ESC meeting minutes: 2024-08-15

Miklos Vajna vmiklos at collabora.com
Thu Aug 15 14:26:00 UTC 2024


* Present:
     + Hossein, Jonathan, Stephan, Ilmari, Heiko, Caolan, Olivier, Michael S, Eike, Miklos

* Completed Action Items:

* Pending Action Items:
   + perf.libreoffice.org: switch the default to the new data (Cloph)

* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
   + 24.8.0 to be announced as final next week
   + 24.8.1 rc1 next week
   + 24.2.6 rc1 tagging/creating the branch tomorrow

* Documentation (Olivier)
     + Helpcontents
        + Updates, fixes and improvements (ohallot, Pierre F, erack, D. Maddern, Ilmari)
     + Guides
        + Work in progress

     + Bugzilla Documentation statistics
         235(235) bugs open
     + Updates:
         BZ changes   1 week    1 month   3 months   12 months
            created     23(-4)    58(13)    102(7)     237(8)
          commented     36(9)     97(22)    263(17)    869(22)
           resolved      8(-12)   33(6)      66(3)     152(8)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Pierre F made 66 changes in 1 month, and 102 changes in 1 year
           Olivier Hallot made 52 changes in 1 month, and 300 changes in 1 year
           Dione Maddern made 46 changes in 1 month, and 57 changes in 1 year
           Henschel, Regina made 8 changes in 1 month, and 20 changes in 1 year
           Ilmari Lauhakangas made 6 changes in 1 month, and 98 changes in 1 year
           Kaganski, Mike made 6 changes in 1 month, and 81 changes in 1 year
           Roman Kuznetsov made 5 changes in 1 month, and 10 changes in 1 year
           Cor Nouws made 5 changes in 1 month, and 15 changes in 1 year
           Weghorn, Michael made 5 changes in 1 month, and 13 changes in 1 year
           Alain Romedenne made 4 changes in 1 month, and 16 changes in 1 year

* UX Update (Heiko)
     + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
         233(233) (topicUI) bugs open, 29(29) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
     + Updates:
         BZ changes   1 week   1 month   3 months   12 months
              added      6(2)      8(1)      9(1)       17(1)
          commented     51(13)   152(3)    424(-9)    1762(16)
            removed      0(0)      0(0)      2(0)       10(0)
           resolved      6(-5)    33(3)     77(-2)     288(0)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Heiko Tietze made 76 changes in 1 month, and 974 changes in 1 year
           Eyal Rozenberg made 55 changes in 1 month, and 193 changes in 1 year
           Stéphane Guillou made 31 changes in 1 month, and 587 changes in 1 year
           Vernon, Stuart Foote made 25 changes in 1 month, and 340 changes in 1 year
           Roman Kuznetsov made 16 changes in 1 month, and 36 changes in 1 year
           Rafael Lima made 14 changes in 1 month, and 73 changes in 1 year
           Justin Luth made 10 changes in 1 month, and 70 changes in 1 year
           Henschel, Regina made 9 changes in 1 month, and 42 changes in 1 year
           kolAflash made 8 changes in 1 month, and 12 changes in 1 year
           m.a.riosv made 8 changes in 1 month, and 46 changes in 1 year
     + [Bug 162475] Allow adding condition for format in manage dialog
     + [Bug 162450] Hide sidebar tabs
  => + [Bug 162424] Ability to assign comments to a different author
  => + [Bug 162423] Ability to assign tracked change to different author
     + [Bug 162417] PIVOTTABLE: Warning does not show range when overwriting
            destination range contents
     + [Bug 162420] Add deck with choice of slide layouts to the sidebar
     + [Bug 162394] Writer: Dark Mode: better colors for canvas / document,
            background and comment column

* Crash Testing (Caolan)
     + 16(-42) import failure, 13(-2) export failures
     + 722 coverity issues
     + 4 ossfuzz: ?? fuzzers active now

* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
     + 24.2.2.2    19775(+402)
     + 24.2.3.2    17526(+553)
     + 24.2.4.2    13120(+726)
     + 24.2.5.2    8002(+2461)

* Mentoring (Hossein)
  + Reviewed
  + Finalized and published a blog post on dev blog
    Extending the UNO API
    https://dev.blog.documentfoundation.org/2024/08/15/extending-uno-api/
  + Added a new Wiki page for
    + WSL, building Linux binaries and running on Windows
      + build/debug is straightforward, VSCode IDE is usable for debugging
      https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/BuildingOnWSL
    + We need a manual for the WSL for building Windows version
    + MinGW as a helper might be possible
      https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/171880
    + latest cygwin has issues for our use-case, so alternatives are important (be it mingw or wsl)
           committer...   1 week     1 month      3 months    12 months
                   open      81(-8)     170(-11)     173(-10)     173(-10)
                reviews     456(6)     1528(-64)    3832(60)    13210(46)
                 merged     222(-10)   1106(-116)   3467(-82)   12945(-13)
              abandoned      17(-8)      89(-1)      230(2)       777(6)
            own commits     177(24)     796(-49)    2354(-62)    9463(25)
         review commits      46(-18)    226(-5)      763(10)     3097(8)
         contributor...   1 week     1 month      3 months     12 months
                   open      52(4)      111(2)       114(3)        114(3)
                reviews     758(-18)   3022(-190)   8016(-122)   29992(0)
                 merged      24(-3)      98(11)      282(7)       1515(13)
              abandoned       9(5)       40(-1)       93(9)        745(7)
            own commits      21(-15)    106(-1)      338(8)       1256(14)
         review commits       0(0)        0(0)         0(0)          0(0)
     + easyHack statistics:
        needsDevEval 8(8)   needsUXEval 1(1)   cleanup_comments 327(327)
        total 412(412)   assigned 24(24)   open 353(353)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Pierre F made 30 patches in 1 month, and 62 patches in 1 year
             made 18 patches in 1 month, and 28 patches in 1 year
           Dione Maddern made 7 patches in 1 month, and 74 patches in 1 year
           Ritobroto Mukherjee made 5 patches in 1 month, and 27 patches in 1 year
           Bogdan B made 4 patches in 1 month, and 88 patches in 1 year
           Adam Seskunas made 4 patches in 1 month, and 20 patches in 1 year
           Weblate made 3 patches in 1 month, and 36 patches in 1 year
           Kira Tubo made 3 patches in 1 month, and 20 patches in 1 year
           vivek javiya made 2 patches in 1 month, and 11 patches in 1 year
           Devansh Varshney made 2 patches in 1 month, and 7 patches in 1 year
     + top 10 reviewers:
           Thorsten Behrens made 174 review comments in 1 month, and 740 in 1 year
           Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 162 review comments in 1 month, and 748 in 1 year
           Caolán McNamara made 126 review comments in 1 month, and 1448 in 1 year
           Vajna, Miklos made 100 review comments in 1 month, and 1178 in 1 year
           Michael Stahl made 90 review comments in 1 month, and 842 in 1 year
           Christian Lohmaier made 66 review comments in 1 month, and 496 in 1 year
           Kaganski, Mike made 62 review comments in 1 month, and 490 in 1 year
           Nabet, Julien made 62 review comments in 1 month, and 940 in 1 year
           Hossein made 58 review comments in 1 month, and 330 in 1 year
           Heiko Tietze made 54 review comments in 1 month, and 276 in 1 year
     + Patches automatically abandoned:
         tdf#143123 Port MessageBox Java SDK example to Python ( Toe Arkar )
             -> Not complete
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/162584
         tdf#132007 improve password message locked document ( Devansh Varshney )
             -> Has issues, needs work from the author
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/163924
         Improvement to conditional formatting naming ( Caolán McNamara )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/168445
         Use less SdOptionsMisc->IsStartWithTemplate/SetStartWithTemplate ( Gabor Kelemen )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/168459
         JunitTest_framework_complex: re-enable some tests ( Xisco Fauli )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/168691
         JunitTest_framework_complex: re-enable some more tests ( Xisco Fauli )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/168692
     + big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
           Panagiotis Evaggelou

* GSoC (Ilmari)
   + 26 August is the deadline for final code submissions in non-extended projects
     + period starts next week

* LiboCon (Cloph)
   + CfP is open: https://events.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice-conference-2024/cfp
     + 2024-08-30 11:52 (UTC) is the deadline

* Commit Access
   + Vivek Javiya (vivek.javiya at collabora.com) - sponsored by Tomaž Vajngerl
     + Collabora still plans to review his changes, this is more about cherry-picking between branches (Miklos)
     + some 11 commits so far (older ones under codewithvk)
AI: Cloph to enable the commit bit
AI: Miklos to send the new committer mail

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

* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
gerrit_android_aarch64     jobs: 182 ok: 171 ko:   7 fail ratio: 3.85% mean_ok:  10 ( 18) median_ok:   8 ( 13)
gerrit_android_arm         jobs: 183 ok: 172 ko:   7 fail ratio: 3.83% mean_ok:  11 ( 17) median_ok:   9 ( 12)
gerrit_android_x86         jobs: 184 ok: 172 ko:   8 fail ratio: 4.35% mean_ok:  11 ( 18) median_ok:   7 ( 12)
gerrit_android_x86_64      jobs: 184 ok: 176 ko:   5 fail ratio: 2.72% mean_ok:  11 ( 17) median_ok:   8 ( 11)
gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil jobs: 376 ok: 301 ko:  63 fail ratio: 16.76% mean_ok:  51 ( 56) median_ok:  49 ( 51)
gerrit_linux_gcc_release   jobs: 454 ok: 355 ko:  70 fail ratio: 15.42% mean_ok:  25 ( 30) median_ok:  19 ( 22)
gerrit_mac                 jobs: 369 ok: 332 ko:  23 fail ratio: 6.23% mean_ok:  55 ( 58) median_ok:  48 ( 49)
gerrit_windows             jobs: 405 ok: 279 ko: 110 fail ratio: 27.16% mean_ok:  67 ( 76) median_ok:  64 ( 68)
gerrit_master_ml           jobs: 496 ok: 240 ko: 217 fail ratio: 43.75% mean_ok: 106 (106) median_ok: 101 (102)
gerrit_master              jobs:  49 ok:  20 ko:  16 fail ratio: 32.65% mean_ok:  77 ( 77) median_ok:  73 ( 73)
gerrit_master_seq          jobs: 449 ok: 221 ko: 202 fail ratio: 44.99% mean_ok: 107 (108) median_ok: 103 (103)
    + tests that failed more than twice in last seven days
       3 CppunitTest_sw_layoutwriter2                gerrit_windows
       3 CppunitTest_sw_rtfexport3                gerrit_linux_gcc_release
       3 JunitTest_sd_unoapi                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       3 JunitTest_toolkit_unoapi_4                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       4 CppunitTest_sd_tiledrendering                gerrit_linux_gcc_release
       4 CppunitTest_services                gerrit_linux_gcc_release
       9 Killed by the kill-wrapper                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      11 CppunitTest_sw_ww8export4                gerrit_linux_gcc_release
      19 CppunitTest_sd_png_export_tests                gerrit_windows (newly introduced test repeatedly fails on a single/specifc bot)
      + specific to a single builder
      42 aborted by jenkins job timeout                gerrit_windows (if a bot fails, it fails repeatedly)
    + overall windows builds seem "wonkier" - more cases of cygwin failing to create processes / more need for manual intervention clicking away the dialogs, also more likely to run into (and stay) in some broken state where builds don't fail but instead time out - cause unclear

* What’s cooking (Miklos)
    + A11y update (Michael W)
    + RTL/CTL/CJK update (Jonathan)
       + tdf#36709: First line indent using Ch should change for font size
          + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36709
          + Referred to ODF TC for comments
       + tdf#156211: sw: Spurious kashida after undo/redo
          + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156211
          + Fixed
       + tdf#141466: sw: Asian Phonetic Guide dialog produces incorrect base text
          + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141466
          + In progress
    + Cairo SDPR: more progress last week, see the "CairoSDPR" commits (Armin)

* QA update (Xisco)
     + UNCONFIRMED: 1245 (+18)
         + enhancements: 289  (+1)
         + needsUXEval: 7 (+0)
         + haveBackTrace: 9 (+0)
         + needsDevAdvice: 46 (-1)
         + documentation:  6 (+2)
         + android:  0 (+0)
         + iOS:  0 (+0)
         + Online:  9 (+0)



     + Most pressing bugs:
      New:
      Old:
      Fixed:


     + New high severity bugs of the week:
         + Add UI Configuration Option To Disable Showing Hidden Filter Elements As Inactive In Autofilter
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158733
             + not tagged as a regression

* gerrit notifications (Caolan)
   + when cherry-picking from master to a branch, we spam former reviewers, that's not wanted
   + git push logerrit HEAD:refs/for/branchname%notify=OWNER (Michael S)
     + there's no way to prevent gerrit from adding everyone as reviewer or cc unfortunately
   + git-review has a similar option: git review --notify OWNER (Miklos)

* QA stats (Xisco)
     + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
       +79  +23 (-91) overall)
       many thanks to the top bug squashers:
        QA Administrators       10
        Buovjaga                7
        Mike Kaganski           7
        Heiko Tietze            6
        Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 5
        V Stuart Foote          5
        Dione Maddern           4
        Olivier Hallot          4
        Caolán McNamara         3
        Eyal Rozenberg          3

     + top 10 bugs reporters:
        Eyal Rozenberg          7
        Mike Kaganski           3
        fpy                     3
        Bogaboga Man            2
        Heiko Tietze            2
        Michael Weghorn         2
        Rafael Lima             2
        nobu                    2
        Callegar                1
        DM                      1

     + top 10 bugs fixers:
        Kelemen, Gabor          4
        Olivier Hallot          4
        Caolán McNamara         3
        Dione Maddern           3
        Kaganski, Mike          3
        Heiko Tietze            2
        Jim Raykowski           2
        Jonathan Clark          2
        Patrick Luby            2
        Weghorn, Michael        2

     + top 10 bugs confirmers:
        Heiko Tietze            4
        Ady                     3
        Dieter                  3
        m.a.riosv               3
        Aron Budea              2
        Bogdan B                2
        Ilmari Lauhakangas      2
        Kaganski, Mike          2
        Nabet, Julien           2
        Olivier Hallot          2


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

      done by:
         Ilmari Lauhakangas    12
         Steve271               1
         Weghorn, Michael       1


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

      done by:
         Ilmari Lauhakangas    17
         Steve271               1
         Kelemen, Gabor         1
         Weghorn, Michael       1


* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
    + 1208(-12) bugs open of 13539(+3) total 24(+2) high prio.

      done by:
         Ilmari Lauhakangas     3
         Ady                    1
         Kelemen, Gabor         1
         Lars Jødal             1
         Weghorn, Michael       1
         m.a.riosv              1


* ~Component   count net * high severity regressions
    + http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
      Writer        - 11(+1)
      Calc          - 6(+1)
      Impress       - 2(+0)
      LibreOffice   - 2(+0)
      UI            - 2(+0)

    by OS:
      All           - 15(+2)
      Linux         - 6(+0)
      Mac OS X      - 0(+0)
      Windows       - 3(+0)


* ~Component   count net * all regressions
    + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
      Writer: other            - 387(-12)
      Calc                     - 240(+4)
      Impress                  - 126(+0)
      LibreOffice              - 52(+0)
      Draw                     - 48(+1)
      Crashes                  - 46(+1)
      Writer: docx filter      - 45(+0)
      Base                     - 39(-1)
      UI                       - 37(-1)
      Borders                  - 34(+0)
      Writer: perf             - 34(-2)
      Writer: other filter     - 32(+0)
      Printing and PDF export  - 26(-1)
      Chart                    - 24(+0)
      RTL                      - 23(+0)
      BASIC                    - 20(+0)
      filters and storage      - 20(-1)
      Writer: doc filter       - 17(+0)
      graphics stack           - 12(+0)
      Formula Editor           - 10(+0)
      framework                - 3(+0)
      Extensions               - 2(+0)
      sdk                      - 2(+0)
      Linguistic               - 1(+0)


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