[Libreoffice-qa] ESC meeting minutes: 2021-09-02

Miklos Vajna vmiklos at collabora.com
Thu Sep 2 14:38:32 UTC 2021


* Present:
    + Michael W, Eike, Gabriel, Hossein, Olivier, Heiko, Stephan, Miklos, Xisco

* Completed Action Items:
    + None

* Pending Action Items:
    + None

* Release Engineering update (Xisco)
    + 7.2 status: 7.2.1 rc2 planned for next week
    + 7.1 status: 7.1.6 rc2 was tagged yesterday, builds are in progress
    + Remotes: Android, iOS
    + Android viewer

* Documentation (Olivier)
    + Helpcontent2
      + Refactoring (Johnny_m, ohallot)
      + Updates: (R Lima, Ming Hua, ohallot)
      + New pages (R. Lima)
      + 252 open, 25 partial, 2 new, 2 closed
      + Updates in extended tips (R. Lima)
    + Guides
      + Progressing in all modules


* UX Update (Heiko)
    + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
        258(258) (topicUI) bugs open, 172(172) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
    + Updates:
        BZ changes   1 week    1 month   3 months   12 months
             added      13(9)     25(4)     53(10)     101(8)
         commented     114(54)   324(66)   862(79)    3587(30)
           removed       1(0)      3(1)     10(0)       37(1)
          resolved       4(0)     39(1)    109(-9)     510(-2)
    + top 10 contributors:
          Heiko Tietze made 209 changes in 1 month, and 2454 changes in 1 year
          Roman Kuznetsov made 75 changes in 1 month, and 254 changes in 1 year
          Foote, V Stuart made 34 changes in 1 month, and 660 changes in 1 year
          Telesto made 30 changes in 1 month, and 693 changes in 1 year
          Kaganski, Mike made 28 changes in 1 month, and 198 changes in 1 year
          Ilmari Lauhakangas made 26 changes in 1 month, and 435 changes in 1 year
          Faure, Jean-Baptiste made 25 changes in 1 month, and 29 changes in 1 year
          Dieter made 24 changes in 1 month, and 354 changes in 1 year
          Stéphane Guillou made 23 changes in 1 month, and 47 changes in 1 year
          BogdanB made 21 changes in 1 month, and 174 changes in 1 year

   + 17 new tickets with needsUXEval Aug/26-Sep/02

      [Bug 144236] Make it possible to set a color for Strike through
      [Bug 144235] UI: Make Strikethrough & overline a split button in tabbed/
           regular toolbar
      [Bug 144227] Inconsistent method of user interface selection in Calc's
           Groupedbar Compact format
  ->  [Bug 144224] Create a setup dialog to choose which Python interpreter
           to use
       + sounds like a custom Python would go against the idea of having a special bundled Python that is setup for pyuno (Stephan)
      [Bug 138065] UI: Favorite characters in special character dialog &
           drop down pick box to small
      [Bug 144196] Standard and advanced filters do not work correctly in case
           insensitive mode
      [Bug 33749] Inconsistencies in Help pages on Cell Merging and Splitting
           (unmerging) in Calc
      [Bug 144195] UI: PNG export dialog has radio button doesn't allow
           'dimensions' or 'DPI' to be set both
      [Bug 144165] Highlight the current line in Writer?
      [Bug 144160] Do not show inactive menu items
      [Bug 144148] Impress: Shape color following Template style?
      [Bug 144027] Mouse cursor should change when hovering over unselected
           objects/charts/shapes
  ->  [Bug 140240] Disable the storing printer inside document (PrinterName
           in settings XML) of ODT (leaving it empty) by default (or removal)
      + it’s about making sure the printer info is specific to user, not to the doc
      [Bug 144134] Tabs in LibreOffice Tab layout do not scale properly with
           the size of the screen.
  ->  [Bug 143834] Word count is inconsistent and useless with view
           track changes
           + see also https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123083
      [Bug 144059] [l10n] Language Tigrigna should be listed in CTL, not
           as Western
      [Bug 137737] REPLACE not working if there is a footnote or endnote
           anchor at end of paragraph

* Crash Testing (Caolan)
    + 11(-1) import failure, 8(-1) export failures
    + 3 (+3) coverity issues
      - fixes in gerrit
    + 11 (+4) ossfuzz issues
      - https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=504d78acb has 3 leaks
      - msan is successfully building. Marked as experimental so not filing
        issues, just generating test-cases (81+ to date)

* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.1.4.2
         + (-106) 2614 2720 2898 3541 5776 5961 4390 4278 4028 3104 1968 1590 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.1.5.2
         + (+23) 2542 2518 2412 1832 1718 654 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.2.0.4
         + (+700) 1768 1068 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/signature/SvTreeListEntry::NextSibling()
	- Since 7.1, no repro steps yet

* Mentoring/EasyHack update (Hossein)
          committer...   1 week     1 month     3 months    12 months
                  open      71(8)      112(8)      188(16)      197(16)
               reviews     486(130)   1560(128)   3652(138)    6506(338)
                merged     312(-7)    1257(13)    3884(-67)    7771(309)
             abandoned       7(-4)      80(-7)     192(-14)     423(7)
           own commits     251(-5)     984(-34)   3022(-64)   12871(-50)
        review commits      94(38)     316(11)     994(34)     4368(-29)
        contributor...   1 week    1 month     3 months    12 months
                  open      37(4)      65(2)       99(3)       108(3)
               reviews     912(68)   3168(142)   8966(-14)   17292(722)
                merged      43(25)    115(28)     358(27)      675(42)
             abandoned      11(6)      57(6)      100(7)       253(9)
           own commits      40(22)    119(25)     414(17)     2003(6)

    + easyHack statistics:
       needsDevEval 8(8)   needsUXEval 1(1)
       total 331(331)   assigned 25(25)   open 279(279)
    + top 10 contributors:
          Johnny_M made 42 patches in 1 month, and 694 patches in 1 year
          Dante DM made 15 patches in 1 month, and 125 patches in 1 year
          Emircan Ağaç made 11 patches in 1 month, and 11 patches in 1 year
          Akshit Kushwaha made 7 patches in 1 month, and 22 patches in 1 year
          Ming Hua made 4 patches in 1 month, and 21 patches in 1 year
          Yıldıray Üsküdar made 4 patches in 1 month, and 4 patches in 1 year
          Nagy Tibor made 3 patches in 1 month, and 42 patches in 1 year
          Bayram Çiçek made 3 patches in 1 month, and 15 patches in 1 year
          Zeynep Yavuz made 3 patches in 1 month, and 3 patches in 1 year
          Sántha Balázs made 2 patches in 1 month, and 9 patches in 1 year
    + top 10 reviewers:
          Vajngerl, Tomaž made 184 review comments in 1 month, and 348 in 1 year
          Michael Stahl made 168 review comments in 1 month, and 522 in 1 year
          Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 124 review comments in 1 month, and 448 in 1 year
          Xisco Fauli made 100 review comments in 1 month, and 458 in 1 year
          Kaganski, Mike made 84 review comments in 1 month, and 386 in 1 year
          Hossein made 76 review comments in 1 month, and 80 in 1 year
          Grandin, Noel made 70 review comments in 1 month, and 406 in 1 year
          Olivier Hallot made 68 review comments in 1 month, and 614 in 1 year
          Thorsten Behrens made 66 review comments in 1 month, and 290 in 1 year
          Ilmari Lauhakangas made 64 review comments in 1 month, and 178 in 1 year
    + big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
          4k5h1t
          Baran Aytas
    + 43 merged changes from non-commiters

* Commit Access
  + None

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Kendy/Thorsten/László)
  + resting since: 10 weeks

* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
  + icu change marked valid changes as bad, took the bot offline (Stephan)
    + please take care before just blindly re-enabling a bot again

* l10n (Sophie)
  + work is going on

* GSoC 2021 ongoing (Heiko/Thorsten/Ilmari)
  + Mentors: please invite your students to the (online) conference (Sophie)
  + Conference slot is on Friday 24. September at 4pm for 90 mins in room 2


* LibOCon 2021 (virtual) September 23-25 (Cloph)
  + the schedule is now public: https://events.documentfoundation.org/libocon2021/schedule/
  + presenters can upload prerecorded videos now!
  + 12th Sept is the deadline for this (Thorsten)

* What’s cooking (Miklos)
   + Gulsah adding odfundiff-based ODF diffing in crashtesting, WIP

* QA update (Xisco)


    + UNCONFIRMED: 1350 (+10)
        + enhancements: 220  (+2)
        + needsUXEval: 21 (+8)
        + haveBackTrace: 1 (+0)
        + needsDevAdvice: 22 (+1)
        + documentation:  4 (-3)
        + android:  2 (+0)
        + 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 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
eikeeikee            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104597

            + Thorsten looking at it
            + old problem, but many duplicates

    + New high severity bugs of the week:
        + Dynamic Data Exchange is not operable
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138531
            + Bjoern?

        + Crash when insert formula object in Writer
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144132
            + Noel?

        + CALC Row operations over 100 times slower in 7.2 compared to 7.1
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144155
            + Tunde?

* QA stats
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
      +156  -9 (-143) overall)
      many thanks to the top bug squashers:
       QA Administrators       12
       Buovjaga                10
       Eike Rathke             10
       V Stuart Foote          8
       Heiko Tietze            6
       Jan-Marek Glogowski     5
       Roman Kuznetsov         5
       Timur                   5
       Caolán McNamara         4
       Julien Nabet            4

    + top 10 bugs reporters:
       NISZ LibreOffice Team   6
       Heiko Tietze            5
       Alex Thurgood           4
       sophie                  4
       Colin                   3
       Jim Avera               3
       Mike Kaganski           3
       Rafael Lima             3
       Regina Henschel         3
       Telesto                 3

    + top 10 bugs fixers:
       McNamara, Caolán        4
       Rathke, Eike            4
       Luboš Luňák             3
       Németh, László          3
       Olivier Hallot          3
       Vajna, Miklos           3
                               2
       Andreas Heinisch        2
       Foote, V Stuart         2
       Glogowski, Jan-Marek    2

    + top 10 bugs confirmers:
       Ilmari Lauhakangas      16
       Roman Kuznetsov         14
       Timur                   11
       *UNKNOWN*               8
       Uwe Auer                7
       m.a.riosv               7
       Dieter                  6
       Xisco Fauli             6
       Heiko Tietze            4
       Kaganski, Mike          4


* 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:
        Ilmari Lauhakangas    15
        Roman Kuznetsov        3
        Timur                  2
        Kaganski, Mike         2
        Xisco Fauli            2
        Budea, Áron            1
        Kevin Suo              1


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

     done by:
        Ilmari Lauhakangas    15
        Roman Kuznetsov        3
        Timur                  2
        Kaganski, Mike         2
        Xisco Fauli            2
        Budea, Áron            1
        lbrmk.510              1
        Kevin Suo              1
        Foote, V Stuart        1


* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
   + 1346(-6) bugs open of 11202(+16) total 13(-1) high prio.

     done by:
        Roman Kuznetsov        3
        Telesto                3
        Xisco Fauli            3
        Alex Thurgood          2
        Kaganski, Mike         2
        Rathke, Eike           1
        m.a.riosv              1
        Robert Großkopf        1
        Kevin Suo              1
        Foote, V Stuart        1


* ~Component   count net * high severity regressions
   + http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
     Writer        - 10(+0)
     Calc          - 2(-1)
     LibreOffice   - 1(+0)

   by OS:
     All           - 13(-1)
     Linux         - 0(+0)
     Mac OS X      - 0(+0)
     Windows       - 0(+0)


* ~Component   count net * all regressions
   + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
     Writer: other            - 451(-6)
     Calc                     - 231(+3)
     Impress                  - 144(+0)
     Writer: docx filter      - 59(+0)
     Crashes                  - 55(+5)
     LibreOffice              - 54(-1)
     Draw                     - 49(+0)
     UI                       - 49(-1)
     Borders                  - 46(+0)
     Writer: perf             - 44(+0)
     Base                     - 37(+1)
     Writer: other filter     - 34(+0)
     Chart                    - 29(+0)
     RTL                      - 27(+0)
     Writer: doc filter       - 24(+0)
     graphics stack           - 23(+0)
     Printing and PDF export  - 21(+0)
     filters and storage      - 19(+0)
     BASIC                    - 17(-1)
     Formula Editor           - 2(+0)
     sdk                      - 2(+1)
     framework                - 1(-1)


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