minutes of ESC call ...

Michael Meeks michael.meeks at collabora.com
Thu May 17 14:48:33 UTC 2018


* Present:
    + Caolan, Stephan, Sophie, Miklos, Thorsten, Kendy, Michael S, Eike,
      Olivier, Michael M, Heiko (late)

* Completed Action Items:

* Pending Action Items:
    + fill out (both) polls:
        + evening: https://doodle.com/poll/wdbvtt8rgyn8z5bg
        + daytime: https://doodle.com/poll/567nszb5tfzfxue4
    + run dev-certification script again (Kendy)
        [ forgot to run it
          should poke Italo wrt. Renewing ? (Thorsten)
             + a number of expired ones
             + normally Italo pokes us here (Kendy)
                + if you’re aware please poke us ]
    + turn budget ideas into a spreadsheet for ranking (Thorsten)
        [ not got to it yet ] 

* Release Engineering update (Christian)
    + 5.4.7 released earlier today 
    + 6.0.5 – RC1
    + 6.1.0 alpha1 – Feature Freeze May 24th
        + beta1 this week, for tag ~next week depending on state of master
           + currently mac failures
           + libreoffice-6-0 branch will be created, but no review mandatory
             while still in beta phase – remember to cherry-pick bugfixes 
    + 6.1 late features
        + calc threading default / fixing (Miklos)
           + lots of fixes this week.
        + writer – red-lining re-factoring (Michael S)
           + to stop it moving things in the document model.
           + so layout & text formatting doesn’t show deleted stuff
           + how long more will it take.
           + have a contingency plan to use existing way of doing it
               + mostly new extra code.
               + changes to existing code should be bisectable.
           + sounds like a great win (Michael M)
               + love to have it in (Thorsten)
           + does it make it easier for Outline view ? (Michael M)
               + working to make completely deleted frames invisible (Michael S)
                   + would help with that too …
                   + should help de-bong undo/redo/redline mess (Miklos)
                   + avoids hide-red-line mess (Michael S)
        + KDE5 work from Bubli (Thorsten)
           + TDF builds – have no effect on release bits …
           + some changes to font subsystem not sure if a good idea to merge
           + perhaps depending on distro interest –
             add some bits to KDE5 sal subsystem.
               + unclear – sitting on the fence.
           + windows GL font-regression there ? (Michael)
               + nice to have it in one place to fix (Thorsten)
           + Bubli’s call (Thorsten)
        + Help format ? (Stephan)
           + old or new ?
           + some trouble wrt. getting media files packaged (Olivier)
               + re-working how image files go into the help.
               + need more time.
           + two things in mind (Stephan)
              + media/localization
              + extensions help – currently not working.
          + having no media not a blocker (Kendy)
              + didn’t have that before – videos can come later.
                  + videos in un-localized bundle increasing its size (Stephan)
              + did some work to get help help into pkgs (Stephan)
                  + media folder not differentiated per language.
              + wiki page with structure of the folder (Olivier)
                  +https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/NewHelpMedia    
                  + how large are the per-language blobs ? (Stephan)
                      + if big should go into localized packages.
              + can try to help out (Stephan)
          + extension pieces – how to fix that (Stephan)
              + when we have online help – it never showed extension (Olivier)
              + if only have HTML help loose them completely – not good (Stephan)
          + didn’t remove the help-viewer code (Kendy)
              + we can fallback in extremis to old-help for extensions eg.
    + Remotes
        + got logo image source & cleanup fixes from Siqi
        + now a menu-bar rendering issue – orange shade etc.
    + Android viewer
        + endless recursion bug
        + number-text feature causing grief: disabled
        + what happened to the Android tinderbox ? (Miklos)
          + prolly got stuck and no-one noticed (Christian) 
    + Online

* Documentation (Olivier)
    + New Help
        + Tweaks for the UI (fitoshido, buovjaga)
    + wiki page for community contribution of collateral files
    + Help contents
        + Several fixes by translators
        + HIDs fixed by Caolan
        + New pages on digital signature + Signature Line (ohallot)
    + Guides:
         + Sprint Review Week next week to boost revision of
           Getting Started (GS) 6.0 (ohallot,  D. Barton and Drew Jensen)
             + almost there – but need a final review push here.

* New meeting time:
    + evening: https://doodle.com/poll/wdbvtt8rgyn8z5bg
         + 11 filled it out.
    + daytime: https://doodle.com/poll/567nszb5tfzfxue4
         + 22 filled it out.
    + People have just one more week – discuss in next ESC
AI:      + poke people who didn’t fill out the evening (Thorsten)

* UX Update (Heiko)
    + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
        247(247) (topicUI) bugs open, 323(323) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
    + Updates:
        BZ changes   1 week    1 month    3 months   12 months  
             added      1(-6)     15(-4)     40(-1)     112(-4) 
         commented     26(-30)   194(-23)   545(-20)   2004(-49)
           removed      0(0)       0(0)       2(0)       11(0)  
          resolved      0(-2)      7(-1)     32(-2)     181(0)  
    + top 10 contributors:
          Tietze, Heiko made 63 changes in 1 month, and 835 changes in 1 year
          Pedro made 38 changes in 1 month, and 40 changes in 1 year
          Foote, V Stuart made 31 changes in 1 month, and 290 changes in 1 year
          Dieter Praas made 31 changes in 1 month, and 153 changes in 1 year
          Xisco Faulí made 18 changes in 1 month, and 339 changes in 1 year
          Cor Nouws made 17 changes in 1 month, and 155 changes in 1 year
          Buovjaga made 13 changes in 1 month, and 201 changes in 1 year
          Thomas Lendo made 12 changes in 1 month, and 416 changes in 1 year
          Dr. Matthias Weisser made 9 changes in 1 month, and 9 changes in 1 year
          Timur made 8 changes in 1 month, and 73 changes in 1 year

    + New drawing styles added
      https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/6.1#Impress_.26_Draw
       + messy implementation? 
         pISet->Put( XLineStyleItem(drawing::LineStyle_SOLID));
         pISet->Put( XLineColorItem(OUString(), Color(0x00c9211e)) );
         … skip 100 lines …
         every property hard-coded in the sources ?
         Would expect an XML file instead.
            + filing a ticket is fine but – who fixes it ? (Michael)
            + a GSOC project did this for impress layouts (Thorsten)
                + but not looked in years.
         Implemented and working, looking nice.
 
    + Shapes deck in Draw/Impress made non-experimental
       + intermediate state – idea had more aspects
       + user-shapes, favourite shapes – not yet implemented
       + set it as non-experimental

    + Two new volunteers showed up in the meeting after volunteermatch
       + found their way to help us.

* Crash Reporting (Caolan)
    + 4 import failure, 2 export failures
       + 2 exports – mst layout asserts.
       + import failures – fast-parser ones
          + have a better fix -seems to work:
            https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/52720/
          + would appreciate removing the -2 from previous iteration.
       + temporary calc threading run – could use another one wrt. 114
          + would be useful to have another run (Miklos)
    + coverity
        + 4 (+1, -6)
        + numbers improved.
    + forcepoint round 7 ?
        + mean to reply to him,
    + oss-fuzz  (8 outstanding, 8 minor)
        + fixed some of the outstanding ones 

* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
    + http://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/5.4.5.1 
          + 602 (last 7 days) (+2)
    + http://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/5.4.6.2 
          + 838 (last 7 days) (+10)
    + http://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/5.4.7.2
          + 2 (last 7 days) (-)
    + http://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/6.0.3.2
          + 1464 (last 7 days) (-12)
    + http://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/6.0.4.2
          + 572 (last 7 days) (+10)

* GSoC schedule (Thorsten)
   + Coding: May 14 - August 6
       + all seems well, one student down
       + coding should be under-way.
   + Evaluation 1: June 11 - 15
   + Evaluation 2: July 9 - 13
   + 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
     + Turkey – OYLG ? May 12th-13th https://ozguryazilimgunleri.org.tr/2018/
         + nice to have an update ... 
     + Hungarian conference also May 12th
         + few people registered, many came – went well.
         + http://konf.fsf.hu/cgis/ossc/2018/index
     + OSCAL is coming (Heiko)
         + May in Tirana – Heiko, Florian, Italo there.
         + can share presentation for there – get more people into design coding
           https://nextcloud.documentfoundation.org/s/qJdqrbRCYoCFgpo

* mentoring/easyhack update
         committer...   1 week     1 month     3 months    12 months   
                  open      66(11)     131(12)     140(10)      143(10) 
               reviews     485(-20)   1737(-52)   4791(-6)    18080(77) 
                merged     257(20)    1055(-27)   3664(-52)   13195(66) 
             abandoned      94(85)     131(71)     280(79)      943(83) 
           own commits     265(-2)    1164(-11)   3703(-53)   13766(-56)
        review commits      70(-2)     328(-23)    937(15)     3142(-25)
        contributor...   1 week     1 month     3 months     12 months   
                  open      32(-9)      68(6)       69(7)         73(7)  
               reviews     764(-16)   2872(-82)   8810(-146)   31122(156)
                merged      22(-4)     129(-19)    458(-13)     1754(-6) 
             abandoned       4(-6)      45(-1)     103(-1)       373(3)  
           own commits      23(-3)     128(-22)    370(-7)      1170(-6) 
        review commits       0(0)        0(0)        0(0)          0(0)  
    + easyHack statistics:
       needsDevEval 43(43)   needsUXEval 2(2)   cleanup_comments 204(204)   
       total 252(252)   assigned 22(22)   open 183(183)   
    + top 5 contributors:
          Gelmini, Andrea made 35 patches in 1 month, and 337 patches in 1 year
          Sophia Schröder made 30 patches in 1 month, and 43 patches in 1 year
          Samuel Thibault made 11 patches in 1 month, and 30 patches in 1 year
          Jim Raykowski made 7 patches in 1 month, and 56 patches in 1 year
          Johnny_M made 5 patches in 1 month, and 115 patches in 1 year
    + top 5 reviewers:
          Pootle bot made 286 review comments in 1 month, and 1600 in 1 year
          Behrens, Thorsten made 184 review comments in 1 month, and 1426 in 1 year
          Vajna, Miklos made 133 review comments in 1 month, and 1328 in 1 year
          Grandin, Noel made 133 review comments in 1 month, and 1501 in 1 year
          Meeks, Michael made 86 review comments in 1 month, and 753 in 1 year
    + big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
          Victor Mireyev victor at opennodecloud.com 

* Commit Access

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Bjoern/Kendy/Thorsten)
    + alarm rings – Kendy to run the script again.

* Jenkins / CI update (Christian)
    from:Thu May 10 16:12:15 2018
    master linux rel  jobs: 147 ok: 146 ko:   1 fail ratio:  0.68 % break:   1 broken duration: 0.10%
    master linux dbg  jobs:  64 ok:  64 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master mac rel    jobs:  31 ok:  29 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master mac dbg    jobs:  30 ok:  27 ko:   1 fail ratio:  3.33 % break:   1 broken duration: 0.00%
    master win rel    jobs:  58 ok:  34 ko:  24 fail ratio: 41.38 % break:  14 broken duration:35.63%
    master win dbg    jobs:  65 ok:  26 ko:  39 fail ratio: 60.00 % break:  11 broken duration:53.54%
    master win64 dbg  jobs:  64 ok:  56 ko:   8 fail ratio: 12.50 % break:   8 broken duration: 8.01%
    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: 503 ok: 367 ko:  29 fail ratio:  5.77% time for ok: mean:  12 median:  10
    master gerrit plg jobs: 501 ok: 343 ko:  49 fail ratio:  9.78% time for ok: mean:  30 median:  28
    master gerrit win jobs: 496 ok: 347 ko:  49 fail ratio:  9.88% time for ok: mean:  58 median:  52
    master gerrit mac jobs: 513 ok: 254 ko:  13 fail ratio:  2.53% time for ok: mean:  45 median:  30
    master gerrit all jobs: 504 ok: 241 ko: 127 fail ratio: 25.20% time for ok: mean: 180 median: 143
    + have an issue with the Mac bots getting stuck on a cppunit test & getting aborted
       + reason why the queue grew large
       + new mac-pro not affected, older ones are 
       + disabled – but things re-appeared with another test.
       + perhaps related to XCode version
       + can we get a backtrace ? (Miklos)
            + don’t have one yet.

* l10n (Sophie)
  + defined a localization process with Olivier on example help files
      + going well.

* QA update (Xisco)

    + Xisco on vacation for the next two calls.

    + UNCONFIRMED: 456 (+8)
        + enhancements: 51  (+0)
        + needsUXEval: 7 (+0)
        + haveBackTrace: 5 (-1)
        + needsDevAdvice: 29 (+0)
        + documentation:  1 (+1)
        + android:  9 (+1)

    + Most Pressing Bugs: http://tdf.io/mostressingbugs

        + New

            + 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)

        + New / Firebird Migrations:

            + Firebird: Migration: Migration function must recognize opening...
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117531

            + FIREBIRD: Migration: After first SQL-error nothing else imported
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117333
                + Tamas B pushed a fix.

            + FIREBIRD : Migration : error on importing tables or queries
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116987
                + Tamas B pushed a fix.

            + Firebird: Migration: Starting migration on file saved ...
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117325
                + Tamas B pushed a fix.

        + AW080: Armin …

            + CRASH: LibreOffice crashes being closed with content in the clipboard
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116977
                + fix pushed by Armin – but not closed (?)

            + Crash on pasting copy from Draw in Calc
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117064

        + Older:

            + EDITING: crash in SfxItemSet::GetItemState pasting comment
              of closed document
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117228
                + Henry Castro looking into it
                + Patch in gerrit: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/53922/

            + Crash (fatal error) when attempting a mail merge print
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116543
                + Szymon ?

            + Crash on third file opening
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116803
                + Image Handling Refactoring. Tomaž actively working on it.

            + Calc crashes when opening Function Wizard through Cmd-F2 shortcut
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116511
                + bisected – Eike / Mac only - can Tor reproduce ? ...

             + Printing doesn't start in particular documents until show first
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116370
                + Jan-Marek ?

            + CRASH when adding paragraphs in a cell of a complex table structure
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116293
                + Manfred Blume / Thorsten ?

            + CRASH: LibreOffice crashes while deleting half of the document
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116068
                + Michael S’s assert catching badness ...
	  
        + Fixed:

            + CRASH changing the master slide
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117475
                + fixed thanks to Caolan.

            + Crash inserting Fontwork
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116993
                + fixed thanks to Armin.

            + EDITING Draw crashes converting image to polygon
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117469
                + fixed thanks to Caolan.


* QA stats
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
      +125  +4 (-84) overall)
      many thanks to the top bug squashers:
       Buovjaga                6
       Jean-Baptiste Faure     6
       Caolán McNamara         6
       Heiko Tietze            5
       Mike Kaganski           5
       Adolfo Jayme            4
       V Stuart Foote          4
       Maxim Monastirsky       4
       Drew Jensen             3
       Telesto                 3

    + top 10 bugs reporters:
       Telesto                 17
       Xisco Faulí             6
       Aron Budea              5
       Olivier Hallot          5
       Mike Kaganski           5
       Drew Jensen             3
       opensuse.lietuviu.kalba 2
       V Stuart Foote          2
       kompilainenn            2
       Regina Henschel         1

    + top 10 bugs fixers:
       McNamara, Caolán        6
       Kainz, Andreas          3
       Adolfo Jayme Barrientos 3
       Drew Jensen             2
       Vajna, Miklos           2
       Tietze, Heiko           2
       Andras Timar            2
       Grandin, Noel           2
                               1
       Donkers, Winfried       1

    + top 10 bugs confirmers:
       Buovjaga                13
       Xisco Faulí             12
       Raal                    8
       Dieter Praas            5
       Budea, Áron             4
       *UNKNOWN*               4
       Jacques Guilleron       4
       Foote, V Stuart         3
       Tietze, Heiko           3
       Faure, Jean-Baptiste    3


* Highest-Priority bugs (aka "MABs"):
   + http://bit.ly/2lJAAJI
     6.0 : 4/40 -     10 %  (+0)
     5.4 : 2/38 -     5 %  (+0)
     5.3 : 1/53 -     1 %  (-2)
     5.2 : 1/41 -     2 %  (+0)
     5.1 : 0/35 -     0 %  (+0)
     5.0 : 2/63 -     3 %  (+0)
     4.4 : 1/76 -     1 %  (+0)
     4.3 : 5/74 -     6 %  (+0)
     4.2 : 6/134 -    4 %  (+0)
     4.1 : 3/84 -     3 %  (+0)
     4.0 : 4/83 -     4 %  (+0)
     old : 21/258 -   8 %  (+0)


* Bisected bugs open: keyword 'bisected'
   + more accurate - down to a single commit.
   + http://bit.ly/2dyIfDy
   + 505/2169 502/2152 495/2129 489/2108 475/2083 467/2064 458/2037 

     done by:
        Xisco Faulí            7
        Raal                   4
        Kaganski, Mike         2
        Budea, Áron            1
        Buovjaga               1
 

* Bibisected bugs open: keyword 'bibisected'
   + http://bit.ly/2cSCXlS
   + 606/2804 599/2784 592/2760 589/2738 576/2714 564/2691 552/2662 

     done by:
        Xisco Faulí            7
        Raal                   4
        Kaganski, Mike         2
        Foote, V Stuart        1
        Budea, Áron            1
        Terrence Enger         1
        Buovjaga               1


* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
   + 974(+7) bugs open of 7095(+24) total 18(-6) high prio.

     done by:
        Xisco Faulí            6
        Telesto                3
        Buovjaga               3
        Budea, Áron            2
        m.a.riosv              2
        Raal                   2
        Meeks, Michael         1
        Kaganski, Mike         1
        kompilainenn           1


* ~Component   count net * high severity regressions
   + http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
     Calc          - 5(-1)
     Impress       - 4(-2)
     LibreOffice   - 4(-1)
     Writer        - 3(+0)
     framework     - 1(+0)
     Draw          - 1(-1)
     Base          - 0(-1)

   by OS:
     Linux         - 2(+0)
     All           - 12(-6)
     Mac OS X      - 1(+0)
     Windows       - 3(+0)


* ~Component   count net * all regressions
   + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
     Writer: other            - 200(+6)
     Calc                     - 168(-1)
     Impress                  - 115(-1)
     LibreOffice              - 77(+0)
     Writer: docx filter      - 75(+1)
     UI                       - 47(+0)
     Draw                     - 39(+1)
     Crashes                  - 37(-3)
     Base                     - 34(-1)
     Writer: doc filter       - 34(+0)
     graphics stack           - 33(+1)
     Borders                  - 31(-1)
     Writer: other filter     - 26(-1)
     filters and storage      - 26(+0)
     Writer: perf             - 26(+0)
     Printing and PDF export  - 19(+0)
     BASIC                    - 18(+0)
     Chart                    - 18(+0)
     framework                - 5(+0)
     sdk                      - 2(+1)
     Linguistic               - 1(+0)
     Formula Editor           - 1(+0)
     Installation             - 1(+0)
     Extensions               - 1(+0)


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