ESC meeting minutes: 2022-06-30

Miklos Vajna vmiklos at collabora.com
Thu Jun 30 14:26:00 UTC 2022


* Present:
     + Heiko, Olivier, Caolan, Gabriel, Ilmari, Michael W, Tomaz, Stephan, Thorsten, Cloph, Miklos, Aron, Sophie, Xisco, Hossein, Kendy

* Completed Action Items:

* Pending Action Items:

* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
     + 7.4 status: rc1 in 1 week (still from libreoffice-7-4); UI and string freeze
     + 7.3 status: 7.3.5 rc1 this week
     + status of app store builds? (Caolan)
       + Microsoft: already in the store, but not searchable (Cloph)
       + Apple: they detected a conflict with LibreOffice Vanilla, Florian is on it (Cloph)

* Documentation (Olivier)
     + New Help
        + No news
     + Helpcontents2
        + Updates and fixes (S. Chaiklin, ohallot, M. Kaganski, R. Lima. G. Kelemen, buovjaga)
        + New pages for Scriptforge (A. Romedenne, R. Lima)
     + Guides
         + Work in progress

     + Bugzilla Documentation statistics
         241(241) bugs open
     + Updates:
         BZ changes   1 week    1 month   3 months   12 months
            created     16(-3)    44(-4)    123(0)      331(1)
          commented     11(-30)   80(-70)   309(6)     1494(-3)
           resolved      8(2)     15(1)      64(3)      208(4)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Seth Chaiklin made 43 changes in 1 month, and 316 changes in 1 year
           Olivier Hallot made 38 changes in 1 month, and 471 changes in 1 year
           Rathke, Eike made 11 changes in 1 month, and 32 changes in 1 year
           Heiko Tietze made 10 changes in 1 month, and 112 changes in 1 year
           Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 9 changes in 1 month, and 25 changes in 1 year
           Kaganski, Mike made 7 changes in 1 month, and 97 changes in 1 year
           Timur made 7 changes in 1 month, and 22 changes in 1 year
           Németh, László made 6 changes in 1 month, and 12 changes in 1 year
           Peter Toye made 5 changes in 1 month, and 5 changes in 1 year
           Dan Dascalescu made 4 changes in 1 month, and 7 changes in 1 year

* UX Update (Heiko)
     + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
         273(273) (topicUI) bugs open, 58(58) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
     + Updates:
         BZ changes   1 week    1 month    3 months   12 months
              added      2(-2)      4(-3)     22(-3)      46(-6)
          commented     16(-26)   117(-88)   606(-38)   2361(-86)
            removed      2(2)       2(2)      11(1)       34(2)
           resolved      4(-2)     23(-6)     77(1)      337(-3)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Heiko Tietze made 83 changes in 1 month, and 1660 changes in 1 year
           Rafael Lima made 23 changes in 1 month, and 91 changes in 1 year
           Roman Kuznetsov made 20 changes in 1 month, and 208 changes in 1 year
           Seth Chaiklin made 18 changes in 1 month, and 184 changes in 1 year
           Timur made 17 changes in 1 month, and 37 changes in 1 year
           Eyal Rozenberg made 11 changes in 1 month, and 84 changes in 1 year
           Hossein made 10 changes in 1 month, and 29 changes in 1 year
           Dieter made 7 changes in 1 month, and 211 changes in 1 year
           Enhua Xu made 6 changes in 1 month, and 6 changes in 1 year
           Shinji Enoki made 6 changes in 1 month, and 8 changes in 1 year

     + [Bug 149781] Spanish translation is missing in some strings in the
            Language Configuration Options
     + [Bug 149678] Pictures in writer: ignores height changes and proportional settings
     + [Bug 149763] Lots of Spaces get suppressed, when a Paragraph mark is added
            after this Sample
     + [Bug 149764] user-defined rows by columns (RxC, 2RxC/2, 4RxC/4, 8RxC/8, 16CxC/16)
  -> + [Bug 149701] New Feature: Print Preview In Sidebar
       + needsDevAdvice for feasability (sounds like a serious impact on performance)

* Crash Testing (Caolan)
     + 103(-45) import failure, 51(-11) export failures
       + already have additional fixes, to be visible in the next round
     + 6 coverity issues
     + 7 ossfuzz issues
       1 crash

* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.2.7.2
          + (+74) 484 410 396 382 314 268 167 0
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.3.3.2
          + (-22) 1041 1063 1438 1797 1583 1417 1055 555 0
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.3.4.2
          + (+165) 1128 963 675 0
    + numbers look good, nothing specific to report

* Mentoring/EasyHack update (Hossein)
           committer...   1 week      1 month     3 months     12 months
                   open      54(-10)     126(-7)     135(0)        135(0)
                reviews     348(-50)    1156(-86)   2856(-112)   12622(-18)
                 merged     307(-119)   1381(-12)   3823(3)      15650(-27)
              abandoned      17(12)       42(-10)    161(-37)      810(1)
            own commits     181(-98)     931(-46)   2844(-38)    12301(-42)
         review commits      70(-14)     249(21)     589(16)      3562(-4)
         contributor...   1 week      1 month     3 months     12 months
                   open      43(11)       98(2)      111(9)        112(10)
                reviews     850(-146)   3150(-44)   8304(-138)   34226(-34)
                 merged      21(5)        49(6)      130(11)      1286(-24)
              abandoned       9(4)        22(-14)     98(-85)      461(5)
            own commits      24(12)       59(9)      136(13)      1303(-10)
         review commits       0(0)         0(0)        0(0)          0(0)
     + easyHack statistics:
        needsDevEval 8(8)   needsUXEval 1(1)   cleanup_comments 307(307)
        total 364(364)   assigned 14(14)   open 322(322)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Srebotnjak, Martin made 8 patches in 1 month, and 22 patches in 1 year
           Paris Oplopoios made 8 patches in 1 month, and 19 patches in 1 year
           Nagy Tibor made 4 patches in 1 month, and 33 patches in 1 year
           Attila Szűcs made 4 patches in 1 month, and 16 patches in 1 year
           Goncharuk, Lera made 2 patches in 1 month, and 5 patches in 1 year
           Attila Bakos made 2 patches in 1 month, and 34 patches in 1 year
           Siddhant Chaudhary made 2 patches in 1 month, and 5 patches in 1 year
           Lukas Molleman made 2 patches in 1 month, and 2 patches in 1 year
           Dietrich Schulten made 2 patches in 1 month, and 2 patches in 1 year
           Nathan Teodosio made 2 patches in 1 month, and 2 patches in 1 year
     + top 10 reviewers:
           Xisco Fauli made 118 review comments in 1 month, and 936 in 1 year
           Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 116 review comments in 1 month, and 1032 in 1 year
           Thorsten Behrens made 110 review comments in 1 month, and 854 in 1 year
           McNamara, Caolán made 76 review comments in 1 month, and 576 in 1 year
           Michael Stahl made 76 review comments in 1 month, and 1238 in 1 year
           Nabet, Julien made 64 review comments in 1 month, and 656 in 1 year
           Vajna, Miklos made 48 review comments in 1 month, and 600 in 1 year
           Vajngerl, Tomaž made 44 review comments in 1 month, and 446 in 1 year
           Hossein made 42 review comments in 1 month, and 246 in 1 year
           Kaganski, Mike made 40 review comments in 1 month, and 670 in 1 year
     + Patches automatically abandoned:
         tdf#143574: sw: move UItest to CppUnittest ( Xisco Fauli )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/125808
         tdf#145630 converted some atan() to atan2() ( Pesi Taototo )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/126498
         tdf#134589 Correct the time format of OOXML to UTC ( Lai Verne )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/127989
         tdf#145630 Change atan to atan2 where appropiate ( Tushar Jham )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/131038
         tdf#146619 Cleanup numitem.cxx ( Hossein )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/131571
         bin/upload_symbols.py: make pythonic ( Lukas Molleman )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/133333
         bin/upload_symbols.py: make pythonic ( Lukas Molleman )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/133354
         [WIP] SVX, editeng: fix writing mode ( Attila Bakos )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/133446
     + big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
           Parsa Saei
           Amir H
           Mahdyar M. M. Sadeghi
           Mahkame Arabgari
           Nathan Teodosio (Canonical)

+ Hackfest took place at Amirkabir University of Technology
   * First part - building LibO, 16 people (previous week, June 22)
   * Second part - submitting code, 8 submissions (this week, June 25)
   * Good experience, will continue with virtual sessions

* GSoC (Ilmari)
     + Timeline: https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline
     + Mid-term evaluation will be on 25th July

* Commit Access

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Kendy/Thorsten/László)
   + resting since: 24 weeks (limit: 20 weeks)

* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
   + Jenkins decided to stop talking to us, restarting, no stats yet
   + apart from today, it was a good week
   + the Jenkins server dropped all the clients, will fix
     + updating at the same time

* l10n (Sophie)
   * team is working hard to catch the deadline

* What’s cooking (Miklos)
   + 16k cols in Calc (Lubos): https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133764
   + feature/chartdatatable: MSO-style data tables for charts (Tomaz): see initial commits in master
     + currently upstreaming in master, happy to hear feedback once everything is upstreamed


* Under-loved areas voting result (Miklos)
   + ranking from the sheet (from most preferred to least preferred):
     + RTL/CTL
     + macOS support
     + CJK
     + Complete Firebird Support to make embedded Firebird the functional equivalent of embedded hsqldb
     + Complete auto migration of existing hsqldb databases to Firebird
     + Accessibility: Document Level Accessibility
     + Accessibility: Widget Level Accessibility
     + Accessibility: File Format Support
     + The whole reports part is dependent on a set of old Java (Pentaho Reporting/JFreeReport) external components
     + Command Make Screenshots to get screenshots at build time (for all languages) is currently broken
     + Accessibility: UIA support on Windows
     + XForms support
     + Writer/Web
     + next step? (Miklos)
AI:   + will take it to the board (Thorsten)
       + should we remove the individual ranks? (Kendy)
         + last time the entire sheet was given (Thorsten)
         + is anybody against having their name visible? (Kendy)
           + not published, but giving visibility to the board (Thorsten)
           => no objections

* QA update (Xisco)
     + UNCONFIRMED: 1692 (-5)
         + enhancements: 277  (-2)
         + needsUXEval: 0 (-3)
         + haveBackTrace: 6 (+0)
         + needsDevAdvice: 29 (-1)
         + documentation:  21 (+0)
         + android:  3 (+0)
         + iOS:  0 (+0)
         + Online:  12 (+0)

     + Most pressing bugs:
      New:
         None
      Old:
         + 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
            + started to happen with a new macOS version
            + somebody has to do the work to keep up with the new Apple requirements
              + sometimes this works, sometimes not (Stephan)
            + had another look, can't reproduce (Cloph)
              + don't think it's a generic problem
              + think even if the langpack design is not elegant, it's fine

     + New high severity bugs of the week:
         + Systematic crash on resize of database table creation window
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149717
             + needs confirming
             + maybe will lower the priority/severity

         + CRASH: importing spreadsheet
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149752
             + already fixed, thanks Lubos

* QA stats
     + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
       +96  -2 (-134) overall)
       many thanks to the top bug squashers:
        QA Administrators       36
        Justin L                9
        Xisco Faulí             9
        László Németh           5
        Olivier Hallot          5
        Heiko Tietze            4
        Julien Nabet            4
        Noel Grandin            4
        Adolfo Jayme Barrientos 3
        Buovjaga                3

     + top 10 bugs reporters:
        NISZ LibreOffice Team   10
        Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 5
        Xisco Faulí             5
        Mike Kaganski           4
        Ainhoa                  2
        Alex Thurgood           2
        Jambunathan K           2
        Rafael Lima             2
        Robert                  2
        enhua_2008              2

     + top 10 bugs fixers:
        Németh, László          5
        Olivier Hallot          5
        Grandin, Noel           4
        Adolfo Jayme Barrientos 3
        Attila Szűcs            3
        McNamara, Caolán        3
        NISZ LibreOffice Team   3
        Nagy Tibor              3
        Vajna, Miklos           3
        Hung, Mark              2

     + top 10 bugs confirmers:
        Xisco Fauli             12
        NISZ LibreOffice Team   10
        Dieter                  6
        Rafael Lima             6
        Heiko Tietze            4
        Ilmari Lauhakangas      4
        Nabet, Julien           4
        Raal                    4
        *UNKNOWN*               3
        Le Grand, Armin         3


* Highest-Priority bugs (aka "MABs"):
    + http://bit.ly/2lJAAJI
      6.0 : 1/53 -     1 %  (+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 : 0/73 -     0 %  (+0)
      4.2 : 2/134 -    1 %  (+0)
      4.1 : 3/85 -     3 %  (+0)
      4.0 : 2/83 -     2 %  (+0)
      old : 1/246 -    0 %  (+0)


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

      done by:
         Raal                   4
         Xisco Fauli            4
         Aron Budea             1


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

      done by:
         Raal                   4
         Xisco Fauli            4
         Aron Budea             1


* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
    + 1228(+1) bugs open of 11863(+16) total 11(+0) high prio.

      done by:
         Xisco Fauli            5
         Alex Thurgood          3
         Raal                   2
         Aron Budea             1
         Rafael Lima            1
         sclewell               1


* ~Component   count net * high severity regressions
    + http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
      Writer        - 6(+0)
      LibreOffice   - 2(+0)
      Calc          - 1(+0)
      Draw          - 1(+0)
      Impress       - 1(+0)

    by OS:
      All           - 9(+0)
      Linux         - 0(+0)
      Mac OS X      - 0(+0)
      Windows       - 2(+0)


* ~Component   count net * all regressions
    + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
      Writer: other            - 451(+1)
      Calc                     - 191(-4)
      Impress                  - 123(+2)
      Crashes                  - 65(+4)
      Writer: docx filter      - 59(+0)
      LibreOffice              - 50(+1)
      UI                       - 45(+0)
      Draw                     - 44(+0)
      Writer: perf             - 37(+0)
      Borders                  - 35(+0)
      Writer: other filter     - 35(+0)
      Base                     - 32(-1)
      RTL                      - 25(+0)
      Chart                    - 24(-1)
      Writer: doc filter       - 21(+0)
      Printing and PDF export  - 19(+0)
      BASIC                    - 18(+1)
      graphics stack           - 16(+1)
      filters and storage      - 15(+0)
      framework                - 3(+0)
      Formula Editor           - 2(+0)
      Linguistic               - 1(+0)
      sdk                      - 1(+0)


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