LibreOffice Quality Assurance (QA) in 2024 – TDF’s Annual Report
Quality Assurance (QA) is a cornerstone of the LibreOffice project, thanks to the activity of a large number of volunteers and the feedback of many users who help in reporting bugs and regressions
(This is part of The Document Foundation’s Annual Report for 2024 – we’ll post the full version here soon.)
QA team work
In 2024, the QA team triaged thousands of bugs, bisected hundreds of regressions, and answered questions from countless bug reporters. As one of the most visible groups directly responding to end users, the QA team must be nimble and able to adapt to changes. In addition, it must deal with specific requests for help from other teams.
The QA team meets regularly on IRC on the #libreoffice-qa channel, which is the best medium for discussing bugs and regressions. The IRC channel provides an excellent opportunity to remain in close contact with team members, and to tutor new members in the art and skill of LibreOffice QA. This is bridged to the Telegram group.
During 2024, 5351 bugs were reported by 2463 users, which means 103 new bugs were reported every week on average. The QA team prepared monthly reports about their activity and posted on the QA blog.
Top 10 bug reporters
- Eyal Rozenberg (211)
- Gabor Kelemen (193)
- Mike Kaganski (137)
- Telesto (86)
- Regina Henschel (85)
- Xisco Faulí (82)
- Stéphane Guillou (78)
- peter josvai (75)
- Rafael Lima (72)
- Heiko Tietze (54)
Triaging
During 2024, 5086 bugs were triaged by 328 people. The top 10 bug triagers were:
- Stéphane Guillou (stragu) (762)
- Buovjaga (684)
- m_a_riosv (499)
- Heiko Tietze (374)
- V Stuart Foote (241)
- Mike Kaganski (232)
- Julien Nabet (186)
- Xisco Faulí (175)
- ady (144)
- Dieter (144)
Bibisecting
Also, during 2024, the QA team performed 561 bibisects of regressions by 30 people. The top 10 bisecters were:
- raal (121)
- Buovjaga (111)
- Stéphane Guillou (104)
- Xisco Faulí (91)
- Gabor Kelemen (24)
- Aron Budea (23)
- Timur (14)
- zcrhonek (10)
- Mike Kaganski (9)
- Justin L (8)