QA/Dev Report: July 2020

General Activities

1. LibreOffice 6.4.5 was announced on July, 2
2. A Bug Hunting Session for LibreOffice 7.0 RC1 took place on July, 6
3. Olivier Hallot (TDF) added a help page for Calc cell styles
4. László Németh (NISZ) documented the new “Localized options” of AutoCorrect in help and fixed DOCX import issues concerning paragraph spacing and rotated text in table cell
5. Octavio Alvarez made Clear Direct Formatting help match reality
6. Stanislav Horacek, Mihkel Tõnnov, Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF), Olivier Hallot (TDF) and Johnny_M made many Help improvements and cleanups
7. Caolán McNamara (Red Hat) fixed a print preview clip region issue and a mismatch of document names with their thumbnails in the Start Center with right-to-left UI. He also continued the crucial user interface backend work and did many cleanups and crash fixes
8. Eike Rathke (Red Hat) improved the correctness of Calc’s input field number scanner, made it so TIMEVALUE() accepts minutes or seconds > 59 and improved handling of decimal separators
9. Stephan Bergmann (Red Hat) made many cleanups, C++ conformance fixes and build and test fixes
10. Luboš Luňák (Collabora) fixed saving big documents with a password and continued with the Skia graphics engine integration
11. Noel Grandin (Collabora) made many code cleanups and improved the performance of undoing sheet deletion in Calc
12. Miklos Vajna (Collabora) fixed an issue with DOCX chart labels, semi-transparent text in exported SVGs, made it so only built-in fonts are used for forms in order to export working PDFs, fixed handling soft hyphens in Writer’s find & replace, fixed a DOCX issue with overlapping floating tables anchored inside a table, made it possible to add visible signatures to existing PDF files in Draw
13. Xisco Faulí (TDF) made nearly 30 additions and fixes to unit tests
14. Szabolcs Tóth and Regényi Balázs (NISZ) fixed several issues with imported and exported DOCX shape width, height and position
15. Jan-Marek Glogowski fixed some Qt5 issues and made updates and improvements to the build process and dependencies
16. Szymon Kłos (Collabora) continued working on the styles preview widget for the Tabbed Notebookbar user interface and made many Notebookbar-related code cleanups
17. Julien Nabet fixed issues in Swarm Non-Linear Solver, an issue with exported image file extension, made PNG export remember the previously selected transparency option and made some improvements to the auto-redaction feature
18. Rizal Muttaqin made many improvements in the icon themes
19. Adolfo Jayme Barrientos improved the layout of the About and Auto-redaction dialogs
20. Tor Lillqvist (Collabora) worked on the iOS app, did code cleanups and macOS build improvements
21. Mike Kaganski (Collabora) improved the Windows installation process for locales other than en-US, prevented unwanted view scrolling in Writer after certain operations and did code cleanups and crash fixes
22. Pierre Marty (Linagora) fixed viewing PDF after export and updating the state of slide master option buttons in Tabbed interface
23. Dante Doménech added func and oper to Math Elements pane and introduced a symbol for Fourier transform
24. Jim Raykowski added the much-requested outline folding feature to Writer
25. Tibor Nagy (NISZ) fixed an issue with textbox positioning in an imported DOCX
26. Szabolcs Tóth (NISZ) fixed an issue with the Z-order of objects in an imported DOCX file
27. Attila Szűcs (NISZ) fixed AutoSize width of frames in an imported DOCX file, missing font color settings and text contents in header/footer of imported XLSX files
28. Balázs Varga (NISZ) fixed several OOXML chart import/export issues
29. Srijan Bhatia made it possible to change the animation for several objects at once in Impress, added an exit button to the Presenter console and an option to print even or odd values from a particular range in all applications
30. Attila Bakos (NISZ) fixed issues with positioning and anchoring in imported DOCX files and issues with the textboxes of shapes in Writer
31. Svante Schubert fixed top border style in HTML export
32. Maxim Monastirsky fixed RTL/LTR buttons not appearing before restart after enabling CTL and fixed issues with the “New file” button when extra large icons are selected
33. Justin Luth (Collabora/SIL) fixed missing bottom border and background colour of vertically merged table cells in imported DOCX files, incorrect font colours in an imported DOC file, added an entry for “Delete Table” in Draw/Impress context menu and toolbar, missing left/right table borders in certain situations in imported DOCX files, issues with headers in imported/exported DOC/DOCX files, tabstop position after a bullet point in an exported DOC file and recentering of center-aligned tables after resizing
34. Samuel Thibault improved the accessibility regression testing tool
35. Vasily Melenchuk (CIB) made style name generation in Writer safer
36. Tünde Tóth (NISZ) fixed some issues with OOXML chart titles and labels
37. Michael Stahl (CIB) fixed many issues with undo/redo in Writer and continued improving change tracking and anchoring
38. Sarper Akdemir worked on his GSoC project “Add Impress shape animations that use a real physics engine”
39. Ahmed ElShreif worked on his GSoC project “Extending the UITest framework”
40. Ahmad Ganzouri worked on his GSoC project “Blurry Shadows”
41. Shivam Kumar Singh worked on his GSoC project “Styles Inspector”
42. Aditya Sahu worked on his GSoC project “Move the gallery code to use ZIP files”
43. Yusuf Keten worked on his GSoC project “Additions – Tight integration of extensions!”

Kudos to Ilmari Lauhakangas for helping to elaborate the list above.

Reported Bugs

900 bugs, 99 of which are enhancements, have been reported by 364 people.

Top 10 Reporters

1. Telesto ( 228 )
2. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 48 )
3. Heiko Tietze ( 30 )
4. Xisco Faulí ( 27 )
5. NSO LibreOffice Team ( 22 )
6. Mike Kaganski ( 17 )
7. R. Green ( 13 )
8. sawakaze ( 13 )
9. johnks ( 9 )
10. Jim Avera ( 8 )

Triaged Bugs

715 bugs have been triaged by 94 people.

Top 10 Triagers

1. Xisco Faulí ( 201 )
2. Heiko Tietze ( 60 )
3. Telesto ( 47 )
4. Dieter ( 37 )
5. Julien Nabet ( 36 )
6. Timur ( 35 )
7. V Stuart Foote ( 28 )
8. Buovjaga ( 26 )
9. Mike Kaganski ( 22 )
10. Roman Kuznetsov ( 14 )

Resolution of resolved bugs

580 bugs have been set to RESOLVED.

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

Fixed Bugs

215 bugs have been fixed by 43 people.

Top 10 Fixers

1. Caolán McNamara ( 20 )
2. Shivam Kumar Singh ( 13 )
3. Justin Luth ( 12 )
4. Michael Stahl ( 11 )
5. Luboš Luňák ( 10 )
6. László Németh ( 8 )
7. Regényi Balázs ( 7 )
8. Julien Nabet ( 7 )
9. Mike Kaganski ( 7 )
10. Eike Rathke ( 6 )

List of critical bugs fixed

1. tdf#134085 Start Center: Document names mismatched with their thumbnails with RTL language UI ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
2. tdf#134582 Edited forms created by older version of LO cannot be opened any more ( steps in comment 11) ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
3. tdf#134796 FILESAVE: big document with password can’t be open afterwards ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )

List of high severity bugs fixed

1. tdf#127680 New Print dialog: impossible to only print even/odd pages from a range/selection ( Thanks to Srijan Bhatia )
2. tdf#130559 LibreOffice crashes when opening a document in print preview ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
3. tdf#134332 Error when saving bigger odt/ods with password ( Thanks to Luboš Luňák )
4. tdf#134647 CRASH: going to next slide on slideshow ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
5. tdf#134769 XLSX file saved in LibreOffice 7 is corrupted and it is later not possible to open in Excel ( Thanks to Serge Krot )
6. tdf#38093 Add an Outline View layout and editing mode to Writer ( Thanks to Jim Raykowski )
7. tdf#60684 Images right-click save in wrong format as PNG in all modules ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )

List of crashes fixed

1. tdf#130559 LibreOffice crashes when opening a document in print preview ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
2. tdf#132082 Crash when entering text in multiple cells in Japanese language environment (LOOL) ( Thanks to Andras Timar )
3. tdf#132911 Crash swlo!BigPtrArray::Index2Block+0xc8: ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
4. tdf#133967 Crash swlo!SwDoc::GotoOutline+0x59c ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
5. tdf#134250 CRASH: undoing table paste ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
6. tdf#134252 CRASH: undoing section paste ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
7. tdf#134253 CRASH: undoing field paste ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
8. tdf#134405 Crash when tapping odp slideshow, if experimental mode enabled. ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )
9. tdf#134431 CRASH: pasting content twice ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
10. tdf#134436 Crash specific undo/redo dance ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
11. tdf#134521 Impress crashes after select object from the the navigator ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
12. tdf#134551 CRASH: Deleting module in macro editor ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
13. tdf#134562 Crash when focusing a figure using the Styles Inspector ( Thanks to Shivam Kumar Singh )
14. tdf#134576 A VBA macro crashes LO ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
15. tdf#134647 CRASH: going to next slide on slideshow ( Thanks to Noel Grandin )
16. tdf#134674 Crash: Impress – Insert Animated Image – Doubleclick on ‘Create’ – 3 type of crashs [Regression] ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
17. tdf#134816 Crash using Styles Inspector with paragraph styles that don’t inherit from Default Paragraph Style ( Thanks to Shivam Kumar Singh )
18. tdf#134820 Crash after undo with experimental features enabled ( Thanks to Shivam Kumar Singh )
19. tdf#134965 Crash in: swlo.dll ( Thanks to Michael Stahl )
20. tdf#135078 CRASH: Impress crashes if try start a slide show from current slide ( Thanks to Mike Kaganski )
21. tdf#135179 CRASH after closing sidebar after using Styles Inspector ( Thanks to Shivam Kumar Singh )
22. tdf#135211 Crash: Run Swam Non Linear Solver with blank input ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
23. tdf#135212 Libreoffice (KDE wayland) crashes when selecting text ( Thanks to Michael Weghorn )
24. tdf#135317 CRASH: opening ‘Animated Image’ dialog (gtk3) ( Thanks to Caolán McNamara )
25. tdf#135321 CRASH: Right click on empty Command list (gen) ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )

List of performance issues fixed

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

1. tdf#100348 PPT(X) export of fontwork does not work ( Thanks to Regina Henschel )
2. tdf#100772 Draw/Impress: “Delete Table” in context menu and toolbar ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
3. tdf#38093 Add an Outline View layout and editing mode to Writer ( Thanks to Jim Raykowski )
4. tdf#50879 form exported as pdf does not embed all required fonts ( Thanks to Miklos Vajna )
5. tdf#59674 FILESAVE DOC: tabstop after bullet point in wrong position for MSWord (comment 9) ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
6. tdf#60684 Images right-click save in wrong format as PNG in all modules ( Thanks to Julien Nabet )
7. tdf#81522 FILESAVE: can’t save .docx after deleting header or footer ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
8. tdf#85551 LO Calc and MS Excel treat invalid OFFSET height and width parameters differently ( Thanks to Eike Rathke )
9. tdf#87783 Unifying wrap labels ( Thanks to Gabor Kelemen )
10. tdf#98000 FILESAVE DOCX Problem with size of headers ( Thanks to Justin Luth )
11. tdf#99492 cell background colour ignored on all but the top grids of a vertically merged cell. ( Thanks to Justin Luth )

WORKSFORME bugs

72 bugs have been retested by 32 people.

Top 10 testers

1. Julien Nabet ( 9 )
2. Telesto ( 8 )
3. Timur ( 7 )
4. Xisco Faulí ( 7 )
5. Buovjaga ( 5 )
6. m.a.riosv ( 3 )
7. Jim Avera ( 3 )
8. Thomas Lendo ( 3 )
9. Aron Budea ( 3 )
10. steve -_- ( 3 )

DUPLICATED bugs

144 bugs have been duplicated by 43 people.

Top 10 testers

1. Telesto ( 27 )
2. Timur ( 17 )
3. Xisco Faulí ( 14 )
4. Heiko Tietze ( 11 )
5. V Stuart Foote ( 10 )
6. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 7 )
7. Julien Nabet ( 5 )
8. Maxim Monastirsky ( 5 )
9. Justin L ( 4 )
10. Lubos Lunak ( 3 )

Verified bug fixes

89 bugs have been verified by 15 people.

Top 10 Verifiers

1. Xisco Faulí ( 53 )
2. BogdanB ( 15 )
3. Attila Baraksó (NISZ) ( 4 )
4. Roman Kuznetsov ( 3 )
5. Buovjaga ( 2 )
6. Dieter ( 2 )
7. baffclan ( 2 )
8. Timur ( 1 )
9. Adolfo Jayme ( 1 )
10. raal ( 1 )

Categorized Bugs

306 bugs have been categorized with a metabug by 36 people.

Top 10 Categorizers

1. Telesto ( 63 )
2. Dieter ( 44 )
3. Roman Kuznetsov ( 25 )
4. Thomas Lendo ( 19 )
5. Thomas Lendo QA ( 16 )
6. V Stuart Foote ( 15 )
7. Aron Budea ( 14 )
8. Rizal Muttaqin ( 14 )
9. Heiko Tietze ( 13 )
10. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 9 )

Regression Bugs

187 bugs have been set as regressions by 24 people.

Top 10

1. Telesto ( 108 )
2. Xisco Faulí ( 47 )
3. raal ( 3 )
4. Thomas Lendo ( 3 )
5. Buovjaga ( 2 )
6. Mike Kaganski ( 2 )
7. Timur ( 2 )
8. Eike Rathke ( 2 )
9. Roman Kuznetsov ( 2 )
10. Alex Thurgood ( 2 )

Bisected Bugs

107 bugs have been bisected by 10 people.

Top 10 Bisecters

1. Xisco Faulí ( 58 )
2. Telesto ( 16 )
3. Attila Baraksó (NISZ) ( 10 )
4. Aron Budea ( 9 )
5. Buovjaga ( 5 )
6. raal ( 3 )
7. Terrence Enger ( 3 )
8. Michael Stahl (CIB) ( 1 )
9. ladukodi.yeet ( 1 )
10. NISZ LibreOffice Team ( 1 )

Evolution of Unconfirmed Bugs

Check the current list of unconfirmed bugs here

Evolution of Open Regressions

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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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