Minutes of ESC call 2017-07-05

Thorsten Behrens thb at documentfoundation.org
Thu Jul 5 23:00:43 UTC 2018


* Present:
  + Thorsten, Miklos, Heiko, Michael W, Sophie, Cloph, Xisco, Stephan,
    Eike, Olivier

* Completed Action Items:
    + enable new help for tinderboxes (Christian) → in distro-config
    + disable HSQLDB auto-migration for now except for experimental (Tamas B)
    + provide distro name for MIMO branch (Jean-Sebastien)

* Pending Action Items:
    + on ESC share - “Budget2018” - add your ranking before this week’s call [!]

* Release Engineering update (Christian)
    + 6.0.6 – rc1 due next week (Jul 10)
    + 6.1.0 RC1
        + tagged on Wednesday,
          builds are on pre-releases and now being synced to mirrors
        + 6.1.0 RC2 with libreoffice-6-1-0 branch week after the next
          marks hard code freeze  (Jul 17)
        + from now on, commits to 6-1 branch need one mandatory review
	    + also string freeze
	    + also includes html help switch for distro branches
	    + ATTENTION for distro branch maintainers – there was a prob
          with gerrit, submodule changes might not have created
          the correct auto-commit on core
		  + this was a problem since last weekend, fixed now
    + 6.1 late features
        + calc threading default / fixing (Miklos)
           + *DONE*, just bugfixing from now on
	       + Eike: question to disable precautiously?
		   + Miklos: if needed can be done at the last moment
        + writer – red-lining re-factoring (Michael S)
           + merged and done, included in beta 2 → remove here
        + Help format (Stephan/Olivier)
           + done and working
	       + small gbuild make pattern rule prob on Mac, fixed now
AI	       + Olivier will release-note it
    + Remotes
    + Android viewer
    + Online
    + simplifying iOS build re translations

* Documentation (Olivier)
    + New help
        + Testing in bug hunting session tomorrow (installs)
        + Small corrections in XSLT filter
        + tweaks in CSS by fitoshido – people start contributing
    + Help contents
        + cosmetic refactor by SophiaS
        + Contents for [NatNum12] by Lazlo Nemetz
        + Contents fixes (ohallot, fitoshido)
    + Guides
        + Assembling & revising GS 6.0
    + Extras
        + some tweaks in UI dialog after help review.

* UX Update (Heiko)
    + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
        248(248) (topicUI) bugs open, 281(281) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
    + Updates:
        BZ changes   1 week    1 month   3 months   12 months  
             added      1(-4)     7(-1)     16(-6)      80(-4) 
         commented     21(-17)   69(1)     258(-60)   1659(-30)
           removed      0(0)      0(0)       0(0)       10(0)  
          resolved      1(-2)     6(0)      21(-3)     170(-2) 
    + top 10 contributors:
          Tietze, Heiko made 31 changes in 1 month, and 728 changes in 1 year
          Buovjaga made 24 changes in 1 month, and 171 changes in 1 year
          Foote, V Stuart made 12 changes in 1 month, and 241 changes in 1 year
          Kainz, Andreas made 10 changes in 1 month, and 34 changes in 1 year
          Xisco Faulí made 8 changes in 1 month, and 322 changes in 1 year
          Henschel, Regina made 7 changes in 1 month, and 99 changes in 1 year
          *UNKNOWN* made 7 changes in 1 month, and 9 changes in 1 year
          Raal made 6 changes in 1 month, and 17 changes in 1 year
          kompilainenn made 6 changes in 1 month, and 26 changes in 1 year
          Thomas Lendo made 5 changes in 1 month, and 248 changes in 1 year 
    + cont’d the discussion around CTL/CJK tdf#104318
	  + Suggestion is to remove the binding to languages completely,
	    which has bearing on default style
	  + rethink default styles completely
	  + Franklin and Khaled are involved in the thinking

    + positive feedback tdf#118516
      “And, I should have added my personal thanks and on behalf of the
       whole user base (if I may be so bold) to the whole LO team for
       the incredible work being done.”
    + German magazine compared LibreOffice vs. Softmaker, highlighting the
      Notebookbar/Ribbon interface
      + https://www.heise.de/ct/ausgabe/2018-14-LibreOffice-6-0-gegen-SoftMaker-Office-2018-fuer-Linux-4084433.html
      + discussion the German ML pointing out a few badly investigated
        aspects
    + personal note: Heiko on vacation for the next two weeks

* Fuzz / Crash Testing (Caolan on vacation)
    + 60(-16) import failure, 3(+1) export failures
    + coverity
        + ??
    + forcepoint ??
    + oss-fuzz ?? (?? outstanding, ?? minor)
    + ODF validation has landed, validation errors will now show up in
      crashtesting logs – fixing howto on the dev list

* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
    + Update notification was enabled, incoming reports start to look
      better than for previous version

    + http://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/5.4.7.2
         + 489 (last 7 days) (-26)

    + http://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/6.0.4.2
         + 1454 (last 7 days) (-297)
    + http://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/6.0.5.2
         + 890 (last 7 days) (+574)
* Visual Studio 2017 upgrade (Miklos)
	+ Tor proposed, change in gerrit: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/56455/
	+ needs tinderbox owners to update compiler version
	+ Cloph: any known issues in having VS2017 in parallel?
        + Mike Kaganski confirms that setup is OK (Miklos)

* Budget ranking (Thorsten)
   + on ESC share - “Budget2018” - add your ranking.
   + please rank stuff … before next week (extra grace period due to
     missing ESC core members)

* GSoC schedule (Thorsten/Heiko)
   + Coding: May 14 - August 6
       + please tell students to send a weekly status update.
   + Evaluation 1: June 11 – 15
       + all the students passed the first evaluation
       + most mentors good or above.
       + one ambivalent evaluation, clearly communicated & accepted.
   + Evaluation 2: July 9 – 13
AI     + all mentors - this is *NEXT* week!
   + Students Submit Code and Final Evaluations: August 6 - 14
   + Mentors Submit Final Evaluations: August 14 - 21
   + Results Announced: August 22
   + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/2018

* Hackfests & Events
   + Conference - September
      + call for papers for the LibreOffice Conference still ongoing! (Sophie)
         + deadline: mid-July
         + Request from QA: a talk about how to interpret a Callgrind trace.
		+ Any volunteer?
+ AI: send in proposals, everyone
   + potentially one in Bern / Switzerland - October 19th.
   + working on a Munich event October 26-28th (Thorsten)
      + an Open Gov’t meeting from the City of Munich
      + good to have a hack-fest back-to-back there.
      + moving slowly here …
+ FrOSCon in Bonn: Aug 25-26
+ Akademy Aug 11-17th in Vienna

* mentoring/easyhack update
          committer...   1 week      1 month     3 months    12 months   
                  open       89(22)     152(6)      160(5)       165(6)  
               reviews     1467(118)   4257(749)   7208(726)   20648(901)
                merged      362(45)    1342(37)    3619(84)    13811(213)
             abandoned       11(-4)      71(-3)     279(-6)      990(4)  
           own commits      264(50)    1214(-84)   3646(-7)    14467(254)
        review commits       59(-18)    323(-5)     985(-3)     3383(59) 
        contributor...   1 week   1 month      3 months     12 months    
                  open     27(2)      81(1)        83(1)         86(0)   
               reviews     60(-6)   1067(-697)   6131(-620)   30168(-393)
                merged     24(-3)    114(-4)      358(-11)     1690(-2)  
             abandoned      6(-1)     21(-7)      102(3)        377(1)   
           own commits     29(0)     126(-1)      380(-2)      1283(29)  
        review commits      0(0)       0(0)         0(0)          0(0)   
    + easyHack statistics:
       needsDevEval 51(51)   needsUXEval 2(2)   cleanup_comments 219(219)   
       total 267(267)   assigned 28(28)   open 186(186)   
    + top 5 contributors:
          Gelmini, Andrea made 31 patches in 1 month, and 398 patches in 1 year
          Sophia Schröder made 13 patches in 1 month, and 62 patches in 1 year
          Justin Luth made 11 patches in 1 month, and 15 patches in 1 year
          Illarionov, Arkadiy made 11 patches in 1 month, and 19 patches in 1 year
          Jim Raykowski made 8 patches in 1 month, and 72 patches in 1 year
    + top 5 reviewers:
          Pootle bot made 2222 review comments in 1 month, and 2222 in 1 year
          Pootle bot made 271 review comments in 1 month, and 1857 in 1 year
          Behrens, Thorsten made 223 review comments in 1 month, and 1582 in 1 year
          Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 146 review comments in 1 month, and 774 in 1 year
          Rathke, Eike made 141 review comments in 1 month, and 1061 in 1 year
    + big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
          Ali Ahmadi idnux09 at gmail.com 
          Jérémie Lesage jeremie.lesage at jeci.fr 

* Commit Access

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Bjoern/Kendy/Thorsten)
    + sleeping ~18 weeks.

* Jenkins / CI update (Christian)
    from:Thu Jun 28 15:55:22 2018
    master linux rel  jobs: 188 ok: 188 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master linux dbg  jobs: 140 ok: 137 ko:   3 fail ratio:  2.14 % break:   3 broken duration: 0.90%
    master mac rel    jobs: 122 ok: 121 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master mac dbg    jobs: 115 ok: 115 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master win rel    jobs:  66 ok:  46 ko:  20 fail ratio: 30.30 % break:  15 broken duration:25.07%
    master win dbg    jobs:  70 ok:  47 ko:  23 fail ratio: 32.86 % break:  15 broken duration:35.48%
    master win64 dbg  jobs:  66 ok:  41 ko:  25 fail ratio: 37.88 % break:  16 broken duration:38.04%
    lo-5.3 mac        jobs:   0 ok:   0 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    lo-5.4 mac        jobs:   0 ok:   0 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master gerrit lin jobs: 610 ok: 454 ko:  60 fail ratio:  9.84% time for ok: mean:  16 median:  15
    master gerrit plg jobs: 612 ok: 419 ko:  52 fail ratio:  8.50% time for ok: mean:  32 median:  29
    master gerrit win jobs: 734 ok: 370 ko: 173 fail ratio: 23.57% time for ok: mean:  78 median:  80
    master gerrit mac jobs: 610 ok: 422 ko:  24 fail ratio:  3.93% time for ok: mean:  58 median:  31
    master gerrit all jobs: 561 ok: 285 ko: 193 fail ratio: 34.40% time for ok: mean: 120 median: 112
   + https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/tmp/gerrit_180705.html 
   + failure causes last week (more than two occurrences)
      3 CppunitTest_sw_odfexport
      3 CppunitTest_sw_odfimport
      3 CppunitTest_xmloff_uxmloff
      5 error: rather call CPPUNIT_ASSERT_EQUAL (or rewrite as an explicit operator == call when the operator itself is the topic) [loplugin:cppunitassertequals] in file /home/tdf/lode/jenkins/workspace/lo_gerrit/Config/linux_clang_dbgutil_64/comphelper/qa/unit/base64_test.cxx
      5 CppunitTest_sw_ooxmlexport9
      5 CppunitTest_sw_uiwriter
     10 CppunitTest_vcl_complextext
     12 CppunitTest_vcl_pdfexport
     34 CppunitTest_vcl_fontfeature

	+ Windows test failures still a problem
		+ Michael S has an experiment running, some changes there from Quikee
	+ Infra hiccups under control, disconnected slaves handled
      gracefully now
	+ extra Mac ordered, for more build power on that platform
		+ and some mem upgrades for existing low-end boxes

* l10n (Sophie)
	+ gave feedback to Olivier on reformat patches – cosmetics changes
	  not ideal for our l10n volunteers 
	+ better to also have actual help content changes alongside

* Other topics
    + Run meeting on TDF infra? http://jitsi.documentfoundation.org/esc
    + Cloph: should work as least as well as meet.jit.si – using it
      for team calls
      + people can also use android app with jitsi.documentfoundation.org
AI  + Cloph announce for next ESC call

* QA update (Xisco)

    + Next Bug Hunting Session for LibreOffice 6.1 RC1
      + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugHuntingSession/6.1.0RC1
      + starts tomorrow 6th, July
	  + builds should be ready by then
	  + will give help a proper test run

    + Concerns about bdccb7e9991d83029eb2f2f11327b54534a00db8
        + Metabug: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117936
AI 	    + Xisco to poke jmux on what to do

    + UNCONFIRMED: 380 (+22)
        + enhancements: 41  (-1)
        + needsUXEval: 1 (-3)
        + haveBackTrace: 8 (+2)
        + needsDevAdvice: 29 (+1)
        + documentation:  2 (+1)
        + android:  13 (+3)
    + Most pressing bugs:
        + New
		[None]


        + Older

            + EDITING: Crash while selecting cell format with double-click
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115950
                + Kendy ? The commit was reverted…

            + Crash when undoing the pasting of a table
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117749
                + Bjoern writer re-factor regression

            + CRASH: Print Preview crashes on signed document without infobar
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117426
                + Bubli (has fix for 5.4.x)

            + CRASH: Writer crashes inserting a section
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118377
                + AW080 - Armin

            + CRASH: Draw just closes if to try select table in file
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118354
                + AW080 - Armin
        + Fixed:
           	+ Crash (fatal error) when attempting a mail merge print
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116543
                + Fixed thanks to Mike Kaganski
            + EDITING: crash in SfxItemSet::GetItemState pasting comment
              of closed document
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117228
                + Fixed thanks to Henry Castro
            + Try to Change the Page Orientation Crashes LibreOffice
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118506
                + Fixed thanks to Xisco Fauli
            + CRASH: Finalized configuration item (Enable multi-threaded calculation) editable in UI
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118452
                + Fixed thanks to Gabor Kelemen
            + Crash (Runtime error) when using SCO (or DEPS) Evolutionary Algorithm Solver
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43388
                + Fixed thanks to Julien Nabet
           	+ Draw/Impress crashes upon pasting a table from Writer (not on Windows)
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118199
                + Fixed thanks to Armin Le Grand

* QA stats

   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
      +124  +27 (-100) overall)
      many thanks to the top bug squashers:
       Buovjaga                9
       Mike Kaganski           8
       Heiko Tietze            6
       Samuel Mehrbrodt (CIB)  5
       Aron Budea              5
       Adolfo Jayme            4
       Justin L                4
       Regina Henschel         4
       Miklos Vajna            3
       Telesto                 3

    + top 10 bugs reporters:
       Harald Koester          7
       Telesto                 6
       Xisco Faulí             5
       VR                      3
       Gabor Kelemen           3
       kompilainenn            3
       Samuel Thibault         2
       Explorer09              2
       Yury                    2
       Roeland                 2

    + top 10 bugs fixers:
       Kaganski, Mike          7
       Mehrbrodt, Samuel       5
       Justin L                4
       Buovjaga                3
       Vajna, Miklos           3
       Adolfo Jayme Barrientos 2
       Le Grand, Armin         2
       Tietze, Heiko           2
       Nabet, Julien           2
       McNamara, Caolán        1

    + top 10 bugs confirmers:
       Xisco Faulí             11
       Dieter Praas            10
       Buovjaga                9
       Tietze, Heiko           6
       Foote, V Stuart         5
       Susan Gessing           5
       Budea, Áron             5
       Drew Jensen             4
       Nabet, Julien           4
       Kelemen, Gabor          3


* Highest-Priority bugs (aka "MABs"):
   + http://bit.ly/2lJAAJI
     6.0 : 3/42 -     7 %  (+0)
     5.4 : 2/38 -     5 %  (+0)
     5.3 : 1/53 -     1 %  (+0)
     5.2 : 1/41 -     2 %  (+0)
     5.1 : 0/35 -     0 %  (+0)
     5.0 : 2/63 -     3 %  (-1)
     4.4 : 1/76 -     1 %  (+0)
     4.3 : 2/73 -     2 %  (+0)
     4.2 : 5/134 -    3 %  (+0)
     4.1 : 3/84 -     3 %  (+0)
     4.0 : 4/83 -     4 %  (+0)
     old : 19/257 -   7 %  (+0)


* Bisected bugs open: keyword 'bisected'
   + more accurate - down to a single commit.
   + http://bit.ly/2dyIfDy
   + 538/2301 537/2290 539/2275 530/2253 519/2225 505/2194 497/2178 

     done by:
        Xisco Faulí            8
        Buovjaga               1
        kompilainenn           1
 

* Bibisected bugs open: keyword 'bibisected'
   + http://bit.ly/2cSCXlS
   + 678/2988 654/2953 656/2936 648/2910 630/2873 607/2832 599/2813 

     done by:
        Buovjaga              29
        Xisco Faulí            6
        kompilainenn           1


* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
   + 976(-1) bugs open of 7255(+12) total 16(-1) high prio.

     done by:
        Xisco Faulí            5
        Buovjaga               2
        jalojo                 1
        kompilainenn           1


* ~Component   count net * high severity regressions
   + http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
     Writer        - 6(-1)
     Calc          - 3(+0)
     Impress       - 2(+0)
     Draw          - 2(+0)
     LibreOffice   - 2(+0)
     framework     - 1(+0)

   by OS:
     Windows       - 2(+0)
     Linux         - 2(+0)
     Mac OS X      - 0(+0)
     All           - 12(-1)


* ~Component   count net * all regressions
   + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
     Writer: other            - 217(+1)
     Calc                     - 168(-2)
     Impress                  - 109(-3)
     Writer: docx filter      - 79(+0)
     LibreOffice              - 72(+0)
     UI                       - 46(+0)
     Draw                     - 36(-1)
     Crashes                  - 35(-1)
     Writer: doc filter       - 34(-1)
     Borders                  - 33(-1)
     graphics stack           - 33(+0)
     Base                     - 30(+1)
     Writer: other filter     - 29(+3)
     filters and storage      - 28(+0)
     Writer: perf             - 25(+0)
     Chart                    - 22(+0)
     BASIC                    - 18(+0)
     Printing and PDF export  - 13(+0)
     framework                - 5(+0)
     Installation             - 1(+0)
     Extensions               - 1(+0)
     Formula Editor           - 1(+0)
     sdk                      - 1(+0)
     Linguistic               - 1(+0)

Best,

-- Thorsten
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