ESC meeting minutes: 2024-04-25

Miklos Vajna vmiklos at collabora.com
Thu Apr 25 14:26:18 UTC 2024


* Present:
     + Cloph, Heiko, Jonathan, Olivier, Caolan, Hossein, Ilmari, Michael W, Stephan, Xisco, Miklos, Eike

* Completed Action Items:
     + Update api.libreoffice.org from 7.4 (Cloph)

* Pending Action Items:

* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
     + 7.6: 7.6.7 RC2 next week
     + 24.2: 24.2.3 RC2 this week

* Documentation (Olivier)
     + Helpcontents2
        + updates and fixes (ohallot, fitoshido)
     + Guides
        + published Calc and Writer guides as web pages.

     + Bugzilla Documentation statistics
         264(264) bugs open
     + Updates:
         BZ changes   1 week   1 month   3 months   12 months
            created     15(7)    37(7)      98(9)     222(4)
          commented     26(23)   68(11)    246(11)    856(20)
           resolved      5(-1)   17(1)      46(3)     117(1)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Olivier Hallot made 43 changes in 1 month, and 263 changes in 1 year
           Stéphane Guillou made 25 changes in 1 month, and 255 changes in 1 year
           Dione Maddern made 16 changes in 1 month, and 31 changes in 1 year
           MeBugzilla made 7 changes in 1 month, and 7 changes in 1 year
           Weghorn, Michael made 7 changes in 1 month, and 8 changes in 1 year
           Nabet, Julien made 7 changes in 1 month, and 53 changes in 1 year
           Ilmari Lauhakangas made 6 changes in 1 month, and 71 changes in 1 year
           Kaganski, Mike made 4 changes in 1 month, and 68 changes in 1 year
           Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 3 changes in 1 month, and 24 changes in 1 year
           Heiko Tietze made 3 changes in 1 month, and 82 changes in 1 year

* UX Update (Heiko)
     + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
         241(241) (topicUI) bugs open, 38(38) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
     + Updates:
         BZ changes   1 week    1 month    3 months   12 months
              added      2(-2)      9(-10)    16(-7)      24(-7)
          commented     50(-21)   196(-35)   556(-8)    1894(-55)
            removed      1(0)       3(1)       3(1)       12(0)
           resolved      9(1)      32(4)      89(4)      314(-6)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Vernon, Stuart Foote made 109 changes in 1 month, and 309 changes in 1 year
           Heiko Tietze made 84 changes in 1 month, and 1079 changes in 1 year
           Stéphane Guillou made 79 changes in 1 month, and 644 changes in 1 year
           Ilmari Lauhakangas made 19 changes in 1 month, and 144 changes in 1 year
           Dieter made 15 changes in 1 month, and 148 changes in 1 year
           Eyal Rozenberg made 15 changes in 1 month, and 143 changes in 1 year
           Justin Luth made 15 changes in 1 month, and 140 changes in 1 year
           Petros Christopoulos made 7 changes in 1 month, and 7 changes in 1 year
           Robert Großkopf made 6 changes in 1 month, and 11 changes in 1 year
           *UNKNOWN* made 5 changes in 1 month, and 5 changes in 1 year

     + [Bug 158932] Icons for promote / demote outline level should be improved
     + [Bug 160353] List images in order of document appearance in Calc Navigator
     + [Bug 160764] Request: Set the Navigator viewport to default to Headings
            rather than Sections
  -> + [Bug 160734] Support exporting to Markdown
       + we have a mediawiki export extension already (Olivier)
         + good to not base anything on this, it's in Java (Heiko)
       + would this be extension vs inernal? (Hossein)
       + see ESC minutes from a few months ago, best to decide details when somebody would start on this (Ilmari)
         + https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2024-January/091472.html
       + markdown import/export may fit into a gsoc project (Hossein)
       + liked odpdown by Thorsten (Heiko)
     + [Bug 160732] Rename "Navigation" toolbar to clarify its role, avoid confusion,
            and relate to "Recency"


* Crash Testing (Caolan)
     + 24(+0) import failure, 19(+0) export failures
      - some new .odt export failures seen
      https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/166572
     + 16 (unchanged) coverity issues
     + 6 ossfuzz issues
      - seem to have developed a new msan error during build
      ==35384==WARNING: MemorySanitizer: use-of-uninitialized-value
icu_73::Package::readPackage(char const*) /work/workdir_for_build/UnpackedTarball/icu/source/tools/toolutil/package.cpp:638:19
probably their side, as this hasn't changed on our side(?)
     + workdir_for_build in a fuzzing build? (Miklos)
       + the all-static case is similar to the mobile build, hence the path (Caolan)

* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
     + 7.6.5.2    8995(+892)
     + 7.6.6.3    1928(+874)
     + 24.2.0.3   16125(+718)
     + 24.2.1.2   12036(+1143)
     + 24.2.2.2   4911(+1790)
     + just sent the current state to the list: https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2024-April/091880.html

* Mentoring (Hossein)
   + this week: most time went for gsoc
   + reviewed submissions/ from candidates
           committer...   1 week    1 month      3 months     12 months
                   open      92(46)    143(23)      171(28)       171(28)
                reviews     357(39)   1211(-165)   3695(-167)   12499(-19)
                 merged     245(32)    964(-17)    3229(-48)    12441(-53)
              abandoned      21(12)     55(6)       171(4)        658(-7)
            own commits     183(54)    679(38)     2152(8)       9191(-1)
         review commits      67(24)    264(5)       873(1)       3068(13)
         contributor...   1 week     1 month    3 months    12 months
                   open      44(8)       93(-6)    103(-2)      103(-2)
                reviews     745(163)   2605(-7)   7649(-41)   29453(-117)
                 merged      29(12)     147(10)    373(17)     1734(10)
              abandoned      12(1)       51(6)     295(5)       698(8)
            own commits      31(15)     151(-2)    442(-4)     1122(5)
         review commits       0(0)        0(0)       0(0)         0(0)
     + easyHack statistics:
        needsDevEval 8(8)   needsUXEval 1(1)   cleanup_comments 331(331)
        total 413(413)   assigned 28(28)   open 351(351)
     + top 10 contributors:
           LeSasse made 19 patches in 1 month, and 19 patches in 1 year
           Armin Le Grand (allotropia) made 12 patches in 1 month, and 89 patches in 1 year
           Ritobroto Mukherjee made 10 patches in 1 month, and 14 patches in 1 year
           Rafał Dobrakowski made 8 patches in 1 month, and 16 patches in 1 year
           Dione Maddern made 8 patches in 1 month, and 34 patches in 1 year
           Bogdan B made 5 patches in 1 month, and 20 patches in 1 year
           Aaron Bourdeaux made 5 patches in 1 month, and 5 patches in 1 year
           Juan José González made 4 patches in 1 month, and 11 patches in 1 year
           Sahil Gautam made 4 patches in 1 month, and 4 patches in 1 year
           colton Garrett made 4 patches in 1 month, and 4 patches in 1 year
     + top 10 reviewers:
           Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 104 review comments in 1 month, and 492 in 1 year
           Ilmari Lauhakangas made 92 review comments in 1 month, and 518 in 1 year
           Caolán McNamara made 88 review comments in 1 month, and 1394 in 1 year
           Hossein made 84 review comments in 1 month, and 332 in 1 year
           Thorsten Behrens made 84 review comments in 1 month, and 650 in 1 year
           Grandin, Noel made 76 review comments in 1 month, and 690 in 1 year
           Olivier Hallot made 68 review comments in 1 month, and 352 in 1 year
           Vajna, Miklos made 56 review comments in 1 month, and 1102 in 1 year
           Nabet, Julien made 52 review comments in 1 month, and 942 in 1 year
           Michael Stahl made 50 review comments in 1 month, and 914 in 1 year
     + Patches automatically abandoned:
         Make application color customizable ( Sahil Gautam )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/159363
         tdf#158454 Add Thai Autocorrect Support, coding part ( Theppitak Karoonboonyanan )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/160160
         tdf#130857 weld_message_dialog ( Omkar Acharekar  )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/161831
         tdf#119745 Avoid scrolling too fast in the Basic IDE ( Rafael Lima )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/162134
         tdf#132354: sc: Add UItest ( Xisco Fauli )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/162315
         WIP make the AbstractSvxNameDialog async ( Noel Grandin )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/162562
         tdf#159610 Make applied frame styles appear ( Jim Raykowski )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/163220
         python3: update to 3.10.13 ( Aron Budea )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/163448
         Fix setting of entitlements in unsigned macOS sandbox builds ( Patrick Luby )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/163553
         Convert source file from Latin-1 to UTF-8 ( Andrea Gelmini )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/163645
     + big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
           Jonathan Clark (TDF)

* GSoC (Ilmari)
     + https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2024/organizations/libreoffice
     + Projects ranked yesterday
     + slot request sent to google, decision will be announced on 2024-05-01

* Commit Access

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Miklos/László/Gabriel)
   + resting since: 2 weeks (limit: 20 weeks)

* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
gerrit_android_aarch64     jobs: 175 ok: 156 ko:  16 fail ratio: 9.14% mean_ok:  13 ( 19) median_ok:  11 ( 14)
gerrit_android_arm         jobs: 171 ok: 161 ko:   8 fail ratio: 4.68% mean_ok:  13 ( 19) median_ok:  10 ( 13)
gerrit_android_x86         jobs: 175 ok: 162 ko:  12 fail ratio: 6.86% mean_ok:  13 ( 18) median_ok:  10 ( 14)
gerrit_android_x86_64      jobs: 171 ok: 155 ko:  14 fail ratio: 8.19% mean_ok:  15 ( 21) median_ok:  13 ( 17)
gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil jobs: 351 ok: 295 ko:  50 fail ratio: 14.25% mean_ok:  39 ( 43) median_ok:  33 ( 38)
gerrit_linux_gcc_release   jobs: 440 ok: 329 ko:  98 fail ratio: 22.27% mean_ok:  21 ( 25) median_ok:  16 ( 18)
gerrit_mac                 jobs: 362 ok: 300 ko:  53 fail ratio: 14.64% mean_ok:  56 ( 56) median_ok:  51 ( 51)
gerrit_windows             jobs: 375 ok: 303 ko:  56 fail ratio: 14.93% mean_ok:  57 (146) median_ok:  56 ( 85)
gerrit_master_ml           jobs: 480 ok: 253 ko: 198 fail ratio: 41.25% mean_ok: 162 (165) median_ok: 106 (107)
gerrit_master              jobs:  59 ok:  38 ko:  18 fail ratio: 30.51% mean_ok: 117 (120) median_ok:  73 ( 73)
gerrit_master_seq          jobs: 411 ok: 215 ko: 170 fail ratio: 41.36% mean_ok: 165 (170) median_ok: 114 (114)
    + tests that failed more than twice in last seven days:
       3 CppunitTest_sw_ooxmlexport21                gerrit_linux_gcc_release
       3 CppunitTest_sw_writerfilter_filters_test                gerrit_linux_gcc_release
       5 UITest_sw_navigator                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       7 CppunitTest_vcl_filters_test                gerrit_linux_gcc_release
       8 aborted by jenkins job timeout                gerrit_windows
      35 CppunitTest_svgio                gerrit_linux_gcc_release
   + this week we had a broken test / mid-air-collision (Cloph)
     + fixes by Mike K & Xisco, thanks to them
   + gerrit upgrade caused some problems, now all good
     + git gc problem on the main build (not even starting the real builds)
   + macOS bot went bad, fixed.
   + one Windows bot goes offline quite frequently, may will replace with a VM instead

* process for external tarballs changed (Cloph)
   + now a repository in gerrit using git-LFS
   + instructions on how to use it in the repo's readme:
     https://git.libreoffice.org/extern#introduction
     after submitting might take 5min until files are reachable via web
   + no changes to the download-URLs
   + also host moved to different machine
     → should me much faster to download now/better connectivity
   + follow the instructions carefully, then you don't have to download GBs, just the metadata
   + great news, thanks a lot! (Stephan)
     + adds accountability to see who added which tarball, where

* What’s cooking (Miklos)
     + A11y update (Michael W)
         + gtk4 a11y: analysing "random" crashes, implement handling for relations
         + gtk3: occasionally broken a11y tree with Calc (tdf#160806)
         + a11y UNO API: plan to refine a bit to improve type-safety,
           maintenance, debugging experience (e.g. use enum instead of integer
           constants)
     + RTL/CTL/CJK update (Jonathan)
         + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49885 breakiterator rule update
             + change in-flight, awaiting review
         + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61444 text layout broken across formatting changes
             + in progress
     + Hyperlink tab removed from Character properties (Heiko)
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=132253
       + attributes "Unvisited/Visited Character Style Name" cannot be
         assigned to other styles than "Visited/Internet Link"
       + help update missing
     + build with wsl-as-helper but from within git-bash (Cloph)
       + https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/166343/comments/d24b20c5_73518b1b
         lists requirements (git-bash, strawberry-perl-portable, make, wsl-container
         capable of building a linux version)
       + works for Cloph, Stephan (arm64, even)
       + hope to land it on master soon (Cloph)

* QA update (Xisco)
     + UNCONFIRMED: 1173 (+5)
         + enhancements: 280  (-3)
         + needsUXEval: 10 (-7)
         + haveBackTrace: 10 (+0)
         + needsDevAdvice: 48 (+2)
         + documentation:  4 (+1)
         + android:  0 (+0)
         + iOS:  0 (+0)
         + Online:  9 (+0)

     + Most pressing bugs:
      New:

     None


     + New high severity bugs of the week:

     None


* QA stats (Stéphane)
     + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
       +97  -2 (-106) overall)
       many thanks to the top bug squashers:
        QA Administrators       15
        Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 11
        Mike Kaganski           10
        Heiko Tietze            8
        Buovjaga                6
        Justin L                5
        Noel Grandin            5
        V Stuart Foote          5
        Xisco Faulí             5
        Adolfo Jayme Barrientos 3

     + top 10 bugs reporters:
        Xisco Faulí             6
        Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 5
        peter josvai            5
        Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 4
        Telesto                 4
        Regina Henschel         3
        Eyal Rozenberg          2
        Mike Kaganski           2
        Sam                     2
        BikeHelmet              1

     + top 10 bugs fixers:
        Kaganski, Mike          8
        Grandin, Noel           5
        Xisco Fauli             5
        Adolfo Jayme Barrientos 3
        Heiko Tietze            3
        Justin Luth             3
        Balazs Varga            2
        Jim Raykowski           2
        Olivier Hallot          2
        Stéphane Guillou        2

     + top 10 bugs confirmers:
        Stéphane Guillou        12
        Ady                     7
        Dieter                  7
        Xisco Fauli             7
        m.a.riosv               7
        Heiko Tietze            6
        *UNKNOWN*               4
        Ilmari Lauhakangas      3
        Kaganski, Mike          3
        Robert Großkopf         3


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

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


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

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


* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
    + 1237(+1) bugs open of 13317(+15) total 23(+0) high prio.

      done by:
         Stéphane Guillou       3
         Xisco Fauli            3
         Ilmari Lauhakangas     2
         m.a.riosv              2
         Roman Kuznetsov        1
         Aron Budea             1
         Kaganski, Mike         1
         Robert Großkopf        1


* ~Component   count net * high severity regressions
    + http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
      Writer        - 15(-1)
      Calc          - 3(+1)
      Impress       - 2(+0)
      LibreOffice   - 1(+0)
      UI            - 1(+0)

    by OS:
      All           - 18(+0)
      Linux         - 3(+0)
      Mac OS X      - 0(+0)
      Windows       - 2(+0)


* ~Component   count net * all regressions
    + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
      Writer: other            - 436(-1)
      Calc                     - 226(+1)
      Impress                  - 128(+1)
      Draw                     - 53(+0)
      LibreOffice              - 52(-1)
      Writer: docx filter      - 45(+0)
      Crashes                  - 41(-1)
      Base                     - 40(+0)
      UI                       - 37(+0)
      Borders                  - 35(+0)
      Writer: perf             - 35(+0)
      Writer: other filter     - 30(+0)
      Chart                    - 24(+0)
      Printing and PDF export  - 24(+0)
      RTL                      - 23(+0)
      filters and storage      - 22(+0)
      BASIC                    - 20(+1)
      Writer: doc filter       - 16(+0)
      graphics stack           - 12(+0)
      Formula Editor           - 7(+0)
      framework                - 3(+0)
      Extensions               - 2(+0)
      sdk                      - 2(+0)
      Linguistic               - 1(+0)


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