[Libreoffice-qa] ESC meeting minutes: 2022-04-07

Miklos Vajna vmiklos at collabora.com
Thu Apr 7 14:52:30 UTC 2022


* Present:
     + Cloph, Heiko, Olivier, Caolan, Gabriel, Hossein, Michael W, Stephan, Kendy, Xisco, Miklos, Michael S, Thorsten, Aron

* Completed Action Items:
     + Jenkins failure stats to include release branches (Cloph)

* Pending Action Items:
     + None

* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
     + 7.4 status:
       + feature freeze in June
     + 7.3 status: 7.3.3 rc1 in 1 week
     + 7.2 status: 7.2.7 rc1 in 2 weeks
     + Remotes: Android, iOS
     + Android viewer
     + Discuss: ponder Windows ARM for 7.4? (Thorsten,jmux)
       + Would it be possible to Windows ARM release builds?
       + Not against it, but that build is slow (Cloph)
         + also manual signing is a lot of work
         + already doing x86_64 and x86 after each other
         + also more disk space needed
         + this can be produced by the normal x86_64 build hardware
         + don't have resources to actually verify that the end result works
       + Perhaps an additional release like the Apple M1 one?
       + hard to see how much demand is there for this (Miklos)
         + probably limited at the moment, but may be a chicken-and-egg problem (Cloph)
       + first the arm tinderbox needs fixing (Cloph)
         + expect indirect commitment after that
       + sounds exiciting otherwise (Kendy)
   => re-visit this after the tinderbox is working (all)

* Documentation (Olivier)
     + New Help
        + fix/update for prism.js (ohallot)
     + Helcontents
        + New page for line break (ohallot)
        + Updates for Scriptforge (A. Romedenne)
        + Distinguish Basic x Calc functions homonyms in Help (ohallot)
        + Close many dormant fixed bugs (ohallot)
        + String fixes (fitoshido, A Gelmini, J Nabet)
     + Google Seasons of Doc
        + Response in April 14
     + Guides
        + Work in progress for Impress and Draw 7.3 (P. Schofield)
        + WIP for Base Guide 7.3 (S. Fanning, Dev, ohallot, flywire)

     + Bugzilla Documentation statistics
         237(237) bugs open
     + Updates:
         BZ changes   1 week   1 month   3 months   12 months
            created     13(5)    34(-4)    112(-10)    323(1)
          commented     11(9)    68(-1)    348(-34)   1454(-32)
           resolved      7(5)    17(2)      57(0)      208(6)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Olivier Hallot made 45 changes in 1 month, and 511 changes in 1 year
           Seth Chaiklin made 22 changes in 1 month, and 48 changes in 1 year
           Dieter made 15 changes in 1 month, and 106 changes in 1 year
           Alain Romedenne made 8 changes in 1 month, and 41 changes in 1 year
           Bielefeld, Rainer made 8 changes in 1 month, and 10 changes in 1 year
           Nabet, Julien made 7 changes in 1 month, and 73 changes in 1 year
           Ilmari Lauhakangas made 5 changes in 1 month, and 111 changes in 1 year
           Heiko Tietze made 4 changes in 1 month, and 87 changes in 1 year
           steve -_- made 4 changes in 1 month, and 7 changes in 1 year
           Kaganski, Mike made 4 changes in 1 month, and 85 changes in 1 year

* UX Update (Heiko)
     + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
         265(265) (topicUI) bugs open, 100(100) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
     + Updates:
         BZ changes   1 week   1 month   3 months   12 months
              added     21(17)    24(16)    36(19)      63(19)
          commented     80(35)   233(5)    650(20)    2719(30)
            removed      0(0)      4(0)     14(1)       36(1)
           resolved      8(5)     26(-2)   102(1)      407(7)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Heiko Tietze made 185 changes in 1 month, and 1992 changes in 1 year
           Ilmari Lauhakangas made 71 changes in 1 month, and 307 changes in 1 year
           Eyal Rozenberg made 27 changes in 1 month, and 131 changes in 1 year
           Dieter made 25 changes in 1 month, and 236 changes in 1 year
           Roman Kuznetsov made 20 changes in 1 month, and 211 changes in 1 year
           Cor Nouws made 18 changes in 1 month, and 43 changes in 1 year
           Yeron 50201 made 17 changes in 1 month, and 17 changes in 1 year
           Di Hox made 16 changes in 1 month, and 16 changes in 1 year
           Foote, V Stuart made 14 changes in 1 month, and 452 changes in 1 year
           Seth Chaiklin made 13 changes in 1 month, and 71 changes in 1 year

     + [Bug 148441] Should the view layout icons in the status bar be active when in
            Print Preview Mode, plus the blue highlighting does not match preview layout
  -> + [Bug 148407] Need ability to cancel an ongoing paste action
       + if it takes a long time
     + [Bug 148394] We need search capability restricted to the Navigator
     + [Bug 147837] When merging cells, it is not good that 'Keep the contents of the
            hidden cell' is the default
     + [Bug 148357] When deleting a comment in Navigator, it changes position needlessly
     + [Bug 148351] Context menu on comment text has poor selection of items
     + [Bug 148349] Use attention-attracting queue when pressing Ctrl+F when in find bar
     + [Bug 148322] Text filter box in navigator
     + [Bug 141389] FORMATTING: Remember and/or indicate the active sheet when managing
            conditional formatting

  -> + Speedup scrolling by looking ahead in keyboard buffer to skip redundant screen
       rendering
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140405

* Crash Testing (Caolan)
     + 10(+0) import failure, 3(+0) export failures
       - crashtesting machine is uncontactable for a week now (Guilhem is aware)
       - it's because of a network issue, but don't have more details (Cloph)
       - would be useful to have it back for the day-to-day tracker + forcepoint
     + 0 coverity issues
     + 15 ossfuzz issues

* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.2.5.2
          + (-221) 1380 1601 1653 1765 1852 1858 2096 1778 1776 1707 1860 1608 1246 691 0
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.2.6.2
          + (+130) 558 428 373 166 0
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.3.0.3
          + (-36) 1152 1188 1282 1660 2172 2911 2744 2384 2260 347 0
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.3.1.3
          + (+252) 1887 2139 1652 1345 810 0
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.3.2.2
          + (+934) 934 0

    + mdds::flat_segment_tree<long,bool>::insert_to_pos(boost::intrusive_ptr<mdds::__st::node<mdds::flat_segment_tree<long,bool> > > &,long,long,bool)

        - Still top 1 in 7.3.2.2

        - no repro steps yet


     + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/signature/%60chart::ChartModel::setArguments'::%601'::catch$16


* Mentoring/EasyHack update (Hossein)
           committer...   1 week      1 month      3 months    12 months
                   open      63(-3)      130(-3)      134(-1)      136(-1)
                reviews     352(-124)   1342(-160)   3796(34)    12716(24)
                 merged     298(9)      1254(-147)   4035(38)    15769(58)
              abandoned       9(-50)     185(-5)      327(-5)      862(-2)
            own commits     215(10)      916(-95)    3081(-12)   12561(49)
         review commits      52(3)       256(2)       871(-8)     3745(-12)
         contributor...   1 week      1 month      3 months    12 months
                   open      25(4)        64(3)        66(4)        70(4)
                reviews     796(-170)   3590(-266)   9380(52)    34766(134)
                 merged       5(-4)       66(-13)     215(-11)    1495(-18)
              abandoned       6(-100)    129(1)       165(-6)      470(1)
            own commits       7(-2)       86(-5)      279(-7)     1500(-24)
         review commits       0(0)         0(0)         0(0)         0(0)
     + easyHack statistics:
        needsDevEval 8(8)   needsUXEval 1(1)   cleanup_comments 297(297)
        total 351(351)   assigned 32(32)   open 292(292)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Johnny_M made 50 patches in 1 month, and 790 patches in 1 year
           Paris Oplopoios made 6 patches in 1 month, and 6 patches in 1 year
           Attila Bakos made 3 patches in 1 month, and 33 patches in 1 year
           Vaibhav Malik made 3 patches in 1 month, and 12 patches in 1 year
           Deepika Sreejesh made 3 patches in 1 month, and 5 patches in 1 year
           Tushar Jham made 2 patches in 1 month, and 3 patches in 1 year
           Gautham Krishnan made 2 patches in 1 month, and 2 patches in 1 year
           Dr. David Alan Gilbert made 2 patches in 1 month, and 6 patches in 1 year
           Nagy Tibor made 1 patches in 1 month, and 33 patches in 1 year
           Mostafa Elsharnoby made 1 patches in 1 month, and 1 patches in 1 year
     + top 10 reviewers:
           Xisco Fauli made 138 review comments in 1 month, and 922 in 1 year
           Michael Stahl made 130 review comments in 1 month, and 1218 in 1 year
           Thorsten Behrens made 94 review comments in 1 month, and 780 in 1 year
           Kaganski, Mike made 90 review comments in 1 month, and 800 in 1 year
           Hossein made 72 review comments in 1 month, and 220 in 1 year
           Ilmari Lauhakangas made 68 review comments in 1 month, and 278 in 1 year
           Nabet, Julien made 64 review comments in 1 month, and 564 in 1 year
           Olivier Hallot made 60 review comments in 1 month, and 1194 in 1 year
           McNamara, Caolán made 54 review comments in 1 month, and 518 in 1 year
           Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 54 review comments in 1 month, and 956 in 1 year
     + Patches automatically abandoned:
         tdf#143956 Remove page size of Writer templates 3 ( Laurent Balland-Poirier )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/121267
         Related: tdf#146453 wip: measure whole text ( Caolán McNamara )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/128573
         wip: tdf#146648 qt5 make find and replace dialog reopen at last position ( Caolán McNamara )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/128981
         tdf#47523 Report & count empty rows when pivoting ( Felipe Lema )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/129088
         Added Note about deleting user-defined dictionary words ( Volker Weißmann )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/129264
         SwNavigator: Fix dde bookmark not showing ( Jim Raykowski )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/129273
         Patch to demonstrate former and now repaint differences ( Armin Le Grand )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/129301
     + big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
           Mostafa Elsharnoby
           Yomna Salama
+ New blog post titled:
   How to use gerrit efficiently (draft)
   https://dev.blog.documentfoundation.org/?p=376&preview=1&_ppp=c4124e0f43
+ Support calls for building LO on Windows with mentees
   + Found the root cause, helped them to build LO successfully
     + Need to increase the minimum required VS 2019 version
   + is the VS version the same on all Windows builders in Jenkins? (Miklos)
     + 16.11 is what covered by CI (Cloph)
=> update from 16.5 to 16.11
AI: make this a warning (Hossein)

* GSoC (Hossein/Ilmari)
     + Timeline: https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline
     + April 4th - April 19th: submission period for participants' applications
     + Application submission period has started
     + Deadline is: April 19 - 18:00 UTC

* Commit Access
   + None

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Kendy/Thorsten/László)
   + resting since: 14 weeks (limit: 20 weeks)

* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
     from:Thu Mar 31 13:53:45 2022
     master linux rel  jobs: 130 ok: 128 ko:   2 fail ratio:  1.54 % break:   2 broken duration: 2.02%
     master linux dbg  jobs: 109 ok: 100 ko:   9 fail ratio:  8.26 % break:   4 broken duration:11.07%
     master mac rel    jobs:  71 ok:  71 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
     master mac dbg    jobs:  75 ok:  75 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
     master win rel    jobs:  89 ok:  89 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
     master win dbg    jobs:  91 ok:  90 ko:   1 fail ratio:  1.10 % break:   1 broken duration: 0.90%
     master win64 dbg  jobs:  93 ok:  92 ko:   1 fail ratio:  1.08 % break:   1 broken duration: 0.30%
     master gerrit lin jobs: 517 ok: 385 ko:  87 fail ratio: 16.83% time for ok: mean:  19 median:  17
     master gerrit plg jobs: 454 ok: 267 ko: 144 fail rat    io: 31.72% time for ok: mean:  49 median:  47
     master gerrit win jobs: 568 ok: 314 ko: 184 fail ratio: 32.39% time for ok: mean:  55 median:  51
     master gerrit mac jobs: 525 ok: 365 ko:  91 fail ratio: 17.33% time for ok: mean:  40 median:  39
     master android    jobs: 443 ok: 356 ko:  53 fail ratio: 11.96% time for ok: mean:  18 median:  14
     master gerrit all jobs: 497 ok: 212 ko: 207 fail ratio: 41.65% time for ok: mean:  78 median:  64
    + https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/tmp/gerrit_220407.html
    + tests that failed more than twice in last seven days (incl. branches)
       3 CppunitTest_sc_ucalc_condformat                gerrit_linux_gcc_release
       3 CppunitTest_sw_odfexport                gerrit_mac
       5 Killed by the kill-wrapper                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       5 CppunitTest_sc_sparkline_test                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      11 CppunitTest_vcl_backend_test                gerrit_windows (single bot)
      15 CppunitTest_services                gerrit_mac (single bot/branch only)
      20 CppunitTest_sc_macros_test                gerrit_windows (two bots)
   + make -O on mac/jnlp causes "logspam" "fcntl(): Bad file descriptor"
   + this week was more or less normal again (Cloph)
   + failure numbers now also include data from branches
     + CppunitTest_services is specific to macOS / single builder
     + CppunitTest_sc_macros_test failures are seen on two builders
       + let's see if a VS update helps there
   + currently preparing an image for WSL, based on the Jenkins baseline
     + people on Windows can just import that and have that locally
     + also usable as a docker image
     + it works if you want to build a linux build (Cloph)
       + even the graphical UI
       + but not if the target is Windows

* l10n (Sophie)
   + no updates

* Updating the ESC composition (Miklos)
   + https://www.documentfoundation.org/governance/engineering-steering-committee/ is a bit outdated
   + Proposal:
     + Lionel → Vasily (CIB)
     + Andras/Michael → Lubos/Tomaz (Collabora)
     + Olivier/Sophie → Ilmari/Hossein (TDF)
     + Bubli → Andreas Heinisch (Individual)
     + useful to include individuals? (Heiko)
       + useful to get input from the broad dev audience (Thorsten)
       + the more voices we have, the better
     + may have one more slot, still (Thorsten)
     + What about including all TDF members in these votings? (Heiko)
       + The list of the names is the ESC (Kendy)
       + The calls are open to the public, but when it comes to a decision, then we need something that's possible to measure
       + This is from the statues (Thorsten)
       + Concerned a little that the names are picked manually (Heiko)
       + Do we need to track affiliations? (Heiko)
         + Yes, we have to (Thorsten)
     + Requirements to be a formal member (Kendy)
       + nontrivial contributions
       + willingness to take part in the ESC work
   + take this to the board? (Miklos)
     + no objections (all)
AI: take this to the board (Kendy)

* What’s cooking (Miklos)
   + 16k cols in Calc (Lubos)
     + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133764
   + feature/sparklines: Excel-style sparklines for Calc (Tomaz)
     + https://tomazvajngerl.blogspot.com/2022/03/sparklines-in-calc.html
   + Working on SmartArt (Armin)
     + a week away from the initial grounding work (hopefully)
     + there will be UI, ODF work afterwards
   + Adding "clearing breaks" to Writer, HTML's <br clear="..."> (Miklos)
     + https://vmiklos.hu/blog/sw-clearing-breaks.html
   + Text layout performance optimization (Lubos)
     + https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/12/08/tender-to-optimize-text-layout-performance-for-print-and-pdf-export-202112-01/
   + Adding content controls to Writer (Miklos)
     + <w:sdt> in DOCX, focusing only on inline SDT as a start
     + more than fields, less than fieldmarks, different than form controls
     + meant to match Word's content control feature set, to have a better interop story when creating / filling forms with Writer

* QA update (Xisco)

     + Please help flesh out the monthly reports:
           https://nextcloud.documentfoundation.org/s/2qbepFYXXan4ief

     + UNCONFIRMED: 1806 (+1)
         + enhancements: 277  (-15)
         + needsUXEval: 23 (+17)
         + haveBackTrace: 6 (+0)
         + needsDevAdvice: 27 (+2)
         + documentation:  5 (-6)
         + android:  1 (+0)
         + iOS:  0 (+0)
         + Online:  10 (+0)

     + Most pressing bugs:
      New:
         None
      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
            + started to happen with a new macOS version

         + 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:
         None

* QA stats
     + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
       +150  -36 (-125) overall)
       many thanks to the top bug squashers:
        QA Administrators       20
        Heiko Tietze            10
        Timur                   9
        Buovjaga                8
        Caolán McNamara         5
        Julien Nabet            4
        Mike Kaganski           4
        Olivier Hallot          4
        Vasily Melenchuk (CIB)  4
        Xisco Faulí             4

     + top 10 bugs reporters:
        Eyal Rozenberg          12
        Telesto                 10
        Xisco Faulí             6
        Mike Kaganski           3
        Oby                     3
        Rafael Lima             3
        Regina Henschel         3
        sdc.blanco              3
        Cor Nouws               2
        Dubravko Mario Radic    2

     + top 10 bugs fixers:
        Kaganski, Mike          4
        Nabet, Julien           4
        McNamara, Caolán        3
        Melenchuk, Vasily       3
        Németh, László          3
        Tünde Tóth              3
        Justin Luth             2
        Kelemen, Gabor          2
        Serg Bormant            2
        Adolfo Jayme Barrientos 1

     + top 10 bugs confirmers:
        Ilmari Lauhakangas      16
        Heiko Tietze            12
        Xisco Fauli             12
        Dieter                  9
        Roman Kuznetsov         9
        Nabet, Julien           7
        Timur                   7
        Aron Budea              4
        Bielefeld, Rainer       4
        Olivier Hallot          4


* 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 : 1/246 -    0 %  (+0)


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

      done by:
         Xisco Fauli            8
         Timur                  4
         Roman Kuznetsov        1
         Ilmari Lauhakangas     1
         Weghorn, Michael       1
         Raal                   1


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

      done by:
         Xisco Fauli            8
         Timur                  3
         Roman Kuznetsov        1
         Ilmari Lauhakangas     1
         Weghorn, Michael       1
         Raal                   1


* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
    + 1236(+4) bugs open of 11669(+20) total 12(+0) high prio.

      done by:
         Xisco Fauli            7
         Bielefeld, Rainer      3
         Telesto                3
         Timur                  2
         Raal                   2
         Roman Kuznetsov        1
         Heiko Tietze           1
         Alex Thurgood          1


* ~Component   count net * high severity regressions
    + http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
      Writer        - 7(+0)
      LibreOffice   - 2(+0)
      Calc          - 1(+0)
      Draw          - 1(+0)
      Impress       - 1(+0)

    by OS:
      All           - 10(+0)
      Linux         - 0(+0)
      Mac OS X      - 0(+0)
      Windows       - 2(+0)


* ~Component   count net * all regressions
    + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
      Writer: other            - 442(+9)
      Calc                     - 200(-1)
      Impress                  - 118(-1)
      Writer: docx filter      - 57(-1)
      Crashes                  - 56(+3)
      LibreOffice              - 48(-2)
      Draw                     - 43(+0)
      UI                       - 42(+1)
      Writer: perf             - 39(+0)
      Borders                  - 34(+0)
      Writer: other filter     - 33(+0)
      Base                     - 32(+0)
      Chart                    - 26(+1)
      RTL                      - 23(+0)
      Writer: doc filter       - 21(+0)
      Printing and PDF export  - 20(+0)
      BASIC                    - 18(+0)
      graphics stack           - 17(+1)
      filters and storage      - 16(-1)
      Formula Editor           - 3(+0)
      framework                - 2(+0)
      sdk                      - 1(+0)


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