ESC meeting minutes: 2024-05-23

Miklos Vajna vmiklos at collabora.com
Fri May 24 06:22:18 UTC 2024


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

* Completed Action Items:

* Pending Action Items:
     + MAR update: include OS info in the user agent or file a bug to do it (Cloph)

* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
     + 24.2: 24.2.4 RC1 was tagged this week, 24.2.4 RC2 next week
     + 24.8:
         + feature freeze (beta1) in 2 weeks
         + string / UI freeze 3 weeks after that

* Documentation (Olivier)
     + Missing Olivier
     + Bugzilla Documentation statistics
         255(255) bugs open
     + Updates:
         BZ changes   1 week   1 month   3 months   12 months
            created     16(4)    44(-2)    112(5)     221(1)
          commented     37(25)   91(21)    276(31)    868(31)
           resolved      7(1)    27(-1)     62(5)     124(1)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Olivier Hallot made 46 changes in 1 month, and 243 changes in 1 year
           Dione Maddern made 28 changes in 1 month, and 59 changes in 1 year
           Stéphane Guillou made 24 changes in 1 month, and 247 changes in 1 year
           Vernon, Stuart Foote made 23 changes in 1 month, and 107 changes in 1 year
           Dieter made 13 changes in 1 month, and 18 changes in 1 year
           Heiko Tietze made 10 changes in 1 month, and 77 changes in 1 year
           Ilmari Lauhakangas made 10 changes in 1 month, and 69 changes in 1 year
           Óvári made 10 changes in 1 month, and 13 changes in 1 year
           Kaganski, Mike made 7 changes in 1 month, and 74 changes in 1 year
           Cor Nouws made 6 changes in 1 month, and 9 changes in 1 year

* UX Update (Heiko)
     + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
         240(240) (topicUI) bugs open, 37(37) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
     + Updates:
         BZ changes   1 week    1 month    3 months   12 months
              added      3(-4)     10(-3)     14(-4)      22(-3)
          commented     29(-31)   159(-47)   512(-48)   1710(-47)
            removed      0(0)       3(-1)      5(0)       11(0)
           resolved      5(-3)     28(-4)     79(-1)     290(-7)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Heiko Tietze made 94 changes in 1 month, and 956 changes in 1 year
           Vernon, Stuart Foote made 65 changes in 1 month, and 312 changes in 1 year
           Eyal Rozenberg made 58 changes in 1 month, and 171 changes in 1 year
           Stéphane Guillou made 48 changes in 1 month, and 624 changes in 1 year
           Dieter made 16 changes in 1 month, and 124 changes in 1 year
           Weghorn, Michael made 8 changes in 1 month, and 23 changes in 1 year
           Olivier Hallot made 8 changes in 1 month, and 22 changes in 1 year
           Jakub Kościelak made 6 changes in 1 month, and 6 changes in 1 year
           Henschel, Regina made 6 changes in 1 month, and 33 changes in 1 year
           Roman Kuznetsov made 5 changes in 1 month, and 41 changes in 1 year
     + [Bug 161234] Issues with the new cell outline in Calc 24.8
     + [Bug 161223] basic HTML cell render
     + [Bug 161218] Inconsistent and confusing Text Flow | Break options in
            Table Properties
     + [Bug 161204] UI - dashed outline for active cell border
     + [Bug 161205] Font selection dialog doesn't persist choice of RTL-CTL +
            auto-chooses CJK
     + [Bug 161203] When applying a style by double-clicking it in sidebar style list,
            keep list scroll position
     + [Bug 160896] Allow referencing Column & Row with Base 1 instead of 0 in Basic
     + [Bug 161149] Cancel all ability to apply direct formatting, and only allow
            formatting via styles
     + [Bug 160881] Forms: Checkboxes and Radiobuttons couldn't set readonly, only
            could set disabled
     + [Bug 160874] Calc fails to suggest correction for formula cell without equal sign

* Vertical tabpages state (Samuel)
   + review the state in 1 week
   + no news (Heiko)

* Crash Testing (Caolan)
     + 23(-2) import failure, 18(-1) export failures
       - https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Crashtesting

           - https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161232

           - https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160862

     + 0 coverity issues
     + Google / ossfuzz: ?? fuzzers active now

* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
     + 7.6.6.3    6050(+937)
     + 7.6.7.2    457(+354)
     + 24.2.0.3    18611(+663)
     + 24.2.1.2    15171(+694)
     + 24.2.2.2    11690(+1291)
     + 24.2.3.2    2976(+1539)

     + new in 24.2:
         https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/signature/SfxItemPool::unregisterSfxPoolItem(SfxPoolItem%20const%20&)

* Mentoring (Hossein)
  + Reviewed submissions from newcomers
  + New EasyHack around QueryWizard
    tdf#161144 - Query wizard confuses columns with the same name in different tables
    https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161144
  => Will create a project on VolunteerMatch for porting it to Python (hopefully after GSoC)
           committer...   1 week     1 month     3 months    12 months
                   open      56(-33)    146(-14)    147(-13)     147(-13)
                reviews     362(44)    1322(72)    3538(-56)   12486(28)
                 merged     254(-56)   1304(60)    3385(-38)   12718(4)
              abandoned      10(-5)      53(-8)     175(1)       659(-2)
            own commits     177(-50)    946(33)    2400(20)     9273(-1)
         review commits      72(34)     233(15)     820(-19)    3005(11)
         contributor...   1 week      1 month    3 months     12 months
                   open      36(-19)      95(-8)     96(-7)        96(-7)
                reviews     730(-164)   3132(82)   7826(-104)   29550(-24)
                 merged      25(10)       90(4)     366(-11)     1589(6)
              abandoned       7(7)        28(-5)    280(1)        704(5)
            own commits      35(21)      107(10)    413(-16)     1137(23)
         review commits       0(0)         0(0)       0(0)          0(0)
     + easyHack statistics:
        needsDevEval 9(9)   needsUXEval 1(1)   cleanup_comments 326(326)
        total 410(410)   assigned 27(27)   open 348(348)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Dione Maddern made 11 patches in 1 month, and 45 patches in 1 year
           Jakub Kościelak made 7 patches in 1 month, and 7 patches in 1 year
           Stéphane Guillou made 5 patches in 1 month, and 60 patches in 1 year
           Weblate made 4 patches in 1 month, and 25 patches in 1 year
             made 4 patches in 1 month, and 7 patches in 1 year
           LeSasse made 4 patches in 1 month, and 23 patches in 1 year
           Hubert Figuière made 3 patches in 1 month, and 8 patches in 1 year
           Printf Debugging made 3 patches in 1 month, and 4 patches in 1 year
           Marco Pinto made 2 patches in 1 month, and 6 patches in 1 year
           Bayram Çiçek made 2 patches in 1 month, and 3 patches in 1 year
     + top 10 reviewers:
           Caolán McNamara made 138 review comments in 1 month, and 1506 in 1 year
           Ilmari Lauhakangas made 110 review comments in 1 month, and 564 in 1 year
           Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 106 review comments in 1 month, and 532 in 1 year
           Grandin, Noel made 84 review comments in 1 month, and 718 in 1 year
           Michael Stahl made 82 review comments in 1 month, and 908 in 1 year
           Vajna, Miklos made 68 review comments in 1 month, and 1088 in 1 year
           Hossein made 66 review comments in 1 month, and 322 in 1 year
           Thorsten Behrens made 64 review comments in 1 month, and 596 in 1 year
           Christian Lohmaier made 54 review comments in 1 month, and 360 in 1 year
           Kaganski, Mike made 52 review comments in 1 month, and 470 in 1 year

* GSoC (Ilmari)
     + next deadline: end of bonding period: 27th of May
     + Ritobroto / .NET project (Hossein)
       + plan to introduce this incrementally, deprecate the old one at the end
       + should happen gradually

* Commit Access

* LibreOffice Technology hackfest at Budapest (Miklos)
   + 4th & 5th June (Tue-Wed), in 1,5 weeks
   + details: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Hackfest/Budapest2024
   + on blog: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2024/05/16/coming-up-libreoffice-technology-budapest-2024-hackfest/

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Miklos/László/Gabriel)
   + resting since: 5 weeks (limit: 20 weeks)

* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
gerrit_android_aarch64     jobs: 149 ok: 138 ko:   7 fail ratio: 4.70% mean_ok:  10 ( 12) median_ok:   8 ( 10)
gerrit_android_arm         jobs: 151 ok: 138 ko:  10 fail ratio: 6.62% mean_ok:  11 ( 12) median_ok:   8 ( 10)
gerrit_android_x86         jobs: 150 ok: 136 ko:   9 fail ratio: 6.00% mean_ok:  10 ( 11) median_ok:   7 (  9)
gerrit_android_x86_64      jobs: 150 ok: 138 ko:   9 fail ratio: 6.00% mean_ok:  11 ( 12) median_ok:   8 (  8)
gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil jobs: 325 ok: 225 ko:  86 fail ratio: 26.46% mean_ok:  39 ( 40) median_ok:  35 ( 36)
gerrit_linux_gcc_release   jobs: 346 ok: 291 ko:  40 fail ratio: 11.56% mean_ok:  19 ( 20) median_ok:  15 ( 15)
gerrit_mac                 jobs: 325 ok: 269 ko:  43 fail ratio: 13.23% mean_ok:  58 ( 58) median_ok:  53 ( 53)
gerrit_windows             jobs: 324 ok: 211 ko:  93 fail ratio: 28.70% mean_ok:  99 (106) median_ok:  89 ( 92)
gerrit_master_ml           jobs: 386 ok: 175 ko: 179 fail ratio: 46.37% mean_ok: 112 (112) median_ok: 103 (103)
gerrit_master              jobs:  70 ok:  23 ko:  39 fail ratio: 55.71% mean_ok: 120 (120) median_ok: 110 (110)
gerrit_master_seq          jobs: 316 ok: 152 ko: 140 fail ratio: 44.30% mean_ok: 111 (111) median_ok: 102 (102)
    + tests that failed more than twice in last seven days:
       3 CppunitTest_sc_stylefamiliesobj                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       3 CppunitTest_sw_a11y                gerrit_windows
       4 Killed by the kill-wrapper                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       4 CppunitTest_sw_ooxmlexport2                gerrit_mac
       4 CppunitTest_sw_ooxmlexport6                gerrit_linux_gcc_release
       5 CppunitTest_sw_core_text                gerrit_linux_gcc_release
      10 aborted by jenkins job timeout                gerrit_windows
      38 CppunitTest_vcl_gtk3_a11y                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
     + this week: have a new problem with CppunitTest_vcl_gtk3_a11y (Cloph)
       + failure is not new, but the frequency increased recently
       + assume: timing issue

* What’s cooking (Miklos)
     + A11y update (Michael W)
         + Patrick looking into a11y-related high memory use in Calc on macOS
           (tdf#158914)
         + working on editable combobox a11y (tdf#160971)
         + upstream Accerciser, GTK 4, Qt improvements
         + planning to look into vertical tabpages a11y
     + RTL/CTL/CJK update (Jonathan)
         + tdf#61444: Text layout broken across formatting changes
         + tdf#124116: Text shaping broken across formatting changes
         + tdf#71956: Style changes inside grapheme clusters
             - All text rendering changes committed
         + tdf#56408: Writer always breaks lines at text direction change
             - Beginning investigation
         + Xisco to run the mso-interop tool to see what it finds, takes ~4 days
     + tdf#160984 Section-based continuous endnotes in Writer (Miklos)
     + SAL_RET_MAYBENULL (Caolán)
       + it exists!
       + add it to a function returning a pointer, then MSVC enforces the client checks for nullptrs
       + in the stock Jenkins config already

* QA update (Xisco)
     + UNCONFIRMED: 1161 (-47)
         + enhancements: 277  (-1)
         + needsUXEval: 12 (+0)
         + haveBackTrace: 10 (-1)
         + needsDevAdvice: 46 (-1)
         + documentation:  3 (-1)
         + android:  0 (+0)
         + iOS:  0 (+0)
         + Online:  9 (+0)

     + Most pressing bugs:
      New:

     None


     + New high severity bugs of the week:
         + Image disappears when inserting 2 images at the same location
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107529
             + bisected to Tamas Z
             + Since 4.4

         + FILESAVE DOCX: inline (anchored as char) frames moved to end of paragraph on export
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124821
             + bisected to Miklos; ever since writing drawingML in LO 4.3
             + Justin has a fix for it

         + Paragraph classification deleted after Print Preview or when opening file
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160877
             + bisected to Ashod
             + Since 6.3 (2018)

         + Document Properties pages in all modules do not fit screen and cannot be resized (gtk3/gtk4)
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160937

                 + looks to me like its the "Description" page that is the problem (Caolan)

          + needs a scrollbar or whatever in that page, or less things in it

             + not tagged as a regression

         + FILEOPEN DOCX SaxException when opening specific file
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161139
             + bisected to Tomaz
             + Since 24.2

* QA stats (Stéphane)
     + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
       +126  -29 (-152) overall)
       many thanks to the top bug squashers:
        Buovjaga                37
        Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 34
        QA Administrators       11
        Heiko Tietze            7
        Caolán McNamara         6
        Michael Weghorn         5
        V Stuart Foote          5
        Adolfo Jayme Barrientos 4
        m_a_riosv               4
        Dione Maddern           3

     + top 10 bugs reporters:
        Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 8
        Hossein                 3
        Mike Kaganski           3
        Eyal Rozenberg          2
        Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 2
        Tuomas Hietala          2
        Heiko Tietze            1
        J22Gim                  1
        Michael Meeks           1
        Orwel                   1

     + top 10 bugs fixers:
        Caolán McNamara         5
        Adolfo Jayme Barrientos 4
        Dione Maddern           3
        Rathke, Eike            3
        Heiko Tietze            2
        Justin Luth             2
        Kaganski, Mike          2
        Kurt Nordback           2
        Michael Stahl           2
        Németh, László          2

     + top 10 bugs confirmers:
        Stéphane Guillou        58
        m.a.riosv               7
        Heiko Tietze            6
        Dione Maddern           3
        Weghorn, Michael        3
        Aron Budea              2
        Ilmari Lauhakangas      2
        Kaganski, Mike          2
        Nabet, Julien           2
        Raal                    2


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

      done by:
         Stéphane Guillou       8
         Raal                   3
         Aron Budea             1
         Ilmari Lauhakangas     1
         Kelemen, Gabor         1
         Xisco Fauli            1


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

      done by:
         Stéphane Guillou       8
         Raal                   3
         Aron Budea             1
         Ilmari Lauhakangas     1
         Kelemen, Gabor         1
         Xisco Fauli            1


* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
    + 1250(+5) bugs open of 13382(+22) total 23(-1) high prio.

      done by:
         Stéphane Guillou      10
         m.a.riosv              4
         Aron Budea             1
         Kelemen, Gabor         1
         Raal                   1
         Rafael Lima            1
         Nabet, Julien          1
         Xisco Fauli            1


* ~Component   count net * high severity regressions
    + http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
      Writer        - 13(-1)
      Calc          - 3(+0)
      Impress       - 2(+0)
      LibreOffice   - 2(+0)
      UI            - 2(+0)

    by OS:
      All           - 16(-1)
      Linux         - 5(+0)
      Mac OS X      - 0(+0)
      Windows       - 2(+0)


* ~Component   count net * all regressions
    + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
      Writer: other            - 432(+3)
      Calc                     - 232(+2)
      Impress                  - 127(-1)
      LibreOffice              - 53(+1)
      Draw                     - 52(+0)
      UI                       - 44(+2)
      Writer: docx filter      - 44(-1)
      Base                     - 41(-1)
      Crashes                  - 41(+1)
      Borders                  - 35(+1)
      Writer: perf             - 34(+0)
      Writer: other filter     - 31(+0)
      Printing and PDF export  - 26(+0)
      Chart                    - 24(+0)
      RTL                      - 23(+0)
      BASIC                    - 21(+0)
      filters and storage      - 21(+0)
      Writer: doc filter       - 16(+0)
      graphics stack           - 13(+1)
      Formula Editor           - 7(+0)
      framework                - 3(+0)
      Extensions               - 2(+0)
      sdk                      - 2(+0)
      Linguistic               - 1(+0)


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