ESC meeting minutes: 2020-11-12

Miklos Vajna vmiklos at collabora.com
Thu Nov 12 15:39:46 UTC 2020


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

* Completed Action Items:
    + None

* Pending Action Items:
    + Update bug-metrics ODS generator to extend the chart ranges past 2019-12-10, till e.g. the end of this year (Xisco)
    [ investigated, pending deployment ]

* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
    + 7.1 status:
      + feature freeze: week 47 (2020-11-16) – late features, please ask for it!
        + also beta1 and branch-off
        + late feature: working on hiding of fieldmarks (Michael S)
          + to be able to switch between the command and the result of the field
      + UI / l10n freeze upcoming in mid-December
    + 7.0 status
      + 7.0.4 scheduled normally for November 24
       + tagging rc1 in 2 weeks
    + Remotes
      + new update is out
      + moved to AndroidX, some pain with the old emulator
        + changes were required for the Wear part
    + Android viewer
      + same here, fixing some crashes and new translations

* Documentation (Olivier)
    + New Help
       +
    + Helpcontent2
       + Fixes and updates (S Chaiklin, Johnny_M)
    + Google Seasons of Doc
       + Project Wiki Calc Function: On going
          + Reviewing examples and syntax, backport to Help
          + found some non standard functions (e.g. ACCRINT)
       + Project E-Learning Calc
          + Tech writer not available this week, addressing
    + Guides
       + Found some ODF features to be implemented
         + no prefix / suffix for bullets (in the spec, but no impl)
       + Calc Guide is ready, will be published this week (F. Viggiano)

* UX Update (Heiko)
    + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
        248(248) (topicUI) bugs open, 240(240) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
    + Updates:
        BZ changes   1 week    1 month    3 months   12 months
             added      4(-3)     15(1)      49(0)      159(0)
         commented     49(-48)   298(-58)   976(-78)   3873(-38)
           removed      1(-1)      4(-1)     11(0)       57(1)
          resolved     10(-7)     45(-7)    130(-2)     450(4)
    + top 10 contributors:
          Heiko Tietze made 230 changes in 1 month, and 2331 changes in 1 year
          Telesto made 79 changes in 1 month, and 590 changes in 1 year
          Foote, V Stuart made 65 changes in 1 month, and 648 changes in 1 year
          Kaganski, Mike made 25 changes in 1 month, and 135 changes in 1 year
          Seth Chaiklin made 23 changes in 1 month, and 193 changes in 1 year
          Kainz, Andreas made 22 changes in 1 month, and 481 changes in 1 year
          Cor Nouws made 21 changes in 1 month, and 105 changes in 1 year
          Ilmari Lauhakangas made 18 changes in 1 month, and 225 changes in 1 y
          Xisco Fauli made 17 changes in 1 month, and 500 changes in 1 year
          Timur made 13 changes in 1 month, and 263 changes in 1 year

    + New tickets with needsUXEval Nov/05-12

      * Is there a reason why it isn't possible to mark/select the pilcrow/
        paragraph mark?
      * Coloring scheme of comments changes depending on order of opened files
      * UI: Show a tooltip to guide the user to set user data (when it is not
        set) when inserting a comment
      * UI: Make tip of the day less dominant
  ->  * Drag and drop of media files always links/never embeds
        + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134297
        + also not embedded per menu
        + vcl/qa/cppunit/pdfexport/data/tdf105093.odp is a sample with an embedded media (perhaps just the UI is broken)? (Miklos)
      * EDITING: format removed when merging formatted with non-formatted cells
  ->  * PRINT DIALOG: For "Pages to print" field interpret space as separator
        for a list of distinct pages to print
        + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122710
        + Print range: 1,3,5 != 1 3 5  != 1 3,5 != 1,3 5
      * Add templates from Indonesian competition
  ->  * Paragraph indent is limited
        + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137752
        + weird smart function makes it hard to understand how/why
      * Anchor image as character when inserting it into an caption frame
      * Border control in property dialogs use black color even on dark theme
      * [rfe]: Add "Modified Styles" category in Styles deck in Sidebar
      * Word search does not work in LibreOffice Writer if search term contains
        an apostrophe
      * Userdefined style sheet for tables not shown in Table- insert table:
        style sheets
      * Four button insert control appears above other objects
  ->  * Enable means to change Formula Editor default font from OpenSymbol via
        Expert Configuration
        + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101174
        + this is embedded ~everywhere, even bullets depend on this font
        + there was compatibility concern (Thorsten, Caolan)
        + just uploading the font is fine (Thorsten)


* Crash Reporting (Caolan)
    + 6(-1) import failure, 0(-1) export failures
    + 3 coverity issues
      + builds failing, upgrade to coverity due soon, maybe related
    + 9 ossfuzz, 7 timeouts, 1 oom, 1 leak

* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/6.4.6.2
        + (-103) 2264 2367 2268 2000 1778 1564 1306 1053 874 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/6.4.7.2
        + (+235) 803 568 343 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.0.1.2
        + (-208) 4330 4538 4616 4969 6598 4561 3223 1986 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.0.2.2
        + (-1510) 3829 5339 5103 3457 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.0.3.1
        + (+1740)  3472 1732 0

    + do we have symbols? (Miklos)
      + most recent ones do have symbols (Cloph)
      + just a few, rather (Xisco)
    + once steps are known, bug is filed (Xisco)

* Mentoring/easyhack update
          committer...   1 week     1 month     3 months     12 months
                  open      84(43)     130(28)     133(28)       137(27)
               reviews     392(-54)   1328(58)    4224(6)      18505(-78)
                merged     229(-95)   1149(19)    4240(-133)   19195(-152)
             abandoned      16(5)       63(-18)    232(-2)      1050(1)
           own commits     208(-70)    971(47)    3328(-54)    15224(-151)
        review commits      94(-21)    363(57)    1156(21)      4733(8)
        contributor...   1 week      1 month     3 months      12 months
                  open      24(-8)       51(-13)      51(-16)       53(-16)
               reviews     782(-108)   2954(56)    10146(-352)   44778(-139)
                merged      33(-13)     134(9)       386(4)       1674(6)
             abandoned      11(2)        33(6)        91(2)        571(8)
           own commits      50(-12)     186(27)      470(2)       1843(35)
        review commits       0(0)         0(0)         0(0)          0(0)
    + easyHack statistics:
       needsDevEval 9(9)   needsUXEval 3(3)   cleanup_comments 249(249)
       total 298(298)   assigned 13(13)   open 261(261)
    + top 10 contributors:
          Johnny_M made 88 patches in 1 month, and 395 patches in 1 year
          Gleb Popov made 11 patches in 1 month, and 12 patches in 1 year
          Attila Szűcs made 6 patches in 1 month, and 23 patches in 1 year
          Dante DM made 6 patches in 1 month, and 10 patches in 1 year
          Ayhan Yalçınsoy made 6 patches in 1 month, and 28 patches in 1 year
          Szabolcs Toth made 6 patches in 1 month, and 10 patches in 1 year
          Regényi Balázs made 4 patches in 1 month, and 12 patches in 1 year
          Weblate made 3 patches in 1 month, and 76 patches in 1 year
          Nagy Tibor made 3 patches in 1 month, and 24 patches in 1 year
          Attila Bakos made 3 patches in 1 month, and 34 patches in 1 year
    + top 10 reviewers:
          Olivier Hallot made 114 review comments in 1 month, and 852 in 1 year
          Németh, László made 92 review comments in 1 month, and 692 in 1 year
          Michael Stahl made 92 review comments in 1 month, and 1126 in 1 year
          Timar, Andras made 78 review comments in 1 month, and 1442 in 1 year
          Grandin, Noel made 76 review comments in 1 month, and 918 in 1 year
          Nabet, Julien made 74 review comments in 1 month, and 1442 in 1 year
          Behrens, Thorsten made 68 review comments in 1 month, and 1298 in 1 year
          McNamara, Caolán made 66 review comments in 1 month, and 818 in 1 year
          Heiko Tietze made 58 review comments in 1 month, and 478 in 1 year
          Kaganski, Mike made 56 review comments in 1 month, and 754 in 1 year
    + Patches automatically abandoned:
        svx:Implement writeGalleryTheme in GalleryXMLEngine ( Aditya Sahu )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/100609
            - authors considers it WIP (Michael W)

        CPPUNIT_HAVE_CPP_SOURCE_ANNOTATION check seems to be redundant for CPPUNIT_ASSERT. For instance CPPUNIT_ASSERT_MESSAGE use annotation unconditionally. ( Aleksey Tulinov )55
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/101478

        Fix typo in code ( Andrea Gelmini )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/101646

        tdf#132892: sw_tiledrendering: Add unittest ( Xisco Fauli )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/102181

        Fix reading invalid reference from xlsx ( Samuel Mehrbrodt )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/102218

        tdf#135162 WEB link containing German umlaut not working ( Tomoyuki Kubota )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/99913

        use std::scoped_lock instead of osl::Guard in accessibility ( Arnaud Versini )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/99943

    + big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
          Philipp Hofer
          Shubham Jain
          Leyan Ouyang


* Commit Access
  + None

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Kendy/Thorsten/László)
    + sleep -4 weeks

* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
    from:Thu Nov  5 14:57:34 2020
    master linux rel  jobs:  76 ok:  75 ko:   1 fail ratio:  1.32 % break:   1 broken duration: 1.03%
    master linux dbg  jobs:  63 ok:  61 ko:   2 fail ratio:  3.17 % break:   2 broken duration: 2.33%
    master mac rel    jobs:  55 ok:  55 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master mac dbg    jobs:  57 ok:  57 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master win rel    jobs:  81 ok:  81 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:  84 ok:  76 ko:   8 fail ratio:  9.52 % break:   1 broken duration: 5.42%
    master gerrit lin jobs: 424 ok: 316 ko:  75 fail ratio: 17.69% time for ok: mean:  23 median:  23
    master gerrit plg jobs: 393 ok: 237 ko: 119 fail ratio: 30.28% time for ok: mean:  34 median:  31
    master gerrit win jobs: 431 ok: 288 ko:  74 fail ratio: 17.17% time for ok: mean:  62 median:  57
    master gerrit mac jobs: 428 ok: 299 ko:  58 fail ratio: 13.55% time for ok: mean:  38 median:  36
    master android    jobs: 375 ok: 283 ko:  30 fail ratio:  8.00% time for ok: mean:  86 median:  64
    master gerrit all jobs: 385 ok: 196 ko: 116 fail ratio: 30.13% time for ok: mean: 148 median: 110
   + https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/tmp/gerrit_201112.html
   + tests that failed more than twice in last seven days:
      4 Killed by the kill-wrapper		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      4 CppunitTest_xmlsecurity_signing		gerrit_windows
    + smooth sailing last week (no unexpected crashes)
    + today the Android builder was slow, but already fixed (added a 3rd builder)
    + lcov daily job is now enabled (was scheduled for the morning, now moved to during the night)
      + no web results yet

* l10n (Sophie)
  + working is ongoing
  + new translators for Hebrew and Catalan languages

* GSoC 2021 announced, deadline for applying as a project: January 29 (Heiko)
  + project page: http://g.co/gsoc
  + next year’s GSoC will be quite different: much less time than before (for students)

* Graphics architecture (Thorsten)
  * https://pad.documentfoundation.org/p/ESC_graphics_architecture
  * skia / vulkan metabug: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129062
      + 21 (-3) open bugs, 134 total (+1)

* QA update (Xisco)
    + Please help flesh out the monthly reports:
          https://nextcloud.documentfoundation.org/s/2qbepFYXXan4ief

    + UNCONFIRMED: 1313 (-7)
        + enhancements: 147  (+7)
        + needsUXEval: 1 (-5)
        + haveBackTrace: 3 (+0)
        + needsDevAdvice: 14 (-1)
        + documentation:  19 (+0)
        + android:  5 (+0)
        + iOS:  0 (+0)
        + Online:  25 (+3)



  + Most pressing bugs:
      New:
	    None

      Old:
       + PDF export: LibreOffice 6.3 option buttons in forms not
working in Adobe Reader (OK in other readers)
           + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127217
           + Thorsten ?

       + 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:
       + CRASH: Chart: Changing properties in different objects
           + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133630
           + Thanks to Ouyang Leyan and Andras Timar


    + New high severity bugs of the week:
        + [TABLE] A merged table cell across page (due to other columns containing multiple rows) would cause Writer hang forever
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121720
            + bisected to Mike, from Franklin


        + PPT: FILESAVE: Crop image is gone after RT
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127086
            + Tamas B?

        + Impress: Adding a New Column to a Table Formats as Bulletted Text Some Cells If Row Had Text
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130788
            + Armin?

        + When there are a lot of pictures, typing the text is very slow
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138068
            + Armin?


* QA stats
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
      +144  +22 (-141) overall)
      many thanks to the top bug squashers:
       Xisco Faulí             14
       Heiko Tietze            11
       Timur                   10
       Telesto                 8
       Ming Hua                7
       QA Administrators       7
       László Németh           6
       Caolán McNamara         5
       V Stuart Foote          5
       sdc.blanco              5

    + top 10 bugs reporters:
       NISZ LibreOffice Team   10
       Telesto                 9
       Kevin Suo               5
       canned                  4
       Gunter Ohrner           3
       Xisco Faulí             3
       Heiko Tietze            2
       Jakob                   2
       Jax                     2
       JeevaNagarajan          2

    + top 10 bugs fixers:
       McNamara, Caolán        5
       Németh, László          5
       Dante DM                3
       Dániel Arató            3
       Justin Luth             3
       Seth Chaiklin           3
       Xisco Fauli             3
       Gülşah Köse             2
       Heiko Tietze            2
       Krot, Serge             2

    + top 10 bugs confirmers:
       Xisco Fauli             19
       Kevin Suo               14
       Ilmari Lauhakangas      13
       Dieter Praas            12
       Timur                   10
       *UNKNOWN*               9
       Budea, Áron             7
       Heiko Tietze            6
       NISZ LibreOffice Team   5
       Foote, V Stuart         4


* 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 : 2/134 -    1 %  (+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
   + 906/4879 902/4858 897/4841 891/4819 892/4798 883/4780 881/4768

     done by:
        Xisco Fauli             6
        Budea, Áron             4
        barakso.attila          3
        Ilmari Lauhakangas      2
        Telesto                 2
        Timur                   1
        NISZ LibreOffice Team   1


* Bibisected bugs open: keyword 'bibisected'
   + http://bit.ly/2cSCXlS
   + 1086/5785 1078/5758 1077/5740 1070/5717 1070/5692 1057/5667 1057/5654

     done by:
        Xisco Fauli             6
        Budea, Áron             5
        Kevin Suo               4
        barakso.attila          3
        Telesto                 3
        Ilmari Lauhakangas      2
        Timur                   1
        NISZ LibreOffice Team   1


* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
   + 1332(-8) bugs open of 10418(+14) total 13(+0) high prio.

     done by:
        Xisco Fauli             4
        Telesto                 3
        barakso.attila          1
        Timur                   1
        Ilmari Lauhakangas      1
        NISZ LibreOffice Team   1
        Kevin Suo               1


* ~Component   count net * high severity regressions
   + http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
     Writer        - 6(+0)
     Calc          - 2(+0)
     Impress       - 2(+0)
     Chart         - 1(+0)
     LibreOffice   - 1(+0)
     UI            - 1(+0)

   by OS:
     All           - 10(+0)
     Linux         - 1(+0)
     Mac OS X      - 1(+0)
     Windows       - 1(+0)


* ~Component   count net * all regressions
   + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
     Writer: other            - 414(-3)
     Calc                     - 227(-2)
     Impress                  - 154(-2)
     Writer: docx filter      - 57(+0)
     Crashes                  - 56(+0)
     LibreOffice              - 56(+0)
     Draw                     - 49(+0)
     UI                       - 47(+2)
     Borders                  - 45(+0)
     Writer: perf             - 44(+1)
     Base                     - 37(+0)
     Writer: other filter     - 30(+0)
     Writer: doc filter       - 26(+0)
     graphics stack           - 24(-1)
     Chart                    - 23(+1)
     RTL                      - 23(+0)
     Printing and PDF export  - 22(+0)
     filters and storage      - 19(+0)
     BASIC                    - 15(+0)
     framework                - 2(+0)
     Formula Editor           - 1(+0)
     Installation             - 1(+0)
     sdk                      - 1(+0)


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