[Libreoffice-qa] ESC meeting minutes: 2023-11-09

Miklos Vajna vmiklos at collabora.com
Thu Nov 9 15:55:07 UTC 2023


* Present:
     + Caolan, Heiko, Hossein, Ilmari, Michael W, Regina, Stephan, Stephane, Thorsten, Cloph, Miklos, Michael S, Eike

* Completed Action Items:

* Pending Action Items:
     + Set up a daily tinderbox for the python-based windows installer (Cloph)
       [ in progress, .NET 3.5 install is harder than expected ]

* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
     + 7.5.8 release on Linux:
       + no https access, planning an additional release (RC3) just for that problem, for Linux
       + also for the mac app store version
       + thanks Michael S for fixing
       + affects also the update check service, but no easy solution to that
       + expect people upgrade to 7.6 anyway.
       + or a whole release for all platforms? (Cloph)
         + fine to keep going unchanged (Caolan)
     + 7.6 status: 7.6.3 rc2 next week, as planned
     + 24.2: first alpha in 2 weeks, from master
     + Android version in the play store (Michael W)
       + in progress, addressing the play console warnings

* Documentation (Olivier)
     + Missing Olivier, LatAm conf is in progress.
     + Bugzilla Documentation statistics
         272(272) bugs open
     + Updates:
         BZ changes   1 week   1 month   3 months   12 months
            created      2(-5)   16(-3)     49(-4)     284(-7)
          commented     12(-1)   50(6)     159(-3)    1068(-8)
           resolved      1(-2)    6(1)      17(-4)     153(-4)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Ilmari Lauhakangas made 13 changes in 1 month, and 131 changes in 1 year
           Heiko Tietze made 10 changes in 1 month, and 112 changes in 1 year
           Seth Chaiklin made 10 changes in 1 month, and 316 changes in 1 year
           Kaganski, Mike made 9 changes in 1 month, and 77 changes in 1 year
           Olivier Hallot made 9 changes in 1 month, and 431 changes in 1 year
           Stéphane Guillou made 8 changes in 1 month, and 359 changes in 1 year
           Jérôme made 6 changes in 1 month, and 6 changes in 1 year
           Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 1 changes in 1 month, and 22 changes in 1 year
           m.a.riosv made 1 changes in 1 month, and 11 changes in 1 year
           MISY Nyias made 1 changes in 1 month, and 1 changes in 1 year

* UX Update (Heiko)
     + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
         254(254) (topicUI) bugs open, 67(67) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
     + Updates:
         BZ changes   1 week   1 month   3 months   12 months
              added     12(4)     24(8)     29(10)      50(10)
          commented     68(12)   246(51)   490(40)    2264(24)
            removed      1(1)      2(0)      4(1)       18(-2)
           resolved      5(-3)    31(1)     89(1)      332(-4)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Heiko Tietze made 138 changes in 1 month, and 1380 changes in 1 year
           Stéphane Guillou made 130 changes in 1 month, and 612 changes in 1 year
           Eyal Rozenberg made 32 changes in 1 month, and 258 changes in 1 year
           m.a.riosv made 31 changes in 1 month, and 103 changes in 1 year
           Vernon, Stuart Foote made 30 changes in 1 month, and 349 changes in 1 year
           Justin Luth made 25 changes in 1 month, and 118 changes in 1 year
           Ilmari Lauhakangas made 22 changes in 1 month, and 246 changes in 1 year
           Dieter made 20 changes in 1 month, and 245 changes in 1 year
           Amin Irgaliev made 14 changes in 1 month, and 17 changes in 1 year
           Henschel, Regina made 12 changes in 1 month, and 43 changes in 1 year
     + [Bug 158126] UI: Scalable buttons for Impress navigation bar
     + [Bug 158123] Overflow the tabbed interface to scroll/flip instead of a popup
     + [Bug 156915] Cannot access document themes option using tabbed UI
  -> + [Bug 137272] Make it less likely that user unwillingly loses footnote and
            endnote font size inheritance from paragraph
            + additional footnote char style adds some flexibility but make things inconsistent
            + no special style in Word, but then can't change all footnotes at once
            + an option is to hardcode how the footnote is derived from the current char style
            + would leave towards not having a dedicated char style for the footnote portion (Miklos)
  -> + [Bug 158069] Scroll through font selection listbox using arrow keys and
            preview change on document canvas
            + sounds nice if it can work fast enough (Miklos)
     + [Bug 158084] Start Center: hover highlight color is inconsistent
     + [Bug 143340] Undo/redo for checking/unchecking KeepRatio in Image Properties
            Dialog not properly handled
     + [Bug 158077] "double bracket" callout name is a misnomer
     + [Bug 157972] Don't shorten "Relative size" to "Rel. Size" in
            Bullets & Numbering dialog
     + [Bug 158034] Feature request: Editing, Formatting, UI. Option to add linebreaks
            when merging cells into one.
     + [Bug 157945] UI: Resizing of a selection of columns/rows should correspond to
            the mouse position
     + [Bug 158017] Impress Freshes Template using wrong font color in some slides

* Crash Testing (Caolan)
     + 17(+8) import failure, 10(+10) export failures
       + one calc parallel problem is fixed
       + styleref problem is still to be addressed
       + same for the new content control changes
     + 1 coverity issues
     + 10 ossfuzz issues
       - 4 new leaks (ItemPool?)
       - 1 new OOM in svmfuzzer
       - 2 new TimeOuts

* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
     + 7.6.0.2    113(+2)
     + 7.6.0.3    15662(+872)
     + 7.6.1.2    7885(+503)
     + 7.6.2.1    13877(+3380)

* Mentoring (Hossein)
   + New draft blog post on dev blog
     + String types in LibreOffice C/C++ code - part 2
       + Discussing string literals, streams, buffers
       https://dev.blog.documentfoundation.org/?p=752&preview=1&_ppp=b15fe12405
     + Next, I will discuss 2 EasyHacks defined for C++20 literals
   + Used Volunteermatch to attract new contributors for Python
    + Project: Porting LibreOffice SDK Java examples to Python
    + Already received 2 volunteering offers, contacted them
   + Created LibreOffice SDK Programming Guide (SDKGuide) on TDF Wiki
     + Based on JLOP (Java LibreOffice Programming) book by Andrew Davison
     + Imported 6 chapters (text, code, images, etc.)
     + Edited the 6 chapters to update the contents
         https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/SDKGuide
     + plan is to provide C++ implementation for the helper classes, so it's available to all UNO-using languages
       Utility classes
       https://github.com/hosseinn/jlop-code/tree/main/Utils
       + should we port such code, or just keep java-only?
       + see it as a trade-off: then somebody has to maintain this (Miklos)
       + if it's real c++ classes, then skeptical (Stephan)
       + An example wrapper is the one that provide an easy way to bootstrap (Hossein)
       + think the current DevGuide already provides simple bootstrap way in C++/Java/Python (Stephan)
         + best to look at this offline.
           + Utils/Lo.java contains this wrapper class
       + next step: write to the dev list and expand on the details (Hossein)

           committer...   1 week      1 month     3 months     12 months
                   open      88(-35)     220(19)     220(18)       220(18)
                reviews     302(-146)   1258(-44)   3202(-118)   11800(-22)
                 merged     246(-26)    1112(25)    2971(-19)    12833(9)
              abandoned       3(-20)      64(0)      171(-5)       647(-12)
            own commits     192(-3)      843(43)    2130(25)      9670(-13)
         review commits      49(-13)     239(3)      630(13)      2987(-32)
         contributor...   1 week      1 month    3 months   12 months
                   open     128(8)       219(48)    219(46)     220(46)
                reviews     760(-178)   3016(76)   7214(12)   30592(-46)
                 merged      14(2)        63(1)     181(6)     1951(-44)
              abandoned       5(2)        20(1)     217(3)      610(0)
            own commits      13(-1)       69(-7)    208(0)     1072(-27)
         review commits       0(0)         0(0)       0(0)        0(0)
     + easyHack statistics:
        needsDevEval 8(8)   needsUXEval 2(2)   cleanup_comments 321(321)
        total 408(408)   assigned 22(22)   open 359(359)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Sahil Gautam made 5 patches in 1 month, and 15 patches in 1 year
           Omkar Acharekar  made 4 patches in 1 month, and 6 patches in 1 year
           Ankit Kumar Jaipuriar made 4 patches in 1 month, and 7 patches in 1 year
           Khushi Gautam made 4 patches in 1 month, and 4 patches in 1 year
           Marco Pinto made 2 patches in 1 month, and 4 patches in 1 year
           Bogdan B made 2 patches in 1 month, and 89 patches in 1 year
           Stéphane Guillou made 2 patches in 1 month, and 39 patches in 1 year
           Venetia Furtado made 2 patches in 1 month, and 7 patches in 1 year
           Martin Gube made 2 patches in 1 month, and 2 patches in 1 year
           Darshan Upadhyay made 2 patches in 1 month, and 3 patches in 1 year
     + top 10 reviewers:
           Caolán McNamara made 174 review comments in 1 month, and 750 in 1 year
           Michael Stahl made 116 review comments in 1 month, and 1180 in 1 year
           Ilmari Lauhakangas made 108 review comments in 1 month, and 430 in 1 year
           Vajna, Miklos made 86 review comments in 1 month, and 902 in 1 year
           Xisco Fauli made 78 review comments in 1 month, and 770 in 1 year
           Nabet, Julien made 72 review comments in 1 month, and 972 in 1 year
           Kaganski, Mike made 68 review comments in 1 month, and 394 in 1 year
           Grandin, Noel made 58 review comments in 1 month, and 608 in 1 year
           Hossein made 52 review comments in 1 month, and 264 in 1 year
           Vajngerl, Tomaž made 34 review comments in 1 month, and 396 in 1 year

* Commit Access
   + None

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Miklos/Thorsten/László)
   + resting since: 6 weeks (limit: 20 weeks)

* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
gerrit_android_aarch64     jobs: 193 ok: 188 ko:   4 fail ratio: 2.07% mean_ok:   7 ( 12) median_ok:   5 (  8)
gerrit_android_arm         jobs: 194 ok: 184 ko:   9 fail ratio: 4.64% mean_ok:   7 ( 11) median_ok:   5 (  8)
gerrit_android_x86         jobs: 192 ok: 186 ko:   4 fail ratio: 2.08% mean_ok:   8 ( 11) median_ok:   6 (  7)
gerrit_android_x86_64      jobs: 192 ok: 184 ko:   6 fail ratio: 3.12% mean_ok:   8 ( 12) median_ok:   5 (  8)
gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil jobs: 417 ok: 324 ko:  87 fail ratio: 20.86% mean_ok:  38 ( 42) median_ok:  35 ( 37)
gerrit_linux_gcc_release   jobs: 424 ok: 382 ko:  30 fail ratio: 7.08% mean_ok:  16 ( 18) median_ok:  13 ( 14)
gerrit_mac                 jobs: 401 ok: 357 ko:  33 fail ratio: 8.23% mean_ok:  45 ( 66) median_ok:  42 ( 44)
gerrit_windows             jobs: 458 ok: 334 ko: 112 fail ratio: 24.45% mean_ok:  67 (107) median_ok:  67 ( 83)
gerrit_master_ml           jobs: 513 ok: 292 ko: 194 fail ratio: 37.82% mean_ok: 130 (142) median_ok: 100 (103)
gerrit_master              jobs:  50 ok:  28 ko:  20 fail ratio: 40.00% mean_ok:  93 ( 93) median_ok:  61 ( 61)
gerrit_master_seq          jobs: 463 ok: 264 ko: 174 fail ratio: 37.58% mean_ok: 126 (133) median_ok: 103 (104)
    + https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/tmp/gerrit_231109.html
    + tests that failed more than twice in last seven days
       3 Killed by the kill-wrapper                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil_branch
       3 CppunitTest_sw_mailmerge                gerrit_windows
       3 JunitTest_chart2_unoapi                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       4 CppunitTest_sw_ooxmlexport17                gerrit_mac
       5 UITest_calc_tests8                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      24 Killed by the kill-wrapper                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      + in terms of code failures, not too bad
      + quite some kill-wrapper problems, though
      + had a problem with one of the macOS builders
      + also a Windows builder broke and was not auto-detected

* FTP UCP removal (Michael S)
   + patch in gerrit to remove this:
       https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/159065
   + think we already decided to remove this at some stage, LO 7.4 release note already deprecated this.
   + configuration setting to set an ftp proxy
     + some java client may still use it.
     + OK to remove this, still?
       + just drop it (Thorsten, Michael W, Stephan)
   + don't forget to add that to the RelNotes
     https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/24.2 (Cloph)
   + re deprecating old protocols (Hossein)
     + also watch for new protocols
     + warn on unencrypted http?
       + not interested in investigating this, though
       + currently implementing a new setting "allow insecure protocols" (Michael S)

           https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/159011

         + still enabled by default
         + can disable it
         + then only https will be allowed
         + and only newer TLS versions
         + auditing the python mail merge / wiki publisher to cope with this
     + also interested in securing our URP listener (Hossein)
       + will add an option to disable that (Michael S)

           https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/159151

       + also there is a wifi listener somewhere (Thorsten)
         + but the user has to explicitly enable it first? (Michael S)
         + yes (Thorsten, Cloph)
     + while defaulting to "no warn on http" for now, consider switching that in the future (Thorsten)
       + may make sense to release-note this.

* What’s cooking (Miklos)
     + Multi-page floating tables in Writer, see tdf#157119 for details (Miklos)
       + focusing on the UI now
     + A11y update (Michael W)
       + some fixes for spelling dialog
       + working on adding support for reporting spelling errors in EditEngine
       + discussion around support for AT-SPI object attributes in Gtk 4:
         https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/6196
     + Import of Word drawing canvas (Regina)

         https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/156629

         + WIP patch for Writer, 2 problems:

           + the curve connectors don't work

           + same problem as in Impress

           + ignore curve connectors for now?

             + probably OK to get it in without it being perfect (Miklos)

             + if it's a net improvement

           + 2nd problem:

             + current state: could be committed, but would appreciate a review

             + no unit tests yet.

             + not sure it'll be in time for 24.2 feature freeze

             + at least one unit test would be nice before asking for review, to see the improvements.

           + Xisco can also help with adding tests (Cloph)


* QA update (Xisco)
     + UNCONFIRMED: 996 (+3)
         + enhancements: 246  (+3)
         + needsUXEval: 12 (+5)
         + haveBackTrace: 11 (+1)
         + needsDevAdvice: 35 (+0)
         + documentation:  2 (+1)
         + android:  0 (+0)
         + iOS:  0 (+0)
         + Online:  11 (+0)



     + Most pressing bugs:
      New:
      Old:
      Fixed:


     + New high severity bugs of the week:
         + LO Writer automatically replaces SVGs embedded in FODT files with an embedded low-resolution PNGs and drops the SVGs from the documents
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123396
             + bisected to Tomaz

* QA stats (Stéphane)
     + As Xisco mentioned last week, below 1000 unconfirmed
     + Dashboard data updated: https://stragu.shinyapps.io/lo_qa_dashboard/
     + QA Weekly Focus started last week on SVG: https://qa.blog.documentfoundation.org/2023/10/30/qa-weekly-focus-svg/
        + Of 176 listed reports, 66 have been touched so far
        + Contributions from at least: Kira Tubo, Bogdan Buzea, Roland Baudin, Stéphane Quenson, Régis Perdreau, Timur, Ilmari
     + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
       +91  +15 (-113) overall)
       many thanks to the top bug squashers:
        Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 18
        QA Administrators       14
        Balázs Varga (allotropia) 7
        Buovjaga                7
        Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 6
        Mike Kaganski           6
        Timur                   6
        Michael Weghorn         4
        BogdanB                 3
        Dieter                  3

     + top 10 bugs reporters:
        Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 5
        Mike Kaganski           5
        Eyal Rozenberg          4
        Joanmarie Diggs         2
        Lakshmi                 2
        intmail01               2
        zarifahnaf              2
        zzz                     2
        Camaleón                1
        Jeff Fortin Tam         1

     + top 10 bugs fixers:
        Balazs Varga            7
        Justin Luth             3
        Patrick Luby            3
        Stéphane Guillou        3
        Timur                   3
        Weghorn, Michael        3
        Balland-Poirier, Laurent 2
        Ilmari Lauhakangas      2
        Melenchuk, Vasily       2
        Németh, László          2

     + top 10 bugs confirmers:
        Ilmari Lauhakangas      18
        Stéphane Guillou        11
        Heiko Tietze            8
        m.a.riosv               7
        Dieter                  6
        Xisco Fauli             5
        *UNKNOWN*               3
        Henschel, Regina        2
        Kelemen, Gabor          2
        Nabet, Julien           2


* Bisected bugs open: keyword 'bisected'
    + more accurate - down to a single commit.
    + http://bit.ly/2dyIfDy
    +

      done by:
         Xisco Fauli            3
         Ilmari Lauhakangas     1
         Kira Tubo              1
         Stéphane Guillou       1


* Bibisected bugs open: keyword 'bibisected'
    + http://bit.ly/2cSCXlS
    +

      done by:
         Xisco Fauli            3
         Ilmari Lauhakangas     1
         Kelemen, Gabor         1
         Kira Tubo              1
         Stéphane Guillou       1


* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
    + 1219(+1) bugs open of 12950(+12) total 17(+0) high prio.

      done by:
         Stéphane Guillou       3
         Xisco Fauli            3
         Kira Tubo              2
         ady                    1
         Ilmari Lauhakangas     1
         Kelemen, Gabor         1


* ~Component   count net * high severity regressions
    + http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
      Writer        - 11(+0)
      Calc          - 3(+0)
      LibreOffice   - 2(+0)
      UI            - 1(+0)

    by OS:
      All           - 12(+0)
      Linux         - 3(+0)
      Mac OS X      - 0(+0)
      Windows       - 2(+0)


* ~Component   count net * all regressions
    + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
      Writer: other            - 425(+1)
      Calc                     - 222(+0)
      Impress                  - 136(+1)
      LibreOffice              - 52(+0)
      Draw                     - 50(+0)
      Crashes                  - 44(+0)
      Base                     - 42(+1)
      Writer: docx filter      - 40(+0)
      Borders                  - 36(+1)
      UI                       - 36(+0)
      Writer: other filter     - 34(-1)
      Writer: perf             - 33(+0)
      Printing and PDF export  - 24(-2)
      RTL                      - 24(+0)
      Chart                    - 22(+0)
      BASIC                    - 19(+1)
      filters and storage      - 18(-1)
      Writer: doc filter       - 15(+0)
      graphics stack           - 12(+1)
      Formula Editor           - 5(+0)
      framework                - 3(+0)
      Extensions               - 2(+0)
      sdk                      - 2(+0)
      Linguistic               - 1(+0)


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