ESC meeting minutes: 2023-01-19

Miklos Vajna vmiklos at collabora.com
Thu Jan 19 15:30:41 UTC 2023


* Present:
     + Xisco, Caolan, Cloph, Cosmin, Gabriel, Heiko, Ilmari, Hossein, Michael W, Olivier, Miklos, Stephan, Stephane, Kendy, Michael S, Eike, Thorsten

* Completed Action Items:
     + send the welcome mail to Patrick (Xisco)
     + set the commit bit (Cloph)

* Pending Action Items:

* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
     + 7.5.0 status: rc3 in 1 week
     + 7.4.4 + hotfix is planned with just one RC: in 1 week

         - https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153059

         - thanks Caolan for fixing

         - version will be 7.4.5 to avoid confusion, but only changes are the bugfix and translation updates


* Documentation (Olivier)
     + New Help (no news)
     + Helpcontents 2
        + Updates (ohallot)
     + Guides
        + work in progress for 7.5
     + Bugzilla Documentation statistics
         252(252) bugs open
     + Updates:
         BZ changes   1 week   1 month   3 months   12 months
            created     12(-5)   36(2)      95(1)      306(-6)
          commented     16(-1)   57(-13)   298(7)     1099(-45)
           resolved      5(0)    14(0)      46(0)      187(-6)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Stéphane Guillou made 48 changes in 1 month, and 100 changes in 1 year
           Ilmari Lauhakangas made 29 changes in 1 month, and 101 changes in 1 year
           Olivier Hallot made 29 changes in 1 month, and 433 changes in 1 year
           Seth Chaiklin made 9 changes in 1 month, and 333 changes in 1 year
           Bogdan B made 7 changes in 1 month, and 178 changes in 1 year
           Rafael Lima made 7 changes in 1 month, and 135 changes in 1 year
           Vernon, Stuart Foote made 7 changes in 1 month, and 23 changes in 1 year
           Kaganski, Mike made 6 changes in 1 month, and 116 changes in 1 year
           Roman Kuznetsov made 5 changes in 1 month, and 55 changes in 1 year
           Faure, Jean-Baptiste made 4 changes in 1 month, and 4 changes in 1 year

* UX Update (Heiko)
     + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
         278(278) (topicUI) bugs open, 66(66) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
     + Updates:
         BZ changes   1 week   1 month   3 months   12 months
              added      8(2)     11(-7)    21(-10)     56(-9)
          commented     87(20)   216(-1)   527(0)     2189(10)
            removed      0(-3)     0(-5)     8(-5)      34(-6)
           resolved     11(1)     29(3)     76(8)      300(5)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Heiko Tietze made 119 changes in 1 month, and 1480 changes in 1 year
           Stéphane Guillou made 53 changes in 1 month, and 111 changes in 1 year
           Dieter made 42 changes in 1 month, and 224 changes in 1 year
           Vernon, Stuart Foote made 37 changes in 1 month, and 150 changes in 1 year
           Eyal Rozenberg made 35 changes in 1 month, and 233 changes in 1 year
           Kaganski, Mike made 35 changes in 1 month, and 139 changes in 1 year
           Ilmari Lauhakangas made 31 changes in 1 month, and 186 changes in 1 year
           maicol figueroa made 22 changes in 1 month, and 31 changes in 1 year
           David Melik made 16 changes in 1 month, and 16 changes in 1 year
           Rafael Lima made 16 changes in 1 month, and 222 changes in 1 year
  -> + [Bug 153089] Allow separator (for Numbering by Chapter) to be greater than
            one character in the Edit Fields dialog
     + [Bug 153084] Disable gutter position when page layout is set to "mirrored"
     + [Bug 153079] [Feature request] -Update Index- to add MS Office option
     + [Bug 149362] Indicate slide direction when it is out-of-view
     + [Bug 149358] Autotext should be available in Impress
  -> + [Bug 153065] Tool names are different between the toolbar and Visible
            Buttons list
     + [Bug 149376] Allow overlap option for Frame and Graphics styles should be
            disabled by default
     + [Bug 153051] Improvement of Calc's csv import dialog.
     + [Bug 149163] Track changes in a spreadsheet shows the most recent change
            in a transaction instead of the change from the start of that transaction.
     + [Bug 153024] LibreOffice - Calc - New sheet as "Text Document"

* Crash Testing (Caolan)
     + 104(+3) import failure, 4(+0) export failures
       - summary of related backtraces available
         - seeing a few fixes from Michael S already, thanks
         - Calc issues are still outstanding
     + 3 coverity issues
     + 5 ossfuzz issues, no crashes
     https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151930 leak fixed by someone

* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.3.7.2
          + (+53) 893 840 606 533 431 460 855 217 0
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.4.2.3
          + (+110) 884 774 1365 1537 1746 2048 1986 1732 1632 1253 650 0
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.4.3.2
          + (-327) 1463 1790 1246 910 712 0
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.4.4.2
          + (+832) 832 0

    + Regression in 7.4.4

        - https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/signature/SwHeaderFooterWin::LinkStubClickHdl(void%20*,weld::Button%20&)

     + Fixed thanks to Caolán


    + Fixed in 7.4.4

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

     - the problematic commit was reverted


* Easyhack update / mentoring (Hossein)
           committer...   1 week     1 month      3 months    12 months
                   open      91(-7)     145(-2)      146(-5)      155(-5)
                reviews     356(36)    1136(-152)   3032(52)    11680(2)
                 merged     375(128)   1129(-17)    3536(185)   14603(134)
              abandoned      16(-4)      52(9)       174(8)       826(0)
            own commits     270(117)    723(52)     2495(128)   10899(69)
         review commits      55(-4)     241(-42)     831(-18)    2909(-9)
         contributor...   1 week     1 month      3 months    12 months
                   open      19(1)       59(0)        61(-1)       75(-2)
                reviews     984(212)   2776(-86)    7908(342)   31874(210)
                 merged      15(-13)     56(-29)     243(-23)     917(-21)
              abandoned       3(1)       14(-122)    248(-8)      555(-6)
            own commits      22(-6)      94(-29)     352(-21)     972(2)
         review commits       0(0)        0(0)         0(0)         0(0)
     + easyHack statistics:
        needsDevEval 9(9)   needsUXEval 1(1)   cleanup_comments 316(316)
        total 379(379)   assigned 16(16)   open 333(333)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Bogdan B made 8 patches in 1 month, and 86 patches in 1 year
           Paris Oplopoios made 7 patches in 1 month, and 92 patches in 1 year
           Armin Le Grand (allotropia) made 6 patches in 1 month, and 37 patches in 1 year
           Stéphane Guillou made 4 patches in 1 month, and 4 patches in 1 year
           Radhey Parekh made 3 patches in 1 month, and 6 patches in 1 year
             made 3 patches in 1 month, and 28 patches in 1 year
           Leonid Ryzhov made 3 patches in 1 month, and 5 patches in 1 year
           Srebotnjak, Martin made 2 patches in 1 month, and 26 patches in 1 year
           Donkers, Winfried made 2 patches in 1 month, and 4 patches in 1 year
           Shulhan made 2 patches in 1 month, and 2 patches in 1 year
     + top 10 reviewers:
           Vajna, Miklos made 134 review comments in 1 month, and 646 in 1 year
           McNamara, Caolán made 78 review comments in 1 month, and 936 in 1 year
           Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 78 review comments in 1 month, and 1004 in 1 year
           Xisco Fauli made 74 review comments in 1 month, and 854 in 1 year
           Michael Stahl made 72 review comments in 1 month, and 1120 in 1 year
           Nabet, Julien made 66 review comments in 1 month, and 794 in 1 year
           Grandin, Noel made 58 review comments in 1 month, and 438 in 1 year
           Hossein made 52 review comments in 1 month, and 272 in 1 year
           Thorsten Behrens made 48 review comments in 1 month, and 672 in 1 year
           Timar, Andras made 46 review comments in 1 month, and 234 in 1 year
     + Patches automatically abandoned:
         tdf#137818 Add Vary colors by point checkbox for chart data series ( Gabor Kelemen )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/114996
         WIP: Fix tdf#142021 tdf#138147 tdf#84199 Implement SetPolyFillMode ( Hossein )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/120477
         tdf#149256 Ship LibreOfficeKit headers in packages ( Hossein )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/134863
         Add string C++ SDK example ( Hossein )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/134920
         vcl: itAnimView -> itRendererer ( Chris Sherlock )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/137353
         Drop boost dependency for writerfilter ( Hossein )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/139279
         Remove unnecessary Note frame; add colons per HIG ( Adolfo Jayme Barrientos )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/139649
     + big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
           Shulhan
           Joel Dowdy

   * New EasyHack suggestion
     Use all_of, any_of or none_of from STD instead of looping to check a condition over a range
     https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153109

* GSoC (Ilmari)
   + We need more ideas and mentors
   + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas
   + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas_without_a_mentor
     + this still needs love
   + next week we can apply as an organization, interested to hear who would want to mentor
   + will the conditions change from last year, requiring little experience? (Caolan)
     + student work won't count as previous open source experience e.g. (Ilmari)
     + but open to anyone, not just students

* Commit Access

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Kendy/Thorsten/László)
   + resting since: 15 weeks (limit: 20 weeks)

* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
    + https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/tmp/gerrit_230119.html
    + tests that failed more than twice in last seven days
       3 build likely got stuck and was aborted due to not producing any output to the log                gerrit_windows
       3 CppunitTest_starmath_import                gerrit_linux_gcc_release
       3 UITest_cui_tabpages                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       4 UITest_calc_tests                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       5 CppunitTest_sw_mailmerge                gerrit_windows
       9 CppunitTest_sc_subsequent_export_test2                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      15 CppunitTest_sc_subsequent_export_test2                gerrit_linux_gcc_release
      27 build likely got stuck and was aborted due to not producing any output to the log                gerrit_mac
      28 Killed by the kill-wrapper                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
   + no problems with Jenkins itself this week (Cloph)
     + macOS and Linux hangs are similar in quantity
     + sadly not much overlap
     + CppunitTest_sc_subsequent_export_test2 is probably fixed by Stephan

* FOSDEM 2023 (Xisco)
   + Italo is putting together a schedule
     + If you didn't get a mail from Italo, something went wrong (Cloph)
   + We'll have a hackfest around FOSDEM: on 6 & 7th Feb (Xisco)

* LibreOffice hackfest in Cambridge (Miklos)
   + as part of COOL days: 28 & 29th March 2023
   + Collabora can fund accommodation for people
   + https://www.collaboraoffice.com/cooldays/ has more info

* ESC budget & projects 2023 (Thorsten, Ilmari)
   + review & update https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Budget2023
     + some people did estimation work on ideas, thanks to them
   + after that, rank & vote 2023 ESC project proposals
   + Missing cost estimate and contact:
     https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Budget2023#Finish_Firebird_implementation
     https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Budget2023#Add_more_combo_chart_types
     https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Budget2023#Migrate_from_Carbon_to_Cocoa_framework_on_Mac
     https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Budget2023#Refactor_font_handling_on_Mac
     https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Budget2023#Document_Comparison_bugs_and_enhancements
     https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Budget2023#Application_Themes_.28formerly_known_as_Mozilla_Persona.29
   + estimation input on these topics is highly welcome (Ilmari)
     + requesting a bit more time (Thorsten)
     + so let's go with early next week (Ilmari)
   + if something was approved last year, it's not necessary a duplicate for this year, correct? (Caolan)
     + it's a bit ironical that puttings things on this list can block a feature..
     + the last year was very bad.. many things got not done (Thorsten)
       + that being said, if you want to get something done, freel free to do it, no need to wait for TDF funding
   + may need help with the ranking sheet (Ilmari)
     + Eike, Thorsten & Miklos can help there if there is a need

* What’s cooking (Miklos)
   + Noel started replacing XUnoTunnel with dynamic_cast where possible, now that it's safe to do
     + makes the code simpler (Stephan)
     + also makes the downcast more visible to Coverity (Caolan)

* QA update (Xisco)
     + UNCONFIRMED: 1527 (-39)
         + enhancements: 294  (-2)
         + needsUXEval: 4 (-5)
         + haveBackTrace: 7 (+0)
         + needsDevAdvice: 32 (+0)
         + documentation:  10 (+1)
         + android:  4 (+1)
         + iOS:  0 (+0)
         + Online:  11 (+0)

     + Most pressing bugs:
      New:

     None

      Fixed:
         + CRASH: Clicking on the header/footer button after scrolling
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153059
             + fixed thanks to Caolán


     + New high severity bugs of the week:
         + Calc crashes when scroll up and down quickly within a document, or hold Page Down (Skia/Vulkan)
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149527
             + 7.3 regression, bibisected to a range, Skia/Vulkan-related, it seems. 7 duplicates, potentially 2 or 3 more
             + if somebody has idea how to work around the segfault to get an actual bisect result, that would be interesting (Stephane)
             there are explicit std::aborts there on context->oomed() and context->abandoned()

         + Crash on undo deletion of table with track changes enabled
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152964
             + fixed thanks to Laszlo

         + Turn Border button into a split button and remember recent border style
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58349

         + Feature Request - Add "Remove Duplicates" button to LibreOffice /  filtering showing duplicates is too complicated

                 + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85976

                 + Easyhack. Hossein ?

                   + I will take a look (Hossein)


* .NET SDK support (Hossein)
   + saw version 5 / 6 were not working
   + perhaps makes sense to include it in the budget

* QA stats (Stephane)
     + lots of work on 7.5 regressions: trying to bisect these (Stephane)
     + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
       +108  -5 (-110) overall)
       many thanks to the top bug squashers:
        Buovjaga                15
        Heiko Tietze            13
        Caolán McNamara         7
        Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 6
        Telesto                 5
        Julien Nabet            4
        Rafael Lima             4
        Regina Henschel         4
        Michael Weghorn         3
        Patrick Luby            3

     + top 10 bugs reporters:
        Xisco Faulí             7
        Gerald Pfeifer          5
        Robert Großkopf         5
        Telesto                 4
        AvidSeeker              3
        Andreas Säger           2
        Buovjaga                2
        Eyal Rozenberg          2
        Michael Weghorn         2
        NISZ LibreOffice Team   2

     + top 10 bugs fixers:
        McNamara, Caolán        7
        Heiko Tietze            5
        Rafael Lima             4
        Patrick Luby            3
        Andreas Heinisch        2
        Grandin, Noel           2
        Tünde Tóth              2
        Weghorn, Michael        2
        *UNKNOWN*               1
        Alexander Berg          1

     + top 10 bugs confirmers:
        Ilmari Lauhakangas      25
        Stéphane Guillou        19
        Telesto                 9
        Xisco Fauli             8
        Nabet, Julien           7
        Robert Großkopf         7
        m.a.riosv               6
        *UNKNOWN*               5
        Heiko Tietze            5
        Weghorn, Michael        5

* 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 %  (+0)
      4.0 : 1/82 -     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:
         Xisco Fauli            6
         Stéphane Guillou       4
         Raal                   3
         Roman Kuznetsov        1
         Aron Budea             1
         Weghorn, Michael       1

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

      done by:
         Xisco Fauli            6
         Stéphane Guillou       4
         Raal                   3
         Roman Kuznetsov        1
         Aron Budea             1
         Weghorn, Michael       1

* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
    + 1204(+16) bugs open of 12264(+28) total 8(+0) high prio.

      done by:
         Robert Großkopf        7
         Xisco Fauli            6
         Stéphane Guillou       4
         Raal                   3
         Roman Kuznetsov        1
         Dieter                 1
         Ilmari Lauhakangas     1
         Alex Thurgood          1
         Weghorn, Michael       1
         Telesto                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            - 423(+4)
      Calc                     - 209(+3)
      Impress                  - 120(+0)
      Writer: docx filter      - 59(+2)
      Crashes                  - 51(+1)
      LibreOffice              - 47(+0)
      Draw                     - 44(+2)
      Base                     - 41(+1)
      UI                       - 37(+0)
      Writer: perf             - 35(+0)->getL
      Borders                  - 34(+2)
      Writer: other filter     - 30(+1)
      Chart                    - 24(+0)
      RTL                      - 24(+1)
      Writer: doc filter       - 20(+1)
      BASIC                    - 18(+0)
      Printing and PDF export  - 18(+1)
      filters and storage      - 16(+1)
      graphics stack           - 14(+0)
      Formula Editor           - 3(+0)
      sdk                      - 2(+0)
      framework                - 1(+0)


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