ESC meeting minutes: 2021-08-26

Miklos Vajna vmiklos at collabora.com
Thu Aug 26 14:32:03 UTC 2021


* Present:
    + Hossein, Caolan, Stephan, Heiko, Olivier, Eike, Xisco, Miklos, Michael S

* Completed Action Items:
    + None

* Pending Action Items:
    + None

* Release Engineering update (Xisco)
    + 7.2 status: 7.2.1 rc1 was tagged this morning
    + 7.1 status: 7.1.6 rc2 will be tagged next week
    + Remotes: Android, iOS
    + Android viewer

* Documentation (Olivier)
    + New Help (no news)
    + Helpcontents2
      + Updates in Help contents (R. Lima, Ohallot)
      + Scriptforge page (LibreOfficiant)
    + Extended tips updates
      + Synch with equivalent Help pages
      + Fix typos and do updates
    + Guides
      + Published Writer Guide 7.2 en English
      + Published localized versions of other guides

* UX Update (Heiko)
    + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
        257(257) (topicUI) bugs open, 163(163) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
    + Updates:
        BZ changes   1 week    1 month    3 months   12 months
             added      4(0)      21(-10)    43(-4)      93(-2)
         commented     60(-15)   258(-54)   783(-52)   3557(-14)
           removed      1(0)       2(1)      10(-2)      36(1)
          resolved      4(-10)    38(-4)    118(-12)    512(1)
    + top 10 contributors:
          Heiko Tietze made 167 changes in 1 month, and 2424 changes in 1 year
          Ilmari Lauhakangas made 63 changes in 1 month, and 430 changes in 1 year
          Roman Kuznetsov made 61 changes in 1 month, and 249 changes in 1 year
          Foote, V Stuart made 28 changes in 1 month, and 635 changes in 1 year
          Faure, Jean-Baptiste made 25 changes in 1 month, and 29 changes in 1 year
          Stéphane Guillou made 23 changes in 1 month, and 47 changes in 1 year
          Timur made 20 changes in 1 month, and 125 changes in 1 year
          Telesto made 20 changes in 1 month, and 713 changes in 1 year
          BogdanB made 19 changes in 1 month, and 179 changes in 1 year
          Nabet, Julien made 18 changes in 1 month, and 38 changes in 1 year

    + 7 new tickets with needsUXEval Aug/19-26
->    + [Bug 140048] CALC Custom Sort for Autofilter WINDOWS
        + list with dates not available on Windows? question to QA
->    + [Bug 75644] Better options to control LibO window resize of the Start
             Screen and last used window size of each document module (summary
             in comment 10)
        + VisibleArea* per document?
->    + [Bug 143956] Writer Templates are in Format Size A4 instead of Letter
             for Default - English (USA)
        + removing page size attribute from templates
      + [Bug 144036] New icon needed for the UNO Object Inspector
      + [Bug 144021] Character transparency should apply to objects anchored as
             character
      + [Bug 144017] New Function to count duplicates in list
      + [Bug 143737] Tools>Customize>keyboard>numbering assigned to a shortcut
             does nothing

	+ [Bug 142214] Improve Calc's auto-complete feature
        + Dennis changed to be more like (I guess) Excel (Xisco)
        + May be seen as a regression
          + let’s not add one more option (Heiko)

* Crash Testing (Caolan)
    + 12(+1) import failure, 9(+2) export failures
      - fix for new import failure pushed, new run underway
    + 0(-5) coverity issues
    + 8(-8) ossfuzz issues

* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.1.4.2
         + (-178) 2720 2898 3541 5776 5961 4390 4278 4028 3104 1968 1590 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.1.5.2
         + (+106) 2518 2412 1832 1718 654 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.2.0.4
         + (+1068) 1068 0

   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/signature/SalInstanceTreeView::get_drag_source()
	- Since 7.0. Top 3 in 7.2

   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/signature/%60anonymous%20namespace'::CheckReadOnlyTask::doWork
	- Since 7.2

* Mentoring/EasyHack update (Hossein)
          committer...   1 week      1 month     3 months    12 months
                  open      63(0)       104(11)     172(15)      181(15)
               reviews     356(-180)   1432(-26)   3514(50)     6168(212)
                merged     319(67)     1244(20)    3951(1)      7462(316)
             abandoned      11(-33)      87(-6)     206(-11)     416(8)
           own commits     256(63)     1018(-11)   3086(-6)    12921(-18)
        review commits      56(-43)     305(-27)    960(11)     4397(-56)
        contributor...   1 week     1 month     3 months   12 months
                  open      33(-2)      63(0)       96(3)      105(5)
               reviews     844(-52)   3026(-38)   8980(-2)   16570(658)
                merged      18(-26)     87(-11)    331(-5)     633(18)
             abandoned       5(-30)     51(-8)      93(-7)     244(-4)
           own commits      18(-32)     94(-21)    397(-3)    1997(-7)

    + easyHack statistics:
       needsDevEval 8(8)   needsUXEval 1(1)
       total 329(329)   assigned 25(25)   open 278(278)
    + top 10 contributors:
          Johnny_M made 22 patches in 1 month, and 674 patches in 1 year
          Dante DM made 17 patches in 1 month, and 123 patches in 1 year
          Emircan Ağaç made 11 patches in 1 month, and 11 patches in 1 year
          Akshit Kushwaha made 6 patches in 1 month, and 19 patches in 1 year
          Nagy Tibor made 4 patches in 1 month, and 41 patches in 1 year
          Yıldıray Üsküdar made 4 patches in 1 month, and 4 patches in 1 year
          Bayram Çiçek made 3 patches in 1 month, and 15 patches in 1 year
          Anshu made 3 patches in 1 month, and 11 patches in 1 year
          Zeynep Yavuz made 3 patches in 1 month, and 3 patches in 1 year
          Attila Szűcs made 2 patches in 1 month, and 40 patches in 1 year
    + top 10 reviewers:
          Vajngerl, Tomaž made 190 review comments in 1 month, and 324 in 1 year
          Michael Stahl made 104 review comments in 1 month, and 456 in 1 year
          Thorsten Behrens made 100 review comments in 1 month, and 288 in 1 year
          Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 96 review comments in 1 month, and 414 in 1 year
          Grandin, Noel made 82 review comments in 1 month, and 406 in 1 year
          Nabet, Julien made 78 review comments in 1 month, and 216 in 1 year
          Kaganski, Mike made 66 review comments in 1 month, and 358 in 1 year
          Németh, László made 62 review comments in 1 month, and 296 in 1 year
          Hossein made 62 review comments in 1 month, and 64 in 1 year
          Ilmari Lauhakangas made 60 review comments in 1 month, and 170 in 1 year

  + what to do with Easy Hacks which are not updated after review? (Hossein)
    + just abandoning is not a bad way (Stephan)
      + addressing review comments is part of the task

* Commit Access
  + None

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Kendy/Thorsten/László)
  + resting since: 9 weeks

* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
  + Missing Cloph.

* l10n (Sophie)
  + work is going on

* GSoC 2021 ongoing (Heiko/Thorsten/Ilmari)
  + project page: http://g.co/gsoc
  + next steps:
    + August 23 - 30, 2021: Mentors Submit Final Evaluations
    => Mentors, please remember to do final evaluations this week!
    + August 31, 2021: Results Announced
    => Mentors: please invite your students to the (online) conference (Sophie)

* LibOCon 2021 (virtual) September 23-25 (Cloph)
	  + https://events.documentfoundation.org/libocon2021/cfp
  + if you got confirmation mails, please click on the link!
  + the schedule is now public: https://events.documentfoundation.org/libocon2021/schedule/
  + presenters can upload prerecorded videos now!
  + 12th Sept is the deadline for this (Thorsten)
  + There will be also German/Hamburg in-person part of the conference

* Skia on macOS (Lubos)
  + see http://llunak.blogspot.com/2021/08/skia-on-mac.html for a demo video, much faster with Metal for larger images
  + propose to enable by default on master, early in the 7.3 cycle to avoid a rush dealing with feedback / bugreports
  + can always disable it if it is not read yet, before the libreoffice-7-3 branch-off
  + SAL_ENABLESKIA (vcl/skia/SkiaHelper.cxx)
  + OK with trying that approach and see how it goes (Thorsten)
  + right now is a good time (Xisco)
=> go ahead for now (All)

* What’s cooking (Miklos)
   + Lubos added opt-in Skia support on macOS
   + Gulsah added odfundiff-based ODF diffing in crashtesting, WIP

* QA update (Xisco)

    + UNCONFIRMED: 1340 (+31)
        + enhancements: 218  (+1)
        + needsUXEval: 13 (-1)
        + haveBackTrace: 1 (+0)
        + needsDevAdvice: 21 (+0)
        + documentation:  7 (-1)
        + android:  2 (+0)
        + iOS:  0 (+0)
        + Online:  17 (+0)

    + Most pressing bugs:
     New:
        None

     Old:
        + Writer document with tables lost data in cells (apparently) replacing with 0
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131025
            + Eike is asking for Writer advice
            + there are some code pointers from Mike K there

        + macOS: Can't save or open files using Finder dialog on Standard accounts on macOS 10.15 Catalina
           + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128233


        + Text runs of RTL scripts (e.g. Arabic, Hebrew, Persian) from
imported
          PDF are reversed, PDFIProcessor::mirrorString not behaving
eikeeikee            + 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:
        + FILESAVE: add a new line in a large spreadsheet and save causes crash
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143940
            + Noel?
            + Julien has questions, input from Noel/Eike is appreciated

        + Multilevel outline numbers not showing
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143990
            + already fixed, thanks Vasily

* QA stats
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
      +147  -40 (-105) overall)
      many thanks to the top bug squashers:
       QA Administrators       9
       Timur                   9
       Heiko Tietze            7
       Justin L                6
       Xisco Faulí             6
       Buovjaga                5
       Caolán McNamara         5
       Eike Rathke             5
       Roman Kuznetsov         5
       Aron Budea              4

    + top 10 bugs reporters:
       NISZ LibreOffice Team   7
       sophie                  6
       Telesto                 5
       Aron Budea              3
       Rafael Lima             3
       Buovjaga                2
       David W. Snow           2
       Eek! A Bug. Kill it!    2
       John Murrell            2
       Mike Kaganski           2

    + top 10 bugs fixers:
       McNamara, Caolán        4
       Bayram Çiçek            3
       Heiko Tietze            3
       Justin Luth             3
       Rathke, Eike            3
       Kaganski, Mike          2
       Németh, László          2
       Xisco Fauli             2
       *UNKNOWN*               1
       Andreas Heinisch        1

    + top 10 bugs confirmers:
       Roman Kuznetsov         23
       Nabet, Julien           10
       Eleonora Govallo        7
       Timur                   7
       Heiko Tietze            4
       Kosiorek, Bartosz       4
       Németh, László          4
       Xisco Fauli             4
       m.a.riosv               4
       Ilmari Lauhakangas      3


* Highest-Priority bugs (aka "MABs"):
   + http://bit.ly/2lJAAJI
     6.0 : 2/53 -     3 %  (+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 : 1/73 -     1 %  (+0)
     4.2 : 2/134 -    1 %  (+0)
     4.1 : 3/85 -     3 %  (+0)
     4.0 : 2/83 -     2 %  (+0)
     old : 5/248 -    2 %  (+1)


* Bisected bugs open: keyword 'bisected'
   + more accurate - down to a single commit.
   + http://bit.ly/2dyIfDy
   +

     done by:
        Timur                  3
        Roman Kuznetsov        2
        Xisco Fauli            2
        Budea, Áron            1
        Eleonora Govallo       1


* Bibisected bugs open: keyword 'bibisected'
   + http://bit.ly/2cSCXlS
   +

     done by:
        Timur                  3
        Roman Kuznetsov        2
        Xisco Fauli            2
        Budea, Áron            1
        Eleonora Govallo       1


* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
   + 1352(-2) bugs open of 11186(+13) total 14(+2) high prio.

     done by:
        Timur                  2
        Roman Kuznetsov        1
        Budea, Áron            1
        Faure, Jean-Baptiste   1
        mala                   1
        Stanić, Mihovil        1
        Robert Großkopf        1
        Kevin Suo              1
        Telesto                1
        Xisco Fauli            1


* ~Component   count net * high severity regressions
   + http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
     Writer        - 10(+0)
     Calc          - 3(+2)
     LibreOffice   - 1(+0)

   by OS:
     All           - 14(+2)
     Linux         - 0(+0)
     Mac OS X      - 0(+0)
     Windows       - 0(+0)


* ~Component   count net * all regressions
   + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
     Writer: other            - 457(-2)
     Calc                     - 228(+2)
     Impress                  - 144(-2)
     Writer: docx filter      - 59(-1)
     LibreOffice              - 55(+0)
     Crashes                  - 50(+2)
     UI                       - 50(+0)
     Draw                     - 49(+0)
     Borders                  - 46(+0)
     Writer: perf             - 44(+0)
     Base                     - 36(+1)
     Writer: other filter     - 34(+1)
     Chart                    - 29(-1)
     RTL                      - 27(+1)
     Writer: doc filter       - 24(+0)
     graphics stack           - 23(+0)
     Printing and PDF export  - 21(+0)
     filters and storage      - 19(+2)
     BASIC                    - 18(+1)
     Formula Editor           - 2(+0)
     framework                - 2(+0)
     sdk                      - 1(+0)


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