ESC meeting minutes: 2021-03-04

Miklos Vajna vmiklos at collabora.com
Thu Mar 4 15:29:50 UTC 2021


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

* Completed Action Items:
    + None

* Pending Action Items:
    + None

* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
    + 7.1 status: 7.1.1 is out
    + 7.0 status: 7.0.5 rc2 is tagged
    + Remotes: Android, iOS
    + Android viewer

* Documentation (Olivier)
    + New Help (no news)
    + Helpcontents2
       + Updates and fixes (A. Barrientos, ohallot, S. Chaiklin)
       + Help for ScriptForge (LibreOfficiant, R. Lima)
    + Google Season of Docs 2021
       + Need more ideas
       + please add ideas
         https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/GSoDOC/2021
    + Guides
       + work in progress


* UX Update (Heiko)
    + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
        242(242) (topicUI) bugs open, 225(225) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
    + Updates:
        BZ changes   1 week   1 month    3 months   12 months
             added      5(-1)    11(-5)     37(-1)     130(-4)
         commented     59(7)    196(-26)   867(-1)    3778(-19)
           removed      1(1)      5(0)      12(1)       55(2)
          resolved      8(-2)    40(-2)    147(-4)     507(-1)
    + top 10 contributors:
          Heiko Tietze made 190 changes in 1 month, and 2407 changes in 1 year
          Foote, V Stuart made 29 changes in 1 month, and 606 changes in 1 year
          Xisco Fauli made 29 changes in 1 month, and 355 changes in 1 year
          Seth Chaiklin made 28 changes in 1 month, and 155 changes in 1 year
          Ilmari Lauhakangas made 26 changes in 1 month, and 340 changes in 1 year
          Telesto made 19 changes in 1 month, and 908 changes in 1 year
          Henschel, Regina made 16 changes in 1 month, and 96 changes in 1 year
          Rizal Muttaqin made 12 changes in 1 month, and 39 changes in 1 year
          Dieter made 10 changes in 1 month, and 394 changes in 1 year
          Kaganski, Mike made 9 changes in 1 month, and 165 changes in 1 year

    * 13 new tickets with needsUXEval Feb/25-Mar/04

      Unconfirmed/new (still needsUXEval)
      + [Bug 140794] Dragging the corner handle of of QR code inwards doesn't
        shrink proportional by definition
      + [Bug 140769] Dragging image slightly up moves image to second page
      + [Bug 135515] Print preview always places pages in LTR order
      + [Bug 140744] Font change after inserting symbol (from different font)
      + [Bug 140684] drop-down list "gutter position" is unsuitable UI
      + [Bug 140612] add an "Edit List Style" command to Text | List context
        menu, and Bullets and Numbering dialog should not modify List Styles

      Accepted, new
      + [Bug 140726] func keyword entry on Elements pane should insert a
        function name suggesting user to modify it
      + [Bug 140694] Italic text cursor in italic context
      + [Bug 140655] Page naming "right" and "left" is wrong for right-to
        to-left documents should be "odd" and "even"

      Resolved DUP, NAB
      + [Bug 43515] [Task] RESET / BACK button text and function interchanged.
      + [Bug 140316] Language selection using 'For Paragraph' and
        'For Selection' navigates to wrong dialog box

      Resolved Fixed
      + [Bug 124701] EDITING existing spreadsheet: counting the number of
        autofiltered records doesn't work
      + [Bug 140669] Clarification about which toolbars should have "No List"
          icon


* Crash Testing (Caolan)
    + 20(-1) import failure, 5(+2) export failures
    + 3 coverity issues
    + 23 ossfuzz isses

    + several xmlsecurity/ updates, thanks to Michael S

* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.0.3.1
         + (-58) 3713 3771 3894 4391 5080 5583 6244 6046 2302 7544 6347 6410 6208 4932 3472 1732 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.0.4.2
         + (+321) 5593 5375 5272 5698 6259 5595 3893 2033 1027 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.1.0.3
         + (+1788) 10520 8732 6625 4863 452 0
- https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/signature/writerfilter::dmapper::DomainMapper_Impl::SetFrameDirection(short)
	- Fixed by 027cc8c90badd4dd8a3436d859587c1b8732459f < tdf#140668 Crashfix: disregard w:textDirection tag outside frame >, thanks to Daniel
	- Unfortunately not in 7.1.1.2

* Mentoring/easyhack update
          committer...   1 week      1 month     3 months    12 months
                  open      78(-45)     141(-13)    144(-14)     150(-13)
               reviews     434(-140)   1512(-34)   3638(14)    13950(-116)
                merged     382(47)     1343(134)   3700(7)     17018(47)
             abandoned      13(-33)      79(0)      194(-7)      917(-10)
           own commits     244(-32)    1164(-2)    3239(3)     14229(-37)
        review commits      96(52)      468(-20)   1203(31)     4722(-11)
        contributor...   1 week      1 month     3 months     12 months
                  open      22(-89)     121(-6)     122(-8)       125(-7)
               reviews     956(-152)   3434(134)   9000(-162)   44593(-222)
                merged      26(7)       144(-29)    504(-27)     2853(-47)
             abandoned      14(-12)      60(6)      143(6)        515(-3)
           own commits      45(28)      223(-14)    490(9)       2125(10)
        review commits       0(0)         0(0)        0(0)          0(0)
    + easyHack statistics:
       needsDevEval 9(9)   needsUXEval 3(3)   cleanup_comments 253(253)
       total 293(293)   assigned 29(29)   open 238(238)
    + top 10 contributors:
          Johnny_M made 72 patches in 1 month, and 576 patches in 1 year
          Dante DM made 26 patches in 1 month, and 70 patches in 1 year
          Steve Fanning made 22 patches in 1 month, and 112 patches in 1 year
          Svante Schubert made 18 patches in 1 month, and 19 patches in 1 year
          Attila Bakos made 5 patches in 1 month, and 44 patches in 1 year
          Suhaas Joshi made 5 patches in 1 month, and 5 patches in 1 year
          Srijita Mallick made 5 patches in 1 month, and 6 patches in 1 year
          Leyan Ouyang made 4 patches in 1 month, and 6 patches in 1 year
          Attila Szűcs made 3 patches in 1 month, and 36 patches in 1 year
          Marco Pinto made 3 patches in 1 month, and 17 patches in 1 year
    + top 10 reviewers:
          Olivier Hallot made 124 review comments in 1 month, and 1030 in 1 year
          Michael Stahl made 114 review comments in 1 month, and 228 in 1 year
          Vajna, Miklos made 94 review comments in 1 month, and 610 in 1 year
          Heiko Tietze made 88 review comments in 1 month, and 452 in 1 year
          Németh, László made 86 review comments in 1 month, and 712 in 1 year
          Grandin, Noel made 82 review comments in 1 month, and 886 in 1 year
          Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 82 review comments in 1 month, and 1132 in 1 year
          McNamara, Caolán made 76 review comments in 1 month, and 882 in 1 year
          Ilmari Lauhakangas made 64 review comments in 1 month, and 320 in 1 year
          Thorsten Behrens made 64 review comments in 1 month, and 132 in 1 year
    + big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
          Suhaas Joshi
          LE, GARREC Vincent
          Moaz El-defrawy
          Heet Surana
  + finally this above list is accurate, thanks Xisco

* Commit Access
  + None

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Kendy/Thorsten/László)
    + sleep -17 weeks

* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
    from:Thu Feb 25 14:55:15 2021
    master linux rel  jobs:  44 ok:  44 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master linux dbg  jobs:  41 ok:  41 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master mac rel    jobs:  25 ok:  25 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master mac dbg    jobs:  25 ok:  25 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master win rel    jobs:  44 ok:  44 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master win dbg    jobs:  54 ok:  54 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master win64 dbg  jobs:  48 ok:  48 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master gerrit lin jobs: 706 ok: 582 ko: 101 fail ratio: 14.31% time for ok: mean:  22 median:  22
    master gerrit plg jobs: 693 ok: 418 ko: 243 fail ratio: 35.06% time for ok: mean:  39 median:  37
    master gerrit win jobs: 766 ok: 466 ko: 204 fail ratio: 26.63% time for ok: mean:  56 median:  56
    master gerrit mac jobs: 710 ok: 546 ko: 128 fail ratio: 18.03% time for ok: mean:  27 median:  25
    master android    jobs: 641 ok: 589 ko:  35 fail ratio:  5.46% time for ok: mean:  26 median:  21
    master gerrit all jobs: 752 ok: 312 ko: 340 fail ratio: 45.21% time for ok: mean: 141 median: 127
   + https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/tmp/gerrit_210304.html
   + tests that failed more than twice in last seven days
      3 CppunitTest_filter_svg		gerrit_mac
      3 CppunitTest_sw_core_undo		gerrit_windows
      3 UITest_writer_tests		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      4 CppunitTest_sw_ooxmlexport12		gerrit_mac
      4 CppunitTest_sw_uwriter		gerrit_mac
      4 UITest_impress_tests		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      5 Killed by the kill-wrapper		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      6 CppunitTest_vcl_skia		gerrit_windows
      8 CppunitTest_sw_core_layout		gerrit_windows
     10 CppunitTest_sal_retry_if_failed		gerrit_windows
     + Mike tried to make this not depend on timing
     11 CppunitTest_sc_uicalc		gerrit_windows
     11 CppunitTest_sw_xhtmlexport		gerrit_mac
     17 CppunitTest_sd_import_tests		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
     25 CppunitTest_xmlsecurity_signing		gerrit_windows
     26 CppunitTest_vcl_backend_test		gerrit_mac
     31 UITest_chart		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
     + Noel fixed this one with a revert

   + many test failures this week
   + 1 mac build bot was failing, unclear what was the root cause, worked around by rebooting
   + do we need tooling to prevent submitting old, but Jenkins-verified changes? (Miklos)
     + may send too much mails (Xisco)
     + possible to comment without sending a mail (Cloph)
     + remove Verified+1 by Jenkins after 1 week could be a solution
       + fine with me (Stephan)
AI: consider re-using the pootle bot for this (Xisco)


* l10n (Sophie)
  + business as usual

* GSoC 2021 announced (Heiko/Thorsten)
  + project page: http://g.co/gsoc
  + new ideas are welcome at https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas
  + new mentors too: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas_without_a_mentor
  + next step:
    + March 9, 2021: Organizations Announced
    + March 29, 2021 - April 13, 2021: Student Application Period
    + April 13, 2021 - May 17, 2021: Application Review Period
    + May 17, 2021: Student Projects Announced
    + May 17, 2021 - June 7, 2021: Community Bonding
    + June 7, 2021 - August 16, 2021: Coding
    + July 12 - 16, 2021: Evaluations
    + August 16 - 23, 2021: Students Submit Code and Final Evaluations
    + August 23 - 30, 2021: Mentors Submit Final Evaluations
    + August 31, 2021: Results Announced
  + seeing lots of easy hackers (Heiko)

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

    + UNCONFIRMED: 1647 (+47)
        + enhancements: 196  (-4)
        + needsUXEval: 4 (+1)
        + haveBackTrace: 4 (+0)
        + needsDevAdvice: 16 (-1)
        + documentation:  24 (+0)
        + android:  6 (+0)
        + iOS:  0 (+0)
        + Online:  23 (+1)


    + Most pressing bugs:
     New:
        None
     Old:
        + Writer document with tables lost data in cells (apparently) replacing with 0
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131025
            + Eike is asking for Writer advice
            + there are some code pointers from Mike K there

       + 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 duplicate
     Fixed:
        + Paste is sometimes deactivated in (context) menu even though text is copied to clipboard and CTRL+V functioning
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116983
            + Thanks to Mike Kaganski


    + New high severity bugs of the week:
        + Blurred text in images
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140755
            + Lubos?

        + picture (wmf) not printed nor exported
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138515
            + Gabor?
            + suspect that root cause is hidden behind an other commit, will try to bisect (Xisco)

        + PDF: EXPORT: Crash in: mergedlo.dll
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140606
            + already fixed, thanks to Tomaz

        + CRASH: importing docx file
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140668
            + already fixed, thanks to Daniel

        + EDITING: Undo history cut off when inserting page header or footer
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46561
            + not a regression?

* QA stats
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
      +137  +34 (-111) overall)
      many thanks to the top bug squashers:
       QA Administrators       9
       Heiko Tietze            7
       Timur                   6
       Luboš Luňák             5
       László Németh           5
       Xisco Faulí             5
       Buovjaga                4
       himajin100000           4
       sdc.blanco              4
       Aron Budea              3

    + top 10 bugs reporters:
       Telesto                 14
       b.                      6
       Regina Henschel         5
       Xisco Faulí             4
       sdc.blanco              4
       NISZ LibreOffice Team   3
       Pascal                  3
       Ulrich Windl            3
       Harald Langheinrich     2
       Karsten                 2

    + top 10 bugs fixers:
       Heiko Tietze            5
       Attila Bakos            3
       Balazs Varga            3
       Jim Raykowski           3
       Németh, László          3
       Seth Chaiklin           3
       Vajna, Miklos           3
       Gülşah Köse             2
       Luboš Luňák             2
       Tünde Tóth              2

    + top 10 bugs confirmers:
       Dieter                  12
       Xisco Fauli             11
       Heiko Tietze            8
       Timur                   8
       *UNKNOWN*               7
       m.a.riosv               5
       Ilmari Lauhakangas      4
       Nabet, Julien           4
       Foote, V Stuart         3
       Kaganski, Mike          3


* Highest-Priority bugs (aka "MABs"):
   + http://bit.ly/2lJAAJI
     6.0 : 2/53 -     3 %  (+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 : 3/83 -     3 %  (+0)
     old : 7/248 -    2 %  (+0)


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

     done by:
        Timur                  4
        Roman Kuznetsov        2
        Xisco Fauli            2
        Budea, Áron            1


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

     done by:
        Timur                  5
        Roman Kuznetsov        2
        Budea, Áron            2
        Xisco Fauli            2
        Ilmari Lauhakangas     1


* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
   + 1386(-2) bugs open of 10789(+16) total 13(-1) high prio.

     done by:
        Timur                  3
        Telesto                3
        b. s.                  2
        Xisco Fauli            2
        Roman Kuznetsov        1
        dianazubareva          1
        Ilmari Lauhakangas     1
        m.a.riosv              1
        Kaganski, Mike         1


* ~Component   count net * high severity regressions
   + http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
     Writer        - 8(+0)
     Calc          - 2(+0)
     LibreOffice   - 2(-1)
     Impress       - 1(+0)

   by OS:
     All           - 12(-1)
     Linux         - 1(+0)
     Mac OS X      - 0(+0)
     Windows       - 0(+0)


* ~Component   count net * all regressions
   + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
     Writer: other            - 458(+0)
     Calc                     - 241(+0)
     Impress                  - 146(-1)
     LibreOffice              - 58(-2)
     Writer: docx filter      - 55(-4)
     Crashes                  - 51(+0)
     Draw                     - 51(+0)
     Borders                  - 47(+0)
     UI                       - 42(+0)
     Writer: perf             - 42(+0)
     Base                     - 32(+0)
     Writer: other filter     - 31(-1)
     Chart                    - 26(+0)
     Writer: doc filter       - 26(+0)
     graphics stack           - 25(+1)
     RTL                      - 24(-1)
     Printing and PDF export  - 23(+0)
     filters and storage      - 19(+0)
     BASIC                    - 15(+0)
     Formula Editor           - 2(+0)
     framework                - 2(+0)
     sdk                      - 1(+0)
     Linguistic               - 0(-1)


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