ESC meeting minutes: 2023-03-30
Christian Lohmaier
lohmaier+ooofuture at googlemail.com
Thu Mar 30 14:56:18 UTC 2023
* Present:
+ Heiko, Ilmari, Olivier, Eike, Stéphane, Cloph, Xisco,
* Completed Action Items:
+ file an easy hack for faster ui tests (Xisco)
- https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154451
+ take the list of certified developers to Italo (Stephan)
- done (Stephan)
* Pending Action Items:
+ get marketing to announce the “next version is 8.0” decision on
their mailing list (Heiko)
+ has been posted to the lists, there was some pushback
+ alpha end of May, UI freeze in July, so still some time
+ there likely won't be any huge changes in future either
+ would need new splash/new design for version bump (so waiting
until last minute is a nogo)
* could reuse the redesigned artwork whenever we make the switch
+ keep it with 7.6 and move to 8.0 for February/Fosdem?
* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
+ 7.5 status: 7.5.2 released today
+ 7.5.3 rc1 in two weeks
+ 7.4 status: 7.4.7 rc1 in 3 weeks
* Documentation (Olivier)
+ Helpcontents
+ Updates, fixes and housekeeping (ohallot, R. Lima, S. Chaiklin, stragu,
L. Balland)
+ Too many enhancements/changes not earmarked for document update,
+ please heads-up
+ Checkbox in gerrit "Need doc update"?
+ how to do it until we have such a checkbox?
→ bugzilla ticket for now in documentation project, direct assignment
not necessary
+ API documentation
+ Please comment/approve https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/149590
+ Doxygen API is shallow on examples, occasional end-user lost
in reading API
+ sample snippets to help understand, illustrate usage
+ language agnostic is 1 more language, use basic/python
+ Guides
+ Work in progress for current release
+ Bugzilla Documentation statistics
262(262) bugs open
+ Updates:
BZ changes 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
created 8(-7) 46(-18) 117(2) 318(0)
commented 13(-24) 119(-28) 310(10) 1091(10)
resolved 3(0) 15(-12) 56(3) 193(1)
+ top 10 contributors:
Seth Chaiklin made 86 changes in 1 month, and 490 changes in 1 year
Olivier Hallot made 53 changes in 1 month, and 493 changes in 1 year
Stéphane Guillou made 29 changes in 1 month, and 155 changes in 1 year
Kaganski, Mike made 9 changes in 1 month, and 115 changes in 1 year
Heiko Tietze made 7 changes in 1 month, and 100 changes in 1 year
Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 6 changes in 1 month, and 47
changes in 1 year
Vernon, Stuart Foote made 6 changes in 1 month, and 39
changes in 1 year
Dieter made 5 changes in 1 month, and 71 changes in 1 year
Vladimir Sokolinskiy made 4 changes in 1 month, and 7
changes in 1 year
ady made 3 changes in 1 month, and 5 changes in 1 year
* UX Update (Heiko)
+ Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
277(277) (topicUI) bugs open, 91(91) (needsUXEval) needs to be
evaluated by the UXteam
+ Updates:
BZ changes 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
added 8(-2) 31(-2) 45(-2) 81(-3)
commented 82(-6) 341(5) 714(6) 2290(14)
removed 2(0) 6(2) 6(2) 29(-1)
resolved 8(-2) 35(-2) 94(3) 289(3)
+ top 10 contributors:
Heiko Tietze made 218 changes in 1 month, and 1447 changes in 1 year
Eyal Rozenberg made 90 changes in 1 month, and 312 changes in 1 year
Vernon, Stuart Foote made 63 changes in 1 month, and 262
changes in 1 year
Dieter made 57 changes in 1 month, and 219 changes in 1 year
Ilmari Lauhakangas made 56 changes in 1 month, and 227
changes in 1 year
Stéphane Guillou made 48 changes in 1 month, and 201 changes in 1 year
Rafael Lima made 21 changes in 1 month, and 268 changes in 1 year
Telesto made 19 changes in 1 month, and 118 changes in 1 year
Eivind Samseth made 18 changes in 1 month, and 18 changes in 1 year
Roman Kuznetsov made 16 changes in 1 month, and 179 changes in 1 year
+ [Bug 154472] Add app color scheme swith
+ [Bug 154211] Allow selecting a range between current cursor
position and an
element in Navigator with Shift + click (EDITING)
+ [Bug 98232] Missing help for control points of shapes
+ [Bug 154429] Suggestions for Default settings for new installs
+ [Bug 153847] Change label for .uno:InsertIndexesEntry and label
and tooltip
for .uno:IndexEntryDialog
+ [Bug 80281] FORMATTING: "Keep aspect ratio" checkbox of images
or photos not
always honoured
+ [Bug 154410] Improve Calc's Format > Align Text menu's contents and labels
+ [Bug 154389] No option to select "Delete Comment" via a letter
press in the
context menu
+ [Bug 154387] Provide a possibility to change the strikethrough color
+ [Bug 152992] Regularly selecting a textbox instead of entering
it (Impress)
+ [Bug 153989] Autocorrect uses language-specific quotation marks for other
languages
+ [Bug 151066] [SAVING][UI] Tabbed toolbar Data Loss after file
Reload; icons
don't work either
-> + Forms: Default color for buttons and borders changed to dark grey
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152973
+ unclear why we need a non-native look and feel for controls if the
export to pdf "fails" at some point, see bug 150786
* Crash Testing (Caolan)
+ 78(+43) import failure, 44(+42) export failures
+ ??? coverity issues
+ Google / ossfuzz: ?? fuzzers active now
* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
+ https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.4.5.1
+ (-159) 641 800 882 917 911 758 646 573 645 0
+ https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.4.6.2
+ (+21) 392 371 241 0
+ https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.5.0.3
+ (-141) 1336 1477 1896 2150 2763 2246 1834 1162 0
+ https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.5.1.2
+ (+159) 1400 1241 854 546 0
* Mentoring (Hossein)
committer... 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
open 97(12) 158(11) 167(-4) 173(-4)
reviews 376(-44) 1530(-68) 3608(96) 11764(-10)
merged 308(-1) 1419(-60) 3923(110) 14769(72)
abandoned 28(17) 75(14) 196(24) 723(-99)
own commits 208(8) 990(-39) 2702(95) 10737(25)
review commits 65(-41) 397(-14) 845(30) 2894(19)
contributor... 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
open 21(-12) 192(-32) 230(1) 239(1)
reviews 842(2) 3592(-78) 8680(258) 31502(-320)
merged 13(-7) 94(-1) 181(9) 732(6)
abandoned 6(-2) 33(-6) 88(5) 538(-47)
own commits 24(-31) 172(-1) 329(12) 909(18)
review commits 0(0) 0(0) 0(0) 0(0)
+ easyHack statistics:
needsDevEval 9(9) needsUXEval 1(1) cleanup_comments 322(322)
total 385(385) assigned 26(26) open 332(332)
+ top 10 contributors:
Sophia Schroeder made 30 patches in 1 month, and 36 patches in 1 year
Baole Fang made 8 patches in 1 month, and 8 patches in 1 year
Armin Le Grand (allotropia) made 8 patches in 1 month, and
51 patches in 1 year
Colomban Wendling made 7 patches in 1 month, and 20 patches in 1 year
Galdam Jitsu made 5 patches in 1 month, and 10 patches in 1 year
Damjan, Jovanovic made 4 patches in 1 month, and 4 patches in 1 year
made 4 patches in 1 month, and 35 patches in 1 year
Vojtěch Doležal made 4 patches in 1 month, and 6 patches in 1 year
Vinit Agarwal made 3 patches in 1 month, and 3 patches in 1 year
Yousef Rabia made 3 patches in 1 month, and 3 patches in 1 year
+ top 10 reviewers:
McNamara, Caolán made 152 review comments in 1 month, and
1106 in 1 year
Michael Stahl made 138 review comments in 1 month, and 1096 in 1 year
Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 128 review comments in 1 month,
and 1036 in 1 year
Nabet, Julien made 104 review comments in 1 month, and 852 in 1 year
Kłos, Szymon made 88 review comments in 1 month, and 188 in 1 year
Ilmari Lauhakangas made 82 review comments in 1 month, and
318 in 1 year
Thorsten Behrens made 80 review comments in 1 month, and 554 in 1 year
Vajna, Miklos made 74 review comments in 1 month, and 720 in 1 year
Christian Lohmaier made 68 review comments in 1 month, and
392 in 1 year
Grandin, Noel made 64 review comments in 1 month, and 486 in 1 year
+ Patches automatically abandoned:
svl : use foreach loops ( Arnaud Versini )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/140846
WIP hide internals of SwPosition ( Noel Grandin )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/141122
SwFormatAnchor Take 3 ( Noel Grandin )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/141481
qa: remove redundant check of PDFiumLibrary ( Xisco Fauli )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/143144
osl : use std::recursive_mutex instead of oslMutex ( Arnaud Versini )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/143635
tdf#143095 sdext pdf: use font family name rather than
postscript name ( Kevin Suo )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/143659
tdF#148192 Create a new option External Firebird under create
new database ( Juan C. Sanz )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/143902
tdf#91367 Remove ConvertToTokenSequence from getAbsoluteRange.
( Javier Salamanca )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/144100
use current discard label in documents recovery dialog (
Stanislav Horáček )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/144956
Describe alternative ways to import data into Base from .csv (
True River )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/145006
Bring shipped Spanish dictionaries up to version 2.7 ( Ricardo
Palomares )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/145025
tdf#149756 PPTX import: position of standard connector - part2
( Nagy Tibor )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/145320
UnoApiTest: make it possible to save with LoadReadonly setting
( Xisco Fauli )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/145342
sc: test exporting with LoadReadonly ( Xisco Fauli )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/145343
sw: test exporting with LoadReadonly ( Xisco Fauli )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/145344
sd: test exporting with LoadReadonly ( Xisco Fauli )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/145345
wip: mitre probably makes more sense than bevel for 'none'
fallback ( Caolán McNamara )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/145358
tdf#153052 Calc: Fix image insert adds two undo actions ( Jim
Raykowski )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/145647
Add missing desktops and plugin to vcl ( rezso )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/145958
+ big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged
patch, since last report:
Jani Saranpää
* GSoC (Ilmari)
+ https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/2023
+ https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas
+ Next step: March 20th - 4th April, project submission period for mentees
+ poking potential students for easyhacks
* Commit Access
* Developer Certification (Stephan/Kendy/Thorsten/László)
* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
gerrit_android_aarch64 jobs: 175 ok: 148 ko: 14 fail ratio: 8.00%
mean_ok: 15 ( 22) median_ok: 9 ( 14)
gerrit_android_arm jobs: 173 ok: 153 ko: 10 fail ratio: 5.78%
mean_ok: 15 ( 22) median_ok: 9 ( 13)
gerrit_android_x86 jobs: 175 ok: 148 ko: 15 fail ratio: 8.57%
mean_ok: 15 ( 21) median_ok: 10 ( 13)
gerrit_android_x86_64 jobs: 175 ok: 151 ko: 12 fail ratio: 6.86%
mean_ok: 15 ( 23) median_ok: 9 ( 14)
gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil jobs: 364 ok: 217 ko: 110 fail ratio:
30.22% mean_ok: 54 ( 60) median_ok: 51 ( 52)
gerrit_linux_gcc_release jobs: 356 ok: 269 ko: 63 fail ratio:
17.70% mean_ok: 25 ( 28) median_ok: 21 ( 21)
gerrit_mac jobs: 357 ok: 259 ko: 59 fail ratio:
16.53% mean_ok: 46 ( 51) median_ok: 41 ( 43)
gerrit_windows jobs: 366 ok: 256 ko: 67 fail ratio:
18.31% mean_ok: 55 ( 62) median_ok: 47 ( 49)
gerrit_master jobs: 398 ok: 177 ko: 171 fail ratio:
42.96% mean_ok: 68 ( 69) median_ok: 62 ( 62)
+ https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/tmp/gerrit_230330.thml
+ tests that failed more than twice in last seven days
3 CppunitTest_sc_uicalc gerrit_windows
3 CppunitTest_sw_mailmerge gerrit_windows
3 CppunitTest_sw_uiwriter4 gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
5 CppunitTest_sw_uiwriter3 gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
6 Killed by the kill-wrapper gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
15 Killed by the kill-wrapper gerrit_mac
31 JunitTest_chart2_unoapi gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
+ have a windows arm dev-kit now, setting it up for use as a tinderbox
+ minor tweaks needed to build it in non-crosscompilation mode
+ file operations especially slow in x64 cygwin being emulated on arm64
+ also will be used to create arm builds for the ms-store
* What’s cooking (Miklos)
+ Multi-page floating tables: behind SW_FORCE_FLY_SPLIT=1 for now (Miklos)
+ hope to enable it by default in 1-2 weeks
+ multi-color gradients (Armin)
+ see discussion on the developer mailing list
+ theming work (Tomaz)
+ focusing on Writer for now
+ UI related on https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151507
→ how to present all those additional colors
+ Win releases git repository (x86) (Xisco)
+ https://git.libreoffice.org/dev-tools/+/b7f4b60aa94cd1be4ca456e5b6ab93c093824bcd%5E%21/
+ Will upload soon - send an email
+ 3.X and 4.X releases so far - 130 commits - ~9 gbs
* LibreOffice conference Bucharest 2023 (Gabriel)
* QA update (Xisco)
+ UNCONFIRMED: 1180 (-69)
+ enhancements: 303 (+6)
+ needsUXEval: 12 (-1)
+ haveBackTrace: 7 (+0)
+ needsDevAdvice: 31 (+2)
+ documentation: 2 (+0)
+ android: 3 (+0)
+ iOS: 0 (+0)
+ Online: 12 (+0)
+ Most pressing bugs:
New:
None
+ New high severity bugs of the week:
+ Basic, Writer: Trying to inspect a just created not yet
inserted instance of textfield.DateTime in the IDE causes a crash.
(bisected)
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152619
+ Bjoern?
+ Crash / hang when installing new font on windows (worse with
Tabbed UI)
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152881
+ not a regression?
+ Pasting attribute table copied from QGIS makes LibreOffice
freeze because of large values in WKT column (steps in comment 20)
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153380
+ not a regression?
+ big difference in performance depending on what
clipboard format is used
* QA stats (Stéphane)
+ New XML Forms meta:
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154386
+ LO Vanilla meta is now for TDF-provided App Store version:
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114027
+ Well under 1200 Unconfirmed bugs
+ https://ci.libreoffice.org/view/tb%20platform%20status/
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/master/current.html
would like to have links to hash/log along with it for easy access -
jenkins status might be too "far"
→ possible in theory, but first build jobs need to provide that
info in the directory tree (AI: cloph to adjust the job, then AI for
guilhem to update parsing script)
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
+123 -3 (-154) overall)
many thanks to the top bug squashers:
Buovjaga 20
Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 19
QA Administrators 17
Justin L 9
m.a.riosv 7
Julien Nabet 6
eisa01 6
Caolán McNamara 5
Heiko Tietze 5
Dieter 4
+ top 10 bugs reporters:
Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 7
Mike Kaganski 4
Robert Großkopf 4
Dennis Roczek 3
piyush 3
Eyal Rozenberg 2
Hugh Stewart 2
Majd Azzam 2
Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2
Telesto 2
+ top 10 bugs fixers:
McNamara, Caolán 5
Rafael Lima 3
Ilmari Lauhakangas 2
Kaganski, Mike 2
Kelemen, Gabor 2
Németh, László 2
Sarper Akdemir 2
Seth Chaiklin 2
Stéphane Guillou 2
Weghorn, Michael 2
+ top 10 bugs confirmers:
Ilmari Lauhakangas 39
Stéphane Guillou 34
m.a.riosv 10
Eivind Samseth 8
Heiko Tietze 6
*UNKNOWN* 5
Vernon, Stuart Foote 5
Xisco Fauli 5
Dieter 4
Gerald Pfeifer 2
* Bisected bugs open: keyword 'bisected'
+ more accurate - down to a single commit.
+ http://bit.ly/2dyIfDy
+
done by:
Ilmari Lauhakangas 4
Stéphane Guillou 4
bunkem 1
Weghorn, Michael 1
Raal 1
Xisco Fauli 1
* Bibisected bugs open: keyword 'bibisected'
+ http://bit.ly/2cSCXlS
+
done by:
Ilmari Lauhakangas 4
Stéphane Guillou 4
bunkem 2
Weghorn, Michael 1
Raal 1
Xisco Fauli 1
* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
+ 1252(+3) bugs open of 12444(+17) total 15(+2) high prio.
done by:
Robert Großkopf 4
Ilmari Lauhakangas 3
Stéphane Guillou 3
ady 1
Bielefeld, Rainer 1
Weghorn, Michael 1
Telesto 1
* ~Component count net * high severity regressions
+ http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
Writer - 6(-1)
Calc - 3(+1)
LibreOffice - 2(+1)
BASIC - 1(+1)
Draw - 1(+0)
Formula Editor - 1(+0)
Impress - 1(+0)
by OS:
All - 9(+1)
Linux - 2(+0)
Mac OS X - 0(+0)
Windows - 4(+1)
* ~Component count net * all regressions
+ http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
Writer: other - 433(-2)
Calc - 227(+3)
Impress - 133(+3)
Writer: docx filter - 54(-1)
Crashes - 52(-2)
LibreOffice - 51(+2)
Base - 46(+1)
Draw - 46(+1)
UI - 40(-1)
Writer: perf - 35(+0)
Borders - 33(+0)
Writer: other filter - 30(+1)
Chart - 26(+0)
Printing and PDF export - 23(-1)
RTL - 23(+0)
Writer: doc filter - 21(+0)
BASIC - 19(+0)
filters and storage - 15(-1)
graphics stack - 13(+0)
Formula Editor - 4(+0)
Extensions - 2(+0)
sdk - 2(+0)
Linguistic - 1(+0)
framework - 1(+0)
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