minutes of ESC call ...
Michael Meeks
michael.meeks at collabora.com
Thu Oct 1 08:05:12 PDT 2015
* Present:
+ David, Christian, Sophie, Florian, Robinson, Jan-Marek, Stephan, Michael S,
Caolan, Michael M, Kendy, Miklos, Eike, Oliver, Bubli, Bjoern, Muthu (late),
Thorsten (late)
* Completed Action Items:
+ write up some blog / blurb on OpenGL rendering (Michael)
[ ~bit late now ... -> junked, was release-noted ]
+ Approach Mariano Gaudix (Kalahari icon set) creator (Michael)
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/++Kalahari+-+LibreOffice+5.0.0?content=157970
[ Taringa - unusually Spanish ]
+ look at 'make check' failures on win32 again if interested (Michael S)
[ fixed several on Windows - but not sure if these were the ones,
or different; should we turn it on again ?
AI: try make check again on Windows build-slaves (please) (Norbert) ;-)
gerrit builds are still failing cli_ure / locking bug (Miklos)
but un-related to the tests (Michael S)
climaker / linker / compiler related to .Net (Michael S)
example: http://ci.libreoffice.org/job/lo_gerrit_master/6876/Gerrit=Gerrit,Platform=Windows/console ]
+ welcome mail for Lukasz Hryniuk (Eike)
[ done in person at the conference ]
+ review Giuseppe's webdav work in gerrit (Kendy)
+ https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/17189/
[ just merge it ]
+ merge chaining-text-boxes to master & collectively watch for regressions (Bubli)
+ fix ESC bug scripts for MAB-like bits for each release (Robinson)
[ committed & ready for new behavior ]
* Pending Action Items:
+ have a look at the CppUnit to implement 'expected failure' (Jan-Marek)
[ conference recovery mode ... ]
+ UserAgent - drop bundled-languages (Michael)
+ UserAgent - produce a patch for review (Michael)
+ ask students to write their own wrap-ups to aggregate (Cedric)
+ write a nice blog entry about 1000's bibisect - including flowers (Robinson)
* Kickstart mentoring (Bubli)
+ get things rolling before mentoring lead gets hired
+ a wiki page: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Mentors
+ desperately outdated
+ add interested mentors there, link with core/easy hacks pages
AI: + please check if you're listed there (All)
+ perhaps set up a mailing list to connect mentees with mentors
+ can it happen on the dev list instead ? (Michael)
+ need a means to connect mentees with mentors (Bubli)
+ concerned that code contributions are most emphasised there (Bubli)
+ a dedicated list will loose those on the dev list (Miklos)
+ eg. asking around calc - got help on the list
+ mentoring going on on the design channel / no-where else to go (Bubli)
+ design-channel is quite fun / non-boring (Kendy)
+ chap was on the documentation / l10n lists (Sophie)
+ likes idea of mentoring list (Robinson)
+ could use projects@ lists -> a cross-project list (Sophie)
+ projects: stay low-volume to keep it read (Bjoern, Michael, Floeff)
+ some PR for all of the above.
+ prefer to wait until Mentoring hires arrive (Michael)
* Release Engineering update (Robinson/Cloph)
+ 4.4.6 RC1 status
+ been tagged, earlier today
+ builds available for early testing tomorrow.
+ all queued patches reviewed & committed.
+ 5.0.3 - RC1 status
+ due next week; currently 9-10 patches waiting
from today / yesterday; please help review.
+ 5.1.0 Alpha - week after next, code freeze mid. Nov.
+ Android & iOS Remote
+ Google-play dropped the 50Mb limit for APKs.
+ preparing an updated version of the viewer / editor.
+ also will poke an Intel binary.
* UX Update (Kendy)
+ Friday session planned to look at navigator.
+ now we have the core table-styles bits
+ another Friday session planned for improving the UI.
+ table-styles
+ style re-applied when you do operations
+ insert row/delete row etc.
+ inspired by the core of the GSOC work.
+ able to handle direct formatting as well.
+ filter bits needed / pending
+ UNO API missing too (Miklos)
+ and improved UI needed.
+ exports as direct-formatting on save.
* Documentation (Kendy)
+ Jay has made more improvments to the scripts
+ Regina has fixed bugs in the XSLT filter.
+ new release planned tomorrow.
+ with this -> can set some pages MPLv2 only if from-scratch.
* Crashtest update (Caolán)
+ 0 import failures, 4 export failures, 21 coverity
+ no new run this week yet
+ working on one in the next few days.
+ coverity 7.7.0 upgrade failed - coverity server-side, back to 7.6.0 for now
+ 21 outstanding, should all be fixed again
+ mostly around casting work - removing tools rtti -> dynamic_casts
+ xls and T602 file format support added to fftester (fast-path format tester)
+ nothing serious seen.
* Hackfests (Bjoern)
+ Aarhus LibreOffice conference bits ?
+ did no hacking (didn't bring laptop) (Bjoern)
+ 3 guys from the local C++ group were there.
+ poking at KDE / VCL code.
+ http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-t7TckSuqRBk/VgULTePmevI/AAAAAAAABeI/JZNpzS_ISnw/s1600/vertical-preview-2.png
+ A low-hanging complaint from the Japanese vertical text thing (Caolan)
+ Hamburg, Germany: Oct 23rd -> 25th (Bubli)
+ https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Hackfest/Hamburg2015
+ would be great to see everyone there.
+ Hamburg Hackers, I'm looking at you, please register! ;)
+ couchsurfing etc.
+ working to encourage Aarhus folks to Hamburg; evening before.
+ next venues / suggestions
+ Belgium another candidate ...
+ perhaps again at Las Palmas (Thorsten)
+ winter is tricky:
+ FOSDEM is next ?
AI: + reach-out to co-working guy to book (Bjoern)
+ early next year after 5.1.x looks better ?
* l10n Update (Sophie)
+ nothing new; need to summarize libocon discussions.
* Developer Certification (Stephan/Bjoern/Kendy/Thorsten)
+ meet face-to-face at the conference (Kendy)
+ met all the time, but nothing happened (Thorsten)
+ even talked about it (Kendy)
+ came up with 2-3 candidates.
AI: + proposal for next week (Dev. Cert. guys)
* Jenkins update (Norbert)
from:Thu Sep 24 14:06:55 2015
master linux rel jobs:188 ok:181 ko:7 fail ratio:3.72% break:5 broken duration:2.71%
master linux dbg jobs:116 ok:105 ko:9 fail ratio:7.75% break:5 broken duration:5.1%
master mac rel jobs:162 ok:157 ko:5 fail ratio:3.08% break:4 broken duration:1.48%
master mac dbg jobs:165 ok:153 ko:12 fail ratio:7.27% break:8 broken duration:10.36%
master win rel jobs:83 ok:70 ko:11 fail ratio:13.25% break:6 broken duration:5.24%
master win dbg jobs:121 ok:86 ko:34 fail ratio:28.09% break:17 broken duration:27.19%
master win64 dbg jobs:110 ok:86 ko:23 fail ratio:20.9% break:13 broken duration:20.18%
lo-4.4 mac jobs:14 ok:13 ko:1 fail ratio:7.14% break:1 broken duration:27.5%
gerrit win rel jobs:253 ok:121 ko:132 fail ratio:52.17%
gerrit lin rel jobs:263 ok:227 ko:36 fail ratio:13.68%
gerrit mac rel jobs:260 ok:205 ko:55 fail ratio:21.15%
gerrit all jobs:253 ok:103 ko:150 fail ratio:59.28%
+ windows not looking great as normal.
+ be good to separate build failure from infra. failure etc.
+ Norbert looking at more reliable BuildBot / other bits (cf. conf.)
* Easy Hacks:
+ new easy-hacks thanks to: (none)
+ http://bit.ly/1KR4HWX
+ create your own by setting whiteboard to eg.
"easyHack difficultyBeginner skillCpp topicCleanup"
+ Create new easy hacks from these proposed ones
(or remove the whiteboard keyword "needsDevEval" if not feasible):
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/buglist.cgi?status_whiteboard=needsDevEval
* New Commit access:
+ Justin Luth - SIL
+ http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/log/?qt=author&q=luth
impressive reviews, unanimous approval.
AI: + send welcome mail (Miklos)
AI: + poke gerrit (Michael)
* QA update (Robinson)
+ UNCONFIRMED at 498
+ needAdvice at 15
+ Most Pressing Bugs:
http://ur1.ca/nkp0t
+ tdf#92478 - Scanning crashes on 64bit Windows 10 build
+ tdf#94225 - Writer crashes on undo
+ tdf#94428 - Printing adds garbage to top edge of page
+ Many reports about this regression
* QA stats
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
+157 -68 (+89 overall)
many thanks to the top bug squashers:
Cor Nouws 9
Beluga 8
Adolfo Jayme 7
Miklos Vajna 6
Julien Nabet 6
Maxim Monastirsky 5
V Stuart Foote 5
Yousuf (Jay) Philips 5
Caolán McNamara 2
tommy27 2
GerardF 2
Eike Rathke 1
Markus Mohrhard 1
Mark Hung 1
Óvári 1
* Open 5.0 MAB
+ 1/12 1/12 1/12 1/12 1/12 1/12 1/12 1/12 1/12 1/12 1/12 1/12 2/12
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=86696&hide_resolved=1
* Open 4.4 MAB
+ 10/60 10/60 10/60 10/60 11/60 11/60 11/60 11/60 10/60 10/60 10/60
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=79641&hide_resolved=1
* Open 4.3 MAB
+ 59/168 59/168 59/168 59/168 59/168 59/168 59/168 61/168 61/168 61/168
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=75025&hide_resolved=1
* Bibisected bugs open: whiteboard 'bibisected'
+ 324/1039 325/1029 330/1028 344/1028 345/1020 338/1006 328/991 314/964
+ http://tdf.io/bibibugs
* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
+ stats are for two weeks ... (including conf + travel)
+ 652(+18) bugs open of 4243(+40) total 38(-1) high prio.
* ~Component count net * high severity regressions
Calc - 16 (-1)
Writer - 10 (+0)
LibreOffice - 5 (+0)
Impress - 4 (+0)
UI - 1 (+0)
filters and storage - 1 (+0)
Base - 1 (+0)
+ http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
* ~Component count net * all regressions
Writer - 215 (+1)
Calc - 138 (+7)
Impress - 50 (+2)
Crashes - 47 (+3)
UI - 42 (+1)
LibreOffice - 41 (+1)
graphics stack - 26 (+1)
Base - 26 (+1)
Borders - 24 (+0)
Draw - 23 (+1)
filters and storage - 13 (+0)
Printing and PDF export- 12 (+1)
Chart - 12 (+0)
BASIC - 9 (+0)
Formula Editor - 5 (+1)
Linguistic - 3 (-1)
framework - 3 (-1)
Extensions - 2 (+0)
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