[Libreoffice-qa] ESC meeting minutes: 2021-12-16

Miklos Vajna vmiklos at collabora.com
Thu Dec 16 15:53:35 UTC 2021


* Present:
     + Heiko, Olivier, Thorsten, Caolan, Cloph, Eike, Hossein, Michael W, Regina, Stephan, Sophie, Xisco, Miklos, Michael S, Michael M, Kendy

* Completed Action Items:
     + None

* Pending Action Items:
     + None

* ESC calls on 23rd and 30th Dec (Miklos)
   + OK to skip (all)

* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
     + 7.2 status 7.2.5 rc2 in 2 weeks
     + 7.3 status: 7.3.0 rc1 next week
       + late feature request: re-enable inline fieldmark support
         (https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/125558) (Thorsten)
     + Remotes: Android, iOS
     + Android viewer

* Documentation (Olivier)
     + New Help: No news
     + Helpcontents2
        + Review of localization of some Basic Help contents (R. Lima)
        + Refactoring (ohallot)
        + fixes (R. Lima, M Kaganski)
     + Guides
        + Review/Update of Math Guide (R. Lima)
        + Update Draw Guide 7.2 (Peter Schoffield)
        + Updates of Base Guide (S. Fanning, O. Hallot)

     + Bugzilla Documentation statistics
         251(251) bugs open
     + Updates:
         BZ changes   1 week   1 month   3 months   12 months
            created      8(-3)    34(-2)   103(0)      319(-2)
          commented     12(-8)   140(4)    420(-17)   1650(-9)
           resolved      1(-5)    13(-2)    44(-3)     192(-3)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Rafael Lima made 24 changes in 1 month, and 255 changes in 1 year
           Kaganski, Mike made 20 changes in 1 month, and 88 changes in 1 year
           JO3EMC made 17 changes in 1 month, and 19 changes in 1 year
           Xisco Fauli made 17 changes in 1 month, and 104 changes in 1 year
           Olivier Hallot made 10 changes in 1 month, and 476 changes in 1 year
           Alain Romedenne made 9 changes in 1 month, and 27 changes in 1 year
           Heiko Tietze made 8 changes in 1 month, and 87 changes in 1 year
           Nabet, Julien made 8 changes in 1 month, and 42 changes in 1 year
           Ilmari Lauhakangas made 7 changes in 1 month, and 79 changes in 1 year
           Tomoyuki Kubota made 6 changes in 1 month, and 31 changes in 1 year

* UX Update (Heiko)
     + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
         255(255) (topicUI) bugs open, 155(155) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
     + Updates:
         BZ changes   1 week   1 month   3 months   12 months
              added      4(-3)    13(-5)    26(-6)      85(-5)
          commented     98(-4)   316(1)    623(35)    3118(-38)
            removed      0(-2)     3(-1)     5(-1)      35(-2)
           resolved     12(0)     44(2)     82(2)      428(-12)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Heiko Tietze made 183 changes in 1 month, and 2061 changes in 1 year
           Roman Kuznetsov made 47 changes in 1 month, and 255 changes in 1 year
           Foote, V Stuart made 33 changes in 1 month, and 551 changes in 1 year
           Kaganski, Mike made 26 changes in 1 month, and 168 changes in 1 year
           Ilmari Lauhakangas made 23 changes in 1 month, and 354 changes in 1 year
           Kevin Suo made 19 changes in 1 month, and 44 changes in 1 year
           McNamara, Caolán made 18 changes in 1 month, and 28 changes in 1 year
           Samuel Mehrbrodt made 18 changes in 1 month, and 26 changes in 1 year
           *UNKNOWN* made 15 changes in 1 month, and 17 changes in 1 year
           Henschel, Regina made 15 changes in 1 month, and 84 changes in 1 year

       + 6 new tickets with needsUXEval Dec/09-16
   ->    + [Bug 145936] FORMATTING: Changing text page size changes the page style
                        for endnotes, and hides part of the endnotes
         + [Bug 146215] Wizard to quickly insert interactive check boxes
         + [Bug 145933] Ctrl+End, Ctrl+Shift+End and Ctrl+A ignore endnote pages
         + [Bug 146193] Glitch in tables in LibreOffice Writer
         + [Bug 146176] [UI] Cryptic messages for average user on macro errors,
         + [Bug 117276] Autofilter settings being reset in some cases

      + Calc's quick filter seearches now (>=7.3) for values instead of formulas
        + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102506
        + this is intentional (Eike)
          + can search for cell values (fomula results) -> need to release note it
AI: release note this (Heiko)


* Crash Testing (Caolan)
     + 25(+20) import failure, 24(+21) export failures
       - three new reasons, fix for 2 pushed, pinged gerrit review of the other
     + 1 coverity issues
     + 6 ossfuzz issues, 5 timeouts, 1 crash

* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.1.7.2
          + (-92) 720 812 1086 840 472 186 0
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.1.8.1
          + (+356) 493 137 0
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.2.2.2
          + (-348) 1621 1969 2431 2778 2432 2069 1536 1134 752 0
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.2.3.2
          + (-813) 473 1286 1144 0
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.2.4.1
          + (+1236) 1606 370 0

    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/signature/ListBox::IsMultiSelectionEnabled()%20const

        - Top 1 in 7.2.4

        - Since 7.2


     Fixed in 7.2.3 & 7.2.4 ( Top 3 )

     - `anonymous namespace'::CheckReadOnlyTask::doWork & CheckReadOnlyTask::doWork

     Thanks to Noel

     - ScDBData::UpdateReference(ScDocument const *,UpdateRefMode,short,long,short,short,long,short,short,long,short)

     Thanks to Eike

     - MSWordExportBase::OutputTextNode(SwTextNode &)

     Thanks to M. Stahl


* Mentoring/EasyHack update (Hossein)
           committer...   1 week     1 month     3 months    12 months
                   open      54(-22)     94(-20)    129(-16)     194(-13)
                reviews     312(-16)   1238(-2)    3062(-62)    9770(168)
                 merged     297(-21)   1438(-9)    3902(33)    11988(250)
              abandoned      15(4)       65(7)      135(5)       549(7)
            own commits     191(-42)   1066(-37)   3140(-23)   12705(-96)
         review commits      42(-23)    374(-11)    988(-24)    4216(-25)
         contributor...   1 week     1 month    3 months    12 months
                   open      23(-2)      56(-6)     91(-4)      173(5)
                reviews     746(-92)   3296(6)    8560(6)     26892(590)
                 merged       7(-17)    120(-2)    401(-17)    1452(49)
              abandoned       0(0)        8(-3)     90(-1)      382(8)
            own commits       5(-31)    206(-4)    448(-12)    1890(31)
         review commits       0(0)        0(0)       0(0)         0(0)
     + easyHack statistics:
        needsDevEval 8(8)   needsUXEval 1(1)   cleanup_comments 282(282)
        total 339(339)   assigned 25(25)   open 285(285)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Johnny_M made 150 patches in 1 month, and 843 patches in 1 year
           Attila Bakos made 5 patches in 1 month, and 31 patches in 1 year
           Srebotnjak, Martin made 4 patches in 1 month, and 19 patches in 1 year
           Nagy Tibor made 3 patches in 1 month, and 39 patches in 1 year
           Ming Hua made 3 patches in 1 month, and 18 patches in 1 year
           Henrik Palomäki made 3 patches in 1 month, and 6 patches in 1 year
           Donkers, Winfried made 2 patches in 1 month, and 2 patches in 1 year
           Michael Warner made 2 patches in 1 month, and 4 patches in 1 year
           Marco Pinto made 2 patches in 1 month, and 10 patches in 1 year
           flywire made 2 patches in 1 month, and 4 patches in 1 year
     + top 10 reviewers:
           Olivier Hallot made 176 review comments in 1 month, and 1034 in 1 year
           Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 96 review comments in 1 month, and 688 in 1 year
           Thorsten Behrens made 80 review comments in 1 month, and 448 in 1 year
           Kaganski, Mike made 78 review comments in 1 month, and 672 in 1 year
           Xisco Fauli made 78 review comments in 1 month, and 700 in 1 year
           Michael Stahl made 72 review comments in 1 month, and 816 in 1 year
           McNamara, Caolán made 48 review comments in 1 month, and 414 in 1 year
           Rathke, Eike made 46 review comments in 1 month, and 228 in 1 year
           Bergmann, Stephan made 46 review comments in 1 month, and 164 in 1 year
           Nabet, Julien made 46 review comments in 1 month, and 360 in 1 year
     + big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
           Vaibhav Malik
* EasyHack
   + 1 new EasyHack to review:
     tdf#146266 - Move test/demo/workbench from the old build system to the new gbuild system
     https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146266
* Commit Access
   + None

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Kendy/Thorsten/László)
   + resting since: 0 weeks (limit: 20 weeks)

* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
     from:Thu Dec  9 14:58:05 2021
     master linux rel  jobs: 110 ok: 110 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
     master linux dbg  jobs: 109 ok: 106 ko:   3 fail ratio:  2.75 % break:   3 broken duration: 2.62%
     master mac rel    jobs: 119 ok: 119 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
     master mac dbg    jobs: 120 ok: 120 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
     master win rel    jobs:  86 ok:  86 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
     master win dbg    jobs:  90 ok:  89 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
     master win64 dbg  jobs:  86 ok:  86 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
     master gerrit lin jobs: 437 ok: 373 ko:  45 fail ratio: 10.30% time for ok: mean:  17 median:  15
     master gerrit plg jobs: 381 ok: 260 ko:  90 fail ratio: 23.62% time for ok: mean:  37 median:  35
     master gerrit win jobs: 475 ok: 341 ko:  93 fail ratio: 19.58% time for ok: mean:  65 median:  63
     master gerrit mac jobs: 444 ok: 367 ko:  50 fail ratio: 11.26% time for ok: mean:  29 median:  25
     master android    jobs: 365 ok: 319 ko:  24 fail ratio:  6.58% time for ok: mean:  16 median:  12
     master gerrit all jobs: 399 ok: 224 ko: 129 fail ratio: 32.33% time for ok: mean:  74 median:  61
    + https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/tmp/gerrit_211216.html
    + tests that failed more than twice in last seven days
       3 UITest_signatureLine                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      26 Killed by the kill-wrapper                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
    + 400 builds this week, less than usual
      + relatively high amount of aborted builds

* l10n (Sophie)
   + no updates

* FOSDEM 2022 (Italo)
     + dev room is accepted, CfP open til 2021-12-26
     + please submit in time via https://penta.fosdem.org/submission/FOSDEM22
       (make sure to pick the LibreOffice Technology devroom!)
       + late submissions are almost impossible (Thorsten)
         + no upper bound on the number of talks
     + round of polling: ("unsure so far" means: open for ideas)
       + gtk4 perhaps (Caolan)
       + unsure so far (Cloph)
       + unsure so far (Heiko)
       + developer experience (Hossein)
       + unsure so far (Olivier)
       + wasm (Thorsten / JMux)
       + coverage analysis (Thorsten)
       + odf toolkit (Svante)
       + lightning talk slot (Thorsten)
         + if pre-recording is not mandatory
       + uitests perhaps (Xisco)
       + LOK changes (Kendy)
       + webdav / curl (Michael S)
       + gerrit patches (Stephan)
       + document themes (Miklos)
       + performance (Michael M)
       + xray / devtools (Thomaz)
       + macro team presentation (Sophie)

* What’s cooking (Miklos)
   + document themes is progressing in Impress (Michael)
   + serf/neon webdav backends are gone on master (Michael S)
   + gbuild/wasm upstreaming (Thorsten)

* Budget 2022 (Thorsten)
     + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Budget2022
     + Result after ranking by formal ESC members:
       https://nextcloud.documentfoundation.org/s/Lx6rBC4wHMrLbWq
       + please do double-check the result (Thorsten)
     + First 8 entries for ease of reference:
       - Bitmaps in vcl: Merge RGB and A layer into one
       - ODT export nondeterminism
       - Finish Very Large Spreadsheet support
       - Multi-color gradient
       - Fix unreliable unit tests
       - Decouple master slide and layouts
       - Migrating to single modern 2D graphics library
       - Stabilize cross-page table layouting
       - Table Styles improvements
       + proposal: pass this on as "ESC approved / recommended" to the board (Thorsten)
         + no objections (all)
     + Drafting Tender "Cleanup & further improve ODF conformance" (Miklos)
       + We now have a reviewed bug list, thanks to Regina
         + have a personal ranking: if it fits a tender
         + some bugs are too large: some bugs could be a tender themselves
           + it's unclear how much effort they would require
       + Next step?
         + once have estimates, then can decide what bugs to select to match the tender budget
         + will send it to the dev list (Regina)
         + sounds useful (Michael S)

* QA update (Xisco)

     + UNCONFIRMED: 1579 (+19)
         + enhancements: 236  (+2)
         + needsUXEval: 2 (-4)
         + haveBackTrace: 2 (+0)
         + needsDevAdvice: 28 (+0)
         + documentation:  14 (+1)
         + android:  1 (+0)
         + iOS:  0 (+0)
         + Online:  10 (+0)

     + Most pressing bugs:
      New:
         + Slow typing in Writer with version 7.1 or above on Windows 11
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145963
             + Lubos?
             + seems to be Windows 11-only
      Old:
         + 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
             + already listed here for 2 years, and many duplicates


     + New high severity bugs of the week:
         + macOS skia: colors not displayed correctly for all document previews e.g. start center or impress templates
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145988
             + does not happen for everyone

         + Text starts wiggling/ changing kerning after auto-hyperlink creation (RSID)
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146078
             + Michael S?

* QA stats
     + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
       +121  +8 (-116) overall)
       many thanks to the top bug squashers:
        QA Administrators       21
        Justin L                7
        László Németh           7
        Michael Warner          7
        Heiko Tietze            6
        Caolán McNamara         5
        Mike Kaganski           5
        Buovjaga                4
        Julien Nabet            4
        Xisco Faulí             4

     + top 10 bugs reporters:
        NISZ LibreOffice Team   6
        Eyal Rozenberg          4
        Mike Kaganski           4
        Telesto                 4
        Kevin Suo               3
        Rafael Lima             3
        editor                  3
        stragu                  3
        Aron Budea              2
        Hossein                 2

     + top 10 bugs fixers:
        Justin Luth             6
        Németh, László          6
        McNamara, Caolán        5
        Grandin, Noel           4
        Michael Stahl           3
        Kaganski, Mike          2
                                1
        *UNKNOWN*               1
        Andreas Heinisch        1
        Attila Bakos            1

     + top 10 bugs confirmers:
        Dieter                  15
        Foote, V Stuart         5
        Heiko Tietze            5
        Németh, László          5
        Xisco Fauli             4
        *UNKNOWN*               3
        BogdanB                 3
        Luboš Luňák             3
        Ezinne Nnamani          2
        Henschel, Regina        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:
         Kevin Suo              2
         Telesto                2
         escorts971             1
         Ilmari Lauhakangas     1
         Michael Stahl          1
         Xisco Fauli            1

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

      done by:
         Kevin Suo              2
         Telesto                2
         Ilmari Lauhakangas     1
         Michael Stahl          1
         Xisco Fauli            1

* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
    + 1274(-13) bugs open of 11399(+10) total 12(+0) high prio.

      done by:
         NISZ LibreOffice Team   2
         Kevin Suo               2
         Telesto                 2
         Timur                   1
         Ilmari Lauhakangas      1
         Alex Thurgood           1
         Bielefeld, Rainer       1
         Xisco Fauli             1

* ~Component   count net * high severity regressions
    + http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
      Writer        - 9(+0)
      Calc          - 1(+0)
      Draw          - 1(+0)
      LibreOffice   - 1(+0)

    by OS:
      All           - 11(+0)
      Linux         - 0(+0)
      Mac OS X      - 0(+0)
      Windows       - 1(+0)

* ~Component   count net * all regressions
    + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
      Writer: other            - 434(-9)
      Calc                     - 214(-4)
      Impress                  - 132(+0)
      Writer: docx filter      - 53(+0)
      UI                       - 51(+1)
      Draw                     - 49(-1)
      LibreOffice              - 49(+1)
      Crashes                  - 45(-4)
      Borders                  - 41(-1)
      Writer: perf             - 37(+0)
      Writer: other filter     - 35(+0)
      Base                     - 34(+0)
      Chart                    - 30(+0)
      RTL                      - 27(+0)
      Printing and PDF export  - 22(+0)
      Writer: doc filter       - 22(+0)
      graphics stack           - 22(+0)
      BASIC                    - 18(+0)
      filters and storage      - 18(+0)
      Formula Editor           - 2(+0)
      framework                - 1(+0)
      sdk                      - 1(+0)


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