Minutes of the ESC call: 2014-11-20

Jan Holesovsky kendy at collabora.com
Fri Nov 21 16:44:17 PST 2014


* Present:
    + Muthu, cloph, Lionel, David, Stephan, Kohei, Markus, Miklos, Kendy, Caolan,
      Eike, Robinson, Bjoern, Michael S, Norbert, Jan-Marek
 
* Completed Action Items:
 
    + tweak autogen.sh to not add --best-effort (needed for Jenkins) (Michael M) <- done
 
* Pending Action Items:
    + look at regressions associated with a SUSE bugzilla bugfix (Timar)
    + look at sorting spreadsheet / use-cases etc. (Eike)
        cf. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=108990 ]
        ongoing, a mix of real bugs, wrong expectations and misconception about references
 
* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
    + 4.3.5 RC1 due next week (previously called 4.3.4)
        + just re-numbered the schedule
        + have nice chart -> Thunderbird/elsewhere mail/HTML copy/paste patch (Muthu)
            + review appreciated: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/11911/
            + done - thank you!
    + 4.4.0 Beta 1 / Feature Freeze / adjust ?
        + msm build problem fixed
            + re-occurence of a problem from March this year
            + will take one more last minute fix
            + will branch after the updated translations are in
            + Kendy would still like to push one thing there
                + ~1 hour needed
            + Moggi has a patch he'd like to get in too
                + but will take more than ~hour
                + late feature then
        + Recent Features ( fun ? )
            + expat -> libxml2 sax2 - 10% ? (Lubos)
            + threaded package2 / zipping (Matus)
            + threaded XLS[X] XclExpRow export win - ~20% (Michael)
            + bogus image compression avoidance (Matus)
            + calc bulk sliding window dep. tracking (Kohei)
        + Lateish Feature collection:
            + OpenGL rendering for Windows by default for good drivers (various)
               + CloudOn really waiting for the OpenGL work (Ptyl)
        + ongoing gerrit patch submissions
            + chart related patches in gerrit - fear factor (Kohei)
            + a queue of UX guys patches - modifying toolbars (Moggi)
                + good review before the feature freeze.
    + Android / iOS Remote
        + will update the support library
        + new Android UI; but minor otherwise
 
* Crashtest update (Markus)
    + futures / Manitu ordering update ?
    + migrated to a new host - 32 cores
        + started a test run yesterday evening - unfortunately shut down due to maintenance
        + takes 1 day now
    + Java processes during valitation biting us
        + threaded, load ~70 for 32 cores
    + when stable, will run a test with asan
        + memory access problems etc.
        + will provide the list of those that crash only with asan
 
* Hackfests
    + Toulouse Hackfest (Arnaud)
        + how it went?
        + well organized, thank you!
        + http://lefevre00.wordpress.com/2014/11/17/back-from-toulouse/
        + https://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2014-11-15.html https://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2014-11-16.html
        + people from an associated conference joined
            + interested in accessibility, UI, etc.
    + Munich hack-fest [ This Weekend ! ] (Jan-Marek):
        http://www.it-muenchen-blog.de/2014/07/bug-squashing-party-2014/
        + jmux (IRC) can add you if you don't want to create an account
        + 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
        + 35 or so registrations - looking fun.
        + still ~5 places, you can join!
    + Need further offers [!] ... (Bjoern)
        + propose Collabora / Cambridge (Michael)
        + should consider Las Palmas de Gran Canaria/University again (Bjoern)
        + Freiburg - also an option (prolly better in summer anyway (Bjoern)
 
* Bughunting session
 
    + this weekend
      + Tokio: http://naruoga-en.blogspot.de/2014/11/preparing-next-libreoffice-hackfest-as.html
      + on IRC: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugHunting_Session_4.4.0.0
 
* FOSDEM bits
    + https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM15
        + 20 minute slots (good to collect talks)
    + please consider filing by mid. December !
    + Volunteer needed to book / run the hackfest afterwards.
        + who did it the last year? - Mirek
AI      + Cor had some good relationship with the BetaCowork? - ask him (Kendy)
 
* UX Update (Kendy)
    + load of things sorted out, went to master
    + calc toolbar blogpost soon
    + sifr icons by default on Mac
 
* Certification (Stephan/Bjoern/Kendy)
    + page updated.
 
* Bugzilla migration update (Robinson)
    + Testing BSA
        + currently needs RPC with fdo, connecting that to our instance
          login broken against fdo instance right now - https://github.com/tdf/www-bugassistant/pull/42#issuecomment-62758516
    + Increased volunteer interest in extending Bugzilla
        + got input from them
    + Aiming for mid-Jan migration (TBD)
        + particular date not agreed yet
 
* Jenkins update (Norbert)
    + not much progress this week
 
* QA (Robinson)
    + Another big drop in UNCONFIRMED down to 580
        + thank you all! :-)
    + backlog decreasing
    
* Bibisect repositories (Bjoern)
    + from Alpha1 to Beta1
AI  + start building that (Robinson)
 
* QA stats:
  + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
    +138    -159        (-21 overall)
    many thanks to the top bug squashers:
        Beluga              26
        Caolán McNamara     12
        Joel Madero         10
        Jay Philips          9
        tommy27              9
        Julien Nabet         8
        Adolfo Jayme         8
        V Stuart Foote       7
        Urmas                6
        Maxim Monastirsky    5
        Cor Nouws            4
        Robinson Tryon (qubit) 4
 
* Open 4.4 MAB
  + 4/18 3/17 3/16 3/16 4/16 5/15 4/14 3/12 3/12 3/12 7/12 3/8 3/8
    22%  17%
  + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=79641&hide_resolved=1
 
* Open 4.3 MAB
  + 19/73 17/65 16/64 16/64 15/63 16/63 16/60 17/61 16/60 14/59 15/58 12/54
     26%   26%   25%   18%   23%   25%   26%   27%   26%   23%   25%   22%
  + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=75025&hide_resolved=1
 
* Open 4.2 MAB
  + 74/261 83/266 81/263 84/262 82/260 80/260 82/260 86/257 88/257 89/257
     28%    31%    30%    32%    31%    30%    31%    33%    35%    34%
  + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=65675&hide_resolved=1
 
* Bibisected bugs open: whiteboard 'bibsected'
  + 189/475 190/470 173/446 170/441 161/427 153/413 154/410 147/401 143/392
    + http://bit.ly/VQfF3Q
 
* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
    + 484(-6) bugs open of 3211(+18) total
        * ~Component   count net *
                Writer - 142 (+1)
           Spreadsheet - 106 (+3)
          Presentation -  31 (+0)
               Crashes -  31 (+0)
              Database -  28 (+1)
                    UI -  25 (-1)
           Libreoffice -  26 (+0)
               Drawing -  22 (+0)
              Graphics -  21 (+0)
               Borders -  20 (+1)
               Filters -  16 (-2)
           Print / PDF -  14 (+0)
                 Chart -  14 (+0)
                 BASIC -   5 (+0)
               Formula -   3 (+0)
            Linguistic -   3 (+0)
          Installation -   3 (+0)
            Extensions -   3 (+0)
                   sdk -   1 (+0)
             framework -   1 (+0)
        Impress Remote -   0 (+0)
  + http://bit.ly/15mM2Yn - for devs ( no NEEDINFO / UNCONFIRMED )



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