ESC meeting minutes: 2021-07-01

Miklos Vajna vmiklos at collabora.com
Thu Jul 1 14:46:36 UTC 2021


* Present:
    + Olivier, Eike, Cloph, Florian, Thorsten, Michael W, Heiko, Caolan, Miklos, Xisco, Hossein, Michael S

* Completed Action Items:
    + change.mergeabilityComputationBehavior=NEVER for gerrit.libreoffice.org (Guilhem)

* Pending Action Items:
    + None

* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
    + 7.2 status: 7.2 rc1 next week: string & UI freeze
      + late features → both editeng multi-column + list label changes are in
    + 7.1 status: 7.1.5 rc1 tag later today
    + Remotes: Android, iOS
    + Android viewer

* Documentation (Olivier)
    + New Help (No news)
    + Helpcontent2
       + Refactors (Johnny_M, ohallot, fitoshido)
       + Updates (S. Fanning, ohallot)
       + New pages on ScriptForge (R. lima)
       + Open 246, closed 4, new 1, partial:22
    + Question: Do we need to add MPLV2 licenses to Basic libraries bundled in       LibreOffice?
       + most of them in “LO Macros” (Tools, Euro, Gimmnick…) (yes/no)
       + Also for Access2Base (yes/no)
       + and ScriptForge (yes/no)
       + will ask the board
    + Guides
       + community working on Guides


* UX Update (Heiko)
    + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
        256(256) (topicUI) bugs open, 143(143) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
    + Updates:
        BZ changes   1 week   1 month    3 months   12 months
             added      3(1)      8(3)      23(3)       71(1)
         commented     47(10)   230(-22)   828(-18)   3636(-42)
           removed      1(1)      5(0)      15(1)       34(-1)
          resolved      7(-1)    50(-9)    147(6)      513(2)
    + top 10 contributors:
          Heiko Tietze made 189 changes in 1 month, and 2373 changes in 1 year
          Foote, V Stuart made 75 changes in 1 month, and 640 changes in 1 year
          Dieter made 35 changes in 1 month, and 403 changes in 1 year
          Eyal Rozenberg made 28 changes in 1 month, and 111 changes in 1 year
          Max L. made 16 changes in 1 month, and 16 changes in 1 year
          Telesto made 14 changes in 1 month, and 797 changes in 1 year
          BogdanB made 13 changes in 1 month, and 159 changes in 1 year
          Stéphane Guillou made 11 changes in 1 month, and 12 changes in 1 year
          Ilmari Lauhakangas made 10 changes in 1 month, and 331 changes in 1 year
          Kaganski, Mike made 10 changes in 1 month, and 185 changes in 1 year

    + 7 new tickets with needsUXEval Jun/25-Jul/01

      [Bug 143144] (wishlist) "Input list" field: Add confirmation dialog in
           order to prevent lost of data
      [Bug 143138] Can't paste unformatted text as table cells in Writer
      [Bug 143103] Support Color Filter in "Standard Filter" dialog
      [Bug 143098] The 'Styles Preview' section in the Tabbed NB doesn't follow
           the system theme
->    [Bug 142720] UI: Sidebar Styles follow active document across all windows
      + navigator can stick to the current document
      [Bug 143079] UI: a way to save the content of the style inspector. Making
           manual comparison of formatting changes of DOCX/ODT easier
      [Bug 143055] Snap-to-grid button should be on more toolbars, optionally or
           by default

->  + Calc Survey
      + draft for discussion at
        https://www.mail-archive.com/design@global.libreoffice.org/msg09476.html
      + deadline: next Wed

→   + Removing the replacement of dashes into EN/EM from replacement table
      + https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/117585
      + proposal: remove this from the replacement table of all languages
        + duplicates code vs configuration
      + what is the shortcut to get the EM dash? Where is the doc for this? (Olivier)
        + probably the config was not used at all by default

* Crash Testing (Caolan)
    + 16(-2) import failure, 8(-1) export failures
    + 0 coverity issues
    + 12 ossfuzz issues
      + a substantial improvement

* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.0.6.2
         + (-16) 963 979 1143 1052 824 234 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.1.3.2
         + (-1134) 3553 4687 6349 7105 6534 5427 3679 1730 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.1.4.2
         + (+1136) 3104 1968 1590 0

   + Top 5
- https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/signature/weld::CustomWidgetController::SetPointer(PointerStyle)
- https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/signature/SfxApplication::GetSidebarTheme()
- https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/signature/vcl::Window::GetParentWithLOKNotifier()
- https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/signature/vcl::Window::SetPointer(PointerStyle) this is the same crash as #1
- https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/signature/SalInstanceTreeView::get_drag_source()
  + Cloph fixed the symbols, every crashreport is resolved
  + no steps to reproduce for these yet


* Mentoring/easyhack update (Hossein)
   + 3 mins presentation with charts of the below → slides on nextcloud
          committer...   1 week     1 month     3 months    12 months
                  open      85(-13)    144(-18)    149(-18)     157(-18)
               reviews     446(14)    1204(12)    2920(-66)    3970(184)
                merged     376(57)    1474(53)    3987(49)     5140(368)
             abandoned      12(-11)     60(-16)    219(1)       284(11)
           own commits     231(10)    1117(-34)   3051(-9)    13473(-63)
        review commits      81(7)      312(45)     791(-20)    4439(22)
        contributor...   1 week     1 month    3 months   12 months
                  open       43(18)     88(15)     99(13)     103(13)
               reviews     1012(18)   3484(14)   8790(54)   11424(666)
                merged       32(1)     106(18)    276(8)      416(32)
             abandoned        5(5)      17(3)      80(-3)     169(5)
           own commits       45(-1)    148(27)    374(8)     2106(19)
        review commits        0(0)       0(0)       0(0)        0(0)
    + easyHack statistics:
       needsDevEval 8(8)   needsUXEval 1(1)   cleanup_comments 267(267)
       total 317(317)   assigned 26(26)   open 262(262)
    + top 10 contributors:
          Johnny_M made 62 patches in 1 month, and 720 patches in 1 year
          Panos Korovesis made 12 patches in 1 month, and 12 patches in 1 year
          Steve Fanning made 8 patches in 1 month, and 48 patches in 1 year
          Nagy Tibor made 5 patches in 1 month, and 42 patches in 1 year
          Kevin Suo made 5 patches in 1 month, and 13 patches in 1 year
          scito made 4 patches in 1 month, and 16 patches in 1 year
          Srebotnjak, Martin made 4 patches in 1 month, and 9 patches in 1 year
          Ming Hua made 4 patches in 1 month, and 17 patches in 1 year
          Todor Balabanov made 4 patches in 1 month, and 4 patches in 1 year
          Tobias Schulz made 3 patches in 1 month, and 3 patches in 1 year
    + top 10 reviewers:
          Olivier Hallot made 104 review comments in 1 month, and 438 in 1 year
          Xisco Fauli made 90 review comments in 1 month, and 288 in 1 year
          Kaganski, Mike made 88 review comments in 1 month, and 278 in 1 year
          Vajna, Miklos made 82 review comments in 1 month, and 194 in 1 year
          Németh, László made 78 review comments in 1 month, and 206 in 1 year
          Grandin, Noel made 74 review comments in 1 month, and 200 in 1 year
          Thorsten Behrens made 74 review comments in 1 month, and 192 in 1 year
          Michael Stahl made 68 review comments in 1 month, and 272 in 1 year
          Vajngerl, Tomaž made 46 review comments in 1 month, and 88 in 1 year
          Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 46 review comments in 1 month, and 280 in 1 year
      + suggest to exclude reviews on release branches (Xisco)
        + at least exclude feature and distro branches (Michael S)
        + there is value in release branch reviews (Miklos)
          + agree (Thorsten)
      + AI: tweak the script to exclude feature and distro branches (Xisco)
    + big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
          Harshita Nag
          Bai Xiaochun

* Commit Access
  + None

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Kendy/Thorsten/László)
  + resting since: 2 weeks

* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
    from:Thu Jun 24 14:16:02 2021
    master linux rel  jobs: 109 ok: 104 ko:   4 fail ratio:  3.67 % break:   2 broken duration: 1.59%
    master linux dbg  jobs:  93 ok:  87 ko:   5 fail ratio:  5.38 % break:   3 broken duration: 2.85%
    master mac rel    jobs:  97 ok:  96 ko:   1 fail ratio:  1.03 % break:   1 broken duration: 0.07%
    master mac dbg    jobs:  96 ok:  94 ko:   2 fail ratio:  2.08 % break:   2 broken duration: 0.53%
    master win rel    jobs:  66 ok:  66 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master win dbg    jobs:  68 ok:  66 ko:   1 fail ratio:  1.47 % break:   1 broken duration: 0.53%
    master win64 dbg  jobs:  66 ok:  62 ko:   4 fail ratio:  6.06 % break:   3 broken duration: 1.13%
    master gerrit lin jobs: 647 ok: 503 ko: 100 fail ratio: 15.46% time for ok: mean:  21 median:  20
    master gerrit plg jobs: 610 ok: 344 ko: 206 fail ratio: 33.77% time for ok: mean:  45 median:  43
    master gerrit win jobs: 715 ok: 453 ko: 191 fail ratio: 26.71% time for ok: mean:  47 median:  49
    master gerrit mac jobs: 666 ok: 503 ko: 111 fail ratio: 16.67% time for ok: mean:  28 median:  24
    master android    jobs: 586 ok: 461 ko:  78 fail ratio: 13.31% time for ok: mean:  33 median:  28
    master gerrit all jobs: 638 ok: 290 ko: 268 fail ratio: 42.01% time for ok: mean:  97 median:  86
   + https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/tmp/gerrit_210701.html
   + tests that failed more than twice in last seven days:
      3 CppunitTest_sw_mailmerge		gerrit_windows
      3 UITest_sw_sidebar		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      4 CppunitTest_sw_ooxmlexport7		gerrit_mac
      4 UITest_sw_findReplace		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      4 UITest_writer_tests5		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      4 UITest_writer_tests7		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      5 CppunitTest_writerperfect_writer		gerrit_windows
      5 UITest_writer_tests3		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      8 CppunitTest_sw_ww8export		gerrit_windows
      9 CppunitTest_sw_core_undo		gerrit_windows
     11 CppunitTest_desktop_lib		gerrit_linux_gcc_release
     11 CppunitTest_sc_uicalc		gerrit_windows
     21 Killed by the kill-wrapper		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
  + it wasn’t a too bad week (Cloph)
    + svp breakage + uitest changes → 1 reverted
    + Calc timer fix from Eike

* l10n (Sophie)
  + any news on https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/refs/heads/master/sfx2/classification/ ?
	+ Cloph will upload a PO file later today
      + want to exclude non-translated files with some build system tweaks

* GSoC 2021 ongoing (Heiko/Thorsten/Ilmari)
  + project page: http://g.co/gsoc
  + next steps:
    + June 7, 2021 - August 16, 2021: Coding ← we are here
      + looks all good (Thorsten)
    + July 12 - 16, 2021: Evaluations
    + August 16 - 23, 2021: Students Submit Code and Final Evaluations
    + August 23 - 30, 2021: Mentors Submit Final Evaluations
    + August 31, 2021: Results Announced

* LibOCon 2021 (virtual) September 23-25 (Cloph)
  + CfP (till Jun 30, yesterday! But now extended to 18th of July)
    https://events.documentfoundation.org/libocon2021/cfp

* What’s cooking (Miklos)
  + Quikee’s document indexing is now in master: soffice --convert-to xml:writer_indexing_export some.odt
  + gtk4: drag&drop works! (Caolan)
    + from external apps
  + Now the uitests are guarded with context managers (Xisco)
    + so now asserts are failing fast, probably – even when a blocking dialog is open

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

    + UNCONFIRMED: 1756 (+24)
        + enhancements: 256  (+10)
        + needsUXEval: 4 (-1)
        + haveBackTrace: 4 (+0)
        + needsDevAdvice: 21 (+0)
        + documentation:  7 (+0)
        + android:  2 (+0)
        + iOS:  0 (+0)
        + Online:  17 (+0)


    + Most pressing bugs:
     New:
        None

     Old:
        + REGRESSION Setting to repeat heading in writer tables no longer works
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140506
            + Bjoern? → soneone needs to reach out to him

        + 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
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104597

            + Thorsten looking at it
            + old problem, but many duplicate
    + New high severity bugs of the week:
		None

* QA stats
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
      +128  -18 (-103) overall)
      many thanks to the top bug squashers:
       Heiko Tietze            9
       NISZ LibreOffice Team   7
       QA Administrators       7
       V Stuart Foote          7
       stragu                  7
       Telesto                 5
       Dieter                  4
       Justin L                4
       Mike Kaganski           4
       Uwe Auer                4

    + top 10 bugs reporters:
       NISZ LibreOffice Team   19
       Tracey                  7
       Telesto                 6
       Valek Filippov          6
       birnbach@posteo.de  4
       Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) 3
       Eyal Rozenberg          2
       Hossein                 2
       Karl Marx               2
       Kay                     2

    + top 10 bugs fixers:
       Heiko Tietze            3
       Justin Luth             3
       Olivier Hallot          3
                               2
       Adolfo Jayme Barrientos 2
       Andreas Heinisch        2
       Attila Bakos            2
       Kaganski, Mike          2
       NISZ LibreOffice Team   2
       Rathke, Eike            2

    + top 10 bugs confirmers:
       Dieter                  12
       NISZ LibreOffice Team   9
       m.a.riosv               6
       Budea, Áron             5
       Heiko Tietze            4
       Roman Kuznetsov         4
       Telesto                 4
       Weghorn, Michael        4
       *UNKNOWN*               3
       Foote, V Stuart         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 : 3/248 -    1 %  (+0)


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

     done by:
        NISZ LibreOffice Team   2
        Telesto                 2
        Weghorn, Michael        1


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

     done by:
        NISZ LibreOffice Team   2
        Telesto                 2
        Weghorn, Michael        1


* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
   + 1337(+0) bugs open of 11034(+9) total 10(+0) high prio.

     done by:
        Telesto                3
        Weghorn, Michael       1
        Robert Großkopf        1
        Andreas Säger          1


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

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


* ~Component   count net * all regressions
   + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
     Writer: other            - 438(-1)
     Calc                     - 224(-1)
     Impress                  - 139(+1)
     Writer: docx filter      - 60(+0)
     LibreOffice              - 56(+1)
     Draw                     - 47(+0)
     Crashes                  - 46(+1)
     Writer: perf             - 45(+0)
     Borders                  - 44(+0)
     UI                       - 40(+1)
     Base                     - 35(+1)
     Writer: other filter     - 33(+0)
     Chart                    - 31(-1)
     RTL                      - 25(+0)
     Writer: doc filter       - 25(+0)
     graphics stack           - 23(+0)
     Printing and PDF export  - 19(+0)
     filters and storage      - 17(-1)
     BASIC                    - 15(+0)
     framework                - 3(+0)
     Formula Editor           - 2(+0)
     sdk                      - 1(+0)


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