ESC meeting minutes: 2021-07-15

Miklos Vajna vmiklos at collabora.com
Thu Jul 15 14:39:48 UTC 2021


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

* Completed Action Items:
    + tweak the script to exclude feature and distro branches (Xisco)

* Pending Action Items:
    + None

* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
    + 7.2 status: 7.2 rc2 in 2 weeks
      + string freeze, 1 review needed
    + 7.1 status: 7.1.5 rc2 this week (tagging probably tomorrow)
    + Remotes: Android, iOS
    + Android viewer

* Documentation (Olivier)
    + Helpcontent2
       + Updates and fixes (Johnny M, R Lima, ohallot, Uwe Awer, M Kaganski
       + 248 open, 1 new, 2 closed, 25 partial

    + Guides
       + Work in progress, updating for 7.2


* UX Update (Heiko)
    + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
        257(257) (topicUI) bugs open, 142(142) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
    + Updates:
        BZ changes   1 week   1 month   3 months   12 months
             added      9(-3)    18(3)     32(2)       78(4)
         commented     85(26)   246(19)   765(-30)   3595(31)
           removed      0(-2)     6(0)     15(0)       36(0)
          resolved     13(4)     43(0)    135(-9)     517(9)
    + top 10 contributors:
          Heiko Tietze made 207 changes in 1 month, and 2377 changes in 1 year
          Telesto made 87 changes in 1 month, and 828 changes in 1 year
          Dieter made 40 changes in 1 month, and 412 changes in 1 year
          Foote, V Stuart made 26 changes in 1 month, and 626 changes in 1 year
          Eyal Rozenberg made 21 changes in 1 month, and 115 changes in 1 year
          Henschel, Regina made 20 changes in 1 month, and 91 changes in 1 year
          Stéphane Guillou made 18 changes in 1 month, and 25 changes in 1 year
          Ilmari Lauhakangas made 14 changes in 1 month, and 339 changes in 1 year
          Cor Nouws made 13 changes in 1 month, and 51 changes in 1 year
          NISZ LibreOffice Team made 13 changes in 1 month, and 29 changes in 1 year

     + 21 new tickets with needsUXEval Jul/09-15

  ->   [Bug 143066] TOC: Give option to switch off spell checking for table of
            contents
       [Bug 143373] Autocomplete Word completion does not function if the
            replacement and exceptions language doesn't match document language
  ->   [Bug 139693] LISTS: Clear Direct Formatting doesn't remove lists
       [Bug 143368] UI: Setting language for paragraph points to dialog label
            'Character'
       [Bug 143366] UI: Ability to Changing Default PS style language from
            statusbar
       [Bug 143348] UI: Autocorrect -> Autocompletion: Option to manually
            add things to the list
  ->   [Bug 143043] FILEOPEN DOCX Change tracked deletion of drawing shape
            is not imported
       [Bug 143042] FILEOPEN DOCX Change tracked addition of drawing shape
            is not imported
       [Bug 140643] After increasing font size, selection is lost and
            sidebar changes
       [Bug 143282] Wrong label "Border" for transparency limits
       [Bug 128968] Formdesign: Design-Mode for the whole form could only
            be changed by "Open in Design Mode"
       [Bug 143286] Spelling - No "Back" button
->     [Bug 142940] Enabling pair kerning breaks rendering of many common fonts
       [Bug 143287] Spelling - Correct and Correct All is inappropriate.
       [Bug 143272] Borderstyle hard to distinguish with dark theme
       [Bug 101731] Rename gradient 'border' label to something more meaningful
       [Bug 143246] Color picker doesn't load previously-picked color
       [Bug 143254] "Greek Upper Letter" numbering style should be named
            "Greek Upper Numeral"
       [Bug 143252] UI: Change in table border color is directly applied to
            selected border (should be disconnected)
       [Bug 143251] UI: The table properties table border tool is
            counter-intuitive (lacking feedback)
       [Bug 143250] UI: Make all borders being selected if a part of the
            table is selected

* Crash Testing (Caolan)
    + 16(-2) import failure, 7(-2) export failures
    + 6 coverity issues
    + 10 ossfuzz issues

* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.0.6.2
         + (-16) 984 1000 963 979 1143 1052 824 234 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.1.3.2
         + (-321) 2537 2858 3553 4687 6349 7105 6534 5427 3679 1730 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.1.4.2
         + (+250) 4278 4028 3104 1968 1590 0
- https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/signature/ScModule::AnythingChanged()
	- Online Spelling. Since 7.0
- https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/signature/FontNameBox::CachePreview(unsigned%20__int64,Point%20*)
	- Since 7.1
      - possibly https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/118987 resolves this
* Mentoring/easyhack update (Hossein)
          committer...   1 week     1 month     3 months    12 months
                  open      90(-3)     151(-1)     164(7)       172(7)
               reviews     512(48)    1444(130)   3090(88)     4564(326)
                merged     277(-47)   1421(-33)   4013(-33)    5724(265)
             abandoned       8(-7)      61(0)      214(-8)      307(8)
           own commits     183(-4)     926(-83)   2996(-50)   13061(-134)
        review commits     103(50)     349(39)     804(20)     4438(37)
        contributor...   1 week    1 month    3 months    12 months
                  open      60(6)      95(-9)    107(-7)      112(-6)
               reviews     980(44)   3512(8)    8940(-10)   12750(650)
                merged      66(34)    171(49)    326(35)      509(62)
             abandoned      11(3)      26(8)      87(5)       187(11)
           own commits      71(42)    212(53)    403(28)     2118(43)

    + easyHack statistics:
       needsDevEval 8(8)   needsUXEval 1(1)
       total 325(325)   assigned 25(25)   open 274(274)
    + top 10 contributors:
          Johnny_M made 88 patches in 1 month, and 706 patches in 1 year
          Panos Korovesis made 37 patches in 1 month, and 40 patches in 1 year
          Steve Fanning made 8 patches in 1 month, and 50 patches in 1 year
          Bai Xiaochun made 7 patches in 1 month, and 7 patches in 1 year
          Todor Balabanov made 6 patches in 1 month, and 6 patches in 1 year
          Attila Bakos made 5 patches in 1 month, and 43 patches in 1 year
          Hossein made 5 patches in 1 month, and 9 patches in 1 year
          Nagy Tibor made 4 patches in 1 month, and 42 patches in 1 year
          Kevin Suo made 4 patches in 1 month, and 16 patches in 1 year
          NOGATA, Jun made 3 patches in 1 month, and 7 patches in 1 year
    + top 10 reviewers:
          Olivier Hallot made 140 review comments in 1 month, and 486 in 1 year
          Xisco Fauli made 134 review comments in 1 month, and 346 in 1 year
          Grandin, Noel made 120 review comments in 1 month, and 280 in 1 year
          Vajngerl, Tomaž made 112 review comments in 1 month, and 160 in 1 year
          Michael Stahl made 108 review comments in 1 month, and 336 in 1 year
          Vajna, Miklos made 104 review comments in 1 month, and 238 in 1 year
          Kaganski, Mike made 100 review comments in 1 month, and 302 in 1 year
          Németh, László made 88 review comments in 1 month, and 238 in 1 year
          Thorsten Behrens made 66 review comments in 1 month, and 192 in 1 year
          Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 52 review comments in 1 month, and 302 in 1 year
    + big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
          Fukanchik, Sergey
          Hochwasser
          Uwe Auer
          + email address + license statement is required, real name is not (Cloph)
          + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Developers has the license statements from existing contributors (Miklos)

* Commit Access
  + Panos Korovesis, GSoC student of Tomaz, to push to feature branches (Miklos)
    + no objections
    + AI: send welcome mail (Miklos)
    + AI: adjust gerrit settings (Cloph)

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Kendy/Thorsten/László)
  + resting since: 4 weeks

* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
    from:Thu Jul  8 13:49:26 2021
    master linux rel  jobs: 102 ok: 102 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master linux dbg  jobs:  82 ok:  77 ko:   5 fail ratio:  6.10 % break:   4 broken duration:10.02%
    master mac rel    jobs:  91 ok:  91 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master mac dbg    jobs:  93 ok:  93 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master win rel    jobs:  90 ok:  85 ko:   5 fail ratio:  5.56 % break:   3 broken duration: 3.47%
    master win dbg    jobs:  95 ok:  88 ko:   7 fail ratio:  7.37 % break:   5 broken duration: 5.79%
    master win64 dbg  jobs:  92 ok:  83 ko:   9 fail ratio:  9.78 % break:   8 broken duration:19.11%
    master gerrit lin jobs: 587 ok: 479 ko:  85 fail ratio: 14.48% time for ok: mean:  20 median:  19
    master gerrit plg jobs: 533 ok: 321 ko: 171 fail ratio: 32.08% time for ok: mean:  43 median:  42
    master gerrit win jobs: 658 ok: 407 ko: 220 fail ratio: 33.43% time for ok: mean:  44 median:  45
    master gerrit mac jobs: 593 ok: 477 ko:  82 fail ratio: 13.83% time for ok: mean:  27 median:  24
    master android    jobs: 522 ok: 443 ko:  48 fail ratio:  9.20% time for ok: mean:  31 median:  23
    master gerrit all jobs: 573 ok: 242 ko: 279 fail ratio: 48.69% time for ok: mean:  67 median:  58
   + https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/tmp/gerrit_210715.html
   + tests that failed more than twice in last seven days
      3 Killed by the kill-wrapper		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      3 CppunitTest_sc_macros_test		gerrit_mac
      3 CppunitTest_sw_uiwriter4		gerrit_windows
      3 UITest_impress_tests		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      3 UITest_signatureLine		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      4 CppunitTest_sc_uicalc		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      4 UITest_writer_tests3		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      5 CppunitTest_desktop_lib		gerrit_linux_gcc_release
      5 CppunitTest_writerperfect_writer		gerrit_windows
      5 UITest_calc_tests9		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
     10 CppunitTest_sw_core_undo		gerrit_windows
     14 CppunitTest_sc_uicalc		gerrit_windows
  + similar to last week: sc_uicalc is still bad on Windows
    + 1 windows box had leftover processes, but otherwise good

* l10n (Sophie)
  + work is going on
  + https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/117272 apparently broke translations partially
    + Noel?
    + AI: file a bugreport (Xisco)

* GSoC 2021 ongoing (Heiko/Thorsten/Ilmari)
  + project page: http://g.co/gsoc
  + next steps:
    + July 12 - 16, 2021: Evaluations: mentors to fill out the form from Mon
      + 5 projects have passed the first evaluation
      + Missing eval: mkara/htietze, cloph/ohallot, mst/laszlo
        NEEDED UNTIL TOMORROW Jul/16 7pm UTC
    + June 19, 2021 - August 16, 2021: Coding
    + 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 18th of July)
    https://events.documentfoundation.org/libocon2021/cfp
  + who to talk to if unsure what paper got submitted? (Miklos)
    + Sophie can help (Cloph)

* What’s cooking (Miklos)
  + continued bugfixes for multi-column editeng text (Mike)

* QA update (Xisco)

    + Bug Hunting Session for LibreOffice 7.2 on July, 19
	- https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/07/14/coming-up-on-july-19-bug-hunting-session-for-libreoffice-7-2-rc1/

    + UNCONFIRMED: 1706 (-63)
        + enhancements: 260  (+2)
        + needsUXEval: 9 (+3)
        + haveBackTrace: 2 (-2)
        + needsDevAdvice: 20 (-1)
        + 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
            + 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:

        + UI: Highlight (not select) current row and column in spreadsheet
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33201
            + feature request, Eike will take a look if it makes sense

* QA stats
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
      +116  -13 (-121) overall)
      many thanks to the top bug squashers:
       QA Administrators       17
       Telesto                 12
       Xisco Faulí             11
       Heiko Tietze            6
       V Stuart Foote          6
       Caolán McNamara         5
       Mike Kaganski           5
       NISZ LibreOffice Team   4
       Aron Budea              3
       Julien Nabet            3

    + top 10 bugs reporters:
       Telesto                 15
       NISZ LibreOffice Team   8
       sophie                  6
       Xisco Faulí             3
       keepitsimplestupid      3
       Christian Lehmann       2
       M-Rick                  2
       Ming Hua                2
       Regina Henschel         2
       Stefan_Lange_KA@T-Online.de 2

    + top 10 bugs fixers:
       McNamara, Caolán        5
                               4
       Németh, László          3
       Gülşah Köse             2
       Heiko Tietze            2
       Olivier Hallot          2
       Rathke, Eike            2
       Xisco Fauli             2
       Adolfo Jayme Barrientos 1
       Andreas Heinisch        1

    + top 10 bugs confirmers:
       Xisco Fauli             66
       Dieter                  11
       Andreas Heinisch        10
       Heiko Tietze            9
       NISZ LibreOffice Team   7
       m.a.riosv               5
       Nabet, Julien           4
       Olivier Hallot          4
       Robert Großkopf         4
       Németh, László          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:
        Raal                    4
        Xisco Fauli             4
        Budea, Áron             2
        NISZ LibreOffice Team   2
        Terrence Enger          1
        Weghorn, Michael        1
        Telesto                 1


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

     done by:
        Raal                    4
        Xisco Fauli             4
        Budea, Áron             2
        NISZ LibreOffice Team   2
        Terrence Enger          1
        Weghorn, Michael        1
        Telesto                 1


* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
   + 1334(+6) bugs open of 11067(+25) total 10(+0) high prio.

     done by:
        Telesto                 7
        Xisco Fauli             5
        Weghorn, Michael        2
        Raal                    2
        Timur                   1
        NISZ LibreOffice Team   1
        Robert Großkopf         1
        Nabet, Julien           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            - 441(+4)
     Calc                     - 221(-2)
     Impress                  - 141(+2)
     Writer: docx filter      - 59(+0)
     LibreOffice              - 56(+0)
     Crashes                  - 49(+3)
     Draw                     - 49(+0)
     Borders                  - 46(+2)
     Writer: perf             - 43(-1)
     UI                       - 39(+0)
     Base                     - 34(-1)
     Chart                    - 31(+0)
     Writer: other filter     - 31(-1)
     RTL                      - 24(-1)
     Writer: doc filter       - 24(+0)
     graphics stack           - 23(+0)
     Printing and PDF export  - 19(+0)
     filters and storage      - 17(+0)
     BASIC                    - 16(+1)
     framework                - 3(+0)
     Formula Editor           - 2(+0)
     sdk                      - 1(+0)


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