minutes of ESC face-to-face ...
Michael Meeks
michael.meeks at collabora.com
Tue Sep 24 17:30:13 PDT 2013
* Completed Action Items:
+ switch to pure sidebar mode in master - but not enabled by
default, except in Impress (Caolan)
+ get kendy ssh access to production gerrit (Norbert)
+ Caolan's small gerrit patches merged
* Pending Action Items:
+ push new default templates in & fix if necessary (Ahmad)
* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
+ 4.1.2 RC2 status
+ release scheduled during the conference.
+ perhaps an announce - pending marketing
+ 4.0.6 RC1 - week after the conference Sept 30th.
* GSOC update
+ assessments ASAP ...
* QA update (Robinson)
+ Joel fixing everything in Robinson's absence.
+ https://bugs.freedesktop.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
+160 -151 (+9 overall)
many thanks to the top six bug squashers:
Joel Madero 16
Maxim 14
tommy27 8
Jean-Baptiste Faure 7
Caolán McNamara 6
ign_christian 6
+ recruiting QA triage guys going well (Robinson)
+ should we have a top confirmers stat ? (Michael)
+ bit tough to work out the top triagers
+ can build some perl to dump that here if someone can come up
with a query (Michael M)
* ESC meeting:
+ should we move it earlier ? (Caolan)
+ no: US-ites (Kohei, Norbert)
* ABI issues (Stephan)
+ what was the status (Norbert)
+ agreed with 4.1 - just evolve stuff as it comes up
+ try not to do it in micro (as per date-time)
+ try to get larger changes in earlier in the cycle.
+ specific API query around 16 vs 32 bit API / string offsets (Norbert)
+ cost vs. benefit - should we do it at all (Stephan)
+ un-used public API by mistake: cleanup without much fuss
+ wider stuff DayTime / people experience breakage => need
to discuss that first (Stephan)
* QA (Robinson)
+ Florian R, Bjoern - round-table later, future of QA
+ Joel & Joren - both back at school
+ recruiting & retaining people is a priority.
* tinderbox status
+ missing 'make check' tinderbox
+ can TDF provide something here ?
+ Windows was complicated - needing hardware (Norbert)
AI: + get Cloph a VM / instructions to install on TDF hardware (Markus)
+ requires a new gcc / clang version etc. gcc 4.8 etc.
+ Mac tinderboxes
+ are there any building vs. the mac baseline ? (Stephan)
+ Cloph found the trick to do this, now building with the
right SDK (Norbert)
+ Windows tinderboxes, need to switch to MSVC 2012 - SP1
to target XP
AI: + mail everyone wrt. instructions on how to un-break
MSVC 2012 wrt. XP (Markus)
* release builds (Norbert)
+ propose continue doing 10.6 for 32bit, and 10.8 for 64bit
+ more and more SDK pieces are harder and harder to get to
work on old releases
AI: + switch to 10.8 baseline for 64bit (Norbert)
+ ultimately, gerrit will do both with DavidO's help
* bibisect repository pieces
+ Windows bibisect - install into a repo
+ putting MSIs in the repo is not quick (Robinson)
+ can we just use instdir for Windows (Stephan)
+ just up-load / git checkin the instdir.
+ builds should be done from clean (Michael S)
+ resource needs for bibisect repo compression:
+ 32Gb of RAM, 8 cores - 5-6 hours doing a
git gc --agressive
+ 1.5Mb / release - 1000 builds etc.
+ gandalf free mostly, could use that (Markus)
+ if we can work on the compression weekly - we
can save time (Norbert)
+ ... long discussion on the workings of git ...
+ what's the most optimal window (Robinson)
+ best to re-compress up-loaded builds (Norbert)
+ we wind up with dailyish builds, perhaps 1-3 per day.
AI: + setup infrastructure to build repos (Cloph / Bjoern / Norbert)
* mail firehose discussion (Bjoern)
+ stats for mailing lists - number of mails going down
+ normalised for shut-down gerrit firehose
+ used to send mails as-if-from committer
+ and sent a mail for every commit.
+ should we re-enable the fire-hose (no)
+ should we CC the mailing list on the Easy Hacks ?
+ digest is annoying (Lionel)
+ get full comment.
AI: + CC all developers' mailing list on all the easy hacks (Bjoern)
+ gerrit digest does anyone read them ? (Stephan)
+ ~no-one really reads them
+ people should subscribe to continue to get
+ proposed easy_hack tag ? (Cor)
+ in favour of removing it - puts people off (Markus)
+ seen lots of de-motivating things
+ proposed easy hacks makes sense (Lionel)
+ should change the name so easy-hack does
not show up, to avoid searching (Markus)
AI: + change wiki page to eliminate proposed easy hacks (Bjoern)
AI: + propose different name for proposed easy hacks (Markus)
* testing / metrics
+ automatic document load / crash regression suite (Markus)
+ Fedora 19
+ produce a VM for document load/crash testing
+ is it reliable ? (Michael)
+ few cases in headless mode / race-conditions
+ 3-4 cases per run out of 30k documents
+ takes two days to get to run.
AI: + produce a VM for this (Cloph / Markus)
+ with bibisect we could script finding the commit (Bjoern)
+ Need to extend it to export test
+ running it once per month with the coverity run (Markus)
+ can we partition the document test loads and run
them on tinderboxen (Norbert)
AI: + do
+ callgrind / performance regression testing box
+ on Cloph's plan
AI: + produce a VM with callgrind metrics (Matus)
+ coverity automation / exports
+ what if fix is still there marked 'resolved' after
several months is it still a bug ?
+ yes (Markus)
AI: + attempt export from Coverity categories of
non-security critical bugs (Caolan)
+ eg. memory leaks / exception pieces.
* documentation website (Lionel)
+ docs website should have API docs for each minor release
+ API doc generation automation
+ currently run from time to time, make odk & up-load the files
+ index.html is not generated
AI: + transition and automate this inside a VM for Cloph (Lionel)
+ website proliferation: api.libreoffice.org, opengrok, etc.
+ good idea to hack the footer to link the other pages
+ eg. gerrit - link IRC channel in the footer.
+ doc sites are scattered ...
+ api.libreoffice.org - is a user/extension resource (Lionel)
+ good to do some analytics research (Thorsten)
* Questions *
* do developers have a good overview of bugs filed vs. their module ? (Cor)
+ Thorsten's take: subscribed to the fire-hoses, and German + English
user mailing list, filter keywords & dump the rest.
+ last time: do we want to CC developers on issues (Stephan)
+ in general, important to raise awareness of interesting
issues
+ subscribed to the bugs mailing list, and browse by title.
+ hard to filter on topic
+ hands-full with bugs CC'd on (Lionel)
+ not looking for others generally.
+ concern is that developers may overlook things (Cor)
+ bug review based primarily on topic and is seasonal (Kohei)
+ this month dealing with calc core issues eg.
+ gets all launchpad + local bugs (Bjoern)
+ not looking at one component or topic, only at most heated bugs
+ wondering about launchpad integration (Miklos)
+ do bugs auto-close ?
+ no - but launchpad has two bug states tracked.
+ should we do more categorisation (Robinson)
+ better to be able to have a dashboard (Caolan)
+ daily bug details / breakdown etc., tinderbox
build status etc.
+ be great to have a straightforward, reproducible
crash category
+ Cor spends lots of time improving summaries: really
useful work, "comment #30 is the real bug"
+ good bug summaries are really useful to have (Bjoern)
+ only one fix per bug - 30 comment bugs are a disaster (Caolan)
+ everyone thinks it is their bug.
+ open a new bug - and reference this one.
* QA stats:
* Open 4.2 MAB
+ 2/8 1/6 1/6 2/6 5/6 5/6 6/6 7/7 2/2 2/2 1/1
+ https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65675
* Open 4.1 MAB
+ 15/96 14/93 12/91 14/91 17/89 15/85 15/81 13/77 8/68 11/64 3/55 7/52
16% 15% 13% 15% 19% 18% 19% 17% 12% 17% 5% 14%
+ https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=60270&hide_resolved=1
* Open 4.0 MAB
+ 56/195 54/193 55/194 52/183 50/180 52/180 44/171 32/157 14/138 13/137
29% 28% 29% 28% 28% 29% 26% 20% 10% 9%
+ https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=54157&hide_resolved=1
* Bibisected bugs open: whiteboard 'bibsected'
+ 34/14234/141 34/140 35/140 36/167 37/137 41/137 33/128 33/125 34/124
+ http://bit.ly/VQfF3Q
* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
+ 374(+7) bugs open of 2034(+27) total
* ~Component count net *
Writer - 104 (+1)
Spreadsheet - 54 (+3)
Libreoffice - 46 (+2)
Presentation - 31 (+3)
Crashes - 27 (-3)
Database - 22 (+2)
Drawing - 18 (+0)
Borders - 17 (+0)
Migration - 3 (+0)
BASIC - 2 (+0)
+ http://bit.ly/15mM2Yn - for devs ( no NEEDINFO / UNCONFIRMED )
+ https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=regression%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&resolution=---&query_format=advanced&product=LibreOffice&list_id=36764
+ Migration: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=43489&hide_resolved=1
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