ESC meeting minutes: 2020-09-17

Miklos Vajna vmiklos at collabora.com
Thu Sep 17 15:44:09 UTC 2020


* Present:
    + Stephan, Xisco, Caolan, Heiko, Michael W, Olivier, Miklos, Kendy, Michael S

* Completed Action Items:
    + make a decision on what notebookbar variant to promote (Heiko)
      + see tdf#135501 for details
      + no decision yet
    [ note done, but needs more time ]

* Pending Action Items:
    + set up 1 Android CI builder and see the build turn-around time (Cloph)

* Release Engineering update (Cloph/Xisco)
    + 7.0 status
      + 7.0.2.1 was tagged yesterday
    + 6.4 status
       + 6.4.7 rc1, to be tagged next week
    + Remotes
    + Android viewer
    + Online

* Documentation (Olivier)
    + New Help
       + CSS tweaks (fitoshido)
    + Helpcontent2
       + Maintenance of pages (ohallot)
    + Google Seasons of doc 2020
       + Progress in wiki pages for Calc (Ronnie Gandhi)
       + First lessons expected for E-Leaning next week (Prashant )
    + Guides
       + Work on going.

* UX Update (Heiko)
    + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
        249(249) (topicUI) bugs open, 286(286) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
    + Updates:
        BZ changes   1 week     1 month    3 months    12 months
             added      10(-8)     55(-26)     82(-21)    193(-24)
         commented     102(-12)   374(-29)   1049(13)    3785(-18)
           removed       1(1)       2(1)        9(1)       55(1)
          resolved      10(-1)     29(3)       96(5)      395(8)
    + top 10 contributors:
          Telesto made 168 changes in 1 month, and 537 changes in 1 year
          Heiko Tietze made 126 changes in 1 month, and 2099 changes in 1 year
          Kainz, Andreas made 73 changes in 1 month, and 470 changes in 1 year
          Dieter Praas made 68 changes in 1 month, and 551 changes in 1 year
          BogdanB made 63 changes in 1 month, and 144 changes in 1 year
          Foote, V Stuart made 60 changes in 1 month, and 627 changes in 1 year
          Ilmari Lauhakangas made 35 changes in 1 month, and 209 changes in 1 year
          Roman Kuznetsov made 32 changes in 1 month, and 254 changes in 1 year
          Timur made 22 changes in 1 month, and 250 changes in 1 year
          Clarc made 19 changes in 1 month, and 19 changes in 1 year

    * 15 new tickets with needsUXEval Sep/10-17

 ->   + tdf#136837: Fileopen and filesave to DOCX: Table Title not read and
        saved as Alt Text
        + helps a11y
      + tdf#136812: Adding more than 1 paragraph style to chapter numbering
        level
 ->   + tdf#136563: Selection of the text should also include footnotes
        + word count of selection: should or should not include footnotes?
        + request to include it
        + would make sense to check what the competition does (Miklos)
      + tdf#136788: compare document file selection - add ability to select
        from LO recent files in profile as alternative to os/DE file manager
      + tdf#136786: Hide Navigator window in Impress/Draw and always show only
        Navigator Sidebar section
      + tdf#136182: LibreOffice does not properly convert -- to em-dash by
        default
      + tdf#136719: Pressing Enter after Heading inserts a text body formatting;
        DF of heading inherited
      + tdf#136741: Default page style rotation changes to landscape after DOCX
        export
      + tdf#136713: Select content gets a table click More Options
      + tdf#136537: excel formulas get corrupted with Drag & Drop
      + tdf#136654: Next Style does not get triggered if there is Text after the
        cursor.
      + tdf#82438: No synchronization between color attributes in the toolbar
        and sidebar
      + tdf#136653: Sidebar paragraph style doesn't consistently show current
        style
      + tdf#136554: Footnote/endnote anchors don't respond to new "Position"
        properties when another character style is applied
      + tdf#136646: Add Luciole font to support accessibility

* Crash testing (Caolan)
    + 8(+4) import failure, 3(+0) export failures
      + 2 of them in RTF export, but not when converting manually
    + 1 coverity issue
    + 12 oss-fuzz issues

* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/6.4.5.2
        + (-126) 1618 1744 1814 2208 2552 2315 1761 1162 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/6.4.6.2
        + (+253) 1306 1053 874 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.0.0.3
        + (-913) 4171 5084 6489 3840 788 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.0.1.2
        + (+1237) 3223 1986 0

- Since 7.0 without steps
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)

  + numbers don’t look bad
  + export to DOC, but no steps to reproduce yet

* Mentoring/easyhack update
          committer...   1 week     1 month    3 months     12 months
                  open     112(42)     170(19)    171(-36)      180(-36)
               reviews     604(92)    2108(86)   4666(-280)   19718(-110)
                merged     454(94)    1723(97)   5278(-144)   20044(119)
             abandoned      23(10)      70(-2)    226(-9)      1039(-2)
           own commits     326(60)    1289(80)   3841(85)     16244(205)
        review commits      77(-17)    457(-1)   1131(-27)     4739(46)
        contributor...   1 week      1 month    3 months      12 months
                  open       36(5)       62(3)       63(-16)       65(-16)
               reviews     1258(88)    4538(36)   13341(-546)   45549(42)
                merged       32(-34)    145(7)      411(-23)     1562(14)
             abandoned        4(-8)      42(-3)     125(-8)       554(0)
           own commits       34(-31)    148(-8)     511(-32)     1615(32)
        review commits        0(0)        0(0)        0(0)          0(0)
    + easyHack statistics:
       needsDevEval 9(9)   needsUXEval 2(2)   cleanup_comments 239(239)
       total 290(290)   assigned 15(15)   open 254(254)
    + top 10 contributors:
          George Bateman made 23 patches in 1 month, and 23 patches in 1 year
          Dániel Arató made 20 patches in 1 month, and 20 patches in 1 year
          Aditya Sahu made 17 patches in 1 month, and 34 patches in 1 year
          Weblate made 7 patches in 1 month, and 68 patches in 1 year
          Attila Bakos made 7 patches in 1 month, and 30 patches in 1 year
          Yusuf Keten made 6 patches in 1 month, and 34 patches in 1 year
          Nagy Tibor made 5 patches in 1 month, and 18 patches in 1 year
          Attila Szűcs made 4 patches in 1 month, and 10 patches in 1 year
          Alain Romedenne made 3 patches in 1 month, and 145 patches in 1 year
          Thais Vieira made 3 patches in 1 month, and 3 patches in 1 year
    + top 10 reviewers:
          Nabet, Julien made 346 review comments in 1 month, and 1378 in 1 year
          Timar, Andras made 194 review comments in 1 month, and 1473 in 1 year
          McNamara, Caolán made 172 review comments in 1 month, and 804 in 1 year
          Behrens, Thorsten made 146 review comments in 1 month, and 1352 in 1 year
          Németh, László made 136 review comments in 1 month, and 644 in 1 year
          Grandin, Noel made 124 review comments in 1 month, and 1002 in 1 year
          Michael Stahl made 96 review comments in 1 month, and 1162 in 1 year
          Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 90 review comments in 1 month, and 1268 in 1 year
          Kaganski, Mike made 74 review comments in 1 month, and 812 in 1 year
          Vajngerl, Tomaž made 64 review comments in 1 month, and 306 in 1 year
    + Patches automatically abandoned:
        tdf#131269 - fix importing PPT with different notes/presentations order ( Zhenhua Fong )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/90362

        CppunitTest: improve test and check comment editing ( Xisco Fauli )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/95137

        Improve About dialog structure ( Pedro Silva )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/98449

        (WIP) loleaflet cypress: Select text, caret marker should not appear. ( Gökay ŞATIR )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/98563

        Fix unit test file of 57fedb272cfcad3436142dbe9eac2870e3c3e3d2 ( Balazs Varga )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/98618

        wsd: char[] => std::array<> ( Ashod Nakashian )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/98660

    + big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
          Dr. David Alan Gilbert
          Ilkyu Ju
          Regényi Balázs (NISZ)
          Tomofumi Yagi

* Commit Access
  + None

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Kendy/Thorsten)
    + sleep 3 weeks
    + seeking for a new person as a replacement for Bjoern, who is currently
      inactive

* Jenkins / CI update (Christian)
   + missing Cloph

* l10n (Sophie)
  + working is ongoing
  + 2 recent pdf-related string changes on libreoffice-x-y (Miklos)

* Graphics architecture (Thorsten)
  * https://pad.documentfoundation.org/p/ESC_graphics_architecture
  * skia / vulkan: try it on master (Lubos)
    + metabug: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129062
      + 17 (+1) open bugs, 119 total (+1)

* LibreOffice Conference will be Online (Sophie)
  + some people wondered if it is possible to pre-record the talk?
    - possible, but not a requirement

*  sal_Char/sal_sChar/sal_uChar removal (Julien)
  + removed unused and deprecated sal_Char/sal_sChar/sal_uChar from include/sal/types.h
  + see http://document-foundation-mail-archive.969070.n3.nabble.com/About-removing-long-time-deprecated-types-from-public-API-tt4287268.html

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

    + UNCONFIRMED: 1250 (+12)
        + enhancements: 129  (+4)
        + needsUXEval: 37 (-24)
        + haveBackTrace: 1 (+0)
        + needsDevAdvice: 15 (-1)
        + documentation:  13 (+1)
        + android:  5 (+0)
        + iOS:  0 (+0)
        + Online:  22 (+1)



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

     Old:
       + 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:
        + Writer busy-locks in layouting CJK fonts
            + (was: hangs while converting to pdf) - see comment #9 / #8
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130314
            + it is a regression in Writer layouting, resulting in a busy-lock
            + just scroll the bugdoc to page 28; bug state is clear, fix not

        + Writer crash with AutoCorrect Apply Styles on typing when pressing Enter
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136704
            + Michael S?

        + FILEOPEN: PPTX: Error reading file importing file with table
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136783
            + Gulsah?

        + Writer document with tables lost data in cells (apparently) replacing with 0
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131025
            + number formatting problem
            + Eike?

* QA stats
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
      +200  -1 (-151) overall)
      many thanks to the top bug squashers:
       Timur                   12
       Telesto                 11
       QA Administrators       10
       Caolán McNamara         9
       Heiko Tietze            9
       BogdanB                 8
       Noel Grandin            7
       Julien Nabet            6
       Alex Thurgood           5
       Dieter                  4

    + top 10 bugs reporters:
       Telesto                 43
       Xisco Faulí             12
       NISZ LibreOffice Team   5
       Regina Henschel         4
       Buovjaga                3
       Heiko Tietze            3
       sawakaze                3
       David W. Snow           2
       Felipe Viggiano         2
       Karl-Heinz Arkenau      2

    + top 10 bugs fixers:
       McNamara, Caolán        9
       Grandin, Noel           7
       Justin Luth             4
       Adolfo Jayme Barrientos 3
       Dániel Arató            2
       Kaganski, Mike          2
       Luboš Luňák             2
       Németh, László          2
       Rizal Muttaqin          2
       Szabolcs Toth           2

    + top 10 bugs confirmers:
       BogdanB                 40
       Heiko Tietze            17
       Xisco Fauli             16
       Alex Thurgood           13
       Dieter Praas            8
       Timur                   8
       Ilmari Lauhakangas      5
       *UNKNOWN*               3
       Foote, V Stuart         3
       Henschel, Regina        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 : 1/133 -    0 %  (+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
   + 880/4729 862/4687 848/4656 842/4631 841/4613 839/4593 835/4575

     done by:
        Xisco Fauli           14
        Budea, Áron           10
        Timur                  5
        Ilmari Lauhakangas     4
        Telesto                4
        Raal                   2


* Bibisected bugs open: keyword 'bibisected'
   + http://bit.ly/2cSCXlS
   + 1055/5615 1046/5583 1034/5552 1025/5522 1024/5501 1026/5482 1023/5464

     done by:
        Xisco Fauli           14
        Timur                  5
        Telesto                4
        Ilmari Lauhakangas     2
        jasonkres              2
        Raal                   2
        Budea, Áron            1


* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
   + 1336(+14) bugs open of 10272(+42) total 13(+2) high prio.

     done by:
        Xisco Fauli               14
        Telesto                   13
        Timur                      4
        Ilmari Lauhakangas         4
        Alex Thurgood              2
        BogdanB                    1
        colddrop2040               1
        Balland-Poirier, Laurent   1
        Pierre C                   1


* ~Component   count net * high severity regressions
   + http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
     Writer        - 6(+1)
     Calc          - 3(+0)
     Impress       - 2(+0)
     Chart         - 1(+1)
     LibreOffice   - 1(+0)

   by OS:
     All           - 10(+2)
     Linux         - 1(+0)
     Mac OS X      - 0(+0)
     Windows       - 2(+0)


* ~Component   count net * all regressions
   + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
     Writer: other            - 409(+4)
     Calc                     - 233(+0)
     Impress                  - 147(+2)
     LibreOffice              - 57(-1)
     Crashes                  - 55(+2)
     Writer: docx filter      - 54(-1)
     Draw                     - 50(+0)
     Borders                  - 42(+0)
     UI                       - 42(-1)
     Writer: perf             - 42(+0)
     Base                     - 34(+1)
     Writer: other filter     - 29(+0)
     Writer: doc filter       - 27(+0)
     Chart                    - 25(+4)
     graphics stack           - 24(+0)
     RTL                      - 23(+0)
     Printing and PDF export  - 22(-1)
     filters and storage      - 19(-1)
     BASIC                    - 14(+0)
     framework                - 2(+0)
     Installation             - 1(+0)
     sdk                      - 1(+0)


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