ESC meeting minutes: 2020-07-16

Miklos Vajna vmiklos at collabora.com
Thu Jul 16 14:35:29 UTC 2020


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

* Completed Action Items:
    + put together some proposal on what are the benefits of a dev list move from FDO to TDF (William)
	      => Sent email to Guilhem and his answer is very positive (William)
         - Guilhem just needs mbox file dumps
         - Subscription to the new mailing list infra will be automatic and completely transparent for subscribers. (batch re-subscribe script)
         - Guilhem sees this project in 2 phases: a test step and a real migration afterwards
     => will mail some timeline to the dev list later

* Pending Action Items:
  + None

* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
    + 7.0 status
      + UI freeze & string freeze in the first week of July in effect
          freeze exception for product flavor
         + expect decision after Friday
      + rc2 has been tagged, builds are in progress
    + 6.4 status
      + rc1 for 6.4.6 will be next week
    + Remotes
    + Android viewer
    + Online
      + 7.0 rc1 source code release by Andras

* Documentation (Olivier)
    + New Help
      + Scripting move from <ahelp> to UI files
    + HelpContent2
      + Fixes in contents by LibreOfficiant, ohallot.
      + Updates by buovjaga, ohallot, oalvarez
      + New pages on Basic by LibreOfficiant

   + Google seasons of Doc
      + Received ~20 applicaitons, triaging
   + Guides
      + Team working on version 7

* UX Update (Heiko)
    + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
        248(248) (topicUI) bugs open, 250(250) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
    + Updates:
        BZ changes   1 week    1 month   3 months   12 months
             added      8(1)      19(4)     42(4)      158(2)
         commented     94(-16)   332(8)    944(6)     3591(22)
           removed      0(-2)      5(0)      8(-1)      49(-1)
          resolved      3(-7)     30(-9)   118(-8)     385(2)
    + top 10 contributors:
          Heiko Tietze made 196 changes in 1 month, and 2131 changes in 1 year
          Telesto made 97 changes in 1 month, and 262 changes in 1 year
          Ilmari Lauhakangas made 40 changes in 1 month, and 173 changes in 1 y
          Timur made 39 changes in 1 month, and 202 changes in 1 year
          Foote, V Stuart made 26 changes in 1 month, and 591 changes in 1 year
          Xisco Fauli made 23 changes in 1 month, and 552 changes in 1 year
          Kaganski, Mike made 16 changes in 1 month, and 111 changes in 1 year
          Dieter Praas made 15 changes in 1 month, and 512 changes in 1 year
          Henschel, Regina made 15 changes in 1 month, and 105 changes in 1 year
          Monastirsky, Maxim made 13 changes in 1 month, and 55 changes in 1 y

    + New tickets with needsUXEval Jul/09-16

      * 14 new tickets

      * UI Shape size setting relative to Entire page/Paragraph area missing
        from UI
        + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134380
        + makes sense (Miklos)
      * Entering a table with too many columns causing Writer to lock up
        + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134779
        + some kind of feedback to the user when there are too many columns
        + sounds like a good idea (Michael S)
      * Entering "-" in a cell formatted as text puts Calc into
        formula-entering mode
        + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=132026
        + already commented in the bug (Eike)

* Crash testing (Caolan)
    + 4(-1) import failure, 5(+1) export failures
    + 1 coverity issues
        + coverity outage over
    + Google / ossfuzz: 13 open issues, 10 timeouts

* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/6.3.6.2
        + (-243) 1900 2143 2188 2094 2327 1758 1376 858 668 529 283 0
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/6.4.3.2
        + (-181) 1773 1954 2195 2625 3411 3771 4896 6243 7540 6577 5725
4328 2199 0
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/6.4.4.2
        + (-999) 4353 5352 6607 6857 7333 5252 3670 1638 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/6.4.5.2
        + (+599) 1761 1162 0

+ Crash since LibreOffice 6.4.5
- https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/signature/drawinglayer::processor2d::VclMetafileProcessor2D::impStartSvtGraphicStroke(SvtGraphicStroke%20const%20*)
- no reproducer steps yet

- much less reports: 1700 reports a week vs 3600 reports a week earlier

* 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     104(11)      158(12)     162(15)      170(14)
               reviews     454(-86)    1774(-68)   4394(60)    20585(-284)
                merged     403(-224)   2082(-91)   5433(112)   19859(48)
             abandoned      17(1)        90(5)      269(-5)     1045(-2)
           own commits     317(-146)   1434(99)    3995(83)    16095(57)
        review commits      58(-36)     344(-17)   1175(-11)    4607(-58)
        contributor...   1 week       1 month      3 months     12 months
                  open       42(10)       78(8)         80(7)        82(7)
               reviews     1366(-547)   5637(-116)   13583(400)   43222(307)
                merged       16(-20)     114(-20)      389(-1)     1035(0)
             abandoned       11(-6)       57(3)        129(4)       591(6)
           own commits       23(-35)     175(-21)      563(-10)    1369(6)
        review commits        0(0)         0(0)          0(0)         0(0)
    + easyHack statistics:
       needsDevEval 8(8)   needsUXEval 2(2)   cleanup_comments 232(232)
       total 282(282)   assigned 22(22)   open 241(241)
    + top 10 contributors:
          Johnny_M made 80 patches in 1 month, and 192 patches in 1 year
          LibreOfficiant made 22 patches in 1 month, and 144 patches in 1 year
          Shivam Kumar Singh made 6 patches in 1 month, and 18 patches in 1 year
          yakovru made 6 patches in 1 month, and 6 patches in 1 year
          srijan bhatia made 5 patches in 1 month, and 7 patches in 1 year
          Aditya Sahu made 4 patches in 1 month, and 12 patches in 1 year
          Balázs regényi made 4 patches in 1 month, and 9 patches in 1 year
          Attila Bakos made 3 patches in 1 month, and 20 patches in 1 year
          PhD. Ayhan YALÇINSOY made 3 patches in 1 month, and 18 patches in 1 year
          Reztsov, Yakov made 2 patches in 1 month, and 2 patches in 1 year
    + top 10 reviewers:
          Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 244 review comments in 1 month, and 1222 in 1 year
          Behrens, Thorsten made 194 review comments in 1 month, and 1378 in 1 year
          Timar, Andras made 136 review comments in 1 month, and 1379 in 1 year
          Olivier Hallot made 110 review comments in 1 month, and 598 in 1 year
          Németh, László made 92 review comments in 1 month, and 579 in 1 year
          Xisco Fauli made 80 review comments in 1 month, and 850 in 1 year
          Meeks, Michael made 72 review comments in 1 month, and 868 in 1 year
          Kaganski, Mike made 62 review comments in 1 month, and 818 in 1 year
          Vajngerl, Tomaž made 58 review comments in 1 month, and 278 in 1 year
          Heiko Tietze made 58 review comments in 1 month, and 478 in 1 year
    + Patches automatically abandoned:
        unnecessary find before insert / emplace in chart ( Jochen Nitschke )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/91287

        tdf#130924 replace `*printf`s with `SAL_*` logging macros. ( Yukio Siraichi )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/92934

        tdf#131407: move UItest to CppunitTest ( Sachin Vilas Nagane )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/93154

        tdf#131407: move UItest to CppunitTest (Calc) ( Sachin Vilas Nagane )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/93310

        wip: tdf#132737: Remove duplicate SVG theme icons ( Chris Mayo )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/93711

        tdf#132787: Don't duplicate hicolor icon theme as gnome ( Chris Mayo )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/93712

        sfx2: lok: separate sidebar notifications to mobile and desktop ( Ashod Nakashian )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/93992

    + big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
          Baurzhan Muftakhidinov
          Svante Schubert

* Commit Access
    + Ilmari
    => no objections (all)
AI: give the commit permission (Cloph)

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Kendy/Thorsten)
    + sleep 11 weeks
    + seeking for a new person as a replacement for Bjoern, who is currently
      inactive

* Jenkins / CI update (Christian)
    from:Thu Jul  9 14:09:03 2020
    master linux rel  jobs:  56 ok:  56 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master linux dbg  jobs:  46 ok:  40 ko:   6 fail ratio: 13.04 % break:   2 broken duration:17.81%
    master mac rel    jobs: 105 ok: 105 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master mac dbg    jobs: 105 ok: 105 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master win rel    jobs:  67 ok:  67 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master win dbg    jobs:  70 ok:  70 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master win64 dbg  jobs:  71 ok:  70 ko:   1 fail ratio:  1.41 % break:   1 broken duration: 3.75%
    master gerrit lin jobs: 623 ok: 501 ko:  92 fail ratio: 14.77% time for ok: mean:  22 median:  22
    master gerrit plg jobs: 575 ok: 388 ko: 151 fail ratio: 26.26% time for ok: mean:  30 median:  30
    master gerrit win jobs: 656 ok: 434 ko: 172 fail ratio: 26.22% time for ok: mean:  56 median:  57
    master gerrit mac jobs: 620 ok: 524 ko:  64 fail ratio: 10.32% time for ok: mean:  26 median:  22
    master gerrit all jobs: 603 ok: 294 ko: 260 fail ratio: 43.12% time for ok: mean: 106 median:  95
   + https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/tmp/gerrit_200716.html
   + tests that failed more than twice in last seven days:
      3 CppunitTest_sw_ooxmlexport4
      3 CppunitTest_sw_uibase_shells
      3 JunitTest_forms_unoapi_1
      3 JunitTest_ridl_remote
      3 UITest_impress_tests
      3 UITest_writer_tests3
      4 CppunitTest_sd_svg_export_tests
      5 CppunitTest_chart2_export
      8 Killed by the kill-wrapper, typically due to no stdout/-err activity during a specified timeout interval.
      8 CppunitTest_sw_uwriter
     11 CppunitTest_sw_ww8export
     12 CppunitTest_sw_ww8export3
     14 CppunitTest_sw_uiwriter
     15 CppunitTest_sw_ww8export2
     37 CppunitTest_chart2_import

  + pretty bad, due to unstable tests (Cloph)
    + not 100% reproducible, and only on Windows (sw ones, chart2 ones also on linux gcc/clang)

* l10n (Sophie)
  + 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
      + 5 (+1) open bugs, 82 total (+2)

* LibreOffice Conference will be Online (Sophie)
  + deadline to submit your talks: 21st July
AI:  + please submit talks by the next week!

* remove --with-build-version (Rene, Heiko)
  + About dialog lost custom build-version
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134522
  +  --with-extra-buildid might be sufficient (Tinderboxes write this)
  + --with-build-version is used by Debian e.g.
  + build-version is no longer visible in the about dialog, only when the text is copied
  + do we need both options? looks overlapping
  + no objections to change (Thorsten)
=> drop one of these
  + copy&paste is sometimes broken on Windows 10 depending on the Windows 10 version used and whether an antimalware protection is used. (William)
    + If the advanced build info is only available from copy-paste, we have a chicken egg problem.
    + please file a bugreport (Heiko)

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

    + UNCONFIRMED: 905 (+24)
        + enhancements: 105  (+5)
        + needsUXEval: 11 (+4)
        + haveBackTrace: 1 (+0)
        + needsDevAdvice: 14 (+1)
        + documentation:  11 (-2)
        + android:  4 (+0)
        + iOS:  0 (+0)
        + Online:  13 (+0)

    + Most pressing bugs:
     New:
        + Start Center: Document names mismatched with their thumbnails with RTL language UI
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134085
            + Armin ? related to cairo speedup work

     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

	     Fixed:
        + FILESAVE: big document with password can't be open afterwards
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134796
            + Thanks to Luboš Luňák

       + Edited forms created by older version of LO cannot be opened
any more
           + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134582
			           + Thanks to Michael Stahl


    + New high severity bugs of the week:

        + XLSX file saved in LibreOffice 7 is corrupted and it is later not possible to open in Excel
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134769
            + Serge?

	* QA stats
AI: check if these numbers are correct (Xisco)
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
      +182  +27 (-136) overall)
      many thanks to the top bug squashers:
       QA Administrators       19
       Xisco Faulí             8
       Caolán McNamara         7
       Heiko Tietze            7
       Maxim Monastirsky       7
       V Stuart Foote          7
       Mike Kaganski           6
       Julien Nabet            4
       Regina Henschel         4
       Telesto                 4

    + top 10 bugs reporters:
       Telesto                 20
       NISZ LibreOffice Team   8
       NSO LibreOffice Team    7
       Xisco Faulí             6
       Mike Kaganski           3
       Albert Acer             2
       BDF                     2
       Baurzhan Muftakhidinov  2
       Frank Zimmerman         2
       Heiko Tietze            2

    + top 10 bugs fixers:
       Heiko Tietze            6
       McNamara, Caolán        6
       Monastirsky, Maxim      4
       Melenchuk, Vasily       3
       Tünde Tóth              3
       Adolfo Jayme Barrientos 2
       Balazs Varga            2
       Kaganski, Mike          2
       Luboš Luňák             2
       Michael Stahl           2

    + top 10 bugs confirmers:
       Xisco Fauli             59
       Heiko Tietze            8
       Nabet, Julien           8
       Ilmari Lauhakangas      6
       Roman Kuznetsov         5
       Telesto                 5
       *UNKNOWN*               4
       Andrew Watson           3
       Foote, V Stuart         3
       Kaganski, Mike          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
   + 815/4507 805/4474 797/4452 788/4429 788/4400 773/4356 761/4308

     done by:
        Xisco Fauli            19
        Telesto                 5
        barakso.attila          3
        Ilmari Lauhakangas      2
        Budea, Áron             1
        NISZ LibreOffice Team   1
        Raal                    1


* Bibisected bugs open: keyword 'bibisected'
   + http://bit.ly/2cSCXlS
   + 1005/5393 997/5359 990/5335 977/5308 977/5276 956/5224 943/5169

     done by:
        Xisco Fauli            21
        Telesto                 5
        barakso.attila          3
        Ilmari Lauhakangas      2
        NISZ LibreOffice Team   1
        Raal                    1


* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
   + 1205(+5) bugs open of 9926(+34) total 15(+0) high prio.

     done by:
        Xisco Fauli            15
        Telesto                13
        Rathke, Eike            1
        Alex Thurgood           1
        NISZ LibreOffice Team   1
        Andrew Watson           1
        Raal                    1


* ~Component   count net * high severity regressions
   + http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
     Writer        - 9(+0)
     Calc          - 4(+1)
     Impress       - 2(+0)
     Base          - 0(-1)

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


* ~Component   count net * all regressions
   + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
     Writer: other            - 360(+6)
     Calc                     - 225(+6)
     Impress                  - 142(+3)
     LibreOffice              - 58(+0)
     Writer: docx filter      - 55(-1)
     Crashes                  - 51(+2)
     Draw                     - 46(+0)
     Borders                  - 43(+0)
     UI                       - 42(-4)
     Writer: perf             - 40(+1)
     Base                     - 29(-1)
     Writer: doc filter       - 28(+1)
     Writer: other filter     - 28(+1)
     graphics stack           - 26(-1)
     Printing and PDF export  - 24(+0)
     RTL                      - 22(+0)
     Chart                    - 21(-2)
     filters and storage      - 21(+0)
     BASIC                    - 16(+1)
     framework                - 2(+0)
     Formula Editor           - 1(+0)
     Installation             - 1(-1)
     sdk                      - 1(+0)


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