[Libreoffice-qa] Minutes of ESC call: 2014-07-25

Jan Holesovsky kendy at collabora.com
Fri Jul 25 03:24:39 PDT 2014


* Present:
    + Cloph, Bjoern, Lionel, Michael S., Muthu, Kendy, Robinson, Andras,
      Markus, Eike, Michael M., Adam
 
* Pending Action Items:
    + ask UX advise wrt. wrench icons (revert or not ?) (Astron)
    + blog about the sad realities of web plugins (Bjoern)
    + setup some VM's that can be created on-demand (Cloph)
        + in progress
    + open-source newer Synezip tests / speak at the conference (Umesh)
    + Ask for 1-2 more dev-list moderators & re-visit next-week (Michael)
    + contact Michael / the list when students show up (Jan Marek)
    + RC3 respin / RC4 with spell-checking patch (Cloph)
    + update + enable the bibisect on Windows (Cloph)
  
* Release Engineering update (Christian)
    + 4.2.6 status
        + four open changes on gerrit for libreoffice-4-2-6, rc2 next week
          https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/q/status:open+project:core+branch:libreoffice-4-2-6,n,z
        + tagged, building, can be announced for testing later today
        + pending patches included
    + 4.3.0 RC3 status
        + announced to the public
        + whether https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81511 is a showstopper
          path of spellchecking/hyphenation/thesaurus dictionaries is not resolved on
          Windows, these functions don't work (fixed on libreoffice-4-3) (Andras)
            + potential blocker: not working spell-checking on Windows
            + still time to fix that before the final announce (Cloph)
            + time now, but probably not later :-) (Bjorn)
            + many bugs filed, other things do not look that serious (Bjoern)
            + worth RC4 (Bjoern, Eike)
            + spell-check used a lot (Eike)
AI          + RC4 / re-spin to fix spell-checking (Cloph)
                + only with the spell-checking patch
        + no open changes on gerrit for libreoffice-4-3-0
    + Android Remote
        + will switch to Android Studio (Cloph)
    + 4.3.1 late feature
          + OpenGL context on OSX including 3D models in impress (Markus)
          + some runtime errors, but mostly working now
          + 3D models: major feature
          + 3x cross-affiliation approval when ready
    + all on track (Cloph)
 
* Crashtest update (Markus)
    + http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/crashtest/82127a86dc1d127a3b6caa8279163aab1ccf119a/
    + new results - complete run
    + fully automated now, only need to announce the new directory and monitor the run from time to time
        + allows running this even when Moggi on vacation
        + progress monitor too
    + is the performance data available somewhere? (Bjoern)
        + when Matus is back, we'll have an update (Markus)
        + mergelibs feature was a problem probably (Cloph)
 
* GSOC Update (Cedric)
    + at least 6 students will be at the conference in Bern
    + a student presentation slot has been created:
        + thus students can prepare a 5-6 minute lightning talk on their project

* Certification Committee (Stephan/Bjoern/Kendy)
     + waiting until ~September

* Hackfests (Bjoern)
    + Boston Hackfest:
        ** This Weekend **
            + Help setting up pre-built Amazon VM's much appreciated ...
            + in progress, should be ready for Saturday (Cloph)
        + July 26-27th
        + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Events/2014/US_Summer_Hackfest
            + QA is happy to recruit programmers for our internal projects,
              but would like to share w/the dev team.
        + hosted by Xamarin (thank you!)
    + Interest in Portland, OR for hosting a future hackfest.
    + Munich hack-fest (Jan-Marek):
        http://www.it-muenchen-blog.de/2014/07/bug-squashing-party-2014/
        + will have a BSP come-together; if someone says they're coming
          just show up etc.
           + November 21st-23rd, 2014
           https://wiki.debian.org/BSP/2014/11/de/Munich
           + we should drop by with 2 or 3 developers, if possible
    + Toulouse Hackfest ...
        + Confirmed for Nov. 15-16th
        + more details: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Hackfest/Toulouse2014
    + Be great to have -really- easy easy hacks for devs (Bjoern)
 
* Bibisecting (Bjoern)
    + would be great to have a Windows continuously updating bibisect repo
    + we have such a proof-of-concept; what is the status? (Bjoern)
        + has it, but used to have slow upload speed (Cloph)
AI      + but that improved now, will update + enable (Cloph)
        + let's try to have every successful build in the repository
 
* QA (Robinson)
    + -39 bugs; 730 unconfirmed
    + some Calc crashers found
       + re: crashing on sort
         https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&list_id=447650&short_desc=crash%20sort&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&product=LibreOffice
    + Also possible crasher if Quickstarter is enabled
        + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80927
    + other recent "interesting" bugs
        + VIEWING: Bad Font Rendering in KDE
          https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59818
        + Implementation of YEARFRAC function inconsistent with Excel
          https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69569
    + does 4.3.0 look OK from QA point of view? (Kendy)
        + (other than what I mentioned) yes (Robinson)
 
* UX Update (?)
    + [ no Astron / Mirek ]
 
* QA stats:
  + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
    +177    -213        (-36 overall)
    many thanks to the top bug squashers:
        Jorendc             29
        Joel Madero         25
        Jean-Baptiste Faure 20
        tommy27             18
        sophie               8
        Caolán McNamara     8
        Julien Nabet         8
        ign_christian        7
        Olivier Hallot       7
        Michael Stahl        6
        Owen Genat           5
        David Tardon         4
        Alexandr             4
 
* Open 4.4 MAB
  + 3/7 2/5 1/2 1/1
  + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=79641&hide_resolved=1
 
* Open 4.3 MAB
  + 14/47 14/45 19/43 10/32 6/27 5/24 5/22 3/20 5/16 4/12 2/8 3/7 2/5
     29%   33%   44%   31%   22%  20%  22%  15%
  + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=75025&hide_resolved=1
 
* Open 4.2 MAB
  + 85/235 82/229 81/222 76/215 74/212 74/210 71/207 71/205 73/200 64/190 62/184
     36%    35%    36%    35%    34%    35%    34%    34%    36%    33%    33%
  + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=65675&hide_resolved=1
 
* Bibisected bugs open: whiteboard 'bibsected'
  + 102/308 92/296 84/283 84/280 81/274 79/265 75/259 70/249 59/231 48/215
    + http://bit.ly/VQfF3Q
 
* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
    + 428(+17) bugs open of 2886(+38) total
            ~Component   count net *
                Writer - 131 (+8)
           Spreadsheet - 76 (+7)
               Crashes - 32 (+1)
          Presentation - 28 (+2)
                    UI - 26 (+2)
           Libreoffice - 25 (-1)
              Graphics - 21 (-2)
              Database - 21 (+0)
               Borders - 19 (+2)
               Filters - 13 (+0)
               Drawing - 13 (+0)
           Print / PDF - 12 (+2)
                 Chart -  7 (+1)
            Extensions -  5 (+0)
               Formula -  5 (+0)
                 BASIC -  4 (+2)
            Linguistic -  3 (-2) .
          Installation -  3 (+0)
             framework -  3 (+0)
                   sdk -  0 (+0)
        Impress Remote -  0 (+0)
  + http://bit.ly/15mM2Yn - for devs ( no NEEDINFO / UNCONFIRMED )




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