minutes of ESC call ...
Michael Meeks
michael.meeks at collabora.com
Thu Jul 10 12:50:47 PDT 2014
* Present:
+ Michael S, Christian, Cedric, Stephan, Ptyl, Miklos, Jacobo, Timar,
Eike, Caolan, Michael M, Bjoern, Muthu, Jan-Marek, Tibby, David,
Kohei
* Completed Action Items:
+ Developers: please submit fixes for -4-3-0 as well.
+ All mentors, please invite students in good standing to LibOCon!
[ 3 students said they would come already ]
+ scripting to generate / list last week's UI changes (Cloph)
[ to arrive on Saturday ]
+ revert partial fillattribute work on the -4-3 branch (Miklos)
[ one more review appreciated for 4-3-0 ]
+ poke potential Boston Hackfest hosters again (Michael)
[ perhaps Xamarin will host us ].
+ build a 4.2.5.3 with registry fix (Cloph)
[ done a build, will push it live when 4.2.6rc1 is pushed ]
+ invite Umesh Kadam to next ESC call (Michael)
* Pending Action Items:
+ ask UX advise wrt. wrench icons (revert or not ?) (Astron)
+ blog about the sad realities of web plugins (Bjoern)
+ submit GL3DChart disable for patch review (Markus)
+ try to add per-process resource limits for crashtest (Markus)
+ eg. bash's builtin ulimit [-SHacdflmnpstuv [limit]] etc.
+ setup some VM's that can be created on-demand (Cloph)
* GSOC Update (Cedric)
+ remind mentors to invite students to the conference,
TDF will pay for their travel (if they book in a timely way)
+ 4/10 is not a great score.
+ also remember to register for the conference:
http://conference.libreoffice.org/2014/registration/
* Release Engineering update (Christian)
+ 4.2.6 RC1 being up-loaded to staging
+ will announce shortly.
+ then will push to the mirrors for general public
+ 4.3.0 RC3 - final deadline on Monday for this
+ make sure your patches are pushed & reviewed in time.
https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/q/status:open+project:core+branch:libreoffice-4-3-0,n,z
+ Android / iOS remotes
+ patch in gerrit for gradle build-system.
+ will investigate that wrt. tools for new android developers
+ requirements (Michael)
1. reproducible - gradle allows explicit versions unlike
black magic / mavern. (Cloph)
2. compliant - need to be able to re-build the same thing
in future - identically
+ virtually no external deps (Cloph)
* 2 minute Umesh / Synezip introduction (Umesh)
+ working on interop. of DOCX, working for last 8-10 months.
+ chart / and other areas.
+ working on combinations of shapes import / export
+ also working on regression tests
+ running scripts on random files from bugzilla
+ see if there is any crash / corruption etc.
+ working on crash/corruption issues too
AI: + can you open-source those and speak on the conference (Umesh)
* Mail Merge (Eilidh,Bjoern,Jan-Marek)
+ Multiple people looking at this (Bjoern)
+ no wonder it is very slow; if you use the std. way of clicking through the UI
+ it creates one document, then it merges the 2nd one into that & re-layout
with each step.
+ huge cost for 10k documents - some N^2.
+ one reason - is to remember the page number to split the document
+ really quite insane.
+ naive approach - use bookmarks to split the documents ...
+ could save the re-layout.
+ Have some examples - 16k -> 20k documents (Jan Marek)
+ the copying of the docs gets slower & slower.
+ https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80823
+ layouting is 3-4% the rest is just copying.
+ in the copying of the underlying document.
+ Primary problem cf. mail (Jan Marek)
+ see http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2014-July/062227.html for the gory details
+ loading of a document is broken: with paragraph-bound anchors.
+ patches in private/jmux/mailmerge-fixes branch - can create copies.
+ before that, copying from A->B is broken.
+ lots of pending patches; want to finish them and write
some unit tests from test docs in mail-merge bugs.
+ https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80926
+ Bjoern's callgrind results are different (Bjoern)
+ with an artificial document, perhaps not representative, but
showed the problem ~all in layout.
+ Something has changed wrt. copying the SwNodes (Jan-Marek)
+ performance is hard to keep good (Michael)
+ be great to have a test we can add to our performance tests
+ working on a branch: private/jmux/mailmerge-fixes
+ should all work on same branch ? (Bjoern)
+ currently doing re-factoring elsewhere (Ellie)
+ breaking down the massive / monolithic mail merge fn.
+ mail-merge is now working correctly (Jan-Marek)
+ problem with anchors
+ looking for free-lancers to do some LibreOffice work with Munich (Jan-Marek)
+ primary bug fixing Writer
* Asan / Lsan documentation (Stephan)
+ Asan is awesome; helpful documentation is here:
+ <https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/-fsanitize>, for a start
+ code from google, to add instrumentation during compile time
that can do various things, like "Purify" eg. heap out of bounds,
accessing stack after return, an undefined detector, and a
leak-sanitiser [ an area of growing fucntionality ] - work in Clang
and gcc-4.9
+ tell the compiler - to add instrumentation code; and at run-time when
bad, it prints an error msg; and tries to keep on or exit.
+ TLDR; valgrind - but fast... (2->4x slower)
+ some minor open issues:
+ JUnit tests using the Java process - using native libraries built by
us: a process needs to be 100% instrumented or not.
+ locally tell Java to pick up native libs from another build.
+ need to get this fixed before getting a tinderbox building with asan.
+ tried to set up a tinderbox with asan (Cloph)
+ had to build with debugutil
+ doing something wrong (Stephan)
+ Kohei and Markus also using it.
+ depending what sanitisers you want to use, you'll run into different issues,
sanitize=address: the minimal one works; then tell by an env. var - to activate
additional check bits.
+ can enable leak checking; started out to get a clean
asan, undefined-san, and lsan build
+ still not through - keep finding issues.
+ fixed quite a number of leaks on 'make check'
+ still finding lots of undefined issues.
+ want to get the build clean first.
+ then turn it on - currently getting a clean build
https://code.google.com/p/address-sanitizer/wiki/LeakSanitizer#Flags
https://code.google.com/p/address-sanitizer/wiki/Flags
+ much like the coverity things; where we had a high noise
to usefulness ratio - but finds useful things.
* Tinderbox volunteer for using mst's new native win32 make
AI: + switch windows tinderbox to use it post 4.3 (Cloph)
* Performance & tinderboxes - enabling symbols / debugutil etc.
+ need a volunteer to turn on --enable-symbols but not debugutil
+ Bjoern volunteered for six months.
* Crashtest update (Markus)
AI: + can we try adding per-process resource limits (Markus)
* Certification Committee (Stephan/Bjoern/Kendy)
+ waiting until ~September
* SPAM problems on freedesktop lists (Eike)
+ unsure that spam is greater than previous times
+ seems to come in waves
+ its sometimes for a few days - more spam than others,
then decreases
+ either drop ability to post without subscribing - or get
more / new moderators.
+ moving to TDF infra has a problem of dropping attachments (Cloph)
AI: + Ask for 1-2 more dev-list moderators & re-visit next-week
+ especially useful on vacation
** Please consider volunteering as a dev list moderator ***
+ poke Eike / Thorsten.
* Hackfests (Bjoern)
+ Boston Hackfest:
+ July 26-27th
+ https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Events/2014/US_Summer_Hackfest
+ Tough to line-up mentoring devs
+ would appreciate developers via Google Hangout etc.
+ QA is happy to recruit programmers for our internal projects,
but would like to share w/the dev team.
+ poke potential hosters again (Michael)
+ (possible) Seattle
+ Oct 25-27
+ Straw poll: Who could make these dates?
+ prolly better to ping people individually (Michael)
+ may have a Munich hack-fest (Jan-Marek)
+ will have a BSP come-together; if someone says they're coming
just show up etc.
+ date not yet fixed; but may overlap with Toulouse (sadly)
+ it's the preference for other KDE hackers.
+ Toulouse Hackfest ...
+ Confirmed for Nov. 15-16th
+ more details: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Hackfest/Toulouse2014
+ Be great to have -really- easy easy hacks for devs (Bjoern)
* QA (Robinson)
+ Unconfirmed count ?
+ Staying stable at ~950
+ Bibisected regressions still increasing slowly ...
+ help wrt. fixing appreciated.
+ around 100x bibisected bugs vs. all-time 50x
+ people are really doing bibisects - which is great, need to dig ...
+ Regression count - spiking (Michael)
+ pulling people onto 4.2.x just as we freeze / do 4.3.0 is a pain.
+ also 14.04 just arriving from 12.04 - so more bugs than normal (Bjoern)
+ which has 4.2.4 in it.
+ Cloph - happy with the quality based on low ML noise
+ translators have it installed & use it.
* LiMux is getting 5x students in mid. September -> Feb/March (Jan-Marek)
+ who would love help mentoring? - like GSoC for Limux
+ students here for 6x months
AI: + contact me / the list when they show (Michael)
* UX Update (?)
+ [ no Astron / Mirek ]
+ team positions in the design team, took discussion to
<http://www.mail-archive.com/board-discuss@documentfoundation.org/msg03268.html>
* Most serious bug (Caolan)
+ disable the new colors of formatting marks for Mac if this causes it (Quikee)
* QA stats:
+ https://bugs.freedesktop.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
+198 -119 (+79 overall)
many thanks to the top bug squashers:
Jorendc 15
ign_christian 9
Jay Philips 8
Cor Nouws 7
Kevin Suo 6
Michael Stahl 5
Samuel M. 5
Julien Nabet 5
Maxim Monastirsky 4
Miklos Vajna 4
tommy27 4
David Tardon 3
Urmas 3
* Open 4.4 MAB
+ 1/2 1/1
+ https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=79641&hide_resolved=1
* Open 4.3 MAB
+ 19/43 10/32 6/27 5/24 5/22 3/20 5/16 4/12 2/8 3/7 2/5 1/2 1/2 0/1 0/1
44% 31% 22% 20% 22% 15%
+ https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=75025&hide_resolved=1
* Open 4.2 MAB
+ 81/222 76/215 74/212 74/210 71/207 71/205 73/200 64/190 62/184 49/165
36% 35% 34% 35% 34% 34% 36% 33% 33% 29%
+ https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=65675&hide_resolved=1
* Bibisected bugs open: whiteboard 'bibsected'
+ 84/283 84/280 81/274 79/265 75/259 70/249 59/231 48/215 45/208 46/207
+ http://bit.ly/VQfF3Q
* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
+ 404(+23) bugs open of 2818(+39) total
~Component count net *
Writer - 121 (+9)
Spreadsheet - 67 (+3)
Crashes - 30 (+5)
Libreoffice - 26 (+2)
Presentation - 25 (+1)
UI - 24 (+2)
Graphics - 23 (+1)
Database - 20 (+2)
Borders - 17 (+0)
Drawing - 15 (+1)
Filters - 11 (-1)
Print / PDF - 10 (+0)
Chart - 7 (+1)
Formula - 6 (+1)
Extensions - 5 (+0)
Installation - 3 (+0)
Linguistic - 3 (+0)
framework - 3 (+0)
BASIC - 2 (+0)
Migration - 1 (+0)
sdk - 0 (+0)
Impress Remote - 0 (+0)
+ http://bit.ly/15mM2Yn - for devs ( no NEEDINFO / UNCONFIRMED )
+ https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=3Dregression%2C%20&=keywords_type=3Dallwords&resolution=3D---&query_format=3Dadvanced&product==3DLibreOffice&list_id=3D36764
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