ESC meeting minutes: 2020-03-05

Miklos Vajna vmiklos at collabora.com
Thu Mar 5 15:38:37 UTC 2020


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

* Completed Action Items:
    + Update VS baseline to 2019 in git (Stephan)
    + Install current VS2019 on build bots / Jenkins (Cloph, Thorsten)
    + Enable skia by default on master and Windows, replacing GL (Lubos)

* Pending Action Items:
    + Propose new certified developers (Kendy, Stephan, Thorsten)

* Release Engineering update (Xisco)
    + 7.0 status: feature freeze is last week of May
    + 6.4 status: 6.4.2 rc2 will be tagged next week
    + 6.3 status: 6.3.6 in April
    + Remotes
    + Android viewer: core.git java viewer is currently broken on master
      + both arch64 and x86 (crash on doc load, will investigate)
      + have 2 changes in gerrit attempting to fix these problems (Michael W)
    + Online

* Documentation (Olivier)
    + New Help
       + Some auxiliary XSLT for refactoring (ohallot)
       + refactor for readability of JS (buovjaga)
    + Helpcontents2
       + Fixes and updates for UI-HC2 better match (S. Chaiklin, M. Kaganski)
       + Some refactoring of pages (buovjaga)
       + Fixes on contents/liguistics (fitoshido, S. Schröder)
    + Guides
       + Works in progress for all guides.
       + some investigation for managing translations of Guides (WIP) (ohallot)


* UX Update (Heiko)
    + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
        238(238) (topicUI) bugs open, 260(260) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
    + Updates:
        BZ changes   1 week    1 month    3 months   12 months
             added      6(-4)     23(-2)     47(-3)     118(-2)
         commented     79(-40)   379(-14)   994(-40)   2933(25)
           removed      1(1)       3(1)       8(0)       18(0)
          resolved     11(-10)    48(3)     103(-3)     269(2)
    + top 10 contributors:
          Heiko Tietze made 284 changes in 1 month, and 1484 changes in 1 year
          Foote, V Stuart made 75 changes in 1 month, and 530 changes in 1 year
          Dieter Praas made 70 changes in 1 month, and 429 changes in 1 year
          Roman Kuznetsov made 49 changes in 1 month, and 337 changes in 1 year
          Seth Chaiklin made 48 changes in 1 month, and 168 changes in 1 year
          Xisco Faulí made 28 changes in 1 month, and 447 changes in 1 year
          Kainz, Andreas made 27 changes in 1 month, and 286 changes in 1 year
          锁琨珑 made 27 changes in 1 month, and 34 changes in 1 year
          Timur made 18 changes in 1 month, and 146 changes in 1 year
          Cor Nouws made 17 changes in 1 month, and 175 changes in 1 year

     + New tickets with needsUXEval Feb/27-Mar/05

        * UNO command to dock all toolbars
          + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131005
        => WF
        * Navigate document content when selection is made in the Navigator
          + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131063
        => many pro and con

        * Remove "rename" option for hatch context menu and add "delete" to
          dialog box
          + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131036
        * What is the difference between a "Styles deck" and a "Styles window"?
          + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131078
        => forwarded to documentation

        * UI: Find All search result frame cannot resized
          + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131047
        => NEEDINFO

        * Writer table: "Number Format..." removed from context menu
          + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131046
        => unconfirmed

     + Some input for the branding of the upcoming release
        + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130778
        + cool proposals

* Crash Testing (Caolan)
    + 1(+0) import failure, 2(+0) export failures
      - mini-run, normal run blocked due to problematic HW
    + 2 coverity issues
    + 11 ossfuzz issues
    + Mozilla added a hunspell fuzzer to oss-fuzz
      + may also help with fixing the problems

* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/6.3.4.2
        + (+221) 3050 2829 2188 3301 3769 3222 2057 984 0
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/6.3.5.2
        + (+323) 635 312 0
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/6.4.0.3
        + (-692) 8772 9464 6774 4842 419 0
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/6.4.1.2
        + (+2052) 2052 0

    + looks better than 6.4.0
      + we again only get the dynamic lib signatures
      + not sure if we need to just wait or something else is broken
        + will poke Cloph next week

* GSoC 2020 (Ilmari)
    + https://opensource.googleblog.com/2019/12/announcing-google-summer-of-code-2020.html
        + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas
          + if you have the time, please do mentoring!
        + Student Application Period March 16 - 31, 2020
        + Application Review Period March 31, 2020 - April 27, 2020
    + students contacting potential mentors already, as usual

* easy hack future perspectives (Ilmari)
    + core devs seem to be of the opinion that difficultyInteresting should be the qualification threshold for GSoC
    + too late to change for 2020, but how about 2021? What does Thorsten say?
    + Muhammet proposed to have a new difficulty category. Ilmari thought it could be difficultyTrivial, for use with the ones like #pragma once and initializer_list ctor
      + trivial vs beginner, not clear which one is easier (Michael S)
        + can’t differentiate, either (Heiko)
      + sounds better to have difficultyMedium back
    + no rules from Google regarding that (Thorsten)
     + what is the advantage of a 3rd category? (Heiko)
       + not trivial and not challenging (Ilmari)
       + what is an example? (Ilmari)
         + most of them, unless trivial or challenging
         + could be the new default, then rank up or down if needed
         + e.g. sal_uLong → something else (Michal S)
           + but sometimes it’s more difficult
    + adding new tests and UNO commands
      + depends of if it’s copy&paste + adapt or something more complicated (Xisco)
    + approach: default to medium and it’ll be adjusted as necessary

=> no objections to make this written down / explicit

* mentoring/easyhack update
    + reviewing patches from first contributors is much appreciated (Muhammet)
    + https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/q/status:open+-label:Code-Review=-1+-label:Verified=-1+-ownerin:Committers

          committer...   1 week     1 month     3 months    12 months
                  open      75(2)      131(-2)     136(-4)      152(-2)
               reviews     680(68)    2516(-40)   6331(18)    23671(-80)
                merged     375(-29)   1729(90)    4546(-66)   18417(22)
             abandoned      23(-17)    119(7)      294(-10)    1007(9)
           own commits     279(-45)   1434(19)    3821(-27)   15251(8)
        review commits     103(4)      490(-20)   1329(44)     4551(37)
        contributor...   1 week     1 month     3 months     12 months
                  open       57(27)    111(4)       115(3)       117(3)
               reviews     1184(38)   4519(210)   10785(-15)   37012(294)
                merged       35(-5)    139(-31)     398(18)      906(24)
             abandoned       16(6)      36(-6)       91(10)      494(11)
           own commits       42(0)     163(-22)     429(25)     1063(32)
        review commits        0(0)       0(0)         0(0)         0(0)
    + easyHack statistics:
       needsDevEval 8(8)   needsUXEval 1(1)   cleanup_comments 207(207)
       total 258(258)   assigned 22(22)   open 221(221)
    + top 10 contributors:
          Sophia Schröder made 12 patches in 1 month, and 12 patches in 1 year
          Weblate made 12 patches in 1 month, and 32 patches in 1 year
          Balazs Varga made 7 patches in 1 month, and 64 patches in 1 year
          LibreOfficiant made 7 patches in 1 month, and 87 patches in 1 year
          Marco A.G.Pinto made 6 patches in 1 month, and 15 patches in 1 year
          Pelin, Rabia Kuran made 6 patches in 1 month, and 11 patches in 1 year
          Tünde Tóth made 5 patches in 1 month, and 45 patches in 1 year
          Pranam Lashkari made 5 patches in 1 month, and 27 patches in 1 year
          Shivam Kumar Singh made 5 patches in 1 month, and 7 patches in 1 year
          Mohamed Sameh made 5 patches in 1 month, and 5 patches in 1 year
    + top 10 reviewers:
          Michael Stahl made 216 review comments in 1 month, and 1530 in 1 year
          Behrens, Thorsten made 214 review comments in 1 month, and 1398 in 1 year
          Nabet, Julien made 200 review comments in 1 month, and 2414 in 1 year
          Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 180 review comments in 1 month, and 1024 in 1 year
          Meeks, Michael made 158 review comments in 1 month, and 892 in 1 year
          Grandin, Noel made 120 review comments in 1 month, and 1155 in 1 year
          Kaganski, Mike made 118 review comments in 1 month, and 866 in 1 year
          Holešovský, Jan made 114 review comments in 1 month, and 1013 in 1 year
          Timar, Andras made 114 review comments in 1 month, and 1275 in 1 year
          Xisco Faulí made 108 review comments in 1 month, and 920 in 1 year
    + Patches automatically abandoned:
        tdf#129342 drawinglayer: convert 16bpp formats to compatible format ( Chris Sherlock )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/85234
        Fix typo in code ( Andrea Gelmini )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/85320
        Make SdrTableObj ctor partially skip setup before cloning ( Stepas Toliautas )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/85722
            - looks like performance-related
    + big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
          Alan Tang (OSSII)
          james n

Commit Access
    + None

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

* Jenkins / CI update (Christian)
    + Missing Cloph

* l10n (Sophie)
  + working on user documentation

* Graphics architecture (Thorsten)
  * https://pad.documentfoundation.org/p/ESC_graphics_architecture
  * skia / vulkan: to try it on master (Miklos)
    + metabug: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129062
      + 18 bugs total (2 open)
    + Lubos is working on better text rendering (on top of harfbuzz)

* docx/xlsx competitive marketing issues (Miklos)
  + docx metabug status: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128194 7 open bugs (0)
  + xlsx metabug status: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128382 4 open bugs (0)
  + no change since last week

* Changing the default ‘make’ target (Lubos)
  + https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/89820
  + keeping ‘make check’ unchanged
  + plain ‘make’ would just build, not run tests
  + buildbot owners: need to run ‘make unitcheck slowcheck’ on Windows/macOS, not just plain ‘make’ to avoid loosing test coverage

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

    + UNCONFIRMED: 662 (+22)
        + enhancements: 81  (+8)
        + needsUXEval: 2 (-2)
        + haveBackTrace: 1 (+0)
        + needsDevAdvice: 12 (+1)
        + documentation:  16 (+4)
        + android:  7 (-1)
        + iOS:  0 (+0)
        + Online:  12 (+2)

    + Most pressing bugs:
     New:
        + 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

    Old:
       + FILEOPEN: Some labels in charts are not displayed by default
           + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117088
           + Patch in gerrit: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/89829

        + 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

        + Save-As behavior on MacOS Catalina
           + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126638
           + not happening for everyone


    + New high severity bugs of the week:
	[None]

* QA stats
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
      +168  +7 (-136) overall)
      many thanks to the top bug squashers:
       QA Administrators       11
       Heiko Tietze            9
       Xisco Faulí             8
       Caolán McNamara         7
       Julien Nabet            7
       Noel Grandin            7
       Mike Kaganski           5
       Balázs Varga            4
       László Németh           4
       Roman Kuznetsov         4

    + top 10 bugs reporters:
       Mike Kaganski           7
       NISZ LibreOffice Team   6
       Xisco Faulí             6
       sdc.blanco              6
       Regina Henschel         4
       Drew Jensen             3
       Eyal Rozenberg          3
       Heiko Tietze            3
       Caolán McNamara         2
       Elmar                   2

    + top 10 bugs fixers:
       Grandin, Noel           7
       McNamara, Caolán        7
       Heiko Tietze            6
       Balazs Varga            4
       Németh, László          4
       Kaganski, Mike          3
       Glogowski, Jan-Marek    2
       Henschel, Regina        2
       Kainz, Andreas          2
       Mehrbrodt, Samuel       2

    + top 10 bugs confirmers:
       Xisco Faulí             34
       Dieter Praas            17
       Brinzing, Oliver        10
       Heiko Tietze            9
       Bergmann, Stephan       6
       Budea, Áron             5
       Nabet, Julien           5
       *UNKNOWN*               4
       Oliver Grimm            4
       Balazs Varga            3


* Highest-Priority bugs (aka "MABs"):
   + http://bit.ly/2lJAAJI
     6.0 : 1/52 -     1 %  (+0)
     5.4 : 2/41 -     4 %  (+2)
     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 : 3/82 -     3 %  (+0)
     old : 5/244 -    2 %  (+0)


* Bisected bugs open: keyword 'bisected'
   + more accurate - down to a single commit.
   + http://bit.ly/2dyIfDy
   + 705/4029 707/4002 702/3978 708/3954 705/3930 695/3907 694/3890

     done by:
        Xisco Faulí            18
        NISZ LibreOffice Team   3
        Brinzing, Oliver        2
        Raal                    2
        Roman Kuznetsov         1


* Bibisected bugs open: keyword 'bibisected'
   + http://bit.ly/2cSCXlS
   + 882/4876 886/4850 881/4824 884/4796 878/4772 870/4750 868/4733

     done by:
        Xisco Faulí            17
        NISZ LibreOffice Team   3
        Brinzing, Oliver        2
        Raal                    2
        Roman Kuznetsov         1


* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
   + 1134(-8) bugs open of 9398(+26) total 1(+0) high prio.

     done by:
        Xisco Faulí            16
        NISZ LibreOffice Team   3
        Roman Kuznetsov         2
        Brinzing, Oliver        2
        eisa01                  1
        Raal                    1
        Robert Großkopf         1


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

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


* ~Component   count net * all regressions
   + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
     Writer: other            - 314(-5)
     Calc                     - 220(-1)
     Impress                  - 132(+1)
     Writer: docx filter      - 66(-2)
     LibreOffice              - 64(+0)
     Draw                     - 45(-1)
     UI                       - 40(-2)
     Borders                  - 38(+0)
     Base                     - 35(+0)
     Writer: perf             - 35(+0)
     Crashes                  - 34(+2)
     Writer: doc filter       - 31(+1)
     Writer: other filter     - 29(+0)
     graphics stack           - 29(+1)
     RTL                      - 23(+0)
     filters and storage      - 23(+1)
     Printing and PDF export  - 21(+0)
     Chart                    - 18(+1)
     BASIC                    - 17(-1)
     framework                - 2(+0)
     Extensions               - 1(+0)
     Installation             - 1(+0)
     sdk                      - 1(+0)


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