ESC meeting minutes: 2024-09-12
Miklos Vajna
vmiklos at collabora.com
Thu Sep 12 14:45:47 UTC 2024
* Present:
+ Olivier, Caolan, Heiko, Ilmari, Jonathan, Michael W, Regina, Stephan, Cloph, Hossein, Xisco, Thorsten, Michael S, Miklos
* Completed Action Items:
* Pending Action Items:
* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
+ 24.8.2 rc1 in 1 week
+ no rc2 is planned here, due to the upcoming crash fix, see below in the crashporting section (Xisco)
+ 24.2.7 rc1 in 4 weeks
* Documentation (Olivier)
+ Helpcontents2
+ special compliments to Sahil for adding a feature + its Help page, very rare.
+ update and fixes (Pierre F, Dione Maddern, Ohallot)
+ Disambiguate bookmarks (ohallot)
+ 1 dialog - 2 diffferent functions (Ttest dialog and Ftest dialog)
+ Can we replace HID_* by dialog widgets url ?
+ DBACCESS_HID*
+ the dialog case seems to be easy to fix
+ also easier to maintain
+ easy hack for this? (Miklos)
+ AI: Hossein to follow-up on this
+ Guides
+ Work in progress
+ Bugzilla Documentation statistics
225(225) bugs open
+ Updates:
BZ changes 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
created 14(3) 63(-6) 117(2) 262(2)
commented 35(1) 189(4) 350(20) 980(17)
resolved 5(-1) 33(-2) 74(3) 174(5)
+ top 10 contributors:
Pierre F made 112 changes in 1 month, and 211 changes in 1 year
Olivier Hallot made 56 changes in 1 month, and 332 changes in 1 year
Ilmari Lauhakangas made 44 changes in 1 month, and 133 changes in 1 year
Vernon, Stuart Foote made 34 changes in 1 month, and 156 changes in 1 year
Dione Maddern made 33 changes in 1 month, and 94 changes in 1 year
Heiko Tietze made 13 changes in 1 month, and 83 changes in 1 year
Ady made 11 changes in 1 month, and 13 changes in 1 year
Alain Romedenne made 10 changes in 1 month, and 26 changes in 1 year
Dieter made 10 changes in 1 month, and 26 changes in 1 year
*UNKNOWN* made 5 changes in 1 month, and 5 changes in 1 year
* UX Update (Heiko)
+ Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
231(231) (topicUI) bugs open, 29(29) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
+ Updates:
BZ changes 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
added 8(3) 14(6) 14(6) 23(6)
commented 63(13) 155(43) 411(42) 1710(27)
removed 1(1) 1(1) 3(1) 11(1)
resolved 7(3) 21(4) 68(2) 268(-3)
+ top 10 contributors:
Heiko Tietze made 76 changes in 1 month, and 923 changes in 1 year
Ilmari Lauhakangas made 54 changes in 1 month, and 180 changes in 1 year
Vernon, Stuart Foote made 34 changes in 1 month, and 344 changes in 1 year
steve made 18 changes in 1 month, and 25 changes in 1 year
Henschel, Regina made 15 changes in 1 month, and 50 changes in 1 year
Ademas made 12 changes in 1 month, and 12 changes in 1 year
Cor Nouws made 11 changes in 1 month, and 36 changes in 1 year
Bogdan B made 8 changes in 1 month, and 38 changes in 1 year
Kaganski, Mike made 7 changes in 1 month, and 66 changes in 1 year
Ady made 6 changes in 1 month, and 105 changes in 1 year
+ [Bug 162904] Add font filename and version to character format dialog
-> + [Bug 162919] Suggest adding feature to Calc to improve ease of updating
data plotted in charts
+ Excel seem to have a better UI here
+ OTOH Calc has working drag&drop
+ [Bug 162354] Request Formatting cells in calc ( transfering / coppying formats )
from one to another
+ [Bug 162870] Character spacing doesn't function with used-defined format code
OR formulas
+ [Bug 162878] Reworked localized Impress templates look ugly in RU
+ [Bug 162160] Poor data label rendering strategy with high number of slices
in pie chart
+ [Bug 162110] LibreOffice Calc scrolling speed problem when dragging image
+ [Bug 153991] Sidebar panel character deck/tab doesn't allow switching
language groups
+ [Bug 153992] Sidebar character deck/tab doesn't indicate the current
language/language group
* Crash Testing (Caolan)
+ 15(+0) import failure, 13(+0) export failures
- https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Crashtesting
+ 424 coverity issues
+ 2 ossfuzz issues
- 1 hang, 1 crash
- upsteam autoclosing bug fix now
* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
+ 24.2.4.2 16085(+740)
+ 24.2.5.2 18776(+2638)
+ 24.2.6.2 82(+0)
+ 24.8.0.3 7942(+3720)
- https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/signature/SwTextINetFormat::GetCharFormat()
- https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162911
- Patch in gerrit: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/173267
- ~30% reports in 24.8.0.3. 2480 out of 8150 reports
- 24.8/master-only problem
- ship this to users faster than usual? (Xisco)
- could do just 1 RC for 24.8.2, then release in 2 weeks (Cloph)
- does the bug have many duplicates or many crashreports?
- it's the crashreports (Xisco)
* Mentoring (Hossein)
+ Window WSL / mingw issues
+ git-bash should be used instead of mingw git (Hossein)
+ wsl-as-helper is meant to work with git-bash from the Visual Studio installer (Cloph)
+ otherwise the build will fail in e.g. liblangtag
+ follow the wiki, it's documented like this (Hossein)
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/BuildingOnWSLWindows
committer... 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
open 64(-7) 137(-14) 152(-12) 152(-12)
reviews 570(144) 1442(156) 3942(136) 13072(112)
merged 298(-47) 1272(75) 3755(65) 13219(46)
abandoned 6(0) 46(-23) 212(-22) 748(-13)
own commits 176(-54) 905(10) 2537(24) 9612(-5)
review commits 59(2) 246(9) 765(6) 3116(16)
contributor... 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
open 36(-2) 95(3) 104(-1) 104(-1)
reviews 768(-86) 3044(104) 8390(78) 29928(90)
merged 26(5) 117(4) 323(16) 1467(5)
abandoned 5(0) 16(-1) 76(-5) 588(4)
own commits 19(-9) 98(-4) 338(2) 1272(11)
review commits 0(0) 0(0) 0(0) 0(0)
+ easyHack statistics:
needsDevEval 8(8) needsUXEval 1(1) cleanup_comments 327(327)
total 412(412) assigned 26(26) open 351(351)
+ top 10 contributors:
Pierre F made 26 patches in 1 month, and 84 patches in 1 year
Adam Seskunas made 10 patches in 1 month, and 28 patches in 1 year
Dione Maddern made 7 patches in 1 month, and 80 patches in 1 year
Bogdan B made 5 patches in 1 month, and 93 patches in 1 year
made 5 patches in 1 month, and 29 patches in 1 year
Kira Tubo made 5 patches in 1 month, and 25 patches in 1 year
Hubert Figuière made 5 patches in 1 month, and 14 patches in 1 year
Ahmed Hamed made 3 patches in 1 month, and 12 patches in 1 year
Tzschichholz, Rico made 2 patches in 1 month, and 3 patches in 1 year
Weblate made 2 patches in 1 month, and 38 patches in 1 year
+ top 10 reviewers:
Michael Stahl made 152 review comments in 1 month, and 898 in 1 year
Caolán McNamara made 132 review comments in 1 month, and 1436 in 1 year
Ilmari Lauhakangas made 110 review comments in 1 month, and 638 in 1 year
Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 104 review comments in 1 month, and 814 in 1 year
Christian Lohmaier made 104 review comments in 1 month, and 520 in 1 year
Thorsten Behrens made 102 review comments in 1 month, and 640 in 1 year
Kaganski, Mike made 84 review comments in 1 month, and 502 in 1 year
Xisco Fauli made 80 review comments in 1 month, and 774 in 1 year
Heiko Tietze made 66 review comments in 1 month, and 294 in 1 year
Vajngerl, Tomaž made 50 review comments in 1 month, and 324 in 1 year
+ Patches automatically abandoned:
tdf#148192 Create new option External Firebird under create new database ( Juan C. Sanz )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/143902
WIP: tdf#51779 - Support for SQL datatype INTERVAL ( Devansh Varshney )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/165012
+ big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
Eloi Montañés
* GSoC (Ilmari)
+ 4 projects with extensions, to be finished till the end of Sept
* LiboCon (Cloph)
+ Development workshop (planned for 11th and 12th of October; Hossein)
https://conference.libreoffice.org/2024/workshop-introduction-to-libreoffice-development
https://conference.libreoffice.org/2024/register-to-workshop
+ program is slightly modified
+ website will be updated
+ then a blogpost will go out
+ all attendees, whether speaker or not, please also register:
conference: https://conference.libreoffice.org/2024/register
+ when to expect feedback on talks? accepted or not (Thorsten)
+ not sure (Cloph)
+ AI: Hossein to sync with Italo, and figure out the ETA
* Commit Access
* Developer Certification (Stephan/Miklos/László/Gabriel)
+ resting since: 16 weeks (limit: 20 weeks)
* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
gerrit_android_aarch64 jobs: 161 ok: 155 ko: 2 fail ratio: 1.24% mean_ok: 13 ( 24) median_ok: 9 ( 17)
gerrit_android_arm jobs: 161 ok: 155 ko: 3 fail ratio: 1.86% mean_ok: 12 ( 23) median_ok: 9 ( 13)
gerrit_android_x86 jobs: 161 ok: 157 ko: 1 fail ratio: 0.62% mean_ok: 13 ( 23) median_ok: 8 ( 17)
gerrit_android_x86_64 jobs: 161 ok: 157 ko: 2 fail ratio: 1.24% mean_ok: 12 ( 23) median_ok: 8 ( 17)
gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil jobs: 327 ok: 258 ko: 57 fail ratio: 17.43% mean_ok: 59 ( 70) median_ok: 55 ( 62)
gerrit_linux_gcc_release jobs: 370 ok: 313 ko: 34 fail ratio: 9.19% mean_ok: 27 ( 36) median_ok: 20 ( 25)
gerrit_mac jobs: 325 ok: 292 ko: 17 fail ratio: 5.23% mean_ok: 63 ( 77) median_ok: 56 ( 65)
gerrit_windows jobs: 353 ok: 253 ko: 80 fail ratio: 22.66% mean_ok: 70 (111) median_ok: 65 ( 79)
gerrit_master_ml jobs: 412 ok: 215 ko: 152 fail ratio: 36.89% mean_ok: 145 (145) median_ok: 119 (119)
gerrit_master jobs: 59 ok: 24 ko: 28 fail ratio: 47.46% mean_ok: 106 (106) median_ok: 90 ( 90)
gerrit_master_seq jobs: 350 ok: 192 ko: 121 fail ratio: 34.57% mean_ok: 148 (149) median_ok: 121 (121)
+ tests that failed more than twice in last seven days
3 CppunitTest_sd_tiledrendering gerrit_linux_gcc_release
3 CppunitTest_sw_layoutwriter3 gerrit_windows
3 CppunitTest_sw_mailmerge gerrit_windows
3 JunitTest_svx_unoapi gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
4 Killed by the kill-wrapper gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
33 aborted by jenkins job timeout gerrit_windows
+ this week: wasn't too bad (Cloph)
+ still a high number of builds aborting on Windows
+ perhaps it may be a test that triggers an interactive dialog, still investigating
* What’s cooking (Miklos)
+ A11y update (Michael W)
+ implement announcement of keyboard-triggered formatting changes in NVDA
( https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issues/6915 )
+ misc smaller fixes + wina11y code cleanup, upstream Accerciser improvements
+ RTL/CTL/CJK update (Jonathan)
+ tdf#162803 Invalid kashida array after text box layout
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162803
+ Fixed
+ tdf#107184 "Group" feature for the Asian Phonetic Guide
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107184
+ General APG implementation improvements
+ Feature implemented
+ tdf#156543: "Mono" feature for the Asian Phonetic Guide
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156543
+ In progress
+ CairoSDPR from Armin
+ ~done, behind experimental mode on master
+ Playing with a new baseline with Windows (Cloph)
+ one cppunit test failing, due to too low resolution
+ have a good setup, winget + shell scripts
+ .vsconfig file to automate visual studio component installation
+ parallel builds perform badly, investigating
* Remove hard-coded key combination shift+ctrl+f6 (Heiko)
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2024-September/092436.html
+ badly documented and maintaned function; likely not intended,
no generic shortcut
+ occupies precious shortcut, which could be used for uno:ToggleControlFocus
+ drawback: no keyboard-only access to split window position
+ propose to remove it, and leave the shortcut unassigned
+ ask on the a11y list before removal (Michael W)
* QA update (Xisco)
+ UNCONFIRMED: 1248 (+13)
+ enhancements: 298 (+8)
+ needsUXEval: 7 (+3)
+ haveBackTrace: 9 (+0)
+ needsDevAdvice: 47 (+1)
+ documentation: 7 (-2)
+ android: 0 (+0)
+ iOS: 0 (+0)
+ Online: 9 (+0)
+ Most pressing bugs:
New:
+ Inserting multiple Hyperlinks and undoing an insertion (Ctrl-Z) crashes Writer
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162911
+ See Crash Reporting section
+ fix is already pending CI, thanks to Michael S
+ New high severity bugs of the week:
+ Win11 dark theme support--Active selections have light blue background which makes white icons and text almost invisible
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152534
+ Opening "Export directly as PDF" dialog deletes text hidden via character formatting
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162298
+ Henry?
* QA stats (Xisco)
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
+134 -11 (-118) overall)
many thanks to the top bug squashers:
Buovjaga 12
Mike Kaganski 11
QA Administrators 11
Xisco Faulí 8
m_a_riosv 7
Heiko Tietze 6
V Stuart Foote 6
Cor Nouws 4
Julien Nabet 4
Robert Großkopf 3
+ top 10 bugs reporters:
yoylasfpgas 7
nobu 4
Mike Kaganski 3
Rafael Lima 3
Telesto 3
Buovjaga 2
Caleb Meredith 2
Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 2
Jonathan Clark 2
Olivier Hallot 2
+ top 10 bugs fixers:
Xisco Fauli 5
Nabet, Julien 4
Heiko Tietze 3
David Gilbert 2
Jonathan Clark 2
Justin Luth 2
Kaganski, Mike 2
Kira Tubo 2
Timur Gadzo 2
*UNKNOWN* 1
+ top 10 bugs confirmers:
Ilmari Lauhakangas 29
m.a.riosv 10
Heiko Tietze 7
Xisco Fauli 5
Robert Großkopf 4
Vernon, Stuart Foote 4
Kaganski, Mike 3
Raal 3
Rafael Lima 3
Ady 2
* Bisected bugs open: keyword 'bisected'
+ more accurate - down to a single commit.
+ http://bit.ly/2dyIfDy
+
done by:
Xisco Fauli 6
Ilmari Lauhakangas 4
Raal 3
Steve271 1
Kaganski, Mike 1
Timur Gadzo 1
* Bibisected bugs open: keyword 'bibisected'
+ http://bit.ly/2cSCXlS
+
done by:
Ilmari Lauhakangas 6
Xisco Fauli 6
Raal 3
Steve271 1
Timur Gadzo 1
* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
+ 1221(+8) bugs open of 13608(+23) total 24(+1) high prio.
done by:
Ilmari Lauhakangas 6
Xisco Fauli 5
m.a.riosv 3
David Gilbert 1
Wolfgang Jäger 1
Kaganski, Mike 1
Raal 1
Henschel, Regina 1
Nabet, Julien 1
Telesto 1
* ~Component count net * high severity regressions
+ http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
Writer - 11(+1)
Calc - 6(+0)
Impress - 2(+0)
LibreOffice - 2(+0)
UI - 2(+0)
by OS:
All - 15(+1)
Linux - 6(+0)
Mac OS X - 0(+0)
Windows - 3(+0)
* ~Component count net * all regressions
+ http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
Writer: other - 394(+6)
Calc - 246(+3)
Impress - 121(-4)
LibreOffice - 53(-1)
Draw - 51(-1)
Writer: docx filter - 45(+0)
Crashes - 44(+3)
Base - 41(+1)
UI - 36(+0)
Borders - 34(+0)
Writer: other filter - 33(+2)
Writer: perf - 33(+0)
Printing and PDF export - 29(+2)
Chart - 24(+0)
RTL - 24(+1)
BASIC - 21(+1)
filters and storage - 21(+1)
Writer: doc filter - 17(+0)
graphics stack - 12(+0)
Formula Editor - 11(+0)
framework - 3(+0)
sdk - 3(+1)
Extensions - 2(+0)
Linguistic - 1(+0)
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