[Libreoffice-qa] ESC meeting minutes: 2023-08-24

Miklos Vajna vmiklos at collabora.com
Thu Aug 24 14:38:20 UTC 2023


* Present:
     + Eike, Caolan, Heiko, Justin, Olivier, Hossein, Michael W, Michael S, Regina, Stephan, Thorsten, Xisco, Khaled, Ilmari, Miklos

* Completed Action Items:
     + Split ticket about icon theme depending on light/dark appearance
       into gtk3/gtk4 (tdf#127138) and kf5/qt6 (tdf#156894) (Heiko)

* Pending Action Items:
     + Try gtk4 local builds, Qt6 local builds (Cloph)
     + Fix gdb pretty-printers on tb99 (Cloph)

* Release Engineering update (Xisco)
     + 7.6 status: 7.6.1 rc1 this week: already tagged
     + 7.5 status: 7.5.6 rc2 next week

* Documentation (Olivier)
     + New Help, no news.
     + Helpcontents2
        + review of all menus and UNO commands (ohallot)
        + Need info on "Graphic Size Check"
           + https://help.libreoffice.org/master/en-US/text/shared/01/graphic_size_check.html
         + ScriptForge help pages (R. Lima)
         + NOTE: Python script help pages available since ages.
     + Guides
         + Work in progress
         + Bookshelf updated with last guides.
     + Bugzilla Documentation statistics
         269(269) bugs open
     + Updates:
         BZ changes   1 week   1 month   3 months   12 months
            created      4(-1)   36(-9)     78(-1)     308(1)
          commented     11(-4)   93(-34)   245(6)     1096(7)
           resolved      3(3)    17(-4)     34(2)      173(2)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Rafael Lima made 36 changes in 1 month, and 163 changes in 1 year
           Stéphane Guillou made 27 changes in 1 month, and 325 changes in 1 year
           Olivier Hallot made 24 changes in 1 month, and 454 changes in 1 year
           Nabet, Julien made 11 changes in 1 month, and 31 changes in 1 year
           Heiko Tietze made 6 changes in 1 month, and 115 changes in 1 year
           Wolfgang Jäger made 6 changes in 1 month, and 6 changes in 1 year
           Ilmari Lauhakangas made 5 changes in 1 month, and 113 changes in 1 year
           Bogdan B made 4 changes in 1 month, and 225 changes in 1 year
           خالد حسني made 4 changes in 1 month, and 4 changes in 1 year
           m.a.riosv made 4 changes in 1 month, and 15 changes in 1 year

* UX Update (Heiko)
     + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
         267(267) (topicUI) bugs open, 60(60) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
     + Updates:
         BZ changes   1 week   1 month    3 months   12 months
              added      0(-4)    14(-16)    23(-16)     54(-17)
          commented     44(4)    182(-64)   510(-56)   2414(-82)
            removed      1(1)      1(0)       5(0)       27(-1)
           resolved      9(2)     30(1)      77(2)      329(0)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Heiko Tietze made 98 changes in 1 month, and 1466 changes in 1 year
           Eyal Rozenberg made 54 changes in 1 month, and 322 changes in 1 year
           Stéphane Guillou made 43 changes in 1 month, and 446 changes in 1 year
           ady made 26 changes in 1 month, and 98 changes in 1 year
           خالد حسني made 21 changes in 1 month, and 35 changes in 1 year
           Roman Kuznetsov made 20 changes in 1 month, and 171 changes in 1 year
           Dieter made 17 changes in 1 month, and 256 changes in 1 year
           Leroy made 16 changes in 1 month, and 19 changes in 1 year
           Colin made 16 changes in 1 month, and 16 changes in 1 year
           Bogdan B made 14 changes in 1 month, and 97 changes in 1 year
     + [Bug 149625] FORMATTING: Pasting a table cell, pastes the source cell
            in the upper/actual cell as an inner table cell
     + [Bug 156840] Add source path as property to embedded image file
     + [Bug 156817] Calc: selection automatic sum/average broken with error cells
     + reviewing lots of menus (Olivier)
       + also the tabbed interface -> lots of commands missing
       + perhaps should review that later
       + feels like people dump every command on the canvas, and it's not how it works (Heiko)
       + if there is a need for a new commands which are frequent, that has to be added
         + everything else has to be in menus
     + bugzilla has a lot of easy hacks related to the notebookbar (Justin)

* Crash Testing (Caolan)
     + 14(-16) import failure, 0(+0) export failures
       - one more calc parallelization fix merged since
     + 2 coverity issues
       - fixes for those merged
     + 1 ossfuzz issue
       - a single doc timeout

* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.4.7.2
          + (+45) 717 674 664 485 472 471 380 318 250 251 118 0
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.5.4.2
          + (-40) 628 668 706 981 969 717 365 0
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.5.5.2
          + (+497) 1349 852 1012 0
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.6.0.3
          + (+440) 440 0


     + Regressions  in 7.6

     - https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/signature/comphelper::AccessibleEventNotifier::revokeClientNotifyDisposing(unsigned%20int,%20com::sun::star::uno::Reference%3Ccom::sun::star::uno::XInterface%3E%20const&)

     - Noel submitted a fix for 7.6.0 RC3

     - Michael W. submitted a second fix

     - https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/signature/static%20bool%20cppu::idefaultConstructElements(struct%20_sal_Sequence%20*%20*,%20struct%20_typelib_TypeDescriptionReference%20*,%20long,%20long,%20long)

     - Related to gradients


* Mentoring (Hossein)
  + New draft blog post for EasyHacks
    Warning for low disk space - difficulty interesting EasyHack
    https://dev.blog.documentfoundation.org/?p=908&preview=1&_ppp=e64b4b9d04
  + Reviewed all the EasyHacks with last comment < 2019
    https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/EasyHacks/Review
           committer...   1 week     1 month     3 months    12 months
                   open      74(10)     137(-2)     191(-2)      231(12)
                reviews     242(-76)   1280(-38)   3124(-54)   11144(-10)
                 merged     191(-31)   1012(-67)   3300(-65)   12728(-56)
              abandoned       8(-15)     51(2)      134(-8)      635(-1)
            own commits     139(22)     667(-48)   2113(-4)    10104(-132)
         review commits      30(-1)     178(-27)    613(-26)    3044(-14)
         contributor...   1 week      1 month     3 months    12 months
                   open      34(2)        62(9)       86(10)      106(11)
                reviews     606(-356)   2764(-96)   7642(-84)   31542(-350)
                 merged       6(0)        44(-13)    175(-8)     2434(-130)
              abandoned       2(-153)    160(1)      179(2)       615(-4)
            own commits       8(-3)       53(-9)     196(-5)     1068(5)
         review commits       0(0)         0(0)        0(0)         0(0)
     + easyHack statistics:
        needsDevEval 8(8)   needsUXEval 1(1)   cleanup_comments 328(328)
        total 404(404)   assigned 17(17)   open 359(359)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Stéphane Guillou made 10 patches in 1 month, and 29 patches in 1 year
           Dipam Turkar made 4 patches in 1 month, and 26 patches in 1 year
           Armin Le Grand (allotropia) made 4 patches in 1 month, and 77 patches in 1 year
           Colomban Wendling made 3 patches in 1 month, and 21 patches in 1 year
           Czeber László made 3 patches in 1 month, and 18 patches in 1 year
           Sahil Gautam made 3 patches in 1 month, and 5 patches in 1 year
           Ahmed Eltokhy made 2 patches in 1 month, and 9 patches in 1 year
           Venetia Furtado made 2 patches in 1 month, and 5 patches in 1 year
           jucasaca made 2 patches in 1 month, and 4 patches in 1 year
           Stéphane Guillou made 1 patches in 1 month, and 9 patches in 1 year
     + top 10 reviewers:
           Caolán McNamara made 154 review comments in 1 month, and 368 in 1 year
           Michael Stahl made 132 review comments in 1 month, and 1118 in 1 year
           Thorsten Behrens made 98 review comments in 1 month, and 440 in 1 year
           Vajna, Miklos made 96 review comments in 1 month, and 840 in 1 year
           Nabet, Julien made 90 review comments in 1 month, and 952 in 1 year
           Grandin, Noel made 68 review comments in 1 month, and 612 in 1 year
           Vajngerl, Tomaž made 54 review comments in 1 month, and 402 in 1 year
           Xisco Fauli made 54 review comments in 1 month, and 752 in 1 year
           Kaganski, Mike made 50 review comments in 1 month, and 354 in 1 year
           Christian Lohmaier made 34 review comments in 1 month, and 402 in 1 year
     + Patches automatically abandoned:
         tdf#138302: support for list overrides in DOC export ( Vasily Melenchuk )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/116516
     + big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
           Denis Sorotnik
           Deepika Goyal

* GSoC (Ilmari/Thorsten)
   + work is ongoing, see weekly reports
   + this week: Contributors submit their code, project summaries, and final evaluations of their mentors
   + next week: Mentors submit final contributor evaluations (standard coding period)

* Outreachy (Ilmari)
   + https://www.outreachy.org/
   + Applied with two intern slots
   + Mentor sign up deadline September 29
     + looking for mentors
   + Project timeline is Dec -> March

* Commit Access

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Miklos/Thorsten/László)
   + resting since: 19 weeks (limit: 20 weeks)

* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
    + seemed to work OK this week (Miklos)
    + tests that failed more than twice in last seven days
       1 CppunitTest_sd_misc_tests      gerrit_windows
       1 CppunitTest_starmath_qa_cppunit        gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       1 CppunitTest_starmath_qa_cppunit        gerrit_linux_gcc_release
       1 CppunitTest_svgio        gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil_branch
       1 CppunitTest_svgio        gerrit_mac
       1 CppunitTest_svx_styles        gerrit_windows
       1 CppunitTest_vcl_svm_test        gerrit_windows
       1 JunitTest_ridl_remote        gerrit_linux_gcc_release_branch
       1 UITest_calc_tests8        gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       1 UITest_inputLine        gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       1 UITest_sw_fieldDialog        gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       2 CppunitTest_framework_dispatch        gerrit_windows
       2 CppunitTest_starmath_qa_cppunit        gerrit_mac
       2 CppunitTest_svgio        gerrit_windows
       2 CppunitTest_sw_ooxmlexport17        gerrit_mac
       3 CppunitTest_starmath_qa_cppunit        gerrit_windows
       5 Killed by the kill-wrapper        gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil_branch
       6 Killed by the kill-wrapper        gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       7 Killed by the kill-wrapper        gerrit_mac

* What’s cooking (Miklos)
     + C++20 (Stephan)
     + multi-page floating tables in Writer, see tdf#155118 for details (Miklos)
     + JDK bump to 17 (Michael W)
         + https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/155377
         + https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/155827
         + waiting for JDK 17 to be installed on builders (for Cloph)
     + Right-to-left math layout and other Math improvements (Khaled)
         + https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/q/topic:math-rtl-layout (4 patches)
         + https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/156053
         + Looking at MathML3 and/or required ODF changes
         + Also the ability to use different math font other than OpenSymbol, beacuse of the extensions needed for RTL
     + Smallcaps in Impress (Caolan)
       + http://caolanm.blogspot.com/2023/08/small-caps-in-impress.html

* LibreOffice conference Bucharest 2023 (Gabriel)
         + For those planning to join the conference, please REGISTER as we need this information for organizational reasons: https://conference.libreoffice.org/2023/registration-form/
         + Registration for the workshop has been stopped and removed from the registration form because the number of registered participants is high and an increase could create major logistical problems.
           + That's a massive success, congrats, great work there (Thorsten)
           + Maybe split to 2 groups?
             + Think we don't have people to do 2 sessions (Hossein)
             + Perhaps can manage to have place for 60-70 people
               + Already discussed with the university
             + Will double-check with people if they indeed plan to attend
               + Some people may attend only some of the sessions

* QA update (Xisco)
     + UNCONFIRMED: 1180 (+13)
         + enhancements: 275  (-4)
         + needsUXEval: 7 (-13)
         + haveBackTrace: 14 (+1)
         + needsDevAdvice: 35 (+1)
         + documentation:  4 (-1)
         + android:  3 (+0)
         + iOS:  0 (+0)
         + Online:  12 (-1)


     + Most pressing bugs:
      New:

     None


     + New high severity bugs of the week:
         + FIREBIRD: Copying a table from one database file to another gives wrong decimal numbers.
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156530
             + Julien is working on it

         + Default font color in tables is white over white background (font color should be black)
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156685
             + bisected to Heiko (isDark() calculation)
               + default tables in Impress/Draw have a white font color now
             + in discussion on the ticket

         + Add "Fit page size to drawing" functionality (e.g. to Page Properties dialog)
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81118
             + not a regression
             + set to high because 4 dup, 16 cc; GSoC project? (Heiko)
             + add it to the GSoC page? (Xisco)
               + not sure about the size, perhaps easy-hackable (Heiko)

* QA stats (Stéphane)
     + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
       +91  +19 (-175) overall)
       many thanks to the top bug squashers:
        QA Administrators       69
        Justin L                14
        Buovjaga                9
        Heiko Tietze            7
        Mike Kaganski           7
        Xisco Faulí             6
        Michael Stahl (allotropia) 5
        m.a.riosv               4
        steve                   4
        Balázs Varga (allotropia) 3

     + top 10 bugs reporters:
        Gerald Pfeifer          5
        Davide                  4
        Rafael Lima             4
        Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 3
        NISZ LibreOffice Team   3
        Telesto                 3
        Hossein                 2
        Roman Kuznetsov         2
        Suminda Dharmasena      2
        Xisco Faulí             2

     + top 10 bugs fixers:
        Justin Luth             9
        Michael Stahl           5
        Caolán McNamara         4
        Xisco Fauli             4
        Balazs Varga            3
        Grandin, Noel           3
        Heiko Tietze            3
        Samuel Mehrbrodt        3
        Weghorn, Michael        3
        Ilmari Lauhakangas      2

     + top 10 bugs confirmers:
        m.a.riosv               8
        Ilmari Lauhakangas      6
        Heiko Tietze            5
        Nabet, Julien           3
        Németh, László          3
        *UNKNOWN*               2
        Dieter                  2
        Kaganski, Mike          2
        Kelemen, Gabor          2
        Rafael Lima             2


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

      done by:
         Ilmari Lauhakangas     4
         Kelemen, Gabor         3
         Raal                   2
         Aron Budea             1


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

      done by:
         Ilmari Lauhakangas     4
         Kelemen, Gabor         3
         Raal                   2
         Aron Budea             1
         خالد حسني              1


* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
    + 1183(-5) bugs open of 12736(+19) total 11(+0) high prio.

      done by:
         Ilmari Lauhakangas     4
         Roman Kuznetsov        2
         خالد حسني              2
         Aron Budea             1
         Kelemen, Gabor         1
         luca.manganelli        1


* ~Component   count net * high severity regressions
    + http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
      Writer        - 7(+0)
      Calc          - 3(+0)
      LibreOffice   - 1(+0)

    by OS:
      All           - 7(+0)
      Linux         - 2(+0)
      Mac OS X      - 0(+0)
      Windows       - 2(+0)


* ~Component   count net * all regressions
    + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
      Writer: other            - 413(-7)
      Calc                     - 216(+1)
      Impress                  - 133(+0)
      LibreOffice              - 50(+1)
      Draw                     - 44(+0)
      Base                     - 42(+0)
      Crashes                  - 42(+0)
      Writer: docx filter      - 40(-2)
      Borders                  - 34(+0)
      UI                       - 33(+1)
      Writer: other filter     - 31(+0)
      Writer: perf             - 31(+0)
      Printing and PDF export  - 23(+0)
      RTL                      - 23(+0)
      Chart                    - 22(+0)
      BASIC                    - 18(+0)
      filters and storage      - 16(-2)
      Writer: doc filter       - 14(+1)
      graphics stack           - 14(+2)
      Formula Editor           - 4(+0)
      framework                - 4(+0)
      Extensions               - 2(+0)
      sdk                      - 2(+0)
      Linguistic               - 1(+0)


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