ESC meeting minutes: 2021-07-22

Miklos Vajna vmiklos at collabora.com
Thu Jul 22 14:38:02 UTC 2021


* Present:
    + Heiko, Thorsten, Sophie, Michael W, Stephan, Gabriel, Olivier, Cloph, Michael S, Hossein, Xisco

* Completed Action Items:
    + file a bugreport for the l10n problem with https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/117272 (Xisco)
	- it was already reported in ://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142973
	- Fixed in 7712eb23bc97090fdd655a36dfca0019d43799e6
    + commit bits for Panos (Cloph/Miklos)

* Pending Action Items:
    + Hochwasser license statement (Hossein)
       [ contacted them, no response yet ]
    + Found the license statement for the single patch in the Bugzilla
      https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119312#c18


* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
    + 7.2 status: 7.2 rc2 next week
      + string freeze, 1 review needed
      + late feature:
        + spell-checking on indices (Language = None for paragraph style Index and ff) (Heiko)
        + https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/119265
          + indeed doesn’t make sense to spell-check generated content (Michael S)
    + 7.1 status: 7.1.5 has been announced as final
      + rc1 for 7.1.6 in 4 weeks
    + Remotes: Android, iOS
    + Android viewer

* Documentation (Olivier)
    + New Help: No news
    + Helpcontents2
       + Fixes and refactor (Johnny_M, A. Gelmini, ohallot)
       + ScriptForge help (R. Lima)
       + Updates in Calc functions Help (S. Fannnig)
       + 245 open, 1 new, 3 closed, 22 partial
    + Guides
       + Work as usual

* UX Update (Heiko)
    + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
        256(256) (topicUI) bugs open, 147(147) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
    + Updates:
        BZ changes   1 week    1 month   3 months   12 months
             added      14(5)     22(4)     34(2)       81(3)
         commented     127(42)   314(68)   830(65)    3646(51)
           removed       1(1)      4(-2)    15(0)       35(-1)
          resolved      13(0)     42(-1)   138(3)      523(6)
    + top 10 contributors:
          Heiko Tietze made 244 changes in 1 month, and 2441 changes in 1 year
          Telesto made 95 changes in 1 month, and 805 changes in 1 year
          Ilmari Lauhakangas made 50 changes in 1 month, and 371 changes in 1 year
          Foote, V Stuart made 48 changes in 1 month, and 645 changes in 1 year
          Dieter made 44 changes in 1 month, and 424 changes in 1 year
          Roman Kuznetsov made 21 changes in 1 month, and 205 changes in 1 year
          Kaganski, Mike made 17 changes in 1 month, and 191 changes in 1 year
          Henschel, Regina made 17 changes in 1 month, and 95 changes in 1 year
          Stéphane Guillou made 17 changes in 1 month, and 24 changes in 1 year
          NISZ LibreOffice Team made 13 changes in 1 month, and 28 changes in 1 year

* Crash Testing (Caolan)
    + missing Caolan
    + 12(-41) import failure, 8(+0) export failures
    + ??? coverity issues
    + Google / ossfuzz: ?? fuzzers active now

* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.0.6.2
         + (-94) 890 984 1000 963 979 1143 1052 824 234 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.1.3.2
         + (-414) 2123 2537 2858 3553 4687 6349 7105 6534 5427 3679 1730 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.1.4.2
         + (+112) 4390 4278 4028 3104 1968 1590 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/signature/writerfilter::dmapper::TableManager::findColumn(unsigned%20long,unsigned%20long)
	- Introduced in 19d7f9624e92422409ed2744091d502fdae8692b. Justin Luth ?
      - no reprod document for this yet
  - 7.1.5 was released, let’s wait for the new numbers

* Mentoring/easyhack update (Hossein)
          committer...   1 week     1 month     3 months    12 months
                  open      75(-15)    140(-11)    171(7)       179(7)
               reviews     542(30)    1558(114)   3258(168)    4930(366)
                merged     325(48)    1431(10)    4090(77)     6088(364)
             abandoned      15(7)       59(-2)     204(-10)     322(15)
           own commits     253(70)     957(31)    3083(87)    13088(27)
        review commits     134(31)     388(39)     896(92)     4508(70)
        contributor...   1 week     1 month     3 months    12 months
                  open      34(-26)     89(-6)     108(1)       114(2)
               reviews     984(4)     3490(-22)   9134(194)   13530(780)
                merged      46(-20)    140(-31)    322(-4)      510(1)
             abandoned       3(-8)      25(-1)      84(-3)      189(2)
           own commits      67(-4)     186(-26)    418(15)     2111(-7)
    + easyHack statistics:
       needsDevEval 8(8)   needsUXEval 1(1)
       total 323(323)   assigned 26(26)   open 271(271)
    + top 10 contributors:
          Johnny_M made 94 patches in 1 month, and 752 patches in 1 year
          Steve Fanning made 14 patches in 1 month, and 56 patches in 1 year
          Kevin Suo made 8 patches in 1 month, and 21 patches in 1 year
          Hossein made 8 patches in 1 month, and 12 patches in 1 year
          Bai Xiaochun made 7 patches in 1 month, and 7 patches in 1 year
          Nagy Tibor made 6 patches in 1 month, and 43 patches in 1 year
          Attila Bakos made 5 patches in 1 month, and 43 patches in 1 year
          Todor Balabanov made 4 patches in 1 month, and 7 patches in 1 year
          NOGATA, Jun made 3 patches in 1 month, and 7 patches in 1 year
          Shubham Jain made 3 patches in 1 month, and 11 patches in 1 year
    + top 10 reviewers:
          Xisco Fauli made 144 review comments in 1 month, and 364 in 1 year
          Olivier Hallot made 142 review comments in 1 month, and 538 in 1 year
          Grandin, Noel made 138 review comments in 1 month, and 320 in 1 year
          Vajna, Miklos made 132 review comments in 1 month, and 306 in 1 year
          Michael Stahl made 116 review comments in 1 month, and 360 in 1 year
          Kaganski, Mike made 102 review comments in 1 month, and 312 in 1 year
          Vajngerl, Tomaž made 100 review comments in 1 month, and 162 in 1 year
          Németh, László made 94 review comments in 1 month, and 252 in 1 year
          Thorsten Behrens made 64 review comments in 1 month, and 202 in 1 year
          Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 56 review comments in 1 month, and 312 in 1 year
    + big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
          Aleksandr Yakovlev

* Commit Access

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Kendy/Thorsten/László)
  + resting since: 5 weeks

* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
    from:Thu Jul 15 14:08:10 2021
    master linux rel  jobs: 121 ok: 121 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master linux dbg  jobs: 105 ok: 100 ko:   5 fail ratio:  4.76 % break:   5 broken duration: 5.34%
    master mac rel    jobs:  98 ok:  98 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master mac dbg    jobs:  99 ok:  99 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master win rel    jobs:  96 ok:  96 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master win dbg    jobs: 102 ok: 101 ko:   1 fail ratio:  0.98 % break:   1 broken duration: 0.10%
    master win64 dbg  jobs:  94 ok:  91 ko:   3 fail ratio:  3.19 % break:   3 broken duration: 2.04%
    master gerrit lin jobs: 646 ok: 477 ko: 118 fail ratio: 18.27% time for ok: mean:  23 median:  21
    master gerrit plg jobs: 638 ok: 366 ko: 211 fail ratio: 33.07% time for ok: mean:  46 median:  42
    master gerrit win jobs: 706 ok: 412 ko: 233 fail ratio: 33.00% time for ok: mean:  48 median:  49
    master gerrit mac jobs: 675 ok: 459 ko: 154 fail ratio: 22.81% time for ok: mean:  29 median:  24
    master android    jobs: 600 ok: 471 ko:  76 fail ratio: 12.67% time for ok: mean:  34 median:  29
    master gerrit all jobs: 712 ok: 289 ko: 329 fail ratio: 46.21% time for ok: mean:  71 median:  62
   + https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/tmp/gerrit_210722.html
   + tests that failed more than twice in last seven days
      3 CppunitTest_sw_core_frmedt		gerrit_windows
      3 CppunitTest_sw_txtimport		gerrit_windows
      3 CppunitTest_sw_uiwriter		gerrit_windows
      3 CppunitTest_xmloff_draw		gerrit_linux_gcc_release
      3 UITest_signatureLine		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      3 UITest_writer_tests5		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      3 UITest_writer_tests		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      4 Killed by the kill-wrapper		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      4 CppunitTest_embeddedobj_msole		gerrit_windows
      8 UITest_chart		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
     10 CppunitTest_sw_core_undo		gerrit_windows
     11 UITest_writer_tests7		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
     14 CppunitTest_sc_uicalc		gerrit_windows
     31 CppunitTest_writerperfect_writer		gerrit_windows
    + this week was again with a high failure rate
      + m1 mac had a problem → has a plan to fix it
      + writerperfect_writer failures are not new, but now failing more frequently


* l10n (Sophie)
  + work is going on

* GSoC 2021 ongoing (Heiko/Thorsten/Ilmari)
  + project page: http://g.co/gsoc
  + next steps:
    + June 19, 2021 - August 16, 2021: Coding ← we are here
    + 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)
  +  https://events.documentfoundation.org/libocon2021/cfp
  + if you still have lighting talks to send, please send them to Sophie directly

* What’s cooking (Miklos)
  + Lubos started a Skia backend also on macOS, see https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/119356

* Accessibility tenders (Cloph)
   * not proceeding with the scrollto,… one
 https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Budget2021#Implement_scrollto.2C_scrolltopoint.2C_scrollsubstringto.2C_scrollsubstringtopoint
    https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118418 → functionality mostly there, any additional work there with only little benefit
  * looking for alternatives
    + regression tests are lacking (Michael S)
      + this is already a draft (Cloph)
  * 2 other drafts are in progress
  * ideas should come from the a11y community (Thorsten)
  * there are several a11y meta bugs (Michael W)

* QA update (Xisco)

    + UNCONFIRMED: 1646 (-60)
        + enhancements: 254  (-6)
        + needsUXEval: 12 (+3)
        + haveBackTrace: 1 (-1)
        + needsDevAdvice: 22 (+2)
        + documentation:  8 (+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:
        + Crash swlo!SwRedlineData::operator!=+0x177 (track changes involved)
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136904
            + Laszlo?

        + Crash SwNoTextNode::SetTitle prior: textboxhelper.cxx:997: SwTextBoxHelper::syncFlyFrameAttr: The anchor of the shape different from the textframe!
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139812
            + Michael S?

        + Forms: Event "When losing focus" in tablecontrol appears when receiving focus
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143023
            + Caolan?

        + Title on Base-Window doesn't show the name of the database.
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143392
            + Noel?

        + FILEOPEN DOCX Writer 7.2 doesn't import Word endnotes
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143399
            + already fixed, thanks to Laszlo

* QA stats
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
      +124  -8 (-143) overall)
      many thanks to the top bug squashers:
       Buovjaga                16
       Heiko Tietze            13
       NISZ LibreOffice Team   10
       Timur                   9
       QA Administrators       8
       Julien Nabet            6
       Aron Budea              5
       Tünde Tóth              5
       Caolán McNamara         4
       Gabor Kelemen           4

    + top 10 bugs reporters:
       NISZ LibreOffice Team   10
       Telesto                 7
       Robert Großkopf         6
       Rafael Lima             4
       R. Green                3
       Xisco Faulí             3
       stragu                  3
       Albert Acer             2
       Anat                    2
       Timur                   2

    + top 10 bugs fixers:
       Heiko Tietze            5
       Tünde Tóth              5
                               4
       McNamara, Caolán        4
       Nabet, Julien           4
       Budea, Áron             3
       Justin Luth             3
       Olivier Hallot          3
       Andreas Heinisch        2
       Glogowski, Jan-Marek    2

    + top 10 bugs confirmers:
       Ilmari Lauhakangas      69
       Heiko Tietze            12
       Nabet, Julien           7
       Timur                   6
       Xisco Fauli             6
       Budea, Áron             5
       Alex Thurgood           3
       NISZ LibreOffice Team   3
       Robert Großkopf         3
       Weghorn, Michael        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:
        Xisco Fauli            7
        Timur                  5
        Raal                   1
        Telesto                1


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

     done by:
        Xisco Fauli            7
        Timur                  5
        Nabet, Julien          2
        Raal                   1
        Telesto                1


* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
   + 1341(+7) bugs open of 11092(+25) total 12(+2) high prio.

     done by:
        Ilmari Lauhakangas      6
        Telesto                 6
        Robert Großkopf         5
        Xisco Fauli             3
        Roman Kuznetsov         1
        Timur                   1
        Lars Jødal              1
        NISZ LibreOffice Team   1


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

   by OS:
     All           - 12(+2)
     Linux         - 0(+0)
     Mac OS X      - 0(+0)
     Windows       - 0(+0)


* ~Component   count net * all regressions
   + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
     Writer: other            - 445(+4)
     Calc                     - 222(+1)
     Impress                  - 139(-2)
     Writer: docx filter      - 62(+3)
     LibreOffice              - 56(+0)
     Draw                     - 49(+0)
     Crashes                  - 48(-1)
     Borders                  - 46(+0)
     Writer: perf             - 44(+1)
     UI                       - 43(+4)
     Base                     - 36(+2)
     Chart                    - 31(+0)
     Writer: other filter     - 30(-1)
     Writer: doc filter       - 24(+0)
     RTL                      - 23(-1)
     graphics stack           - 23(+0)
     Printing and PDF export  - 19(+0)
     filters and storage      - 17(+0)
     BASIC                    - 16(+0)
     Formula Editor           - 2(+0)
     framework                - 2(-1)
     sdk                      - 1(+0)


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