ESC meeting minutes: 2022-03-17

Miklos Vajna vmiklos at collabora.com
Mon Mar 21 09:39:41 UTC 2022


* Present:

         + Stephan, Olivier, Hossein, Cloph, Michael W, Heiko, Miklos, Michael S, Eike, Thorsten


* Completed Action Items:
     + None

* Pending Action Items:
     + None

* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
     + 7.3 status: 7.3.2 rc2 in 1 week
     + 7.2 status: 7.2.7 rc1 in 5 weeks
     + Remotes: Android, iOS
     + Android viewer

* Documentation (Olivier)
     + New Help,
         + tdf#148016: Help pages in dark mode - Easy Hack?
     + Helpcontents2
         + New Help pages, fixes and updates (ohallot)
     + Guides
         + Work on 7.3 Guides
            + Impress, Draw (Peter Schofield)
            + Base (ohallot, flywire)
            + Writer (Jean Weber)

     + Bugzilla Documentation statistics
         243(243) bugs open
     + Updates:
         BZ changes   1 week   1 month   3 months   12 months
            created     21(13)   43(9)     128(6)      329(4)
          commented     22(15)   69(-13)   418(13)    1552(-49)
           resolved      6(2)    15(2)      61(5)      203(2)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Olivier Hallot made 42 changes in 1 month, and 526 changes in 1 year
           Seth Chaiklin made 22 changes in 1 month, and 79 changes in 1 year
           Dieter made 10 changes in 1 month, and 110 changes in 1 year
           Bielefeld, Rainer made 10 changes in 1 month, and 10 changes in 1 year
           Rafael Lima made 10 changes in 1 month, and 364 changes in 1 year
           Timur made 6 changes in 1 month, and 65 changes in 1 year
           Heiko Tietze made 6 changes in 1 month, and 84 changes in 1 year
           Kaganski, Mike made 6 changes in 1 month, and 98 changes in 1 year
           Raal made 4 changes in 1 month, and 7 changes in 1 year
           Nabet, Julien made 4 changes in 1 month, and 66 changes in 1 year

* UX Update (Heiko)
     + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
         264(264) (topicUI) bugs open, 80(80) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
     + Updates:
         BZ changes   1 week   1 month   3 months   12 months
              added      4(-5)     8(-2)    16(-2)      48(-6)
          commented     94(-1)   275(30)   628(-4)    2796(-7)
            removed      0(-2)     6(-2)    14(0)       37(-1)
           resolved      8(1)     38(-3)    99(-5)     409(-1)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Heiko Tietze made 201 changes in 1 month, and 1943 changes in 1 year
           Dieter made 74 changes in 1 month, and 270 changes in 1 year
           Eyal Rozenberg made 22 changes in 1 month, and 142 changes in 1 year
           Ilmari Lauhakangas made 21 changes in 1 month, and 275 changes in 1 year
           Timur made 19 changes in 1 month, and 122 changes in 1 year
           Cor Nouws made 17 changes in 1 month, and 37 changes in 1 year
           Telesto made 17 changes in 1 month, and 273 changes in 1 year
           Foote, V Stuart made 17 changes in 1 month, and 475 changes in 1 year
           Seth Chaiklin made 13 changes in 1 month, and 92 changes in 1 year
           kabilo made 12 changes in 1 month, and 21 changes in 1 year

     + 5 new tickets with needsUXEval Mar/11-17
       + [Bug 147463] Clicking on field link scrolls to page, but focuses only 1/3 of
              the page in question
       + [Bug 147954] Use a subtle gradient with darker colors for the application
              background (behind the page "sheets")
       + [Bug 147948] Visual improvements in LibreOffice - Mockups - "revolutionary,
              good, simple" ideas
   ->  + [Bug 146545] [Enhancement] Add "Colibre (dark)" icon style
         + https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/131411
         + Rizal submitted the complete "Colibre dark" icon theme
           + almost 10k icons!
       + [Bug 147927] Make range highlight thicker when opening formulas in Calc

   ->  + [Bug 118320] Add support for Windows 10/11 dark mode
         + https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/131453
         + Caolan is being praised in the design group
         + was already worked for gtk3 (Hossein)

* Crash Testing (Caolan)

     + 209(+199) import failure, 200(+197) export failures

       - we expect 1fa46653315810a579009f712f2c1bbdf1f5fd44 and

         ad1f6e62298612f4b277708b813a219ba390f1b0 to address the big

         jump here.

     + 0 coverity issues

     + 12 ossfuzz issues

       - no crashes. Only timeouts and oom


* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.2.5.2
          + (-87) 1765 1852 1858 2096 1778 1776 1707 1860 1608 1246 691 0
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.2.6.2
          + (+166) 166 0
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.3.0.3
          + (-512) 1660 2172 2911 2744 2384 2260 347 0
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.3.1.3
          + (+535) 1345 810 0

* Mentoring/EasyHack update (Hossein)
           committer...   1 week     1 month     3 months   12 months
                   open      70(10)     195(14)     197(13)     199(13)
                reviews     298(-62)   1704(-14)   3884(-2)   12860(-20)
                 merged     332(-76)   1578(51)    4164(24)   15827(15)
              abandoned       6(-8)      67(-12)    203(-5)     744(1)
            own commits     261(-24)   1163(68)    3193(72)   12634(-2)
         review commits      48(5)      271(-10)    905(3)     3863(-49)
         contributor...   1 week     1 month     3 months    12 months
                   open      50(26)     204(33)     205(31)      209(29)
                reviews     890(-96)   3794(136)   9304(120)   34754(18)
                 merged      12(-4)      68(-8)     243(5)      1600(-25)
              abandoned       2(-3)       9(-2)      62(2)       432(0)
            own commits       6(-1)      72(-21)    317(0)      1624(-55)
         review commits       0(0)        0(0)        0(0)         0(0)
     + easyHack statistics:
        needsDevEval 8(8)   needsUXEval 1(1)   cleanup_comments 294(294)
        total 348(348)   assigned 31(31)   open 288(288)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Johnny_M made 28 patches in 1 month, and 846 patches in 1 year
           Attila Bakos made 5 patches in 1 month, and 33 patches in 1 year
           flywire made 4 patches in 1 month, and 8 patches in 1 year
           Pragat Pandya made 3 patches in 1 month, and 3 patches in 1 year
           Deepika Sreejesh made 3 patches in 1 month, and 3 patches in 1 year
           jwtiyar nariman made 2 patches in 1 month, and 2 patches in 1 year
           Kunal Pawar made 2 patches in 1 month, and 2 patches in 1 year
           Dr. David Alan Gilbert made 2 patches in 1 month, and 6 patches in 1 year
           Renwa Hiwa made 2 patches in 1 month, and 3 patches in 1 year
           Nagy Tibor made 1 patches in 1 month, and 35 patches in 1 year
     + top 10 reviewers:
           Michael Stahl made 256 review comments in 1 month, and 1212 in 1 year
           Xisco Fauli made 154 review comments in 1 month, and 906 in 1 year
           Thorsten Behrens made 140 review comments in 1 month, and 766 in 1 year
           Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 118 review comments in 1 month, and 990 in 1 year
           Kaganski, Mike made 98 review comments in 1 month, and 826 in 1 year
           Christian Lohmaier made 76 review comments in 1 month, and 216 in 1 year
           Ilmari Lauhakangas made 74 review comments in 1 month, and 292 in 1 year
           Hossein made 64 review comments in 1 month, and 198 in 1 year
           Nabet, Julien made 58 review comments in 1 month, and 548 in 1 year
           Rathke, Eike made 54 review comments in 1 month, and 338 in 1 year
     + big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
           Gautham Krishnan
           Adityarup Laha
   + good progress with the DevGuide import for the wiki
     + now we have only 6 parts are missing (out of 24 parts)
     + perhaps next week we can have all of it as single pages
   + got several submissions for the easy hacks that were posted to the bugzilla & blog
     + learned: if posted to the blog with images and extra description, there is much more interest
   + 2 new students working on interesting stuff: one interested in a11y, the other interested in the sql parser

* GSoC (Hossein)
     + LibreOffice got accepted!
     + Timeline: https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline
     + next step: until April 3rd: discuss project ideas (existing & new) with interested participants
     + April 4th - April 19th: submission period for participants' applications

* Commit Access
   + None

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Kendy/Thorsten/László)
   + resting since: 11 weeks (limit: 20 weeks)

* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
     from:Thu Mar 10 14:56:53 2022
     master linux rel  jobs: 155 ok: 151 ko:   4 fail ratio:  2.58 % break:   2 broken duration: 3.40%
     master linux dbg  jobs: 120 ok: 112 ko:   8 fail ratio:  6.67 % break:   5 broken duration: 7.02%
     master mac rel    jobs:  19 ok:  18 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
     master mac dbg    jobs:  18 ok:  18 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
     master win rel    jobs: 108 ok: 106 ko:   2 fail ratio:  1.85 % break:   1 broken duration: 7.30%
     master win dbg    jobs: 110 ok: 107 ko:   3 fail ratio:  2.73 % break:   1 broken duration: 7.11%
     master win64 dbg  jobs: 107 ok: 105 ko:   2 fail ratio:  1.87 % break:   1 broken duration: 7.24%
     master gerrit lin jobs: 498 ok: 404 ko:  71 fail ratio: 14.26% time for ok: mean:  19 median:  16
     master gerrit plg jobs: 479 ok: 315 ko: 123 fail ratio: 25.68% time for ok: mean:  59 median:  53
     master gerrit win jobs: 530 ok: 368 ko: 119 fail ratio: 22.45% time for ok: mean:  51 median:  50
     master gerrit mac jobs: 498 ok: 396 ko:  67 fail ratio: 13.45% time for ok: mean:  42 median:  37
     master android    jobs: 445 ok: 401 ko:  20 fail ratio:  4.49% time for ok: mean:  19 median:  13
     master gerrit all jobs: 507 ok: 281 ko: 173 fail ratio: 34.12% time for ok: mean:  87 median:  68
    + https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/tmp/gerrit_220317.html
    + tests that failed more than twice in last seven days
       3 UITest_sw_findReplace                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       5 CppunitTest_sw_ooxmlexport13                gerrit_linux_gcc_release
       7 PythonTest_sw_python                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      11 Killed by the kill-wrapper                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      22 CppunitTest_sc_macros_test                gerrit_windows
   + rather usual week
   + had a bypass of jenkins, but there was a quick follow-up fortunately
   + Windows sc_macros_test failure is still quite frequent
   + have a new Linux builder online (initially had a too small ccache, now fixed)
   + the one Mac that was not updated previously is now up to date, one more builder
   + did you see that issue that some gerrit builders have an system boost installed? (Stephan)
     + would be great to de-install system boost headers on the builders
AI: check the builders (Cloph)

* l10n (Sophie)
   + Weblate had been updated at the end of the week to version 4.11.2

* What’s cooking (Miklos)
   + Enabled 16k cols in Calc (Lubos)
     + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133764
     + http://llunak.blogspot.com/2022/03/enabling-calc-support-for-16384-columns.html
   + feature/sparklines: Excel-style sparklines for Calc (Tomaz)
     + https://tomazvajngerl.blogspot.com/2022/03/sparklines-in-calc.html
   + Working hard on SmartArt (Armin)
   + Adding "clearing breaks" to Writer, HTML's <br clear="..."> (Miklos)
   + Text layout performance optimization (Lubos)
     + https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2021/12/08/tender-to-optimize-text-layout-performance-for-print-and-pdf-export-202112-01/

* QA update (Xisco)

     + UNCONFIRMED: 1750 (+20)
         + enhancements: 278  (+0)
         + needsUXEval: 4 (-2)
         + haveBackTrace: 6 (+0)
         + needsDevAdvice: 24 (+0)
         + documentation:  11 (+6)
         + android:  1 (+0)
         + iOS:  0 (+0)
         + Online:  10 (+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

         + 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
             + already listed here for 2 years, and many duplicates

     + New high severity bugs of the week:
         + Support OpenType Font Variation based text layout
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103596
             + not a regression

         + Docx having pure VML group inside converted to DrawingML on save and Writer unable to open it.
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147485
             + Attila?

         + CRASH: copying and pasting
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147725
             + Michael S?

   + found ZWLJ pasting to Writer crashes it (Hossein)
     + Only happens in debug build
       Typing or pasting ZWNJ leads to Writer crash (debug build only)
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148053
   + good to bisect the regression (Miklos)

* QA stats
     + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
       +166  -31 (-155) overall)
       many thanks to the top bug squashers:
        QA Administrators       30
        Dieter                  13
        Timur                   11
        Xisco Faulí             10
        Heiko Tietze            8
        himajin100000           7
        Buovjaga                6
        Mike Kaganski           6
        Olivier Hallot          6
        raal                    6

     + top 10 bugs reporters:
        Telesto                 10
        sdc.blanco              6
        Eigil Wiwe              3
        Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 3
        R. Green                3
        Timur                   3
        Callegar                2
        Gerald Pfeifer          2
        Mike Kaganski           2
        Olivier Hallot          2

     + top 10 bugs fixers:
        Olivier Hallot          6
        Grandin, Noel           4
        Kaganski, Mike          3
        Luboš Luňák             3
        Michael Stahl           3
        Heiko Tietze            2
        Kosiorek, Bartosz       2
        McNamara, Caolán        2
        Nabet, Julien           2
        Németh, László          2

     + top 10 bugs confirmers:
        Xisco Fauli             21
        Dieter                  14
        Timur                   8
        m.a.riosv               8
        Nabet, Julien           7
        Raal                    7
        Heiko Tietze            5
        Kaganski, Mike          4
        Rizal Muttaqin          3
        Olivier Hallot          2


* 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:
         Timur                  4
         Raal                   2
         Xisco Fauli            2
         Ilmari Lauhakangas     1
         Kelemen, Gabor         1
         Mathias                1
         Kaganski, Mike         1


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

      done by:
         Timur                  4
         Raal                   2
         Xisco Fauli            2
         Ilmari Lauhakangas     1
         Kelemen, Gabor         1
         Mathias                1
         Kaganski, Mike         1


* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
    + 1221(-3) bugs open of 11622(+14) total 12(+0) high prio.

      done by:
         Raal                   3
         Xisco Fauli            2
         Dieter                 1
         Timur                  1
         Kelemen, Gabor         1
         Kaganski, Mike         1
         Ming Hua               1


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

    by OS:
      All           - 10(+0)
      Linux         - 0(+0)
      Mac OS X      - 0(+0)
      Windows       - 2(+0)


* ~Component   count net * all regressions
    + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
      Writer: other            - 429(+0)
      Calc                     - 200(-3)
      Impress                  - 121(+1)
      Writer: docx filter      - 57(+0)
      Crashes                  - 51(+0)
      LibreOffice              - 48(+0)
      Draw                     - 43(+0)
      UI                       - 42(+0)
      Writer: perf             - 38(+1)
      Writer: other filter     - 35(+0)
      Borders                  - 34(+0)
      Base                     - 31(-2)
      RTL                      - 26(+0)
      Chart                    - 25(+0)
      Writer: doc filter       - 21(+0)
      Printing and PDF export  - 20(+0)
      BASIC                    - 18(+0)
      filters and storage      - 16(+0)
      graphics stack           - 16(+0)
      Formula Editor           - 3(-1)
      framework                - 2(+1)
      sdk                      - 1(+0)


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