ESC meeting minutes: 2024-10-17

Miklos Vajna vmiklos at collabora.com
Thu Oct 17 14:45:26 UTC 2024


* Present:
   + Hossein, Michael W, Caolan, Thorsten, Gabriel, Heiko, Ilmari, Jonathan, Michael S, Regina, Stephan, Xisco, Cloph, Miklos, D

* Completed Action Items:

* Pending Action Items:
   + create a https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan/25.2 wiki page (Cloph)
     + alpha 1: week 47
     + code freeze: around week 1

* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
   + 24.8.3 rc1 in 1 week
   + 24.2.7 rc2 in 1 week

* Documentation (Olivier)
     + Missing Olivier
     + Bugzilla Documentation statistics
         227(227) bugs open
     + Updates:
         BZ changes   1 week   1 month   3 months   12 months
            created     2(-3)    22(-7)    113(-3)     259(0)
          commented     3(-12)   89(-27)   359(-10)   1005(-13)
           resolved     1(-1)     7(-3)     67(-2)     172(1)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Olivier Hallot made 30 changes in 1 month, and 339 changes in 1 year
           Pierre F made 14 changes in 1 month, and 218 changes in 1 year
           Nabet, Julien made 14 changes in 1 month, and 56 changes in 1 year
           Bogdan B made 13 changes in 1 month, and 22 changes in 1 year
           Dione Maddern made 11 changes in 1 month, and 98 changes in 1 year
           Ilmari Lauhakangas made 9 changes in 1 month, and 118 changes in 1 year
           Heiko Tietze made 8 changes in 1 month, and 91 changes in 1 year
           m.a.riosv made 4 changes in 1 month, and 36 changes in 1 year
           nobu made 4 changes in 1 month, and 23 changes in 1 year
           nutka made 3 changes in 1 month, and 6 changes in 1 year

* UX Update (Heiko)
     + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
         233(233) (topicUI) bugs open, 30(30) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
     + Updates:
         BZ changes   1 week   1 month   3 months   12 months
              added      6(2)     14(4)     17(6)       25(6)
          commented     26(-2)   128(-2)   325(-8)    1678(15)
            removed      0(-1)     1(-1)     2(0)       11(0)
           resolved      0(-2)    16(-2)    61(-3)     263(0)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Vernon, Stuart Foote made 67 changes in 1 month, and 394 changes in 1 year
           Heiko Tietze made 57 changes in 1 month, and 894 changes in 1 year
           Eyal Rozenberg made 37 changes in 1 month, and 166 changes in 1 year
           Ilmari Lauhakangas made 31 changes in 1 month, and 165 changes in 1 year
           Kelemen, Gabor made 15 changes in 1 month, and 29 changes in 1 year
           Henschel, Regina made 9 changes in 1 month, and 57 changes in 1 year
           m.a.riosv made 8 changes in 1 month, and 50 changes in 1 year
           Seth Chaiklin made 8 changes in 1 month, and 28 changes in 1 year
           Ady made 7 changes in 1 month, and 106 changes in 1 year
           Dieter made 6 changes in 1 month, and 125 changes in 1 year
     + [Bug 163478] Dropdowns of value ranges (such as font sizes) are as likely to
            expect a smaller value as a larger value and so the current value should
            appear in the middle of the dropdown list (unless it's the min or max value)
  -> + [Bug 163458] Support distinguishing data series / categories by hatching and/or
            patterns rather than colors
       + duplicate of bug 62925 / WF
       + introduce Chart Styles as requested in bug 62925 as a GSoC project
       + looking for mentors
     + [Bug 163447] One-step text highlight using keyboard shortcut, new UNO
     + [Bug 163449] Want toggle for clockwise/counter-clockwise slice progression
     + [Bug 163426] notes pane: slides switching hotkeys
     + [Bug 163427] Can't set a hyperlink on a text box / drawing object
     + [Bug 163396] popup info about the node »…Office.Common … Misc…Crash Report«
            in the Expertconfig
     + [Bug 163389] There should be an easier way to set up page numbering
     + [Bug 156328] Tabbar sheet movement controls (First, Next, Previous, Last) enhance
            to also move cursor focus between sheets
     + [Bug 163136] WRITER -- in "manage templates" window (also named as Templates) the
            template filename should be shown, too
     + [Bug 163305] Can't select discontiguous cell ranges with Ctrl/Shift+mouse
            indication
     + [Bug 163304] Want a "clone dimensions" command & button
     + [Bug 163259] Add Numbering Type selection buttons on the top of the Customize tab
            of the Bullets-Numbering-Dialog
     + [Bug 163260] „Alignment“ dropdown should be converted to 3 buttons like in
            Impress, Position tab of Bullets-Numbering-Dialog
     + [Bug 163261] Add a note about paragraph DF settings and a „Clear Formatting“
            button to the new Bullets and Numbering dialog
     + [Bug 163262] Extend the Spotlight feature to highlight list styles, custom
            list styles
     + [Bug 163235] Text in textbox not vertically-centered when line spacing is
            not single
     + [Bug 163187] Enable clipboard Paste Special dialog (Ctrl+Shift+V) for input to
            the Find box (QFS)
     + [Bug 163171] Row height increased when you add text, not decreased when
            you remove it

  -> + Bug 161492 Vertical Tab dialogs--Options column in Area section is
       not wide enough in paragraph style dialog
       + Bug 161351 vertical tab dialogs--F11 List styles examples are not readable
       + Bug 162552 Format Cells dialog should show Numbers tab when opening the
           first time
       + both "solved" by reverting the VT
       + step by step: we are going back; the current inconsistency is not ideal (Heiko)
       + if nobody wants to work on it, then go back to the old consistent state (Michael W)
         + except the hyperlink dialog
         + agree (Xisco)
           + actual change is a single line in the .ui files
       + if the mission is: "be consistent or not at all", hard to do that in half a year, but not disagreeing here (Thorsten)

* Crash Testing (Caolan)
     + 79(+0) import failure, 77(+0) export failures
        - https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Crashtesting
        - 2 new from me, fixed
     + 149 coverity issues, downward trend continues
     + 2 ossfuzz issues
         - timeouts

* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
     + 24.2.6.2    1645(+538)
     + 24.8.0.3    17805(+1877)
     + 24.8.1.2    12741(+3490)
     + 24.8.2.1    3997(+3007)


     - https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/signature/static%20void%20sw::%60anonymous%20namespace'::TextFormattingCheck::check(class%20SwNode%20*)

     + Most reported crash in 24.8.2.1. Maybe fixed by c5f4fe10589acff4d253cc3d32acaf67c7456bd7 from Caolán




* Mentoring (Hossein)
  + Finalised and published a new blog post
    WSL for building LibreOffice
    https://dev.blog.documentfoundation.org/2024/10/17/wsl-for-building-libreoffice/
  + Multiple calls with mentees for some wsl build issues
   + Improved the instructions in the Wiki
     https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/BuildingOnWSLWindows
     + git-bash 2.47 seems to be problematic, downgrading to 2.46 helps at least
       + The issue is that sometimes build process gets stuck
           committer...   1 week     1 month      3 months     12 months
                   open      61(-32)    118(-33)     167(-23)      167(-23)
                reviews     348(-64)   1276(-234)   3466(-104)   13262(-30)
                 merged     305(-9)    1354(-2)     3686(-48)    13771(96)
              abandoned       6(-7)      58(2)       189(-15)      779(3)
            own commits     172(-92)    993(-11)    2675(-66)    10015(23)
         review commits      33(-39)    227(-30)     689(-13)     3168(-12)
         contributor...   1 week      1 month      3 months     12 months
                   open     172(34)      248(55)      267(56)       267(56)
                reviews     612(-296)   3052(-198)   8150(-294)   30738(-94)
                 merged       9(-17)      93(-10)     284(-2)      1438(-18)
              abandoned       1(-2)       11(-5)       66(-6)       561(-5)
            own commits      14(-12)      76(-9)      280(-2)      1290(-5)
         review commits       0(0)         0(0)         0(0)          0(0)
     + easyHack statistics:
        needsDevEval 8(8)   needsUXEval 1(1)   cleanup_comments 331(331)
        total 418(418)   assigned 25(25)   open 356(356)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Mohit Marathe made 12 patches in 1 month, and 15 patches in 1 year
           Armin Le Grand (allotropia) made 7 patches in 1 month, and 82 patches in 1 year
           Dione Maddern made 5 patches in 1 month, and 85 patches in 1 year
           Kira Tubo made 4 patches in 1 month, and 29 patches in 1 year
           Pierre F made 4 patches in 1 month, and 88 patches in 1 year
           Rashesh Padia made 3 patches in 1 month, and 3 patches in 1 year
           Omkar Acharekar  made 3 patches in 1 month, and 9 patches in 1 year
           Sahil Gautam made 3 patches in 1 month, and 10 patches in 1 year
           Ritobroto Mukherjee made 3 patches in 1 month, and 31 patches in 1 year
           Ashok made 3 patches in 1 month, and 5 patches in 1 year
     + top 10 reviewers:
           Thorsten Behrens made 132 review comments in 1 month, and 688 in 1 year
           Caolán McNamara made 114 review comments in 1 month, and 1408 in 1 year
           Vajna, Miklos made 94 review comments in 1 month, and 1148 in 1 year
           Michael Stahl made 94 review comments in 1 month, and 876 in 1 year
           Xisco Fauli made 80 review comments in 1 month, and 764 in 1 year
           Nabet, Julien made 74 review comments in 1 month, and 892 in 1 year
           Gabor Kelemen made 58 review comments in 1 month, and 194 in 1 year
           Vajngerl, Tomaž made 56 review comments in 1 month, and 350 in 1 year
           Ilmari Lauhakangas made 54 review comments in 1 month, and 640 in 1 year
           Kaganski, Mike made 50 review comments in 1 month, and 520 in 1 year
     + big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
           Usman Akinyemi

   + LO Conf workshop feedback? (Miklos)
     + 8-12 attendees, people picked what they are interested (Michael W)
     + feedback was: they learned something new
     + was quite good & positive
     + it was more about giving an overview & then start working
     + thanks to everyone who presented there (Hossein)
     + ideal would be 3 days to have more time & progress with tasks
       + this year it was only 1.5 days
       + depends on the goal, though

* Commit Access

     + David Gilbert (Xisco)

       + seeing good work on the poppler PDF import front (Miklos)

       + in favor (Thorsten, Caolan

AI: Xisco to send the welcome mail

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

* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
gerrit_android_aarch64     jobs: 128 ok: 126 ko:   2 fail ratio: 1.56% mean_ok:  11 ( 28) median_ok:   6 ( 12)
gerrit_android_arm         jobs: 128 ok: 118 ko:   5 fail ratio: 3.91% mean_ok:  11 ( 28) median_ok:   6 ( 13)
gerrit_android_x86         jobs: 128 ok: 126 ko:   2 fail ratio: 1.56% mean_ok:  11 ( 28) median_ok:   6 ( 15)
gerrit_android_x86_64      jobs: 128 ok: 120 ko:   4 fail ratio: 3.12% mean_ok:  10 ( 28) median_ok:   6 ( 15)
gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil jobs: 268 ok: 209 ko:  49 fail ratio: 18.28% mean_ok:  51 ( 67) median_ok:  50 ( 54)
gerrit_linux_gcc_release   jobs: 302 ok: 249 ko:  24 fail ratio: 7.95% mean_ok:  25 ( 39) median_ok:  20 ( 23)
gerrit_mac                 jobs: 259 ok: 227 ko:  21 fail ratio: 8.11% mean_ok:  49 ( 49) median_ok:  42 ( 42)
gerrit_windows             jobs: 287 ok: 187 ko:  77 fail ratio: 26.83% mean_ok:  57 ( 71) median_ok:  57 ( 61)
gerrit_master_ml           jobs: 346 ok: 171 ko: 128 fail ratio: 36.99% mean_ok: 116 (117) median_ok:  88 ( 89)
gerrit_master              jobs:  60 ok:  29 ko:  25 fail ratio: 41.67% mean_ok:  73 ( 73) median_ok:  65 ( 65)
gerrit_master_seq          jobs: 284 ok: 142 ko: 101 fail ratio: 35.56% mean_ok: 125 (125) median_ok:  94 ( 94)
    + tests that failed more than twice in last seven days
       3 CppunitTest_sw_ooxmlexport5                gerrit_mac
       3 JunitTest_svx_unoapi                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       3 UITest_impress_tests2                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      50 aborted by jenkins job timeout                gerrit_windows
   + last week was bad for Windows (Cloph)
   + timeout failure rate was also high
   + hope the new baseline / WSL will help
     + together with a daily reboot

* What’s cooking (Miklos)
   + A11y update (Michael W)
      + tdf#160982 ("LibreOffice doesn't work with Microsoft Narrator")
         + MSAA/IAccessible to UIA proxy should generally makes this work when win a11y
           bridge is active
   + RTL/CTL/CJK update (Jonathan)
     + tdf#161145 CJK chars have extra spacing since LO 7
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161145
       + DOC/DOCX interop regression hotspot
       + Extended MS_WORD_COMP_GRID_METRICS flag to use compatible advance algorithm
       + it's submitted already
   + Playing with a new baseline with Windows: 2012R2 to Windows 11 & VS 2022 (Cloph)
     + and then perhaps a VS update to something even more recent
     + the setup looks good already, to be used for 25.2
     + currently just blocked on admin
     + no plan to actively drop cygwin building, though

* PVS-Studio license (Xisco)

     - https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163486

     - Agreement to have a free annual license if they are mentioned in the README.md file?

    - found useful issues, but lots of false positives
    - sounds good to me (Thorsten)
    - we already mention Coverity in the README (Ilmari, Miklos)
    - possibly it has multiple categories and some are more important/useful than the others (Hossein)
    - just having results is not too useful (Stephan)
    - for false positives: how does dismissing issues work? (Cloph)
      - didn't look at this yet (Xisco)
      - Manual for "Suppression of individual false positives (Mark as False Alarm)"
        https://pvs-studio.com/en/docs/manual/0017/
    - good to start small, then extend the categories (Caolan)

* QA update (Xisco)
     + UNCONFIRMED: 1312 (+46)
         + enhancements: 333  (+18)
         + needsUXEval: 12 (+7)
         + haveBackTrace: 10 (+1)
         + needsDevAdvice: 47 (+0)
         + documentation:  3 (+0)
         + android:  0 (+0)
         + iOS:  0 (+0)
         + Online:  9 (+0)



     + Most pressing bugs:
      New:

     None


     + New high severity bugs of the week:
         + Correttore ortografico italiano non funziona
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163231
             + already marked as fixed, thanks to Julien

         + Conditional format: Incorrect dialog open when editing IconSet
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163269
             + Pranam?

* QA stats (Xisco)
     + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
       +112  -5 (-80) overall)
       many thanks to the top bug squashers:
        QA Administrators       16
        Mike Kaganski           9
        Buovjaga                8
        Xisco Faulí             8
        Justin L                5
        V Stuart Foote          3
        Hossein                 2
        Miklos Vajna            2
        Theppitak Karoonboonyanan 2
        m_a_riosv               2

     + top 10 bugs reporters:
        Eyal Rozenberg          14
        Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 9
        Michael Otto            7
        Mike Kaganski           4
        Jeff Fortin Tam         3
        Jens Schwartz           2
        Xisco Faulí             2
        libue                   2
        Dan Dascalescu          1
        Fred Olness             1

     + top 10 bugs fixers:
        Kaganski, Mike          4
        Justin Luth             3
        Xisco Fauli             3
        Theppitak Karoonboonyanan 2
        Vajna, Miklos           2
        Andreas Heinisch        1
        Benoit Ruggi            1
        Caolán McNamara         1
        Eyal Rozenberg          1
        Hossein                 1

     + top 10 bugs confirmers:
        m.a.riosv               12
        Ilmari Lauhakangas      10
        Nabet, Julien           6
        Kaganski, Mike          4
        Vernon, Stuart Foote    3
        *UNKNOWN*               2
        Henschel, Regina        2
        Németh, László          2
        Raal                    2
        Xisco Fauli             2


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

      done by:
         Xisco Fauli            3
         Raal                   1


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

      done by:
         Xisco Fauli            3
         Kaganski, Mike         1
         Raal                   1


* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
    + 1218(-8) bugs open of 13674(+8) total 21(-1) high prio.

      done by:
         Xisco Fauli            2
         steve                  1
         m.a.riosv              1
         Kaganski, Mike         1
         Raal                   1
         Henschel, Regina       1


* ~Component   count net * high severity regressions
    + http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
      Writer        - 10(+0)
      Calc          - 6(-1)
      Impress       - 2(+0)
      LibreOffice   - 2(+0)
      UI            - 1(+0)

    by OS:
      All           - 13(-1)
      Linux         - 5(+0)
      Mac OS X      - 0(+0)
      Windows       - 3(+0)


* ~Component   count net * all regressions
    + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
      Writer: other            - 401(-3)
      Calc                     - 246(-3)
      Impress                  - 122(-2)
      LibreOffice              - 53(+0)
      Draw                     - 49(+0)
      Writer: docx filter      - 44(+1)
      Crashes                  - 40(-1)
      Base                     - 38(+0)
      UI                       - 35(+0)
      Borders                  - 33(+0)
      Writer: perf             - 33(+0)
      Writer: other filter     - 31(+0)
      Printing and PDF export  - 26(+0)
      Chart                    - 24(+0)
      RTL                      - 23(+0)
      BASIC                    - 22(+1)
      filters and storage      - 19(-1)
      Writer: doc filter       - 17(+0)
      graphics stack           - 12(-1)
      Formula Editor           - 11(+0)
      framework                - 3(+0)
      sdk                      - 3(+0)
      Extensions               - 2(+0)
      Linguistic               - 2(+1)


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