ESC meeting minutes: 2021-06-17

Stephan Bergmann sbergman at redhat.com
Thu Jun 17 14:24:13 UTC 2021


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

* Completed Action Items:
     + None

* Pending Action Items:
     + None

* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
     + 7.2 status
       + builds still pending (ran out of disk space)
       + 7.2 rc1 week starting July 5 (no beta2 planned)
       + late features
          + list label interop feature (Thorsten)
          + <https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/117217> 
“editengine-columns:
            add sidebar property panel” (Mike)
            + please give feedback in Gerrit
     + 7.1 status
        + next 7.1.5 rc1 in two weeks
     + Remotes: Android, iOS
     + Android viewer

* Documentation (Olivier)
     + New Help (no news)
     + Helpcontent2
        + Bugzilla: Solved 7; New 1; Open 249; Partial 25;
        + Refactors: Johnny_M
        + Fixes: cloph, A Gelmini, ohallot
        + new pages : A. Romedenne, R. Lima on ScriptForge
     + Guides
        + work in progress.

* UX Update (Heiko)
     + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
         253(253) (topicUI) bugs open, 165(165) (needsUXEval) needs to 
be evaluated by the UXteam
     + Updates:
         BZ changes   1 week   1 month   3 months   12 months
              added      3(0)      6(-2)    21(-4)      72(-5)
          commented     97(44)   294(66)   880(3)     3697(23)
            removed      3(3)     10(3)     15(1)       36(3)
           resolved     19(10)    62(14)   146(6)      515(12)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Heiko Tietze made 242 changes in 1 month, and 2395 changes in 
1 year
           Foote, V Stuart made 89 changes in 1 month, and 637 changes 
in 1 year
           Eyal Rozenberg made 30 changes in 1 month, and 109 changes in 
1 year
           Telesto made 26 changes in 1 month, and 830 changes in 1 year
           Kaganski, Mike made 24 changes in 1 month, and 187 changes in 
1 year
           BogdanB made 23 changes in 1 month, and 159 changes in 1 year
           Timur made 19 changes in 1 month, and 160 changes in 1 year
           Dieter made 17 changes in 1 month, and 408 changes in 1 year
           Ilmari Lauhakangas made 16 changes in 1 month, and 367 
changes in 1 year
           Max L. made 16 changes in 1 month, and 16 changes in 1 year

      + New tickets with needsUXEval Jun/10-17

   ->   [Bug 142888] UI - View menu - the same hotkeys for two items 
("Toolbars"
             and "Show Tracked Changes")
           + Explicit accelerator assignment still needed? Input needed, 
please
             add insights
             in bugzilla.
        [Bug 142555] When inserting references to Headings, Chapter and 
Number
             are redundant
        [Bug 142856] Need support for paragraphs continuing a bulleted 
paragraph
        [Bug 142857] Format painter inappropriately applies paragraph style
        [Bug 142845] Caret misplaced after Paste+Undo
        [Bug 142837] test that each menu entry is available in each 
notebookbar
        [Bug 142830] Split the current "Help" menu into three separate 
top-level
             menus (instead of one) to separate help content, bug-reporting
             content, and 'about' content.
        [Bug 142827] Want character width scale button+mini-dialog
        [Bug 142825] Need ability to copy with animation effects
        [Bug 142816] Automatic effect preview does not persist after crash
        [Bug 142799] 'Automatic' font color ignores table background color
             being black
   ->   [Bug 126513] SHAPES: Conflict between shape in background and 
paragraph
             with background color (steps in comment 5)
           + Again, input needed!

        [Bug 142788] LO should fully expose the character style implicit 
in every
             paragraph style
        [Bug 142761] optimization of the ergonomics and appearance of the
              automatic filter menu


* Crash Testing (Caolan)
     + 18(+1) import failure, 10(+1) export failures
     + 2 coverity issues
     + 22 ossfuzz issues
      + fixed long outstanding leak
      + some more expected fixed pending successful build

* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.0.6.2
          + (+91) 1143 1052 824 234 0
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.1.2.2
          + (-161) 3554 3715 4112 4696 6083 7140 8516 7429 5495 3968 2046 0
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.1.3.2
          + (-756) 6349 7105 6534 5427 3679 1730 0
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.1.4.2
          + (+1590) 1590 0
    + Resolving of 7.1.4.2 symbols missing! (but Cloph works on it)

* Mentoring/easyhack update (Hossein)
           committer...   1 week     1 month     3 months    12 months
                   open      93(8)      144(19)     148(-13)     156(-13)
                reviews     432(124)   1066(102)   3032(-68)    3506(220)
                 merged     363(95)    1415(55)    3987(74)     4458(361)
              abandoned       9(-3)      63(-2)     238(0)       250(9)
            own commits     293(36)    1193(38)    3142(49)    13562(50)
         review commits      76(24)     239(18)     844(-68)    4452(-9)
         contributor...   1 week      1 month     3 months    12 months
                   open       54(31)      80(18)      85(12)      89(13)
                reviews     1064(284)   3340(172)   8818(52)    9986(762)
                 merged       22(7)       77(-11)    272(-37)    354(21)
              abandoned        5(-2)      17(-4)     151(0)      164(4)
            own commits       31(16)      94(-13)    366(-78)   2105(-11)
         review commits        0(0)        0(0)        0(0)        0(0)
     + easyHack statistics:
        needsDevEval 8(8)   needsUXEval 2(2)   cleanup_comments 261(261)
        total 310(310)   assigned 26(26)   open 256(256)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Johnny_M made 16 patches in 1 month, and 714 patches in 1 year
           scito made 10 patches in 1 month, and 16 patches in 1 year
           Steve Fanning made 8 patches in 1 month, and 42 patches in 1 year
           Srebotnjak, Martin made 4 patches in 1 month, and 9 patches 
in 1 year
           Panos Korovesis made 4 patches in 1 month, and 4 patches in 1 
year
           Ming Hua made 4 patches in 1 month, and 17 patches in 1 year
           Kevin Suo made 4 patches in 1 month, and 12 patches in 1 year
           Nagy Tibor made 3 patches in 1 month, and 40 patches in 1 year
           Oleg Schelykalnov made 3 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:
           Németh, László made 76 review comments in 1 month, and 178 in 
1 year
           Xisco Fauli made 76 review comments in 1 month, and 250 in 1 year
           Vajna, Miklos made 72 review comments in 1 month, and 178 in 
1 year
           Michael Stahl made 68 review comments in 1 month, and 256 in 
1 year
           Grandin, Noel made 64 review comments in 1 month, and 174 in 
1 year
           Kaganski, Mike made 62 review comments in 1 month, and 224 in 
1 year
           Olivier Hallot made 58 review comments in 1 month, and 372 in 
1 year
           Thorsten Behrens made 56 review comments in 1 month, and 150 
in 1 year
           Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 48 review comments in 1 month, 
and 252 in 1 year
           Heiko Tietze made 44 review comments in 1 month, and 118 in 1 
year
     + big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged 
patch, since last report:
           Panos Korovesis
           Sarper Akdemir (Collabora)

    + Hossein officially starting on Monday

* Commit Access
     + None

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Kendy/Thorsten/László)
     + newly certified: Andreas Heinisch, Balázs Varga, Tünde Tóth

* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
     from:Thu Jun 10 14:05:41 2021
     master linux rel  jobs:  89 ok:  88 ko:   1 fail ratio:  1.12 % 
break:   1 broken duration: 1.65%
     master linux dbg  jobs:  77 ok:  73 ko:   4 fail ratio:  5.19 % 
break:   2 broken duration:10.07%
     master mac rel    jobs:  85 ok:  85 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % 
break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
     master mac dbg    jobs:  81 ok:  81 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % 
break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
     master win rel    jobs:  60 ok:  60 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % 
break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
     master win dbg    jobs:  59 ok:  59 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % 
break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
     master win64 dbg  jobs:  57 ok:  54 ko:   3 fail ratio:  5.26 % 
break:   3 broken duration: 2.30%
     master gerrit lin jobs: 611 ok: 473 ko:  92 fail ratio: 15.06% time 
for ok: mean:  21 median:  19
     master gerrit plg jobs: 571 ok: 335 ko: 171 fail ratio: 29.95% time 
for ok: mean:  45 median:  43
     master gerrit win jobs: 627 ok: 406 ko: 147 fail ratio: 23.44% time 
for ok: mean:  58 median:  59
     master gerrit mac jobs: 594 ok: 441 ko:  94 fail ratio: 15.82% time 
for ok: mean:  28 median:  25
     master android    jobs: 565 ok: 451 ko:  56 fail ratio:  9.91% time 
for ok: mean:  35 median:  28
     master gerrit all jobs: 600 ok: 271 ko: 236 fail ratio: 39.33% time 
for ok: mean:  87 median:  72
    + https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/tmp/gerrit_210617.html
    + tests that failed more than twice in last seven days
       3 CppunitTest_chart2_xshape		gerrit_windows
       3 CppunitTest_sc_subsequent_export-test		gerrit_windows
       3 CppunitTest_sd_tiledrendering		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       3 CppunitTest_sw_core_undo		gerrit_windows
       4 Killed by the kill-wrapper		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       4 CppunitTest_sw_ooxmlexport16		gerrit_windows
       5 CppunitTest_sc_uicalc		gerrit_windows
       6 CppunitTest_vcl_svm_test		gerrit_windows
       6 UITest_sw_sidebar		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       6 UITest_writer_tests7		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       7 CppunitTest_sd_import_tests		gerrit_windows
       8 CppunitTest_sd_import_tests		gerrit_linux_gcc_release
      18 CppunitTest_sw_ooxmlexport16		gerrit_mac
         https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/116877 flaky test added 
there?

* l10n (Sophie)
   + work is ongoing
   + Christian is looking after some bugs in glossaries
   + could we have 
https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/refs/heads/master/sfx2/classification/ 
in a more translator friendly way?
     + lacking original English text in the file
     + raised on l10n list (Olivier)
       sample file in Gerrit, needs to be cloned and translated, not 
possible on Weblate but needs to be done in Gerrit, which is an issue 
for translator
     + might be possible to use some existing tooling (Cloph, will work 
on that)
     + a feature implemented by Collabora, unfortunately not widely 
publicized
      (Olivier)

* GSoC 2021 announced (Heiko/Thorsten/Ilmari)
   + project page: http://g.co/gsoc
   + next step:
     + June 7, 2021 - August 16, 2021: Coding ← we are here
     + 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
   + nothing special this week

* LibOCon 2021 (virtual) September 23-25 (Cloph)
   + CfP (til Jun 30, 2 weeks to go)
     https://events.documentfoundation.org/libocon2021/cfp

* What’s cooking (Miklos)

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

     + UNCONFIRMED: 1721 (+51)
         + enhancements: 247  (+8)
         + needsUXEval: 6 (+1)
         + haveBackTrace: 4 (+0)
         + needsDevAdvice: 21 (+0)
         + documentation:  5 (+0)
         + android:  2 (-1)
         + 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?

         + 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 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 duplicates


     + New high severity bugs of the week:
         + EDITING: Compare documents on near-identical files flags 
99.9% of the contents as different
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102616
             + regression from a 2011 GSoC project

         + Update of Contents is freezing LibreOffice
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139426
             + Armin?

         + DOCX: Writer try to show thousands pages instead only three
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142718
             + needs bisecting


* QA stats
     + 
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
       +161  -48 (-159) overall)
       many thanks to the top bug squashers:
        QA Administrators       30
        Timur                   15
        Heiko Tietze            14
        NISZ LibreOffice Team   8
        Olivier Hallot          8
        V Stuart Foote          7
        Caolán McNamara         6
        Ming Hua                5
        Telesto                 5
        Xisco Faulí             5

     + top 10 bugs reporters:
        Eyal Rozenberg          20
        NISZ LibreOffice Team   13
        Telesto                 13
        Timur                   8
        Valek Filippov          6
        Regina Henschel         4
        Roman Kuznetsov         4
        stragu                  4
        R. Green                3
        mail2.0                 3

     + top 10 bugs fixers:
        Olivier Hallot          8
        McNamara, Caolán        6
        Timur                   6
        Grandin, Noel           4
        Kosiorek, Bartosz       3
        NISZ LibreOffice Team   3
        Adolfo Jayme Barrientos 2
        Andreas Heinisch        2
        Heiko Tietze            2
        Jim Raykowski           2

     + top 10 bugs confirmers:
        Timur                   11
        Roman Kuznetsov         10
        Heiko Tietze            7
        Xisco Fauli             7
        Telesto                 4
                                3
        Dieter                  3
        Raal                    3
        *UNKNOWN*               2
        Kosiorek, Bartosz       2


* 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:
         Timur                   9
         Telesto                 6
         Xisco Fauli             3
         NISZ LibreOffice Team   2
         Justin Luth             1
         Raal                    1


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

      done by:
         Timur                  14
         Telesto                 5
         Xisco Fauli             3
         NISZ LibreOffice Team   2
         BogdanB                 1
         Justin Luth             1
         Raal                    1


* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
    + 1337(+2) bugs open of 11012(+29) total 10(-1) high prio.

      done by:
         Timur                 10
         Telesto                8
         Xisco Fauli            3
         Faure, Jean-Baptiste   1
         Justin Luth            1
         Raal                   1
         Robert Großkopf        1
         Stéphane Guillou       1


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

    by OS:
      All           - 10(-1)
      Linux         - 0(+0)
      Mac OS X      - 0(+0)
      Windows       - 0(+0)


* ~Component   count net * all regressions
    + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
      Writer: other            - 436(+4)
      Calc                     - 224(-3)
      Impress                  - 139(-1)
      Writer: docx filter      - 60(+4)
      LibreOffice              - 55(+2)
      Draw                     - 47(+0)
      Crashes                  - 46(-3)
      Writer: perf             - 45(+1)
      Borders                  - 44(-4)
      UI                       - 39(-1)
      Base                     - 34(+0)
      Writer: other filter     - 33(+0)
      Chart                    - 32(+0)
      Writer: doc filter       - 27(+0)
      RTL                      - 25(+0)
      graphics stack           - 24(-2)
      Printing and PDF export  - 19(+0)
      filters and storage      - 18(-1)
      BASIC                    - 15(+0)
      Formula Editor           - 2(+0)
      framework                - 2(+1)
      sdk                      - 1(+0)



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