[Libreoffice-qa] ESC meeting minutes: 2022-05-12

Miklos Vajna vmiklos at collabora.com
Thu May 12 14:31:24 UTC 2022


* Present:
     + Kendy, Stephan, Hekio, Ilmari, Cloph, Olivier, Caolán, Miklos, Thorsten,
       Michael S., Xisco, Eike

* Completed Action Items:
     + None

* Pending Action Items:
     + create wiki to page to describe the gerrit auto-abandon process + then link to that from gerrit comments (Hossein) -> Not done

* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
     + 7.4 status: 7.4.0 alpha 1 is tagged, feature freeze in June
       + beta 1 in 4 weeks + feature freeze
       + late features: SmartArt editing, to revisit next week (Thorsten)
       + Skia is disabled on libreoffice-7-3, but not on master (Xisco)
     + 7.3 status: 7.3.4 rc1 next week
     + 7.2 status: 7.2.7 has been announced as final today
     + Remotes: Android, iOS
     + Android viewer

* Documentation (Olivier)
    + New Help
        + better support for RTL languages (buovjaga)
    + Helcontent2
        + Updates and fixes (A. Gelmini, ohallot, S. Chaiklin)
        + Scriptforge Help (A. Romedenne)
    + Guides
        + Updates on going in Impress (P. Schoffield, K. Kriek)
        + Updates in Base Guide (S. Fanning)

     + Bugzilla Documentation statistics
         227(227) bugs open
     + Updates:
         BZ changes   1 week    1 month   3 months   12 months
            created     13(-11)   36(-23)   113(-5)     322(-11)
          commented      8(-28)   79(-13)   233(-31)   1438(-9)
           resolved      6(1)     12(-20)    65(1)      213(-8)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Seth Chaiklin made 80 changes in 1 month, and 157 changes in 1 year
           Xisco Fauli made 14 changes in 1 month, and 83 changes in 1 year
           Ilmari Lauhakangas made 11 changes in 1 month, and 109 changes in 1 year
           Olivier Hallot made 11 changes in 1 month, and 465 changes in 1 year
           Telesto made 11 changes in 1 month, and 35 changes in 1 year
           Kaganski, Mike made 7 changes in 1 month, and 87 changes in 1 year
           Nabet, Julien made 7 changes in 1 month, and 80 changes in 1 year
           Henschel, Regina made 6 changes in 1 month, and 24 changes in 1 year
           Dieter made 4 changes in 1 month, and 101 changes in 1 year
           Németh, László made 3 changes in 1 month, and 6 changes in 1 year

* UX Update (Heiko)
     + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
         277(277) (topicUI) bugs open, 81(81) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
     + Updates:
         BZ changes   1 week   1 month    3 months   12 months
              added      5(-5)    15(-4)     30(-2)      57(-3)
          commented     65(-9)   271(-18)   686(14)    2575(-29)
            removed      2(1)      9(1)      19(2)       42(1)
           resolved      6(2)     26(-7)     87(-5)     368(-12)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Heiko Tietze made 180 changes in 1 month, and 1869 changes in 1 year
           Seth Chaiklin made 86 changes in 1 month, and 161 changes in 1 year
           Telesto made 41 changes in 1 month, and 290 changes in 1 year
           Dieter made 35 changes in 1 month, and 216 changes in 1 year
           Xisco Fauli made 33 changes in 1 month, and 98 changes in 1 year
           Kaganski, Mike made 26 changes in 1 month, and 164 changes in 1 year
           Timur made 24 changes in 1 month, and 125 changes in 1 year
           Cor Nouws made 16 changes in 1 month, and 50 changes in 1 year
           Foote, V Stuart made 15 changes in 1 month, and 388 changes in 1 year
           Eyal Rozenberg made 14 changes in 1 month, and 93 changes in 1 year
     + 10 new tickets with needsUXAdvice since May/05
       + [Bug 149037] Should "Name" and "Description" have icons in the Format menu?
       + [Bug 149013] Description of images, OLE objects and shapes is not exported
              to HTML
       + [Bug 143197] Writer: hidden link between list and chapter numbering
       + [Bug 149030] UI: Make the animation effect list a drop down in the sidebar
    -> + [Bug 149010] "Previous Link" and "Next Link" should only appear on Frames
              Options tab
         + draw:chain-next-name attribute is currently only implemented for Frames,
           implement for "Text box" as well?
         + do we want chained text boxes?
           + there was a gsoc project for this (Miklos)
           + http://gsoc15-draw.logdown.com/posts/276831-text-chaining-in-draw-an-attempt-to-specifications (Michael S)
           http://gsoc15-draw.logdown.com/posts/283339-text-chaining-in-draw-results-at-midterm
           https://matteocam.github.io/output/announcing-chained-text-in-draw-a-prototype-implementation.html
           + would welcome a patch to finish this feature (Miklos)
           + would need hiding for images, sure.
       + [Bug 148740] UI Issue: In View->Styles, the `+` gets hidden when the cursor is
              on a parent style
    -> + [Bug 149000] PDF Accessibility: Checker dialog should have a "Print report"
              button
         + Word has a sidebar for this (Heiko)
       + [Bug 148979] Field context menu should have "Update Field" item
    -> + [Bug 148967] Include a HUD inside the Standard toolbar
         + would bring LO UI closer to MSO
         + active discussion in progress
         + could be also part of sidebar
         + could replace the findbar
         + like the Heiko's idea to make this is gsoc idea and/or tender proposal (Kendy)
       + [Bug 148941] Make label of the field for an image's text alternative consistent

* Crash Testing (Caolan)
     + 91(+81) import failure, 14(+11) export failures
       - crashtesting has returned
       - better than expected
       - know that the main crash there is repeated a lot, Lubos already pushed a fix
         - let's see the results in the next round
     + 0 coverity issues
     + 12 ossfuzz issues
       - 2 crashes, 2 "leaks", 4 timeouts, 2 OOM

* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.2.6.2
          + (-133) 646 779 781 522 558 428 373 166 0
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.3.1.3
          + (-299) 847 1146 986 1887 2139 1652 1345 810 0
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.3.2.2
          + (-627) 1622 2249 2101 1664 934 0
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.3.3.2
          + (+555) 555 0

     + mdds::flat_segment_tree<long,bool>::insert_to_pos

     + Still most reported crash in 7.3.3.2

     + Update mdds


    + Crashes fixed in 7.3.3.2

     - SwLayoutFrame::ContainsContent()

     - Fix commit is not known

     - sw::mark::FindFieldSep(sw::mark::IFieldmark const &)

     Thanks to Michael Stahl

     - slideshow::internal::RandomWipe::operator()(double)

     Thanks to Thorsten



* Mentoring/EasyHack update (Hossein)
           committer...   1 week     1 month     3 months     12 months
                   open      86(18)     144(20)     146(20)       149(20)
                reviews     264(-52)   1020(-68)   3314(-168)   12434(-94)
                 merged     299(7)     1208(32)    3860(-26)    15701(25)
              abandoned      14(-6)      59(3)      313(-1)       826(0)
            own commits     262(22)     953(50)    2911(15)     12534(46)
         review commits      38(7)      155(-3)     681(-50)     3624(-30)
         contributor...   1 week    1 month    3 months    12 months
                   open      44(30)     78(22)     82(25)       84(25)
                reviews     820(56)   2900(84)   8954(-68)   34420(24)
                 merged      11(2)      44(5)     178(-19)    1370(-25)
              abandoned       2(-3)     25(-6)    159(-23)     436(-20)
            own commits      14(5)      39(9)     215(-32)    1419(-27)
         review commits       0(0)       0(0)       0(0)         0(0)
     + easyHack statistics:
        needsDevEval 8(8)   needsUXEval 1(1)   cleanup_comments 307(307)
        total 368(368)   assigned 18(18)   open 322(322)
     + top 10 contributors:
           xuenhua made 7 patches in 1 month, and 7 patches in 1 year
           Srebotnjak, Martin made 4 patches in 1 month, and 20 patches in 1 year
           Nagy Tibor made 2 patches in 1 month, and 31 patches in 1 year
           Batmunkh Dorjgotov made 2 patches in 1 month, and 2 patches in 1 year
           Attila Bakos made 2 patches in 1 month, and 33 patches in 1 year
           flywire made 2 patches in 1 month, and 10 patches in 1 year
           Isha Desai made 2 patches in 1 month, and 2 patches in 1 year
           Fišeras, Aurimas 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
           Dhiraj Holden made 1 patches in 1 month, and 7 patches in 1 year
     + top 10 reviewers:
           Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 100 review comments in 1 month, and 938 in 1 year
           Thorsten Behrens made 90 review comments in 1 month, and 806 in 1 year
           Michael Stahl made 74 review comments in 1 month, and 1200 in 1 year
           Nabet, Julien made 62 review comments in 1 month, and 594 in 1 year
           Kaganski, Mike made 54 review comments in 1 month, and 736 in 1 year
           Xisco Fauli made 52 review comments in 1 month, and 874 in 1 year
           Vajna, Miklos made 46 review comments in 1 month, and 614 in 1 year
           Christian Lohmaier made 44 review comments in 1 month, and 218 in 1 year
           Ilmari Lauhakangas made 44 review comments in 1 month, and 286 in 1 year
           Hossein made 40 review comments in 1 month, and 228 in 1 year
     + big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
           Daniel Kozar
           Mark Hung
     + we have lots of easy hacks, some of them are obsolete by now (Miklos)
       + a systematic review of these would be nice, how to handle that the best way?
       + let's wait for Hossein to discuss this

* GSoC (Hossein/Ilmari)
     + Timeline: https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline
     + May 12th is the deadline for the slot request

* Commit Access
   + None

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Kendy/Thorsten/László)
   + resting since: 18 weeks (limit: 20 weeks)

* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
     from:Thu May  5 13:53:13 2022
     master linux rel  jobs: 129 ok: 129 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
     master linux dbg  jobs:  97 ok:  93 ko:   4 fail ratio:  4.12 % break:   4 broken duration: 3.85%
     master mac rel    jobs:  59 ok:  58 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
     master mac dbg    jobs:  57 ok:  57 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
     master win rel    jobs:  95 ok:  95 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
     master win dbg    jobs: 102 ok: 102 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
     master win64 dbg  jobs:  97 ok:  97 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
     master gerrit lin jobs: 501 ok: 401 ko:  78 fail ratio: 15.57% time for ok: mean:  22 median:  19
     master gerrit plg jobs: 476 ok: 343 ko: 103 fail ratio: 21.64% time for ok: mean:  56 median:  53
     master gerrit win jobs: 557 ok: 360 ko: 154 fail ratio: 27.65% time for ok: mean:  60 median:  57
     master gerrit mac jobs: 524 ok: 385 ko:  92 fail ratio: 17.56% time for ok: mean:  40 median:  36
     master android    jobs: 509 ok: 394 ko:  87 fail ratio: 17.09% time for ok: mean:  30 median:  23
     master gerrit all jobs: 564 ok: 271 ko: 228 fail ratio: 40.43% time for ok: mean:  78 median:  73
    + https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/tmp/gerrit_220512.html
    + one of the macs are back this week (Cloph)

* l10n (Sophie)
   + no updates

* What’s cooking (Miklos)
   + 16k cols in Calc (Lubos)
     + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133764
   + feature/chartdatatable: MSO-style data tables for charts (Tomaz)
     + see initial commits in master
   + Working on SmartArt (Armin)
     + hope to get a blog post out soon regarding the current state
   + Adding content controls to Writer (Miklos)
     + inline <w:sdt> in DOCX, rich text/checkbox/dropdown types
   + feature/scaling-geometry-provider for Wayland (Jan-Marek)
     + scenario: multiple monitors with different DPI scaling factor, handle that
   + parallel installation set packing (Thorsten)

* ESC composition (Caolan)
   + board approved the suggestion from the ESC (Kendy)

* QA update (Xisco)
     + UNCONFIRMED: 1715 (-22)
         + enhancements: 271  (+2)
         + needsUXEval: 6 (-2)
         + haveBackTrace: 5 (-1)
         + needsDevAdvice: 28 (+0)
         + documentation:  16 (+2)
         + android:  4 (+1)
         + 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
            + somebody has to do the work to keep up with the new Apple requirements
              + sometimes this works, sometimes now (Stephan)

     + New high severity bugs of the week:
         + Crash mergedlo!SfxViewFrame::Notify+0xf87
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148913
             + Jan-Marek?
             + Xisco has trouble to reproduce it reliably

* QA stats
     + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
       +109  -5 (-119) overall)
       many thanks to the top bug squashers:
        Caolán McNamara         8
        Mike Kaganski           8
        Timur                   7
        Buovjaga                6
        Olivier Hallot          6
        Xisco Faulí             6
        QA Administrators       5
        Andreas Heinisch        4
        Heiko Tietze            4
        Michael Warner          4

     + top 10 bugs reporters:
        Mike Kaganski           7
        Xisco Faulí             7
        sdc.blanco              7
        Telesto                 5
        Eyal Rozenberg          4
        Olivier Hallot          4
        David Melik             3
        Aron Budea              2
        BDF                     2
        Jambunathan K           2

     + top 10 bugs fixers:
        McNamara, Caolán        6
        Olivier Hallot          5
        Andreas Heinisch        3
        Németh, László          3
        Rathke, Eike            3
        Timur                   3
        Xisco Fauli             3
        Henschel, Regina        2
        Hung, Mark              2
        Justin Luth             2

     + top 10 bugs confirmers:
        Xisco Fauli             21
        Dieter                  14
        Ilmari Lauhakangas      10
        Timur                   9
        Heiko Tietze            7
        Raal                    7
        Rafael Lima             7
        BogdanB                 4
        Henschel, Regina        4
        Kaganski, Mike          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:
         Raal                   7
         Xisco Fauli            7
         Timur                  3
         Ilmari Lauhakangas     2
         Kaganski, Mike         2
         Telesto                2
         Roman Kuznetsov        1
         Hossein                1
         Justin Luth            1

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

      done by:
         Xisco Fauli            7
         Raal                   6
         Timur                  3
         Ilmari Lauhakangas     2
         Kaganski, Mike         2
         Telesto                2
         Roman Kuznetsov        1
         Emanuele Gissi         1

* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
    + 1272(+3) bugs open of 11766(+23) total 11(+0) high prio.

      done by:
         Xisco Fauli            7
         Timur                  3
         Kaganski, Mike         2
         Raal                   2
         Telesto                2
         Dieter                 1
         Emanuele Gissi         1
         Harald Koester         1
         Ilmari Lauhakangas     1
         Foote, V Stuart        1

* ~Component   count net * high severity regressions
    + http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
      Writer        - 6(+0)
      LibreOffice   - 2(+0)
      Calc          - 1(+0)
      Draw          - 1(+0)
      Impress       - 1(+0)

    by OS:
      All           - 9(+0)
      Linux         - 0(+0)
      Mac OS X      - 0(+0)
      Windows       - 2(+0)

* ~Component   count net * all regressions
    + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
      Writer: other            - 461(+7)
      Calc                     - 202(-2)
      Impress                  - 125(+4)
      Writer: docx filter      - 61(+1)
      Crashes                  - 56(+0)
      LibreOffice              - 52(-1)
      UI                       - 45(-1)
      Draw                     - 44(+1)
      Writer: perf             - 40(+0)
      Borders                  - 38(+1)
      Base                     - 34(+0)
      Writer: other filter     - 34(+0)
      Chart                    - 25(+0)
      RTL                      - 24(+0)
      Writer: doc filter       - 21(+0)
      Printing and PDF export  - 20(+0)
      BASIC                    - 17(-1)
      filters and storage      - 16(+0)
      graphics stack           - 16(+0)
      Formula Editor           - 2(+0)
      Linguistic               - 1(+0)
      framework                - 1(+0)
      sdk                      - 1(+0)


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