[Libreoffice-qa] ESC meeting minutes: 2021-04-29

Miklos Vajna vmiklos at collabora.com
Thu Apr 29 14:29:20 UTC 2021


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

* Completed Action Items:
    + None

* Pending Action Items:
    + ESC bug stats, chart ranges don’t show data past 2019-08-13 (Xisco)

* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
    + 7.2 alpha 1 in 2nd week of May (feature freeze start of June)
    + 7.1 status: 7.1.3 rc2 has been tagged yesterday, Windows build is running
    + 7.0 status: 7.0.6 rc2 next week; last planned release of 7.0.6 line
    + Remotes: Android, iOS
    + Android viewer

* Documentation (Olivier)
    + New Help (no news)
    + Helpcontent2
        + New pages on ScriptForge (LibreOfficiant, R. Lima)
        + Bug squash (ohallot, S. Horacek, fitoshido, A. Gelmini)
    + Guides
        + Updating guides
        + Online reading
        + https://books.libreoffice.org/en/WG71/WG7100-Preface.html
          + also packing these in a ZIP to have it offline
          + custom extension is used to create the framed layout


* UX Update (Heiko)
    + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
        249(249) (topicUI) bugs open, 242(242) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
    + Updates:
        BZ changes   1 week    1 month   3 months   12 months
             added      16(2)     31(12)    46(8)      117(8)
         commented     107(20)   399(53)   898(70)    3919(83)
           removed       1(1)      3(1)     12(-1)      27(-2)
          resolved      13(3)     54(9)    125(5)      513(10)
    + top 10 contributors:
          Heiko Tietze made 216 changes in 1 month, and 2376 changes in 1 year
          Dieter made 87 changes in 1 month, and 434 changes in 1 year
          Eyal Rozenberg made 65 changes in 1 month, and 72 changes in 1 year
          Ilmari Lauhakangas made 60 changes in 1 month, and 404 changes in 1 year
          Foote, V Stuart made 47 changes in 1 month, and 636 changes in 1 year
          Xisco Fauli made 43 changes in 1 month, and 229 changes in 1 year
          Telesto made 27 changes in 1 month, and 946 changes in 1 year
          Kaganski, Mike made 21 changes in 1 month, and 175 changes in 1 year
          Roman Kuznetsov made 19 changes in 1 month, and 189 changes in 1 year
          Timur made 19 changes in 1 month, and 168 changes in 1 year

    + 18 new tickets requesting UX evaluation

    + [Bug 141839] Non-adjacent table rows with unequal column widths snap
                   to same width when adjusted


* Crash Testing (Caolan)
    + 21(+9) import failure, 5(+1) export failures
    + 3 coverity issues
    + 18 ossfuzz issues

* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.0.5.2
         + (+146) 2072 1926 1878 1425 1392 1100 358 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.1.0.3
         + (+84) 4391 4307 4637 4077 4695 5822 7276 8505 10520 8732 6625 4863 452 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.1.1.2
         + (-908) 5533 6441 7402 7644 8944 8025 5645 2706 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.1.2.2
         + (+1934) 7429 5495 3968 2046 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/signature/sfx2::RecentDocsView::ExecuteHdl_Impl
	   + Since 7.1 without steps to reproduce it
         + may be specific to gtk3, not sure

* Mentoring/easyhack update
          committer...   1 week     1 month     3 months    12 months
                  open      87(23)     133(10)     134(4)       141(4)
               reviews     434(110)   1286(-26)   2172(296)    2198(296)
                merged     307(26)    1263(-69)   2258(306)    2258(306)
             abandoned      42(18)      94(-2)     155(42)      155(42)
           own commits     201(-20)    909(-92)   3158(-91)   13845(-137)
        review commits      55(3)      267(-63)   1198(-50)    4742(-55)
        contributor...   1 week    1 month      3 months    12 months
                  open      31(11)     71(3)        74(3)       77(3)
               reviews     840(92)   2962(-200)   5286(624)   5304(624)
                merged      14(1)      72(-14)     204(14)     204(14)
             abandoned      17(12)     36(-57)     123(17)     123(17)
           own commits      16(4)     106(-24)     584(-24)   2240(-12)
        review commits       0(0)       0(0)         0(0)        0(0)
    + easyHack statistics:
       needsDevEval 8(8)   needsUXEval 3(3)   cleanup_comments 248(248)
       total 293(293)   assigned 28(28)   open 239(239)
    + top 10 contributors:
          Johnny_M made 42 patches in 1 month, and 750 patches in 1 year
          Dante DM made 4 patches in 1 month, and 83 patches in 1 year
          Steve Fanning made 4 patches in 1 month, and 118 patches in 1 year
          scito made 3 patches in 1 month, and 4 patches in 1 year
          Ahmet, Hakan Çelik made 3 patches in 1 month, and 5 patches in 1 year
          Attila Bakos made 3 patches in 1 month, and 45 patches in 1 year
          Hossein made 3 patches in 1 month, and 4 patches in 1 year
          Tomoyuki Kubota made 3 patches in 1 month, and 14 patches in 1 year
          Vert D. made 2 patches in 1 month, and 7 patches in 1 year
          Carmen Bianca Bakker made 2 patches in 1 month, and 2 patches in 1 year
    + top 10 reviewers:
          Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 108 review comments in 1 month, and 164 in 1 year
          Michael Stahl made 106 review comments in 1 month, and 162 in 1 year
          Olivier Hallot made 96 review comments in 1 month, and 278 in 1 year
          Xisco Fauli made 90 review comments in 1 month, and 152 in 1 year
          Kaganski, Mike made 78 review comments in 1 month, and 130 in 1 year
          Thorsten Behrens made 78 review comments in 1 month, and 94 in 1 year
          Holešovský, Jan made 72 review comments in 1 month, and 88 in 1 year
          McNamara, Caolán made 70 review comments in 1 month, and 106 in 1 year
          Nabet, Julien made 54 review comments in 1 month, and 70 in 1 year
          Németh, László made 50 review comments in 1 month, and 84 in 1 year
    + Patches automatically abandoned:
        wip: restructure notebookbar for weld ( Caolán McNamara )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/105265

        tdf#114441: Convert use of sal_uLong to better integer types ( Umut Emre Bayramoğlu )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/107354

        writerperfect/filter: add XyWrite's configurations... ( Alonso Laurent )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/108933

        tdf#139599 Error in parsing the space before paragraph and applying data in MSO text paragraph ( Zhenhua Fong )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/109319

        tdf#139760 pptx file open in impress and the "slidenum" TextField value will not show add a unit test: ( Zhenhua Fong )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/110519

    + big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
          Rahul Balaji
          Batmunkh Dorjgotov

* Commit Access
    + None

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Kendy/Thorsten/László)
    + sleep -24 weeks

* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
    from:Thu Apr 22 13:53:36 2021
    master linux rel  jobs:  53 ok:  42 ko:  11 fail ratio: 20.75 % break:   1 broken duration: 5.87%
    master linux dbg  jobs:  49 ok:  36 ko:  13 fail ratio: 26.53 % break:   5 broken duration:15.44%
    master mac rel    jobs:  55 ok:  54 ko:   1 fail ratio:  1.82 % break:   1 broken duration: 3.45%
    master mac dbg    jobs:  60 ok:  60 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master win rel    jobs:  56 ok:  54 ko:   2 fail ratio:  3.57 % break:   2 broken duration: 1.59%
    master win dbg    jobs:  62 ok:  61 ko:   1 fail ratio:  1.61 % break:   1 broken duration: 0.32%
    master win64 dbg  jobs:  57 ok:  55 ko:   2 fail ratio:  3.51 % break:   2 broken duration: 5.89%
    master gerrit lin jobs: 611 ok: 426 ko: 119 fail ratio: 19.48% time for ok: mean:  27 median:  26
    master gerrit plg jobs: 600 ok: 282 ko: 245 fail ratio: 40.83% time for ok: mean:  55 median:  49
    master gerrit win jobs: 640 ok: 386 ko: 168 fail ratio: 26.25% time for ok: mean:  57 median:  58
    master gerrit mac jobs: 608 ok: 443 ko:  94 fail ratio: 15.46% time for ok: mean:  33 median:  27
    master android    jobs: 557 ok: 438 ko:  37 fail ratio:  6.64% time for ok: mean:  74 median:  71
    master gerrit all jobs: 644 ok: 243 ko: 294 fail ratio: 45.65% time for ok: mean: 137 median: 115
   + https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/tmp/gerrit_210429.html
   + tests that failed more than twice in last seven days:
      3 CppunitTest_sd_tiledrendering		gerrit_linux_gcc_release
      3 CppunitTest_writerperfect_writer		gerrit_windows
      4 UITest_writer_tests7		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      7 CppunitTest_sc_uicalc		gerrit_windows
      7 CppunitTest_sw_core_undo		gerrit_windows
      9 Killed by the kill-wrapper		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
     27 UITest_sw_navigator		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
        https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/114778
  + little problematic: peaks in load pattern
     + hopefully fixed by now, thanks Caolan
     + need to wait till changes are on top of that
     + a patch series was published, multiple devs
     + new Hetzner server is now active (windows)
       + and one more stop-gap one (linux)
     + 1 poor change → filled disk space on 2 builders, thanks Noel for noticing this
       + if disk is completely full → even the next build will fail

* l10n (Sophie)
  + work going on
  + new language was added: Kashubian


* GSoC 2021 announced (Heiko/Thorsten/Ilmari)
  + 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 29, 2021 - April 13, 2021: Student Application Period
    + slot request: May 3rd ← next step
      + if you are mentor, you should know your planned students already
      + click the “I want to mentor” button for 1 student if you’re sure
      + checking interesting projects without a mentor (Thorsten)
      + reviewing potential assignments (Heiko)
    + 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


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

    + UNCONFIRMED: 1647 (+18)
        + enhancements: 231  (+10)
        + needsUXEval: 19 (+13)
        + haveBackTrace: 5 (+0)
        + needsDevAdvice: 20 (+0)
        + documentation:  2 (-3)
        + android:  1 (-1)
        + iOS:  0 (+0)
        + Online:  17 (+0)



    + 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

       + 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 in: windows.storage.dll when hitting cancel in file open dialog, when a file search is running
			+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106282
			+ Thanks to Matt K
    + New high severity bugs of the week:
        + Print dialog: dialog size is not remembered after reopening (GEN)
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134640
            + not a regression, though

        + Firebird 3 - failure to connect to Firebird file - file structure incompatibility
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141846
            + needs confirmation

* QA stats
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
      +156  -53 (-147) overall)
      many thanks to the top bug squashers:
       QA Administrators       18
       Heiko Tietze            11
       Olivier Hallot          10
       Timur                   10
       Xisco Faulí             9
       Mike Kaganski           7
       Scito                   6
       Adolfo Jayme            5
       Andreas Heinisch        5
       Caolán McNamara         5

    + top 10 bugs reporters:
       Telesto                 13
       NISZ LibreOffice Team   8
       Eyal Rozenberg          6
       Alex Thurgood           4
       Xisco Faulí             4
       Aron Budea              3
       Jonathan Snow           3
       Regina Henschel         3
       Scito                   3
       TorrAB                  3

    + top 10 bugs fixers:
       Olivier Hallot          10
       scito                   6
       Adolfo Jayme Barrientos 5
       McNamara, Caolán        4
       Xisco Fauli             4
       Andreas Heinisch        3
       Kaganski, Mike          3
                               2
       Glogowski, Jan-Marek    2
       Heiko Tietze            2

    + top 10 bugs confirmers:
       Xisco Fauli             26
       Dieter                  12
       Timur                   6
       Nabet, Julien           5
       Olivier Hallot          5
       *UNKNOWN*               4
       Budea, Áron             4
       Heiko Tietze            4
       Kaganski, Mike          4
       NISZ LibreOffice Team   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 : 1/73 -     1 %  (+0)
     4.2 : 2/134 -    1 %  (+0)
     4.1 : 3/85 -     3 %  (+0)
     4.0 : 2/83 -     2 %  (+0)
     old : 4/248 -    1 %  (-1)


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

     done by:
        Xisco Fauli             7
        Timur                   2
        Budea, Áron             1
        ksraji85                1
        NISZ LibreOffice Team   1
        Kaganski, Mike          1
        pavlogradski            1
        Raal                    1


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

     done by:
        Xisco Fauli             7
        Timur                   2
        Budea, Áron             1
        ksraji85                1
        NISZ LibreOffice Team   1
        Kaganski, Mike          1
        pavlogradski            1
        Raal                    1


* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
   + 1331(-8) bugs open of 10898(+13) total 11(+0) high prio.

     done by:
        Telesto                 4
        Xisco Fauli             4
        Alex Thurgood           3
        NISZ LibreOffice Team   1
        Kaganski, Mike          1
        Pierre C                1


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

   by OS:
     All           - 11(+0)
     Linux         - 0(+0)
     Mac OS X      - 0(+0)
     Windows       - 0(+0)


* ~Component   count net * all regressions
   + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
     Writer: other            - 432(-1)
     Calc                     - 232(-1)
     Impress                  - 137(-3)
     Writer: docx filter      - 53(+0)
     LibreOffice              - 52(-1)
     Crashes                  - 51(+2)
     Draw                     - 49(-1)
     Borders                  - 46(+0)
     Writer: perf             - 44(+0)
     UI                       - 41(+1)
     Base                     - 35(+1)
     Writer: other filter     - 32(+0)
     Chart                    - 28(+0)
     Writer: doc filter       - 27(-1)
     graphics stack           - 26(-1)
     RTL                      - 25(+0)
     filters and storage      - 20(-1)
     Printing and PDF export  - 19(+0)
     BASIC                    - 15(+0)
     Formula Editor           - 2(+0)
     framework                - 1(+0)
     sdk                      - 1(+0)
     Installation             - 0(-1)


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