[Libreoffice-qa] ESC meeting minutes: 2021-11-04

Miklos Vajna vmiklos at collabora.com
Thu Nov 4 15:34:32 UTC 2021


* Present:
     + Olivier, Caolan, Cloph, Gabriel, Thorsten, Hossein, Michael W, Sophie, Xisco, Miklos, Michael M, Michael S

* Completed Action Items:
     + give code pointers to Hossein to filter this out [translation bugs in
       contributor stats] on the scripting side (Xisco)

* Pending Action Items:
     + None

* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
     + 7.1 status: 7.1.7 has been released as final today, the least release
     + 7.2 status: 7.2.3 rc1 will be tagged later today
       + rc2 in two makes
     + 7.3 status: alpha1 builds: Windows builds needed redoing, but are now on pre-releases
       + Xisco plans to announce it on the qa blog
         + Cloph will add it to the download page in some suitable way
       + beta1 is 3 weeks, which is also the feature freeze
       + late feature: curl based webdav possibly (Thorsten)
     + Remotes: Android (has new translations, though), iOS
     + Android viewer

* Documentation (Olivier)
     + New Help: No news
     + Guides
        + progressing for Impress and Calc guides 7.2
     + Helpcontents2
        + Refactors and type fix (Johnny_M, A Gelmini, A. Barrientos)
        + New, enhanced Help pages (ohallot, R lima, A. Romedenne, S Fanning)

     + Bugzilla Documentation statistics
         257(257) bugs open
     + Updates:
         BZ changes   1 week   1 month   3 months   12 months
            created     8(-4)    42(0)     116(-3)     349(-3)
          commented     6(-13)   78(-44)   420(-7)    1728(-40)
           resolved     2(-2)    14(-1)     49(-4)     209(-5)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Olivier Hallot made 34 changes in 1 month, and 452 changes in 1 year
           Rafael Lima made 27 changes in 1 month, and 231 changes in 1 year
           Dieter made 15 changes in 1 month, and 140 changes in 1 year
           Ross Johnson made 11 changes in 1 month, and 49 changes in 1 year
           Robert Großkopf made 8 changes in 1 month, and 8 changes in 1 year
           Xisco Fauli made 7 changes in 1 month, and 101 changes in 1 year
           Alex Sims made 6 changes in 1 month, and 6 changes in 1 year
           Tomoyuki Kubota made 5 changes in 1 month, and 23 changes in 1 year
           Ilmari Lauhakangas made 5 changes in 1 month, and 87 changes in 1 year
           Telesto made 5 changes in 1 month, and 40 changes in 1 year

* UX Update (Heiko)
     + Missing Heiko
     + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
         255(255) (topicUI) bugs open, 168(168) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
     + Updates:
         BZ changes   1 week   1 month   3 months   12 months
              added     11(5)     25(11)    40(10)     101(10)
          commented     51(12)   197(18)   638(14)    3142(-26)
            removed      0(-1)     2(0)      6(0)       36(-1)
           resolved      1(-3)    20(-8)    83(-6)     454(-9)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Heiko Tietze made 118 changes in 1 month, and 2160 changes in 1 year
           Foote, V Stuart made 70 changes in 1 month, and 601 changes in 1 year
           Dieter made 32 changes in 1 month, and 307 changes in 1 year
           Telesto made 32 changes in 1 month, and 606 changes in 1 year
           Roman Kuznetsov made 24 changes in 1 month, and 239 changes in 1 year
           Kaganski, Mike made 18 changes in 1 month, and 167 changes in 1 year
           S.Zosgornik made 11 changes in 1 month, and 17 changes in 1 year
           Xisco Fauli made 11 changes in 1 month, and 177 changes in 1 year
           Ilmari Lauhakangas made 10 changes in 1 month, and 376 changes in 1 year
           Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 8 changes in 1 month, and 54 changes in 1 year

* Crash Testing (Caolan)
     + 7(+0) import failure, 4(+0) export failures
       - eventually unchanged after two big swings
       - https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=103022 latest toolchain discovery
          - crashtesting machine has a distro-provided libstdc++ though
       - https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=6896eb8dc44069808f5fef452c9802eaf0c51501 there are two possible strerror_r signatures.
     + 0 coverity issues
     + 4 ossfuzz issues

* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.1.6.2
         + (+100) 1245 1145 1016 930 906 650 210 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.2.1.2
         + (-455) 1372 1827 2068 2209 2042 1450 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.2.2.2
         + (+402) 1536 1134 752 0

    - https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/signature/%60dp_manager::ExtensionManager::getAllExtensions'::%601'::catch$46
      - started to happen in 7.2, but no repro steps yet

* Mentoring/EasyHack update (Hossein)
           committer...   1 week      1 month      3 months     12 months
                   open      52(-105)     92(-98)     143(-101)     188(-100)
                reviews     216(-192)   1132(-188)   3468(-174)    8488(18)
                 merged     406(107)    1349(138)    3713(58)     10248(224)
              abandoned      10(1)        45(0)       163(-4)       507(0)
            own commits     364(152)    1114(150)    3096(100)    12753(82)
         review commits      84(-8)      312(16)      934(16)      4276(-30)
         contributor...   1 week     1 month     3 months    12 months
                   open      50(15)      87(14)     152(19)      193(23)
                reviews     876(160)   2978(128)   8488(146)   22828(726)
                 merged      13(-17)    116(-21)    424(66)     1103(191)
              abandoned       7(7)       19(-23)    134(6)       337(17)
            own commits      14(-22)     83(-27)    334(8)      1899(-40)
         review commits       0(0)        0(0)        0(0)         0(0)
     + easyHack statistics:
        needsDevEval 8(8)   needsUXEval 1(1)   cleanup_comments 274(274)
        total 326(326)   assigned 25(25)   open 273(273)
       + 2 new easy hacks, with example commits
         https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145538
         https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145539
     + top 10 contributors:
           Johnny_M made 26 patches in 1 month, and 725 patches in 1 year
           Srebotnjak, Martin made 6 patches in 1 month, and 15 patches in 1 year
           Steve Fanning made 6 patches in 1 month, and 66 patches in 1 year
           Ross Johnson made 6 patches in 1 month, and 24 patches in 1 year
           Akshit Kushwaha made 5 patches in 1 month, and 28 patches in 1 year
           Kevin Suo made 5 patches in 1 month, and 26 patches in 1 year
           Tomoyuki Kubota made 4 patches in 1 month, and 9 patches in 1 year
           Attila Szűcs made 3 patches in 1 month, and 28 patches in 1 year
           Henrik Palomäki made 3 patches in 1 month, and 3 patches in 1 year
           4k5h1t made 3 patches in 1 month, and 6 patches in 1 year
     + top 10 reviewers:
           Kaganski, Mike made 114 review comments in 1 month, and 594 in 1 year
           Michael Stahl made 102 review comments in 1 month, and 734 in 1 year
           Vajngerl, Tomaž made 80 review comments in 1 month, and 436 in 1 year
           Xisco Fauli made 78 review comments in 1 month, and 606 in 1 year
           Grandin, Noel made 66 review comments in 1 month, and 514 in 1 year
           Olivier Hallot made 66 review comments in 1 month, and 786 in 1 year
           Kłos, Szymon made 58 review comments in 1 month, and 98 in 1 year
           Vajna, Miklos made 54 review comments in 1 month, and 448 in 1 year
           Nabet, Julien made 50 review comments in 1 month, and 298 in 1 year
           McNamara, Caolán made 48 review comments in 1 month, and 352 in 1 year
     + big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
           Castagno, Giuseppe (acca-esse.eu)
   + AI: poke Guilhem to be on the mentoring@ alias (Hossein)

* Commit Access
   + None

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

* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
     from:Thu Oct 28 14:57:05 2021
     master linux rel  jobs: 154 ok: 149 ko:   5 fail ratio:  3.25 % break:   1 broken duration: 1.18%
     master linux dbg  jobs: 131 ok: 115 ko:  16 fail ratio: 12.21 % break:   9 broken duration:10.10%
     master mac rel    jobs: 120 ok: 120 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
     master mac dbg    jobs: 116 ok: 116 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
     master win rel    jobs: 106 ok:  92 ko:  14 fail ratio: 13.21 % break:   1 broken duration:20.10%
     master win dbg    jobs: 106 ok: 100 ko:   6 fail ratio:  5.66 % break:   1 broken duration:17.49%
     master win64 dbg  jobs: 111 ok:  89 ko:  22 fail ratio: 19.82 % break:   2 broken duration:23.77%
     master gerrit lin jobs: 631 ok: 504 ko:  76 fail ratio: 12.04% time for ok: mean:  20 median:  17
     master gerrit plg jobs: 641 ok: 386 ko: 193 fail ratio: 30.11% time for ok: mean:  40 median:  38
     master gerrit win jobs: 662 ok: 438 ko: 131 fail ratio: 19.79% time for ok: mean:  63 median:  62
     master gerrit mac jobs: 626 ok: 470 ko:  87 fail ratio: 13.90% time for ok: mean:  29 median:  24
     master android    jobs: 587 ok: 436 ko:  42 fail ratio:  7.16% time for ok: mean:  35 median:  24
     master gerrit all jobs: 686 ok: 318 ko: 234 fail ratio: 34.11% time for ok: mean:  73 median:  64
    + https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/tmp/gerrit_211104.html
    + tests that failed more than twice in last seven days
       3 UITest_signatureLine		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       4 CppunitTest_smoketest		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       4 UITest_calc_tests8		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       4 UITest_sw_navigator		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       5 UITest_impress_demo		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       5 UITest_writer_tests3		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       6 UITest_writer_tests7		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      23 Killed by the kill-wrapper		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      28 CppunitTest_xmlsecurity_signing		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
    + had a problem with a deadlock situation, lots of patches were submitted at once
      + large patch series: CI was skipped there as the changes where marked as WIP
      + then Jenkins started to build all of them at once
    +  CppunitTest_xmlsecurity_signing failures are quite high, but not specific to a single bot (but always on Linux)
      + it’s a subsequentcheck, so not running on Windows (Michael S)

* l10n (Sophie)
    + no updates

* What’s cooking (Miklos)
    + gtk4: one more tricky part is now working (Caolan)
      + http://caolanm.blogspot.com/2021/10/gtk4-toolbars-in-sidebar.html

* Budget 2022 (Xisco)
     + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Budget2022
     + ideas are welcome till the end of the year
     + earlier deadline? (Thorsten)
       + take list if ideas with estimates by end Nov?
AI: give a heads-up on the dev list about this (Thorsten)
       + and give a heads-up when the deadline is approaching
       + and have 2 weeks for the vote

* Use etherpad or Online for the ESC minutes? (Hossein)
   + It’s TDF decision to use an old Online (Michael)
     + if people want to use a Collabora server, we can do that
   + Will take it to the board (Thorsten)
     + needs deciding what happens to TDF’s online.git

=> give https://pad.documentfoundation.org/p/esc a try next week, and let’s see (all)

* QA update (Xisco)

     + UNCONFIRMED: 1565 (+28)
         + enhancements: 255  (+10)
         + needsUXEval: 14 (+9)
         + haveBackTrace: 3 (+0)
         + needsDevAdvice: 27 (+0)
         + documentation:  10 (+3)
         + android:  1 (+0)
         + iOS:  0 (+0)
         + Online:  16 (-1)

    + 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
            + Already assigned to Daniel

        + 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:
         + [BASE] [REPORTBUILDER] [REGRESSION] [7.2.x] Moving a field to a different section corrupts the field
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145323
             + Noel ?

* QA stats
     + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
       +183  -78 (-168) overall)
       many thanks to the top bug squashers:
        himajin100000           44
        Michael Warner          25
        QA Administrators       20
        Caolán McNamara         8
        Aron Budea              5
        Kevin Suo               5
        Timur                   5
        Buovjaga                4
        Telesto                 4
        m.a.riosv               4

     + top 10 bugs reporters:
        Telesto                 11
        Muhammad Muzammil       7
        Muhammad Usama          6
        Abdul Ahad              5
        Humaira Bibi            5
        JUNAID IQBAL            5
        Muhammad siddeeq        5
        Shabbar                 5
        babar khan              5
        Ali Arshad              4

     + top 10 bugs fixers:
        McNamara, Caolán        8
        Jim Raykowski           3
        Andreas Heinisch        2
        Glogowski, Jan-Marek    2
        Grandin, Noel           2
        Kelemen, Gabor          2
        Kevin Suo               2
        Adolfo Jayme Barrientos 1
        Andreas Säger           1
        Bergmann, Stephan       1

     + top 10 bugs confirmers:
        Dieter                  12
        Nabet, Julien           5
        michael.warner.ut+libreoffice at gmail.com 5
        Roman Kuznetsov         4
        Telesto                 4
        Xisco Fauli             4
        steve -_-               4
        Timur                   3
        Ali Arshad              2
        Bielefeld, Rainer       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:
         Budea, Áron            4
         Telesto                2
         deepoose2011           1
         Ilmari Lauhakangas     1
         Weghorn, Michael       1
         Samuel Mehrbrodt       1
         Xisco Fauli            1


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

      done by:
         Budea, Áron            4
         deepoose2011           2
         Telesto                2
         Weghorn, Michael       1
         Kevin Suo              1
         Xisco Fauli            1


* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
    + 1349(-5) bugs open of 11335(+11) total 15(+0) high prio.

      done by:
         Alexey Rukin           1
         Jim Avera              1
         Weghorn, Michael       1
         Kaganski, Mike         1
         Samuel Mehrbrodt       1
         Telesto                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(-1)
      Linux         - 0(+0)
      Mac OS X      - 0(+0)
      Windows       - 1(+1)


* ~Component   count net * all regressions
    + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
      Writer: other            - 455(+2)
      Calc                     - 238(+0)
      Impress                  - 142(-1)
      Writer: docx filter      - 56(+0)
      Crashes                  - 54(-2)
      LibreOffice              - 52(-2)
      UI                       - 52(+0)
      Draw                     - 50(+0)
      Borders                  - 45(+0)
      Writer: perf             - 41(+0)
      Base                     - 36(-3)
      Writer: other filter     - 35(+0)
      Chart                    - 29(+0)
      RTL                      - 27(+0)
      Writer: doc filter       - 24(+0)
      graphics stack           - 24(+1)
      Printing and PDF export  - 23(+0)
      filters and storage      - 19(+0)
      BASIC                    - 17(+0)
      Formula Editor           - 2(+0)
      framework                - 1(+0)
      sdk                      - 1(+0)


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