[Libreoffice-qa] ESC meeting minutes: 2022-04-14

Stephan Bergmann sbergman at redhat.com
Thu Apr 14 14:29:42 UTC 2022


* Present:
     + sberg, Heiko, caolan, erAck, Gabriel, michaelw, mst, Hossein, 
Thorsten, OHallot, Lubos

* Completed Action Items:
     + add configure warning if MSVC version is older than 16.11 (Hossein)
     + take the updated ESC composition proposal from 2022-04-07 to the 
board (Kendy)

* Pending Action Items:
     + None

* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
     + 7.4 status: feature freeze in June
     + 7.3 status: 7.3.3 rc1
        + tagged, on mirrors
     + 7.2 status: 7.2.7 rc1
        + in one week
     + Remotes: Android, iOS
     + Android viewer
     + issue with odd link-error on Windows ARM tinderbox (Thorsten)
        + updated to latest compiler version, but still failing
        + neither an incremental build, unclear what's the cause
        + will try other boxes whether they fail the same (Cloph)

* Documentation (Olivier)
     + New Help
        + no news
     + Helcontents
        + Updates and fixes (ohallot, fitoshido)

     + Google Seasons of Doc
        + Response in April 14
           + later today
     + Guides
        + Work in progress for Impress and Draw 7.3 (P. Schofield)
        + WIP for Base Guide 7.3 (S. Fanning, Dev, ohallot, flywire)
        + Export HTML of Spanish guide in progress
     + general
        + Testing Discourse forum for Documentation (thx Sophie & Guilhem)
        https://communitytest.documentfoundation.org/c/documentation/8

     + Bugzilla Documentation statistics
         218(218) bugs open
     + Updates:
         BZ changes   1 week   1 month   3 months   12 months
            created     36(23)   58(24)    117(5)      333(10)
          commented     23(12)   75(7)     324(-24)   1458(4)
           resolved     26(19)   36(19)     69(12)     233(25)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Olivier Hallot made 80 changes in 1 month, and 555 changes in 
1 year
           Seth Chaiklin made 37 changes in 1 month, and 82 changes in 1 
year
           Dieter made 16 changes in 1 month, and 116 changes in 1 year
           Alain Romedenne made 8 changes in 1 month, and 33 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
           Telesto made 4 changes in 1 month, and 24 changes in 1 year
           Xisco Fauli made 4 changes in 1 month, and 83 changes in 1 year

* UX Update (Heiko)
     + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
         268(268) (topicUI) bugs open, 91(91) (needsUXEval) needs to be 
evaluated by the UXteam
     + Updates:
         BZ changes   1 week    1 month    3 months   12 months
              added      9(-12)    24(0)      36(0)       61(-2)
          commented     91(11)    218(-15)   677(27)    2639(-80)
            removed      2(2)       5(1)      16(2)       36(0)
           resolved      8(0)      28(2)     103(1)      393(-14)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Heiko Tietze made 225 changes in 1 month, and 1975 changes in 
1 year
           Ilmari Lauhakangas made 55 changes in 1 month, and 293 
changes in 1 year
           Seth Chaiklin made 40 changes in 1 month, and 99 changes in 1 
year
           Roman Kuznetsov made 31 changes in 1 month, and 218 changes 
in 1 year
           Eyal Rozenberg made 31 changes in 1 month, and 118 changes in 
1 year
           Telesto made 24 changes in 1 month, and 274 changes in 1 year
           Dieter made 19 changes in 1 month, and 234 changes in 1 year
           Robert Großkopf made 13 changes in 1 month, and 28 changes in 
1 year
           Cor Nouws made 12 changes in 1 month, and 37 changes in 1 year
           Timur made 12 changes in 1 month, and 125 changes in 1 year
    + 23 new tickets with needsUXEval Apr/07-14
    + [Bug 148593] "Left page border" and "right page border" options 
for Horizontal
           "to" position in Position and Size for shapes are misleading 
names, which
           should be changed
    + [Bug 148272] Cross-reference to numbering wrongly includes 
separator character
    + [Bug 148591] Rename "page text area top" and "page text area 
bottom" to "Above
           (or Below) page text area
    + [Bug 148568] Rework the Sparklines dialog
-> + [Bug 86297] Wrong Field reference when heading is in a frame
      + interesting abuse of frames to misplace outlines
    + [Bug 71991] FORMATTING: arrow end default sizes incoherent with 
"Synchronize
           end" checked by default
    + [Bug 148533] Selecting an Arrow Style in Arrow Styles tab changes 
the arrow style
           of a selected line
-> + [Bug 148523] Table properties changes only a cell in Impress (full 
table expected)
      + Writer smart-selects the unformatted cells and proposal is to do 
the same for
        Draw/Impress
    + [Bug 148519] Change "Margin" to "Entire Frame" in "to" field for 
Vertical Position
           when anchoring "To frame" in Position and Shape tab
    + [Bug 148513] Poor nomenclature for Manual Break
    + [Bug 148512] Position and Size dialog box jumps when selecting 
"page text area
           bottom" in "to" field for Vertical Position
    + [Bug 148499] Database Wizard UI looks inconsistent when you select 
Writer document
           item in Connect to an existing database list
    + [Bug 148495] Connect to an existing database drop-down list in 
Database Wizard
           should be alphabeticcaly sorted
-> + [Bug 148482] When pasting requires fetching remote content, ask for 
permission
      + unclear if we really fetch 3rd party content, should be 
blocked/confirmed if
      + Caolan's going to look into it, whether we do things differently 
than other apps
    + [Bug 148481] Wrong mouse pointer shown when pressing Ctrl in Table 
of Contents
    + [Bug 148312] Navigator should not show ToC entries as hyperlinks, 
at all
    + [Bug 148479] Support category indicators
    + [Bug 148469] Give alert for unsaved when sending document in email
    + [Bug 148464] Ability to pick-and-choose where to search
    + [Bug 148463] Need ability to search only comments
    + [Bug 148467] Sparkline's main menu items should be in other places
    + [Bug 148465] Rework Sparklines's context menus
    + [Bug 148450] How is "Jump to Specific Page" supposed to work in 
Print Preview?

* Crash Testing (Caolan)
     + 10(+0) import failure, 3(+0) export failures
       - crashtesting vm is unavailable for 3(?) weeks now. That's 
getting to be a worrying problem for me.
       + still in the hands of Swiss folks, no direct access (Cloph)
         + Guilhem to invest further options
     + 0 coverity issues
     + 15 ossfuzz issues

* Crash Reporting (Xisco, missing)
     + 7.3.0.2    141(+6)
     + 7.3.0.3    27985(+1607)
     + 7.3.1.3    14814(+2357)
     + 7.3.2.2    3381(+2360)

* Mentoring/EasyHack update (Hossein)
           committer...   1 week     1 month     3 months    12 months
                   open      64(1)      132(2)      136(2)       138(2)
                reviews     306(-46)   1368(26)    3748(-48)   12706(-10)
                 merged     301(3)     1227(-27)   4037(2)     15740(-29)
              abandoned      11(2)      189(4)      318(-9)      860(-2)
            own commits     208(-7)     895(-21)   3064(-17)   12514(-47)
         review commits      40(-12)    256(0)      850(-21)    3712(-33)
         contributor...   1 week    1 month     3 months   12 months
                   open      31(6)      71(7)       73(7)       78(8)
                reviews     812(16)   3560(-30)   9376(-4)   34692(-74)
                 merged       7(2)      61(-5)     216(1)     1470(-25)
              abandoned       7(1)     133(4)      168(3)      468(-2)
            own commits       7(0)      86(0)      280(1)     1469(-31)
         review commits       0(0)       0(0)        0(0)        0(0)
     + easyHack statistics:
        needsDevEval 8(8)   needsUXEval 1(1)   cleanup_comments 295(295)
        total 355(355)   assigned 32(32)   open 296(296)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Johnny_M made 50 patches in 1 month, and 770 patches in 1 year
           Paris Oplopoios made 7 patches in 1 month, and 7 patches in 1 
year
           Attila Bakos made 3 patches in 1 month, and 34 patches in 1 year
           Vaibhav Malik made 2 patches in 1 month, and 12 patches in 1 
year
           Deepika Sreejesh made 2 patches in 1 month, and 5 patches in 
1 year
           Tushar Jham made 2 patches in 1 month, and 3 patches in 1 year
           Vincent Reher made 2 patches in 1 month, and 2 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
           Kevin Suo made 1 patches in 1 month, and 36 patches in 1 year
     + top 10 reviewers:
           Michael Stahl made 124 review comments in 1 month, and 1230 
in 1 year
           Xisco Fauli made 104 review comments in 1 month, and 906 in 1 
year
           Kaganski, Mike made 90 review comments in 1 month, and 798 in 
1 year
           Thorsten Behrens made 84 review comments in 1 month, and 782 
in 1 year
           Ilmari Lauhakangas made 76 review comments in 1 month, and 
288 in 1 year
           Hossein made 72 review comments in 1 month, and 226 in 1 year
           Vajna, Miklos made 68 review comments in 1 month, and 610 in 
1 year
           Olivier Hallot made 60 review comments in 1 month, and 1160 
in 1 year
           Nabet, Julien made 58 review comments in 1 month, and 564 in 
1 year
           McNamara, Caolán made 50 review comments in 1 month, and 514 
in 1 year
     + Patches automatically abandoned:
         tdf#145614: Convert #define to enum class ( Hossein )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/128518
         the intent is to retain the current value if we change the unit 
( Caolán McNamara )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/129355
         use shallow clones for submodules by default ( Christian 
Lohmaier )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/129452
         Fix build error in ImplLOKHandleMouseEvent ( Henry Castro )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/129462
         Fix build in BeginDrag ( Henry Castro )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/129463
         changed the atan to atan2 whereever necessary ( mohammadreza 
eyvazi mehrabani )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/129518
         tdf#143148: use pragma once instead of include guards in 
sdext.pdfimport ( Kevin Suo )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/129524
         Reduce unneeded code indentation in namespaces in 
sdext.pdfimport ( Kevin Suo )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/129526
         tighten the scopes of some for loop indices ( Daniel Thomas )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/129695
     + big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged 
patch, since last report:
           Behrad Khorram
           Vincent Reher (4reher.org)
           Shady Mohamed

     + New blog post draft on LibreOffice Dev Blog
       Using cmake for C++ LibreOffice SDK Examples
 
https://dev.blog.documentfoundation.org/?p=406&preview=1&_ppp=0bd5abd896
       + does that lead to having cmake available for the SDK? (Stephan)
          + maybe

     + discussing moodle to asses basic skills of mentees (Hossein/Ilmari)
        + asking some mentees to first read more on C++, then come back

* GSoC (Hossein/Ilmari)
     + Timeline: https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline
     + April 4th - April 19th : submission period for participants' 
applications
     + 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 Apr  7 13:56:04 2022
     master linux rel  jobs: 121 ok: 121 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % 
break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
     master linux dbg  jobs:  97 ok:  95 ko:   2 fail ratio:  2.06 % 
break:   2 broken duration: 0.92%
     master mac rel    jobs:  62 ok:  62 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % 
break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
     master mac dbg    jobs:  66 ok:  66 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % 
break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
     master win rel    jobs: 103 ok: 103 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % 
break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
     master win dbg    jobs: 106 ok: 105 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % 
break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
     master win64 dbg  jobs: 105 ok: 105 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % 
break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
     master gerrit lin jobs: 475 ok: 397 ko:  56 fail ratio: 11.79% time 
for ok: mean:  22 median:  19
     master gerrit plg jobs: 451 ok: 265 ko: 148 fail ratio: 32.82% time 
for ok: mean:  59 median:  58
     master gerrit win jobs: 496 ok: 335 ko: 114 fail ratio: 22.98% time 
for ok: mean:  56 median:  50
     master gerrit mac jobs: 493 ok: 355 ko:  91 fail ratio: 18.46% time 
for ok: mean:  43 median:  41
     master android    jobs: 438 ok: 364 ko:  50 fail ratio: 11.42% time 
for ok: mean:  22 median:  16
     master gerrit all jobs: 471 ok: 213 ko: 200 fail ratio: 42.46% time 
for ok: mean:  78 median:  68
    + https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/tmp/gerrit_220414.html
    + tests that failed more than twice in last seven days (incl. branches)
       3 CppunitTest_sw_uiwriter6                gerrit_mac
       3 UITest_writer_tests                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       4 CppunitTest_sw_uiwriter6                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       4 CppunitTest_sw_uiwriter6                gerrit_windows
       4 CppunitTest_vcl_backend_test                gerrit_windows
       4 UITest_writer_tests3                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       5 CppunitTest_writerperfect_writer                gerrit_windows
       6 CppunitTest_sc_macros_test                gerrit_windows 
(single bot, slow one)
      22 CppunitTest_services                gerrit_mac (single bot, 
branch only)
         + automatic restart enabled now, unclear why it happens on that 
one bot (only)
      30 Killed by the kill-wrapper 
gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
         + quite high, but may be just bad luck this week

    + pushed some lode cleanups, private 7.3 GCC for Clang got removed,
      not yet deployed on Jenkins bots, shouldn't cause issues, to be 
deployed
      step by step

* l10n (Sophie, missing)
    + everything as usual (Cloph)

* 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), then UI, 
ODF work
   + 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

* QA update (Xisco, missing)
     + Preliminary budget plan to have additional help with QA (possibly 
hiring)
      (Thorsten)

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

     + UNCONFIRMED: 1799 (-7)
         + enhancements: 267  (-10)
         + needsUXEval: 11 (-12)
         + haveBackTrace: 7 (+1)
         + needsDevAdvice: 29 (+2)
         + documentation:  7 (+2)
         + android:  1 (+0)
         + iOS:  0 (+0)
         + Online:  10 (+0)



     + Most pressing bugs:
      New:
      Old:
      Fixed:


     + New high severity bugs of the week:
         + Calc, Writer, Impress, Draw: hangs when using copy paste 
(often copying is sufficient to trigger the hang)
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141722
             + Lubos?

         + EDITING MS Access through 64-bit ODBC doesn't work and 
returns an Invalid Bookmark error
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148367
             + not a regression?

         + Window size reopening a document not like size when saved
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41777
             + not a regression?

* QA stats
     + 
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
       +139  +11 (-141) overall)
       many thanks to the top bug squashers:
        Olivier Hallot          23
        Heiko Tietze            11
        QA Administrators       11
        Timur                   10
        Buovjaga                7
        Luboš Luňák             7
        Jan-Marek Glogowski     6
        Mike Kaganski           6
        Dieter                  5
        Michael Weghorn         5

     + top 10 bugs reporters:
        Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 11
        sdc.blanco              11
        Telesto                 10
        Eyal Rozenberg          8
        Roman Kuznetsov         6
        Mike Kaganski           3
        Axel Braun              2
        Buovjaga                2
        Heiko Tietze            2
        Kevin Suo               2

     + top 10 bugs fixers:
        Olivier Hallot          23
        Glogowski, Jan-Marek    5
        Luboš Luňák             4
        Andreas Heinisch        2
        McNamara, Caolán        2
        Nabet, Julien           2
        Weghorn, Michael        2
                                1
        Andras Timar            1
        Attila Bakos            1

     + top 10 bugs confirmers:
        Heiko Tietze            25
        Ilmari Lauhakangas      12
        Roman Kuznetsov         10
        Xisco Fauli             9
        Dieter                  8
        Glogowski, Jan-Marek    4
        Rathke, Eike            4
        Weghorn, Michael        4
                                3
        Robert Großkopf         3


* 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:
         Raal                   3
         Telesto                2
         Timur                  1
         Ilmari Lauhakangas     1
         Justin Luth            1
         Weghorn, Michael       1
         Xisco Fauli            1


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

      done by:
         Raal                   3
         Telesto                2
         Aron Budea             1
         Timur                  1
         Ilmari Lauhakangas     1
         Justin Luth            1
         Weghorn, Michael       1
         Kevin Suo              1
         Xisco Fauli            1


* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
    + 1241(+5) bugs open of 11687(+18) total 12(+0) high prio.

      done by:
         Telesto                4
         Robert Großkopf        3
         Stéphane Guillou       2
         Andreas Heinisch       1
         Rathke, Eike           1
         Timur                  1
         Justin Luth            1
         Weghorn, Michael       1
         Raal                   1
         Kevin Suo              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            - 440(-2)
      Calc                     - 202(+2)
      Impress                  - 117(-1)
      Writer: docx filter      - 57(+0)
      Crashes                  - 55(-1)
      LibreOffice              - 51(+3)
      Draw                     - 43(+0)
      UI                       - 43(+1)
      Writer: perf             - 39(+0)
      Borders                  - 35(+1)
      Base                     - 33(+1)
      Writer: other filter     - 33(+0)
      Chart                    - 25(-1)
      RTL                      - 23(+0)
      Writer: doc filter       - 21(+0)
      Printing and PDF export  - 19(-1)
      BASIC                    - 18(+0)
      graphics stack           - 17(+0)
      filters and storage      - 16(+0)
      Formula Editor           - 3(+0)
      framework                - 2(+0)
      sdk                      - 1(+0)



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