ESC meeting minutes: 2020-11-19

Miklos Vajna vmiklos at collabora.com
Thu Nov 19 15:31:29 UTC 2020


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

* 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)
    [ investigated, pending deployment ]

* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
    + 7.1 status:
      + feature freeze: week 47 (2020-11-16) – late features, please ask for it!
        + also beta1 and branch-off tomorrow:
          + want to merge all reformat changes before that happens
        + late feature: working on hiding of fieldmarks (Michael S)
          + to be able to switch between the command and the result of the field
          + almost in by now (Thorsten)
      + UI / l10n freeze upcoming in mid-December
    + 7.0 status
      + 7.0.4 rc1 tagging is scheduled for next week (Tue or Wed)
    + Remotes: Android done, iOS one upcoming
    + Android viewer

* Documentation (Olivier)
    + New Help (No news)
    + Helpcontent2
       + several updates and fixes (S. Chaiklin)
    + Google seasons of Doc
       + Wiki Calc Functions
           + coming to end
           + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Calc_Functions
       + E-learning an Advanced Calc
           + Finishing the chapters
       + 90% of the work is done.
    + Guides
       + Calc Guide 7.0 released
       + More to come
    + facing a challenge: how to manage a large file to avoid now unused styles or similar ones? How to clean it up?
        + the UI has info on which styles are unused (Heiko)
        + you can search for unused styles
    + still a challenge to maintain a large document (Olivier)
      + you can also search for direct formatting (Heiko)
      + have lots of tickets in bugzilla regarding this

* UX Update (Heiko)
    + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
        246(246) (topicUI) bugs open, 245(245) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
    + Updates:
        BZ changes   1 week   1 month   3 months   12 months
             added     10(6)     19(4)     51(2)      163(4)
         commented     85(36)   300(2)    987(11)    3882(9)
           removed      0(-1)     3(-1)    10(-1)      55(-2)
          resolved     12(2)     45(0)    137(7)      452(2)
    + top 10 contributors:
          Heiko Tietze made 227 changes in 1 month, and 2322 changes in 1 year
          Telesto made 78 changes in 1 month, and 600 changes in 1 year
          Foote, V Stuart made 47 changes in 1 month, and 637 changes in 1 year
          Ilmari Lauhakangas made 29 changes in 1 month, and 235 changes in 1 year
          Kainz, Andreas made 27 changes in 1 month, and 474 changes in 1 year
          Cor Nouws made 23 changes in 1 month, and 110 changes in 1 year
          Dieter Praas made 23 changes in 1 month, and 477 changes in 1 year
          Roman Kuznetsov made 22 changes in 1 month, and 279 changes in 1 year
          Seth Chaiklin made 22 changes in 1 month, and 199 changes in 1 year
          Timur made 13 changes in 1 month, and 261 changes in 1 year

    + New tickets with needsUXEval Nov/13-19

      tdf#138173 Find and Replace dialog default should other options be closed
      tdf#138189 UI: Undocked resized table toolbar doesn't retain dimensions.
                 Resets itself to a bar after close
      tdf#138190 UI: Sidebar Styles moving up/down they list of available styles
                 moving in/out table
      tdf#138203 Menu items with identical (or very similar) labels but
                 different actions in Draw and Impress
      tdf#137601 export to PNG incorrectly uses first worksheet instead of
                 current one
      tdf#138214 Change a Calc comment shadow to the soft shadow
      tdf#138201 impossible to delete table after opening the report
      tdf#138245 [rfe] Template Manager: give some kind of visual sign on
                 built-in templates
      tdf#138136 EDITING Collapsing first of two consecutive headings does
                 nothing
      tdf#138247 Calc UI: Make the comment UI more consistent
      tdf#137891 Escape chart mode after Insert > Chart
      tdf#94342  PRINTING: Printing certain page layouts (brochure/multiple
                 pages-per-sheet) should enable fields for setting page
                 size/orientation
      + nothing needs discussing in detail here (Heiko)

* Crash Reporting (Caolan)
    + 10(+4) import failure, 0(+13) export failures
      + 9 writer, 1 calc. Fix for calc issue in gerrit
    + 3 coverity issues (still no update from them)
    + 10 ossfuzz issues: 3 OOM

* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/6.4.6.2
        + (-103) 2114 2264 2367 2268 2000 1778 1564 1306 1053 874 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/6.4.7.2
        + (+235) 944 803 568 343 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.0.1.2
        + (-208) 3867 4330 4538 4616 4969 6598 4561 3223 1986 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.0.2.2
        + (-1079) 2750 3829 5339 5103 3457 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.0.3.1
        + (+1460) 4932 3472 1732 0

https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/signature/sw::util::GetPoolItems(SfxItemSet%20const%20&,std::map%3Cunsigned%20short,SfxPoolItem%20const%20*,sw::util::ItemSort,std::allocator%3Cstd::pair%3Cunsigned%20short%20const%20,SfxPoolItem%20const%20*%3E%20%3E%20%3E%20&,bool)

  + this is the most reported one, but no repro steps yet
    + Word export crash, source doc is not yet known

  + most of the symbols are now resolved (Xisco)

* Mentoring/easyhack update
          committer...   1 week     1 month     3 months    12 months
                  open      82(-2)     126(-4)     129(-4)      132(-5)
               reviews     508(116)   1502(174)   4288(64)    18473(-32)
                merged     317(88)    1203(54)    4213(-27)   19111(-84)
             abandoned      23(7)       65(2)      235(3)      1055(5)
           own commits     246(38)    1021(50)    3332(4)     15142(-82)
        review commits      94(0)      413(50)    1159(3)      4761(28)
        contributor...   1 week      1 month     3 months    12 months
                  open       71(47)      97(46)       97(46)      99(46)
               reviews     1060(278)   3242(288)   10146(0)    44796(18)
                merged       55(22)     172(38)      414(28)    1705(31)
             abandoned        9(-2)      38(5)        92(1)      434(-137)
           own commits       54(4)      225(39)      479(9)     1884(41)
        review commits        0(0)        0(0)         0(0)        0(0)
    + easyHack statistics:
       needsDevEval 9(9)   needsUXEval 3(3)   cleanup_comments 253(253)
       total 299(299)   assigned 15(15)   open 259(259)
    + top 10 contributors:
          Johnny_M made 88 patches in 1 month, and 395 patches in 1 year
          Philipp Hofer made 40 patches in 1 month, and 40 patches in 1 year
          Attila Szűcs made 8 patches in 1 month, and 26 patches in 1 year
          Dante DM made 8 patches in 1 month, and 12 patches in 1 year
          Gleb Popov made 7 patches in 1 month, and 12 patches in 1 year
          Ayhan Yalçınsoy made 6 patches in 1 month, and 29 patches in 1 year
          Szabolcs Toth made 6 patches in 1 month, and 10 patches in 1 year
          Weblate made 4 patches in 1 month, and 77 patches in 1 year
          Dániel Arató made 4 patches in 1 month, and 27 patches in 1 year
          Chris Mayo made 4 patches in 1 month, and 5 patches in 1 year
    + top 10 reviewers:
          Mehrbrodt, Samuel made 110 review comments in 1 month, and 256 in 1 year
          Olivier Hallot made 110 review comments in 1 month, and 850 in 1 year
          Németh, László made 100 review comments in 1 month, and 690 in 1 year
          Kaganski, Mike made 94 review comments in 1 month, and 798 in 1 year
          Grandin, Noel made 94 review comments in 1 month, and 924 in 1 year
          Michael Stahl made 86 review comments in 1 month, and 1108 in 1 year
          Christian Lohmaier made 84 review comments in 1 month, and 304 in 1 year
          Nabet, Julien made 78 review comments in 1 month, and 1436 in 1 year
          McNamara, Caolán made 70 review comments in 1 month, and 826 in 1 year
          Heiko Tietze made 64 review comments in 1 month, and 458 in 1 year
    + Patches automatically abandoned:
        Resolves tdf#118443 - Disable "Next" button after last slide is played ( Heiko Tietze )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/100023
        sw: DOCX export: for soft-page-breaks, export continuous section breaks ( Michael Stahl )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/100662
        Mediawiki Export Extension: New supported math commands ( Dennis Roczek )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/101360
        svx: Introduce GalleryXMLEngineEntry ( Aditya Sahu )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/101661
        svx: Introduce GalleryXMLStorageLocations ( Aditya Sahu )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/101662
        svx: Implement GalleryXMLEngineEntry member functions ( Aditya Sahu )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/101664
        tdf#33714 add option to disable "only active sheet saved" box ( Martin van Zijl )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/98174
    + big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
          Vert D.
          Raghav Khanna

* Commit Access
  + None

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Kendy/Thorsten/László)
    + sleep -5 weeks

* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
    from:Thu Nov 12 14:55:48 2020
    master linux rel  jobs:  47 ok:  41 ko:   6 fail ratio: 12.77 % break:   4 broken duration:14.24%
    master linux dbg  jobs:  45 ok:  41 ko:   4 fail ratio:  8.89 % break:   4 broken duration: 7.40%
    master mac rel    jobs:  47 ok:  44 ko:   3 fail ratio:  6.38 % break:   1 broken duration: 1.08%
    master mac dbg    jobs:  50 ok:  46 ko:   4 fail ratio:  8.00 % break:   1 broken duration: 1.05%
    master win rel    jobs:  50 ok:  50 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master win dbg    jobs:  52 ok:  52 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master win64 dbg  jobs:  52 ok:  51 ko:   1 fail ratio:  1.92 % break:   1 broken duration: 0.45%
    master gerrit lin jobs: 717 ok: 565 ko:  90 fail ratio: 12.55% time for ok: mean:  23 median:  23
    master gerrit plg jobs: 691 ok: 420 ko: 188 fail ratio: 27.21% time for ok: mean:  35 median:  33
    master gerrit win jobs: 729 ok: 493 ko: 131 fail ratio: 17.97% time for ok: mean:  69 median:  62
    master gerrit mac jobs: 722 ok: 561 ko:  93 fail ratio: 12.88% time for ok: mean:  27 median:  22
    master android    jobs: 671 ok: 574 ko:  46 fail ratio:  6.86% time for ok: mean:  64 median:  52
    master gerrit all jobs: 712 ok: 359 ko: 259 fail ratio: 36.38% time for ok: mean: 155 median: 147
   + https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/tmp/gerrit_201119.html
   + tests that failed more than twice in last seven days:
      3 CppunitTest_sw_mailmerge		gerrit_windows
      3 CppunitTest_sw_uibase_dochdl		gerrit_windows
      4 Killed by the kill-wrapper		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      5 CppunitTest_sc_subsequent_export_test		gerrit_windows
      5 JunitTest_svx_unoapi		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      5 UITest_writer_tests		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      6 CppunitTest_sw_layoutwriter		gerrit_windows
      7 CppunitTest_sw_uiwriter		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      7 CppunitTest_sw_uiwriter		gerrit_windows
     12 CppunitTest_xmlsecurity_signing		gerrit_windows

  + quite busy week:
    + lots of clang-format patches which DoS’ed the queue
    + also other failures: tools::Long, clang plugins → all sorted out by now
  + added a cloud worker for the linux/clang builder
    + so new bottleneck is Windows (one TB is offline)

* 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)

* Graphics architecture (Thorsten)
  * https://pad.documentfoundation.org/p/ESC_graphics_architecture
  * skia / vulkan metabug: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129062
      + 16 (-5) open bugs, 138 total (+4)

* QA update (Xisco)
    + Big Sur – already got reports wrt this new macOS version (Xisco)
      + blurry fonts: reproducible on hidpi screens
        + old workaround that helped on Catalina seem to not work anymore
        + in Calc, UI strings are crisp, but the document body is not (Cloph)
        + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138122

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

    + UNCONFIRMED: 1313 (+0)
        + enhancements: 153  (+6)
        + needsUXEval: 7 (+6)
        + haveBackTrace: 3 (+0)
        + needsDevAdvice: 14 (+0)
        + documentation:  17 (-2)
        + android:  4 (-1)
        + iOS:  0 (+0)
        + Online:  24 (-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 ?

       + 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 duplicate
     Fixed:
        + Failed to copy and paste in calc (GTK3)
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138183
            + Fixed, thanks to Caolán

    + New high severity bugs of the week:
        + Slow performance in autofilter if the record contains many unique values (10 seconds after 5.4 vs. 2 seconds before)
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133878
            + bisected to Kohei

        + FORMS: Some values are not saved (gen)
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138271
            + already fixed, thanks to Caolan

* QA stats
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
      +181  -37 (-196) overall)
      many thanks to the top bug squashers:
       Buovjaga                19
       QA Administrators       19
       Caolán McNamara         15
       Luboš Luňák             13
       Heiko Tietze            10
       Timur                   10
       sdc.blanco              9
       Xisco Faulí             8
       Telesto                 7
       Bartosz                 6

    + top 10 bugs reporters:
       Telesto                 14
       NISZ LibreOffice Team   11
       Heiko Tietze            3
       MarjaE                  3
       Xisco Faulí             3
       sdc.blanco              3
       Buovjaga                2
       Elmar                   2
       João Paulo              2
       Kevin Suo               2

    + top 10 bugs fixers:
       McNamara, Caolán        15
       Luboš Luňák             11
       Seth Chaiklin           7
       Budea, Áron             4
       Kosiorek, Bartosz       4
       Németh, László          4
       Attila Szűcs            2
       Heiko Tietze            2
       Ilmari Lauhakangas      2
       Lillqvist, Tor          2

    + top 10 bugs confirmers:
       Xisco Fauli             39
       *UNKNOWN*               15
       Heiko Tietze            13
       Timur                   12
       Ilmari Lauhakangas      9
       Dieter Praas            6
       Henschel, Regina        4
       McNamara, Caolán        4
       Roman Kuznetsov         4
       Nabet, Julien           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
   + 904/4907 906/4879 902/4858 897/4841 891/4819 892/4798 883/4780

     done by:
        barakso.attila         7
        Timur                  7
        Xisco Fauli            7
        Telesto                2
        Justin Luth            1
        Karl                   1


* Bibisected bugs open: keyword 'bibisected'
   + http://bit.ly/2cSCXlS
   + 1082/5812 1086/5785 1078/5758 1077/5740 1070/5717 1070/5692 1057/5667

     done by:
        barakso.attila         7
        Timur                  7
        Xisco Fauli            7
        Telesto                2
        Ilmari Lauhakangas     1
        Justin Luth            1
        Karl                   1


* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
   + 1330(-2) bugs open of 10449(+31) total 12(-1) high prio.

     done by:
        Telesto                 9
        Xisco Fauli             5
        Timur                   3
        barakso.attila          1
        Heiko Tietze            1
        Ilmari Lauhakangas      1
        Justin Luth             1
        Madero, Joel            1
        NISZ LibreOffice Team   1
        Németh, László          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            - 0(-1)

   by OS:
     All           - 11(+1)
     Linux         - 1(+0)
     Mac OS X      - 0(-1)
     Windows       - 0(-1)


* ~Component   count net * all regressions
   + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
     Writer: other            - 415(+1)
     Calc                     - 227(+0)
     Impress                  - 152(-2)
     Crashes                  - 59(+3)
     LibreOffice              - 56(+0)
     Writer: docx filter      - 56(-1)
     Draw                     - 49(+0)
     Writer: perf             - 45(+1)
     UI                       - 44(-3)
     Borders                  - 43(-2)
     Base                     - 37(+0)
     Writer: other filter     - 30(+0)
     Writer: doc filter       - 26(+0)
     Chart                    - 24(+1)
     RTL                      - 23(+0)
     Printing and PDF export  - 22(+0)
     graphics stack           - 22(-2)
     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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