ESC meeting minutes: 2020-11-05

Miklos Vajna vmiklos at collabora.com
Thu Nov 5 15:37:01 UTC 2020


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

* Completed Action Items:
    + None

* Pending Action Items:
    + Update bug-metrics ODS generator to extend the chart ranges past 2019-12-10, till e.g. the end of this year (Xisco)

* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
    + 7.1 status:
      + feature freeze: week 47 (2020-11-16) – late features, please ask for it!
        + if not, then we have time till the end of next week to add features
      + UI / l10n freeze upcoming in mid-December
    + 7.0 status
      + 7.0.4 scheduled normally for November 24
    + Remotes
	+ update planned for the next week, with updated l10n
    + Android viewer
	+ update planned for the next week, with updated l10n
      + working on this: updating to AndroidX, should be done this week

* Documentation (Olivier)
    + New Help
       + minor updates in DTD (ohallot)
    + Helpcontent2
       + Many updates (S. Chaiklin, ohallot, Johnny_M, buovjaga and others)
    + Google seasons of Doc
       + wiki pages for Calc functions (on-going)
       + Calc E-learning (on going)
       + expected end: early December
    + Guides et al.
       + Finishing Calc Guide 7.0
       + Impress 7.0 on the way

* UX Update (Heiko)
    + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
        247(247) (topicUI) bugs open, 249(249) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
    + Updates:
        BZ changes   1 week   1 month   3 months   12 months
             added      7(2)     14(1)      49(0)     159(1)
         commented     97(14)   356(1)    1054(15)   3911(52)
           removed      2(-1)     5(-1)     11(0)      56(-1)
          resolved     17(9)     52(-1)    132(7)     446(11)
    + top 10 contributors:
          Heiko Tietze made 249 changes in 1 month, and 2323 changes in 1 year
          Telesto made 71 changes in 1 month, and 581 changes in 1 year
          Foote, V Stuart made 69 changes in 1 month, and 642 changes in 1 year
          Seth Chaiklin made 44 changes in 1 month, and 200 changes in 1 year
          Kainz, Andreas made 32 changes in 1 month, and 495 changes in 1 year
          Kaganski, Mike made 32 changes in 1 month, and 137 changes in 1 year
          Cor Nouws made 19 changes in 1 month, and 110 changes in 1 year
          Dieter Praas made 14 changes in 1 month, and 474 changes in 1 year
          Xisco Fauli made 13 changes in 1 month, and 504 changes in 1 year
          Ilmari Lauhakangas made 12 changes in 1 month, and 224 changes in 1 year

   + 14 new tickets with needsUXEval Oct/29-Nov-05

      * Remove "For the current document only" from Tools > Options > Language
        + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137873
      * Disable context menu item Delete for Impress templates
      * Confusing terminology for DOCX save (Transitional versus Word 2007-365)
      * RFE: Add support for East Asian font properties in style inspector
      * Add functionality to select specific templates directly from File menu
      * Clicking apply or apply to all should close they Select Your preferred
        user interface
      * ENHANCEMENT: integration of the office with the Git.
      * UI: Preferred user interface: the arrangement of options
      * Setting line width should enable continuous line (if line being
        disabled)
      * Last Printed not saved if document not saved
      * Show the UI selection dialog on first start-up
      * Draw a bevel around previews
      * Include odt2daisy as a feature in LibreOffice
      * Include odt2braille as a feature in LibreOffice

* Crash Reporting (Caolan)
    + 7(-8) import failure, 1(+0) export failures
      + 1 ‘resize with cell’ related, fix in gerrit
    + 3 coverity issues
    + 11 ossfuzz issues
      + 2 new tricky fodt table ones

* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/6.4.6.2
        + (+99) 2367 2268 2000 1778 1564 1306 1053 874 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/6.4.7.2
        + (+225) 568 343 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.0.1.2
        + (-78) 4538 4616 4969 6598 4561 3223 1986 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.0.2.2
        + (+236) 5339 5103 3457 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.0.3.1
        + (+1732)  1732 0

   + symbols are still not resolved for new reports

* Mentoring/easyhack update
          committer...   1 week     1 month      3 months     12 months
                  open      41(-42)    102(-32)     105(-30)      110(-32)
               reviews     446(30)    1270(-118)   4218(-36)    18583(-76)
                merged     324(58)    1130(-50)    4373(-108)   19347(-45)
             abandoned      11(-2)      81(-12)     234(-6)      1049(-7)
           own commits     278(44)     924(0)      3382(-5)     15375(-75)
        review commits     115(22)     306(51)     1135(55)      4725(41)
        contributor...   1 week    1 month      3 months      12 months
                  open      32(-5)     64(-1)        67(0)         69(0)
               reviews     890(58)   2898(-150)   10498(-308)   44917(-30)
                merged      46(12)    125(18)       382(26)      1668(15)
             abandoned       9(2)      27(4)         89(4)        563(-7)
           own commits      62(13)    159(36)       468(39)      1808(51)
        review commits       0(0)       0(0)          0(0)          0(0)
    + easyHack statistics:
       needsDevEval 9(9)   needsUXEval 3(3)   cleanup_comments 251(251)
       total 299(299)   assigned 14(14)   open 262(262)
    + top 10 contributors:
          Johnny_M made 58 patches in 1 month, and 365 patches in 1 year
          Gleb Popov made 12 patches in 1 month, and 12 patches in 1 year
          Attila Szűcs made 8 patches in 1 month, and 22 patches in 1 year
          Ayhan Yalçınsoy made 8 patches in 1 month, and 28 patches in 1 year
          Szabolcs Toth made 6 patches in 1 month, and 9 patches in 1 year
          Regényi Balázs made 6 patches in 1 month, and 12 patches in 1 year
          Nagy Tibor made 4 patches in 1 month, and 23 patches in 1 year
          Attila Bakos made 4 patches in 1 month, and 35 patches in 1 year
          Dániel Arató made 4 patches in 1 month, and 25 patches in 1 year
          Weblate made 3 patches in 1 month, and 76 patches in 1 year
    + top 10 reviewers:
          Németh, László made 102 review comments in 1 month, and 698 in 1 year
          Timar, Andras made 90 review comments in 1 month, and 1436 in 1 year
          Michael Stahl made 86 review comments in 1 month, and 1098 in 1 year
          Olivier Hallot made 84 review comments in 1 month, and 818 in 1 year
          Behrens, Thorsten made 70 review comments in 1 month, and 1302 in 1 year
          McNamara, Caolán made 68 review comments in 1 month, and 830 in 1 year
          Grandin, Noel made 62 review comments in 1 month, and 902 in 1 year
          Heiko Tietze made 58 review comments in 1 month, and 476 in 1 year
          Kaganski, Mike made 54 review comments in 1 month, and 752 in 1 year
          Nabet, Julien made 54 review comments in 1 month, and 1430 in 1 year
    + Patches automatically abandoned:
        svx:Implement GalleryXMLEngine ( Aditya Sahu )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/100158

        tdf#88205 Use initializer_list ctor for css::uno::Sequence return value ( Conor McCarthy )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/101548

        Fix typo in code ( Andrea Gelmini )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/101776

    + big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
          Bryan Gazali
          Diwanshu Mittal
          Ismael Olea
          Sven Lüppken – easy hacker, happy with the patch (Heiko)
          Ming Hua – same here (Heiko)

* Commit Access
  + None

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Kendy/Thorsten/László)
    + sleep -4 weeks

* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
    from:Thu Oct 29 15:04:12 2020
    master linux rel  jobs:  67 ok:  67 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master linux dbg  jobs:  55 ok:  41 ko:  14 fail ratio: 25.45 % break:   8 broken duration:31.03%
    master mac rel    jobs:  84 ok:  84 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master mac dbg    jobs:  82 ok:  82 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master win rel    jobs:  70 ok:  70 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master win dbg    jobs:  77 ok:  77 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master win64 dbg  jobs:  72 ok:  72 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master gerrit lin jobs: 556 ok: 442 ko:  66 fail ratio: 11.87% time for ok: mean:  22 median:  23
    master gerrit plg jobs: 523 ok: 327 ko: 133 fail ratio: 25.43% time for ok: mean:  33 median:  32
    master gerrit win jobs: 556 ok: 381 ko:  83 fail ratio: 14.93% time for ok: mean:  72 median:  67
    master gerrit mac jobs: 551 ok: 399 ko:  89 fail ratio: 16.15% time for ok: mean:  34 median:  33
    master android    jobs: 513 ok: 431 ko:  16 fail ratio:  3.12% time for ok: mean:  49 median:  40
    master gerrit all jobs: 533 ok: 281 ko: 160 fail ratio: 30.02% time for ok: mean: 123 median: 107
   + https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/tmp/gerrit_201105.html
   + tests that failed more than twice in last seven days:
      3 CppunitTest_sw_uwriter		gerrit_mac
      3 CppunitTest_vcl_bitmap_render_test		gerrit_mac
      4 UITest_sw_styleInspector		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      7 Killed by the kill-wrapper		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
     10 UITest_range_name		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
     17 CppunitTest_xmlsecurity_signing		gerrit_windows
    + nothing unusual, really (Cloph)
    + one Windows tinderbox had problems, deleting workdir during build, doesn’t affect gerrit feedback

* l10n (Sophie)
  + working is ongoing

* GSoC 2021 announced, deadline for applying as a project: January 29 (Heiko)
  + project page: http://g.co/gsoc
  + next year’s GSoC will be quite different: much less time than before (for students)
    + https://opensource.googleblog.com/2020/10/google-summer-of-code-2021-is-bringing.html
  + Google plans to introduce entry-level projects
  + problem: if the projects have less time, how do we deal with that? (Heiko)
    + break large ideas into sub-tasks? (Miklos)
  + many features in LO are not finished, they were a GSoC project (Heiko)
    + but they are a driver
  + we have to have more ideas (Xisco)
    + possibly we’ll get more slots
    + want to advertise what we have (Heiko)
      + no idea how to reduce the work by a large amount
      + constant time at the start to set up – larger portion if the project time is smaller
  + suggest: continue the discussion next week when Ilmari/Thorsten is also here (Heiko)

* Graphics architecture (Thorsten)
  * https://pad.documentfoundation.org/p/ESC_graphics_architecture
  * skia / vulkan metabug: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129062
      + 24 (+2) open bugs, 133 total (+2)

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

    + UNCONFIRMED: 1320 (+21)
        + enhancements: 140  (+8)
        + needsUXEval: 6 (+4)
        + haveBackTrace: 3 (+1)
        + needsDevAdvice: 15 (+0)
        + documentation:  19 (+0)
        + android:  5 (+0)
        + iOS:  0 (+0)
        + Online:  22 (+1)


   + Most pressing bugs:
      New:
None

      Old:
       + PDF export: LibreOffice 6.3 option buttons in forms not
working in Adobe Reader (OK in other readers)
           + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127217
           + Thorsten ?

       + CRASH: Chart: Changing properties in different objects
           + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133630
           + Muhammet ?

       + 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)

        + 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

    + New high severity bugs of the week:
        + CPU at 100% after opening a particular spreadsheet
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134161
            + Srijan?

        + Exceptions for auto correct disappear lost after restart
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137908
            + Noel?

        + Forms have no borders
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137974
            + Lubos?

* Scriptsforge topic on the dev list? (Stephan)
  + was pushed to master a few mins ago
  + saw a talk during the conference (Cloph)
  + done by JP, Access2base developer
  + if there are concerns, just try to resolve by commenting on the gerrit change as usual? (Miklos)

* QA stats
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
      +166  +5 (-156) overall)
      many thanks to the top bug squashers:
       Timur                   21
       Heiko Tietze            15
       Caolán McNamara         10
       QA Administrators       7
       Regina Henschel         7
       V Stuart Foote          7
       Buovjaga                6
       Aron Budea              5
       Julien Nabet            4
       Xisco Faulí             4

    + top 10 bugs reporters:
       Telesto                 25
       NISZ LibreOffice Team   10
       Xisco Faulí             5
       Eyal Rozenberg          4
       TorrAB                  4
       Timur                   3
       juergenkohler23         3
       mwtjunkmail             3
       sdc.blanco              3
       Cajetan Bouchard        2

    + top 10 bugs fixers:
       McNamara, Caolán        9
       Heiko Tietze            8
       Henschel, Regina        7
       Seth Chaiklin           4
       Rathke, Eike            3
       Alain Romedenne         2
       Attila Szűcs            2
       Glogowski, Jan-Marek    2
       Grandin, Noel           2
       Jim Raykowski           2

    + top 10 bugs confirmers:
       Heiko Tietze            16
       Dieter Praas            15
       Ilmari Lauhakangas      11
       *UNKNOWN*               10
       Xisco Fauli             10
       Roman Kuznetsov         8
       Foote, V Stuart         6
       Telesto                 6
       Timur                   6
       NISZ LibreOffice Team   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 : 2/134 -    1 %  (+0)
     4.1 : 3/85 -     3 %  (+0)
     4.0 : 4/83 -     4 %  (+0)
     old : 6/247 -    2 %  (+0)


* Bisected bugs open: keyword 'bisected'
   + more accurate - down to a single commit.
   + http://bit.ly/2dyIfDy
   + 902/4858 897/4841 891/4819 892/4798 883/4780 881/4768 874/4746

     done by:
        Xisco Fauli             5
        Timur                   3
        Budea, Áron             2
        Telesto                 2
        Ilmari Lauhakangas      1
        Justin Luth             1
        NISZ LibreOffice Team   1


* Bibisected bugs open: keyword 'bibisected'
   + http://bit.ly/2cSCXlS
   + 1078/5758 1077/5740 1070/5717 1070/5692 1057/5667 1057/5654 1049/5632

     done by:
        Xisco Fauli             5
        Timur                   3
        Budea, Áron             2
        Telesto                 2
        Ilmari Lauhakangas      1
        Justin Luth             1
        NISZ LibreOffice Team   1
        Tõnnov, Mihkel          1


* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
   + 1340(+4) bugs open of 10404(+24) total 13(+1) high prio.

     done by:
        Telesto                8
        Xisco Fauli            6
        Roman Kuznetsov        1
        Timur                  1
        Heiko Tietze           1
        Ilmari Lauhakangas     1
        Justin Luth            1
        steve -_-              1
        Tõnnov, Mihkel         1
        Pierre C               1


* ~Component   count net * high severity regressions
   + http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
     Writer        - 6(+0)
     Calc          - 2(+0)
     Impress       - 2(+0)
     Chart         - 1(+0)
     LibreOffice   - 1(+0)
     UI            - 1(+1)

   by OS:
     All           - 10(+0)
     Linux         - 1(+0)
     Mac OS X      - 1(+1)
     Windows       - 1(+0)


* ~Component   count net * all regressions
   + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
     Writer: other            - 417(+0)
     Calc                     - 229(-3)
     Impress                  - 156(+1)
     Writer: docx filter      - 57(+1)
     Crashes                  - 56(-1)
     LibreOffice              - 56(+1)
     Draw                     - 49(+0)
     Borders                  - 45(+1)
     UI                       - 45(+1)
     Writer: perf             - 43(+1)
     Base                     - 37(+0)
     Writer: other filter     - 30(+0)
     Writer: doc filter       - 26(+0)
     graphics stack           - 25(+0)
     RTL                      - 23(+0)
     Chart                    - 22(-1)
     Printing and PDF export  - 22(+0)
     filters and storage      - 19(+0)
     BASIC                    - 15(+0)
     framework                - 2(+0)
     Formula Editor           - 1(+0)
     Installation             - 1(+0)
     sdk                      - 1(+0)


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