ESC meeting minutes: 2022-10-27

Miklos Vajna vmiklos at collabora.com
Thu Oct 27 14:27:10 UTC 2022


* Present:
     + Olivier, Michael S, Thorsten, Caolan, Stephan, Ilmari, Miklos, Xisco, Hossein, Cloph, Gabriel, Tomaž, Juan

* Completed Action Items:
     + update the budget page for tdf#104597 (Ilmari)
     + double-check Xisco's take on LOOL & pass it to the board (Stephan)
     + report Arabic follow-up for tdf#104597 (Hossein) -> Done (tdf#151788) but seems to be fixed

* Pending Action Items:
     + ignore enhancement severity for the “QA update” section (Xisco)
     + create the Jenkins job for macOS arm64 (Cloph)

* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
     + 7.4 status: 7.4.3 rc1 in 1 week
     + 7.3 status: 7.3.7 rc2 this week; last planned release of the 7.3 line
     + 7.5 release plan: alpha soonish, expect a wiki page similar to 7.3, a year later

* Documentation (Olivier)
     + Helpcontents2
        + updated screenshots and added new (ohallot)
        + Fixes and updates (A. Romedenne, A. Gelmini)
     + Guides
        + Release web version of Impress Guide 7.4


     + Bugzilla Documentation statistics
         237(237) bugs open
     + Updates:
         BZ changes   1 week   1 month   3 months   12 months
            created     12(4)    32(2)      80(8)      304(2)
          commented     18(4)    57(-14)   182(6)     1211(-1)
           resolved      3(0)    13(-1)     39(2)      196(0)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Olivier Hallot made 22 changes in 1 month, and 471 changes in 1 year
           Rafael Lima made 21 changes in 1 month, and 229 changes in 1 year
           BogdanB made 12 changes in 1 month, and 13 changes in 1 year
           Telesto made 10 changes in 1 month, and 32 changes in 1 year
           Srebotnjak, Martin made 8 changes in 1 month, and 12 changes in 1 year
           Heiko Tietze made 7 changes in 1 month, and 110 changes in 1 year
           Kaganski, Mike made 6 changes in 1 month, and 120 changes in 1 year
           Dieter made 5 changes in 1 month, and 79 changes in 1 year
           Ilmari Lauhakangas made 5 changes in 1 month, and 89 changes in 1 year
           *UNKNOWN* made 5 changes in 1 month, and 5 changes in 1 year

* UX Update (Heiko)
     + Missing Heiko
     + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
         271(271) (topicUI) bugs open, 96(96) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
     + Updates:
         BZ changes   1 week    1 month    3 months   12 months
              added      9(-10)    46(3)      63(10)      85(10)
          commented     39(-55)   312(-45)   664(5)     2352(21)
            removed      0(0)       1(-1)     10(1)       35(1)
           resolved      3(0)      26(-3)     80(-2)     318(1)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Eyal Rozenberg made 157 changes in 1 month, and 287 changes in 1 year
           Heiko Tietze made 91 changes in 1 month, and 1499 changes in 1 year
           Foote, V Stuart made 72 changes in 1 month, and 289 changes in 1 year
           Rafael Lima made 46 changes in 1 month, and 205 changes in 1 year
           Timur made 46 changes in 1 month, and 153 changes in 1 year
           Telesto made 44 changes in 1 month, and 181 changes in 1 year
           Dieter made 34 changes in 1 month, and 235 changes in 1 year
           V Stuart Foote made 29 changes in 1 month, and 29 changes in 1 year
           Roman Kuznetsov made 25 changes in 1 month, and 188 changes in 1 year
           Kaganski, Mike made 18 changes in 1 month, and 154 changes in 1 year

* Crash Testing (Caolan)
     + 29(-18) import failure, 3(-24) export failures
      -  new results since then has a new known common failure
     + 0 coverity issues
     + 10 ossfuzz issues,  2 crash (1 looks same as new crashtesting one)
     + crashtesting 4 -> 3 days turnaround, nice improvement

* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.3.6.2
          + (+107) 802 695 605 523 391 313 139 0
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.4.1.2
          + (-388) 1288 1676 1942 1653 1202 783 0
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.4.2.3
          + (+603) 1253 650 0


     + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/signature/void%20rtl::str::release%3C_rtl_uString%3E(_rtl_uString*)

     - Most reported crash - regression in 7.4

     - Is it possible to not group unrelated crashes (top frame in string dtor)? (Stephan)

     - Not aware of an easy way (Xisco)

       - last page has the most recent reports


* Easyhack update / mentoring (Hossein)
           committer...   1 week     1 month     3 months   12 months
                   open      65(4)      127(5)      138(7)      142(7)
                reviews     308(-70)   1074(-18)   2988(60)   11832(14)
                 merged     270(45)    1000(-68)   3506(48)   14977(-9)
              abandoned      18(4)       50(-6)     171(10)     835(7)
            own commits     230(58)     753(-25)   2684(75)   11606(21)
         review commits      79(3)      245(26)     667(49)    3107(-8)
         contributor...   1 week      1 month     3 months    12 months
                   open      34(-125)    246(1)      268(8)       285(8)
                reviews     802(90)     2536(-98)   7880(164)   32866(44)
                 merged      16(-9)       55(-7)     223(7)      1123(-37)
              abandoned      10(5)        26(1)       58(1)       371(7)
            own commits      22(-8)       83(4)      216(15)     1053(-9)
         review commits       0(0)         0(0)        0(0)         0(0)
     + easyHack statistics:
        needsDevEval 9(9)   needsUXEval 1(1)   cleanup_comments 308(308)
        total 368(368)   assigned 17(17)   open 321(321)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Kevin Suo made 6 patches in 1 month, and 23 patches in 1 year
           Armin Le Grand (allotropia) made 6 patches in 1 month, and 18 patches in 1 year
           Omkar Acharekar  made 5 patches in 1 month, and 5 patches in 1 year
           Paris Oplopoios made 4 patches in 1 month, and 79 patches in 1 year
           Calvince Otieno made 3 patches in 1 month, and 3 patches in 1 year
           Paris Oplopoios made 3 patches in 1 month, and 3 patches in 1 year
           Srebotnjak, Martin made 2 patches in 1 month, and 22 patches in 1 year
             made 2 patches in 1 month, and 15 patches in 1 year
           Rachael Odetayo made 2 patches in 1 month, and 2 patches in 1 year
           Fukanchik, Sergey made 1 patches in 1 month, and 1 patches in 1 year
     + top 10 reviewers:
           McNamara, Caolán made 98 review comments in 1 month, and 790 in 1 year
           Michael Stahl made 96 review comments in 1 month, and 1078 in 1 year
           Vajngerl, Tomaž made 94 review comments in 1 month, and 394 in 1 year
           Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 80 review comments in 1 month, and 1040 in 1 year
           Vajna, Miklos made 72 review comments in 1 month, and 524 in 1 year
           Nabet, Julien made 60 review comments in 1 month, and 766 in 1 year
           Thorsten Behrens made 52 review comments in 1 month, and 870 in 1 year
           Xisco Fauli made 52 review comments in 1 month, and 886 in 1 year
           Hossein made 50 review comments in 1 month, and 264 in 1 year
           Ilmari Lauhakangas made 46 review comments in 1 month, and 236 in 1 year
     + Patches automatically abandoned:
         Support clang plugin build for non-std clang names ( Thorsten Behrens )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/115053
         WIP: tdf#124098: sc: new document setting "ForceRowHeightRecalc" ( Vasily Melenchuk ) -> No longer needed. Thorsten said: "Seems opensuse packagers stopped using non-standard setups, works now"
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/129300
         WIP WindowsKillWrapper ( Noel Grandin )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/129675
         tdf#134628 Inverting checkbox in the language settings dialog box. ( Isha Desai ) -> Suggested changes are not addressed by the author
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/135246

* Mentoring (Hossein)
   + Reviewed Received several submissions from newcomers
     + Simple cleanups
     + Port Java examples -> Python
     + Font tests
   + Finalised and published a blog post on crash fixing (Hossein)
     https://dev.blog.documentfoundation.org/?p=583
   + Drafted another blog post on fixing crashes
     Crash fixes for LibreOffice, part 2: aborts
     https://dev.blog.documentfoundation.org/?p=576&preview=1&_ppp=b4593fd6a0
   + Outreachy status (Ilmari)
     + many of the hacks were done by Outreachy candidates
     + next week will be the application deadline (Fri)
       + more learning oriented than GSoC

* Commit Access
   + None

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Kendy/Thorsten/László)
   + resting since: 6 weeks (limit: 20 weeks)

* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
     from:Thu Oct 20 14:00:01 2022
     master linux rel  jobs: 127 ok: 126 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
     master linux dbg  jobs: 112 ok: 110 ko:   2 fail ratio:  1.79 % break:   2 broken duration: 2.85%
     master mac rel    jobs: 116 ok: 116 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
     master mac dbg    jobs: 116 ok: 115 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
     master win rel    jobs: 102 ok: 102 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
     master win dbg    jobs: 103 ok: 103 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
     master win64 dbg  jobs: 103 ok: 103 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
     master gerrit lin jobs: 488 ok: 380 ko:  72 fail ratio: 14.75% time for ok: mean:  22 median:  18
     master gerrit plg jobs: 432 ok: 287 ko:  92 fail ratio: 21.30% time for ok: mean:  44 median:  43
     master gerrit win jobs: 504 ok: 344 ko: 102 fail ratio: 20.24% time for ok: mean:  54 median:  47
     master gerrit mac jobs: 493 ok: 360 ko:  85 fail ratio: 17.24% time for ok: mean:  35 median:  31
     master android    jobs: 427 ok: 354 ko:  29 fail ratio:  6.79% time for ok: mean:  27 median:  14
     master gerrit all jobs: 452 ok: 251 ko: 137 fail ratio: 30.31% time for ok: mean:  71 median:  56
    + https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/tmp/gerrit_221027.html
    + tests that failed more than twice in last seven days
       3 Killed by the kill-wrapper                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil_branch
       3 CppunitTest_sw_mailmerge                gerrit_windows
       3 JunitTest_ucb_complex                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       4 CppunitTest_vcl_png_test                gerrit_windows
       6 CppunitTest_sw_uiwriter6                gerrit_windows
      10 Killed by the kill-wrapper                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
     + this week was good, nothing special to report
     + macro failures are gone on Windows (Xisco)
       + uiwriter6 improvements from Stephan

* What’s cooking (Miklos)
     + Writer content controls, PDF export work is still in progress (Miklos)
     + testcase refactors (Xisco)
       + ongoing effort
       + have lots of duplicate code to handle an opened document (component)
         + cleaning that up
         + started because poor cleanup/teardown caused problems on Windows
         + meant to help writing new test suites
         + when starting a new test class, best to inherit from UnoApiTest if you load documents (and/or save)
         + sw/ was already looking good
         + sc/ sd/ are the most problematic
     + looking at dark mode & macOS (Caolan)

* Date handling (Juan)
   + https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2022-October/089508.html
   + different places handle it different ways
   + once have a direction, solve some problems

* QA update (Xisco)
     + UNCONFIRMED: 1818 (+15)
         + enhancements: 305  (+8)
         + needsUXEval: 41 (+8)
         + haveBackTrace: 7 (+0)
         + needsDevAdvice: 27 (+0)
         + documentation:  11 (+1)
         + android:  3 (+0)
         + iOS:  0 (+0)
         + Online:  14 (+0)

     + Most pressing bugs:
      New:

     None


     + New high severity bugs of the week:
         + CRASH in SdrLayerIDSet::IsSet(o3tl::strong_int<short,SdrLayerIDTag>)
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151654
             + Mike?
             + found using crashreport -> last few UNO commands hiting how to repro

         + FILESAVE: Exporting documents with embedded SVG to doc or docx converts the image to low-resolution pixel graphics
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51510
             + not a regression?

* QA stats
     + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
       +125  +35 (-100) overall)
       many thanks to the top bug squashers:
        QA Administrators       11
        Buovjaga                9
        Caolán McNamara         7
        Eike Rathke             6
        Rizal Muttaqin          5
        Julien Nabet            4
        Roman Kuznetsov         4
        V Stuart Foote          4
        m.a.riosv               4
        Kevin Suo               3

     + top 10 bugs reporters:
        Eyal Rozenberg          5
        Andrius                 4
        Rizal Muttaqin          4
        NISZ LibreOffice Team   3
        Hossein                 2
        Justin L                2
        Marco Colnaghi          2
        Olivier Hallot          2
        Regina Henschel         2
        Thomas Tempelmann       2

     + top 10 bugs fixers:
        McNamara, Caolán        6
        Rizal Muttaqin          5
        Rathke, Eike            3
        Grandin, Noel           2
        Henschel, Regina        2
        Kevin Suo               2
        Michael Stahl           2
        Németh, László          2
        Olivier Hallot          2
                                1

     + top 10 bugs confirmers:
        Ilmari Lauhakangas      22
        m.a.riosv               14
        Dieter                  12
        Rafael Lima             5
        Roman Kuznetsov         5
        V Stuart Foote          5
        Nabet, Julien           4
        Raal                    4
        Xisco Fauli             3
        خالد حسني               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 : 0/35 -     0 %  (+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 : 2/85 -     2 %  (-1)
      4.0 : 1/83 -     1 %  (+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
         Aron Budea             3
         Weghorn, Michael       1
         Németh, László         1
         Xisco Fauli            1


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

      done by:
         Raal                   5
         Aron Budea             4
         Weghorn, Michael       1
         Németh, László         1
         Xisco Fauli            1


* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
    + 1175(+0) bugs open of 12083(+15) total 8(+0) high prio.

      done by:
         Aron Budea             2
         Raal                   2
         Rathke, Eike           1
         Bielefeld, Rainer      1
         Weghorn, Michael       1
         Marco Colnaghi         1
         Németh, László         1
         V Stuart Foote         1
         Xisco Fauli            1


* ~Component   count net * high severity regressions
    + http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
      Writer        - 5(+0)
      Calc          - 1(+0)
      Draw          - 1(+0)
      LibreOffice   - 1(+0)

    by OS:
      All           - 7(+0)
      Linux         - 0(+0)
      Mac OS X      - 0(+0)
      Windows       - 1(+0)


* ~Component   count net * all regressions
    + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
      Writer: other            - 420(-1)
      Calc                     - 192(+0)
      Impress                  - 118(+3)
      Writer: docx filter      - 57(+0)
      Crashes                  - 52(+0)
      LibreOffice              - 44(+0)
      Draw                     - 41(+0)
      Base                     - 37(+0)
      UI                       - 37(+0)
      Writer: perf             - 36(+0)
      Borders                  - 34(+1)
      Writer: other filter     - 31(+0)
      Chart                    - 24(+0)
      RTL                      - 23(+0)
      Writer: doc filter       - 19(+0)
      BASIC                    - 18(+0)
      Printing and PDF export  - 15(+0)
      filters and storage      - 14(-2)
      graphics stack           - 13(+0)
      Formula Editor           - 3(+0)
      sdk                      - 2(+0)
      framework                - 1(-1)
      Linguistic               - 0(-1)


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