ESC meeting minutes: 2021-03-18

Miklos Vajna vmiklos at collabora.com
Thu Mar 18 15:32:41 UTC 2021


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

* Completed Action Items:
    + release note .uno:InsertZWNBSP / SID_INSERT_ZWNBSP rename (Heiko)

* Pending Action Items:
    + None

* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
    + 7.2 alpha 1 in 2nd week of May
    + 7.1 status: 7.1.2 rc1 is on mirrors, rc2 is scheduled for next week
    + 7.0 status: 7.0.6 rc1 on the week of 18th April
    + Remotes: Android, iOS
    + Android viewer

* Documentation (Olivier)
    + New Help
       + No news
    + Helpcontents2
       + 273 bugs open
       + Updates, refactors and fixes (Johnny_M, S. Chaiklin, R. Lima,
          A. Barrientos, ohallot, A. Gelmini)
    + Google seasons of Doc 2021
       + Collecting ideas, deadline is March 26.
       + wiki: …
         https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/GSoDOC/2021#Ideas_for_Documentation_technical_writing
    + Guides
       + Team update for release 7.1
       + Team asking to be informed on changes in UI,
         +  features not listed in release notes
         + Impact in screenshots/review

* UX Update (Heiko)
    + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
        245(245) (topicUI) bugs open, 224(224) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
    + Updates:
        BZ changes   1 week   1 month   3 months   12 months
             added      8(-5)    16(-5)    40(-5)     108(-4)
         commented     89(35)   251(55)   838(-8)    3808(50)
           removed      2(2)      4(0)     12(0)       27(0)
          resolved     12(7)     39(5)    127(-9)     501(1)
    + top 10 contributors:
          Heiko Tietze made 168 changes in 1 month, and 2419 changes in 1 year
          Seth Chaiklin made 50 changes in 1 month, and 191 changes in 1 year
          Telesto made 43 changes in 1 month, and 950 changes in 1 year
          Ilmari Lauhakangas made 42 changes in 1 month, and 351 changes in 1 year
          Dieter made 35 changes in 1 month, and 393 changes in 1 year
          Foote, V Stuart made 20 changes in 1 month, and 626 changes in 1 year
          Eyal Rozenberg made 16 changes in 1 month, and 22 changes in 1 year
          Xisco Fauli made 14 changes in 1 month, and 198 changes in 1 year
          Henschel, Regina made 10 changes in 1 month, and 94 changes in 1 year
          Roman Kuznetsov made 9 changes in 1 month, and 188 changes in 1 year

      + 9 new tickets with needsUXEval Mar/11-18

        [Bug 141094] UI: Ability to set configure image resolution to be shown
                     in inch instead of cm, if other dimensions are in CM
        [Bug 141077] Writer Web mode should be one-column, instead it shows
                     meaningless page breaks and column jumps
        [Bug 116349] Writer table underlining indents text 1 mm at both sides
        [Bug 140752] .uno.DefaultNumbering and .uno:defaultBullet (on Formatting
                     bar) modify a list style -- should it?
        [Bug 141059] Page Style -> Area -> bitmap -> stretched fill page within
                     page margins (all others total page fill)
        [Bug 141020] [Feature request] Add template search online
        [Bug 140911] Standard (Set to Parent) button in Styles dialog should
                     only be active when it is possible to apply on a tab
        [Bug 140969] UI: All selected items in canvas should be highlighted in
                     navigator
        [Bug 140955] EDITING Highlight active autofilters dropdown

* Crash Testing (Caolan)
    + 13(-2) import failure, 4(-1) export failures
    + 0 coverity issues
      - alternative upload mechanism appears to work, this build was created
        3 weeks ago though, next build will be up to date and with latest
        tooling
    + 23 ossfuzz issues, 10 non-timeout/OOM

* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.0.4.2
         + (+252) 5903 5651 5593 5375 5272 5698 6259 5595 3893 2033 1027 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.0.5.2
         + (+358) 358 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.1.0.3
         + (-1226) 7276 8505 10520 8732 6625 4863 452 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.1.1.2
         + (+2939) 5645 2706 0

   + crash reports without steps to reproduce
	+ https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/signature/sw::mark::FindFieldSep(sw::mark::IFieldmark%20const%20&)
	  + ffb26b81e1c7ff1d64959200247bb2edd5a569da “sw: actually insert CH_TXT_ATR_FIELDSEP”
	  + Michael Stahl ?

	+ https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/signature/cppu::OInterfaceContainerHelper::disposeAndClear(com::sun::star::lang::EventObject%20const%20&)
          + happens a lot in 7.1, trace is  not informative


* Mentoring/easyhack update
          committer...   1 week     1 month     3 months    12 months
                  open      77(-12)    157(2)      160(2)       165(2)
               reviews     382(104)    700(260)    708(256)     742(260)
                merged     295(150)    440(295)    440(295)     440(295)
             abandoned       5(1)        8(4)        8(4)         8(4)
           own commits     253(27)    1112(-16)   3289(109)   14185(15)
        review commits      99(28)     353(-48)   1245(47)     4746(28)
        contributor...   1 week     1 month     3 months    12 months
                  open      41(4)      156(19)     156(18)     160(19)
               reviews     900(284)   1548(696)   1554(696)   1566(696)
                merged      34(10)      58(34)      58(34)      58(34)
             abandoned       4(-5)      13(4)       13(4)       13(4)
           own commits      61(24)     190(11)     544(40)    2174(36)
        review commits       0(0)        0(0)        0(0)        0(0)
    + easyHack statistics:
       needsDevEval 8(8)   needsUXEval 3(3)   cleanup_comments 253(253)
       total 296(296)   assigned 29(29)   open 242(242)
    + top 10 contributors:
          Johnny_M made 88 patches in 1 month, and 641 patches in 1 year
          Dante DM made 19 patches in 1 month, and 78 patches in 1 year
          Svante Schubert made 18 patches in 1 month, and 19 patches in 1 year
          Suhaas Joshi made 5 patches in 1 month, and 5 patches in 1 year
          Wagner, Thorsten made 3 patches in 1 month, and 10 patches in 1 year
          Attila Szűcs made 3 patches in 1 month, and 37 patches in 1 year
          Leyan Ouyang made 3 patches in 1 month, and 7 patches in 1 year
          Bayram Çiçek made 2 patches in 1 month, and 8 patches in 1 year
          Vikram Shishupalsingh Bais made 2 patches in 1 month, and 6 patches in 1 year
          Dániel Arató made 2 patches in 1 month, and 30 patches in 1 year
    + top 10 reviewers:
          Olivier Hallot made 82 review comments in 1 month, and 82 in 1 year
          Xisco Fauli made 60 review comments in 1 month, and 60 in 1 year
          Heiko Tietze made 48 review comments in 1 month, and 52 in 1 year
          Grandin, Noel made 46 review comments in 1 month, and 46 in 1 year
          Kaganski, Mike made 42 review comments in 1 month, and 48 in 1 year
          Thorsten Behrens made 42 review comments in 1 month, and 46 in 1 year
          Michael Stahl made 40 review comments in 1 month, and 46 in 1 year
          Németh, László made 38 review comments in 1 month, and 38 in 1 year
          Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 28 review comments in 1 month, and 30 in 1 year
          Ilmari Lauhakangas made 28 review comments in 1 month, and 32 in 1 year
    + big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
          Victor Kukshiev
          ViswaasLP
          Winston Tjong

* Commit Access
    + None

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Kendy/Thorsten/László)
    + sleep -19 weeks

* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
    from:Thu Mar 11 15:01:04 2021
    master linux rel  jobs:  63 ok:  63 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master linux dbg  jobs:  59 ok:  28 ko:  31 fail ratio: 52.54 % break:   3 broken duration:57.96%
    master mac rel    jobs: 125 ok: 125 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master mac dbg    jobs: 117 ok: 117 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master win rel    jobs:  66 ok:  37 ko:  29 fail ratio: 43.94 % break:  13 broken duration:41.19%
    master win dbg    jobs:  74 ok:  51 ko:  23 fail ratio: 31.08 % break:  16 broken duration:31.83%
    master win64 dbg  jobs:  69 ok:  47 ko:  22 fail ratio: 31.88 % break:  14 broken duration:31.53%
    master gerrit lin jobs: 561 ok: 422 ko: 105 fail ratio: 18.72% time for ok: mean:  22 median:  20
    master gerrit plg jobs: 545 ok: 291 ko: 189 fail ratio: 34.68% time for ok: mean:  45 median:  39
    master gerrit win jobs: 572 ok: 375 ko: 123 fail ratio: 21.50% time for ok: mean:  47 median:  45
    master gerrit mac jobs: 572 ok: 439 ko:  73 fail ratio: 12.76% time for ok: mean:  31 median:  26
    master android    jobs: 495 ok: 417 ko:  38 fail ratio:  7.68% time for ok: mean:  28 median:  22
    master gerrit all jobs: 541 ok: 227 ko: 236 fail ratio: 43.62% time for ok: mean: 101 median:  72
   + https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/tmp/gerrit_210318.html
   + tests that failed more than twice in last seven days
      3 CppunitTest_sw_core_frmedt		gerrit_windows
      3 CppunitTest_sw_uwriter		gerrit_windows
      3 PythonTest_sfx2_python		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      3 UITest_autofilter		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      3 UITest_signatureLine		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      3 UITest_sw_navigator		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      4 JunitTest_sfx2_complex		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      4 UITest_calc_tests6		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      4 UITest_hide_cols		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      5 PythonTest_dbaccess_python		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      6 CppunitTest_writerperfect_writer		gerrit_windows
     10 CppunitTest_xmlsecurity_signing		gerrit_windows
     46 Killed by the kill-wrapper		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil

    + better than last week:
      + disabling CppunitTest_xmlsecurity_signing on Windows helped
      + there was a UI hang, Noel fixed it
      + Windows → vcl_complextext → ClearType has to be enabled
    + one new box: Windows builder, now pre-ordered, should be online in 2-3 weeks

* l10n (Sophie)
  + business as usual

* GSoC 2021 announced (Heiko/Thorsten)
  + project page: http://g.co/gsoc
  + new ideas are welcome at https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas
  + new mentors too: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas_without_a_mentor
  + past steps
    + March 9, 2021: Organizations Announced
  + next step:
    + March 29, 2021 - April 13, 2021: Student Application Period
    + April 13, 2021 - May 17, 2021: Application Review Period
    + May 17, 2021: Student Projects Announced
    + May 17, 2021 - June 7, 2021: Community Bonding
    + June 7, 2021 - August 16, 2021: Coding
    + 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
  + seeing lots of easy hackers (Heiko)

* master branch rename (Cloph)
   + https://redmine.documentfoundation.org/issues/3442
   + shout/mail the list if you have concerns/tooling that depends on master name
   + planned for end of March/first week in April
   + flag day or transition period? (Miklos)
     + plan: one-stop switchover in the repo
   + see mailing list thread at https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2021-March/087045.html

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

    + UNCONFIRMED: 1663 (+15)
        + enhancements: 201  (+3)
        + needsUXEval: 9 (-4)
        + haveBackTrace: 5 (+1)
        + needsDevAdvice: 16 (+0)
        + documentation:  9 (-1)
        + android:  5 (-1)
        + iOS:  0 (+0)
        + Online:  23 (+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 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:
       + 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

           + Thanks to Julian Nabet


    + New high severity bugs of the week:
        + FILEOPEN PPTX: text box shows as half the width (and with an extra bullet)
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140852
            + probably duplicate of the tdf#140022 missing feature

        + Support diagonal borders in TABLEs
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51665
            + not a regression?

* QA stats
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
      +140  +8 (-137) overall)
      many thanks to the top bug squashers:
       QA Administrators       17
       Timur                   12
       V Stuart Foote          10
       Xisco Faulí             8
       Heiko Tietze            7
       Mike Kaganski           7
       Buovjaga                6
       Roman Kuznetsov         5
       Dieter                  4
       Caolán McNamara         3

    + top 10 bugs reporters:
       Telesto                 11
       NISZ LibreOffice Team   7
       Mike Kaganski           5
       Matheod                 4
       Harald Langheinrich     2
       Michael Weghorn         2
       Paul Mourick            2
       Regina Henschel         2
       Roman Kuznetsov         2
       Thorsten Wagner         2

    + top 10 bugs fixers:
       Heiko Tietze            4
       Kaganski, Mike          4
       Luboš Luňák             3
       McNamara, Caolán        3
       Andreas Heinisch        2
       Rafael Lima             2
       Samuel Mehrbrodt        2
       Seth Chaiklin           2
       Weghorn, Michael        2
       Adolfo Jayme Barrientos 1

    + top 10 bugs confirmers:
       Roman Kuznetsov         20
       Dieter                  13
       *UNKNOWN*               11
       Timur                   10
       Nabet, Julien           8
       Ilmari Lauhakangas      5
       Weghorn, Michael        5
       Heiko Tietze            4
       Xisco Fauli             4
       Kaganski, Mike          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 : 2/73 -     2 %  (+0)
     4.2 : 2/134 -    1 %  (+0)
     4.1 : 3/85 -     3 %  (+0)
     4.0 : 2/83 -     2 %  (-1)
     old : 6/248 -    2 %  (+0)


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

     done by:
        Timur                  3
        Budea, Áron            2
        Roman Kuznetsov        1
        Kaganski, Mike         1
        Xisco Fauli            1


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

     done by:
        Timur                  4
        Budea, Áron            2
        Roman Kuznetsov        1
        Kaganski, Mike         1
        Xisco Fauli            1


* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
   + 1385(-5) bugs open of 10816(+15) total 12(-1) high prio.

     done by:
        Telesto                5
        Roman Kuznetsov        3
        Dieter                 2
        Timur                  2
        Yotam Benshalom        1
        Kaganski, Mike         1
        Foote, V Stuart        1
        Xisco Fauli            1


* ~Component   count net * high severity regressions
   + http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
     Writer        - 7(-1)
     Calc          - 2(+0)
     LibreOffice   - 2(+0)
     Impress       - 1(+0)

   by OS:
     All           - 11(-1)
     Linux         - 1(+0)
     Mac OS X      - 0(+0)
     Windows       - 0(+0)


* ~Component   count net * all regressions
   + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
     Writer: other            - 452(-5)
     Calc                     - 241(+0)
     Impress                  - 147(+0)
     LibreOffice              - 56(-1)
     Writer: docx filter      - 55(+0)
     Draw                     - 51(+0)
     Crashes                  - 50(+0)
     Borders                  - 46(-1)
     Writer: perf             - 43(+1)
     UI                       - 42(+0)
     Base                     - 32(+0)
     Writer: other filter     - 31(+0)
     Writer: doc filter       - 28(+0)
     Chart                    - 27(+0)
     graphics stack           - 25(+0)
     RTL                      - 24(+0)
     Printing and PDF export  - 22(-1)
     filters and storage      - 19(+0)
     BASIC                    - 15(+0)
     Formula Editor           - 2(+0)
     framework                - 1(-1)
     sdk                      - 1(+0)


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