ESC meeting minutes: 2020-03-12

Miklos Vajna vmiklos at collabora.com
Thu Mar 12 15:40:11 UTC 2020


* Present:
     + Olivier, Caolan, Justin, Gabriel, Michael W, Heiko, Sophie, Ilmari,
       Miklos, Xisco, Cloph, Kendy

* Completed Action Items:

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

* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
    + 7.0 status: feature freeze is last week of May
    + 6.4 status: 6.4.2 rc2 was tagged this week
    + 6.3 status: 6.3.6 in April
    + Remotes
    + Android viewer
    + Online

* Documentation (Olivier)
    + New Help (No news)
    + Helpcontent2
        + Updates and fixes (S. Chaiklin, LibreOfficiant, buovjaga, Fitoshido)
    + Guides
        + Progress in all books, closing gap to LO 6.4
        + Extension website will have Literaure to download
           vm135.documentfoundation.org

* UX Update (Heiko)
    + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
        238(238) (topicUI) bugs open, 262(262) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
    + Updates:
        BZ changes   1 week   1 month    3 months   12 months
             added     42(36)    55(32)     80(33)     153(35)
         commented     89(10)   362(-17)   973(-21)   3009(76)
           removed     30(29)    32(29)     36(28)      45(27)
          resolved     11(0)     49(1)     105(2)      275(6)
    + top 10 contributors:
          Heiko Tietze made 260 changes in 1 month, and 1501 changes in 1 year
          Xisco Faulí made 183 changes in 1 month, and 600 changes in 1 year
          Foote, V Stuart made 61 changes in 1 month, and 534 changes in 1 year
          Roman Kuznetsov made 45 changes in 1 month, and 353 changes in 1 year
          Dieter Praas made 38 changes in 1 month, and 425 changes in 1 year
          Kainz, Andreas made 37 changes in 1 month, and 316 changes in 1 year
          Timur made 23 changes in 1 month, and 155 changes in 1 year
          Rizal Muttaqin made 22 changes in 1 month, and 45 changes in 1 year
          Justin Luth made 15 changes in 1 month, and 27 changes in 1 year
          Seth Chaiklin made 15 changes in 1 month, and 168 changes in 1 year

    + New tickets with needsUXEval Mar/05-12

      * print dialog sidebar width change when window size change
        + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131272
      * Update Bullet and Numbering Image presets
        + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131224
      => assigned

      * Insert comment shortcut doesn't let me edit existing comment
        + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95854
      => fixed

      * FORMATTING Pasting text changes paragraph format in older LO document
        + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105550
      * add visio like shapes to LibO gallery
        + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131226
      => DUP, WF

      * improve UX around info message "Missing hyphenation info – please
        install the hyphenation package for locale "de"
        + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131233
   -> * Change .uno: command for Protect Cells in Writer from .uno:Protect
        to .uno:CellProtection
        + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130783
        + good to keep the old name working, in-doc macros and extensions can refer to the old name (Miklos)

      * Replace Hard-Coded Tips of The Day's Bulb by Themeable Icon
        + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131177
      => in discussion, unconfirmed

      * Remove More Fields sub menu and move its content to the parent
        form/dialog main menu
        + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131239
      * new menu item: DOCUMENT, or a new sub-menu item FILES / Outline
        (enhancement, development)
        + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131182
      * request for a more intuitive behavior when search in document has zero
        results ("search key not found") -- and at displaying matches
        + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131142
      => needinfo

      * Gallery: add SmartArt gallery theme
        + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131245
      * Add the possibility to name "text" elements in the master document
        Navigator
        + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131227
      * Function wizard not correctly using the Add-In category
        + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131169
      => new/decided

* Crash Testing (Caolan)
    + 1(+0) import failure, 2(+0) export failures
      + still the mini-run, due to failing HW
    + 0 coverity issues
    + 9 oss-fuzz issues

* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/6.3.4.2
        + (-574) 2476 3050 2829 2188 3301 3769 3222 2057 984 0
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/6.3.5.2
        + (+326) 961 635 312 0
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/6.4.0.3
        + (-1343) 7429 8772 9464 6774 4842 419 0
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/6.4.1.2
        + (+1635) 3687 2052 0

* 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

* 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     100(25)     157(26)      161(25)       177(25)
               reviews     588(-92)   2236(-280)   6093(-238)   23641(-30)
                merged     315(-60)   1631(-98)    4366(-180)   18383(-34)
             abandoned      16(-7)     120(1)       283(-11)     1003(-4)
           own commits     275(-4)    1342(-92)    3723(-98)    15160(-91)
        review commits      74(-29)    428(-62)    1293(-36)     4550(-1)
        contributor...   1 week      1 month      3 months      12 months
                  open       40(-17)     91(-20)       94(-21)       96(-21)
               reviews     1112(-72)   4406(-113)   10499(-286)   37094(82)
                merged       21(-14)    136(-3)       403(5)        912(6)
             abandoned       31(15)      64(28)       121(30)       522(28)
           own commits       28(-14)    158(-5)       439(10)      1068(5)
        review commits        0(0)        0(0)          0(0)          0(0)
    + easyHack statistics:
       needsDevEval 8(8)   needsUXEval 1(1)   cleanup_comments 207(207)
       total 257(257)   assigned 20(20)   open 221(221)
    + top 10 contributors:
          Weblate made 12 patches in 1 month, and 33 patches in 1 year
          Balazs Varga made 9 patches in 1 month, and 66 patches in 1 year
          Ilmari Lauhakangas made 7 patches in 1 month, and 40 patches in 1 year
          LibreOfficiant made 7 patches in 1 month, and 87 patches in 1 year
          Pranam Lashkari made 7 patches in 1 month, and 29 patches in 1 year
          Pelin, Rabia Kuran made 7 patches in 1 month, and 12 patches in 1 year
          Sophia Schröder made 6 patches in 1 month, and 12 patches in 1 year
          Marco A.G.Pinto made 6 patches in 1 month, and 15 patches in 1 year
          Tünde Tóth made 6 patches in 1 month, and 48 patches in 1 year
          PhD. Ayhan YALÇINSOY made 5 patches in 1 month, and 12 patches in 1 year
    + top 10 reviewers:
          Behrens, Thorsten made 194 review comments in 1 month, and 1406 in 1 year
          Michael Stahl made 186 review comments in 1 month, and 1528 in 1 year
          Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 146 review comments in 1 month, and 1030 in 1 year
          Meeks, Michael made 130 review comments in 1 month, and 900 in 1 year
          Nabet, Julien made 128 review comments in 1 month, and 2414 in 1 year
          Timar, Andras made 114 review comments in 1 month, and 1255 in 1 year
          Kaganski, Mike made 112 review comments in 1 month, and 870 in 1 year
          Grandin, Noel made 112 review comments in 1 month, and 1151 in 1 year
          Xisco Faulí made 104 review comments in 1 month, and 922 in 1 year
          Holešovský, Jan made 100 review comments in 1 month, and 1015 in 1 year
    + Patches automatically abandoned:
        tdf#50916 Increase maximum number of columns from 1024 to 16384 ( Bartosz Kosiorek )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/76193
        Fix typos ( Andrea Gelmini )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/77203
        tdf#97361: Changed getCount to len ( Mayank Suman )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/80112
        drawinglayer: improve EMFPPath::Read() ( Chris Sherlock )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/84843
        tdf#129308 drawinglayer: not reading EmfPlusPath records correctly ( Chris Sherlock )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/84844
        tdf#129342 drawinglayer: extract EMFPPlusDrawImage() function ( Chris Sherlock )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/85143
        tdf#129342 drawinglayer: extract EMFPBrush::GetTextureTransformation() function ( Chris Sherlock )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/85144
        drawinglayer: move EMF+ enums, constants and helpers to enum helper files ( Chris Sherlock )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/85231
        tdf#129342 drawinglayer: improve logging in EMFPImage::Read() ( Chris Sherlock )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/85232
        tdf#129342 drawinglayer: read in uncompressed bitmap ( Chris Sherlock )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/85233
        tdf#129342: drawinglayer: fill polygon with texture brush ( Chris Sherlock )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/85239
        drawinglayer: improve EMF+ logging ( Chris Sherlock )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/85548
        drawinglayer: convert object type defines to ObjectType enum ( Chris Sherlock )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/85666
        drawinglayer: extract ObjectContinues() ( Chris Sherlock )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/85667
        drawinglayer: EmfPlusImage's first field is a graphics version ( Chris Sherlock )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/85668
        tdf#101639 drawinglayer: better logging for unimplemented EMF+ hatch styles ( Chris Sherlock )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/85669
        wip: weld StylesPropertyPanel ( Caolán McNamara )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/85720
        tdf#101639 drawinglayer: partially implement fill with hatching ( Chris Sherlock )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/85796
        drawinglayer: initialize EMFPImage struct with constructor ( Chris Sherlock )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/85845
        tdf#129342 vcl: migrate DIBV5Header functions ( Chris Sherlock )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/85904
        tdf#96505:Get rid of cargo cult long integer literals ( Batuhan, Görkem Benzer )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/85942
        tdf#75280 - Convert inappropriate use of sal_uIntPtr to better integer types ( Gökay ŞATIR )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/86072
        tdf#124176: Use pragma once instead of include guards ( Elzem Atay )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/86220
        tdf#124176: Use pragma once instead of include guards ( aleyna  doğrucan )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/86231
    + big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
          Andrew Lee (Collabora)
          Fred Kruse

Commit Access
    + None

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Kendy/Thorsten)
    + sleep -13 weeks
    + seeking for a new person as a replacement for Bjoern, who is currently inactive

* Jenkins / CI update (Christian)
    from:Thu Mar  5 12:03:52 2020
    master linux rel  jobs:  77 ok:  77 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master linux dbg  jobs:  72 ok:  69 ko:   2 fail ratio:  2.78 % break:   2 broken duration: 0.46%
    master mac rel    jobs:   0 ok:   0 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master mac dbg    jobs:   0 ok:   0 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master win rel    jobs: 111 ok:  98 ko:  13 fail ratio: 11.71 % break:  11 broken duration:11.70%
    master win dbg    jobs: 113 ok: 105 ko:   8 fail ratio:  7.08 % break:   7 broken duration: 3.88%
    master win64 dbg  jobs: 114 ok: 105 ko:   9 fail ratio:  7.89 % break:   8 broken duration: 8.35%
    master gerrit lin jobs: 489 ok: 382 ko:  82 fail ratio: 16.77% time for ok: mean:  19 median:  19
    master gerrit plg jobs: 462 ok: 288 ko: 137 fail ratio: 29.65% time for ok: mean:  27 median:  25
    master gerrit win jobs: 502 ok: 395 ko:  80 fail ratio: 15.94% time for ok: mean:  46 median:  44
    master gerrit mac jobs: 494 ok: 385 ko:  64 fail ratio: 12.96% time for ok: mean:  27 median:  24
    master gerrit all jobs: 477 ok: 260 ko: 162 fail ratio: 33.96% time for ok: mean:  99 median:  63
   + tests that failed more than twice in last seven days:
      3 CppunitTest_sal_osl
      3 CppunitTest_sd_filters_test
      3 CppunitTest_sw_odfexport
      3 CppunitTest_vcl_pdfexport
      3 UITest_impress_tests
      3 UITest_writer_demo5
      4 CppunitTest_svl_urihelper
      4 CppunitTest_sw_uiwriter

    + nothing unusual

* l10n (Sophie)
  + working on user documentation, almost finished
  + work as usual

* 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
      + 4 open bugs (20 total)
    + 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 6 open bugs (-1)
  + xlsx metabug status: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128382 4 open bugs (0)

* Changing the default ‘make’ target (Lubos)
  + https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/89820
  + waiting for LODE changes to be deployed on Jenkins slaves
  + will update macOS/Windows slaves later today or tomorrow (Cloph)

* Superscript in editeng (Kendy)
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89849
    + fixed with https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=ba09d436dfd1f0b07b95aad3d375e7cd7318440b by Justin
    + Fixes a regression that was in the codebase since 4.1
        + people might have manually tweaked the superscript in the documents
    + More info:
        + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.0#Impress_.26_Draw
    + Proposal: Just release note this, not introduce a check for this in the
      import filters & try to tweak this etc.
    + does this improve / not improve MSO interop? (Miklos)
      + may improve things (Kendy)
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80194 affected/related?
      + Justin looked at both bugs (Kendy)

=> sounds like a good proposal (all)

* QA update (Xisco)

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

    + UNCONFIRMED: 694 (+32)
        + enhancements: 89  (+8)
        + needsUXEval: 7 (+5)
        + haveBackTrace: 1 (+0)
        + needsDevAdvice: 11 (-1)
        + documentation:  19 (+3)
        + android:  6 (-1)
        + iOS:  0 (+0)
        + Online:  15 (+3)

    + Most pressing bugs:
    New:
        + Notarize LibreOffice builds so that it launches without warnings on macOS 10.15 Catalina
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126409
            + Cloph?

    Old:
       + 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

        + Save-As behavior on MacOS Catalina
           + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126638
           + not happening for everyone
   Fixed:
       + FILEOPEN: Some labels in charts are not displayed by default
           + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117088
           + Thanks to Balazs Varga


    + New high severity bugs of the week:
        + Crash on double click to paragraph style
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131208
            + Already fixed, thanks to Jim
        + Paste special sometimes not available (like for web content) -
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65606
            + not a regression
        + Insert comment shortcut doesn't let me edit existing comment
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95854
            + Already fixed. Thanks to Maxim Monastirsky

* QA stats
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
      +159  +9 (-144) overall)
      many thanks to the top bug squashers:
       QA Administrators       12
       Timur                   11
       Xisco Faulí             9
       Michael Weghorn         8
       V Stuart Foote          7
       Julien Nabet            6
       Caolán McNamara         5
       Noel Grandin            5
       Heiko Tietze            4
       Jan-Marek Glogowski     4

    + top 10 bugs reporters:
       Xisco Faulí             13
       Regina Henschel         7
       Julien Nabet            4
       Mike Kaganski           3
       Rizal Muttaqin          3
       Samuel Mehrbrodt (CIB)  3
       Timur                   3
       andreas_k               3
       Gerald Pfeifer          2
       Justin L                2

    + top 10 bugs fixers:
                               5
       Grandin, Noel           5
       McNamara, Caolán        5
       Nabet, Julien           5
       Adolfo Jayme Barrientos 3
       Balazs Varga            3
       Glogowski, Jan-Marek    3
       Gülşah Köse             3
       Henschel, Regina        3
       Ahmad Ganzouri          2

    + top 10 bugs confirmers:
       Xisco Faulí             20
       Dieter Praas            13
       Nabet, Julien           8
       *UNKNOWN*               6
       Brinzing, Oliver        6
       Weghorn, Michael        6
       m.a.riosv               5
       Heiko Tietze            4
       Oliver Grimm            4
       Roman Kuznetsov         4


* Highest-Priority bugs (aka "MABs"):
   + http://bit.ly/2lJAAJI
     6.0 : 1/52 -     1 %  (+0)
     5.4 : 2/41 -     4 %  (+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 : 3/82 -     3 %  (+0)
     old : 6/245 -    2 %  (+0)


* Bisected bugs open: keyword 'bisected'
   + more accurate - down to a single commit.
   + http://bit.ly/2dyIfDy
   + 708/4049 705/4029 707/4002 702/3978 708/3954 705/3930 695/3907

     done by:
        Xisco Faulí           15
        Budea, Áron            2
        Timur                  1
        Justin Luth            1
        Brinzing, Oliver       1


* Bibisected bugs open: keyword 'bibisected'
   + http://bit.ly/2cSCXlS
   + 885/4897 882/4876 886/4850 881/4824 884/4796 878/4772 870/4750

     done by:
        Xisco Faulí           15
        Budea, Áron            2
        Timur                  2
        Justin Luth            1
        Brinzing, Oliver       1


* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
   + 1133(-1) bugs open of 9420(+22) total 1(+0) high prio.

     done by:
        Xisco Faulí           15
        Brinzing, Oliver       2
        Cor Nouws              1
        Timur                  1
        Justin Luth            1
        Nabet, Julien          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            - 309(-5)
     Calc                     - 218(-2)
     Impress                  - 133(+1)
     Writer: docx filter      - 69(+3)
     LibreOffice              - 66(+2)
     Draw                     - 48(+3)
     UI                       - 40(+0)
     Borders                  - 38(+0)
     Base                     - 34(-1)
     Writer: perf             - 34(-1)
     Crashes                  - 33(-1)
     Writer: doc filter       - 31(+0)
     Writer: other filter     - 29(+0)
     graphics stack           - 28(-1)
     RTL                      - 23(+0)
     filters and storage      - 23(+0)
     Printing and PDF export  - 21(+0)
     Chart                    - 20(+2)
     BASIC                    - 17(+0)
     framework                - 2(+0)
     Extensions               - 1(+0)
     Installation             - 1(+0)
     sdk                      - 1(+0)


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