ESC meeting minutes: 2023-06-29
Stephan Bergmann
sbergman at redhat.com
Thu Jun 29 14:49:54 UTC 2023
* Present:
+ Affiliated with TDF: Florian Effenberger, Mike Saunders, Juan
Jose Gonzales, Stephane Guillou, Xisco Fauli, Hossein Nourikhah,
Christian Lohmaier, Michael Weghorn (City of Munich until 2023-06-30),
Stephan Ficht, Olivier Hallot, Heiko Tietze, Sophie Gautier, Ilmari
Lauhakangas
+ Affiliated with Hideas: Italo Vignoli
+ Affiliated with Collabora: Caolan McNamara
+ Affiliated with allotropia: Thorsten Behrens
+ Affiliated with Red Hat: Stephan Bergmann
+ Unaffiliated: Regina Henschel
* Completed Action Items:
* Pending Action Items:
* ESC budget voting (Ilmari)
* Preparations
* blogpost with call for proposals was published with more than 15
days deadline
* wiki page was available for everyone to edit
* ESC minutes were shared publicly and sent to mailing lists
* today's call was announced publicly
* ranking spreadsheet was always public in an up to date version
* updated ESC tendering process draft:
https://nextcloud.documentfoundation.org/s/ysttSYyRnyM6QYF
* Pending items
* transparency section of the website must be in place before
tendering starts, Italo is working on it
* blogpost with ranking spreadsheet must be published as soon
as that
one is finalized
* Proposals
* No paid external expert was requested.
* No urgency request was made.
* Do all proposals on today's list have a sufficient
description and
cost estimate? Yes.
* Have all cost estimates been re-evaluated by only non-conflicted
members of the ESC? Yes.
* Ranking
* ALL proposals must be ranked.
* Proposal by a committee that has a majority of non-Conflicted
members.
* Decision then by CONSENSUS of only the non-Conflicted members.
* Failing that, majority VOTE by only non-Conflicted members.
* Spreadsheet with comments from TDF staff:
https://nextcloud.documentfoundation.org/s/i9CSEs2gjFisc2y
* Budget pages for reference:
+ https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Budget2020
+ https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Budget2021
+ https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Budget2022
+ https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Budget2023
* Propose to drop it
+ GraphicFilter clean-up (2020)
+ Done by Tomaž (thanks!)
+ Text runs of RTL scripts (e.g. Arabic, Hebrew, Persian)
from imported PDF are reversed, PDFIProcessor::mirrorString not
behaving (2022)
+ Fixed by Kevin Suo (thanks!)
+ UNO API changes subscription/feedback channel (2022)
+ TDF infra team will be able to implement this
+ Regular scan-build reports like we do with CppCheck (2022)
+ Cloph can do it, just hook up existing cppcheck as jenkins job
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/cppcheck_reports/master/
+ Multi-color gradient (2022)
+ allotropia already working on this / done for 7.6
+ Fix accessibility issues (2022)
+ Description too vague, now TDF has hired an accessibility
developer
+ Automated test tools for finding text rendering defects
+ Khaled is already working on it
+ Improve the experience of the CPP SDK
+ Hossein working on it
* Propose to put it on hold for now
+ Bitmaps in vcl: Use a native format/depth (2022)
+ Lacked time to estimate
+ Table Styles improvements (2022)
+ Lacked time to estimate
+ Unify Writer and Draw Images (2022)
+ Lacked time to estimate
+ Decouple master slide and layouts (2022)
+ Lacked time to estimate
+ Missing ODF Features: Concentric gradient fill of
custom-shapes (2022)
+ Lacked time to estimate
+ Bridge the gap between drawinglayer and VCL (2022)
+ Lacked time to estimate
+ Rolling Release: Finish MAR-based autoupdater for Windows (2021)
+ Very large size and large maintenance cost for infra.
Partially addressed with the app stores.
+ Stabilize cross-page table layouting (2022)
+ The selection of bugs seems random
+ XLSX Aggressive Competitors tracker: table styles (ranked 6
in Feb 2023)
+ has a dependency which needs to be completed first
+ Power optimization research (ranked 43 in Feb 2023)
+ We are working with KDE regarding the Blue Angel certificate
* Reviewed items to be voted on
+ Cleanup & further improve ODF conformance (2021)
+ Convert Impress slideshow to drawinglayer primitives (2021)
+ Writer tables: support cell margins (next to cell padding) (2021)
+ Font subsetter for font embedding (2022)
+ XLSX Aggressive Competitors tracker: gridlines for 3d line
charts (2022)
+ Look-ahead styleref field for Writer (2022)
+ Normalized spell checking (2022)
+ Remove/Replace usages of XOR-Paint (2022)
+ ODT export nondeterminism (2022)
+ Bitmaps in vcl: Merge RGB and A layer into one (2022)
+ Make Firebird implementation production-ready
+ Replace remaining Carbon functions with non-Carbon functions
(macOS)
+ Missing ODF Features: Draw:shadow-offset-x/y only partially
implemented
+ Allow inline graphics, formulas in impress (and draw), open
equation with inline formulas from PPT, PPS, PPTX, PPSX
+ Missing ODF Features: Attribute svg:d of <draw:path> some of
the possible commands are missing
+ Tests for drawinglayer and basegfx
+ Rotated Writer TextFrames
+ Slideshow: rendering content on top of videos
+ XLSX Aggressive Competitors tracker: support math equations
in Calc shapes
+ Missing ODF Feature: <draw:regular-polygon> missing completely
+ Missing ODF Features: The attribute draw:text-rotate-angle is
interpreted, but there exists no user interface to change it.
+ SVG rendering improvements
+ Votes in favour from non-conflicted members:
+ Stephan Bergmann
+ Xisco Faulí
+ Ilmari Lauhakangas
+ Christian Lohmaier
+ Hossein Nourikhah
+ Heiko Tietze
+ Michael Weghorn
* Release Engineering update (Cloph/Xisco)
+ 7.6 status: rc 1 will be in 1 week / string / UI freeze
* late feature submission: show author/date in Calc comments
(https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/c`ore/+/153358)
+ borderline bugfix vs. feature, adding metadata to Calc comments
+ no strings involved (but would change screenshots)
+ small fix, ~50 lines
+ no concerns: ESC approval, ok to merge now
+ 7.5 status: 7.5.5 rc1 in this week
* tagging/creating the branch planned for this evening
* Documentation (Olivier)
+ helpcontent2
+ updates and fixes (s. chaiklin)
+ refactor on different UI (ohallot)
+ More help pages on ScriptForge (A. Romedenne)
+ Guides
+ WIP
+ Bugzilla Documentation statistics
274(274) bugs open
+ Updates:
BZ changes 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
created 7(-11) 29(0) 93(3) 308(2)
commented 27(-1) 73(12) 252(11) 1040(20)
resolved 1(-2) 6(-2) 37(-1) 172(-2)
+ top 10 contributors:
Stéphane Guillou made 40 changes in 1 month, and 259 changes
in 1 year
Olivier Hallot made 25 changes in 1 month, and 492 changes in
1 year
Seth Chaiklin made 12 changes in 1 month, and 307 changes in
1 year
Kaganski, Mike made 7 changes in 1 month, and 108 changes in
1 year
Nabet, Julien made 6 changes in 1 month, and 32 changes in 1 year
Robert Großkopf made 4 changes in 1 month, and 14 changes in
1 year
Heiko Tietze made 3 changes in 1 month, and 109 changes in 1 year
Leroy made 3 changes in 1 month, and 3 changes in 1 year
Eyal Rozenberg made 2 changes in 1 month, and 15 changes in 1
year
Perdreau, Regis made 2 changes in 1 month, and 9 changes in 1
year
* UX Update (Heiko)
+ Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
273(273) (topicUI) bugs open, 64(64) (needsUXEval) needs to be
evaluated by the UXteam
+ Updates:
BZ changes 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
added 4(-7) 15(-4) 31(-3) 57(-3)
commented 40(-88) 239(-44) 834(-40) 2443(-10)
removed 1(1) 2(-1) 11(1) 29(1)
resolved 2(-12) 27(-4) 104(-6) 318(-2)
+ top 10 contributors:
Heiko Tietze made 131 changes in 1 month, and 1492 changes in
1 year
Stéphane Guillou made 58 changes in 1 month, and 374 changes
in 1 year
ady made 43 changes in 1 month, and 87 changes in 1 year
Vernon, Stuart Foote made 31 changes in 1 month, and 379
changes in 1 year
Ilmari Lauhakangas made 28 changes in 1 month, and 220
changes in 1 year
Eyal Rozenberg made 27 changes in 1 month, and 270 changes in
1 year
Kaganski, Mike made 25 changes in 1 month, and 146 changes in
1 year
Dieter made 23 changes in 1 month, and 262 changes in 1 year
Justin Luth made 20 changes in 1 month, and 68 changes in 1 year
Hossein made 13 changes in 1 month, and 75 changes in 1 year
Selection of tickets with needsUXEval from the last two weeks:
+ [Bug 155947] Korean word default font size is 10pt.
+ [Bug 155926] Rename line styles like "Long dot", "Double dash" and
"Line Style 9"
+ [Bug 155886] Hash marks that indicate "cell too narrow" should expand
according to the cell width
-> + [Bug 155893] Table cell baseline misalignment when using
different fonts
+ [Bug 153153] Incentivize users to use the latest version via the UI
+ [Bug 148544] Option to remove all whitespace in "Paste special"
and other dialogs
-> + [Bug 140024] "replace custom styles" option in AutoCorrect should
be removed
-> + [Bug 155834] Unnumbered entries do not move together with their
main entry,
when list's "move item up / down" commands are used
+ Input on all of these welcome
-> Resolve https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54242
and co
in part. https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=68274
as WF?
+ Even thoug not tendered, don't close (Xisco)
=> keep it for now
* Crash Reporting (Caolan)
+ 35(-6) import failure, 3(-11) export failures
+ n/a coverity issues
last run was trash, next due in 24 hours to fix it
+ 4 ossfuzz issues
- no crashes
* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
+ https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.4.7.2
+ (+91) 471 380 318 250 251 118 0
+ https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.5.3.2
+ (-331) 778 1109 1355 1174 1029 702 453 0
+ https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.5.4.2
+ (+352) 717 365 0
+ nothing outstanding
* Mentoring (Hossein)
+ Worked on porting C++ SDK example make file to cmake / qmake
https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/153540
+ help welcome how to set up relevant variables in those makefiles
+ help welcome to test on macOS
+ Received help request for help to use Java SDK examples
+ Budget for bug bounty program? (Hossein)
+ First round sponsored by EU (Thorsten)
+ Great to have a sponsered program, but:
+ But fixing is harder than finding issues, so make sure we're
not overloaded
+ So need to balance budget for bug finding with bugdge for
bug fixing
+ Related issue: Code audits, maybe something for next year's
budget
+ Would be great to have LO's security history and mechanisms
talked more about (Thorsten)
+ Italo might do it
+ Potential to reduce scope of security issues accepted for a
program (Caolan)
+ Also require submitters to send fixes? (Hossein)
+ Didn't really work last time (Caolan)
committer... 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
open 67(10) 110(-15) 178(4) 189(4)
reviews 278(4) 1046(-8) 2916(68) 10728(-56)
merged 285(-44) 1181(33) 3217(77) 12367(6)
abandoned 10(-2) 54(-2) 158(-8) 656(-7)
own commits 162(-31) 711(-10) 2335(-3) 10189(-30)
review commits 46(0) 205(-6) 699(-4) 2991(-25)
contributor... 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
open 25(8) 39(6) 231(8) 236(9)
reviews 784(-56) 2786(88) 8006(96) 31620(-70)
merged 7(-8) 58(-6) 372(-31) 2695(-57)
abandoned 4(3) 8(3) 55(3) 492(-4)
own commits 9(-4) 68(-2) 231(-6) 1004(-7)
review commits 0(0) 0(0) 0(0) 0(0)
+ easyHack statistics:
needsDevEval 8(8) needsUXEval 1(1) cleanup_comments 331(331)
total 401(401) assigned 28(28) open 346(346)
+ top 10 contributors:
Dr. David Alan Gilbert made 7 patches in 1 month, and 15
patches in 1 year
Baole Fang made 6 patches in 1 month, and 23 patches in 1 year
Czeber László made 5 patches in 1 month, and 14 patches in 1 year
Armin Le Grand (allotropia) made 5 patches in 1 month, and 71
patches in 1 year
Luigi Iucci made 4 patches in 1 month, and 4 patches in 1 year
Colomban Wendling made 3 patches in 1 month, and 24 patches
in 1 year
Jaume Pujantell made 3 patches in 1 month, and 8 patches in 1
year
Srebotnjak, Martin made 2 patches in 1 month, and 18 patches
in 1 year
Satya Kompella made 2 patches in 1 month, and 4 patches in 1 year
Dipam Turkar made 2 patches in 1 month, and 5 patches in 1 year
+ top 10 reviewers:
Caolán McNamara made 108 review comments in 1 month, and 138
in 1 year
Vajna, Miklos made 78 review comments in 1 month, and 772 in
1 year
Nabet, Julien made 76 review comments in 1 month, and 926 in
1 year
Timar, Andras made 62 review comments in 1 month, and 402 in
1 year
Xisco Fauli made 60 review comments in 1 month, and 776 in 1 year
Michael Stahl made 58 review comments in 1 month, and 1050 in
1 year
Grandin, Noel made 46 review comments in 1 month, and 580 in
1 year
Hossein made 44 review comments in 1 month, and 278 in 1 year
Vajngerl, Tomaž made 40 review comments in 1 month, and 440
in 1 year
Ilmari Lauhakangas made 38 review comments in 1 month, and
316 in 1 year
+ big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged
patch, since last report:
Vladislav Tarakanov vladislav.tarakanov at bk.ru
* GSoC (Ilmari)
+ Phase 1 evaluations: July 10 - July 14 18:00 UTC
+ Weekly updates being posted, works fine
* Commit Access
+ Jaume Traserra (Caolanm)
+ No objections
+ AI: give commit access (Cloph)
+ AI: invite (Caolan)
* Developer Certification (Stephan/Miklos/Thorsten/László)
+ resting since: 12 weeks (limit: 20 weeks)
* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
gerrit_android_aarch64 jobs: 171 ok: 148 ko: 10 fail ratio: 5.85%
mean_ok: 10 ( 15) median_ok: 7 ( 9)
gerrit_android_arm jobs: 172 ok: 153 ko: 14 fail ratio: 8.14%
mean_ok: 11 ( 15) median_ok: 8 ( 10)
gerrit_android_x86 jobs: 171 ok: 145 ko: 15 fail ratio: 8.77%
mean_ok: 12 ( 18) median_ok: 8 ( 10)
gerrit_android_x86_64 jobs: 172 ok: 155 ko: 12 fail ratio: 6.98%
mean_ok: 11 ( 16) median_ok: 8 ( 9)
gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil jobs: 346 ok: 216 ko: 106 fail ratio: 30.64%
mean_ok: 49 ( 53) median_ok: 46 ( 49)
gerrit_linux_gcc_release jobs: 343 ok: 267 ko: 59 fail ratio: 17.20%
mean_ok: 23 ( 27) median_ok: 21 ( 21)
gerrit_mac jobs: 357 ok: 249 ko: 84 fail ratio: 23.53%
mean_ok: 44 ( 44) median_ok: 41 ( 41)
gerrit_windows jobs: 366 ok: 232 ko: 95 fail ratio: 25.96%
mean_ok: 65 ( 98) median_ok: 62 ( 70)
gerrit_master jobs: 371 ok: 182 ko: 150 fail ratio: 40.43%
mean_ok: 93 ( 95) median_ok: 69 ( 69)
+ https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/tmp/gerrit_230629.html
+ tests that failed more than twice in last seven days
3 Killed by the kill-wrapper
gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
3 CppunitTest_sc_styleobj gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
3 CppunitTest_sd_export_tests-ooxml1 gerrit_windows
3 CppunitTest_sw_mailmerge2 gerrit_windows
3 CppunitTest_sw_mailmerge gerrit_windows
3 CppunitTest_sw_ooxmlexport17 gerrit_mac
5 CppunitTest_chart2_export gerrit_windows
5 CppunitTest_sw_a11y gerrit_windows
5 UITest_calc_tests8 gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
6 Killed by the kill-wrapper gerrit_mac
9 CppunitTest_framework_dispatch gerrit_windows
+ nothing of interest
+ some bot shortage atm, should be better again next week, but
didn't cause big
trouble
* What’s cooking (Miklos)
+ multi-color gradients (Armin)
+ added release notes: a guide and a macro library (Regina)
+ spelling and macro testing welcome, please notify Regina
+ document themes (Tomaz)
+ tdf#155118 multi-page floating tables in Writer (Miklos)
+ svg filters (Xisco)
* LibreOffice conference Bucharest 2023 (Gabriel)
+ call for papers:
https://events.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice-conference-2023/cfp
+ Deadline is at the end of June
+ Moved to July 15
* QA update (Xisco)
+ UNCONFIRMED: 1185 (+7)
+ enhancements: 273 (+1)
+ needsUXEval: 8 (-6)
+ haveBackTrace: 8 (+0)
+ needsDevAdvice: 34 (+0)
+ documentation: 4 (+0)
+ android: 3 (-2)
+ iOS: 0 (+0)
+ Online: 12 (+0)
+ Most pressing bugs:
New:
None
+ New high severity bugs of the week:
None
* QA stats (Stéphane)
+ Dashboard data updated; "tally" and "pulse" charts split for
readability. -> https://stragu.shinyapps.io/lo_qa_dashboard/
+
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
+131 -3 (-146) overall)
many thanks to the top bug squashers:
Julien Nabet 31
QA Administrators 26
Buovjaga 15
Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 13
Xisco Faulí 12
خالد حسني 7
Mike Kaganski 5
Justin L 4
Regina Henschel 3
Tibor Nagy (NISZ) 3
+ top 10 bugs reporters:
William Friedman 6
Xisco Faulí 6
Hossein 4
Mike Kaganski 4
Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 3
Elmar 2
Mori Mayur 2
Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) 2
Vishwaraj 2
kumar 2
+ top 10 bugs fixers:
Xisco Fauli 6
خالد حسني 5
Justin Luth 3
Kaganski, Mike 3
Nagy Tibor 3
Seth Chaiklin 3
Henschel, Regina 2
Nabet, Julien 2
Adbeel 1
Ahmed Eltokhy 1
+ top 10 bugs confirmers:
Stéphane Guillou 15
Xisco Fauli 7
Heiko Tietze 6
m.a.riosv 5
*UNKNOWN* 4
Dieter 4
Nabet, Julien 4
Aron Budea 3
Kaganski, Mike 3
Kelemen, Gabor 3
* Bisected bugs open: keyword 'bisected'
+ more accurate - down to a single commit.
+ http://bit.ly/2dyIfDy
+
done by:
Stéphane Guillou 7
Xisco Fauli 1
* Bibisected bugs open: keyword 'bibisected'
+ http://bit.ly/2cSCXlS
+
done by:
Stéphane Guillou 8
Hossein 1
Satya Kompella 1
Xisco Fauli 1
* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
+ 1189(-3) bugs open of 12626(+9) total 13(-1) high prio.
done by:
Stéphane Guillou 6
ady 1
Hossein 1
Xisco Fauli 1
* ~Component count net * high severity regressions
+ http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
Writer - 8(+0)
Calc - 3(+0)
Draw - 1(+0)
LibreOffice - 1(+0)
Impress - 0(-1)
by OS:
All - 9(-1)
Linux - 2(+0)
Mac OS X - 0(+0)
Windows - 2(+0)
* ~Component count net * all regressions
+ http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
Writer: other - 417(+0)
Calc - 215(+1)
Impress - 131(-4)
LibreOffice - 49(+0)
Writer: docx filter - 46(+0)
Crashes - 45(-1)
Draw - 45(+0)
Base - 42(+0)
UI - 36(+1)
Writer: perf - 33(+0)
Borders - 32(+0)
Writer: other filter - 30(+0)
Chart - 25(+0)
Printing and PDF export - 24(+0)
RTL - 23(+0)
BASIC - 18(+0)
filters and storage - 17(+0)
Writer: doc filter - 13(+0)
graphics stack - 12(+0)
Formula Editor - 3(+0)
Extensions - 2(+0)
framework - 2(+0)
sdk - 2(+0)
Linguistic - 1(+0)
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