ESC meeting minutes: 2021-05-06

Miklos Vajna vmiklos at collabora.com
Fri May 7 07:20:34 UTC 2021


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

* Completed Action Items:
    + None

* Pending Action Items:
    + ESC bug stats, chart ranges don’t show data past 2019-08-13 (Xisco)

* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
    + 7.2 alpha 1: next week
      + feature freeze in early June
    + 7.1 status: 7.1.3 has been released as final
    + 7.0 status: 7.0.6 rc2 is about to be tagged after the call
    + Remotes: Android, iOS
    + Android viewer

* Documentation (Olivier)
    + New Help’(No news)
    + Helpcontents 2
      + Fixes and updates (R. Lima, A. Romedenne, ohallot)
    + Guides
      + Work in progress

* UX Update (Heiko)
    + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
        246(246) (topicUI) bugs open, 238(238) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
    + Updates:
        BZ changes   1 week    1 month   3 months   12 months
             added      9(-7)     28(-3)    41(-5)     110(-7)
         commented     91(-16)   412(13)   873(-25)   3859(-60)
           removed      0(-1)      3(0)     10(-2)      26(-1)
          resolved     16(3)      63(9)    125(0)      507(-6)
    + top 10 contributors:
          Heiko Tietze made 280 changes in 1 month, and 2381 changes in 1 year
          Dieter made 90 changes in 1 month, and 423 changes in 1 year
          Foote, V Stuart made 67 changes in 1 month, and 648 changes in 1 year
          Ilmari Lauhakangas made 58 changes in 1 month, and 394 changes in 1 year
          Eyal Rozenberg made 49 changes in 1 month, and 84 changes in 1 year
          Xisco Fauli made 31 changes in 1 month, and 226 changes in 1 year
          Telesto made 25 changes in 1 month, and 938 changes in 1 year
          Roman Kuznetsov made 22 changes in 1 month, and 187 changes in 1 year
          Timur made 20 changes in 1 month, and 162 changes in 1 year
          Kaganski, Mike made 19 changes in 1 month, and 176 changes in 1 year

     + New tickets with needsUXEval Apr/29-May/06
       [Bug 142121] Cell focus rectangle must not use font color
       [Bug 142102] Header is hidden, if "small enough"
       [Bug 142095] Symbols catalog shows Greek symbol set without taking into
                    account the document's GreekCharStyle
       [Bug 141774] Make cell border dropdown from Sidebar available for Toolbar
       [Bug 142078] Improve Autofilter's Color filtering layout
       [Bug 142057] Improvement to User Interface Variants
       [Bug 141723] Dictionary is deactivated on selection
       [Bug 141986] Improve current LO Application Colors theme handling to
                    support a LibreOffice "dark" color scheme mode
       [Bug 142012] wrong taskbar icon for second-and-onwards document
       [Bug 141026] Lock files and privacy (leaking user and computer name)
       [Bug 141975] The macro-UI is confusing and not intuitive to me
    + new color schema: dark mode
      + a new set of colors, from config
      + expect some follow-up issues, though

* Crash Testing (Caolan)
    + 28(-184) import failure, 12(-3) export failures
    + 6 coverity issues
    + 19 ossfuzz issues

* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.0.5.2
         + (+186) 2258 2072 1926 1878 1425 1392 1100 358 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.1.1.2
         + (-745) 4788 5533 6441 7402 7644 8944 8025 5645 2706 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.1.2.2
         + (+1087) 8516 7429 5495 3968 2046 0
    + new release today, waiting for the new numbers

* Mentoring/easyhack update
          committer...   1 week     1 month     3 months    12 months
                  open      69(-18)    134(1)      134(0)       142(1)
               reviews     342(-92)   1262(-24)   2374(202)    2404(206)
                merged     315(8)     1306(43)    2571(313)    2571(313)
             abandoned      13(-29)     95(1)      168(13)      168(13)
           own commits     225(24)     950(41)    3138(-20)   13740(-105)
        review commits      64(9)      255(-12)   1130(-68)    4730(-12)
        contributor...   1 week    1 month     3 months    12 months
                  open      30(-1)     73(2)       76(2)       79(2)
               reviews     876(36)   3122(160)   5976(690)   5996(692)
                merged      27(13)     75(3)      230(26)     230(26)
             abandoned      13(-4)     44(8)      135(12)     135(12)
           own commits      24(8)      94(-12)    545(-39)   2242(2)
        review commits       0(0)       0(0)        0(0)        0(0)
    + easyHack statistics:
       needsDevEval 8(8)   needsUXEval 3(3)   cleanup_comments 247(247)
       total 293(293)   assigned 29(29)   open 238(238)
    + top 10 contributors:
          Johnny_M made 22 patches in 1 month, and 750 patches in 1 year
          Dante DM made 15 patches in 1 month, and 94 patches in 1 year
          scito made 4 patches in 1 month, and 4 patches in 1 year
          Steve Fanning made 4 patches in 1 month, and 118 patches in 1 year
          Nagy Tibor made 3 patches in 1 month, and 40 patches in 1 year
          Ahmet, Hakan Çelik made 3 patches in 1 month, and 5 patches in 1 year
          Attila Bakos made 3 patches in 1 month, and 45 patches in 1 year
          Hossein made 3 patches in 1 month, and 4 patches in 1 year
          Carmen Bianca Bakker made 2 patches in 1 month, and 2 patches in 1 year
          Batmunkh Dorjgotov made 2 patches in 1 month, and 2 patches in 1 year
    + top 10 reviewers:
          Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 108 review comments in 1 month, and 186 in 1 year
          Michael Stahl made 100 review comments in 1 month, and 186 in 1 year
          Xisco Fauli made 96 review comments in 1 month, and 162 in 1 year
          Kaganski, Mike made 94 review comments in 1 month, and 158 in 1 year
          Thorsten Behrens made 86 review comments in 1 month, and 110 in 1 year
          Olivier Hallot made 68 review comments in 1 month, and 276 in 1 year
          McNamara, Caolán made 58 review comments in 1 month, and 110 in 1 year
          Grandin, Noel made 50 review comments in 1 month, and 108 in 1 year
          Nabet, Julien made 50 review comments in 1 month, and 74 in 1 year
          Heiko Tietze made 50 review comments in 1 month, and 88 in 1 year
    + Patches automatically abandoned:
        tdf#93441 Correct cursor position when moving up/down after insertion ( Leyan Ouyang )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/109571

        CountCJKCharacters: Don't get caught at end of string ( David Gilbert )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/111292

        ofz#31538 Null-dereference READ ( Caolán McNamara )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/111756

        tdf#42949 Fixing some IWYU warnings in hwpfilter and i18npool. ( John Turpish )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/111856

* Commit Access
    + None

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Kendy/Thorsten/László)
    + sleep -25 weeks

* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
    from:Thu Apr 29 13:53:57 2021
    master linux rel  jobs:  61 ok:  57 ko:   3 fail ratio:  4.92 % break:   1 broken duration: 1.07%
    master linux dbg  jobs:  58 ok:  56 ko:   1 fail ratio:  1.72 % break:   1 broken duration: 0.46%
    master mac rel    jobs:  81 ok:  78 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master mac dbg    jobs:  82 ok:  80 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master win rel    jobs:  95 ok:  89 ko:   5 fail ratio:  5.26 % break:   2 broken duration: 5.61%
    master win dbg    jobs:  96 ok:  87 ko:   7 fail ratio:  7.29 % break:   4 broken duration: 6.65%
    master win64 dbg  jobs:  97 ok:  85 ko:  11 fail ratio: 11.34 % break:   7 broken duration: 8.44%
    master gerrit lin jobs: 513 ok: 416 ko:  59 fail ratio: 11.50% time for ok: mean:  27 median:  24
    master gerrit plg jobs: 491 ok: 310 ko: 135 fail ratio: 27.49% time for ok: mean:  52 median:  49
    master gerrit win jobs: 526 ok: 371 ko: 103 fail ratio: 19.58% time for ok: mean:  54 median:  56
    master gerrit mac jobs: 526 ok: 393 ko:  80 fail ratio: 15.21% time for ok: mean:  37 median:  34
    master android    jobs: 468 ok: 380 ko:  38 fail ratio:  8.12% time for ok: mean:  48 median:  43
    master gerrit all jobs: 508 ok: 264 ko: 178 fail ratio: 35.04% time for ok: mean:  78 median:  70
   + https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/tmp/gerrit_210506.html
   + tests that failed more than twice in last seven days
      3 CppunitTest_sc_statistical_functions_test		gerrit_windows
      3 CppunitTest_sc_subsequent_filters_test		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      4 CppunitTest_emfio_emf		gerrit_linux_gcc_release
      4 CppunitTest_sc_uicalc		gerrit_windows
      4 CppunitTest_sw_odfexport		gerrit_mac
      4 UITest_impress_demo		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      6 CppunitTest_sw_macros_test		gerrit_windows
      7 Killed by the kill-wrapper		gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      7 CppunitTest_sw_core_undo		gerrit_windows

  + have a new box connected to Jenkins, doing both Windows+Linux builds
    + new bottleneck: macOS
    + Jenkins is not an infinite resource: please always build locally first!

  + failing Windows arm64 builder (Miklos)
     + if it fails, who should fix it?
     + try not to break things (Thorsten)
     + best-effort way to keep this working, but if you break it and you can’t fix it, don’t feel too bad
     + if you already build on Windows, not hard to set up this build env (Cloph)

* l10n (Sophie)
  + work going on

* GSoC 2021 announced (Heiko/Thorsten/Ilmari)
  + 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
  + next step:
    + March 29, 2021 - April 13, 2021: Student Application Period
    + April 13, 2021 - May 17, 2021: Application Review Period
      + if there are no conflicts, then just waiting for Google now
    + 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

* QA update (Xisco)

    + UNCONFIRMED: 1630 (-17)
        + enhancements: 224  (-7)
        + needsUXEval: 14 (-5)
        + haveBackTrace: 5 (+0)
        + needsDevAdvice: 20 (+0)
        + documentation:  2 (+0)
        + android:  2 (+1)
        + 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 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

       Fixed:
		None
    + New high severity bugs of the week:
        + document content not displayed / instead showing grey overlay / blank region in writer and calc (macOS 11 aka 10.16 using 2.9 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7)
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141729
            + confirmed, but depends on HW it seems

    + CSV import broken in master
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142040
            + Fixed. Thanks to Noel

    + libreoffice math does not ask to save changes when closing
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141930
            + Fixed. Thanks to Caolán


* QA stats
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
      +145  +11 (-134) overall)
      many thanks to the top bug squashers:
       Heiko Tietze            10
       Mike Kaganski           10
       Xisco Faulí             10
       Timur                   9
       Caolán McNamara         8
       QA Administrators       7
       V Stuart Foote          7
       Aron Budea              6
       Buovjaga                6
       Julien Nabet            5

    + top 10 bugs reporters:
       NISZ LibreOffice Team   10
       Valek Filippov          10
       bentusiii@yahoo.fr  4
       Eyal Rozenberg          3
       Justin L                3
       Nico                    3
       Roman Kuznetsov         3
       Jean-Baptiste Faure     2
       Jun Nogata              2
       Regina Henschel         2

    + top 10 bugs fixers:
       McNamara, Caolán        8
       Balazs Varga            4
       Heiko Tietze            4
       Budea, Áron             3
       Kelemen, Gabor          3
       Attila Bakos            2
       Gülşah Köse             2
       Kaganski, Mike          2
       Tünde Tóth              2
       Xisco Fauli             2

    + top 10 bugs confirmers:
       Xisco Fauli             19
       Ilmari Lauhakangas      14
       Roman Kuznetsov         13
       Heiko Tietze            12
       *UNKNOWN*               8
       Dieter                  6
       Timur                   5
       NISZ LibreOffice Team   4
       m.a.riosv               4
       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 : 4/248 -    1 %  (+0)


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

     done by:
        Xisco Fauli            4
        Budea, Áron            1
        Timur                  1
        Justin Luth            1
        Raal                   1


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

     done by:
        Xisco Fauli            4
        Budea, Áron            1
        Timur                  1
        Justin Luth            1
        Marina Latini (SUSE)   1
        Raal                   1


* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
   + 1322(-9) bugs open of 10911(+13) total 10(-1) high prio.

     done by:
        Telesto                2
        Xisco Fauli            2
        Roman Kuznetsov        1
        Budea, Áron            1
        Gerald Pfeifer         1
        Ilmari Lauhakangas     1
        Alex Thurgood          1
        Justin Luth            1
        Raal                   1


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

   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            - 430(-2)
     Calc                     - 229(-3)
     Impress                  - 135(-2)
     Writer: docx filter      - 54(+1)
     LibreOffice              - 52(+0)
     Crashes                  - 49(-2)
     Draw                     - 48(-1)
     Borders                  - 45(-1)
     Writer: perf             - 45(+1)
     UI                       - 40(-1)
     Base                     - 34(-1)
     Writer: other filter     - 32(+0)
     Chart                    - 28(+0)
     Writer: doc filter       - 27(+0)
     graphics stack           - 27(+1)
     RTL                      - 25(+0)
     Printing and PDF export  - 19(+0)
     filters and storage      - 19(-1)
     BASIC                    - 14(-1)
     Formula Editor           - 2(+0)
     framework                - 1(+0)
     sdk                      - 1(+0)


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