Minutes of ESC call ...

Jan Holesovsky kendy at collabora.com
Thu Apr 13 15:38:59 UTC 2017


* Present:
    + Stephan, Sophie, Miklos, Christian, Kendy, Heiko, Caolán, Thorsten, Xisco,
      Stefan W, Michael S, Jan-Marek, Eike, Olivier

* Completed Action Items:
    + look at and/or confirm un-confirmed documentation bugs (Olivier)
        + some patches approved this week
        + no unconfirmed documentation bugs now

* Pending Action Items:
    + mass conversion of helpcontent (Cloph)
       [ so far only the UI updated, then help, and then will trigger the auto
         conversion ]
       [ online – templates updated, but it removed some translations – pending on
         pootle maintainers apply the patch on the AWS instance, all the
         translations were removed :-( - not a data loss, but not appearing in
         the UI ] http://termbin.com/s3lb 
       [ but does not make sense to move to another platform ]
    + look at old Duden extension to see if they use UWINAPI.DLL (Thorsten)
       [ Should we have a museum for such things on TDF infra ? (Michael) ]

* Release Engineering update (Christian)
    + 5.2.7 RC1
        + the last of the 5.2 line
        + tagged, Windows has a problem, has to tweak parallelism, but nearly done
    + 5.3.3 RC1 – due April 18th
        + Everything according to the plan
        + Xisco will do it
            + Tuesday or Wednesday
    + 5.4. builds / master
        + Alpha 1 – April 25th(?) - hard feature-freeze May 15th(?)
                        alpha still from master , libreoffice-5-4 tag along with feature-freeze
        + nothing new
        + translation problems; quite a lot of strings have changed in the context,
          but not the string
            + would be great to have a tool to convert, but not working on such
              yet (Cloph)
    + Android & iOS Remote
        + no news
    + online
        + no news, Michael away

* Documentation (Olivier)
    + Patches to fix helpcontent (HC) mistakes (Gabor, Johnny)
    + Lecture on HC in University (UFABC), seeking for support on doc
        + Other FLOSS projects struggling with XML HC (gimp, blender, inkscape)

* UX Update (Heiko)
   + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
        249(249) (topicUI) bugs open, 469(469) (needsUXEval) needs to be
        evaluated by the UXteam
    + Updates:
        BZ changes   1 week   1 month    3 months   12 months  
             added      0(-3)     9(-2)     34(-2)     490(-2) 
         commented     17(-6)   143(-31)   605(-34)   3567(-28)
           removed      0(0)      0(-1)      8(0)       38(0)  
          resolved      4(-1)    19(-1)     94(1)      224(4)  
    + top 10 contributors:
          Tietze, Heiko made 89 changes in 1 month, and 2268 changes in 1 year
          Foote, V Stuart made 43 changes in 1 month, and 667 changes in 1 year
          Thomas Lendo made 34 changes in 1 month, and 78 changes in 1 year
          Buovjaga made 24 changes in 1 month, and 361 changes in 1 year
          LibreTraining made 22 changes in 1 month, and 39 changes in 1 year
          Faulí Tarazona, Xisco made 21 changes in 1m, and 398 changes in 1y
          Philips, Yousuf made 17 changes in 1 month, and 1246 changes in 1 year
          Kainz, Andreas made 11 changes in 1 month, and 31 changes in 1 year
          Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 10 changes in 1m, and 73 changes in 1y
          kompilainenn made 9 changes in 1 month, and 32 changes in 1 year

    + Blog post final standard color palette
    + Posting about Notebookbar today
        + from Andreas K., people interested
    + talking about GSoC

* Crashtest update (Caolan)
    + 0 import failure, 0 export failures
        + 2 runs in a row
    + 153 coverity issues, working again
        + coverity was not working for a couple of weeks, catching up
    + Google / ossfuzz: 26 fuzzers active now
        + MS word format fixes to be pushed today

* Hackfests (Bjoern)
    + next venues / suggestions
    + Ladies who FOSS – Berlin
        + monthly now (Bubli)
        + April 20th the next one
    + Italian hack-fest coming up: 4 days May 27-30th
         + Perugia University
             + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Hackfest/Perugia2017
             + will sponsor accommodation/food for 4 core hacker – need names
             + first names to be added there win.
             + still looking for more mentors
                + Eike also plans to go
    + event in Spain (Xisco)
        + will be in Malaga for Open conference in May 6th at 17:00
            + http://www.opensouthcode.org/conference/opensouthcode2017 
        + an idea to do something.
        + Xisco giving a talk there too - be good to meet up.
    + Essen meeting (Bjoern)
        + German community event
        + suggestions for bike-shedding topics to get people interesting
            + UX / Extensions ?
        + likely date sometime in June
            + not nailed down yet, looks like June 24
        + http://doodle.com/poll/nyctg6i2zibi8854

* mentoring/easyhack update (Kendy)
    + openhub statistics (2017-03-23), 263(263) people did 15517(15517) commits
      in 12 month in 9045603(9045603) lines of code
    + gerrit/git statistics:
          committer...   1 week     1 month      3 months    12 months   
                  open      72(10)      95(8)       123(10)      130(10) 
               reviews     457(63)    1815(33)     4648(54)    17283(-52)
                merged     274(77)    1002(132)    2763(75)    10272(94) 
             abandoned      15(4)       52(-1)      164(-3)      640(2)  
           own commits     423(90)    1576(-160)   4540(368)   17354(0)  
        review commits      76(-19)    326(-190)    908(76)     3511(3)  
        contributor...   1 week     1 month     3 months    12 months   
                  open      16(-1)      33(-6)      45(-3)       46(-3) 
               reviews     660(148)   2108(156)   5682(169)   19295(196)
                merged      36(-9)     183(11)     343(21)      892(14) 
             abandoned       8(4)       28(2)       76(-3)      255(-8) 
           own commits      36(-11)    164(16)     303(36)      833(9)  
        review commits       0(0)        0(0)        0(0)         0(0)  
    + easyHack statistics:
       needsDevEval 23(23)   needsUXEval 0(0)   cleanup_comments 189(189)   
       total 229(229)   assigned 27(27)   open 175(175)   
    + received patches from 11 emails the last month without license statement
    + top 5 contributors:
          Gelmini, Andrea made 43 patches in 1 month, and 106 patches in 1 year
          Carl, Jens made 25 patches in 1 month, and 25 patches in 1 year
          Kainz, Andreas made 19 patches in 1 month, and 33 patches in 1 year
          Widl Bernhard made 6 patches in 1 month, and 6 patches in 1 year
          Beck Thomas made 5 patches in 1 month, and 5 patches in 1 year
    + top 5 reviewers:
          Stahl, Michael made 222 review comments in 1 month, and 1179 in 1 year
          Behrens, Thorsten made 156 review comments in 1 month, and 397 in 1 year
          Nabet, Julien made 122 review comments in 1 month, and 335 in 1 year
          Vajna, Miklos made 109 review comments in 1 month, and 1202 in 1 year
          Holešovský, Jan made 102 review comments in 1 month, and 453 in 1 year
    + big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since
      last report:
          mestaritonttu mestaritonttu at mail.com 
          Säger Andreas villeroy at t-online.de 
          Beck Thomas thomas.beck at cib.de 
          UNKNOWN rechenelf at googlemail.com Committer
          Magee, Timothy timothy at eastlincoln.net 
          Dewan Aditya callmedewan at gmail.com 
          Gorse Mike mgorse at suse.com 
          Hares Atef atefhares1 at gmail.com 
          Baidya Udayan udayanbaidya at gmail.com 
          Gabriel Herrera gabriel.herrerasanz at cib.de 
          Manfred Blume manfred.blume at cib.de 
          Widl Bernhard bernhard.widl at cib.de 
          Zu Ximeng uznomis at yahoo.com 
          Jain Umang mailumangjain at gmail.com 
          Nielen Dennis d.nielen at posteo.nl 
          Wendling Wendling cwendling at hypra.fr 

* GSoC update (Thorsten)
    + check out proposals (28 of them)
        + https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/dashboard/proposals/shared/
        + next ESC call – should decide
        + Markus already marked the invalid ones, thanks!
    + please fill your column in the gsoc selection spreadsheet
    + timeline:
         + April 3 - 16: review proposals
         + April 17, 16:00 UTC: deadline to submit slot requests
         + April 19, 16:00 UTC: slot allocations announced
         + April 19 - 24 16:00 UTC: choose proposals, assign mentors
         + May 4 - 29: projects public, community bonding period starts
         + May 29: last day to report inactive students
         + May 30: coding begins
         + June 26-30: first eval
         + July 24 - second eval
         + August 21- 29: pens down, wrap up
         + August 29 - September 5: final evaluations of students
         + September 6: passing projects announced
    + AI: Send the sorted & rated document to the mentors (Thorsten)

* crash reporter news (Xisco)
    + http://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/?days=128
    + http://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/5.2.3.3
        + 371
    + http://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/5.2.6.2
        + 540

* Commit Access

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Bjoern/Kendy/Thorsten)
    + 2 week sleep.

* Jenkins / CI update (Norbert)
    + [ Norbert missing ]

* l10n (Sophie)
    + Update of LibreOffice Online in Pootle is needed (Cloph?)
        + waiting for the fix from the Pootle people
        + ETA? (Kendy)
            + fix to be deployed later today (Cloph)

* Mac OS X 10.8 support (Michael S)
    + the only platform that does not have thread safe statics
      cf. https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93119
    + de-facto unsupported by Apple since August 2015
      https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201222
    + Mozilla dropped support September 2016
      https://support.mozilla.org/t5/Install-and-Update/Firefox-support-has-ended-for-Mac-OS-X-10-6-10-7-and-10-8/ta-p/32725
    + Chrome dropped support April 2016
      https://chrome.googleblog.com/2015/11/updates-to-chrome-platform-support.html
    + deprecation warning in 5.4, and drop for 5.5? (Thorsten)
        + around 2nd half of May
        + OK to wait the month (Michael S.)
        + shouldn’t block OS update (Cloph)
        + support to wait 1 month (Kendy)
    + needs some work on Android too (Miklos)
        + toolchain update etc.
        + but shouldn’t affect the runtime (Miklos)
    + release note that etc. (Thorsten)

* twitter commit-notification bot – resurrect or kill? (Cloph)
    + No updates since Nov 2016 ( https://twitter.com/LOcommits )
    + introduced back with
      https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55971
    + make it working the same way as the bug twitter? (Thorsten)
    + should be easy to update (Cloph)
    + moderately useful – let’s create an Easy Hack to resurrect this
        + AI: will do the Easy Hack (Cloph)

* QA update (Xisco)

    + UNCONFIRMED: 467 (+10)
        + enhancements: 44  (+6)
        + needsUXEval: 1 (+1)
        + haveBackTrace: 10 (0)
        + needsDevAdvice: 41 (+7)
        + documentation:  0 (-8)

    + Most Pressing Bugs: http://tdf.io/mostressingbugs
        + New:
            + Some new pivot charts crashes:
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107062
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107072
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107102
                + please make sure to add them to the tracker bug (Miklos)

        + Older:
                + Crash in: SwWriteTable::SwWriteTable(SwTable const*,SwHTMLTableLayout const*)
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105769
                + Win 64-bits
            + FORMATTING: When undo and redo, custom styles and formatting lost, or full crash.
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88555
                + Bubli ?
                    + back in action soon (Thorsten)
            + Crash in: windows storage.dll
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106282
                    + drmemory trace – unhelpful; next steps ? 

        + Fixed: http://tdf.io/fixedmostpressingbugs
            + Calc crashes to modify external link
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106868
                    + Fixed by Noel Grandin, Thanks!
                +  Crash in: SwWrtShell::CalcAndSetScal - in Writer paste table from Calc multiple times using autocaption (steps in comment 6) 
                    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102286
                    + Fixed by Caolán McNamara, Thanks!
 
* QA stats
  + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
    +145    -83 (+62 overall)
    many thanks to the top bug squashers:
        Markus Mohrhard       12
        Buovjaga               7
        Caolán McNamara        6
        Alex Thurgood          5
        Miklos Vajna           5
        V Stuart Foote         5
        Eike Rathke            4
        Adolfo Jayme           4
        Yousuf Philips (jay)   3
        Cor Nouws              2
        Telesto                2
        Xisco Faulí            2
        Samuel Mehrbrodt (CIB) 2
        Szymon Kłos            2
        Regina Henschel        2

  + top 10 bugs reporters:
        bureautiquelibre        9
        Philips, Yousuf         7
        Kainz, Andreas          7
        Henschel, Regina        6
        Telesto                 5
        Vajna, Miklos           4
        Thomas Lendo            4
        Cor Nouws               3
        Faulí Tarazona, Xisco   3
        Kosiorek, Bartosz       3

  + top 10 bugs fixers:
        Mohrhard, Markus       9
        Vajna, Miklos          5
        McNamara, Caolán       5
        Behrens, Katarína      3
        Philips, Yousuf        2
        Kłos, Szymon           2
        Buovjaga               2
        Rathke, Eike           2
        Kelemen, Gabor         2
        Stahl, Michael         2

* Highest-Priority bugs (aka "MABs"):
        5.3: 2/34   -  5%
        5.2: 3/31   -  9%
        5.1: 2/34   -  5%
        5.0: 2/58   -  3%
        4.4: 4/75   -  5%
        4.3: 5/72   -  6%
        4.2: 6/132  -  4%
        4.1: 4/80   -  5%
        4.0: 4/81   -  4%
        old: 29/253 - 11%

* bisected bugs open: keyword 'bisected'
        + more accurate - down to a single commit.
        + 364 (of 1347) older 359/1332 362/1326 358/1318 357/1307 351/1293 352/1284
                + http://bit.ly/2dyIfDy
    + Done by:
        Faulí Tarazona, Xisco   5
        Raal                    3
        Vajna, Miklos           1
        Budea, Áron             1
        Benes, Luke             1

* Bibisected bugs open: keyword 'bibisected'
        + 440 (of 1897) older 435/1882 437/1875 431/1866 430/1854 420/1836 420/1826
          423/1814
                + http://bit.ly/2cSCXlS

    + Done by:
        Faulí Tarazona, Xisco   6
        Raal                    3
        Vajna, Miklos           1
        Budea, Áron             1
        Justin L                1

* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
        + 782(+0) bugs open of 5862(+15) total 10 high prio.

    + Done by:
        Alex Thurgood           4
        Faulí Tarazona, Xisco   4
        Foote, V Stuart         3
        Telesto                 2
        Pedro                   2
        Cor Nouws               1
        Buovjaga                1
        Vajna, Miklos           1
        Mikhail Novosyolov      1
        Budea, Áron             1

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

    + ~Component   count net * all regressions
                Writer: other - 124 (-2)
                         Calc - 122 (-7)
                      Impress - 75 (+0)
          Writer: docx filter - 70 (+1)
                  LibreOffice - 57 (+0)
                           UI - 46 (+0)
           Writer: doc filter - 38 (+0)
               graphics stack - 36 (+0)
                         Draw - 32 (+0)
                      Borders - 31 (+1)
                         Base - 31 (+2)
         Writer: other filter - 24 (+2)
                 Writer: perf - 23 (+1)
                      Crashes - 22 (-1)
                        Chart - 21 (+0)
          filters and storage - 21 (+0)
      Printing and PDF export - 14 (+0)
                        BASIC - 12 (+0)
                    framework -  4 (+0)
                   Extensions -  4 (+0)
                 Installation -  1 (+0)
            + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i




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