Minutes of ESC call: 2015-07-23
Jan Holesovsky
kendy at collabora.com
Thu Jul 23 08:21:00 PDT 2015
* Present:
+ Jan-Marek, Muthu, Thorsten, Sophie, Christian, Eike, Caolan, Miklos,
Kendy, Robinson, Bjoern, Lionel, Michael S, Cedric
* Completed Action Items:
+ post / collate regression tendering ideas -> the board (Michael)
[ now wait for the board to officially tender ]
+ take a look at tdf#91495 (Kendy)
[ Tomaž did that, pushed to 5.0.0 too ]
+ chase Google / student travel budget (Thorsten)
[ no definitive answer yet - but we should invite the students
either way, TDF backs that if budget from G. is not enough (Thorsten) ]
[ Cedric asked the students to ask Carol & report back ]
+ send the script to do the Emjoi translation to Cloph (Laszlo)
[ got it (Cloph) - l10n happy to have that included if it was
in the previous RC's ]
+ file conference papers [!] (All)
+ Rendercontext & design foo (Kendy)
+ ODF / TC bits (Andras)
+ file win64 / mork bug and poke David O etc. (Robinson)
+ Filed as tdf#92792
+ update 5.1 Linux base-line to CentOS/6 to get KDE4 support (Christian)
/usr/include/QtCore/qobjectdefs.h needs space-tweak, otherwise almost vanilla :-)
[ even on tinderboxes & provides builds ]
[ gnome-vfs switched to gio ]
* Pending Action Items:
+ get a non-TDF branded 5-0 set into git / master (Cloph)
[ have the new files, but OS X dnd - but in the works
will push the new 5.0 branding to the libreoffice-5-0 branch ]
+ move existing git images into a private TDF branded pack (Cloph)
+ increase availble disk for crash-test VM136 (Cloph/Caolan)
[ cloph awaiting more info - what layout is needed ]
[ Caolan guessed by the needs on his local machine, no need to do
anything ATM, will get back to Cloph ]
+ review Guiseppe's webdav work in gerrit (Kendy/?)
+ https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/17080/
[ part 1 merged by Michael, more to do by Kendy / somebody ]
+ come up with a fun new name for 'blocker' (Robinson)
[ please email Robinson if you have a good idea ]
+ file conference papers [!] (All)
+ please submit abstracts:
+ http://conference.libreoffice.org/2015/call-for-papers/
+ Ace of Base (Lionel)
[ has an overlap with holidays ]
[ you can come a day later maybe? (Thorsten) ]
[ no problem for the papers committee - you can define
the available days (Kendy) ]
+ 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) ]
+ poke Jay / Kendy do we need to revert UI / menu changes ? (Sophie)
[ Sophie was away, will have a look / poke today ]
+ track & support help XML status (Kendy)
[ new HelpAuthoring.oxt release ongoing ]
+ UserAgent - drop bundled-languages (Michael)
+ UserAgent - produce a patch for review (Michael)
+ review ongoing pootle maintenance funding arrangements (Floeff)
[ Sophie thinks he did it the last week - will check with him ]
+ check 'make check' on a Windows 32bit box instead (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) ]
* Release Engineering update (Christian)
+ 4.4.5 - RC2 status
+ tagged & built on OS X and Linux; Windows ongoing
+ will be upladed later today
+ 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
+ RC3 to be tagged later today
+ 6 patches still pending
+ 10pm will start export from pootle
+ please still review!!!
+ please really do ;-) - will poke people on IRC (Eike)
+ Major bugs
+ presenter console - not rendering on Windows (Michael)
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91574
[ now fixed - but horrendous code and coupling in there
reviews for -5-0-0 appreciated ]
+ no cherry pick request for 5.0.0? (Cloph)
AI: + will do one (Kendy)
+ please check EMF+ rendering too (Kendy)
AI: + will do (Robinson)
+ anything else (Robinson)
+ nothing on his shortlist
+ 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.
+ won't affect anything TDF ships for 5.0
+ 5.0 splash / startcenter graphics / about dialog (Kendy?)
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90452#c45
+ did everything get in & done.
+ Cloph will integrate the rest (Cloph)
+ Android & iOS Remote
+ new build of Android remote, will promote when tested
+ will release a new iOS build shortly too
* UX Update (Kendy)
+ talked about the help a bit + HelpAuthoring.oxt
+ 26 new templates - still would be great to get 3-4 new to 5.0.0, the rest probably to 5.0.1
+ want to increase the visibility of the UI guidelines
* Documentation (Olivier)
+ releasing new version of HelpAuthoring.oxt shortly (Kendy)
+ testing appreciated
* Crashtest update (Caolán)
+ two consecutive 0 import and 0 export runs (Caolan)
+ wow! :-) (Kendy)
+ awesome! (Bjoern)
+ document store updated now and new run underway
+ doing some fuzzing too (Caolan)
+ hopefully will lead some new data / faster checking (Caolan)
+ worth blogging - will you? (Bjoern)
+ 0-0-0 blog shortly - 0 coverity, 0 import, 0 export (Caolan)
* GSoC (Cedric)
+ Next important dates:
+ Aug. 21: pencil down & start of evaluations
+ Aug. 28: final evaluations deadline
+ conference travel - poking the students now (Cedric)
+ 3 students will go, 1 checking
+ 2 won't go
+ the rest pending
* 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)
+ nothing new
+ did not test Emojis yet
+ Cloph is on that
* Developer Certification (Stephan/Bjoern/Kendy/Thorsten)
+ pending / shelved for now - wait 4 weeks.
* Jenkins update (Norbert)
* Easy Hacks:
+ new easy-hacks thanks to:
+ Markus Mohrhard
+ Stephan Bergmann
+ Michael Meeks
+ http://bit.ly/1KR4HWX
+ create your own by setting whiteboard to eg.
"easyHack difficultyBeginner skillCpp topicCleanup"
* Regression Ideas
+ now going to board; results of scoring by 12x ESC attendees
Name Cost - person weeks Score.
A. Cross-platform font/shaping stubs for layout tests 5 8.18
G. Improved Format Validity Checks 3 7.44
B. Automated Help/Documentation screenshot creation 8 7.42
D. Automated a11y based UI testing 8 7.08
C. SSDs for prominent QA developers Eur 2k 6.36
H. Always Green Master 3 6.00
E. Checking for DSO dependencies 1 5.30
F. Android Unit Testing 4 5.00
* QA update (Robinson)
+ UNCONFIRMED at 435
+ needAdvice at 11
+ Most Pressing Bugs:
http://bit.ly/1CIXqPZ
+ priority highest in the last week ...
+ tdf#92521 - FILESAVE: loss of page breaks after saving DOCX
+ Data loss concern; dated to 4.2-era
+ tdf#92861 - AutoCorrect Options checkboxes do not work
+ Regression introduced in July
+ Bugzilla 5.0 pretty stable (Robinson)
+ will try to break it more :-) (Robinson)
* QA stats:
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
+109 -208 (-99 overall)
many thanks to the top bug squashers:
QA Administrators 110
+ 110 by administrators? (Jan-Marek)
+ re-categorization & stuff... (Robinson)
m.a.riosv 9
Eike Rathke 8
V Stuart Foote 6
Adolfo Jayme 5
Doug 5
Beluga 5
Gordo 4
Michael Meeks 3
Cor Nouws 3
Caolán McNamara 3
Jean-Baptiste Faure 3
tommy27 2
Winfried Donkers 2
Jack 2
* Open 5.0 MAB
+ 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
+ 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 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'
+ 311/951 305/936 305/931 310/925 310/921 320/915 330/909 329/898 335/895
+ http://tdf.io/bibibugs
AI: Overall and component mismatch - missing a component or two ? (Michael)
* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
+ 603(+2) bugs open of 4040(+20) total, 38(-2) high prio.
* ~Component count net * high prio. regressions
Calc - 14 (+0)
Writer - 9 (+0)
LibreOffice - 6 (+0)
Impress - 5 (-1)
Formula Editor - 1 (+0)
filters and storage - 1 (+0)
Base - 2 (+1)
UI - 0 (-1)
+ above as a list: http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
+ complete table: http://bit.ly/1JQ3z4A
* ~Component count net *
Writer - 209 (+1)
Calc - 114 (+0)
Impress - 50 (-1)
LibreOffice - 43 (+3)
Crashes - 43 (-2)
UI - 38 (+2)
graphics stack - 25 (+0)
Borders - 23 (-1)
Base - 22 (+2)
Draw - 20 (+0)
Chart - 11 (+0)
Printing / PDF export - 10 (+0)
filters and storage - 10 (-2)
BASIC - 5 (+1)
framework - 5 (+0)
Formula Editor - 5 (+0)
Linguistic - 2 (+1)
Extensions - 2 (+0)
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