[Libreoffice-qa] ESC meeting minutes: 2023-03-23

Miklos Vajna vmiklos at collabora.com
Thu Mar 23 15:38:52 UTC 2023


* Present:
     + Stephan, Michael S, Cloph, Olivier, Caolan, Heiko, Stephane, Hossein, Xisco, Thorsten, Miklos

* Completed Action Items:
     + Remove MAB section (Xisco)
       [ still need to deploy ]
     + grant commit permission for Paris (Cloph)
     + send the welcome mail for Paris (Miklos)

* Pending Action Items:

* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
     + 7.5 status: 7.5.2 rc2 this week (tag this evening)
       https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/q/project:core+branch:libreoffice-7-5-2+status:open -- 4 changes, help appreciated with reviewing
     + 7.4 status: 7.4.7 rc1 in 4 weeks

* Documentation (Olivier)
     + Helpcontents2
        + Maintenance fixes after translation round (S. Horaceck, S. Chaiklin, ohallot)
     + New Help
        + Add links to on-line help
           + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154226
           + input on this is welcome
     + Guides
        + Work in progress for 7.6
        + Bookshelf has now full Czech library (S. Horacek, Z. Chronek - raal)
           + https://books.libreoffice.org/cs
     + Google Seasons of Doc 2023
        + P1: Give code snippets for API
           + e.g. https://api.libreoffice.org/docs/idl/ref/interfacecom_1_1sun_1_1star_1_1frame_1_1XInfobarProvider.html#a2fbe99df5020c3b9d250398012d1a049
        + P2: Scripting Guide for Scriptforge (TBA)

     + Bugzilla Documentation statistics
         262(262) bugs open
     + Updates:
         BZ changes   1 week   1 month   3 months   12 months
            created     15(-1)    64(-4)   115(-1)     318(1)
          commented     34(3)    143(0)    300(5)     1079(1)
           resolved      3(-3)    28(-2)    54(-1)     193(0)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Seth Chaiklin made 114 changes in 1 month, and 486 changes in 1 year
           Olivier Hallot made 101 changes in 1 month, and 487 changes in 1 year
           Stéphane Guillou made 28 changes in 1 month, and 154 changes in 1 year
           Heiko Tietze made 16 changes in 1 month, and 100 changes in 1 year
           Kaganski, Mike made 9 changes in 1 month, and 115 changes in 1 year
           Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 6 changes in 1 month, and 47 changes in 1 year
           Vernon, Stuart Foote made 6 changes in 1 month, and 39 changes in 1 year
           Dieter made 5 changes in 1 month, and 71 changes in 1 year
           Ilmari Lauhakangas made 4 changes in 1 month, and 96 changes in 1 year
           Vladimir Sokolinskiy made 4 changes in 1 month, and 7 changes in 1 year

* UX Update (Heiko)
     + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
         276(276) (topicUI) bugs open, 97(97) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
     + Updates:
         BZ changes   1 week   1 month   3 months   12 months
              added     13(2)     36(5)     50(6)       86(5)
          commented     84(-4)   332(43)   695(13)    2285(58)
            removed      2(0)      5(3)      5(1)       30(2)
           resolved      9(0)     36(1)     90(1)      285(3)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Heiko Tietze made 218 changes in 1 month, and 1446 changes in 1 year
           Eyal Rozenberg made 106 changes in 1 month, and 334 changes in 1 year
           Vernon, Stuart Foote made 58 changes in 1 month, and 248 changes in 1 year
           Ilmari Lauhakangas made 57 changes in 1 month, and 230 changes in 1 year
           Dieter made 56 changes in 1 month, and 220 changes in 1 year
           Stéphane Guillou made 45 changes in 1 month, and 189 changes in 1 year
           Eivind Samseth made 18 changes in 1 month, and 18 changes in 1 year
           Rafael Lima made 18 changes in 1 month, and 262 changes in 1 year
           Telesto made 18 changes in 1 month, and 116 changes in 1 year
           Seth Chaiklin made 17 changes in 1 month, and 193 changes in 1 year
     + [Bug 154333] XML Form Document: Inconsistent function of Form Design Mode
            - differs from menu to toolbar Form Controls and Form Design
     + [Bug 154308] Double click to open spreadsheet with password hides "enter
            password" window
     + [Bug 149429] Changing Calc document's language should overwrite cell direct
            formatting language
     + [Bug 154048] Superscripts do not undo properly
  -> + [Bug 153987] Can't set per-language quotation marks in Tools | AutoCorrect
       + input on this is welcome
     + [Bug 152973] Forms: Default color for buttons and borders changed to dark grey
     + [Bug 154021] Customize dialog is too big to display on 1280x800 laptop screen
     + [Bug 154067] Calc_style_text
     + [Bug 154238] Draw: UI: Context menu item "Dimensions" and corresponding dialogue
            does not use same term
     + [Bug 154271] Ctrl End inconsistently jumps to the last half screen
     + [Bug 153899] Clone format of unmerged cells breaks up merging, applies to first
            unmerged cell only
     + [Bug 152898] Tools - Options - LibreOffice - View - Visibility - Shortcuts not
            indicative that it only affects shortcut display in context menus
     + [Bug 154234] Is there a difference between the A,B,C and A,AA,AAA numbering
            scheme (also a,b,c vs. a,aa,aaa)

     + planning a contest for a new release logo for version 8
       https://design.blog.documentfoundation.org/?p=1731&preview=1&_ppp=57158d947c

     + is there a resolution on 7.6 vs 8? (Stephan)
       + marketing says 8 (Heiko)
       + reference? (Stephan)
       + asking because of @since tags
       + the earlier we know, the better
       + it has been by the team (Heiko)
       + design people want calver
       + marketing likes the current schema
AI: get marketing to announce this decision on their mailing list (Heiko)

* Crash Testing (Caolan)
     + 35(+0) import failure, 2(+0) export failures

     new asserts, reproducers mentioned in connected gerrit reviews

     + 1 coverity issues

     fix submitted

     + 5 ossfuzz issue, no crashes

     build broken today


* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.4.5.1
          + (-82) 800 882 917 911 758 646 573 645 0
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.4.6.2
          + (+130) 371 241 0
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.5.0.3
          + (-419) 1477 1896 2150 2763 2246 1834 1162 0
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.5.1.2
          + (+387) 1241 854 546 0

     + Regression in 7.5.x

     - https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/signature/BitmapEx::operator=(BitmapEx%20const%20&)

     - 91bc1e6a8c92a7c895f0ba9dcad9ac4d35f3f791 ??


* Mentoring (Hossein)
           committer...   1 week     1 month     3 months     12 months
                   open      92(12)     152(17)     176(15)       182(15)
                reviews     410(-18)   1636(-18)   3498(-166)   11766(38)
                 merged     311(-36)   1516(-43)   3799(-139)   14708(204)
              abandoned       9(-4)      60(-12)    172(-7)       813(-4)
            own commits     196(-46)   1047(-61)   2606(-50)    10714(97)
         review commits      84(-27)    411(10)     808(-21)     2867(-13)
         contributor...   1 week      1 month      3 months     12 months
                   open      34(-3)      226(-4)      230(-8)       239(-8)
                reviews     834(-116)   3728(-128)   8380(-362)   31812(22)
                 merged      20(-4)       96(1)       172(-15)      725(-148)
              abandoned       7(3)        39(1)        83(-106)     583(-13)
            own commits      49(12)      176(21)      317(10)       892(-103)
         review commits       0(0)         0(0)         0(0)          0(0)
     + easyHack statistics:
        needsDevEval 9(9)   needsUXEval 1(1)   cleanup_comments 321(321)
        total 385(385)   assigned 21(21)   open 336(336)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Sophia Schroeder made 32 patches in 1 month, and 36 patches in 1 year
           Colomban Wendling made 9 patches in 1 month, and 20 patches in 1 year
           Armin Le Grand (allotropia) made 9 patches in 1 month, and 48 patches in 1 year
           Baole Fang made 8 patches in 1 month, and 8 patches in 1 year
           Galdam Jitsu made 5 patches in 1 month, and 10 patches in 1 year
           Damjan, Jovanovic made 4 patches in 1 month, and 4 patches in 1 year
             made 4 patches in 1 month, and 34 patches in 1 year
           Vojtěch Doležal made 4 patches in 1 month, and 6 patches in 1 year
           Vinit Agarwal made 3 patches in 1 month, and 3 patches in 1 year
           Juan C. Sanz made 2 patches in 1 month, and 4 patches in 1 year
     + top 10 reviewers:
           McNamara, Caolán made 160 review comments in 1 month, and 1080 in 1 year
           Michael Stahl made 158 review comments in 1 month, and 1090 in 1 year
           Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 124 review comments in 1 month, and 1024 in 1 year
           Nabet, Julien made 122 review comments in 1 month, and 842 in 1 year
           Ilmari Lauhakangas made 88 review comments in 1 month, and 332 in 1 year
           Kłos, Szymon made 80 review comments in 1 month, and 186 in 1 year
           Thorsten Behrens made 76 review comments in 1 month, and 556 in 1 year
           Vajna, Miklos made 72 review comments in 1 month, and 716 in 1 year
           Hossein made 70 review comments in 1 month, and 286 in 1 year
           Grandin, Noel made 64 review comments in 1 month, and 490 in 1 year
     + Patches automatically abandoned:
         tdf#139388 updated Dutch dictionary to 2.20.21 ( Aron Budea )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/138954
     + big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
           adityasingh22
           Uday Sharma
           Luigi Iucci
           Moaz Alaa

  * New EasyHack
    Offline language packs installation nests parentheses unnecessarily
    https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121102
  * Reviewed old EasyHacks to make sure they are still relevant
   * Processed another 3
     https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/EasyHacks/Review
  * Finalised blog post
    Internal includes instead of global ones - EasyHack
    https://dev.blog.documentfoundation.org/2023/03/23/internal-includes-instead-of-global-ones-easyhack/

* GSoC (Ilmari)
   + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/2023
   + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas
     + Ideas are still welcome, if there is a matching mentor (Thorsten)
     + Next step: March 20th - 4th April, project submission period for mentees

* Commit Access

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Kendy/Thorsten/László)
   + Four new certified developers:
       - Attila Bakos
       - Attila Szűcs (Collabora)
       - Patrick Luby (Collabora)
       - Tibor Nagy (NISZ)
AI: take this list to Italo (Stephan)

* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
gerrit_android_aarch64     jobs: 245 ok: 202 ko:  27 fail ratio: 11.02% mean_ok:  12 ( 21) median_ok:   9 ( 15)
gerrit_android_arm         jobs: 244 ok: 210 ko:  25 fail ratio: 10.25% mean_ok:  13 ( 23) median_ok:   9 ( 15)
gerrit_android_x86         jobs: 242 ok: 200 ko:  24 fail ratio: 9.92% mean_ok:  13 ( 22) median_ok:   8 ( 14)
gerrit_android_x86_64      jobs: 244 ok: 211 ko:  23 fail ratio: 9.43% mean_ok:  12 ( 23) median_ok:   9 ( 14)
gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil jobs: 514 ok: 335 ko: 143 fail ratio: 27.82% mean_ok:  51 ( 62) median_ok:  49 ( 54)
gerrit_linux_gcc_release   jobs: 488 ok: 395 ko:  66 fail ratio: 13.52% mean_ok:  25 ( 30) median_ok:  21 ( 24)
gerrit_mac                 jobs: 503 ok: 375 ko:  84 fail ratio: 16.70% mean_ok:  44 ( 58) median_ok:  40 ( 45)
gerrit_windows             jobs: 539 ok: 352 ko: 138 fail ratio: 25.60% mean_ok:  56 ( 88) median_ok:  47 ( 67)
gerrit_master              jobs: 559 ok: 277 ko: 225 fail ratio: 40.25% mean_ok:  94 ( 97) median_ok:  74 ( 76)
    + https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/tmp/gerrit_230323.thml
    + tests that failed more than twice in last seven days
       3 CppunitTest_framework_dispatch                gerrit_windows
       3 CppunitTest_sw_a11y                gerrit_windows
       3 CppunitTest_sw_ooxmlexport17                gerrit_mac
       4 CppunitTest_sw_dialogs_test2                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       4 UITest_validity                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       5 CppunitTest_sw_mailmerge                gerrit_windows
       5 CppunitTest_sw_uiwriter3                gerrit_windows
       7 JunitTest_chart2_unoapi                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      12 CppunitTest_sc_uicalc                gerrit_windows (primarily on 7-5 branch)
      13 CppunitTest_sw_uiwriter3                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      14 Killed by the kill-wrapper                gerrit_mac
      16 Killed by the kill-wrapper                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
    + suspect https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/147397 (ProcessEventsToIdle change) is related to the test failures
    + this week: more than usual amount of failures
      + lots of uiwriter3 failures
      + the change is meant to reduce failures, not introduce new ones (Xisco)
      + on libreoffice-7-5, sc_uicalc was fine previously (Cloph)
      + maybe will revert it on libreoffice-7-5 (Xisco)

* LibreOffice hackfest in Cambridge (Miklos)
   + as part of COOL days: 28 & 29th March 2023
   + https://www.collaboraoffice.com/cooldays/ has more info

* What’s cooking (Miklos)
   + Multi-page floating tables: behind SW_FORCE_FLY_SPLIT=1 for now (Miklos)
     + hope to enable it by default in 2-3 weeks
   + multi-color gradients (Armin)
     + see discussion on the developer mailing list
   + theming work (Tomaz)
     + focusing on Writer for now
   + opt-in faster UITest suites (Miklos)
     + reuse the same soffice process for all test cases in the test suite, in case we know all test cases return to the start center
     + example: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/149181
     + order of files in the test directory, is that deterministic? (Stephan)
       + yes, it's sorted already (Xisco)
AI: file an easy hack for this (Xisco)

* LibreOffice conference Bucharest 2023 (Gabriel)

* QA update (Xisco)
     + UNCONFIRMED: 1244 (-52)
         + enhancements: 298  (+4)
         + needsUXEval: 15 (+1)
         + haveBackTrace: 7 (+2)
         + needsDevAdvice: 30 (+1)
         + documentation:  2 (+1)
         + android:  3 (+0)
         + iOS:  0 (+0)
         + Online:  12 (+0)

     + Most pressing bugs:
      New:

     None


     + New high severity bugs of the week:

         + "Show Whitespace" condition changes other documents look
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149485
             + not a regression? implementationError
             + discussion is ongoing

         + Database - no DB UI wizards are functional in LibreOffice from AppStore (macOS)
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151250
             + not bisectable?
             + root of the problem: app store binary has no java support

         + Spellcheck now does not work  v7.5.0.3 X86_64
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153628
             + not a regression?
             + no systematic repro steps so far

* QA stats (Stéphane)
     + getting close to 1200 unconfirmed bugs (lowest since August 2020)
     + 6 regressions in 7.5 for kf5 from Jan-Marek's VCL commit:
         https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=regression&keywords_type=allwords&list_id=1575864&longdesc=afc828b9833b7a612369e95606ba56d41ef2c369&longdesc_type=allwordssubstr&query_format=advanced&resolution=---
     + "dataloss" keyword now part of weighing in QA dashboard table: https://stragu.shinyapps.io/lo_qa_dashboard/
     + weekly summary: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
       +122  +17 (-156) overall)
       many thanks to the top bug squashers:
        eisa01                  20
        Justin L                16
        Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 16
        Buovjaga                8
        Alex Thurgood           7
        QA Administrators       7
        Caolán McNamara         6
        Dieter                  6
        Heiko Tietze            6
        V Stuart Foote          5

     + top 10 bugs reporters:
        sdc.blanco              5
        Jonathan Kamens         4
        ady                     4
        Mike Kaganski           3
        lol                     3
        maison                  3
        Alex Thurgood           2
        Gerald Pfeifer          2
        NOYB                    2
        Peter Gervai            2

     + top 10 bugs fixers:
        McNamara, Caolán        6
        Seth Chaiklin           5
        Rizal Muttaqin          4
        Andreas Heinisch        3
        Baole Fang              3
        Weghorn, Michael        3
        خالد حسني               3
        Alex Thurgood           2
        Németh, László          2
        Rathke, Eike            2

     + top 10 bugs confirmers:
        Ilmari Lauhakangas      32
        Eivind Samseth          24
        Stéphane Guillou        22
        Raal                    8
        Vernon, Stuart Foote    7
        Dieter                  5
        Heiko Tietze            5
        Roman Kuznetsov         5
        Xisco Fauli             5
        Alex Thurgood           4

* Highest-Priority bugs (aka "MABs"):
    + http://bit.ly/2lJAAJI
      6.0 : 2/54 -     3 %  (+0)
      5.4 : 0/41 -     0 %  (+0)
      5.3 : 0/54 -     0 %  (+0)
      5.2 : 0/43 -     0 %  (+0)
      5.1 : 0/35 -     0 %  (+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 : 1/85 -     1 %  (+0)
      4.0 : 1/82 -     1 %  (+0)
      old : 1/246 -    0 %  (+0)

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

      done by:
         Ilmari Lauhakangas     4
         Stéphane Guillou       3
         Aron Budea             2
         Raal                   2
         Weghorn, Michael       1
         Xisco Fauli            1

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

      done by:
         Ilmari Lauhakangas     4
         Raal                   3
         Stéphane Guillou       3
         Aron Budea             1
         Weghorn, Michael       1
         Kaganski, Mike         1
         Xisco Fauli            1

* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
    + 1249(-1) bugs open of 12428(+16) total 13(+2) high prio.

      done by:
         Ilmari Lauhakangas     4
         Stéphane Guillou       3
         Raal                   2
         Roman Kuznetsov        1
         ady                    1
         Alex Thurgood          1
         Weghorn, Michael       1
         Kaganski, Mike         1
         Robert Großkopf        1
         Vernon, Stuart Foote   1

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

    by OS:
      All           - 8(+1)
      Linux         - 2(+0)
      Mac OS X      - 0(+0)
      Windows       - 3(+1)

* ~Component   count net * all regressions
    + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
      Writer: other            - 435(-1)
      Calc                     - 224(-1)
      Impress                  - 130(+1)
      Crashes                  - 54(+2)
      Writer: docx filter      - 54(-5)
      LibreOffice              - 50(+1)
      Base                     - 46(+3)
      Draw                     - 45(+0)
      UI                       - 42(+1)
      Writer: perf             - 35(+0)
      Borders                  - 32(-1)
      Writer: other filter     - 30(+1)
      Chart                    - 26(+0)
      Printing and PDF export  - 24(+0)
      RTL                      - 23(+0)
      Writer: doc filter       - 21(+0)
      BASIC                    - 19(+0)
      filters and storage      - 16(+0)
      graphics stack           - 13(+0)
      Formula Editor           - 4(+1)
      Extensions               - 2(+1)
      sdk                      - 2(+0)
      Linguistic               - 1(+0)
      framework                - 1(+0)


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