ESC meeting minutes: 2023-07-27

Thorsten Behrens thb at libreoffice.org
Thu Jul 27 22:01:39 UTC 2023


* Present: Thorsten, Regina, Caolan, Olivier, Michael W., Heiko,
   Cloph, Stephane, Gabriel, Eike

* Completed Action Items: 
   + prepare new AlmaLinux8 baseline builders (Cloph)

* Pending Action Items: 
   + get gtk4 & Qt6 locally built, on new AlmaLinux8 baseline builders (Cloph)
   + all accepted LibOCon speakers, please confirm your attendance

* Placeholder: review / revisit ESC tender decision (not needed for the moment)

* Release Engineering update (Cloph) 
     + 7.6 status: rc2 status
       + 1 review on libreoffice-7-6 is needed
       + 3 reviews on libreoffice-7-6-0 are needed
       + RC2 as of last night, branch libreoffice-7-6-0 created - please remember 3 
         reviews
       + RC3 in two weeks
     + 7.5 status: 7.5.6 is next
       + RC1 in three weeks
     + status of bumping Linux baseline to AlmaLinux 8 on master 
       + everything ready, switch over CI bots sometime this week
       + devtools / gcctoolset12 is used
       + hit small bump, gcc bug, mdds header triggers UAF, disabled the diagnostics
       + AI Cloph gtk4 local builds, Qt6 local builds

* Documentation (Olivier)
     + New Help
        + "pet" bug: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/help/+/151897
        + help asked wrt gbuild issue there
     + Helpcontents2
        + add missing bookmarks + New bookmarks (R. Lima)
        + Update for Calc features (ohallot)
           + entry page for Themes feature - WIP (ohallot)
           + bit of detective work here - please help from the dev side ;)
        + Tabbed UI in Help pages + review of accuracy (ohallot)
        + updates and fixes (R. Lima, ohallot, S. Chaiklin, A. Heinisch, stragu)
     + Guides:
        + Team opted 1 book per module per year, e.g. "LibreOffice 24 Calc Guide"
        + Updating 7.6 releases for guides.
        
     + Bugzilla Documentation statistics
         273(273) bugs open
     + Updates:
         BZ changes   1 week   1 month   3 months   12 months  
            created     18(7)    32(1)      80(6)      305(7)  
          commented     42(26)   82(29)    220(49)    1059(62) 
           resolved      6(5)     8(5)      31(5)      167(6)  
     + top 10 contributors:
           Stéphane Guillou made 50 changes in 1 month, and 299 changes in 1 year
           Rafael Lima made 40 changes in 1 month, and 141 changes in 1 year
           Seth Chaiklin made 19 changes in 1 month, and 312 changes in 1 year
           Olivier Hallot made 10 changes in 1 month, and 480 changes in 1 year
           Srebotnjak, Martin made 8 changes in 1 month, and 21 changes in 1 year
           Monastirsky, Maxim made 8 changes in 1 month, and 12 changes in 1 year
           Kaganski, Mike made 4 changes in 1 month, and 96 changes in 1 year
           William Friedman made 4 changes in 1 month, and 4 changes in 1 year
           Alex Thurgood made 3 changes in 1 month, and 6 changes in 1 year
           *UNKNOWN* made 3 changes in 1 month, and 3 changes in 1 year


* UX Update (Heiko)
     + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
         267(267) (topicUI) bugs open, 60(60) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
     + Updates:
         BZ changes   1 week    1 month   3 months   12 months  
              added      6(-3)     16(-1)    30(-1)      57(-3) 
          commented     50(-28)   189(-8)   667(-31)   2429(-4) 
            removed      0(-1)      2(-1)    10(0)       30(0)  
           resolved     11(3)      31(7)    104(0)      329(8)  
     + top 10 contributors:
           Heiko Tietze made 110 changes in 1 month, and 1511 changes in 1 year
           Stéphane Guillou made 46 changes in 1 month, and 409 changes in 1 year
           ady made 42 changes in 1 month, and 87 changes in 1 year
           Vernon, Stuart Foote made 39 changes in 1 month, and 407 changes in 1 year
           Eyal Rozenberg made 36 changes in 1 month, and 288 changes in 1 year
           Justin Luth made 30 changes in 1 month, and 98 changes in 1 year
           Ilmari Lauhakangas made 21 changes in 1 month, and 234 changes in 1 year
           Myndex made 12 changes in 1 month, and 12 changes in 1 year
           Kaganski, Mike made 9 changes in 1 month, and 133 changes in 1 year
           *UNKNOWN* made 7 changes in 1 month, and 9 changes in 1 year

     + [Bug 156476] Writer does not recognize missing dictionary
     + [Bug 142926] On F1 / Help failure - No resolution path is identified for
            resolving errormesssage
     + [Bug 156229] Calc- Select Categories in Theme does not apply changes to sheet.
     + [Bug 156454] No indication of which table rows are considered heading rows
     + [Bug 156452] When right-clicking a table-of-contents, context menu refers
            to "Index", not ToC
     + [Bug 156455] Allow toggling repeating-header property of a row in row
            context menu
     + [Bug 93694] Not possible to enable table header rows repeat from menubar

     + GtkTreeView deprecated https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2022/10/twig-65/
         + mostly used in Gtk3 (Caolan)
         + unclear if they really move fwd with that - no sponsor for Gtk4...
         + let's wait and see


* Crash Testing (Caolan) 
     + 26(+0) import failure, 0(+0) export failures
       - was failing due to too many core dumps exhausting space
       - fixed the big crasher, restarted
       - sampled not finished run and submitted fixes for two other
         issues
       - next one higher than usual, expect then back to normal
       - nothing beyond that
     + 0 coverity issues
     + 3 ossfuzz issues
       - significant improvement
       - All timeouts.

* Crash Reporting (Xisco) 
     + 7.5.1.2    24951(+562)
     + 7.5.2.2    18175(+563)
     + 7.5.3.2    16985(+973)
     + 7.5.4.2    8858(+1509)
     + 7.5.5.2    403(+0)

* Mentoring (Hossein) 
           committer...   1 week     1 month     3 months    12 months  
                   open      93(3)      158(17)     206(2)       236(20)
                reviews     342(-18)   1216(86)    3078(-28)   10956(18)
                 merged     255(27)    1144(-69)   3345(-17)   12660(51)
              abandoned       2(-7)      32(-7)     130(-9)      630(0) 
            own commits     213(57)     738(30)    2282(15)    10356(40)
         review commits      74(24)     253(37)     734(11)     3054(3) 
         contributor...   1 week     1 month      3 months     12 months   
                   open      13(-18)     44(-4)      223(-6)       238(0)  
                reviews     742(54)    2754(-122)   7958(-134)   32146(84) 
                 merged      20(-5)      92(11)      275(-50)     2723(-13)
              abandoned       1(0)       11(-3)       38(-6)       473(-9) 
            own commits      19(-2)      84(11)      230(-7)      1047(12) 
         review commits       0(0)        0(0)         0(0)          0(0)  
     + easyHack statistics:
        needsDevEval 8(8)   needsUXEval 1(1)   cleanup_comments 332(332)   
        total 405(405)   assigned 22(22)   open 355(355)   
     + top 10 contributors:
           Dipam Turkar made 19 patches in 1 month, and 22 patches in 1 year
           Dr. David Alan Gilbert made 6 patches in 1 month, and 21 patches in 1 year
           Ahmed Eltokhy made 5 patches in 1 month, and 9 patches in 1 year
           Matt K made 4 patches in 1 month, and 6 patches in 1 year
           Stéphane Guillou made 4 patches in 1 month, and 19 patches in 1 year
           Armin Le Grand (allotropia) made 4 patches in 1 month, and 73 patches in 1 year
           Czeber László made 3 patches in 1 month, and 17 patches in 1 year
           Luigi Iucci made 3 patches in 1 month, and 6 patches in 1 year
           Tzschichholz, Rico made 2 patches in 1 month, and 3 patches in 1 year
           Juan C. Sanz made 2 patches in 1 month, and 6 patches in 1 year
     + top 10 reviewers:
           Caolán McNamara made 100 review comments in 1 month, and 232 in 1 year
           Michael Stahl made 100 review comments in 1 month, and 1108 in 1 year
           Nabet, Julien made 96 review comments in 1 month, and 962 in 1 year
           Vajngerl, Tomaž made 80 review comments in 1 month, and 410 in 1 year
           Kaganski, Mike made 78 review comments in 1 month, and 366 in 1 year
           Xisco Fauli made 56 review comments in 1 month, and 784 in 1 year
           Christian Lohmaier made 52 review comments in 1 month, and 396 in 1 year
           Thorsten Behrens made 50 review comments in 1 month, and 454 in 1 year
           Weghorn, Michael made 46 review comments in 1 month, and 182 in 1 year
           Grandin, Noel made 46 review comments in 1 month, and 594 in 1 year
     + big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
           Sahil Gautam gautamsahil1947 at gmail.com 

* GSoC (Ilmari)
   + work is ongoing
   + next up: August 21st final week, submission of results by students

* Commit Access 
     + none this time

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

* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph) 
gerrit_android_aarch64     jobs: 279 ok: 255 ko:  10 fail ratio: 3.58% mean_ok:  12 ( 24) median_ok:   8 ( 16)
gerrit_android_arm         jobs: 281 ok: 247 ko:   9 fail ratio: 3.20% mean_ok:  12 ( 24) median_ok:   8 ( 16)
gerrit_android_x86         jobs: 280 ok: 251 ko:  13 fail ratio: 4.64% mean_ok:  12 ( 24) median_ok:   8 ( 17)
gerrit_android_x86_64      jobs: 281 ok: 249 ko:   8 fail ratio: 2.85% mean_ok:  12 ( 25) median_ok:   8 ( 19)
gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil jobs: 586 ok: 415 ko: 112 fail ratio: 19.11% mean_ok:  50 ( 63) median_ok:  48 ( 55)
gerrit_linux_gcc_release   jobs: 562 ok: 449 ko:  75 fail ratio: 13.35% mean_ok:  25 ( 33) median_ok:  22 ( 26)
gerrit_mac                 jobs: 572 ok: 439 ko:  84 fail ratio: 14.69% mean_ok:  45 ( 46) median_ok:  41 ( 41)
gerrit_windows             jobs: 588 ok: 400 ko: 123 fail ratio: 20.92% mean_ok:  75 (126) median_ok:  67 (108)
gerrit_master              jobs: 543 ok: 278 ko: 197 fail ratio: 36.28% mean_ok: 126 (130) median_ok: 111 (113)
    + https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/tmp/gerrit_230727.html
    + test that failed more than twice in last seven days:
       3 CppunitTest_framework_dispatch                gerrit_windows
       3 CppunitTest_sc_text_functions_test                gerrit_mac
       3 CppunitTest_sw_mailmerge                gerrit_windows
       3 CppunitTest_sw_ooxmlexport17                gerrit_mac
       3 CppunitTest_vcl_filters_test                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       3 JunitTest_ridl_remote                gerrit_linux_gcc_release
       4 CppunitTest_starmath_qa_cppunit                gerrit_windows
       4 UITest_calc_tests8                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       7 UITest_sw_chart                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       9 Killed by the kill-wrapper                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       9 CppunitTest_vcl_pdfexport                gerrit_windows
      31 Killed by the kill-wrapper                gerrit_mac

* What’s cooking (Thorsten) 
   + alpha/transparency change in vcl (Noel) 
     + we've always stored transparency the wrong way
     + and then had to convert, at pretty much every API surface, and during
       import/export
     + things are nice & clean now - some speedup, and easier to understand
     + next up: remove split alpha bitmaps, and have it inline (RGBA) instead
   + platform a11y tests for gtk3 (Colomban Wendling, Hypra): 
     https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/153069
     + tender by TDF, last stage of the work
     + locking down what we do on internal a11y api
     + almost there, some last remaining problems
     + will need some extra packages on CI, to run those tests - already
       installed (optional, configure checks for them)

* LibreOffice conference Bucharest 2023 (Gabriel) 
     + some visa issues, trying to work-around it
     + two speakers affected - trying to solve that creatively
     + around 60 registrations, around 30 for the workshop
       + will do more local PR - expects more people signing up
       + many people from outside Romania, for the workshop - very nice to see!
     + 70 presentation - and 53 speakers in total
	+ AI all accepted speakers please confirm your attendance (email from
	  LibreOffice Conference 2023 <noreply at documentfoundation.org>)

* QA update (Xisco) 

     + UNCONFIRMED: 1186 (-2)
         + enhancements: 274  (+1)
         + needsUXEval: 5 (-2)
         + haveBackTrace: 11 (+0)
         + needsDevAdvice: 34 (+0)
         + documentation:  4 (+0)
         + android:  3 (+0)
         + iOS:  0 (+0)
         + Online:  12 (+0)

     + Most pressing bugs:
      New:
      Old:
      Fixed:


     + New high severity bugs of the week:
         + Always default to 'whole document' in Print and PDF export dialogs
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139164
             + bug 54908, see comment 15 (bug), comment 21 (ideas)


* QA stats (Stéphane) 
     + Looked at PNG / image resolution, and accelerator issues
     + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
       +103  +20 (-146) overall)
       many thanks to the top bug squashers:
        Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 25
        QA Administrators       21
        ⁨خالد حسني⁩             10
        Balázs Varga (allotropia) 6
        Heiko Tietze            6
        Rafael Lima             6
        Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 5
        BogdanB                 4
        Buovjaga                4
        Michael Stahl (allotropia) 4

     + top 10 bugs reporters:
        Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 5
        Eyal Rozenberg          4
        James                   4
        Mike Kaganski           3
        Rafael Lima             3
        vicxp0518               3
        Elmar                   2
        Gerald Pfeifer          2
        Jim Connell             2
        Jonas H                 2

     + top 10 bugs fixers:
        خالد حسني               9
        Balazs Varga            6
        Rafael Lima             6
        Michael Stahl           4
        Nagy Tibor              3
        Patrick Luby            3
        Andreas Heinisch        2
        Czeber László           2
        Heiko Tietze            2
        Justin Luth             2

     + top 10 bugs confirmers:
        Stéphane Guillou        21
        m.a.riosv               10
        Heiko Tietze            9
        Dieter                  5
        خالد حسني               5
        *UNKNOWN*               4
        Andreas Heinisch        2
        Nabet, Julien           2
        Srebotnjak, Martin      2
        Alex Thurgood           1


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

      done by:
         Stéphane Guillou       2
         Justin Luth            1
         Kelemen, Gabor         1
         خالد حسني              1
         Raal                   1
  

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

      done by:
         Ilmari Lauhakangas     2
         Stéphane Guillou       2
         Justin Luth            1
         Kelemen, Gabor         1
         Raal                   1


* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
    + 1194(-2) bugs open of 12674(+10) total 13(+2) high prio.

      done by:
         Stéphane Guillou       3
         Justin Luth            1
         Kelemen, Gabor         1
         خالد حسني              1
         Kaganski, Mike         1
         Henschel, Regina       1
         Telesto                1


* ~Component   count net * high severity regressions
    + http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
      Writer        - 8(+2)
      Calc          - 3(+0)
      Draw          - 1(+0)
      LibreOffice   - 1(+0)

    by OS:
      All           - 9(+1)
      Linux         - 2(+1)
      Mac OS X      - 0(+0)
      Windows       - 2(+0)


* ~Component   count net * all regressions
    + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
      Writer: other            - 420(+0)
      Calc                     - 218(-1)
      Impress                  - 132(-1)
      LibreOffice              - 50(+1)
      Crashes                  - 46(+0)
      Draw                     - 45(+0)
      Writer: docx filter      - 44(+1)
      Base                     - 42(+0)
      UI                       - 35(-1)
      Borders                  - 33(+0)
      Writer: perf             - 33(+0)
      Writer: other filter     - 30(+0)
      Chart                    - 23(-2)
      Printing and PDF export  - 23(+0)
      RTL                      - 23(+0)
      BASIC                    - 18(+0)
      filters and storage      - 18(+0)
      Writer: doc filter       - 14(+1)
      graphics stack           - 12(+0)
      Formula Editor           - 3(+0)
      Extensions               - 2(+0)
      framework                - 2(+0)
      sdk                      - 2(+0)
      Linguistic               - 1(+0)

-- Thorsten


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