ESC meeting minutes: 2024-07-11

Miklos Vajna vmiklos at collabora.com
Thu Jul 11 14:39:37 UTC 2024


* Present:
     + Caolan, Heiko, Hossein, Ilmari, Jonathan, Michael W, Olivier, Stephan, Cloph, Michael S, Xisco, Stephane, Miklos

* Completed Action Items:

* Pending Action Items:

* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
   * 24.8.0 rc1 is out and rc2 in 2 weeks
     + libreoffice-24-8 now needs 1 review
   * 24.2.5 rc2 accounced today
     + 24.2.6 rc1 in 5 weeks, as a current plan

* Documentation (Olivier)
     + Helpcontents2
        + Refactor pages on Styles (D, Maddern)
        + Housekeeping (ohallot, Pierre F, buovjaga, J. Nabet, A Gelmini)
        + New pages on VBA ( A. Romedenne)
     + Guides
        + Updates in Getting started 24.8, anticipating next release
        + Guides "SanityCheck.oxt" extension by @bantoniof
     + Bugzilla Documentation statistics
         247(247) bugs open
     + Updates:
         BZ changes   1 week   1 month   3 months   12 months
            created      8(7)    23(-2)     93(-1)    233(1)
          commented     13(12)   64(-9)    231(1)     900(10)
           resolved      4(3)    13(-2)     61(-1)    140(0)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Olivier Hallot made 30 changes in 1 month, and 267 changes in 1 year
           Raal made 12 changes in 1 month, and 16 changes in 1 year
           Kaganski, Mike made 11 changes in 1 month, and 76 changes in 1 year
           Justin Luth made 8 changes in 1 month, and 10 changes in 1 year
           Stéphane Guillou made 8 changes in 1 month, and 210 changes in 1 year
           Heiko Tietze made 6 changes in 1 month, and 88 changes in 1 year
           m.a.riosv made 6 changes in 1 month, and 23 changes in 1 year
           *UNKNOWN* made 5 changes in 1 month, and 5 changes in 1 year
           Rafael Lima made 5 changes in 1 month, and 80 changes in 1 year
           Ilmari Lauhakangas made 4 changes in 1 month, and 85 changes in 1 year

* UX Update (Heiko)
     + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
         238(238) (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      4(2)      7(0)     10(-1)      17(-1)
          commented     52(17)   162(21)   464(15)    1760(8)
            removed      0(0)      2(0)      5(-1)      10(-1)
           resolved      4(2)     22(-7)    76(-1)     290(0)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Heiko Tietze made 93 changes in 1 month, and 968 changes in 1 year
           Vernon, Stuart Foote made 52 changes in 1 month, and 337 changes in 1 year
           Stéphane Guillou made 30 changes in 1 month, and 602 changes in 1 year
           Eyal Rozenberg made 27 changes in 1 month, and 165 changes in 1 year
           Dieter made 26 changes in 1 month, and 157 changes in 1 year
           Ady made 23 changes in 1 month, and 123 changes in 1 year
           Ilmari Lauhakangas made 13 changes in 1 month, and 138 changes in 1 year
           Kira Tubo made 11 changes in 1 month, and 28 changes in 1 year
           Kaganski, Mike made 9 changes in 1 month, and 75 changes in 1 year
           Cor Nouws made 6 changes in 1 month, and 25 changes in 1 year
     + [Bug 161934] "Top 10" item in Autofilter filter drop-down is ambiguous
     + [Bug 137879] LO should know not to try and recover temporary files
  -> + [Bug 161978] Suppress editing of comments from other authors
        + also not deleting comment of others would be nice (Miklos)
     + [Bug 161956] Overhaul terminology on the "Text along Path" dialog
  -> + [Bug 161950] Setting to add XY shift to pasted drawing etc. objects
     + [Bug 161949] When toggling an item in toolbar context menu > Visible Buttons
            - keep the menu open

* Crash Testing (Caolan)
     + 26(+0) import failure, 21(+0) export failures
       - https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Crashtesting
     + 1770 coverity issues
     + 10 ossfuzz issues
       - 1 3rd party crash, 8 Timeouts, 1 OOM

* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
     + 24.2.1.2    18736(+429)
     + 24.2.2.2    17308(+649)
     + 24.2.3.2    14344(+840)
     + 24.2.4.2    7073(+1958)

* Mentoring (Hossein)
  + New EasyHack from Mike K. to drop Fraction class from tools
    https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161837
  + tools -> options, a sub-page there that opens an inner dialog?
    + Security -> Macro security opens an inner dialog, for example (Miklos)
    + will ask on the dev mailing list (Hossein)

           committer...   1 week     1 month     3 months    12 months
                   open     117(2)      201(-7)     205(-6)      205(-6)
                reviews     406(-96)   1774(24)    3554(96)    13034(36)
                 merged     319(5)     1394(119)   3521(122)   12767(14)
              abandoned      25(5)       86(-2)     204(14)      723(22)
            own commits     226(60)     846(93)    2443(98)     9372(46)
         review commits      36(-21)    303(-5)     742(-12)    3084(-16)
         contributor...   1 week     1 month     3 months    12 months
                   open      41(1)      100(8)      104(11)      104(11)
                reviews     944(-40)   3456(212)   7958(220)   29646(24)
                 merged      12(-29)    124(-1)     280(-11)    1581(-8)
              abandoned       9(1)       26(-1)      87(-13)     715(-2)
            own commits      11(-24)    134(-3)     317(-18)    1204(-5)
         review commits       0(0)        0(0)        0(0)         0(0)
     + easyHack statistics:
        needsDevEval 9(9)   needsUXEval 1(1)   cleanup_comments 324(324)
        total 409(409)   assigned 23(23)   open 352(352)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Bogdan B made 65 patches in 1 month, and 84 patches in 1 year
           Weblate made 5 patches in 1 month, and 33 patches in 1 year
           Ritobroto Mukherjee made 5 patches in 1 month, and 22 patches in 1 year
           Srebotnjak, Martin made 4 patches in 1 month, and 21 patches in 1 year
           Pierre F made 4 patches in 1 month, and 28 patches in 1 year
           Theppitak Karoonboonyanan made 3 patches in 1 month, and 4 patches in 1 year
           Kira Tubo made 3 patches in 1 month, and 17 patches in 1 year
           Stéphane Guillou made 2 patches in 1 month, and 62 patches in 1 year
           Adam Seskunas made 2 patches in 1 month, and 16 patches in 1 year
             made 2 patches in 1 month, and 10 patches in 1 year
     + top 10 reviewers:
           Nabet, Julien made 232 review comments in 1 month, and 982 in 1 year
           Vajna, Miklos made 146 review comments in 1 month, and 1158 in 1 year
           Taichi Haradaguchi made 128 review comments in 1 month, and 326 in 1 year
           Xisco Fauli made 128 review comments in 1 month, and 742 in 1 year
           Christian Lohmaier made 118 review comments in 1 month, and 466 in 1 year
           Thorsten Behrens made 114 review comments in 1 month, and 688 in 1 year
           Ilmari Lauhakangas made 96 review comments in 1 month, and 602 in 1 year
           Caolán McNamara made 84 review comments in 1 month, and 1464 in 1 year
           Kaganski, Mike made 80 review comments in 1 month, and 500 in 1 year
           Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 66 review comments in 1 month, and 592 in 1 year
     + Patches automatically abandoned:
         sal: osl::File allow to create files in sandbox ( Michael Meeks )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/160250
         tdf#155856 Added cmake to complextoolbarcontrols ( Konstantin Limarev )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/162396
         tdf#45904 Move Java SwViewSetting tests to C++ ( Luv Sharma )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/163551
         Revert "remove null checks for mpObj in UIObjectUnoObj" ( Stephan Bergmann )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/165034
         tdf#157129 ww8import: Add unit test ( Steven Casey )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/167027
         WIP: Fix automatic font color decision ( Gülşah Köse )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/167029
         implement tdf#121111 test ( Keldin Maldonado )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/167179
         WIP: change bindings autotimer to not use explicit timeout values ( Caolán McNamara )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/167342
         WIP: keep everything at lowest priority and defer if any input when fired ( Caolán McNamara )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/167343
     + big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
           Peter Hagen (willow-media.nl)

* GSoC (Ilmari)
   + Midterm evaluations deadline 12 July - all completed
     - some slightly delayed projects, too

* LiboCon
   + CfP is open: https://events.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice-conference-2024/cfp
     + 15th Aug is the deadline

* Commit Access

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Miklos/László/Gabriel)
   + resting since: 11 weeks (limit: 20 weeks)

* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
gerrit_android_aarch64     jobs: 200 ok: 190 ko:  10 fail ratio: 5.00% mean_ok:  13 ( 28) median_ok:  10 ( 20)
gerrit_android_arm         jobs: 201 ok: 191 ko:   8 fail ratio: 3.98% mean_ok:  13 ( 28) median_ok:  10 ( 20)
gerrit_android_x86         jobs: 200 ok: 189 ko:  11 fail ratio: 5.50% mean_ok:  14 ( 29) median_ok:  11 ( 20)
gerrit_android_x86_64      jobs: 201 ok: 189 ko:   8 fail ratio: 3.98% mean_ok:  14 ( 29) median_ok:  12 ( 21)
gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil jobs: 403 ok: 316 ko:  77 fail ratio: 19.11% mean_ok:  50 ( 66) median_ok:  48 ( 62)
gerrit_linux_gcc_release   jobs: 477 ok: 393 ko:  58 fail ratio: 12.16% mean_ok:  28 ( 44) median_ok:  22 ( 37)
gerrit_mac                 jobs: 405 ok: 365 ko:  29 fail ratio: 7.16% mean_ok:  53 ( 66) median_ok:  46 ( 54)
gerrit_windows             jobs: 431 ok: 313 ko: 100 fail ratio: 23.20% mean_ok:  66 ( 97) median_ok:  70 ( 74)
gerrit_master_ml           jobs: 512 ok: 265 ko: 203 fail ratio: 39.65% mean_ok: 143 (150) median_ok: 127 (130)
gerrit_master              jobs:  61 ok:  36 ko:  20 fail ratio: 32.79% mean_ok:  95 (100) median_ok:  89 ( 97)
gerrit_master_seq          jobs: 454 ok: 232 ko: 183 fail ratio: 40.31% mean_ok: 143 (149) median_ok: 129 (133)
    + tests that failed more than twice in last seven days
       3 CppunitTest_writerperfect_writer                gerrit_windows
       9 CppunitTest_sw_a11y                gerrit_windows
      37 aborted by jenkins job timeout                gerrit_windows
    + this week: some Windows bots still sometimes go into a state that all later builds fail, without a way to easily detect this state (Cloph)
    + experimenting with a cloud builder for the more busy hours
    + also one more server upcoming, will be used as a Windows builder

* What’s cooking (Miklos)
    + A11y update (Michael W)
       + looking into vertical tabpage a11y, related code cleanup
    + RTL/CTL/CJK update (Jonathan)
       + tdf#146081 Inconsistent proportional line spacing in Arabic
          - https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146081
       + tdf#56408 Writer always breaks at direction change, leaving orphan bracket
          - https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56408
          - Affects layout in certain cases (e.g. LTR wrapping Arabic word in quotes)
          - New behavior in line with other programs and BreakIterator rules
    + drawinglayer system-dependent primitive renderer (SDPR) for cairo (Armin)
    + python 3.10 upgrade (Xisco)
      + some knock-on problems, but think everything is sorted out for now
      + 3.10 is still not EOL till 2026
      + https://devguide.python.org/versions/ (Hossein)
      + any plans for 3.12? (Hossein)

          + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161947 has to be fixed first (Xisco)

        + was discussed on IRC (Ilmari)
        + would be a problem for Debian 12 backports, if we then modified the code and removed support for older versions
        + Xisco said he doesn't plan to update to 3.11 for now
          + for 25.8, maybe
    + freedesktop git mirror is back (Miklos)
      + including cgit & emails on libreoffice-commits@

* QA update (Xisco)
     + UNCONFIRMED: 1215 (+30)
         + enhancements: 275  (+10)
         + needsUXEval: 5 (+1)
         + haveBackTrace: 9 (+0)
         + needsDevAdvice: 47 (+0)
         + documentation:  5 (+0)
         + android:  0 (+0)
         + iOS:  0 (+0)
         + Online:  9 (+0)


     + Most pressing bugs:
      New:

     None


     + New high severity bugs of the week:
         + Automatically assigned mnemonics not always set
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=147762
             + not tagged as a regression
             + gtk case for the "run out of letters" case (Caolan)
               + start assigning double letters perhaps
               + maybe you can use the same character at two places in dialogs but not in menus
             + would love to have automatic assignment for all menu items, no problem if the same character is assigned multiple times (Heiko)

         + Not all hyphenation separators (hyphens) are displayed in app, but are visible in blue in PDF export / print
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161421
             + already fixed, thanks to Heiko

* QA stats (Stéphane)
     + Clarified / consolidated reports
        + (sd, regression) graphic export with transparency has modified aspect ratio (related to margins): https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122155
           * Likely related to the inherited issue of margins left out of transparency export: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89828
        + (sc) crash after formula paste: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org
        /show_bug.cgi?id=161891
     + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
       +100  -9 (-56) overall)
       many thanks to the top bug squashers:
        QA Administrators       10
        Buovjaga                7
        Heiko Tietze            7
        Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 4
        Rafael Lima             3
        Jonathan Clark          2
        Michael Weghorn         2
        Mike Kaganski           2
        Sarper Akdemir (allotropia) 2
        Hossein                 1

     + top 10 bugs reporters:
        Eyal Rozenberg          9
        Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 4
        Tuomas Hietala          4
        Moritz Duge             3
        Daniele                 2
        Mike Kaganski           2
        Rafael Lima             2
        Regina Henschel         2
        intmail01               2
        peter josvai            2

     + top 10 bugs fixers:
        Heiko Tietze            2
        Jonathan Clark          2
        Sarper Akdemir          2
        Weghorn, Michael        2
        Caolán McNamara         1
        Grandin, Noel           1
        Ilmari Lauhakangas      1
        Juan C. Sanz            1
        Justin Luth             1
        Mamane, Lionel Elie     1

     + top 10 bugs confirmers:
        Stéphane Guillou        16
        m.a.riosv               9
        *UNKNOWN*               6
        Xisco Fauli             6
        Ilmari Lauhakangas      4
        Rafael Lima             3
        Ady                     2
        Nabet, Julien           2
                                1
        Dennis Roczek           1


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

      done by:
         Stéphane Guillou       5
         Raal                   3
         Ilmari Lauhakangas     1
         Xisco Fauli            1


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

      done by:
         Stéphane Guillou       5
         Raal                   3
         gladys                 2
         Ilmari Lauhakangas     1
         Xisco Fauli            1


* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
    + 1241(+7) bugs open of 13468(+14) total 28(+4) high prio.

      done by:
         Stéphane Guillou           5
         Ady                        2
         m.a.riosv                  2
         Heiko Tietze               1
         Ilmari Lauhakangas         1
         Alex Thurgood              1
         Balland-Poirier, Laurent   1
         Bielefeld, Rainer          1
         Xisco Fauli                1


* ~Component   count net * high severity regressions
    + http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
      Writer        - 14(+0)
      Calc          - 6(+3)
      Impress       - 2(+0)
      LibreOffice   - 2(+0)
      UI            - 2(+0)
      Base          - 1(+1)

    by OS:
      All           - 19(+3)
      Linux         - 5(+0)
      Mac OS X      - 0(+0)
      Windows       - 4(+1)


* ~Component   count net * all regressions
    + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
      Writer: other            - 426(+2)
      Calc                     - 233(+2)
      Impress                  - 124(+1)
      LibreOffice              - 51(+0)
      Draw                     - 48(+0)
      Crashes                  - 46(+2)
      Writer: docx filter      - 44(+0)
      Base                     - 42(+0)
      UI                       - 39(+0)
      Borders                  - 34(+0)
      Writer: perf             - 34(+0)
      Writer: other filter     - 32(+0)
      Printing and PDF export  - 27(+0)
      Chart                    - 24(+0)
      RTL                      - 23(+0)
      filters and storage      - 21(+0)
      BASIC                    - 19(+0)
      Writer: doc filter       - 16(+0)
      graphics stack           - 12(+0)
      Formula Editor           - 10(+1)
      framework                - 3(+0)
      Extensions               - 2(+0)
      sdk                      - 2(+0)
      Linguistic               - 1(+0)


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