ESC meeting minutes: 2024-01-04

Miklos Vajna vmiklos at collabora.com
Thu Jan 4 15:34:59 UTC 2024


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

* Completed Action Items:

* Pending Action Items:

* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
     + 7.6: 7.6.5 RC1 in 4 weeks
     + 24.2: RC 2 next week
       + late features (Michael S)
         + working on the new ODF encryption (done)
         + MSI custom action for MAR, waiting for Gerrit (Stephan)
     + RCs not announced at <https://www.libreoffice.org/download/pre-releases/>?
       (Stephan)
       + says "No RC is currently available for the 7.3/7.4 codeline"
         + will check if the new RC shows up there or not (Xisco)
       + build fails signing Argon2OptDll.dll with --enable-windows-build-signing (Xisco)

           + More info: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/161388

      + Thanks to Cloph for finding a solution.

      + aarch64 and x86 build are done. x64 is on going.

      + expecting the builds to arrive tonight


     + key generation for MAR, when TDF binaries are done (Xisco)

       + see my request? (Stephan)

       + yes (Xisco)


* Documentation (Olivier)
     + New Help -  No news
     + Helpcontent2
        + More fixes in UI - Help for Calc (ohallot)
           + many uno commands not on good target/missing
           + some Notebook bar menu commands not linked to Help page
        + Pages housekeeping (A. Gelmini,  Taichi Haradaguchi)
     + Guides
        + work in progress.
        + Open issues on guides
           + Web output (include grid for page style)
           + translate-ability

     + Bugzilla Documentation statistics
         274(274) bugs open
     + Updates:
         BZ changes   1 week   1 month   3 months   12 months
            created      3(1)    14(-1)     39(-3)    255(-4)
          commented     14(9)    60(9)     151(3)     967(5)
           resolved      3(2)     8(3)      15(0)     135(-1)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Stéphane Guillou made 15 changes in 1 month, and 329 changes in 1 year
           Nabet, Julien made 14 changes in 1 month, and 42 changes in 1 year
           Caolán McNamara made 4 changes in 1 month, and 4 changes in 1 year
           Seth Chaiklin made 4 changes in 1 month, and 319 changes in 1 year
           libretist made 4 changes in 1 month, and 4 changes in 1 year
           nobu made 4 changes in 1 month, and 6 changes in 1 year
           Eivind Samseth made 3 changes in 1 month, and 3 changes in 1 year
           *UNKNOWN* made 3 changes in 1 month, and 4 changes in 1 year
           Balland-Poirier, Laurent made 3 changes in 1 month, and 3 changes in 1 year
           steve made 3 changes in 1 month, and 10 changes in 1 year

* UX Update (Heiko)
     + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
         252(252) (topicUI) bugs open, 58(58) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
     + Updates:
         BZ changes   1 week    1 month    3 months   12 months
              added      5(-4)     24(3)      28(4)       40(4)
          commented     17(-13)   258(-46)   574(-10)   2237(0)
            removed      0(-1)      2(0)       4(0)       14(0)
           resolved      4(3)      25(-4)     73(1)      331(0)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Heiko Tietze made 124 changes in 1 month, and 1335 changes in 1 year
           Stéphane Guillou made 85 changes in 1 month, and 625 changes in 1 year
           Vernon, Stuart Foote made 39 changes in 1 month, and 309 changes in 1 year
           Eyal Rozenberg made 33 changes in 1 month, and 210 changes in 1 year
           Dieter made 29 changes in 1 month, and 226 changes in 1 year
           Ilmari Lauhakangas made 20 changes in 1 month, and 225 changes in 1 year
           Rafael Lima made 16 changes in 1 month, and 125 changes in 1 year
           Seth Chaiklin made 15 changes in 1 month, and 81 changes in 1 year
           m.a.riosv made 10 changes in 1 month, and 67 changes in 1 year
           Roman Kuznetsov made 9 changes in 1 month, and 106 changes in 1 year
     + [Bug 158992] "Spotlight" Should Only Number/Color Styles That Actually
            Appear in Document
     + [Bug 146466] Inconsistent choices of borders between toolbar and sidebar
     + [Bug 158791] Styles deck: actually hide hidden leaf styles in Hierarchical view
     + [Bug 158958] Comment marker makes it difficult to see the data in a cell
  -> + [Bug 127054] Whitespace is not Hidden if Column Breaks are Used
  -> + [Bug 158940] Nomenclature: "Area" commands not homogeneous in UI for
            Writer Sections
       + also have an other naming problem (Olivier)
         + what is "deck", what is a "panel", and what is a "pane"?
         + have some documentation on this (Heiko)
           + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Guidelines/Sidebar
     + [Bug 158624] text file format dialogue on save -- ODF file format?
     + [Bug 158689] Calc's double-click on column header boundary always uses the
            default +2 mm for optimal width, instead of what is defined in
            Format>Columns>Optimal Width
     + [Bug 135063] Calc column width auto fit not working when selection active
            outside column
     + [Bug 158682] Calc: Move rows with protected cells does not give warning
     + [Bug 158877] Non-corrective Autoformat settings can't just be placed
            under AutoCorrect
     + [Bug 158876] Autocorrect options are very confusing and difficult to use
     + [Bug 158869] [UI] Normalize command string for Table Styles
     + [Bug 158864] Many/most dark mode UI elements have too strong a contrast
     + [Bug 158545] UI: Original size button in image properties -> position and
            size tab doesn't restore original size for paper size exceeding images
            in Writer (and breaks image ratio)
     + [Bug 158838] UNO action to toggle applied styles like <emphasis> and <strong>
     + [Bug 158798] Nomenclature: "Arrange" commands not homogeneous in UI

     + heads-up for Caolan: some fallout from bug 150786 (standard theme) in
       bug 153343, bug 152973, bug 156707, bug 155636, bug 155637, bug 156962

* Crash Testing (Caolan)
     + 35(-20) import failure, 14(-4) export failures
     + ??? coverity issues
     + Google / ossfuzz: ?? fuzzers active now

* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
     + 7.5.8.2    3691(+276)
     + 7.5.9.2    1167(+368)
     + 7.6.2.1    35455(+1255)
     + 7.6.3.2    4378(+395)
     + 7.6.4.1    7075(+2044)

     + Most reported crash in 7.6.4

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

     - 789a737ac92c4f2b0eb9820b99c43cc8253c8b29 could fix it. Thanks to Armin.

     - Plan to backport it to 7.6 branch (Xisco)


* Mentoring (Hossein)
   + Focused on reviewing unmerged patches
    + Done around 10, 8 merged
   + Added a new EasyHack
     Make thumbnail generation multi-threaded
     https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158985
     i.e. not block the UI
     + would be also interesting topic for a blog post (Heiko)
       + it's a rather reqular need to run something in the background
       + threading is tricky, not sure if such tasks are difficultyMedium or difficultyInteresting
   + Added a new draft blog post
     Make Impress Master Slides copyable - difficulty interesting EasyHack
           committer...   1 week      1 month     3 months    12 months
                   open      54(-19)     135(-18)    138(-21)     138(-21)
                reviews     262(-118)   1222(-82)   3064(-14)   11650(20)
                 merged     232(2)      1078(-40)   3104(37)    12377(116)
              abandoned      15(-1)       91(10)     215(7)       647(3)
            own commits     169(25)      758(-36)   2468(10)     9752(86)
         review commits      49(0)       261(-5)     718(2)      2932(15)
         contributor...   1 week      1 month     3 months    12 months
                   open      24(-214)    310(-9)     311(-11)     312(-11)
                reviews     660(-104)   2914(-96)   7814(14)    30568(188)
                 merged      19(-11)     107(8)      408(4)      2316(12)
              abandoned       7(-8)       42(5)      116(1)       529(6)
            own commits      28(-4)      124(17)     257(14)     1039(19)
         review commits       0(0)         0(0)        0(0)         0(0)
     + easyHack statistics:
        needsDevEval 8(8)   needsUXEval 1(1)   cleanup_comments 320(320)
        total 408(408)   assigned 21(21)   open 357(357)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Stéphane Guillou made 13 patches in 1 month, and 56 patches in 1 year
           Armin Le Grand (allotropia) made 12 patches in 1 month, and 69 patches in 1 year
           Weblate made 9 patches in 1 month, and 13 patches in 1 year
           Bogdan B made 5 patches in 1 month, and 21 patches in 1 year
           Sahil Gautam made 5 patches in 1 month, and 6 patches in 1 year
           Luv Sharma made 5 patches in 1 month, and 5 patches in 1 year
           Dr. David Alan Gilbert made 5 patches in 1 month, and 23 patches in 1 year
           Matt K made 4 patches in 1 month, and 14 patches in 1 year
           Sophia Schroeder made 4 patches in 1 month, and 50 patches in 1 year
           Srebotnjak, Martin made 3 patches in 1 month, and 15 patches in 1 year
     + top 10 reviewers:
           Thorsten Behrens made 116 review comments in 1 month, and 594 in 1 year
           Caolán McNamara made 88 review comments in 1 month, and 896 in 1 year
           Kaganski, Mike made 82 review comments in 1 month, and 440 in 1 year
           Xisco Fauli made 76 review comments in 1 month, and 782 in 1 year
           Vajna, Miklos made 74 review comments in 1 month, and 964 in 1 year
           Ilmari Lauhakangas made 70 review comments in 1 month, and 418 in 1 year
           Grandin, Noel made 68 review comments in 1 month, and 576 in 1 year
           Weghorn, Michael made 64 review comments in 1 month, and 290 in 1 year
           Olivier Hallot made 62 review comments in 1 month, and 304 in 1 year
           Hossein made 54 review comments in 1 month, and 266 in 1 year
     + Patches automatically abandoned:
         auto-disable system-harfbuzz with --enable-dbgutil ( Lionel Mamane )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/156681
         tdf#138453 c-authored  shadimabdrawy1999 at gmail.com ( Aml )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/158412
         test gb_CppunitTest_set_non_application_font_use ( Xisco Fauli )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/158551
         vcl: add test for an invalid index in OutputDevice::GetTextBreak() ( Chris Sherlock )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/158575
         vcl: Implement blend modes in AnimationRenderer ( Paris Oplopoios )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/158627
         tdf#157797: Add unittest ( Willian Pessoa )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/158656
         CppunitTest_sw_layoutwriter2: split in two ( Xisco Fauli )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/158740
         Print dlg: cancel button shouldn't save any settings ( Katarina Behrens )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/43803
         Inherit SwGrfShell from SwFrameShell ( Maxim Monastirsky )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/62379
         Do not merge tdf#120840: window-modal fpicker ( Katarina Behrens )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/65004
         tdf#45904: move java based api tests to c++ ( Meryem Ezber )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/67932
     + big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
           Declan Fodor
           Jamie Douglass
           Luv Sharma

* Outreachy (Ilmari)
     + running according to plan, students are busy
     + https://khushishikhu.hashnode.dev/
     + https://omkaracharekar.hashnode.dev/

* Commit Access

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Miklos/László)
   + Thorsten offering to step down before next cert round
   + resting since: 11 weeks (limit: 20 weeks)

* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
    + tests that failed more than twice in last seven days
       3 CppunitTest_services        gerrit_linux_gcc_release
       4 CppunitTest_writerperfect_writer        gerrit_windows
       5 CppunitTest_sw_ooxmlexport17        gerrit_mac
       6 CppunitTest_sd_uiimpress        gerrit_linux_gcc_release
      17 CppunitTest_test_a11y        gerrit_windows
      19 aborted by jenkins job timeout        gerrit_windows
      + last week was a quiet week, so less failures (Xisco)

* What’s cooking (Miklos)
     + A11y update (Michael W)

* QA update (Xisco)
     + UNCONFIRMED: 1062 (-20)
         + enhancements: 256  (+0)
         + needsUXEval: 17 (+2)
         + haveBackTrace: 12 (+0)
         + needsDevAdvice: 36 (+1)
         + documentation:  4 (+0)
         + android:  0 (+0)
         + iOS:  0 (+0)
         + Online:  10 (+0)


     + Most pressing bugs:
      New:
          None


     + New high severity bugs of the week:
         + Inertial scrolling switches to zoom if you start pressing a new shortcut key (cmd)
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46429
           + not tagged as a regression

         + EDITING: Moving cells/columns/rows with drag and drop and modifier keys do not work as advertised (see comment #48)
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58440
             + not marked as a regression

* QA stats (Stéphane)
     + Dashboard updated: https://stragu.shinyapps.io/lo_qa_dashboard/
     + Jérôme Bouat's reports about simplifying / reducing the size of installers: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/buglist.cgi?email2=jerome.bouat%40laposte.net&emailreporter2=1&emailtype2=substring&f1=creation_ts&list_id=1685907&o1=greaterthan&query_format=advanced&resolution=---&resolution=FIXED&resolution=INVALID&resolution=WONTFIX&resolution=DUPLICATE&resolution=WORKSFORME&resolution=MOVED&resolution=NOTABUG&resolution=NOTOURBUG&resolution=INSUFFICIENTDATA&v1=2023-10-01
        + Comments welcome!
     + Weekly QA Focus resuming next week.
     + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
       +114  -25 (-103) overall)
       many thanks to the top bug squashers:
        QA Administrators       21
        Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 10
        Buovjaga                9
        eisa01                  9
        Mike Kaganski           7
        Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 6
        V Stuart Foote          4
        Xisco Faulí             4
        m.a.riosv               4
        raal                    3

     + top 10 bugs reporters:
        Xisco Faulí             6
        Mike Kaganski           4
        Regina Henschel         4
        Tracey                  4
        nobu                    4
        Telesto                 3
        Devon Cooke             2
        Robert Großkopf         2
        Dan Dascalescu          1
        Hossein                 1

     + top 10 bugs fixers:
        Kaganski, Mike          6
        Kelemen, Gabor          5
        Balazs Varga            2
                                1
        *UNKNOWN*               1
        Caolán McNamara         1
        Eivind Samseth          1
        Hossein                 1
        Jim Raykowski           1
        Justin Luth             1

     + top 10 bugs confirmers:
        Stéphane Guillou        31
        m.a.riosv               17
        Dieter                  11
        Raal                    8
        Ady                     6
        Xisco Fauli             6
        Nabet, Julien           4
        Kaganski, Mike          3
        Ilmari Lauhakangas      2
                                1


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

      done by:
         Raal                   8
         Xisco Fauli            7
         Stéphane Guillou       2
         Ilmari Lauhakangas     1
         Kelemen, Gabor         1
         Telesto                1


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

      done by:
         Raal                   9
         Xisco Fauli            7
         Ilmari Lauhakangas     1
         Kelemen, Gabor         1
         Stéphane Guillou       1
         Telesto                1


* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
    + 1245(+7) bugs open of 13083(+22) total 21(+1) high prio.

      done by:
         Stéphane Guillou         7
         Xisco Fauli              7
         Raal                     3
         Pruegsanusak, Korrawit   1
         Ilmari Lauhakangas       1
         Kelemen, Gabor           1
         Robert Großkopf          1


* ~Component   count net * high severity regressions
    + http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
      Writer        - 14(+1)
      Calc          - 2(+0)
      Impress       - 2(+0)
      LibreOffice   - 1(+0)
      UI            - 1(+0)

    by OS:
      All           - 15(+1)
      Linux         - 5(+0)
      Mac OS X      - 0(+0)
      Windows       - 1(+0)


* ~Component   count net * all regressions
    + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
      Writer: other            - 440(+8)
      Calc                     - 227(-1)
      Impress                  - 130(-2)
      Draw                     - 52(+2)
      LibreOffice              - 52(+1)
      Crashes                  - 48(+1)
      Writer: docx filter      - 43(+0)
      Base                     - 42(+1)
      UI                       - 39(-1)
      Borders                  - 35(+0)
      Writer: perf             - 35(+0)
      Writer: other filter     - 32(+0)
      Printing and PDF export  - 26(+0)
      RTL                      - 25(+0)
      Chart                    - 22(+0)
      filters and storage      - 21(+0)
      BASIC                    - 18(+0)
      Writer: doc filter       - 16(+0)
      graphics stack           - 12(+0)
      Formula Editor           - 7(+0)
      framework                - 5(+2)
      Extensions               - 2(+0)
      sdk                      - 2(+0)
      Linguistic               - 1(+0)


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