ESC meeting minutes: 2021-11-25

Miklos Vajna vmiklos at collabora.com
Thu Nov 25 15:32:31 UTC 2021


ESC Call
Thu, 25 Nov 2021 16:00 Berlin time

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

* Completed Action Items:
     + curl webdav now default (https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/123461)

* Pending Action Items:
     + None

* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
     + 7.2 status: 7.2.4 rc1 will be tagged on the week of 13th Dec
     + 7.3 status: beta1 to be tagged this week / this evening
       + late feature request: re-enable inline fieldmark support
         (https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/125558) (Thorsten)
         + currently fails due to a test that locks down the bad behavior (Michael S)
         + fieldmark is mostly disabled at runtime anyway (Thorsten)
         + 3 ways:
             + not possible
             + merge it with disabling the test for now
             + wait for 2-3 weeks and get it backported properly
         + prefer to do it properly, no objection to give it an exception (Cloph, Miklos)
     + Remotes: Android (has new translations, though), iOS
     + Android viewer

* Documentation (Olivier)

       + Missing Olivier

     + Guides
         + Published Impress Guide 7.2
         + Published Calc Guide 7.2
         + Started Base Guide 7.2 (S. Fanning)
         + Started Math Guide 7.2 (R. Lima)
         + Started Draw guide 7.2 (P. Schofield)
     + New Help (no news)
     + HelpContents2
        + Refactoring (Johnnny_M, R. Lima)
        + New pages (R. Lima)
        + Fixes and improvements (R. Lima, M. Kaganski, Ming Hua)

     + Bugzilla Documentation statistics
         254(254) bugs open
     + Updates:
         BZ changes   1 week   1 month   3 months   12 months
            created      9(-1)    31(-2)   112(-7)     330(-1)
          commented     45(5)    129(29)   471(19)    1699(-3)
           resolved      1(-1)    13(-2)    48(-8)     199(-3)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Olivier Hallot made 26 changes in 1 month, and 474 changes in 1 year
           Xisco Fauli made 17 changes in 1 month, and 108 changes in 1 year
           Kaganski, Mike made 15 changes in 1 month, and 86 changes in 1 year
           Nabet, Julien made 10 changes in 1 month, and 42 changes in 1 year
           Dieter made 8 changes in 1 month, and 136 changes in 1 year
           Tomoyuki Kubota made 6 changes in 1 month, and 29 changes in 1 year
           Wolfgang Jäger made 5 changes in 1 month, and 5 changes in 1 year
           David Mark made 4 changes in 1 month, and 4 changes in 1 year
           Christopher Yeleighton made 4 changes in 1 month, and 4 changes in 1 year
           Rafael Lima made 4 changes in 1 month, and 235 changes in 1 year

* UX Update (Heiko)
     + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
         255(255) (topicUI) bugs open, 165(165) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
     + Updates:
         BZ changes   1 week    1 month   3 months   12 months
              added     10(2)      16(2)     31(0)       97(2)
          commented     76(-15)   196(16)   562(-14)   3107(-40)
            removed      0(-2)      1(-3)     4(-2)      36(-2)
           resolved      8(-2)     24(3)     76(5)      440(-11)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Heiko Tietze made 99 changes in 1 month, and 2127 changes in 1 year
           Foote, V Stuart made 33 changes in 1 month, and 573 changes in 1 year
           Roman Kuznetsov made 29 changes in 1 month, and 245 changes in 1 year
           Telesto made 28 changes in 1 month, and 603 changes in 1 year
           Dieter made 24 changes in 1 month, and 267 changes in 1 year
           Ilmari Lauhakangas made 24 changes in 1 month, and 375 changes in 1 year
           *UNKNOWN* made 15 changes in 1 month, and 17 changes in 1 year
           Eyal Rozenberg made 14 changes in 1 month, and 118 changes in 1 year
           Budea, Áron made 13 changes in 1 month, and 61 changes in 1 year
           Rafael Lima made 13 changes in 1 month, and 48 changes in 1 year

     + New tickets with needsUXEval Nov/18-25

       [Bug 145612] Rejected tracked format changes do not revert to previous format
       [Bug 145849] Ctrl+A and then Ctrl+M leads page style is changed to the default
       [Bug 145847] Unreasonable default relative width 1% in Table Properties
       [Bug 145821] Layout divergence between GTK3 and Windows (gen) in Paragraph dialog
                    / Outline & List tab
       [Bug 145801] Different heights of sidebar content panel title elements
       [Bug 145812] Cell reference are highlighted black when putting = into a cell and
                    clicking a different cell
       [Bug 145782] Redesign of Start Center user interface.
       [Bug 145764] Pressing "Home" key in Basic IDE should move cursor to first
                    character in the same line
       [Bug 145740] Support for working with online CC0 photo gallery source images

* Crash Testing (Caolan)
     + 7(+0) import failure, 4(+0) export failures
     + 0 coverity issues
     + 9 ossfuzz issues, 5 timeouts, 3 crashes, 1 OOM

* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.1.6.2
          + (-245) 950 1195 1028 1245 1145 1016 930 906 650 210 0
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.1.7.2
          + (+368) 840 472 186 0
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.2.1.2
          + (+7) 1173 1166 1389 1372 1827 2068 2209 2042 1450 0
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.2.2.2
          + (+346) 2778 2432 2069 1536 1134 752 0
    + 7.2.3 looks promising, top 3 crashes got fixed
    + one more is fixed on master, backport is pending
    + will see more data by next week

* Mentoring/EasyHack update (Hossein)
           committer...   1 week     1 month     3 months    12 months
                   open      48(-19)     82(-11)    113(-28)     178(-15)
                reviews     368(-58)   1160(-16)   3284(10)     9172(226)
                 merged     335(-14)   1442(21)    3812(57)    11065(332)
              abandoned      15(4)       48(5)      124(3)       515(15)
            own commits     268(21)    1189(63)    3198(33)    12772(-13)
         review commits     104(-17)    444(19)    1071(50)     4243(-71)
         contributor...   1 week     1 month    3 months    12 months
                   open      41(1)       74(1)     125(-6)      180(1)
                reviews     840(-18)   3126(80)   8478(40)    24828(680)
                 merged      31(-10)    146(2)     477(-17)    1357(31)
              abandoned       3(-1)      17(1)     106(0)       372(3)
            own commits      58(-15)    230(25)    463(43)     1862(-82)
         review commits       0(0)        0(0)       0(0)         0(0)
     + easyHack statistics:
        needsDevEval 8(8)   needsUXEval 2(2)   cleanup_comments 276(276)
        total 332(332)   assigned 26(26)   open 278(278)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Johnny_M made 160 patches in 1 month, and 819 patches in 1 year
           Steve Fanning made 10 patches in 1 month, and 70 patches in 1 year
           Kevin Suo made 6 patches in 1 month, and 31 patches in 1 year
           Akshit Kushwaha made 5 patches in 1 month, and 29 patches in 1 year
           Henrik Palomäki made 5 patches in 1 month, and 6 patches in 1 year
           Srebotnjak, Martin made 4 patches in 1 month, and 17 patches in 1 year
           Attila Szűcs made 3 patches in 1 month, and 25 patches in 1 year
           Dr. David Alan Gilbert made 3 patches in 1 month, and 12 patches in 1 year
           Nagy Tibor made 2 patches in 1 month, and 38 patches in 1 year
           Ming Hua made 2 patches in 1 month, and 20 patches in 1 year
     + top 10 reviewers:
           Olivier Hallot made 194 review comments in 1 month, and 968 in 1 year
           Kaganski, Mike made 98 review comments in 1 month, and 642 in 1 year
           Xisco Fauli made 82 review comments in 1 month, and 650 in 1 year
           Michael Stahl made 80 review comments in 1 month, and 776 in 1 year
           Nabet, Julien made 56 review comments in 1 month, and 336 in 1 year
           Rathke, Eike made 54 review comments in 1 month, and 212 in 1 year
           Thorsten Behrens made 54 review comments in 1 month, and 392 in 1 year
           Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 52 review comments in 1 month, and 618 in 1 year
           Németh, László made 48 review comments in 1 month, and 410 in 1 year
           Grandin, Noel made 42 review comments in 1 month, and 528 in 1 year
     + big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
           Harjot Singh
     + Normal week
        + We had ~30 merged commits from the contributors
        + Usually ~half is translation, half is other development related patches
        + Manually checking the merged submissions from contributors:
          git shortlog -e -n -s --since=1week|grep -vf commiters.txt
     + Published 1 blog post on EasyHacks
     https://dev.blog.documentfoundation.org/2021/11/23/use-symbolic-constants-instead-of-magic-numerical-constants-easyhack/
     + Plan to have 1 new easy hack each week
       + Bug repot / sample commit / blog post

* Commit Access
   + None

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Kendy/Thorsten/László)
   + resting since: 20 weeks (limit: 20 weeks)

* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
     from:Thu Nov 18 14:56:24 2021
     master linux rel  jobs: 127 ok: 126 ko:   1 fail ratio:  0.79 % break:   1 broken duration: 0.63%
     master linux dbg  jobs: 113 ok: 107 ko:   6 fail ratio:  5.31 % break:   6 broken duration: 3.40%
     master mac rel    jobs: 112 ok: 112 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
     master mac dbg    jobs: 117 ok: 116 ko:   1 fail ratio:  0.85 % break:   1 broken duration: 0.87%
     master win rel    jobs: 110 ok: 107 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
     master win dbg    jobs: 114 ok: 102 ko:  11 fail ratio:  9.65 % break:   1 broken duration:10.84%
     master win64 dbg  jobs: 116 ok: 103 ko:  11 fail ratio:  9.48 % break:   1 broken duration: 9.81%
     master gerrit lin jobs: 525 ok: 403 ko:  71 fail ratio: 13.52% time for ok: mean:  22 median:  19
     master gerrit plg jobs: 531 ok: 321 ko: 148 fail ratio: 27.87% time for ok: mean:  41 median:  38
     master gerrit win jobs: 578 ok: 345 ko: 163 fail ratio: 28.20% time for ok: mean:  64 median:  60
     master gerrit mac jobs: 530 ok: 395 ko:  75 fail ratio: 14.15% time for ok: mean:  31 median:  27
     master android    jobs: 494 ok: 397 ko:  38 fail ratio:  7.69% time for ok: mean:  34 median:  24
     master gerrit all jobs: 578 ok: 265 ko: 236 fail ratio: 40.83% time for ok: mean:  71 median:  66
    + https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/tmp/gerrit_211125.html
    + tests that failed more than twice in last seven days
       3 UITest_calc_tests8                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       3 UITest_writer_tests3                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       4 CppunitTest_sw_uiwriter3                gerrit_linux_gcc_release
       4 UITest_signatureLine                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       5 UITest_writer_tests7                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       8 UITest_impress_tests                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      14 Killed by the kill-wrapper                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
     + pretty normal week
     + also nice to see: Windows failures are not the top of the list
       + many times these timeouts are from Writer code where we call out with the solar mutex locked (Stephan)

* l10n (Sophie)

* What’s cooking (Miklos)
     + Miklos sent information about autoupdater to the dev ML
         + please check so that we can discuss the next week (if you are interested)
         + https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2021-November/088107.html
    + wasm test site https://wasm-test.libreoffice.org/ thx to jmux, thorsten, others
     + Chromium is preferred to try it out (Thorsten)

* Budget 2022 (Xisco)
     + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Budget2022
     + next step: ideas are welcome till the end of the year
     + earlier deadline? (Thorsten)
       + take list if ideas with estimates by end Nov -> this Sunday (Thorsten)
       + and have 2 weeks for the vote
AI: Thorsten to send an updated poke mail to the dev list

* QA update (Xisco)

     + UNCONFIRMED: 1560 (-46)
         + enhancements: 248  (-3)
         + needsUXEval: 8 (+3)
         + haveBackTrace: 3 (+0)
         + needsDevAdvice: 26 (-2)
         + documentation:  11 (+0)
         + android:  1 (+0)
         + iOS:  0 (+0)
         + Online:  6 (-10)

     + Most pressing bugs:
      New:
          None

      Old:
         + Calc disables header/footer or looses footer content when saves a spreadsheet ( part 2 )
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144940
             + Fix in gerrit: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/125367

         + macOS: Can't save or open files using Finder dialog on Standard accounts on macOS 10.15 Catalina
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128233

         + 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 Needs someone to volunteer to fix.
             + already listed here for 2 years, and many duplicates

     + New high severity bugs of the week:
         + FILESAVE PPTX: extra bullet added to text
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145162
             + Already assigned to Attila

* QA stats
     + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
       +132  -16 (-127) overall)
       many thanks to the top bug squashers:
        QA Administrators       21
        Xisco Faulí             14
        Justin L                11
        Heiko Tietze            7
        Luboš Luňák             7
        Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 5
        m.a.riosv               5
        Caolán McNamara         4
        Kevin Suo               4
        Mike Kaganski           4

     + top 10 bugs reporters:
        sophie                  8
        Mike Kaganski           4
        Rafael Lima             4
        Telesto                 4
        Thorsten Wagner         4
        Aron Budea              3
        David                   3
        Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 3
        Eyal Rozenberg          2
        HTK300                  2

     + top 10 bugs fixers:
        Justin Luth             8
        Luboš Luňák             6
        Heiko Tietze            5
        McNamara, Caolán        4
        Németh, László          3
        Xisco Fauli             3
        Adolfo Jayme Barrientos 2
        Bergmann, Stephan       2
        Kelemen, Gabor          2
        Michael Stahl           2

     + top 10 bugs confirmers:
        Xisco Fauli             69
        Nabet, Julien           13
        Dieter                  8
        Heiko Tietze            8
        Roman Kuznetsov         7
        Ilmari Lauhakangas      4
        Kevin Suo               4
        Budea, Áron             3
        Raal                    3
        Ezinne Nnamani          2

* Highest-Priority bugs (aka "MABs"):
    + http://bit.ly/2lJAAJI
      6.0 : 1/53 -     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 : 0/73 -     0 %  (+0)
      4.2 : 2/134 -    1 %  (+0)
      4.1 : 3/85 -     3 %  (+0)
      4.0 : 2/83 -     2 %  (+0)
      old : 3/248 -    1 %  (+0)

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

      done by:
         deepoose2011           1
         Kelemen, Gabor         1
         Xisco Fauli            1

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

      done by:
         deepoose2011           1
         Kelemen, Gabor         1
         Samuel Mehrbrodt       1
         Xisco Fauli            1

* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
    + 1316(-12) bugs open of 11365(+12) total 15(+0) high prio.

      done by:
         Henschel, Regina       2
         Ilmari Lauhakangas     1
         Samuel Mehrbrodt       1
         Xisco Fauli            1

* ~Component   count net * high severity regressions
    + http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
      Writer        - 10(+0)
      Calc          - 3(+0)
      Draw          - 1(+0)
      LibreOffice   - 1(+0)

    by OS:
      All           - 14(+0)
      Linux         - 0(+0)
      Mac OS X      - 0(+0)
      Windows       - 1(+0)

* ~Component   count net * all regressions
    + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
      Writer: other            - 443(-2)
      Calc                     - 229(-5)
      Impress                  - 135(-5)
      Writer: docx filter      - 54(-2)
      Crashes                  - 52(-1)
      UI                       - 51(+0)
      Draw                     - 50(+0)
      LibreOffice              - 50(+0)
      Borders                  - 44(+0)
      Writer: perf             - 41(+0)
      Writer: other filter     - 35(+0)
      Base                     - 34(-1)
      Chart                    - 29(+0)
      RTL                      - 27(+0)
      Printing and PDF export  - 23(+1)
      Writer: doc filter       - 23(+0)
      graphics stack           - 23(+0)
      BASIC                    - 18(+0)
      filters and storage      - 18(-1)
      Formula Editor           - 2(+0)
      framework                - 1(+0)
      sdk                      - 1(+0)


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