QA/Dev Report: April 2020

General Activities

1. LibreOffice 6.4.3 was released on April, 16
2. LibreOffice 6.3.6 was released on April, 30
3. Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) published a couple of blogposts showing the progress done by the PPTX Team and the Macro Team in the last months
4. Adolfo Jayme Barrientos and Steve Fanning made many Help improvements and cleanups
5. Andreas Kainz continued to improve the galleries and dialog layouts. As a new task he took on improving Impress templates
6. Rizal Muttaqin made many improvements in most of the icon themes and removed Tango icon theme from the core
7. Miklos Vajna (Collabora) fixed import and export issues with PDF, SVG, HTML and DOCX. He also continued with padded numbering support in Writer
8. Gábor Kelemen (NISZ) dropped Flash export filter and made many code cleanups
9. Noel Grandin (Collabora) cleaned up the code in many places while improving readability
10. Michael Weghorn fixed issues with the Android application and mail merge
11. Luboš Luňák (Collabora) continued with the Skia engine integration and fixed a chart wizard freezing issue
12. Justin Luth (SIL & Collabora) made many DOC/DOCX import improvements and did a lot of quality assurance work on DOC issues
13. Balázs Varga (NISZ) fixed several chart label issues, related to both ODF and OOXML formats
14. Samuel Mehrbrodt (CIB) fixed several OOXML-related issues, including one about remembering the last used file type
15. Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) continued the crucial user interface backend work and did many cleanups and crash fixes
16. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) fixed some regressions and made many code cleanups
17. László Németh (NISZ) fixed many issues with DOCX tables and numbered list formatting
18. Xisco Faulí (TDF) added nearly 40 unit tests for old bug fixes and added and improved many UI tests. He also created a script that helps to identify missing unittests. Check this wiki page for more information
19. Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat) made many cleanups, build fixes and UI test fixes
20. Szabolcs Tóth and Regényi Balázs (NISZ) fixed several DOCX import and export issues related to shapes
21. Eike Rathke (Red Hat) fixed some issues with Calc functions
22. Heiko Tietze (TDF) implemented a brand new About dialog
23. Michael Stahl (CIB) killed Python 2 support with fire and fixed some DOCX import and export issues
24. Tomaž Vajngerl (Collabora) did a lot of graphics handling improvements and cleanups
25. Tor Lillqvist (Collabora) made improvements to debugging. He also made fixes and cleanups in code related to macOS and iOS
26. Julien Nabet fixed exporting right-to-left content as HTML, the behaviour of Calc’s switch function, a problem with function wizard, an SQL parser issue and some crashes
27. Tünde Tóth (NISZ) implemented chart axis position type property
28. Pranam Lashkari (Collabora) fixed some issues with gradient fill
29. Attila Bakos (NISZ) fixed some issues with graphical objects in DOCX files
30. Tibor Nagy (NISZ) fixed a spacing issue with grouped shapes in DOCX files
31. Thorsten Behrens (CIB) improved handling of JPEG images in the PDF export process
32. Aditya Sahu added unit tests for creation of renaming, deletion of gallery theme
33. Roman Kuznetsov fixed a couple of issues with scrolling in the Start Center
34. Vasily Melenchuk (CIB) fixed a couple of issues with numbered lists in DOCX files
35. Pavel Klevakin improved the time to import and export HTML files with images

Reported Bugs

780 bugs, 92 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 417 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. Telesto ( 139 )
2. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 26 )
3. andreas_k ( 26 )
4. Mike Kaganski ( 17 )
5. Regina Henschel ( 16 )
6. Rizal Muttaqin ( 8 )
7. Xisco Faulí ( 8 )
8. Gerald Pfeifer ( 8 )
9. Aron Budea ( 6 )
10. sergio.callegari ( 5 )

Triaged Bugs

723 bugs have been triaged by 93 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. Buovjaga ( 130 )
2. Dieter ( 88 )
3. Julien Nabet ( 55 )
4. Heiko Tietze ( 49 )
5. Xisco Faulí ( 43 )
6. Timur ( 31 )
7. V Stuart Foote ( 30 )
8. m.a.riosv ( 28 )
9. Telesto ( 21 )
10. Aron Budea ( 21 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

661 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

218 bugs have been fixed by 40 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. andreas kainz ( 19 )
2. Caolán McNamara ( 16 )
3. Luboš Luňák ( 14 )
4. Julien Nabet ( 12 )
5. László Németh ( 9 )
6. Justin Luth ( 9 )
7. Rizal Muttaqin ( 7 )
8. Michael Weghorn ( 6 )
9. Miklos Vajna ( 5 )
10. Balazs Varga ( 5 )

List of critical bugs fixed

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#130505 LibreOffice dialogs for save and open have default focus in the location field instead of file name field ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
2. tdf#131621 Crash saving template file (see comment 4) ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
3. tdf#131716 Freeze/hang after clicking Cancel in the Chart Wizard (with a large range of data selected) ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
4. tdf#131721 Skia rendering (Vulkan or Raster) crash when attempting to dragging a few columns of data ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
5. tdf#131729 IMAGE WRAP: Crash if you wrap an image with vertical position “Bottom + Page text area” ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
6. tdf#131907 Crash: reject/clear formatting ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
7. tdf#132097 Find Previous with direction columns crashes in specific condition ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
8. tdf#132278 crash after opening an old file ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
9. tdf#132282 FILEOPEN PPTX: Titles rendered vertically instead of horizontally ( Thanks to Xisco Fauli )
10. tdf#132288 Spell check erases footnotes ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
11. tdf#132322 See log link is gone in new About Dialog 7.0 ( Thanks to Heiko Tietze )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#116243 App crash after click in Header or Footer on Writer ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )
2. tdf#126828 Variables having assigned objects from closed components pretend to still be valid. Attempts to inspect them in the IDE cause crashes. ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
3. tdf#128662 LibreOffice crashed when receiving certain WebDAV error responses ( Thanks to Julian Kalinowski )
4. tdf#129372 FILEOPEN: PPTX: CRASH: File format error found at SfxBaseModel::storeToStorage: 0x20d(row,col) – works w/ PowerPoint 2013 ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
5. tdf#130685 CRASH: after pasting and undoing (change tracking involved) ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
6. tdf#131195 Android Viewer crashes when pressing back while loading document ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )
7. tdf#131613 Crash after object rename from Navigator ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
8. tdf#131621 Crash saving template file (see comment 4) ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
9. tdf#131663 CRASH: Crash while inserting large PNG image (SKIA) ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
10. tdf#131684 Crash when doing undoing ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
11. tdf#131715 Crash clicking on Data range in the Chart Wizard twice/three times ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
12. tdf#131721 Skia rendering (Vulkan or Raster) crash when attempting to dragging a few columns of data ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
13. tdf#131729 IMAGE WRAP: Crash if you wrap an image with vertical position “Bottom + Page text area” ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
14. tdf#131767 Crash when opening mail merge wizard for attached doc ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
15. tdf#131907 Crash: reject/clear formatting ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
16. tdf#131939 Crash on File Exit (SKIA) ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
17. tdf#132001 FILEOPEN DOCX CRASH: File fails to open with frame in header and change tracked table ( Thanks to László Németh )
18. tdf#132051 Crash with Skia when resize Draw window (debug build) ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
19. tdf#132097 Find Previous with direction columns crashes in specific condition ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
20. tdf#132143 CRASH using Ctrl+End in Object Catalog ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
21. tdf#132210 [1] Calc crashes when I close spreadsheet file ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
22. tdf#132278 crash after opening an old file ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
23. tdf#132335 Skia: Crash with starting slideshow of presentation based on template “Blue Curve” ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
24. tdf#132367 Skia: Crash with presenter console ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )

List of performance issues fixed

1. tdf#131496 Presentation opens slower than before ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
2. tdf#131716 Freeze/hang after clicking Cancel in the Chart Wizard (with a large range of data selected) ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
3. tdf#131951 FILEOPEN: Quadratic time on reading and converting html files with images ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
4. tdf#132388 BASIC: Replace is awfully slow ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )

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

1. tdf#73056 FILEOPEN: Non-global Table Row Margins of MS WORD 97-2003 DOC are only implemented for 1st Cell of Row. ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
2. tdf#78749 [FILEOPEN]: DOCX import filter loses the frame’s (object’s) background bitmap ( Thanks to Attila Bakos )
3. tdf#79426 Macros: Passing an error object to a function causes a run time error. ( Thanks to Andreas Heinisch )
4. tdf#79553 FILEOPEN: Incorrect spacing between numbers and lines when opening a .doc file ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
5. tdf#91565 REPORT BUILDER: Missing insert field icon in Add Field dialog ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
6. tdf#91818 UI: Start Centre Recent Files allows mouse wheel scroll when there is no scroll bar ( Thanks to Roman Kuznetsov )
7. tdf#95425 Number format of data labels reset when format of data series is changed ( Thanks to Balazs Varga )
8. tdf#96760 Android: Viewer cannot open odp file with video inserted ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )
9. tdf#99197 Rendering error of punctuation mark in Word document. ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
10. tdf#99674 Add IDEF diagram shapes to gallery ( Thanks to andreas kainz )

WORKSFORME bugs

107 bugs have been retested by 29 people.

Top 10 testers

1. Buovjaga ( 28 )
2. Michael Weghorn ( 11 )
3. Julien Nabet ( 10 )
4. Jean-Baptiste Faure ( 8 )
5. Dieter ( 6 )
6. Heiko Tietze ( 5 )
7. Roman Kuznetsov ( 5 )
8. Aron Budea ( 5 )
9. Xisco Faulí ( 4 )
10. Timur ( 4 )

DUPLICATED bugs

148 bugs have been duplicated by 36 people.

Top 10 testers

1. Justin L ( 19 )
2. Timur ( 17 )
3. Buovjaga ( 16 )
4. V Stuart Foote ( 13 )
5. Dieter ( 8 )
6. Xisco Faulí ( 8 )
7. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 7 )
8. Telesto ( 5 )
9. eisa01 ( 5 )
10. Lubos Lunak ( 5 )

Verified bug fixes

66 bugs have been verified by 12 people.

Top 10 Verifiers

1. Xisco Faulí ( 48 )
2. Regina Henschel ( 4 )
3. Justin L ( 3 )
4. Michael Weghorn ( 2 )
5. Julien Nabet ( 2 )
6. V Stuart Foote ( 1 )
7. Jürgen Kirsten ( 1 )
8. Timur ( 1 )
9. Jim Raykowski ( 1 )
10. raal ( 1 )

Categorized Bugs

411 bugs have been categorized with a metabug by 32 people.

Top 10 Categorizers

1. Dieter ( 103 )
2. Telesto ( 56 )
3. Aron Budea ( 44 )
4. Roman Kuznetsov ( 41 )
5. Buovjaga ( 27 )
6. Heiko Tietze ( 22 )
7. Rizal Muttaqin ( 15 )
8. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 12 )
9. Thomas Lendo ( 12 )
10. V Stuart Foote ( 11 )

Regression Bugs

86 bugs have been set as regressions by 20 people.

Top 10

1. Xisco Faulí ( 21 )
2. Telesto ( 18 )
3. Timur ( 8 )
4. Buovjaga ( 7 )
5. Aron Budea ( 6 )
6. Dieter ( 5 )
7. Justin L ( 3 )
8. Oliver Brinzing ( 3 )
9. Jan-Marek Glogowski ( 2 )
10. David ( 2 )

Bisected Bugs

57 bugs have been bisected by 11 people.

Top 10 Bisecters

1. Xisco Faulí ( 20 )
2. Buovjaga ( 8 )
3. Attila Baraksó (NISZ) ( 7 )
4. Aron Budea ( 5 )
5. Justin L ( 4 )
6. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 4 )
7. raal ( 4 )
8. Telesto ( 2 )
9. Michael Stahl (CIB) ( 1 )
10. Michael Weghorn ( 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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