Minutes of ESC call

Miklos Vajna vmiklos at collabora.com
Thu Mar 21 15:43:54 UTC 2019


* Present:
    + Heiko, Stephan, Xisco, Eduard A, Michael W, Gabriel, Miklos, Caolan, Olivier, Sophie, Thorsten

* Completed Action Items:
    + create Paris hack-fest wiki page (Sophie)

* Pending Action Items:
    + next time we see write_tests5 fail - chop out that sub-test (Miklos)
    + add monitoring for build bot daily failure rates (Christian)
      [ not applied yet, but monitoring jenkins build slaves due to
        connectivity issues at Manitu ]
    + review/update GSOC ideas page! (Mentors)
      + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas

* Eduard A Intro:
    + Interested in Online, from 1&1
    + first commits are already coming
    + welcome (all)

* Release Engineering update (Xisco)
    + 6.2.2 rc2 status → announced
    + 6.2.3 rc1 → tagging next week
    + 6.1.6 rc1: April 9
    + 6.3 alpha1: early May
    + Remotes → no updates
    + Android viewer
       + Maven repo is not up-to-date, working on it. (Christian)
    + Online: Andras tagged the 6.2.2.2

* Documentation (Olivier)
    + New Help:
      + Improvements in donation button (buovjaga)
      + Backported to 6.2 (ohallot)
    + Help Contents 2
      + More pages on undocumented Basic (ohallot)
      + Housekeeping on Help pages (M. Robbinson, A Timar)
      + Pages on Hyperlink dialog (Shubham Goyal)
    + Guides.
       + team ramping up in update of Calc Guide 6.x

* UX Update (Heiko)
    + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
        249(249) (topicUI) bugs open, 224(224) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
    + Updates:
        BZ changes   1 week   1 month   3 months   12 months
             added      4(0)     14(1)     27(0)       78(-7)
         commented     57(12)   175(20)   422(7)     1383(-24)
           removed      1(-1)     6(1)      8(-1)      20(1)
          resolved      8(4)     19(3)     51(2)      128(0)
    + top 10 contributors:
          Tietze, Heiko made 111 changes in 1 month, and 592 changes in 1 year
          Mehrbrodt, Samuel made 41 changes in 1 month, and 71 changes in 1 year
          Foote, V Stuart made 35 changes in 1 month, and 202 changes in 1 year
          Xisco Faulí made 32 changes in 1 month, and 252 changes in 1 year
          Dieter Praas made 25 changes in 1 month, and 140 changes in 1 year
          Thomas Lendo made 19 changes in 1 month, and 256 changes in 1 year
          Roman Kuznetsov made 15 changes in 1 month, and 122 changes in 1 year
          Cor Nouws made 9 changes in 1 month, and 109 changes in 1 year
          和尚蟹 made 9 changes in 1 month, and 17 changes in 1 year
          Brinzing, Oliver made 8 changes in 1 month, and 14 changes in 1 year
     + New needsUXEval

       * tabbed toolbar notebookbarshortcuts.xml vertical center align
         + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123292
         => accepted

       * VIEWING zoom 100% really 91%
         + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123969
         => NAB

       * FORMCONTROLS: Add "bottom" or "underline" as border option
         + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124189
       * ImageMap to Tools menubar
         + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124198
       * TABLE: Difference between default style as template and default style
         as style is not clear
         + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124206
        => in discussion

     + New easyhacks
       * Place focus on header/footer frame menu button when header/footer
         is empty
         + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124041
         + has code pointers

* Crash Testing (Caolan)
    + 3(+0) import failure, 2(+0) export failures
    + coverity suspended
      - back but we now need c++17
    + Google / ossfuzz:
      - 12 (+0) issues, 9 timeouts, 1 OOM, 1 Build Failure
      + need to find time to look at these
      + some deep stack issue.
    + ForcePoint, round 9
        + ?? a few minor issues lingering
    + CNA process
        + First block of 10 assigned

* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
  + http://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/6.1.4.2
    + 791 (-121)
  + http://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/6.1.5.2
    + 634 656 (-22)
  + http://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/6.2.0.3
    + 1236 (-262)
  + http://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/6.2.1.2
    + 1148 (+75)
  + numbers looking good – but have a problem where we get dynamic libs
    instead of crash signatures.
     + not informative: ‘libmergedlo.dll’ is all we get.
     + unclear what happens there.

* Hackfests & Events (Thorsten)
   + this year hackfests coming up:
	+ Tirana perhaps (Xisco)
          + April 25th/28th → overlaps Orthodox Easter
             => so will not be these days.
          + May 4th / 5th  → conflict with German meetings
          + https://forum.openlabs.cc/t/libreoffice-hackfest-tirana-2019/1658
          + poke Bjoern / Eike / Xisco to chase / decide…
             + date is still not clear
             + more conflicts with OSCAL, perhaps move to another quarter?
	+ Paris in Summer (Sophie)
          + first week of July Fri/Sat 5th / 6th
	    + near Gare de Nord, La Mouette working on communication
          + designing a flier – avoids stomping on exams at end of June
          + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Hackfest/Paris2019
          + hope to have a Hackfest NG setup again – mentees, please speak up!
	+ tentative Dresden: late autumn (past mid-October, for having students)
   + hope to have one each quarter.

* GSOC 2019 (Thorsten/Xisco/Moggi/Heiko)
   + next deadline: March 25 student application period starts
   + please also have a look on the (updated) list of unmentored ideas
     https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas_without_a_mentor

* C++ lectures (Eike/Xisco)
    + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Events/C%2B%2BLectures
    + NEXT SESSION: Thursday 28, March

* mentoring/easyhack update
          committer...   1 week      1 month     3 months      12 months
                  open       65(29)     104(25)      109(24)       124(23)
               reviews     1409(128)   4942(174)   12839(-220)   44595(651)
                merged      284(-58)   1273(9)      3386(-72)    14693(-84)
             abandoned        8(-9)      45(0)       134(-8)       797(-17)
           own commits      224(-84)   1143(-19)    2945(-18)    14571(-64)
        review commits       47(-16)    294(-17)     857(-56)     3828(-27)
        contributor...   1 week   1 month    3 months   12 months
                  open     28(15)    77(9)      77(9)       78(9)
               reviews     70(14)   270(0)     528(-29)   8691(-808)
                merged     31(-1)   123(-7)    388(-20)   1707(-25)
             abandoned      5(-2)    19(-10)    63(-7)     305(-7)
           own commits     31(-1)   142(-1)    457(-36)   1711(3)
        review commits      0(0)      0(0)       0(0)        0(0)
    + easyHack statistics:
       needsDevEval 88(88)   needsUXEval 1(1)   cleanup_comments 264(264)
       total 328(328)   assigned 29(29)   open 206(206)
    + top 10 contributors:
          Gelmini, Andrea made 42 patches in 1 month, and 555 patches in 1 year
          LibreOfficiant made 12 patches in 1 month, and 12 patches in 1 year
          Illarionov, Arkadiy made 11 patches in 1 month, and 81 patches in 1 year
          shubham goyal made 11 patches in 1 month, and 11 patches in 1 year
          Ilmari Lauhakangas made 10 patches in 1 month, and 39 patches in 1 year
          Roman Kuznetsov made 8 patches in 1 month, and 24 patches in 1 year
          Johnny_M made 6 patches in 1 month, and 47 patches in 1 year
          LibreOfficiant made 6 patches in 1 month, and 34 patches in 1 year
          Mark-R made 4 patches in 1 month, and 20 patches in 1 year
          Grzegorz Araminowicz made 3 patches in 1 month, and 3 patches in 1 year
    + top 10 reviewers:
          Behrens, Thorsten made 260 review comments in 1 month, and 1690 in 1 year
          Timar, Andras made 216 review comments in 1 month, and 824 in 1 year
          Michael Stahl made 156 review comments in 1 month, and 1064 in 1 year
          Vajna, Miklos made 153 review comments in 1 month, and 1466 in 1 year
          Behrens, Katarína made 113 review comments in 1 month, and 574 in 1 year
          Nabet, Julien made 100 review comments in 1 month, and 1123 in 1 year
          Grandin, Noel made 97 review comments in 1 month, and 1262 in 1 year
          Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 88 review comments in 1 month, and 1166 in 1 year
          Bergmann, Stephan made 78 review comments in 1 month, and 737 in 1 year
          Mehrbrodt, Samuel made 75 review comments in 1 month, and 419 in 1 year
    + big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
          Vogt, David david.vogt at adfinis-sygroup.ch
          Grzegorz Araminowicz grzegorz.araminowicz at collabora.com
          Phil Krylov phil.krylov at gmail.com
          Gabriel Masei gabriel.masei at 1and1.ro
          Wenzhe Pei pwz26626664 at gmail.com
          Mohammed Sainal Shah sainaledava at gmail.com
          Baudin, Roland roland65 at free.fr
* irc bot – filter feature branch commits, too? (Thorsten)
    + https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/69109
    => no objections (all)

* commits mailing list – “From” mangling? (Miklos)

  + similar to what is done with gerrit
  + no problems (Thorsten, Stephan)

* Commit Access

  + Grzegorz Araminowicz (Miklos)
    + no problems (Thorsten, all) – reviews/merges please for oox/sd for the 	moment

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Bjoern/Kendy/Thorsten)
    + sleeping 4 weeks.

* Jenkins / CI update (Christian)

   + no info (Xisco)

* l10n (Sophie)

  + still testing weblate, expect decision next week

* ESC composition (Michael)
    + no Michael this week
    + rather stale: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/ESC
    + suggestions …

* QA update (Xisco)

    + Please help flesh out the monthly reports:
      https://nextcloud.documentfoundation.org/s/2qbepFYXXan4ief

    + UNCONFIRMED: 598 (-28)
        + enhancements: 83  (+3)
        + needsUXEval: 1 (+0)
        + haveBackTrace: 2 (+0)
        + needsDevAdvice: 14 (+0)
        + documentation:  12 (+2)
        + android:  11 (+0)
        + iOS:  21 (+0)
          + AI: talk to Tor / Nicolas if bypassing UNCONFIRMED makes sense (Miklos)
        + Online:  20 (+0)

    + Most pressing bugs:

        + New
            + Insert drawing object in chart crashes LibreOffice
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124112
                + Noel?

        + Older
            + Crash after accepting all changes from compared documents
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109376
                + M. Stahl ? Two different crashes (?)

            + Crashes on UNDO
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120754
                + dtardon / Caolan. Its an extension, so I'm guessing that
                  one of the steps is outside undo control

            + Crash in: ScFormulaResult::GetMatrixFormulaCellToken()
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=123479
                + patch from Lubos in gerrit … under discussion – Dennis ?

        + Fixed
		[None]

* QA stats
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
      +185  -33 (-145) overall)
      many thanks to the top bug squashers:
       Xisco Faulí             22
       Roman Kuznetsov         12
       Heiko Tietze            11
       V Stuart Foote          8
       Nicolas Christener      6
       Caolán McNamara         5
       Aron Budea              5
       Tor Lillqvist           4
       Cor Nouws               4
       László Németh           4

    + top 10 bugs reporters:
       Nicolas Christener      29
       Mike Kaganski           4
       Tor Lillqvist           3
       Aron Budea              3
       Jim Raykowski           3
       sergio.callegari        3
       elias estatistics       3
       Olivier Hallot          2
       Roman Kuznetsov         2
       Regina Henschel         2

    + top 10 bugs fixers:
       McNamara, Caolán        5
       Lillqvist, Tor          4
       Németh, László          4
       Xisco Faulí             4
       Behrens, Katarína       3
       Tietze, Heiko           3
       Mehrbrodt, Samuel       3
       Roman Kuznetsov         2
       Brian Fraser            2
       Henschel, Regina        2

    + top 10 bugs confirmers:
       Xisco Faulí             47
       Budea, Áron             21
       Alex Thurgood           15
       Dieter Praas            10
       Brinzing, Oliver        8
       Roman Kuznetsov         6
       Tietze, Heiko           6
       Buovjaga                6
       Raal                    6


* Highest-Priority bugs (aka "MABs"):
   + http://bit.ly/2lJAAJI
     6.0 : 1/51 -     1 %  (+0)
     5.4 : 1/40 -     2 %  (+0)
     5.3 : 1/54 -     1 %  (+0)
     5.2 : 2/44 -     4 %  (+0)
     5.1 : 0/35 -     0 %  (+0)
     5.0 : 2/64 -     3 %  (+0)
     4.4 : 1/76 -     1 %  (+0)
     4.3 : 2/73 -     2 %  (+0)
     4.2 : 3/134 -    2 %  (+0)
     4.1 : 3/84 -     3 %  (+0)
     4.0 : 4/83 -     4 %  (+0)
     old : 10/248 -   4 %  (+0)


* Bisected bugs open: keyword 'bisected'
   + more accurate - down to a single commit.
   + http://bit.ly/2dyIfDy
   + 642/3095 647/3084 652/3074 655/3063 658/3058 658/3040 648/3016

     done by:
        Xisco Faulí            4
        Buovjaga               3
        Kaganski, Mike         1
        Brinzing, Oliver       1
        Budea, Áron            1
        Raal                   1


* Bibisected bugs open: keyword 'bibisected'
   + http://bit.ly/2cSCXlS
   + 835/3882 840/3870 846/3859 851/3848 854/3843 855/3824 848/3798

     done by:
        Xisco Faulí            5
        Buovjaga               2
        Kaganski, Mike         1
        Brinzing, Oliver       1
        Budea, Áron            1
        Raal                   1


* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
   + 1116(+6) bugs open of 8258(+26) total 8(+0) high prio.

     done by:
        Xisco Faulí            6
        Alex Thurgood          3
        Buovjaga               2
        Raal                   2
        Benes, Luke            1
        Kaganski, Mike         1
        Kelemen, Gabor         1
        Faure, Jean-Baptiste   1
        Brinzing, Oliver       1
        Cor Nouws              1


* ~Component   count net * high severity regressions
   + http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
     LibreOffice   - 3(+0)
     Writer        - 3(+0)
     Calc          - 1(+0)
     graphics stack - 1(+0)

   by OS:
     All           - 7(+0)
     Linux         - 0(+0)
     Windows       - 1(+0)
     Mac OS X      - 0(+0)


* ~Component   count net * all regressions
   + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
     Writer: other            - 267(-4)
     Calc                     - 225(+1)
     Impress                  - 115(+2)
     Writer: docx filter      - 81(+0)
     LibreOffice              - 68(+2)
     Draw                     - 44(+1)
     Base                     - 44(+0)
     UI                       - 42(+1)
     Borders                  - 41(-1)
     Writer: perf             - 37(+1)
     Writer: doc filter       - 36(+0)
     graphics stack           - 35(+1)
     Writer: other filter     - 31(-1)
     Crashes                  - 28(-1)
     filters and storage      - 23(+0)
     BASIC                    - 17(+0)
     Printing and PDF export  - 14(+1)
     Chart                    - 14(+1)
     framework                - 2(+0)
     Linguistic               - 2(+0)
     Installation             - 1(+0)
     Extensions               - 1(+0)


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