ESC meeting minutes: 2023-09-14
Miklos Vajna
vmiklos at collabora.com
Thu Sep 14 14:46:15 UTC 2023
* Present:
+ Gabriel, Heiko, Hossein, Ilmari, Khaled, Regina, Stephan, Miklos, Stephane, Olivier, Thorsten, Cloph, Michael S, Eike
* Completed Action Items:
+ update the core.git README.md with the new Linux baseline (Cloph)
* Pending Action Items:
+ Try gtk4 local builds, Qt6 local builds (Cloph)
* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
+ 7.6 status: 7.6.2 rc1 in 1 week
+ 7.6.1 is announced as final
+ 7.6.2 rc2 in 3 weeks
+ 7.5 status: 7.5.7 rc1 in 4 weeks
+ plan to cut an additional point release in 2 weeks with just 1 RC
* Documentation (Olivier)
+ Helpcontents2
+ Updates on UNO command in UI (ohallot)
+ fixes (stragu, B. Kosiorek, ohallot)
+ Guides
+ Work in progress.
+ Bugzilla Documentation statistics
270(270) bugs open
+ Updates:
BZ changes 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
created 5(0) 18(1) 77(0) 298(-2)
commented 18(5) 61(4) 261(10) 1105(1)
resolved 0(-1) 5(0) 30(-2) 164(-3)
+ top 10 contributors:
Olivier Hallot made 17 changes in 1 month, and 437 changes in 1 year
Stéphane Guillou made 11 changes in 1 month, and 336 changes in 1 year
Ilmari Lauhakangas made 9 changes in 1 month, and 111 changes in 1 year
Heiko Tietze made 8 changes in 1 month, and 118 changes in 1 year
Jim Avera made 5 changes in 1 month, and 5 changes in 1 year
Kaganski, Mike made 5 changes in 1 month, and 77 changes in 1 year
Seth Chaiklin made 5 changes in 1 month, and 306 changes in 1 year
skierpage made 3 changes in 1 month, and 3 changes in 1 year
steve made 3 changes in 1 month, and 14 changes in 1 year
Mike Saunders made 3 changes in 1 month, and 4 changes in 1 year
* UX Update (Heiko)
+ Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
264(264) (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(-2) 15(0) 23(0) 51(-2)
commented 73(12) 216(33) 475(25) 2380(-6)
removed 0(0) 1(0) 2(0) 24(-3)
resolved 10(1) 37(5) 87(7) 334(3)
+ top 10 contributors:
Heiko Tietze made 137 changes in 1 month, and 1404 changes in 1 year
Stéphane Guillou made 50 changes in 1 month, and 479 changes in 1 year
Eyal Rozenberg made 30 changes in 1 month, and 317 changes in 1 year
ady made 28 changes in 1 month, and 114 changes in 1 year
Dieter made 25 changes in 1 month, and 257 changes in 1 year
Bogdan B made 16 changes in 1 month, and 102 changes in 1 year
Vernon, Stuart Foote made 16 changes in 1 month, and 404 changes in 1 year
steve made 13 changes in 1 month, and 29 changes in 1 year
Kaganski, Mike made 12 changes in 1 month, and 125 changes in 1 year
Henschel, Regina made 11 changes in 1 month, and 44 changes in 1 year
+ [Bug 157208] "Find and Replace" dialog's error notifications should be
more noticeable, not an unformatted label in the middle
+ [Bug 156907] Writer on Mac confuses users when opening a document from
a readonly location.
+ [Bug 156438] Apply heuristic for choosing visible language group tab when
opening dialog
+ [Bug 156970] Revert 7.6 Style Box in Menu Bar to 7.5 Style Box in Menu Bar
+ [Bug 157178] Toolbars disappear
-> + [Bug 157038] Auto Spell Checker Prevents Cell Selection Right Click
+ [Bug 151557] Changing text direction with command .uno:ParaRightToLeft
changes text alignment
+ [Bug 89914] UI: Bookmarks in Status Bar display differently when window
not maximized
+ [Bug 156890] Spotlight colors hide expand/collapse arrows
-> + [Bug 157142] The formula input field and the selected cell field above the
top of the spreadsheet should be populated at all times when the Calc
window is available for viewing.
+ it's all related to the input handler area, it's module-based, not document-based (Eike)
+ removed some global options from the options dialog (Heiko)
+ removed it from the UI, the option is there, the advanced settings dialog still has it
* Crash Testing (Caolan)
+ 13(+0) import failure, 0(+0) export failures
+ ??? coverity issues
+ Google / ossfuzz: ?? fuzzers active now
* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
+ https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.5.4.2
+ (-97) 499 596 628 668 706 981 969 717 365 0
+ https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.5.5.2
+ (-169) 1173 1342 1349 852 1012 0
+ https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.5.6.2
+ (+132) 132 0
+ https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.6.0.3
+ (-308) 1615 1923 440 0
+ Fixed in 7.5.6.2
- ScTable::DeleteCol(sc::ColumnSet const &,short,long,long,unsigned __int64,bool *)
+ Thanks to László
- SalInstanceTreeView::get_drag_source()
+ Thanks to Caolán
* Mentoring (Hossein)
* Prepared USB sticks contents (VM/binary/source/doc) for the LibOCon 2023 workshop
* Found a way to download/install VS modules (semi)automatically via a Layout file
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/install/use-command-line-parameters-to-install-visual-studio?view=vs-2022
+ will update the wiki later (Hossein)
* Finalized and published a blog post on dev blog
https://dev.blog.documentfoundation.org/2023/09/14/catalog-and-schema-support-for-sql-functions-difficulty-interesting-easyhack/
committer... 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
open 73(-5) 125(4) 181(5) 228(7)
reviews 370(-38) 1394(10) 3428(-48) 11562(28)
merged 246(-45) 1064(4) 3324(-69) 12856(-9)
abandoned 16(-8) 74(5) 148(-6) 656(2)
own commits 183(-14) 733(29) 2188(26) 9962(-50)
review commits 50(5) 226(14) 654(-8) 3082(7)
contributor... 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
open 26(9) 51(8) 80(12) 102(12)
reviews 648(-72) 2824(36) 7632(-130) 31232(-144)
merged 13(-5) 81(5) 214(-1) 2237(-65)
abandoned 3(-5) 170(1) 189(2) 615(-3)
own commits 13(0) 79(1) 212(-8) 1091(5)
review commits 0(0) 0(0) 0(0) 0(0)
+ easyHack statistics:
needsDevEval 8(8) needsUXEval 1(1) cleanup_comments 326(326)
total 402(402) assigned 21(21) open 356(356)
+ top 10 contributors:
Dipam Turkar made 26 patches in 1 month, and 48 patches in 1 year
Armin Le Grand (allotropia) made 4 patches in 1 month, and 75 patches in 1 year
Ahmed Eltokhy made 3 patches in 1 month, and 12 patches in 1 year
Sahil Gautam made 3 patches in 1 month, and 8 patches in 1 year
Dan Horák made 3 patches in 1 month, and 3 patches in 1 year
Montane, Joan made 2 patches in 1 month, and 2 patches in 1 year
NOGATA, Jun made 2 patches in 1 month, and 2 patches in 1 year
Stéphane Guillou made 2 patches in 1 month, and 31 patches in 1 year
Czeber László made 2 patches in 1 month, and 19 patches in 1 year
Quentin PAGÈS made 2 patches in 1 month, and 2 patches in 1 year
+ top 10 reviewers:
Caolán McNamara made 138 review comments in 1 month, and 478 in 1 year
Thorsten Behrens made 132 review comments in 1 month, and 490 in 1 year
Vajna, Miklos made 120 review comments in 1 month, and 882 in 1 year
Nabet, Julien made 110 review comments in 1 month, and 970 in 1 year
Vajngerl, Tomaž made 78 review comments in 1 month, and 434 in 1 year
Michael Stahl made 78 review comments in 1 month, and 1156 in 1 year
Kaganski, Mike made 68 review comments in 1 month, and 378 in 1 year
Xisco Fauli made 68 review comments in 1 month, and 728 in 1 year
Christian Lohmaier made 64 review comments in 1 month, and 404 in 1 year
Ilmari Lauhakangas made 64 review comments in 1 month, and 382 in 1 year
+ Patches automatically abandoned:
update hunspell dictionaries for Turkish language ( Ali Safaya )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/118649
python3: upgrade to release 3.11.1 ( Taichi Haradaguchi )
- https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/145054
+ big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
Darshan Upadhyay (Collabora)
Dung Saga
+ review bot adds reviewers even to gerrit changes for distro branches, could that be avoided? doesn't look useful (Miklos)
AI: ignore distro branches when adding reviewers (Xisco)
+ also changes get the reviewer from the original author, which doesn't help for distro branches (Michael S)
+ looks like that's a separate mechanism (Miklos)
* GSoC (Ilmari/Thorsten)
+ done for this year (Ilmari)
+ almost :) (Thorsten)
+ GSoC panel at the conference + blog post presenting the results
+ blog post will be published soon (Ilmari)
* Outreachy (Ilmari)
+ https://www.outreachy.org/ -- Applied with two intern slots
+ Mentor sign up deadline September 29: looking for mentors
+ https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/libreoffice/
+ if you have time to mentor & idea: please speak up now
+ Project timeline is Dec -> March
+ Not looking for mentors at this stage, have 2 projects already
* Commit Access
* Developer Certification (Stephan/Miklos/Thorsten/László)
+ resting since: 20 weeks (limit: 20 weeks)
+ Stephan reached out to some of them
* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
gerrit_android_aarch64 jobs: 138 ok: 137 ko: 1 fail ratio: 0.72% mean_ok: 7 ( 10) median_ok: 4 ( 6)
gerrit_android_arm jobs: 139 ok: 137 ko: 1 fail ratio: 0.72% mean_ok: 6 ( 8) median_ok: 4 ( 6)
gerrit_android_x86 jobs: 138 ok: 136 ko: 2 fail ratio: 1.45% mean_ok: 7 ( 10) median_ok: 4 ( 6)
gerrit_android_x86_64 jobs: 139 ok: 137 ko: 1 fail ratio: 0.72% mean_ok: 6 ( 9) median_ok: 4 ( 6)
gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil jobs: 314 ok: 229 ko: 81 fail ratio: 25.80% mean_ok: 35 ( 36) median_ok: 34 ( 36)
gerrit_linux_gcc_release jobs: 330 ok: 272 ko: 46 fail ratio: 13.94% mean_ok: 14 ( 16) median_ok: 13 ( 14)
gerrit_mac jobs: 308 ok: 251 ko: 52 fail ratio: 16.88% mean_ok: 44 ( 44) median_ok: 41 ( 41)
gerrit_windows jobs: 295 ok: 242 ko: 50 fail ratio: 16.95% mean_ok: 53 ( 56) median_ok: 47 ( 47)
gerrit_master_ml jobs: 402 ok: 205 ko: 180 fail ratio: 44.78% mean_ok: 64 ( 64) median_ok: 60 ( 60)
gerrit_master jobs: 34 ok: 20 ko: 12 fail ratio: 35.29% mean_ok: 49 ( 49) median_ok: 46 ( 46)
gerrit_master_seq jobs: 357 ok: 185 ko: 158 fail ratio: 44.26% mean_ok: 65 ( 65) median_ok: 61 ( 61)
+ https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/tmp/gerrit_230914.html
+ tests that failed more than twice in last seven days
data not plausible (stats miss build-agent info), need to check the stats generation scripts
3 CppunitTest_sc_subsequent_filters_test4 gerrit_mac
4 CppunitTest_chart2_uichart gerrit_linux_gcc_release
4 CppunitTest_desktop_lib gerrit_linux_gcc_release
4 CppunitTest_drawinglayer_processors gerrit_windows
4 CppunitTest_sc_pivottable_filters_test gerrit_mac
4 CppunitTest_sw_mailmerge gerrit_mac
4 CppunitTest_sw_odfimport gerrit_linux_gcc_release
4 CppunitTest_sw_ooxmlimport2 gerrit_linux_gcc_release
4 CppunitTest_vcl_gtk3_a11y gerrit_linux_gcc_release
4 UITest_math_demo gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
5 CppunitTest_sw_ooxmlexport17 gerrit_mac
6 CppunitTest_framework_dispatch gerrit_windows
6 CppunitTest_starmath_qa_cppunit gerrit_windows
6 UITest_calc_tests8 gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
8 CppunitTest_vcl_gtk3_a11y gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
8 CppunitTest_vcl_pdfexport gerrit_linux_gcc_release
10 JunitTest_chart2_unoapi gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
10 UITest_sw_fieldDialog gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
18 Killed by the kill-wrapper gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
35 Killed by the kill-wrapper gerrit_mac
38 UITest_sw_navigator gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
+ Noel disabled some unstable navigator asserts here, should help for the next time
* What’s cooking (Miklos)
+ C++20 (Stephan)
+ multi-page floating tables in Writer, see tdf#157119 for details (Miklos)
+ JDK bump to 17 (Michael W)
+ waiting for JDK 17 to be installed on builders
+ the Linux builders have it installed now
+ https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/155827
+ 1 mac still needs updating (Cloph)
+ Windows already prefers JDK 17 instead of the old JDK 11
+ Right-to-left math layout and other Math improvements (Khaled)
+ continued worked on the visual editing mode
+ on by default now
+ the "source" editing mode is now hidden, so there is 1 edit window only
+ improving things for non-OpenSymbol cases
+ import of Word drawing canvas, that is wpc element (Regina)
+ made some progress
+ hit a principal problem: the drawingML and VML markup is not a superset of each other
+ see the mail just sent to the dev mailing list
+ Making MissingUnitTests more approachable for new devs (Ilmari)
+ hope to have it in the actual wiki soon
* LibreOffice conference Bucharest 2023 (Gabriel)
+ almost finished with the preparations
+ will have 2 main rooms (workshop in parallel)
+ community section in Wed afternoon
+ main days: Thu -> Sat (21st -> 23rd)
+ Thu evening: dinner
+ Fri evening: hackfest
+ Gabriel will share info about the events in general
+ ask questions in the conf telegram group
+ also have a survival guide, focusing on how to reach the venue, shared by Mike
+ it's worth having an ESC call in-person if possible (Thorsten)
+ it opens up the ESC and gives the opportunity for people to ask questions
+ it's quite different to the usual schedule
+ good to have a wider perspective
+ best to ask the organizers to give us a timelost (Thorsten)
AI: ask for a slot (Gabriel)
+ can schedule something (Gabriel)
* QA update (Xisco)
+ UNCONFIRMED: 1168 (-34)
+ enhancements: 282 (+1)
+ needsUXEval: 8 (-3)
+ haveBackTrace: 12 (-1)
+ needsDevAdvice: 34 (-2)
+ documentation: 3 (+0)
+ android: 0 (+0)
+ iOS: 0 (+0)
+ Online: 11 (-1)
+ Most pressing bugs:
New:
None
+ New high severity bugs of the week:
+ LO pastes previously copied content instead of what was last copied from other app (Windows 10; see comment 11)
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148647
+ not marked as a regression
+ LibreOffice 7.6.0 copying of formulas in writer table – relative distance of cells in formula not preserved after copying to other lines
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157132
+ bisected to Bjoern
* QA stats (Stéphane)
+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
+110 +0 (-129) overall)
many thanks to the top bug squashers:
Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 20
Buovjaga 10
QA Administrators 10
Xisco Faulí 8
Heiko Tietze 7
Julien Nabet 7
Michael Weghorn 5
Mike Kaganski 5
خالد حسني 5
Justin L 4
+ top 10 bugs reporters:
Jim Avera 5
Jeff Fortin Tam 4
Mike Kaganski 4
Regina Henschel 4
Xisco Faulí 4
Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 3
Adrián L. 2
Faisal 2
NicolasC 2
Rafael Lima 2
+ top 10 bugs fixers:
Nabet, Julien 4
Weghorn, Michael 4
خالد حسني 4
Stéphane Guillou 3
Xisco Fauli 3
Andreas Heinisch 2
Caolán McNamara 2
Grandin, Noel 2
Heiko Tietze 2
Kaganski, Mike 2
+ top 10 bugs confirmers:
Stéphane Guillou 24
Xisco Fauli 21
Ilmari Lauhakangas 16
m.a.riosv 11
Heiko Tietze 6
Dieter 5
Nabet, Julien 4
Faisal 3
Kaganski, Mike 3
Weghorn, Michael 3
* Bisected bugs open: keyword 'bisected'
+ more accurate - down to a single commit.
+ http://bit.ly/2dyIfDy
+
done by:
Stéphane Guillou 6
Xisco Fauli 4
Kelemen, Gabor 2
Ilmari Lauhakangas 1
Justin Luth 1
Weghorn, Michael 1
Kaganski, Mike 1
Raal 1
* Bibisected bugs open: keyword 'bibisected'
+ http://bit.ly/2cSCXlS
+
done by:
Stéphane Guillou 6
Xisco Fauli 4
Kelemen, Gabor 2
Ilmari Lauhakangas 1
Justin Luth 1
Weghorn, Michael 1
Kaganski, Mike 1
Raal 1
* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
+ 1187(+10) bugs open of 12785(+29) total 14(+2) high prio.
done by:
Stéphane Guillou 8
Xisco Fauli 4
Kelemen, Gabor 2
Kira Tubo 2
m.a.riosv 2
Andreas Heinisch 1
Bogdan B 1
Ilmari Lauhakangas 1
Justin Luth 1
Weghorn, Michael 1
* ~Component count net * high severity regressions
+ http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
Writer - 9(+1)
Calc - 3(+0)
LibreOffice - 1(+0)
Printing and PDF export - 1(+1)
by OS:
All - 10(+2)
Linux - 2(+0)
Mac OS X - 0(+0)
Windows - 2(+0)
* ~Component count net * all regressions
+ http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
Writer: other - 415(+7)
Calc - 222(+4)
Impress - 131(+2)
LibreOffice - 49(-1)
Crashes - 45(+0)
Draw - 44(+0)
Base - 42(+0)
Writer: docx filter - 41(+0)
Borders - 36(+2)
Writer: perf - 33(+0)
UI - 32(+0)
Writer: other filter - 31(+0)
Printing and PDF export - 24(+1)
RTL - 23(+0)
Chart - 22(+0)
BASIC - 17(-1)
filters and storage - 17(+1)
Writer: doc filter - 15(+0)
graphics stack - 12(-2)
Formula Editor - 4(+0)
framework - 4(+0)
Extensions - 2(+0)
sdk - 2(+0)
Linguistic - 1(+0)
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