Minutes of ESC call: 2015-08-06

Jan Holesovsky kendy at collabora.com
Thu Aug 6 15:03:33 PDT 2015


* Present:
    + Norbert, Kendy, Christian, Eike, Sophie, Stephan, Miklos, Robinson, Bjoern,
      Michael S, Jan-Marek, Muthu
 
* Completed Action Items:
    + poke people on the IRC for the last 5.0 patches (Cloph)
    + last fixes to the 5.0 graphics (Cloph)
 
* Pending Action Items:
    + have a look at the CppUnit to implement 'expected failure' (Jan-Marek)
        [ investigated the current CPPUNIT version and Qt test suite,
          will be able to hack on that the next week @DebCamp ]
    + 'make -k stagingcheck' prototype (Bjoern)
    + have a look at revert notification (author + committer + the person who reverted) (Norbert)
    + review Giuseppe's webdav work in gerrit (Kendy/?)
        + https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/17189/
        [ have a VM for testing against, code looks good in general, need to verify & push (Kendy) ]
    + come up with a fun new name for 'blocker' (Robinson)
        [ still accepting new ideas ]
    + register at the conference: http://conference.libreoffice.org/2015/registration/ (all)
        [ mandatory from security reasons (Sophie) ]
    + re-arrange the help XML for the menu changes (Jay)
        [ Jay was away for vacation, promised to have a look at
          HelpAuthoring.oxt over the weekend (Kendy) ]
    + track & support help XML status (Kendy)
        [ no news this week (Kendy) ]
    + UserAgent - drop bundled-languages (Michael)
    + UserAgent - produce a patch for review (Michael)
    + check 'make check' on a Windows 32bit box instead (Norbert)
        [ Cloph installed that, will have that available for Norbert ]
    + promote Development Mentoring Lead Job Offer through all channels: Universities, Companies, Clubs, ex-GSoCers etc. (all)
      https://blog.documentfoundation.org/2015/07/15/tdf-freelance-job-opening-201507-01-development-mentoring-lead/
        [ please spread the word (Bjoern) ]
        [ print some leaflets too & distribute (Bjoern) ]
 
* Release Engineering update (Christian)
    + 4.4.6 - status
        + RC1 - week 40 (week starting 28th September)
        + last of the 4.4 line
    + 5.0.0 - status / branch
        + heavy-duty triple-review process for libreoffice-5-0-0 branch
            + 1x review for 5-0 and +2 more for 5-0-0
        + released on Wednesday
        + online update not updated yet, to be done tomorrow
        + Major bugs
            + anything else (Robinson)
        + Late Feature Status (Michael)
              + LibreOfficeKit / Online tweaks (Kendy)
                  + no changes -> mostly changes going into master anyway.
              + OpenGL / double-buffer RenderContext (Kendy)
                  + OpenGL by default not achievable for 5.0.0
                      + propose re-visit @ ESC for 5.0.1 for some H/W on Windows.
              + gtk3+ (Caolan)
                  + won't affect anything TDF ships for 5.0
                  + ongoing, but nothing for 5.0.0
        + 5.0 splash / startcenter graphics / about dialog (Kendy?)
        + congrats everyone on releasing 5.0.0 :-) (Bjoern)
    + 5.0.1 - RC1 this week
        + why 3 weeks instead of the usual 4 weeks? (Miklos)
            + 5.0.0 got shifted, but 5.0.1 stayed (Cloph)
        + Late Feature Status (Michael)
              + LibreOfficeKit / Online tweaks (Kendy)
                  + probably no more changes to be backported there
              + OpenGL / double-buffer RenderContext (Kendy)
                  + still some render-context-related bugfixing going on (Miklos)
                  + OpenGL by default to be re-visit @ ESC for 5.0.1 for some H/W on Windows.
              + gtk3+ (Caolan)
    + Android & iOS Remote
 
* UX Update (Kendy)
    + still vacation time
    + Heiko & Jay discussed inserting online media
 
* Documentation (Olivier)
    + Regina proposed some changes wrt. online help on the documentation@ ML
 
* Crashtest update (Caolán)
    + unchanged since the last week
        + single .docx import crash, single .odt export crash
    + idea for additional check: export to .txt, and after re-export, export to .txt too, and compare? (Kendy)
        + to check for data loss
        + probably better to go after validation errors first (Miklos)
 
* GSoC (Cedric)
    + Next important dates:
        + Aug. 21: pencil down & start of evaluations
             + !!! 2 weeks from now !!!
        + Aug. 28: final evaluations deadline
    + conference travel - poking the students now (Cedric)
        + 3 students will definitely go, have registered
        + let's hope there will be more :-)
 
* Hackfests (Bjoern)
    + Aarhus LibreOffice conference bits ?
        + Hackfest topic: "C++11 in LibreOffice"
        + look into easy, easy C++11 EasyHacks for that
            + like Stephans "init list ctors for UNO-Sequences", or
              using type-alias etc.
            + !!!please file easy hacks if you have ideas!!! (Bjoern)
    + Hamburg, Germany: Oct 23rd -> 25th
        + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Hackfest/Hamburg2015
        + would be great to see everyone there.
    + next venues / suggestions
        + Belgium another candidate ...
 
* l10n Update (Sophie)
    + big thank you to Cloph - for adding Guarani language to Pootle (Sophie)
  
* Developer Certification (Stephan/Bjoern/Kendy/Thorsten)
    + pending / shelved for now - wait 4 weeks.
 
* Jenkins update (Norbert)
    + looks well this week (Kendy)
    from:Thu Jul 30 14:12:20 2015
    master linux rel  jobs:114 ok:114 ko:0  fail ratio:0%     break:0 broken duration:0%
    master linux dbg  jobs:67  ok:63  ko:2  fail ratio:2.98%  break:2 broken duration:1.34%
    master mac rel    jobs:106 ok:80  ko:26 fail ratio:24.52% break:5 broken duration:15.93%
    master mac dbg    jobs:110 ok:88  ko:22 fail ratio:19.99% break:3 broken duration:15.6%
    master win rel    jobs:87  ok:73  ko:14 fail ratio:16.09% break:7 broken duration:11.15%
    master win dbg    jobs:87  ok:78  ko:9  fail ratio:10.34% break:3 broken duration:2.66%
    master win64 dbg  jobs:69  ok:61  ko:8  fail ratio:11.59% break:3 broken duration:11.52%
    lo-4.4 mac        jobs:3   ok:3   ko:0  fail ratio:0%     break:0 broken duration:0%
    gerrit win rel    jobs:152 ok:102 ko:48 fail ratio:31.57%
    gerrit lin rel    jobs:153 ok:139 ko:14 fail ratio:9.15%
    gerrit mac rel    jobs:155 ok:129 ko:26 fail ratio:16.77%
    gerrit all        jobs:152 ok:85  ko:65 fail ratio:42.76%
 
* Easy Hacks:
    + new easy-hacks thanks to:
        + nobody :-(
        + http://bit.ly/1KR4HWX
    + create your own by setting whiteboard to eg.
            "easyHack difficultyBeginner skillCpp topicCleanup"

* QA update (Robinson)
    + UNCONFIRMED at 406
    + needAdvice at 15
    + Bugzilla Patches: Guided forms
    + Most Pressing Bugs:
        http://bit.ly/1CIXqPZ
           + tdf#93113 - Crash Inserting Special Character
               + Introduced between 5.0.0.2 -> 5.0.0.3
    + will test Windows 10 more (Robinson)
        + if you are testing that too, sync with Robinson
 
* QA stats:
  + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
    +143    -111        (+32 overall)
    many thanks to the top bug squashers:
        Maxim Monastirsky     22
        Beluga                14
        Jean-Baptiste Faure   12
        Yousuf (Jay) Philips   6
        Alex Thurgood          6
        Miklos Vajna           3
        Adolfo Jayme           3
        Gordo                  3
        Noel Grandin           3
        V Stuart Foote         3
        Luke                   2
        raal                   2
        Cor Nouws              2
        Rolf Leggewie          2
        m.a.riosv              2
 
* Open 5.0 MAB
  + 1/12 1/12 1/12 1/12 1/12 2/12 2/12 3/12 5/11 6/12 5/11 6/11 5/9 6/9 5/8 5/8 4/7
  + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=86696&hide_resolved=1
 
* Open 4.4 MAB
  + 11/60 10/60 10/60 10/60 10/60 12/60 14/61 16/61 17/61 17/61 16/60 19/60 15/56 16/56
  + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=79641&hide_resolved=1
 
* Open 4.3 MAB
  + 61/168 61/168 61/168 62/168 62/168 64/169 65/169 72/169 73/170 75/170 78/170 77/169
  + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=75025&hide_resolved=1
 
* Bibisected bugs open: whiteboard 'bibisected'
  + 314/964 309/956 311/951 305/936 305/931 310/925 310/921 320/915 330/909 329/898 335/895
    + http://tdf.io/bibibugs
 
* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
        + 615(+7) bugs open of 4079(+20) total 43 high prio.
 
        * ~Component   count net * high severity regressions
                  Calc - 16 (+2)
                Writer - 10 (+1)
           LibreOffice -  8 (+2)
               Impress -  5 (+0)
                    UI -  1 (+0)
                 BASIC -  1 (+0)
                  Base -  1 (+0)
   filters and storage -  1 (+1)
                + http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
 
        * ~Component   count net * all regressions
                Writer - 210 (+3)
                  Calc - 118 (+3)
               Impress - 52 (+2)
               Crashes - 41 (+0)
           LibreOffice - 40 (+0)
                    UI - 39 (-3)
               Borders - 24 (+0)
        graphics stack - 24 (+0)
                  Base - 22 (+1)
                  Draw - 20 (+0)
   filters and storage - 12 (+1)
                 Chart - 11 (+0)
Printing and PDF export- 10 (+0)
                 BASIC -  9 (+1)
             framework -  5 (+0)
            Linguistic -  4 (+1)
        Formula Editor -  4 (+0)
            Extensions -  2 (+0)
                + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i





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