[Libreoffice-qa] ESC meeting minutes: 2020-08-06

[Ilmari Lauhakangas]

On 13.8.2020 20.15, Terrence Enger wrote:
> On Thu, 2020-08-06 at 16:57 +0200, Miklos Vajna wrote:
>>
>>   * corrupted user profile: how to handle that? (Heiko)
>>       + interesting if we have steps wrt how to corrupt it (Xisco)
>>       + otherwise: clean the profile via safe mode
> 
> Yeah, I just had one of these (tdf#135398, of little interest).  And
> the closest I could come for the wanted steps was "I routinely abuse
> LibreOffice in every way I can think of, and then I do it all over
> again."  This is somewhat short on detail. <grin />
> 
> I have hacked together a script to commit the user profile to a git
> repository after execution of soffice.  My hope is that I shall be
> able to usefully localize the origin of the corruption.  If I have
> success, I will come back for advice on how to generalize and share my
> work.
> 
> I guess success here means that
> (a) I get versioning working;
> (b) I stumble across another problem dependent on a corrupted profile,
>      and I can bisect back to an execution of LO;
> (c) the changes made by that execution are both small enough to bear
>      examination and they inform somebody (probably not me) of what went
>      wrong.
> It would be good--but is probably too much to hope for-- that I should
> remember what I was doing in that execution of LO.
> 
> Should I persist in this effort?  Thoughts welcome.

I think it's a good idea! A neat way to get diagnostics in the 
background. I hope you persist.

Ilmari