ESC meeting minutes: 2023-08-10

Miklos Vajna vmiklos at collabora.com
Thu Aug 10 14:34:42 UTC 2023


* Present:
     + Olivier, Caolan, Hossein, Ilmari, Khaled, Michael W, Michael S, Regina, Stephan, Xisco, Cloph, Eike, Miklos

* Completed Action Items:
     + update https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/ReleaseBuilds for the new AlmaLinux 8 baseline (Cloph)
   + invite the students to the LO conference (GSoC mentors)

* Pending Action Items:
     + Try gtk4 local builds, Qt6 local builds (Cloph)

* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
     + 7.6.0 status:
       + rc3 has been tagged yesterday, only waiting for the Windows builds
     + 7.5 status: 7.5.6 is next
       + rc1 in 1 week (Xisco to do the tag)

* Documentation (Olivier)
     + New Help
        + Exclude useless files from packaging (ohallot)
     + helpcontent2
        + Housekeeping pages (ohallot)
        + Updates and fixes (ohallot, stragu)
        + added HID's to UI elements (R. Lima)
     + Guides
        + published Impress and Draw guides 7.5
     + looking forward to documenting 7.6 features

     + Bugzilla Documentation statistics
         266(266) bugs open
     + Updates:
         BZ changes   1 week   1 month   3 months   12 months
            created     15(1)     45(6)     82(-2)     305(-4)
          commented     39(17)   131(35)   246(16)    1084(20)
           resolved      8(1)     21(6)     37(3)      173(1)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Rafael Lima made 69 changes in 1 month, and 165 changes in 1 year
           Stéphane Guillou made 49 changes in 1 month, and 319 changes in 1 year
           Seth Chaiklin made 23 changes in 1 month, and 316 changes in 1 year
           Olivier Hallot made 19 changes in 1 month, and 450 changes in 1 year
           Nabet, Julien made 11 changes in 1 month, and 31 changes in 1 year
           Srebotnjak, Martin made 8 changes in 1 month, and 21 changes in 1 year
           Monastirsky, Maxim made 8 changes in 1 month, and 12 changes in 1 year
           *UNKNOWN* made 5 changes in 1 month, and 12 changes in 1 year
           Vernon, Stuart Foote made 5 changes in 1 month, and 49 changes in 1 year
           خالد حسني made 4 changes in 1 month, and 4 changes in 1 year

* UX Update (Heiko)
     + Missing Heiko
     + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
         266(266) (topicUI) bugs open, 73(73) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
     + Updates:
         BZ changes   1 week    1 month   3 months   12 months
              added      4(-12)    29(2)     37(-1)      69(2)
          commented     38(-49)   254(14)   571(-52)   2467(19)
            removed      0(0)       1(0)      7(-2)      29(0)
           resolved      5(-1)     34(1)     86(-17)    329(0)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Heiko Tietze made 99 changes in 1 month, and 1448 changes in 1 year
           Stéphane Guillou made 67 changes in 1 month, and 453 changes in 1 year
           Eyal Rozenberg made 59 changes in 1 month, and 327 changes in 1 year
           ady made 36 changes in 1 month, and 97 changes in 1 year
           Justin Luth made 30 changes in 1 month, and 104 changes in 1 year
           Vernon, Stuart Foote made 23 changes in 1 month, and 409 changes in 1 year
           خالد حسني made 21 changes in 1 month, and 37 changes in 1 year
           Dieter made 20 changes in 1 month, and 264 changes in 1 year
           Roman Kuznetsov made 17 changes in 1 month, and 169 changes in 1 year
           Ilmari Lauhakangas made 17 changes in 1 month, and 233 changes in 1 year

* Crash Testing (Caolan)
     + 30(+1) import failure, 0(+0) export failures
       - one new svg issue, fixed
       - older threaded calc import issues: debug session and potential workaround/fix
         of https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/155463
     + 0 coverity issues
     + 3 ossfuzz issues

* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.4.7.2
          + (+10) 674 664 485 472 471 380 318 250 251 118 0
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.5.4.2
          + (-38) 668 706 981 969 717 365 0
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.5.5.2
          + (-160) 852 1012 0

    + Regression in 7.5.5.2

        - https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/signature/ScTable::DeleteCol(sc::ColumnSet%20const%20&,short,long,long,unsigned%20__int64,bool%20*)

     - https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156286

     - Fixed. Thanks to László


    + Regression in 7.6.0.2

        - https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/signature/comphelper::AccessibleEventNotifier::revokeClientNotifyDisposing(unsigned%20int,%20com::sun::star::uno::Reference%3Ccom::sun::star::uno::XInterface%3E%20const&)

     - https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156683

     - related to https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156463 ?


* Mentoring (Hossein)
+ Added a new EasyHack
   + tdf#156717 - Add minor version / OS to PDF producer metadata
     https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156717
     + only drawback: privacy
     + not concerned, seems other PDF producers also do this
     + hopefully helpful for diagnostics
   + Finalized and published a blog post on dev blog
     Highlight the current row and column in Calc – difficulty interesting EasyHack
     https://dev.blog.documentfoundation.org/?p=897
           committer...   1 week     1 month     3 months    12 months
                   open      74(-36)    135(-35)    189(-38)     227(-33)
                reviews     420(16)    1340(64)    3130(84)    11172(122)
                 merged     298(63)    1077(-32)   3358(24)    12773(81)
              abandoned       8(-4)      34(2)      127(-5)      625(1)
            own commits     197(58)     743(8)     2181(-55)   10321(-18)
         review commits      51(13)     232(-6)     674(-28)    3075(23)
         contributor...   1 week    1 month      3 months     12 months
                   open      18(0)      51(3)        75(-153)     245(2)
                reviews     770(56)   2536(-152)   7462(-452)   32048(-84)
                 merged       9(-9)     89(-10)     213(-38)     2628(-73)
              abandoned       2(1)       7(-3)       24(-11)      467(-6)
            own commits      13(-2)     79(-7)      214(-6)      1060(5)
         review commits       0(0)       0(0)         0(0)          0(0)
     + easyHack statistics:
        needsDevEval 8(8)   needsUXEval 1(1)   cleanup_comments 329(329)
        total 404(404)   assigned 17(17)   open 359(359)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Stéphane Guillou made 12 patches in 1 month, and 27 patches in 1 year
           Dipam Turkar made 11 patches in 1 month, and 22 patches in 1 year
           Ahmed Eltokhy made 5 patches in 1 month, and 9 patches in 1 year
           Matt K made 4 patches in 1 month, and 6 patches in 1 year
           Colomban Wendling made 4 patches in 1 month, and 21 patches in 1 year
           Venetia Furtado made 4 patches in 1 month, and 5 patches in 1 year
           Sahil Gautam made 4 patches in 1 month, and 4 patches in 1 year
           Czeber László made 3 patches in 1 month, and 17 patches in 1 year
           Armin Le Grand (allotropia) made 3 patches in 1 month, and 75 patches in 1 year
           Dr. David Alan Gilbert made 3 patches in 1 month, and 21 patches in 1 year
     + top 10 reviewers:
           Michael Stahl made 132 review comments in 1 month, and 1138 in 1 year
           Caolán McNamara made 130 review comments in 1 month, and 332 in 1 year
           Nabet, Julien made 88 review comments in 1 month, and 948 in 1 year
           Kaganski, Mike made 80 review comments in 1 month, and 364 in 1 year
           Vajngerl, Tomaž made 76 review comments in 1 month, and 434 in 1 year
           Vajna, Miklos made 66 review comments in 1 month, and 794 in 1 year
           Thorsten Behrens made 66 review comments in 1 month, and 448 in 1 year
           Grandin, Noel made 62 review comments in 1 month, and 606 in 1 year
           Weghorn, Michael made 56 review comments in 1 month, and 184 in 1 year
           Christian Lohmaier made 48 review comments in 1 month, and 408 in 1 year

* GSoC (Ilmari/Thorsten)
   + work is ongoing, see weekly reports
   + next up: August 21st final week, submission of results
   + the ML project is now on gerrit in production
   + some contributors almost finished their tasks (Hossein)

* Commit Access

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Miklos/Thorsten/László)
   + resting since: 17 weeks (limit: 20 weeks)

* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
gerrit_android_aarch64     jobs: 138 ok: 127 ko:   8 fail ratio: 5.80% mean_ok:   8 ( 12) median_ok:   6 (  7)
gerrit_android_arm         jobs: 142 ok: 134 ko:   4 fail ratio: 2.82% mean_ok:   8 ( 11) median_ok:   5 (  6)
gerrit_android_x86         jobs: 138 ok: 123 ko:  13 fail ratio: 9.42% mean_ok:   7 ( 10) median_ok:   4 (  6)
gerrit_android_x86_64      jobs: 142 ok: 136 ko:   3 fail ratio: 2.11% mean_ok:   8 ( 11) median_ok:   5 (  7)
gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil jobs: 365 ok: 225 ko: 124 fail ratio: 33.97% mean_ok:  35 ( 37) median_ok:  33 ( 38)
gerrit_linux_gcc_release   jobs: 279 ok: 255 ko:  17 fail ratio: 6.09% mean_ok:  16 ( 17) median_ok:  13 ( 13)
gerrit_mac                 jobs: 301 ok: 236 ko:  49 fail ratio: 16.28% mean_ok:  44 ( 44) median_ok:  41 ( 41)
gerrit_windows             jobs: 278 ok: 245 ko:  21 fail ratio: 7.55% mean_ok:  54 ( 56) median_ok:  44 ( 44)
gerrit_master              jobs: 203 ok: 103 ko:  84 fail ratio: 41.38% mean_ok:  58 ( 58) median_ok:  48 ( 48)
    + tests that failed more than twice in last seven days
       5 UITest_calc_tests9                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       7 UITest_calc_tests8                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       9 CppunitTest_starmath_qa_cppunit                gerrit_windows
      12 Killed by the kill-wrapper                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      12 UITest_inputLine                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      + more frequent than last week
      + interestingly had this failing a lot last year in Aug
      16 Killed by the kill-wrapper                gerrit_mac
   + there is a change regarding how builds are run (Cloph)
     + if the change "is likely" to fail, then only linux-clang-dbgutil builds, and only then the rest
       + that's why the clang build number is higher
     + this also shows in the failed tests numbers
   + new boxes, like tb99, call to gdb is not ideal (Stephan)
     + auto-allow-list path is not configured, so python backtraces don't work nicely
       + including our own pretty-printers
       AI: Cloph to look at that

* What’s cooking (Thorsten)
     + ccache on Windows (Hossein)
       + heard PCH builds are faster than ccache
         + yes, saw that locally (Cloph)
       + think ccache + pch won't work together (Cloph)
         + works for an initial build, but not for subsequent ones
       + pch is already used on CI (Cloph)
     + C++20 (Stephan)
       + have a couple of gerrit changes which are green on all platforms
       + will propose a new compiler version to be required, in the coming weeks
     + multi-page floating tables in Writer, see tdf#155118 for details (Miklos)
     + looking into l10n issues in Math (Khaled)
       + non-English locale uncovers not showing symbols, etc
       + especially RTL, looking into fixing these
     + looking into issues with popups not announced in NVDA (Michael W)
       + also some cleanups, removing unnecessary indirections

* JDK bump to 17 (android build or all?) (Michael W)
   + required by a newer gradle
   + also the same for the whole Linux baseline or stick to JDK11 there? (Cloph)
   + not sure if there is any benefit in maintaining an old baseline here (Michael S)
   + JRE8 was reported to not work (Hossein)
     + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155668
     + build baseline is JDK9 (Miklos)
     + runtime baseline is JRE8 (Stephan)
     + do we produce .class files that would not work with JRE8? (Michael S)
       + think we pass the right target flags to make this work (Stephan)
       + JAVA_TARGET_VER → should not cause runtime change
   => no objections to bump the build-time baseline

* LibreOffice conference Bucharest 2023 (Gabriel)
   + talked with Rafael (Olivier)
     + will do the workshop for scripting
     + will reach out to Hossein
     Workshop plan:
     https://conference.libreoffice.org/2023/workshop-introduction-to-libreoffice-development/

* QA update (Xisco)
     + UNCONFIRMED: 1192 (+0)
         + enhancements: 278  (-2)
         + needsUXEval: 21 (+3)
         + haveBackTrace: 13 (+1)
         + needsDevAdvice: 34 (+0)
         + documentation:  3 (-2)
         + android:  3 (+0)
         + iOS:  0 (+0)
         + Online:  12 (+0)

     + Most pressing bugs:
      New:

     None


     + New high severity bugs of the week:
         + Font size increases when copying from cell in edit mode and pasting into another in non-edit mode
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156209
             + Noel?

* QA stats (Stéphane)
     + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
       +114  -11 (-137) overall)
       many thanks to the top bug squashers:
        QA Administrators       20
        Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 19
        Xisco Faulí             11
        ⁨خالد حسني⁩             10
        Michael Stahl (allotropia) 7
        Rafael Lima             5
        Balázs Varga (allotropia) 4
        BogdanB                 4
        Noel Grandin            4
        Aron Budea              3

     + top 10 bugs reporters:
        Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 9
        Rafael Lima             5
        Hossein                 4
        Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 4
        Gerald Pfeifer          3
        Mike Kaganski           3
        Xisco Faulí             3
        Abhilasha               2
        Jens-D Doll             2
        Joanmarie Diggs         2

     + top 10 bugs fixers:
        Michael Stahl           7
        خالد حسني               7
        Grandin, Noel           5
        Xisco Fauli             5
        Balazs Varga            4
        Rafael Lima             4
        Jim Raykowski           3
        Vajna, Miklos           3
        Hossein                 2
        Justin Luth             2

     + top 10 bugs confirmers:
        Stéphane Guillou        22
        m.a.riosv               10
        Nabet, Julien           9
        Balazs Varga            8
        *UNKNOWN*               6
        Xisco Fauli             6
        Kelemen, Gabor          5
        Weghorn, Michael        5
        Dieter                  3
        Kaganski, Mike          3


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

      done by:
         Kelemen, Gabor         5
         Stéphane Guillou       3
         Xisco Fauli            3
         Raal                   2
         Aron Budea             1
         Weghorn, Michael       1


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

      done by:
         Kelemen, Gabor         5
         Xisco Fauli            3
         Aron Budea             2
         Raal                   2
         Stéphane Guillou       2
         Weghorn, Michael       1


* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
    + 1180(-12) bugs open of 12699(+13) total 11(-2) high prio.

      done by:
         Kelemen, Gabor         2
         Xisco Fauli            2
         Weghorn, Michael       1
         otula                  1
         Henschel, Regina       1
         Robert Großkopf        1
         Stéphane Guillou       1
         Telesto                1


* ~Component   count net * high severity regressions
    + http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
      Writer        - 7(-2)
      Calc          - 3(+0)
      LibreOffice   - 1(+0)

    by OS:
      All           - 7(-2)
      Linux         - 2(+0)
      Mac OS X      - 0(+0)
      Windows       - 2(+0)


* ~Component   count net * all regressions
    + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
      Writer: other            - 413(-10)
      Calc                     - 216(+0)
      Impress                  - 132(-1)
      LibreOffice              - 48(-1)
      Draw                     - 44(+0)
      Crashes                  - 43(-1)
      Base                     - 42(-1)
      Writer: docx filter      - 42(+0)
      UI                       - 33(+1)
      Writer: perf             - 33(+0)
      Borders                  - 32(+0)
      Writer: other filter     - 31(+0)
      Printing and PDF export  - 23(-1)
      RTL                      - 23(+0)
      Chart                    - 22(+0)
      BASIC                    - 18(+0)
      filters and storage      - 18(-1)
      Writer: doc filter       - 13(+0)
      graphics stack           - 12(+0)
      framework                - 4(+2)
      Formula Editor           - 3(+0)
      Extensions               - 2(+0)
      sdk                      - 2(+0)
      Linguistic               - 1(+0)


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