ESC meeting minutes: 2020-07-23

Miklos Vajna vmiklos at collabora.com
Thu Jul 23 14:27:54 UTC 2020


* Present:
    + Justin, Sophie, Gabriel, Stephan, Heiko, Kendy, Caolan, Olivier, Miklos, Michael S, Cloph, Xisco, Michael W, Thorsten

* Completed Action Items:
    + give the commit permission to Ilmari (Cloph)

* Pending Action Items:
    + check if the QA stats are correct (Xisco)

* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
    + 7.0 status
      + UI freeze & string freeze in the first week of July in effect
        + freeze exception for product flavor
        + all necessary changes are in (Heiko)
      + rc3 will be tagged next week
    + 6.4 status
      + 6.4.6 rc1 is tagged, builds are in progress
    + Remotes
    + Android viewer
    + Online
      + 7.0.0.2 source code release by Andras

* Documentation (Olivier)
    + New Help
      + No news
    + Helpcontents2
      + Fixes and updates (ohallot, buovjaga, A. Gelmini)
    + Google seasons of Doc
      + triaging proposals
    + Guides
      + Work in progress for 7.0


* UX Update (Heiko)
    + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
        250(250) (topicUI) bugs open, 260(260) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
    + Updates:
        BZ changes   1 week    1 month   3 months   12 months
             added      19(11)    31(12)     57(15)    172(14)
         commented     122(28)   389(57)   1004(60)   3674(83)
           removed       3(3)      8(3)      11(3)      52(3)
          resolved      10(7)     34(4)     121(3)     387(2)
    + top 10 contributors:
          Heiko Tietze made 212 changes in 1 month, and 2136 changes in 1 year
          Telesto made 164 changes in 1 month, and 331 changes in 1 year
          Xisco Fauli made 50 changes in 1 month, and 583 changes in 1 year
          Timur made 49 changes in 1 month, and 214 changes in 1 year
          Foote, V Stuart made 33 changes in 1 month, and 599 changes in 1 year
          Ilmari Lauhakangas made 30 changes in 1 month, and 185 changes in 1 y
          Kaganski, Mike made 21 changes in 1 month, and 115 changes in 1 year
          Monastirsky, Maxim made 19 changes in 1 month, and 61 changes in 1 y
          Rizal Muttaqin made 17 changes in 1 month, and 99 changes in 1 year
          Henschel, Regina made 14 changes in 1 month, and 104 changes in 1 year

     + 22 new tickets with needsUXEval Jul/17-23

       * UI No option to edit custom chart data labels
         + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134985
       * Varied file path options depending on application selected
         + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134530
       * UI: a quick way to pick a ODF version on save
         + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134976
         + seriously doubt this would be useful (Michael S)
           + enough to have a per-user config for this

* Crash testing (Caolan)
    + 2(-2) import failure, 7(+2) export failures
    + 0 coverity issues
    + 15  oss-fuzz issues, 11 timeouts,1 build failure, 1 leak, 2 crashes

* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/6.3.6.2
        + (-243) 2007 1900 2143 2188 2094 2327 1758 1376 858 668 529 283 0
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/6.4.3.2
        + (-181) 1439 1773 1954 2195 2625 3411 3771 4896 6243 7540 6577 5725
4328 2199 0
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/6.4.4.2
        + (-999) 4027 4353 5352 6607 6857 7333 5252 3670 1638 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/6.4.5.2
        + (+599) 2140 1761 1162 0

- https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/signature/vcl::WizardMachine::WizardMachine
				   - Since 6.4 and linux only
   - no steps to reproduce yet

  + numbers look good, half of previous minor release

* GSoC 2020 (Thorsten)
    + Projects announced: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/05/05/9769/
    + June 1, 2020 - August 24, 2020: Students work on their projects
    + 6 projects accepted
    + the game is on, students are reporting more or less regularly
      + remind your students if it's not happening
    + Second evaluations July 27 - 31, 2020

* Mentoring/easyhack update
          committer...   1 week     1 month      3 months    12 months
                  open      94(-10)    146(-12)     148(-14)     156(-14)
               reviews     488(34)    1638(-136)   4358(-36)   20488(-97)
                merged     349(-54)   2026(-56)    5410(-23)   19789(-70)
             abandoned      20(3)       82(-8)      259(-10)    1048(3)
           own commits     247(-70)   1429(-5)     3927(-68)   15991(-104)
        review commits      67(9)      303(-41)    1172(-3)     4621(14)
        contributor...   1 week       1 month      3 months     12 months
                  open       26(-16)      61(-17)       63(-17)      65(-17)
               reviews     1204(-162)   5511(-126)   13591(8)     43190(-32)
                merged       38(22)      117(3)        406(17)     1065(30)
             abandoned       18(7)        62(5)        138(9)       602(11)
           own commits       48(25)      158(-17)      582(19)     1405(36)
        review commits        0(0)         0(0)          0(0)         0(0)
    + easyHack statistics:
       needsDevEval 9(9)   needsUXEval 2(2)   cleanup_comments 235(235)
       total 285(285)   assigned 22(22)   open 243(243)
    + top 10 contributors:
          Johnny_M made 40 patches in 1 month, and 192 patches in 1 year
          LibreOfficiant made 18 patches in 1 month, and 144 patches in 1 year
          Shivam Kumar Singh made 10 patches in 1 month, and 22 patches in 1 year
          Gökay ŞATIR made 9 patches in 1 month, and 31 patches in 1 year
          Ilmari Lauhakangas made 6 patches in 1 month, and 32 patches in 1 year
          Balázs regényi made 6 patches in 1 month, and 11 patches in 1 year
          srijan bhatia made 5 patches in 1 month, and 8 patches in 1 year
          Yusuf Keten made 4 patches in 1 month, and 20 patches in 1 year
          PhD. Ayhan YALÇINSOY made 4 patches in 1 month, and 19 patches in 1 year
          Aditya Sahu made 3 patches in 1 month, and 13 patches in 1 year
    + top 10 reviewers:
          Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 228 review comments in 1 month, and 1268 in 1 year
          Behrens, Thorsten made 174 review comments in 1 month, and 1386 in 1 year
          Timar, Andras made 110 review comments in 1 month, and 1383 in 1 year
          Németh, László made 104 review comments in 1 month, and 595 in 1 year
          Olivier Hallot made 72 review comments in 1 month, and 608 in 1 year
          Xisco Fauli made 68 review comments in 1 month, and 848 in 1 year
          Michael Stahl made 66 review comments in 1 month, and 1322 in 1 year
          Meeks, Michael made 62 review comments in 1 month, and 846 in 1 year
          Kaganski, Mike made 58 review comments in 1 month, and 822 in 1 year
          Heiko Tietze made 54 review comments in 1 month, and 474 in 1 year
    + Patches automatically abandoned:
        android: back button switches to readonly mode instead of closing ( Mert Tumer )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/88555
        wsd: track failure to store a document to retry again ( Ashod Nakashian )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/92101
        tdf#131441 - Disable undock command when toolbar is locked ( james n )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/92359
        tdf#131427:Remove button "Texture, Shadow and Color" in 3D Effects dialog ( james n )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/93166
        tdf#116127,tdf#116129 fix conditions for clearContents ( Tomoyuki Kubota )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/94163
        tdf#130193: Excel traditional number format ( Naruhiko Ogasawara )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/94349
        remap NatNum - DBNum in Japanese ( Naruhiko Ogasawara )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/94350
        tdf#130193: Excel traditional number format in Japanese ( Naruhiko Ogasawara )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/94351
        zformat: NatNum - DBNum mapping logic refactoring ( Naruhiko Ogasawara )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/94352
        zformat: NatNum - DBNum mapping logic refactoring ( Naruhiko Ogasawara )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/94353
    + big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
          Octavio Alvarez
          Attila Szűcs (NISZ)
          Pierre Marty (Linagora)

* Commit Access
    + None

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Kendy/Thorsten)
    + sleep 10 weeks
    + seeking for a new person as a replacement for Bjoern, who is currently
      inactive

* Jenkins / CI update (Christian)
    from:Thu Jul 16 14:00:21 2020
    master linux rel  jobs:  52 ok:  46 ko:   6 fail ratio: 11.54 % break:   3 broken duration:14.95%
    master linux dbg  jobs:  47 ok:  42 ko:   5 fail ratio: 10.64 % break:   5 broken duration: 7.63%
    master mac rel    jobs:  66 ok:  65 ko:   1 fail ratio:  1.52 % break:   1 broken duration: 0.00%
    master mac dbg    jobs:  66 ok:  66 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master win rel    jobs:  76 ok:  76 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master win dbg    jobs:  82 ok:  82 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master win64 dbg  jobs:  78 ok:  78 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master gerrit lin jobs: 528 ok: 398 ko:  84 fail ratio: 15.91% time for ok: mean:  23 median:  23
    master gerrit plg jobs: 490 ok: 310 ko: 128 fail ratio: 26.12% time for ok: mean:  32 median:  30
    master gerrit win jobs: 558 ok: 346 ko: 144 fail ratio: 25.81% time for ok: mean:  55 median:  56
    master gerrit mac jobs: 523 ok: 406 ko:  72 fail ratio: 13.77% time for ok: mean:  27 median:  22
    master gerrit all jobs: 519 ok: 250 ko: 200 fail ratio: 38.54% time for ok: mean:  70 median:  67
   + https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/tmp/gerrit_200723.html
   + tests that failed more than twice in last seven days
      4 CppunitTest_sw_htmlexport
      4 CppunitTest_sw_ooxmlimport2
      4 CppunitTest_sw_uwriter
      4 UITest_writer_tests2
      5 CppunitTest_sc_tiledrendering
      5 CppunitTest_services
      5 CppunitTest_vcl_complextext
      8 CppunitTest_sw_ww8export
      8 UITest_writer_tests3
     11 CppunitTest_sw_uiwriter
     12 CppunitTest_sw_ww8export2

  + much better than last week
  + one bot had problem with its lode.git checkout, not yet clear why, fixed
    + rare case

* l10n (Sophie)
  + libreoffice-7-0 has been split / master is now reflecting master (on weblate)
  + new language Inuktitut (iu)
  + work is ongoing
  + new xml tags for help added to the wiki page (wip)

* Graphics architecture (Thorsten)
  * https://pad.documentfoundation.org/p/ESC_graphics_architecture
  * skia / vulkan: try it on master (Lubos)
    + metabug: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129062
      + 3 (-2) open bugs, 82 total (+0)

* LibreOffice Conference will be Online (Sophie)
  + deadline to submit your talks: 4th Aug

* Request to grant “Toggle Wip State" permission to Committers group in Gerrit
  (Stephan)
  + Request made by David (<https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/Dev-ACL-Template/+/98958>, <https://redmine.documentfoundation.org/issues/3274>).
  + Do we want that/any reason not to?
  + benefit: committers can help newbies this way, toggle the wip state for them
  => no objections (all)

* QA update (Xisco)

    + Please help flesh out the monthly reports:
          https://nextcloud.documentfoundation.org/s/2qbepFYXXan4ief

    + UNCONFIRMED: 950 (+45)
        + enhancements: 119  (+14)
        + needsUXEval: 21 (+10)
        + haveBackTrace: 1 (+0)
        + needsDevAdvice: 13 (-1)
        + documentation:  11 (+0)
        + android:  4 (+0)
        + iOS:  0 (+0)
        + Online:  12 (-1)


    + Most pressing bugs:
     New:
	       None

     Old:
       + macOS: Can't Save As after installing language pack on Catalina
           + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=132025
           + more info here: “Subject: Budget 2020 proposals and macOS
Catalina
             support / onboarding” on the dev list (Heiko)

        + Text runs of RTL scripts (e.g. Arabic, Hebrew, Persian) from
imported
          PDF are reversed, PDFIProcessor::mirrorString not behaving
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104597
            + Thorsten looking at it
            + old problem, but many duplicates

     Fixed:
        + Start Center: Document names mismatched with their thumbnails with RTL language UI
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134085
            + Thanks to Caolán

       + Opening ODS file rise Incorrect Format exception. Opened well
with
         OpenOffice 4.1.3
           + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116079
           + Closed as RESOLVED NOTOURBUG


    + New high severity bugs of the week:
        + Crash PolyPolygon
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134475
            + Armin?


* QA stats
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
      +219  -37 (-128) overall)
      many thanks to the top bug squashers:
       Telesto                 11
       Heiko Tietze            9
       Justin L                9
       Balázs Regényi          7
       Timur                   7
       Xisco Faulí             7
       Buovjaga                6
       Olivier Hallot          5
       QA Administrators       5
       Caolán McNamara         4

    + top 10 bugs reporters:
       Telesto                 59
       NISZ LibreOffice Team   14
       rominator               6
       Kai                     5
       Mike Kaganski           5
       Xisco Faulí             5
       NSO LibreOffice Team    4
       Jim Avera               3
       Regina Henschel         3
       david.vantyghem         3

    + top 10 bugs fixers:
       Justin Luth             7
       regenyi.balazs+libreoffice_bugzilla at gmail.com 7
       Olivier Hallot          5
       Heiko Tietze            4
       Balazs Varga            3
       Luboš Luňák             3
       McNamara, Caolán        3
       Attila Bakos            2
       Ilmari Lauhakangas      2
       Ivor Harris             2

    + top 10 bugs confirmers:
       Xisco Fauli             75
       Dieter Praas            13
       Heiko Tietze            7
       Ilmari Lauhakangas      5
       Budea, Áron             4
       Roman Kuznetsov         4
       m.a.riosv               4
       regenyi.balazs+libreoffice_bugzilla at gmail.com 4
       Henschel, Regina        3
                               2


* Highest-Priority bugs (aka "MABs"):
   + http://bit.ly/2lJAAJI
     6.0 : 1/52 -     1 %  (+0)
     5.4 : 0/41 -     0 %  (+0)
     5.3 : 0/54 -     0 %  (+0)
     5.2 : 0/43 -     0 %  (+0)
     5.1 : 1/36 -     2 %  (+0)
     5.0 : 0/64 -     0 %  (+0)
     4.4 : 0/76 -     0 %  (+0)
     4.3 : 2/73 -     2 %  (+0)
     4.2 : 1/133 -    0 %  (+0)
     4.1 : 3/85 -     3 %  (+0)
     4.0 : 4/83 -     4 %  (+0)
     old : 6/247 -    2 %  (+0)


* Bisected bugs open: keyword 'bisected'
   + more accurate - down to a single commit.
   + http://bit.ly/2dyIfDy
   + 822/4529 815/4507 805/4474 797/4452 788/4429 788/4400 773/4356

     done by:
        Xisco Fauli           18
        Telesto                2
        Budea, Áron            1
        Raal                   1


* Bibisected bugs open: keyword 'bibisected'
   + http://bit.ly/2cSCXlS
   + 1012/5417 1005/5393 997/5359 990/5335 977/5308 977/5276 956/5224

     done by:
        Xisco Fauli           19
        Telesto                2
        Budea, Áron            1
        Terrence Enger         1
        Raal                   1


* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
   + 1222(+17) bugs open of 9961(+35) total 14(-1) high prio.

     done by:
        Telesto               19
        Xisco Fauli           13
        Roman Kuznetsov        1
        Kaganski, Mike         1
        Raal                   1
        Thomas Lendo           1


* ~Component   count net * high severity regressions
   + http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
     Writer        - 9(+0)
     Calc          - 3(-1)
     Impress       - 2(+0)

   by OS:
     All           - 11(-1)
     Linux         - 1(+0)
     Mac OS X      - 0(+0)
     Windows       - 2(+0)


* ~Component   count net * all regressions
   + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
     Writer: other            - 366(+6)
     Calc                     - 229(+4)
     Impress                  - 144(+2)
     Crashes                  - 59(+8)
     LibreOffice              - 58(+0)
     Writer: docx filter      - 53(-2)
     Draw                     - 46(+0)
     Borders                  - 43(+0)
     UI                       - 42(+0)
     Writer: perf             - 40(+0)
     Base                     - 29(+0)
     Writer: doc filter       - 28(+0)
     Writer: other filter     - 28(+0)
     graphics stack           - 26(+0)
     Printing and PDF export  - 24(+0)
     RTL                      - 22(+0)
     Chart                    - 20(-1)
     filters and storage      - 20(-1)
     BASIC                    - 16(+0)
     framework                - 2(+0)
     Formula Editor           - 1(+0)
     Installation             - 1(+0)
     sdk                      - 1(+0)


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