ESC meeting minutes: 2021-01-07

Miklos Vajna vmiklos at collabora.com
Thu Jan 7 15:33:09 UTC 2021


Reminders:
  + don’t forget the TDF tendering budget ideas till next week, see below
  + don’t forget your FOSDEM talk, see below

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

* Completed Action Items:
    + None

* Pending Action Items:
    + get GSoC 2021 application kicked off until end of year (Thorsten)
    + restrict master direct pushes in core.git, enforce going via gerrit (Cloph)

* Release Engineering update (Xisco)
    + 7.1 status
      + 7.1 rc2 next week
    + 7.0 status
      + 7.0.5 far away
    + Remotes: Android, iOS
    + Android viewer

* TDF tender budget for 2021 (Heiko)
    + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Budget2021
    + asked what is going to be tendered this year (Heiko)
    + need to compile a list: criteria is that it has be an enhancement and needs a cost estimate + contact
      + help with estimating is appreciated
    + next steps:
      + initial list is already in the wiki
      + if you had good ideas last year, feel free to copy it over
      + next week: freeze the idea list, rank the ideas
        + deadline: 21th Jan, we have to have a ranked result
      + have a sheet from Eike from last year for ranking (Thorsten)
    + important that there is a relatively recent estimate for the task (Thorsten)
AI: add good ideas with estimates to that page till next week (all)

* Late features (Heiko)
    + Community Edition disclaimer in about dialog
    + Brand image with CE tagline in start center
    + https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/97427
    + see also tdf#139347 & tdf#139335
    => in discussion; agreement from l10n & RE pending
    + want some short description what “community edition” is (Heiko)
      + plan to restore the above change, know it’ll break the string freeze
      + request from Marketing: explain what “community edition” is
AI: restore the change + add board members as reviewers to build consensus (Heiko)

* Documentation (Olivier)
   + New Help – No news
   + Helpcontent2
       + Updates and additions by S. Chaiklin, S. Horacek, Balaharipreetha Muthu, J. Luth, Johnny_M, LibreOfficiant, JP Ledure and more

   + Google seasons of Doc
      Projects ended and awarded
      + https://moodle.documentfoundation.org
      + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Calc_Functions

   + Guides
      + work going on in all books
   + Wiki
      + New pages on ODF (Regina)
         + HTTP://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/ODF_Markup


* UX Update (Heiko)
    + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
        241(241) (topicUI) bugs open, 278(278) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
    + Updates:
        BZ changes   1 week   1 month   3 months    12 months
             added     17(2)     69(16)     87(15)     193(14)
         commented     75(16)   476(-7)   1044(-26)   4093(21)
           removed      0(0)      5(0)       9(-1)      52(0)
          resolved      5(2)     49(-8)    134(-16)    485(-1)
    + top 10 contributors:
          Heiko Tietze made 249 changes in 1 month, and 2424 changes in 1 year
          Telesto made 237 changes in 1 month, and 853 changes in 1 year
          Foote, V Stuart made 110 changes in 1 month, and 705 changes in 1 year
          Seth Chaiklin made 71 changes in 1 month, and 229 changes in 1 year
          Roman Kuznetsov made 37 changes in 1 month, and 267 changes in 1 year
          Dieter Praas made 37 changes in 1 month, and 480 changes in 1 year
          Ilmari Lauhakangas made 37 changes in 1 month, and 279 changes in 1 year
          Kaganski, Mike made 21 changes in 1 month, and 159 changes in 1 year
          Henschel, Regina made 20 changes in 1 month, and 102 changes in 1 year
          Sascha Z made 18 changes in 1 month, and 37 changes in 1 year

     + 57 new tickets with needsUXEval Dec/17-Jan/07

* Crash Testing (Caolan)
    + Missing Caolan
    + 13(-1) import failure, 1(-1) export failures
    + ??? coverity issues
    + Google / ossfuzz: ?? fuzzers active now

* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/6.4.7.2
         + (-873) 476 1349 1232 1411 1286 944 803 568 343 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.0.3.1
         + (-5242) 2302 7544 6347 6410 6208 4932 3472 1732 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.0.4.2
         + (+1027)  1027 0

   + numbers are pretty low, let’s see
   + reported a crash, it seemed to work

* Mentoring/easyhack update
          committer...   1 week     1 month      3 months     12 months
                  open     109(45)     188(56)      201(61)       204(62)
               reviews     396(140)   1108(10)     3240(-92)    14905(-1092)
                merged     185(26)    1080(-263)   3494(-244)   17807(-692)
             abandoned      13(5)       58(-6)      193(-27)      980(-16)
           own commits     151(-4)     898(-97)    2864(-91)    14538(-50)
        review commits      59(2)      288(3)      1062(14)      4691(-12)
        contributor...   1 week     1 month      3 months    12 months
                  open      86(30)     127(35)      135(42)      136(42)
               reviews     830(208)   3200(-190)   9330(144)   46275(1252)
                merged      23(-11)    123(16)      618(133)    2486(661)
             abandoned      10(-1)      47(3)       117(10)      483(19)
           own commits      29(4)      108(4)       569(7)      2037(10)
        review commits       0(0)        0(0)         0(0)         0(0)
    + easyHack statistics:
       needsDevEval 9(9)   needsUXEval 3(3)   cleanup_comments 244(244)
       total 288(288)   assigned 20(20)   open 243(243)
    + top 10 contributors:
    + top 10 reviewers:
    + Patches automatically abandoned:
        wip: weld OTableWindowTitle ( Caolán McNamara )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/103180

        [do not submit] test ( Xisco Fauli )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/103993

        replace 'Palatino Linotype' with 'Liberation Serif' ( Caolán McNamara )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/104924

    + big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
          Prince Tomar
          Rhithick Murali
          Vishwas
          Milo Ivir
          日陰のコスモス
          Yaron Shahrabani
          george k
          Matthaiks

* Commit Access
  + None

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Kendy/Thorsten/László)
    + sleep -9 weeks

* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
   + Missing Cloph

* l10n (Sophie)
  + working is ongoing

* GSoC 2021 announced, deadline for applying as a project: January 29 (Thorsten)
  + project page: http://g.co/gsoc
  + this year’s GSoC will be quite different: much less time than before (for students)
  + new ideas are welcome at https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas

* Graphics architecture (Thorsten)
  * https://pad.documentfoundation.org/p/ESC_graphics_architecture
  * skia / vulkan metabug: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129062
      + 13 (+0) open bugs, 142 total (+1)
  * impression: was talking cross-purposes on IRC wrt gtk4 locking (Thorsten)
    + it seems gtk4 won’t be worse than other toolkits (Michael S)
    + see the dev list for details

* FOSDEM 2021 (Italo)
  + next deadline: 2021-01-15
    + need to pre-record the videos by then!
  + have a lightning talks slot (Thorsten)
    + still has to be pre-recorded + attend at the end to answer questions
    + expected time is 1h
    + will decide the time slot for each talk later

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

    + UNCONFIRMED: 1414 (+28)
        + enhancements: 167  (+9)
        + needsUXEval: 46 (+13)
        + haveBackTrace: 4 (-1)
        + needsDevAdvice: 18 (+0)
        + documentation:  21 (+1)
        + android:  5 (+1)
        + iOS:  0 (+0)
        + Online:  23 (+0)



    + Most pressing bugs:
     New:
        + CRASH: deleting content from document
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138482
            + Michael S?

     Old:
        + LibreOffice text blurry on Retina displays on macOS 11
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138122
            + Tor working on it

       + 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:
        + CRASH on Paste from clipboard into dialog or other floating window, paste to document canvas is fine; Windows only?
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139074
            + Thanks to Mike Kaganski

    + New high severity bugs of the week:
        + EDITING: Closing of query from design view leads to crash
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139299
            + Caolan?

        + Crash in LO Base in MS Windows when creating auto-number using a variety of number types
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138675
            + Caolan?

        + LO Vanilla - creating Firebird embedded ODB file on macOS Apple Silicon M1 throws error
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139320
            + aarch64-specific?

* QA stats
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
      +130  +8 (-114) overall)
      many thanks to the top bug squashers:
       V Stuart Foote          10
       Ming Hua                8
       QA Administrators       8
       Heiko Tietze            7
       Dieter                  5
       Gabor Kelemen           5
       Aron Budea              4
       NISZ LibreOffice Team   4
       An-Kh                   3
       Eike Rathke             3

    + top 10 bugs reporters:
       Telesto                 14
       NISZ LibreOffice Team   4
       Regina Henschel         3
       yuilytg7                3
       LeroyG                  2
       Olivier Hallot          2
       Rizal Muttaqin          2
       Robert Großkopf         2
       TorrAB                  2
       Jambunathan K           1

    + top 10 bugs fixers:
       Heiko Tietze            4
       Kelemen, Gabor          4
       Anshu                   3
       Balaharipreetha Muthu   3
       Rizal Muttaqin          3
       *UNKNOWN*               2
       Grandin, Noel           2
       Gülşah Köse             2
       Henschel, Regina        2
       Xisco Fauli             2

    + top 10 bugs confirmers:
       Dieter Praas            13
       *UNKNOWN*               6
       Raal                    5
       Foote, V Stuart         4
       NISZ LibreOffice Team   4
       m.a.riosv               4
       Henschel, Regina        3
       Martin Srdoš            3
       Nabet, Julien           3
       Robert Großkopf         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
   +

     done by:
        Budea, Áron             9
        NISZ LibreOffice Team   5
        Telesto                 3
        Xisco Fauli             2
        Raal                    1
        Kevin Suo               1


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

     done by:
        Budea, Áron             9
        NISZ LibreOffice Team   5
        Telesto                 3
        Raal                    1
        Kevin Suo               1
        Xisco Fauli             1


* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
   + 1390(+5) bugs open of 10630(+18) total 15(+4) high prio.

     done by:
        Telesto                 4
        Robert Großkopf         2
        日陰のコスモス                 1
        Budea, Áron             1
        Alex Thurgood           1
        NISZ LibreOffice Team   1
        m.a.riosv               1
        Raal                    1
        Martin Srdoš            1
        Kevin Suo               1


* ~Component   count net * high severity regressions
   + http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
     Writer        - 8(+2)
     Calc          - 2(+0)
     Impress       - 2(+0)
     LibreOffice   - 2(+1)
     BASIC         - 1(+1)

   by OS:
     All           - 13(+3)
     Linux         - 1(+0)
     Mac OS X      - 0(+0)
     Windows       - 1(+1)


* ~Component   count net * all regressions
   + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
     Writer: other            - 446(+4)
     Calc                     - 234(+0)
     Impress                  - 150(-2)
     Writer: docx filter      - 68(+0)
     Crashes                  - 60(+1)
     LibreOffice              - 57(-1)
     Draw                     - 52(+1)
     Borders                  - 45(+0)
     Writer: perf             - 45(+0)
     UI                       - 44(+1)
     Base                     - 37(-1)
     Writer: other filter     - 31(+0)
     Chart                    - 27(+0)
     Writer: doc filter       - 27(+0)
     graphics stack           - 25(+0)
     Printing and PDF export  - 23(+0)
     RTL                      - 23(+0)
     filters and storage      - 19(+0)
     BASIC                    - 17(+1)
     framework                - 2(+0)
     Formula Editor           - 1(+0)
     Linguistic               - 1(+1)
     sdk                      - 1(+0)


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