4. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 16 )
5. Mike Kaganski ( 13 )
6. Rizal Muttaqin ( 13 )
7. Robert Großkopf ( 9 )
8. Kevin Suo ( 9 )
9. stdedos ( 8 )
10. Timur ( 7 )

Triaged Bugs

668 bugs have been triaged by 95 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. Xisco Faulí ( 159 )
2. Dieter ( 83 )
3. Julien Nabet ( 51 )
4. Heiko Tietze ( 47 )
5. Oliver Brinzing ( 25 )
6. Aron Budea ( 22 )
7. V Stuart Foote ( 22 )
8. raal ( 18 )
9. eisa01 ( 14 )
10. Alex Thurgood ( 11 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

578 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

Check the following sections for more information about bugs resolved as FIXED, WORKSFORME and DUPLICATE.

Fixed Bugs

242 bugs have been fixed by 54 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Caolán McNamara ( 32 )
2. Noel Grandin ( 10 )
3. Jan-Marek Glogowski ( 9 )
4. László Németh ( 8 )
5. Michael Weghorn ( 8 )
6. Seth Chaiklin ( 8 )
7. Miklos Vajna ( 7 )
8. Eike Rathke ( 7 )
9. Balazs Varga ( 6 )
10. Samuel Mehrbrodt ( 6 )

List of critical bugs fixed

1. tdf#122218 After Update to 6.1.4 on macOS fonts are blurred on retina display (xcode 10) ( Thanks to Christian Lohmaier )
2. tdf#130482 Can’t align text in a textbox ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
3. tdf#130614 Crash in: SfxItemPool::IsInRange(unsigned short) ( Thanks to Xisco Faulí )
4. tdf#130959 LibreOffice crashes when opening files with non-existing hyperlinks ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#128873 Calc – long time to open file in 6.4 beta ( Thanks to Serge Krot )
2. tdf#129529 Cannot open 819-pages ODT ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
3. tdf#129912 Cannot open DOC – regression ( Thanks to Jan-Marek Glogowski )
4. tdf#130373 Since update, substitute color only works if left set to transparent. ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
5. tdf#130483 Crash on pasting a table from Writer ( Thanks to Mark Hung )
6. tdf#130623 Base: Empty Field Properties (gtk3) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
7. tdf#130760 Impress crashes on broken hyperlink click ( Thanks to Samuel Mehrbrodt )
8. tdf#130794 kf5: Keyboard input ignored ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )
9. tdf#130809 File dialogs in Mac OS are in German ( Thanks to Stephan Bergmann )
10. tdf#130878 Report does not show label-fields when run in 7.0 ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
11. tdf#130917 FILESAVE DOCX Signature line export creates invalid document ( Thanks to Samuel Mehrbrodt )
12. tdf#130951 FILEOPEN: DOCX: picture does not display doc saved by MSWord ( Thanks to Armin Le Grand )
13. tdf#130960 edit / track changes / compare documents does not work ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
14. tdf#91219 FILESAVE: Crash when anchoring a shape with a textbox to a frame that is anchored to that shape ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#127205 Crash when terminating the StarDesktop from running a document macro ( Thanks to Jan-Marek Glogowski )
2. tdf#129809 LibreOffice Writer crash while moving one letter with hyperlink (gtk3/kf5) ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )
3. tdf#130274 TRACK CHANGES: Crash in swlo.dll with track changes enabled and AutoCorrect ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
4. tdf#130340 cmd + space = crashes reliably for keymap window ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
5. tdf#130414 Crash when setting window position via API (gtk3) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
6. tdf#130483 Crash on pasting a table from Writer ( Thanks to Mark Hung )
7. tdf#130499 kf5: Crash when closing Writer after D’n’D of text ( Thanks to Jan-Marek Glogowski )
8. tdf#130513 CRASH: Writer crashes changing UI to notebookbar (win) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
9. tdf#130541 Crash after changing text type property of a text box control ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
10. tdf#130555 Crash when clearing the ‘Find’ text field ( Thanks to Stephan Bergmann )
11. tdf#130614 Crash in: SfxItemPool::IsInRange(unsigned short) ( Thanks to Xisco Faulí )
12. tdf#130658 Crash on adding word to User-defined dictionary (gtk3) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
13. tdf#130756 CRASH: traversing tabs with Ctrl+PageUp/Down (gen) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
14. tdf#130760 Impress crashes on broken hyperlink click ( Thanks to Samuel Mehrbrodt )
15. tdf#130831 CRASH when displaying a dialog containing a checkbox ( Thanks to Jan-Marek Glogowski )
16. tdf#130922 CRASH: Moving backwards in Paste Table wizard (gen) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
17. tdf#130952 CRASH: launching Bullets & Numbering dialog from sidebar (gtk3) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
18. tdf#130959 LibreOffice crashes when opening files with non-existing hyperlinks ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
19. tdf#91219 FILESAVE: Crash when anchoring a shape with a textbox to a frame that is anchored to that shape ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )

List of performance issues fixed

1. tdf#128873 Calc – long time to open file in 6.4 beta ( Thanks to Serge Krot )

List of old bugs ( more than 4 years old ) fixed

1. tdf#42695 [UI] When Navigator is docked, new documents show an inactive “List Box”. When Navigator is undocked and “List Box” is turned “Off” then no items are shown when Navigator is docked again ( Thanks to Jim Raykowski )
2. tdf#57307 Basic IDE: adding variable to Watch window performs incorrectly if variable name contains_underscores ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
3. tdf#57879 EDITING : consider an underscore to be part of a string ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
4. tdf#84553 Detect and warn of Windows Antivirus in configure … ( Thanks to Michel Thomas )
5. tdf#90749 support leader lines for data labels ( Thanks to Balazs Varga )
6. tdf#91219 FILESAVE: Crash when anchoring a shape with a textbox to a frame that is anchored to that shape ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
7. tdf#92472 FILEOPEN: First legacy checkbox in row has too large dimensions on docx import ( Thanks to László Németh )
8. tdf#92484 UI: lock toolbar by default ( Thanks to A_GAN )
9. tdf#94234 Period separator missing from data series label formatting dialog ( Thanks to Gabor Kelemen )
10. tdf#95495 Fileopen: List levels not recognized in .docx custom outline numbering ( Thanks to Szabolcs Toth )

WORKSFORME bugs

65 bugs have been retested by 31 people.

Top 10 testers

1. Julien Nabet ( 7 )
2. eisa01 ( 6 )
3. Timur ( 5 )
4. Dieter ( 5 )
5. Heiko Tietze ( 5 )
6. Xisco Faulí ( 4 )
7. raal ( 4 )
8. Buovjaga ( 3 )
9. Roman Kuznetsov ( 3 )
10. Aron Budea ( 2 )

DUPLICATED bugs

172 bugs have been duplicated by 38 people.

Top 10 testers

1. Xisco Faulí ( 42 )
2. Dieter ( 18 )
3. V Stuart Foote ( 15 )
4. Maxim Monastirsky ( 12 )
5. Timur ( 11 )
6. Julien Nabet ( 8 )
7. Heiko Tietze ( 7 )
8. Alex Thurgood ( 5 )
9. eisa01 ( 4 )
10. Aron Budea ( 4 )

Verified bug fixes

82 bugs have been verified by 14 people.

Top 10 Verifiers

1. Xisco Faulí ( 60 )
2. Timur ( 5 )
3. Roman Kuznetsov ( 3 )
4. sdc.blanco ( 2 )
5. Michael Weghorn ( 2 )
6. V Stuart Foote ( 2 )
7. Julien Nabet ( 2 )
8. Oliver Grimm ( 1 )
9. Kevin Suo ( 1 )
10. Heiko Tietze ( 1 )

Categorized Bugs

344 bugs have been categorized with a metabug by 31 people.

Top 10 Categorizers

1. Dieter ( 79 )
2. Roman Kuznetsov ( 75 )
3. Rizal Muttaqin ( 28 )
4. sdc.blanco ( 22 )
5. Aron Budea ( 20 )
6. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 15 )
7. V Stuart Foote ( 13 )
8. Heiko Tietze ( 8 )
9. Xisco Faulí ( 8 )
10. Michael Weghorn ( 8 )

Regression Bugs

119 bugs have been set as regressions by 24 people.

Top 10

1. Xisco Faulí ( 55 )
2. raal ( 8 )
3. Oliver Brinzing ( 7 )
4. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 7 )
5. Roman Kuznetsov ( 6 )
6. eisa01 ( 5 )
7. Robert Großkopf ( 5 )
8. Aron Budea ( 3 )
9. Dieter ( 3 )
10. Alex Thurgood ( 2 )

Bisected Bugs

108 bugs have been bisected by 11 people.

Top 10 Bisecters

1. Xisco Faulí ( 64 )
2. Aron Budea ( 16 )
3. raal ( 8 )
4. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 7 )
5. Michael Weghorn ( 3 )
6. Oliver Brinzing ( 3 )
7. Timur ( 2 )
8. Kevin Suo ( 2 )
9. Roman Kuznetsov ( 1 )
10. Justin L ( 1 )

Evolution of Unconfirmed Bugs

Check the current list of unconfirmed bugs here

Evolution of Open Regressions

Check the current list of open regressions here

Evolution of Open bibisectRequests

Check the current list of open bibisectrequests here

Evolution of Highest Priority Bugs

Check the current list of highest priority bugs here

Evolution of High Priority Bugs

Check the current list of high priority bugs here

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