ESC meeting minutes: 2020-03-26

Jan Holesovsky kendy at collabora.com
Thu Mar 26 15:31:41 UTC 2020


* Present:
    + Xisco, Eike, Stephan, Sophie, Olivier, Thorsten, Heiko, William, Michael
      S., Michael W., Caolán, Ilmari, Kendy

* Completed Action Items:
    + Propose new certified developers (Kendy, Stephan, Thorsten)
    + New committers, send welcome mail to Balázs Varga and Tünde Tóth (Stephan)

* Pending Action Items:
    + New committers, give them the actual permission (Cloph)
         + Balázs Varga and Tünde Tóth (Stephan)
         + only people with permission are able to do that these days, and the
           permission was restricted only to hostmasters (Heiko)

* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
    + Cloph on vacation, Xisco should be doing the releases when Cloph is out
    + 7.0 status: feature freeze is last week of May
    + 6.4 status: 6.4.3
        + Xisco created the branch for RC1
    + 6.3 status: 6.3.6
        + in 2 weeks
    + Remotes
    + Android viewer
    + Online

* Documentation (Olivier)
    + New Help (no news)
    + HelpContents2
       + Updates in Calc functions (S. Fanning)
           + and update of the number of parameters
       + Housekeeping and updates (ohallot, M. Kaganski, Fitoshido,
         LibreOfficiant)
    + Google seasons of Doc 2020
       + Program announced, 
       + please think on ideas for documentation
    Guides
       + Many guides under update/revision.

* UX Update (Heiko)
    + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
        240(240) (topicUI) bugs open, 257(257) (needsUXEval) needs to be
        evaluated by the UXteam
    + Updates:
        BZ changes   1 week    1 month    3 months   12 months  
             added      4(-7)     48(-8)     78(-5)     152(-3) 
         commented     72(-12)   341(-31)   963(4)     3010(34) 
           removed      0(-1)     31(-2)     34(0)       44(0)  
          resolved      6(-10)    42(-14)   107(-4)     280(-3) 
    + top 10 contributors:
          Heiko Tietze made 189 changes in 1 month, and 1562 changes in 1 year
          Xisco Faulí made 177 changes in 1 month, and 576 changes in 1 year
          Dieter Praas made 52 changes in 1 month, and 457 changes in 1 year
          Timur made 43 changes in 1 month, and 176 changes in 1 year
          Roman Kuznetsov made 40 changes in 1 month, and 366 changes in 1 year
          Foote, V Stuart made 37 changes in 1 month, and 537 changes in 1 year
          Kainz, Andreas made 29 changes in 1 month, and 318 changes in 1 year
          Ilmari Lauhakangas made 26 changes in 1 month, and 62 changes in 1
          year
          Rizal Muttaqin made 22 changes in 1 month, and 45 changes in 1 year
          Kaganski, Mike made 15 changes in 1 month, and 92 changes in 1 year

    +  New tickets with needsUXEval Mar/20-26

         * STYLES SIDEBAR: Checkbutton for styles filter
           + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131556 
      -> * Notifications bloating the UI
           + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131550 
      -> * Gallery elements only available as extension
           + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131529 
      -> * Wrong text highlight color when export document to doc/docx
           + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125268 
           + better feedback needed

* Crash Testing (Caolan)
    + 1(+0) import failure, 2(+0) export failures
      + guilhem reports new machine soon will be available
    + 0 coverity issues
    + 10 ossfuzz isses: 8 timeouts, 1 leak, 1 crash. Crash fixed pending verify

* Crash Reporting (Xisco) 
    + information outdated, needs Cloph (Xisco)
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/6.3.4.2 
        + (+179) 2390 2211 2476 3050 2829 2188 3301 3769 3222 2057 984 0 
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/6.3.5.2 
        + (+398) 1565 1167 961 635 312 0 
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/6.4.0.3 
        + (+1030) 8518 7488 7429 8772 9464 6774 4842 419 0 
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/6.4.1.2 
        + (-265) 5344 5609 3687 2052 0 
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/6.4.2.2 
        + (+3716) 3716 0

* GSoC 2020 (Ilmari)
    + timeline updated a bit due to COVID-19
        + already updated on our side (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 - May 4, 2020
    + students contacting potential mentors already, as usual
    + all the mentors have been invited (Ilmari)
    + 10 proposals submitted
    + website updates – does it apply a as GSoC project? (Heiko)
        + Gtk+ has done that, so why not? (William)
        + but too late now – not enough time to do a good proposal (Ilmari)

* 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      65(-19)    140(-10)     150(-7)      167(-7) 
               reviews     424(-36)   1832(-122)   5680(-63)   23377(-12)
                merged     298(-16)   1425(-103)   4307(8)     18458(59) 
             abandoned      11(-2)      71(-29)     274(0)       995(-12)
           own commits     242(-29)   1156(-115)   3694(-7)    15189(-2) 
        review commits      85(1)      387(-4)     1239(-11)    4616(29) 
        contributor...   1 week     1 month      3 months     12 months   
                  open      30(-3)      85(0)         89(0)        92(1)  
               reviews     846(-78)   3810(-294)   10280(-34)   37420(188)
                merged      29(5)      120(-6)       395(-1)      940(16) 
             abandoned       6(-7)      69(-2)       134(4)       529(-3) 
           own commits      32(-5)     157(2)        449(6)      1111(21) 
        review commits       0(0)        0(0)          0(0)         0(0)  
    + easyHack statistics:
       needsDevEval 8(8)   needsUXEval 1(1)   cleanup_comments 215(215)   
       total 261(261)   assigned 23(23)   open 221(221)   
    + top 10 contributors:
          Ilmari Lauhakangas made 11 patches in 1 month, and 39 patches in 1 year
          Sophia Schröder made 10 patches in 1 month, and 18 patches in 1 year
          Pranam Lashkari made 10 patches in 1 month, and 34 patches in 1 year
          LibreOfficiant made 9 patches in 1 month, and 94 patches in 1 year
          Weblate made 9 patches in 1 month, and 39 patches in 1 year
          Balazs Varga made 8 patches in 1 month, and 67 patches in 1 year
          Jussi Pakkanen made 6 patches in 1 month, and 6 patches in 1 year
          Pelin, Rabia Kuran made 5 patches in 1 month, and 12 patches in 1 year
          Buğra Kurt made 5 patches in 1 month, and 7 patches in 1 year
          Tünde Tóth made 4 patches in 1 month, and 47 patches in 1 year
    + top 10 reviewers:
          Behrens, Thorsten made 152 review comments in 1 month, and 1354 in 1 year
          Timar, Andras made 152 review comments in 1 month, and 1277 in 1 year
          Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 126 review comments in 1 month, and 1024 in 1 year
          Michael Stahl made 124 review comments in 1 month, and 1526 in 1 year
          Nabet, Julien made 116 review comments in 1 month, and 2410 in 1 year
          Meeks, Michael made 106 review comments in 1 month, and 926 in 1 year
          Kaganski, Mike made 98 review comments in 1 month, and 880 in 1 year
          Grandin, Noel made 94 review comments in 1 month, and 1151 in 1 year
          Holešovský, Jan made 86 review comments in 1 month, and 1007 in 1 year
          Vajna, Miklos made 86 review comments in 1 month, and 1424 in 1 year
    + big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
          Harshit Jain
          shivam more
          Yagi, Tomofumi

Commit Access
    + None

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Kendy/Thorsten)
    + Congratulations to the new certified developers: Regina and Xisco!
    + sleep 25 weeks
    + seeking for a new person as a replacement for Bjoern, who is currently
      inactive

* Jenkins / CI update (Christian)

* l10n (Sophie)
  + work as usual
  + new Afrikaans team members
  + will do a call to action for the function names

* Graphics architecture (Thorsten)
  * https://pad.documentfoundation.org/p/ESC_graphics_architecture
  * skia / vulkan: to try it on master (Lubos)
    + metabug: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129062
      + 5 open bugs (23 total)

* docx/xlsx competitive marketing issues (Miklos)
  + docx metabug status: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128194 6 open bugs (0) 
  + xlsx metabug status: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128382 4 open bugs (0)

* QA update (Xisco)

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

    + UNCONFIRMED: 712 (+3)
        + enhancements: 97  (+1)
        + needsUXEval: 5 (-4)
        + haveBackTrace: 1 (+0)
        + needsDevAdvice: 11 (+0)
        + documentation:  22 (-4)
        + android:  8 (+1)
        + iOS:  0 (+0)
        + Online:  11 (-2)


    + Most pressing bugs:
     New:
		[None]
     Old: 
       + Notarize LibreOffice builds so that it launches without warnings on macOS 10.15 Catalina 
           + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126409 
           + Cloph? 

       + 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 

    + New high severity bugs of the week:
        + Crash when opening xlsx file, FILEOPEN
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131380

* QA stats
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
      +160  -35 (-140) overall)
      many thanks to the top bug squashers:
       Timur                   32
       QA Administrators       11
       Xisco Faulí             11
       Aron Budea              9
       Caolán McNamara         7
       himajin100000           7
       Mike Kaganski           5
       V Stuart Foote          5
       Eike Rathke             4
       m.a.riosv               4

    + top 10 bugs reporters:
       NISZ LibreOffice Team   10
       Xisco Faulí             8
       Mike Kaganski           5
       jeffspuler              5
       Jürgen Kirsten          4
       Stefan_Lange_KA@T-Online.de 4
       David W. Snow           3
       Rizal Muttaqin          3
       andreas_k               3
       sdc.blanco              3

    + top 10 bugs fixers:
       McNamara, Caolán        7
       Adolfo Jayme Barrientos 3
       Luboš Luňák             2
       Nabet, Julien           2
       Ahmad Haris             1
       Andreas Heinisch        1
       Balazs Varga            1
       Budea, Áron             1
       Faure, Jean-Baptiste    1
       Glogowski, Jan-Marek    1

    + top 10 bugs confirmers:
       Xisco Faulí             36
       Timur                   10
       Dieter Praas            9
       Roman Kuznetsov         8
       Heiko Tietze            7
       Budea, Áron             4
       Olivier Hallot          4
       Brinzing, Oliver        3
       Faure, Jean-Baptiste    3
       Nabet, Julien           3


* 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 : 4/86 -     4 %  (+1)
     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
   + 719/4091 710/4070 708/4049 705/4029 707/4002 702/3978 708/3954 

     done by:
        Xisco Faulí           12
        Budea, Áron            2
        Timur                  1
        Kaganski, Mike         1
        Brinzing, Oliver       1
 

* Bibisected bugs open: keyword 'bibisected'
   + http://bit.ly/2cSCXlS
   + 895/4940 885/4918 885/4897 882/4876 886/4850 881/4824 884/4796 

     done by:
        Xisco Faulí           12
        Budea, Áron            2
        Timur                  1
        Ilmari Lauhakangas     1
        Kaganski, Mike         1
        Brinzing, Oliver       1


* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
   + 1138(+12) bugs open of 9464(+24) total 2(+1) high prio.

     done by:
        Xisco Faulí           10
        Timur                  4
        Budea, Áron            1
        Cor Nouws              1
        Dieter Praas           1
        Ilmari Lauhakangas     1
        Kaganski, Mike         1
        Brinzing, Oliver       1


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

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


* ~Component   count net * all regressions
   + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
     Writer: other            - 310(+3)
     Calc                     - 217(+3)
     Impress                  - 134(+2)
     LibreOffice              - 69(+2)
     Writer: docx filter      - 65(-1)
     Draw                     - 45(-1)
     UI                       - 40(+0)
     Borders                  - 39(+1)
     Writer: perf             - 37(+2)
     Base                     - 34(+0)
     Crashes                  - 33(+0)
     Writer: doc filter       - 31(+0)
     Writer: other filter     - 28(+0)
     graphics stack           - 28(+0)
     RTL                      - 23(+0)
     Chart                    - 22(+2)
     filters and storage      - 22(-1)
     Printing and PDF export  - 21(+0)
     BASIC                    - 17(+0)
     framework                - 2(+0)
     Extensions               - 1(+0)
     Installation             - 1(+0)
     sdk                      - 1(+0)


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