ESC minutes 2020-Jul-09

Heiko Tietze heiko.tietze at documentfoundation.org
Thu Jul 9 14:31:05 UTC 2020


* Present:
    + Sophie, Cloph, Heiko, Caolan, Ilmari, Michael W, Eike, Olivier,
Michael S, Xisco, William

* Pending Action Items:
    + AI: put together some proposal on what are the benefits of a dev
list move from FDO to TDF (William)
    => Still need to send an email to Guilhem (William)
    + update the TDF wiki to advertise
https://nextcloud.documentfoundation.org/apps/files/?dir=/Shared/Common/esc-minutes
(William)
     => Wiki page has been updated to reflect the location change of
the minutes. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/ESC


* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
    + 7.0 status
      + RC1 on mirrors
      + UI freeze & string freeze in the first week of July in effect
          freeze exception fror randing flavor
      + there will be 3 RCs (Cloph)
        + RC2 in 1 weeks, RC3 in 3 weeks
    + 6.4 status
      + 6.4.5 released as fial
      + 6.4.6   rc1 week after the next
    + Remotes
    + Android viewer
    + Online

* Documentation (Olivier)
+ New Help

   + No news
+ Helpcontents2
   + Several fixes and updates from translators
   + Automated <ahelp> extraction to fill extended tips
      directly on UI files
      + use AtkObject::acessible-description
      + requires manual intervention to address hid="."
      + use Glade 3.36 (use flatpack)
      + can generate a PO file stub with translation
          + one per language
          + will spare translation rework
          + Must test in weblate
          + one shot intervention.
+ Guides
   + Progress on-going


+ Google seasons of Doc
   + Deadline for submission is today


* UX Update (Heiko)
    + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
        249(249) (topicUI) bugs open, 247(247) (needsUXEval) needs to
be evaluated by the UXteam
    + Updates:
        BZ changes   1 week    1 month   3 months   12 months
             added       7(4)     14(0)     37(-4)     155(-7)
         commented     120(68)   319(53)   930(-23)   3557(40)
           removed       2(0)      5(2)      9(2)       50(2)
          resolved      13(8)     39(-3)   129(-2)     384(11)
    + top 10 contributors:
          Heiko Tietze made 192 changes in 1 month, and 2131 changes
in 1 year
          Telesto made 84 changes in 1 month, and 240 changes in 1 year
          Foote, V Stuart made 45 changes in 1 month, and 608 changes
in 1 year
          Ilmari Lauhakangas made 42 changes in 1 month, and 171
changes in 1 year
          Timur made 34 changes in 1 month, and 193 changes in 1 year
          Rizal Muttaqin made 27 changes in 1 month, and 88 changes in
1 year
          Xisco Fauli made 27 changes in 1 month, and 549 changes in 1
year
          srijan bhatia made 20 changes in 1 month, and 26 changes in
1 year
          Kaganski, Mike made 17 changes in 1 month, and 113 changes
in 1 year
          BogdanB made 16 changes in 1 month, and 84 changes in 1 year

     + New tickets with needsUXEval Jul/02-09

       * Changes the slide format, changes the content dimensions (not
honoring ratio etc)
         + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134643
       * Add contextual details in Tabbed Interface
         + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134481
       * Hyperlink colours cannot be changed by changing Hyperlink style
         + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134456
       => NAB, WF

       * UI: Paper tray settings in Page setup seems wrong
         + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134642
       * UI: Printer settings hidden under more
         + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134640
       * Tiny Text in Presenter Console Help - Linux
         + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133715
       => unconfirmed

    -> * UI: Branding: LibreOffice Personal edition
         + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134486
       => new

    -> * Need support for PPTX themes
         + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134090
    -> * Keybinding is defined by UI language instead of locale setting
         + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134470
         + interested peope are welcome to look into it
    -> * About dialog lost custom build-version
         + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134522
         + went into the copied version info to save space; drop this
flag completely?
        => decision postponed for next weekl

* Crash Reporting (Caolan)
    + 5(+5) import failure, 4(-57) export failures

    + 18 (-14, +18) coverity issues
        + another build succeeded, a bit hit and miss
    + 13 ossfuzz issues (10 timeouts)

* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/6.3.6.2
        + (-45) 2143 2188 2094 2327 1758 1376 858 668 529 283 0
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/6.4.3.2
        + (-241) 1954 2195 2625 3411 3771 4896 6243 7540 6577 5725
4328 2199 0
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/6.4.4.2
        + (-1255) 5352 6607 6857 7333 5252 3670 1638 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/6.4.5.2
        + (+1162) 1162 0

* GSoC 2020 (Ilmari)
    + Projects announced:
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/05/05/9769/
    + June 1, 2020 - August 24, 2020: Students work on their projects
    + 6 projects accepted
    + the game is on, students are reporting more or less regularly
      + remind your students if it's not happening
    + Second evaluations July 27 - 31, 2020

* Mentoring/easyhack update
          committer...   1 week     1 month     3 months    12 months
                  open     106(-17)    161(-20)    162(-20)     171(-21)
               reviews     532(-26)   1836(-16)   4338(60)    20891(-8)
                merged     635(119)   2122(248)   5317(252)   19798(432)
             abandoned      17(-11)     88(-2)     276(-12)    1051(-2)
           own commits     466(169)   1290(174)   3912(167)   16019(296)
        review commits      91(32)     352(-30)   1179(27)     4658(21)
        contributor...   1 week      1 month     3 months     12
months
                  open       32(-1)      72(1)        73(1)
75(1)
               reviews     1941(303)   5669(505)   13163(675)
42869(1117)
                merged       35(13)     134(-20)     389(19)
1032(24)
             abandoned       15(-3)      54(1)       123(1)
583(8)
           own commits       58(35)     196(-25)     573(28)
1361(47)
        review commits        0(0)        0(0)         0(0)
0(0)
    + easyHack statistics:
       needsDevEval 8(8)   needsUXEval 2(2)   cleanup_comments 233(233)
       total 283(283)   assigned 24(24)   open 240(240)
    + top 10 contributors:
          Johnny_M made 100 patches in 1 month, and 192 patches in 1 year
          LibreOfficiant made 20 patches in 1 month, and 144 patches in
1 year
          yakovru made 6 patches in 1 month, and 6 patches in 1 year
          Ilmari Lauhakangas made 5 patches in 1 month, and 28 patches
in 1 year
          srijan bhatia made 5 patches in 1 month, and 6 patches in 1 year
          Aditya Sahu made 4 patches in 1 month, and 11 patches in 1 year
          Attila Bakos made 4 patches in 1 month, and 18 patches in 1 year
          Balázs regényi made 4 patches in 1 month, and 9 patches in 1
year
          Gökay ŞATIR made 4 patches in 1 month, and 23 patches in 1 year
          Weblate made 3 patches in 1 month, and 56 patches in 1 year
    + top 10 reviewers:
          Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 220 review comments in 1 month,
and 1194 in 1 year
          Behrens, Thorsten made 218 review comments in 1 month, and
1362 in 1 year
          Timar, Andras made 188 review comments in 1 month, and 1437
in 1 year
          Olivier Hallot made 134 review comments in 1 month, and 602
in 1 year
          Ilmari Lauhakangas made 94 review comments in 1 month, and
166 in 1 year
          Németh, László made 80 review comments in 1 month, and 561
in 1 year
          Xisco Fauli made 74 review comments in 1 month, and 846 in 1
year
          Kaganski, Mike made 64 review comments in 1 month, and 838
in 1 year
          Michael Stahl made 62 review comments in 1 month, and 1360
in 1 year
          McNamara, Caolán made 60 review comments in 1 month, and 826
in 1 year
    + Patches automatically abandoned:
        Fix typo ( Andrea Gelmini )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/84497
        "The focus remains where the user left in "Area" tab, fix:
tdf#124548 ” ( Pranesh Ulleri )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/87534
        "tdf#116091: Replaced 'AutoFormat' Button in Convert Text to
Table dialog" ( Pranesh Ulleri )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/90591
        WIP: SwFormatField: SwModify no more ... ( Bjoern Michaelsen )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/90865
        tdf#121526 tdf#123621 Fix OOXML textbox position.. ( Nagy Tibor )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/93121
        Added some new terms tdf#87605 ( DaeHyun Sung )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/93279
        tdf#132614 add Korean autocorrect conversions ( DaeHyun Sung )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/93315

* Commit Access
    + None

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Kendy/Thorsten)
    + sleep 12 weeks
    + seeking for a new person as a replacement for Bjoern, who is
currently
      inactive7.8

* Jenkins / CI update (Christian)
    from:Thu Jul  2 14:13:41 2020
    master linux rel  jobs:  36 ok:  36 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 %
break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master linux dbg  jobs:  31 ok:  31 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 %
break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master mac rel    jobs:  63 ok:  62 ko:   1 fail ratio:  1.59 %
break:   1 broken duration: 0.21%
    master mac dbg    jobs:  64 ok:  63 ko:   1 fail ratio:  1.56 %
break:   1 broken duration: 0.29%
    master win rel    jobs:  45 ok:  18 ko:  27 fail ratio: 60.00 %
break:   2 broken duration:55.08%
    master win dbg    jobs:  42 ok:  34 ko:   8 fail ratio: 19.05 %
break:   6 broken duration:15.94%
    master win64 dbg  jobs:  40 ok:  32 ko:   8 fail ratio: 20.00 %
break:   5 broken duration:18.28%
    master gerrit lin jobs: 611 ok: 437 ko: 105 fail ratio: 17.18%
time for ok: mean:  23 median:  23
    master gerrit plg jobs: 568 ok: 342 ko: 146 fail ratio: 25.70%
time for ok: mean:  32 median:  30
    master gerrit win jobs: 637 ok: 364 ko: 185 fail ratio: 29.04%
time for ok: mean:  56 median:  56
    master gerrit mac jobs: 624 ok: 440 ko: 123 fail ratio: 19.71%
time for ok: mean:  29 median:  25
    master gerrit all jobs: 578 ok: 261 ko: 205 fail ratio: 35.47%
time for ok: mean: 114 median: 120
   + https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/tmp/gerrit_200709.html
   + tests that failed more than twice in last seven days:
      3 CppunitTest_dbaccess_hsqldb_test
      3 CppunitTest_sc_macros_test
      3 CppunitTest_sw_mailmerge
      3 CppunitTest_sw_ww8export
      4 CppunitTest_sc_statistical_functions_test
      4 CppunitTest_sc_subsequent_export_test
      4 CppunitTest_sc_tiledrendering
      4 CppunitTest_starmath_qa_cppunit
      4 CppunitTest_sw_globalfilter
      4 UITest_writer_macro_tests
      7 CppunitTest_services
      7 CppunitTest_sw_odfexport
      7 CppunitTest_sw_uiwriter
      8 UITest_writer_tests3
     10 CppunitTest_starmath_import
     11 CppunitTest_sw_ww8export2
     11 CppunitTest_sw_ww8export3

* l10n (Sophie)
  + updated to 4.1.1
  + work is ongoing
  + working on credit page

* Graphics architecture (Thorsten)
  * https://pad.documentfoundation.org/p/ESC_graphics_architecture
  * skia / vulkan: try it on master (Lubos)
    + metabug: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129062
      + 4 (+1) open bugs, 80 total (+6)

* LibreOffice Conference will be Online (Sophie)
  + deadline to submit your talks: 21st July
  + what kind of S/W will be used for the presentations? (Stephan)
      + the same tool openSUSE will be using, discussing (Sophie)
      + one possibility is record & broadcast + Q/A later (Ilmari)

* Branding (Stephan)
  + What do we want the LO Flatpak version (that used to be provided
directly
    at <https://www.libreoffice.org/download/flatpak/>, and is now at
    <https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.libreoffice.LibreOffice>) to be
    called?
  + As-is, the LO 7.0 Flatpak would say "Personal" and "Personal
Edition" all
    over the place.
  + in discussion (Heiko)
  + TDF tagline - should be doable for Flatpak (Michael/Thorsten)
     + Stephan / Cloph in a team (Michael/Thorsten)
  + not urgent, Stephan not available immediately

* Gerrit update done
    + now on 3.1.7
    + enable git protocol v2 to benefit from faster fetch

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2020-July/085478.html
   + consider to update to the new protocol but do it manually (see
link above) (Cloph)
   + pushing might ave become slower (Michael S)

* QA update (Xisco)
    + Please help flesh out the monthly reports:
          https://nextcloud.documentfoundation.org/s/2qbepFYXXan4ief

    + UNCONFIRMED: 871 (+56)
        + enhancements: 103  (+13)
        + needsUXEval: 6 (-2)
        + haveBackTrace: 1 (+0)
        + needsDevAdvice: 13 (+1)
        + documentation:  12 (-1)
        + android:  4 (-1)
        + iOS:  0 (+0)
        + Online:  12 (+0)

    + Most pressing bugs:
        New:
       + Edited forms created by older version of LO cannot be opened
any more
           + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134582
			           + Mike Kaganski ?

        Old:
       + macOS: Can't Save As after installing language pack on Catalina
           + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=132025
           + more info here: “Subject: Budget 2020 proposals and macOS
Catalina
             support / onboarding” on the dev list (Heiko)

       + Opening ODS file rise Incorrect Format exception. Opened well
with
         OpenOffice 4.1.3
           + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116079
           + regression from the fastparser gsoc work from 2016
          + Mohammed is no longer around, Julien is asking for tips

        + Text runs of RTL scripts (e.g. Arabic, Hebrew, Persian) from
imported
          PDF are reversed, PDFIProcessor::mirrorString not behaving
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104597
            + Thorsten looking at it
            + old problem, but many duplicates



		* QA stats
    +
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
      +184  -21 (-141) overall)
      many thanks to the top bug squashers:
       Heiko Tietze            18
       QA Administrators       13
       Telesto                 12
       Caolán McNamara         7
       Eike Rathke             7
       Xisco Faulí             7
       Luboš Luňák             6
       V Stuart Foote          6
       steve -_-               5
       Balázs Regényi          4

    + top 10 bugs reporters:
       Telesto                 38
       Heiko Tietze            15
       NSO LibreOffice Team    11
       NISZ LibreOffice Team   9
       johnks                  7
       Am Jam                  4
       Xisco Faulí             4
       Jim Avera               3
       Bart Besseling          2
       Michael Warner          2

    + top 10 bugs fixers:
       McNamara, Caolán        7
       Rathke, Eike            5
       Heiko Tietze            4
       Luboš Luňák             4
       regenyi.balazs+libreoffice_bugzilla at gmail.com 4
       DaeHyun Sung            3
       Glogowski, Jan-Marek    3
       Németh, László          3
       Xisco Fauli             3
       steve -_-               3

    + top 10 bugs confirmers:
       Xisco Fauli             23
       Telesto                 22
       Nabet, Julien           9
       Heiko Tietze            7
       Ilmari Lauhakangas      6
       Ahmad Haris             5
       Dieter Praas            4
       *UNKNOWN*               3
       Foote, V Stuart         3
       Glogowski, Jan-Marek    3


* Highest-Priority bugs (aka "MABs"):
   + http://bit.ly/2lJAAJI
     6.0 : 1/52 -     1 %  (+0)
     5.4 : 0/41 -     0 %  (+0)
     5.3 : 0/54 -     0 %  (+0)
     5.2 : 0/43 -     0 %  (+0)
     5.1 : 1/36 -     2 %  (+0)
     5.0 : 0/64 -     0 %  (+0)
     4.4 : 0/76 -     0 %  (+0)
     4.3 : 2/73 -     2 %  (+0)
     4.2 : 1/133 -    0 %  (+0)
     4.1 : 3/85 -     3 %  (+0)
     4.0 : 4/83 -     4 %  (+0)
     old : 7/247 -    2 %  (+0)


* Bisected bugs open: keyword 'bisected'
   + more accurate - down to a single commit.
   + http://bit.ly/2dyIfDy
   + 799/4466 799/4451 785/4421 785/4394 778/4349 762/4303 745/4272

     done by:
        Xisco Fauli            5
        barakso.attila         3
        Ilmari Lauhakangas     3
        Budea, Áron            1
        Telesto                1


* Bibisected bugs open: keyword 'bibisected'
   + http://bit.ly/2cSCXlS
   + 993/5351 990/5332 975/5300 973/5269 961/5215 944/5163 924/5128

     done by:
        Ilmari Lauhakangas     5
        Xisco Fauli            5
        barakso.attila         3
        Telesto                2
        Budea, Áron            1
        BogdanB                1


* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
   + 1191(+5) bugs open of 9878(+25) total 15(-1) high prio.

     done by:
        Telesto               16
        Xisco Fauli            3
        Roman Kuznetsov        1
        Rathke, Eike           1
        Ilmari Lauhakangas     1
        Kaganski, Mike         1
        Raal                   1
        Foote, V Stuart        1


* ~Component   count net * high severity regressions
   + http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
     Writer        - 10(-1)
     Calc          - 3(+0)
     Impress       - 2(+0)

   by OS:
     All           - 11(-2)
     Linux         - 2(+1)
     Mac OS X      - 0(+0)
     Windows       - 2(+0)


* ~Component   count net * all regressions
   + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
     Writer: other            - 349(-1)
     Calc                     - 220(-1)
     Impress                  - 138(-1)
     LibreOffice              - 58(+0)
     Writer: docx filter      - 55(+1)
     Crashes                  - 46(-4)
     Draw                     - 46(+0)
     UI                       - 44(+1)
     Borders                  - 43(+0)
     Writer: perf             - 39(-2)
     Base                     - 29(+0)
     Writer: doc filter       - 27(+0)
     Writer: other filter     - 27(+0)
     graphics stack           - 27(+0)
     Printing and PDF export  - 24(-1)
     Chart                    - 23(+0)
     RTL                      - 22(+0)
     filters and storage      - 21(+0)
     BASIC                    - 15(+1)
     Installation             - 2(+0)
     framework                - 2(+0)
     Formula Editor           - 1(+0)
     sdk                      - 1(+0)





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