minutes of ESC call ...

Michael Meeks michael.meeks at collabora.com
Thu May 4 14:41:09 UTC 2017


* Present:
    + Heiko, Miklos, Olivier, Thorsten, Michael M, Christian, Kendy, Stephan, Xisco,
      Eike, Bubli, Michael S, Bjoern

* Completed Action Items:
    + poke Jay to get him setup on ‘Online’ – TDF LDAP etc. (Kendy)
       [ Heiko pinged, to setup LDAP account etc.
         ideally get an account with no restrictions wrt. Commenting etc. ]

* Pending Action Items:
    + create blank 5.5 wiki / release notes page (Cloph)
    + mass conversion of helpcontent (Cloph)
       [ will update the templates and do the auto-translation this weekend.
         Scripts are tested & worked locally ]
    + investigate signing issues during make / check around files (Cloph)
       [ when session is closed builds succeed, not watching remotely helps it seems ]

* Release Engineering update (Christian)
    + 5.2.7 RC2
      + on the mirrors as a final version, but no official announce yet.
      + the last of the 5.2.x line planned.
    + 5.3.3 RC2 tagging next week.
      + tagged yesterday, ready on the dev servers.
      + thanks to all reviewers who helped out.
    + 5.4.0 Beta 1 May 16th
      + how did Alpha1 go ? (Michael)
          + not ready in time for the bug-hunting session.
              + had daily builds available; no translation etc.
          + accidentally deleted the windows builds.
          + bug in pocheck needed a fix.
          + needed a mergelibs build-fix.
      + branching in <2 weeks.
    + Android & iOS Remote
      + no news.
    + online – 5.3.3 RC2
      + tagging overdue – will fix (Michael)

* Documentation (Olivier)
    + trying to reduce open bug count in BZ.
    + Patches on help contents from BZ
       + updating lots of help pages – 4 patches so far, more coming.
       + tdf#100410 Update help page for WEEKDAY() 
       +	tdf#103457 link UNICODE() to UNICHAR() in Help
        	tdf#103431 HELP Bessel functions need examples
         tdf#92837 Security and document link updates
    + help changes bring translation fun …
    + Meeting will resume - May 10th
            + resume documentation / help-content work / guides etc.

* UX Update (Heiko)
    + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
        251(251) (topicUI) bugs open, 460(460) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
    + Updates:
        BZ changes   1 week    1 month   3 months   12 months  
             added      3(-1)      9(0)     31(3)      476(-8) 
         commented     44(-10)   148(19)   563(36)    3539(11) 
           removed      1(-1)      3(1)      7(1)       41(2)  
          resolved      1(-5)     15(-8)    81(-2)     229(0)  
    + top 10 contributors:
          Philips, Yousuf made 126 changes in 1 month, and 1265 changes in 1 year
          Tietze, Heiko made 46 changes in 1 month, and 2237 changes in 1 year
          Foote, V Stuart made 34 changes in 1 month, and 675 changes in 1 year
          Thomas Lendo made 23 changes in 1 month, and 105 changes in 1 year
          Henschel, Regina made 18 changes in 1 month, and 132 changes in 1 year
          Buovjaga made 17 changes in 1 month, and 366 changes in 1 year
          LibreTraining made 12 changes in 1 month, and 48 changes in 1 year
          Pinto, Marco A.G. made 12 changes in 1 month, and 12 changes in 1 year
          Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 10 changes in 1 month, and 63 changes in 1 year
          Faulí Tarazona, Xisco made 8 changes in 1 month, and 407 changes in 1 year

   + Table Styles survey run in the last week
       + Working on new designs now 
       + trouble to implement as the data are stored in a binary form today
       + nothing so surprising; need to remove them as stored now.
       + eg. do we keep 3D / shades of grey etc. ?
   + Please can people check needsDevEval ?
       + have a number where we need input to continue.
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=needsDevEval&resolution=---

* Crash Reporting (Michael S)
    + missing Caolan …
    + ossfuzz results:
       + CVE-2017-7870 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7870
          + one of the four filed from ossfuzz – 2x broken.
       + another filed for an issue that existed only on master for 2 days.
          + not in google’s reserved range (Bjoern)
          + very unhelpful, discourages use of Google stuff (Thorsten)
          + mitre – non-responsive / helpful in the past (Michael)
    + 1 import failure, 0 export failures
       + 1 import problem, export bits fixed.

* Munich OpenData/OpenGovernment BarCamp update (Thorsten)
    + no mention of open-source (fixed)
       + “Public Money → Public Code” talk from Thorsten.
    + lots of excitement about open data etc.
        + open-data a nice trend etc.
        + https://www.meetup.com/code-for-muenchen/events/237339232/ 

* Hackfests (Bjoern)
    + next venues / suggestions
    + Ladies who FOSS ? (Bubli)
    + event in Spain (Xisco)
        + will be in Malaga for Open conference in May 6th at 17:00
            + http://www.opensouthcode.org/conference/opensouthcode2017
        + an idea to do something.
        + Xisco giving a talk there too - be good to meet up.
    + Italian hack-fest coming up: 4 days May 27-30th
         + Perugia University
             + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Hackfest/Perugia2017
                + Bjoern, Eike, Miklos, Cloph signed up.
                + full house for accomodation/food
    + Essen meeting (Thorsten)
        + looking for a venue
        + German community event
        + suggestions for bike-shedding topics to get people interesting
            + UX / Extensions ?
        + Weekend of June 24 – Friday → Sun.
    + Open Tech Summit (Heiko)
        + May/25 Potsdam
        + http://opentechsummit.net/

* mentoring/easyhack update
    + openhub statistics (2017-05-01), 270(270) people did 15733(15733) commits in 12 month in 9084443(9084443) lines of code
    + gerrit/git statistics:
          committer...   1 week     1 month     3 months    12 months   
                  open      59(-13)    101(6)      129(10)      136(10) 
               reviews     499(58)    1544(-51)   4567(43)    17048(29) 
                merged     196(-7)     911(-57)   2609(-36)   10192(39) 
             abandoned       6(-17)     51(-5)     163(-5)      637(-6) 
           own commits     377(93)    1506(58)    4827(21)    16965(73) 
        review commits      45(-7)     246(-41)    965(-3)     3466(-30)
        contributor...   1 week     1 month     3 months    12 months   
                  open      26(13)      39(11)      54(10)       55(10) 
               reviews     503(-21)   1839(-74)   5549(-39)   19630(32) 
                merged      21(-2)     106(-32)    417(9)      1063(-20)
             abandoned       2(-5)      20(-3)      70(-3)      240(-9) 
           own commits      19(-5)     105(-31)    346(5)       834(-21)
        review commits       0(0)        0(0)        0(0)         0(0)  
    + easyHack statistics:
       needsDevEval 24(24)   needsUXEval 0(0)   cleanup_comments 190(190)   
       total 234(234)   assigned 28(28)   open 178(178)   
    + top 5 contributors:
          Carl, Jens made 25 patches in 1 month, and 39 patches in 1 year
          Kumar, Rohan made 9 patches in 1 month, and 21 patches in 1 year
          Johnny_M made 8 patches in 1 month, and 25 patches in 1 year
          Zu Ximeng made 8 patches in 1 month, and 9 patches in 1 year
          Kainz, Andreas made 8 patches in 1 month, and 37 patches in 1 year
    + top 5 reviewers:
          Holešovský, Jan made 233 review comments in 1 month, and 629 in 1 year
          Stahl, Michael made 221 review comments in 1 month, and 1261 in 1 year
          Rathke, Eike made 105 review comments in 1 month, and 1347 in 1 year
          Vajna, Miklos made 101 review comments in 1 month, and 1180 in 1 year
          Behrens, Thorsten made 78 review comments in 1 month, and 425 in 1 year
    + big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
          Werner Tietz karlooforum at arcor.de 
          Ilmari Lauhakangas ilmari.lauhakangas at libreoffice.org 
          Jim Raykowski raykowj at gmail.com 
          Viscido Viscido marcoviscido at gmail.com 
          AlexeyVlasov alexey.vlasov.work at gmail.com 
          Magee, Timothy timothy at eastlincoln.net 
          Catherine Vance catvance77 at gmail.com 
          Gabriel Herrera gabriel.herrerasanz at cib.de 
          Manfred Blume manfred.blume at cib.de 

* GSoC update (Thorsten)
    + timeline:
         + May 4 - 29: projects public, community bonding period starts
         + May 29: last day to report inactive students
         + May 30: coding begins
         + June 26-30: first eval
         + July 24 - second eval
         + August 21- 29: pens down, wrap up
         + August 29 - September 5: final evaluations of students
         + September 6: passing projects announced
    + slot count looks good.
    + live in 2 hours or so; hold guns until then.
         + reach out to students to bond nicely etc. when announced.
         + nice to have them on IRC, doing small commits etc.
    + please report students that don’t show up.

* crash reporter news (Xisco)
    + http://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/?days=128 
    + http://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/5.3.2.2 
        + 3384 (last 7 days)
    + http://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/5.2.6.2 
        + 2487 (last 7 days)
    + GDI resource starvation
        + now have a way to reprocue that: font rendering leakage
        + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106265 
        + thanks to <>
        + when fixed, should nail some of our top issues.

* Commit Access

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Bjoern/Kendy/Thorsten)
    + 0 week sleep → ping ping ping ...

* Jenkins / CI update (Norbert)
    + missed.

* l10n (Sophie)
    + missed.

* QA update (Xisco)

    + Bug Hunting Session update:
      + had some people showing up on IRC.
      + could use the daily builds; missed some translation testing.
      + Testlink - https://manual-test.libreoffice.org/index.php
   
    + UNCONFIRMED: 457 (-20)
        + enhancements: 43  (-7)
        + needsUXEval: 3 (+0)
        + haveBackTrace: 12 (+2)
        + needsDevAdvice: 36 (+2)
        + documentation:  0 (+0)

    + Most Pressing Bugs: http://tdf.io/mostressingbugs
	  + New:
	    + Scrolling font list with previews enabled makes LO crash ( steps in comment 36 )
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106265
                + Tomaz taking a look.

	    + CRASH: Libreoffice crashes while inserting the header/footer in a document
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107568

	    + Writer crashes immediately after opening this .docx in Windows 7
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106161
		    + Recent regression

	  + Fixed:
	    + CRASH: LO crashes immediately when trying to open an *.odb-file (only with not gtk/gtk3 rendering) 
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107526
                + Thanks to Julien Nabet

	    + Examining a Writer Table object crashes LibreOffice
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107350
                + Thanks to LeMoyne Castle

	    + CRASH: Libreoffice crashes while inserting a textbox in the header
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107474
		    + Thanks to Michael S.

	    + Crash in: mergedlo.dll
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107603
		    + Thanks to Caolán McNamara



* QA stats
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
      +153  +19 (-98) overall)
      many thanks to the top bug squashers:
       Buovjaga                14
       V Stuart Foote          6
       Adolfo Jayme            6
       Caolán McNamara         5
       Eike Rathke             5
       Xisco Faulí             4
       m.a.riosv               4
       Michael Stahl           4
       Regina Henschel         3
       Miklos Vajna            3
       Bartosz                 3
       Yousuf Philips (jay)    3
       Maxim Monastirsky       2
       Harald Koester          2
       Kohei Yoshida           2

    + top 10 bugs reporters:
       Yousuf Philips (jay)    14
       Telesto                 13
       Xisco Faulí             8
       Heiko Tietze            7
       baffclan                4
       Oliver Brinzing         3
       Thomas Lendo            3
       robert                  2
       Frederic Parrenin       2
       Danny Lin               2
       branestawm              2
       y3kcjd5                 2
       Regina Henschel         2
       Ximeng Zu               2
       Harald Koester          2

    + top 10 bugs fixers:
       Yousuf Philips (jay)    14
       Telesto                 13
       Xisco Faulí             8
       Heiko Tietze            7
       baffclan                4
       Oliver Brinzing         3
       Thomas Lendo            3
       robert                  2
       Frederic Parrenin       2
       Danny Lin               2
       branestawm              2
       y3kcjd5                 2
       Regina Henschel         2
       Ximeng Zu               2
       Harald Koester          2


* Highest-Priority bugs (aka "MABs"):
   + http://bit.ly/2lJAAJI
     5.3 : 3/35 -     8 %  (-3)
     5.2 : 3/31 -     9 %  (+0)
     5.1 : 2/34 -     5 %  (+0)
     5.0 : 2/60 -     3 %  (+0)
     4.4 : 4/75 -     5 %  (+0)
     4.3 : 5/72 -     6 %  (+0)
     4.2 : 6/133 -    4 %  (+0)
     4.1 : 4/81 -     4 %  (-1)
     4.0 : 4/81 -     4 %  (+0)
     old : 27/253 -   10 %  (+0)

* Bisected bugs open: keyword 'bisected'
   + more accurate - down to a single commit.
   + http://bit.ly/2dyIfDy
   + 374/1374 373/1366 370/1360 371/1357 364/1347 359/1332 362/1326 

     done by:
        Faulí Tarazona, Xisco   9
        Budea, Áron             1

* Bibisected bugs open: keyword 'bibisected'
   + http://bit.ly/2cSCXlS
   + 455/1933 453/1921 449/1914 449/1910 440/1897 435/1882 437/1875 

     done by:
        Faulí Tarazona, Xisco  11
        Alex Thurgood           1
        Stahl, Michael          1
        Terrence Enger          1

* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
   + 815(+14) bugs open of 5928(+28) total 12(-3) high prio.

     done by:
        Faulí Tarazona, Xisco     10
        Buovjaga                   9
        Alex Thurgood              2
        Balland-Poirier, Laurent   2
        Telesto                    2
        Henschel, Regina           1
        Stahl, Michael             1
        Terrence Enger             1
        Nabet, Julien              1
        Cor Nouws                  1


* ~Component   count net * high severity regressions
   + http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
     LibreOffice   - 4(+0)
     Impress       - 2(+0)
     Base          - 2(+0)
     Calc          - 1(+0)
     BASIC         - 1(+0)
     Writer        - 1(-2)
     Extensions    - 1(+0)
     Chart         - 0(-1)

   by OS:
     Linux         - 1(+0)
     Windows       - 2(+0)
     All           - 4(-3)
     Mac OS X      - 5(+0)

* ~Component   count net * all regressions
   + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
     Writer: other            - 142(+10)
     Calc                     - 122(+1)
     Impress                  - 80(+0)
     Writer: docx filter      - 69(-1)
     LibreOffice              - 60(+1)
     UI                       - 48(+1)
     Writer: doc filter       - 39(+1)
     graphics stack           - 37(+2)
     Draw                     - 32(+0)
     Base                     - 31(+0)
     Borders                  - 30(+0)
     Writer: other filter     - 25(+1)
     Crashes                  - 25(-2)
     Writer: perf             - 24(-1)
     filters and storage      - 21(+0)
     Chart                    - 20(-1)
     Printing and PDF export  - 16(+1)
     BASIC                    - 14(+1)
     framework                - 4(+0)
     Extensions               - 4(+0)
     Installation             - 1(+0)


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