ESC meeting minutes: 2024-07-25

Stephan Bergmann stephan.bergmann at allotropia.de
Thu Jul 25 14:20:21 UTC 2024


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

* Completed Action Items:

* Pending Action Items:

* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
   * 24.8.0 rc2 this week, probably later today
     + libreoffice-24-8 now needs 1 review
     + libreoffice-24-8-0 branch will be created today, need 2 more
   * 24.2.6 rc1 in 3 weeks, as a current plan

* Documentation (Olivier)
     + Helpcontents
        + Maintenance and updates (ohallot D. Maddern, Pierre F, S. 
Horacek, Ilmari)
     + Guides
        + Update getting started guide 24.8
           + please add new features in RN! e.g. tdf#86790, or we miss 
documentation.
           + wherever suitable, please add a screenshot of the feature.

     + Bugzilla Documentation statistics
         251(251) bugs open
     + Updates:
         BZ changes   1 week   1 month   3 months   12 months
            created     5(-4)    20(-7)     89(-4)    228(-9)
          commented     5(-13)   40(-36)   223(-20)   856(-39)
           resolved     1(-1)     6(-7)     53(-3)    135(-6)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Ilmari Lauhakangas made 13 changes in 1 month, and 93 changes 
in 1 year
           Olivier Hallot made 11 changes in 1 month, and 271 changes in 
1 year
           Stéphane Guillou made 9 changes in 1 month, and 183 changes 
in 1 year
           Dione Maddern made 7 changes in 1 month, and 107 changes in 1 
year
           Heiko Tietze made 6 changes in 1 month, and 87 changes in 1 year
           *UNKNOWN* made 6 changes in 1 month, and 6 changes in 1 year
           Henschel, Regina made 6 changes in 1 month, and 17 changes in 
1 year
           Pierre F made 5 changes in 1 month, and 36 changes in 1 year
           m.a.riosv made 5 changes in 1 month, and 28 changes in 1 year
           Kaganski, Mike made 5 changes in 1 month, and 80 changes in 1 
year

* UX Update (Heiko)
     + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
         236(236) (topicUI) bugs open, 28(28) (needsUXEval) needs to be 
evaluated by the UXteam
     + Updates:
         BZ changes   1 week   1 month    3 months   12 months
              added      3(-2)     5(-5)      9(-4)      15(-4)
          commented     45(1)    153(-21)   443(-13)   1758(-13)
            removed      0(0)      0(0)       4(-1)      10(0)
           resolved     11(5)     23(2)      79(4)      285(0)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Heiko Tietze made 90 changes in 1 month, and 966 changes in 1 
year
           Stéphane Guillou made 32 changes in 1 month, and 624 changes 
in 1 year
           Vernon, Stuart Foote made 27 changes in 1 month, and 328 
changes in 1 year
           Ady made 17 changes in 1 month, and 121 changes in 1 year
           Ilmari Lauhakangas made 17 changes in 1 month, and 137 
changes in 1 year
           Rafael Lima made 16 changes in 1 month, and 71 changes in 1 year
           Dieter made 10 changes in 1 month, and 151 changes in 1 year
           Eyal Rozenberg made 10 changes in 1 month, and 159 changes in 
1 year
           Cor Nouws made 6 changes in 1 month, and 25 changes in 1 year
           Kaganski, Mike made 6 changes in 1 month, and 73 changes in 1 
year
     + [Bug 162133] Tab stop of list contents increases then decreases 
in Roman numeral
            lists. Should be right-aligned.
     + [Bug 159167] Conditional formatting of cells based on rules for 
checking values
            greater than or less than
     + [Bug 162133] Tab stop of list contents increases then decreases 
in default Roman
            numeral list, looking messy
     + [Bug 162120] Auto-detect paragraph directions when they were not 
set explicitly
     + [Bug 162112] Toolbar position locking/unlocking should, by 
default, apply to all
            toolbars
  -> + [Bug 156223] FILEOPEN DOCX: Wrong automatic numbering for a 
heading after a page
            break
            + input welcome!
            + compatibility issue with a use case for separate chapter 
pages (Hossein)
     + [Bug 162101] Magnifier Tool for a quick overview and spot zoom 
into a document
            in Multiple-page view
     + [Bug 160560] WRITER / Tools / Language / For selection: checkbox 
doesn't act
            like a checkbox...


* Crash Testing (Caolan)
     + 20(+0) import failure, 16(+1) export failures
       - https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Crashtesting
     + 1368 coverity issues
       - downward trend
     + 8 ossfuzz issues

* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
     + 24.2.2.2    18362(+545)
     + 24.2.3.2    15707(+692)
     + 24.2.4.2    10280(+1395)
     + 24.2.5.2    1787(+1295)

     - Regression in 24.2.5

     - 
https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/signature/ucbhelper::Content::getPropertyValuesInterface(com::sun::star::uno::Sequence%3Crtl::OUString%3E%20const%20&)

     - Autocorrect. Related to 50be3fa1f0f3b8870af5bda88b65f835ef37d77e "

     tdf#141773 AutoCorrect: fix broken [All] dictionaries" ?


* Mentoring (Hossein)
  + Reviewed submissions from newcomers
  + Worked on tdf#161837 Fraction -> double
    + Big change, looking for ways to break it into smaller parts
      https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/170084
      + Reviews, and ideas for splitting the changes into smaller ones 
are welcome
  + Finalized and published a blog post on dev blog
    LibreOfficeKit for document conversion
 
https://dev.blog.documentfoundation.org/2024/07/25/libreofficekit-for-document-conversion/
           committer...   1 week     1 month      3 months    12 months
                   open     100(9)      196(10)      197(10)      197(10)
                reviews     476(-48)   1676(-164)   3762(90)    13166(60)
                 merged     285(-34)   1313(-93)    3683(33)    12925(52)
              abandoned      17(4)       81(-1)      199(-1)      735(9)
            own commits     203(-5)     845(-16)    2535(12)     9419(-9)
         review commits      37(-22)    244(-70)     727(-28)    3055(-38)
         contributor...   1 week     1 month     3 months    12 months
                   open      59(19)     102(2)      104(4)       104(4)
                reviews     938(10)    3408(-68)   8314(148)   29942(114)
                 merged      16(-1)     121(-10)    264(-11)    1521(-28)
              abandoned       6(-2)      25(0)       77(-6)      722(2)
            own commits      14(-15)    132(-16)    318(-13)    1207(-6)
         review commits       0(0)        0(0)        0(0)         0(0)
     + easyHack statistics:
        needsDevEval 9(9)   needsUXEval 1(1)   cleanup_comments 327(327)
        total 410(410)   assigned 22(22)   open 352(352)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Bogdan B made 57 patches in 1 month, and 88 patches in 1 year
           Pierre F made 8 patches in 1 month, and 32 patches in 1 year
           Armin Le Grand (allotropia) made 5 patches in 1 month, and 82 
patches in 1 year
           Weblate made 3 patches in 1 month, and 34 patches in 1 year
           Adam Seskunas made 3 patches in 1 month, and 17 patches in 1 year
           Ritobroto Mukherjee made 3 patches in 1 month, and 23 patches 
in 1 year
           Srebotnjak, Martin made 2 patches in 1 month, and 21 patches 
in 1 year
           Theppitak Karoonboonyanan made 2 patches in 1 month, and 4 
patches in 1 year
           Dione Maddern made 2 patches in 1 month, and 67 patches in 1 year
           Aung, Khant Oo made 2 patches in 1 month, and 4 patches in 1 year
     + top 10 reviewers:
           Christian Lohmaier made 138 review comments in 1 month, and 
486 in 1 year
           Thorsten Behrens made 124 review comments in 1 month, and 698 
in 1 year
             made 122 review comments in 1 month, and 338 in 1 year
           Caolán McNamara made 102 review comments in 1 month, and 1490 
in 1 year
           Xisco Fauli made 98 review comments in 1 month, and 752 in 1 year
           Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 96 review comments in 1 month, 
and 650 in 1 year
           Ilmari Lauhakangas made 84 review comments in 1 month, and 
590 in 1 year
           Vajna, Miklos made 74 review comments in 1 month, and 1182 in 
1 year
           Michael Stahl made 74 review comments in 1 month, and 876 in 
1 year
           Kaganski, Mike made 72 review comments in 1 month, and 486 in 
1 year
     + Patches automatically abandoned:
         tdf#132293 removed unused imports and variables ( Pradyumn Pai )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/165506
         Changed include to pragma once ( Ludwig Triller )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/166964
         tdf#45946 Add function to convert field to text ( Oliver Specht )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/167900
         WIP: RTF import: All MS formats should ignore blanks for 
lineheight. ( Vasily Melenchuk )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/167907
     + big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged 
patch, since last report:
           Lars Jødal lajo at rn.dk

* GSoC (Ilmari)
   + reminder: if contributor would like to extend project time, do so ASAP

* 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: 12 weeks (limit: 20 weeks)

* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
gerrit_android_aarch64     jobs: 191 ok: 187 ko:   2 fail ratio: 1.05% 
mean_ok:  13 ( 32) median_ok:  10 ( 21)
gerrit_android_arm         jobs: 192 ok: 186 ko:   3 fail ratio: 1.56% 
mean_ok:  12 ( 31) median_ok:   9 ( 17)
gerrit_android_x86         jobs: 191 ok: 187 ko:   2 fail ratio: 1.05% 
mean_ok:  13 ( 32) median_ok:  10 ( 17)
gerrit_android_x86_64      jobs: 191 ok: 184 ko:   4 fail ratio: 2.09% 
mean_ok:  12 ( 31) median_ok:  10 ( 19)
gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil jobs: 403 ok: 304 ko:  91 fail ratio: 22.58% 
mean_ok:  52 ( 69) median_ok:  51 ( 60)
gerrit_linux_gcc_release   jobs: 435 ok: 364 ko:  52 fail ratio: 11.95% 
mean_ok:  27 ( 42) median_ok:  20 ( 30)
gerrit_mac                 jobs: 379 ok: 352 ko:  19 fail ratio: 5.01% 
mean_ok:  58 ( 60) median_ok:  47 ( 48)
gerrit_windows             jobs: 384 ok: 343 ko:  33 fail ratio: 8.59% 
mean_ok:  61 ( 62) median_ok:  57 ( 57)
gerrit_master_ml           jobs: 468 ok: 283 ko: 157 fail ratio: 33.55% 
mean_ok: 117 (117) median_ok:  96 ( 96)
gerrit_master              jobs:  56 ok:  33 ko:  18 fail ratio: 32.14% 
mean_ok:  87 ( 88) median_ok:  73 ( 73)
gerrit_master_seq          jobs: 412 ok: 250 ko: 139 fail ratio: 33.74% 
mean_ok: 118 (120) median_ok:  99 ( 99)
    + tests that failed more than twice in last seven days
       3 CppunitTest_sw_a11y                gerrit_linux_gcc_release
       3 CppunitTest_sw_a11y                gerrit_windows
       3 CppunitTest_toolkit                gerrit_mac
       3 CppunitTest_vcl_bitmapprocessor_test 
gerrit_linux_gcc_release
       3 JunitTest_svx_unoapi                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       3 UITest_impress_tests                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       4 CppunitTest_cui_dialogs_test3 
gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       5 aborted by jenkins job timeout                gerrit_windows
       5 Killed by the kill-wrapper 
gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       5 UITest_sw_chart                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       5 UITest_sw_ui_frmdlg                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      27 UITest_writer_tests                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil

          -> Introduced by 
https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/169692 ? (Xisco)

      + Windows way more stable (maybe fake clipboard fix helped)

* What’s cooking (Miklos)
    + A11y update (Michael W)
      + tdf#155447: Reporting of accessible ID to provide stable 
identifiers for
        spell check dialog, Orca upstream changes
      + looking into an issue w/ Accerciser (highlighting incorrect area)
    + RTL/CTL/CJK update (Jonathan)
       + tdf#157829 Writer breaks at format changes in bidi portions
          + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157829
          + Other side of tdf#56408 (breaking at start of bidi portions)
          + Affects layout, but bidi portion behavior now consistent 
with text portions
       + tdf#157390 Overlapping CJK characters in PDF export
          + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157390
       + any way to detect rendering deffects like overlapping 
automatically? (Hossein)
          + not sure, not illegitimate to have overlap per se (Jonathan)
          + needs to be looking at case by case (Jonathan)
          + already have lots of bug reports (Hossein)
    + drawinglayer system-dependent primitive renderer (SDPR) for cairo 
(Armin)

* QA update (Xisco)
     + UNCONFIRMED: 1193 (-3)
         + enhancements: 281  (+0)
         + needsUXEval: 5 (-5)
         + haveBackTrace: 9 (+0)
         + needsDevAdvice: 47 (+0)
         + documentation:  5 (+0)
         + android:  0 (+0)
         + iOS:  0 (+0)
         + Online:  9 (+0)

     + Most pressing bugs:
      New:
          None
      Fixed:
         + Base's Table Design View and Create View not editable anymore 
(Windows)
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161865
             + Fixed thanks to Noel.

     + New high severity bugs of the week:
         + LO crashes with undo/redo of page numbering wizard's created 
bookmarks
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161705
             + Justin L. already on it

         + tdf#162180 high severity? (Hossein)
             + yes, but left for next week's stats (Xisco)

* QA stats (Stéphane)
     + QA dashboard data updated: 
https://stragu.shinyapps.io/lo_qa_dashboard/
     + 
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
       +102  -17 (-92) overall)
       many thanks to the top bug squashers:
        Buovjaga                9
        QA Administrators       9
        Mike Kaganski           8
        Heiko Tietze            7
        Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 7
        Caolán McNamara         5
        V Stuart Foote          5
        m_a_riosv               5
        Patrick Luby (volunteer) 4
        ady                     4

     + top 10 bugs reporters:
        Eyal Rozenberg          11
        Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 4
        Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 3
        Mike Kaganski           3
        Regina Henschel         3
        Daniele                 2
        peter josvai            2
        raal                    2
        Andy                    1
        Buovjaga                1

     + top 10 bugs fixers:
        Kaganski, Mike          7
        Caolán McNamara         4
        Patrick Luby            4
        Rafael Lima             3
        Andreas Heinisch        2
        Jonathan Clark          2
        Nabet, Julien           2
                                1
        Balland-Poirier, Laurent 1
        Heiko Tietze            1

     + top 10 bugs confirmers:
        Ilmari Lauhakangas      15
        Stéphane Guillou        14
        Heiko Tietze            9
        m.a.riosv               7
        Raal                    6
        Dieter                  3
        Kaganski, Mike          3
        Ady                     2
        Caolán McNamara         2
        Justin Luth             2


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

      done by:
         Stéphane Guillou       5
         Ilmari Lauhakangas     2
         Raal                   2
         Aron Budea             1
         Xisco Fauli            1


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

      done by:
         Stéphane Guillou       5
         Ilmari Lauhakangas     3
         Bogdan B               2
         Raal                   2
         Aron Budea             1
         Olivier R              1
         Xisco Fauli            1


* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
    + 1240(+3) bugs open of 13499(+15) total 25(+1) high prio.

      done by:
         Ilmari Lauhakangas     3
         Raal                   3
         Stéphane Guillou       3
         Ady                    2
         Bogdan B               1


* ~Component   count net * high severity regressions
    + http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
      Writer        - 13(+1)
      Calc          - 4(+0)
      Impress       - 2(+0)
      LibreOffice   - 2(+0)
      UI            - 2(+0)
      Base          - 1(+0)

    by OS:
      All           - 16(+1)
      Linux         - 5(+0)
      Mac OS X      - 0(+0)
      Windows       - 4(+0)


* ~Component   count net * all regressions
    + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
      Writer: other            - 419(-2)
      Calc                     - 238(+5)
      Impress                  - 124(-1)
      LibreOffice              - 52(+2)
      Draw                     - 48(+0)
      Writer: docx filter      - 47(+2)
      Crashes                  - 46(+0)
      Base                     - 41(-1)
      UI                       - 38(-1)
      Writer: perf             - 35(+0)
      Borders                  - 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                    - 20(+1)
      Writer: doc filter       - 17(-1)
      graphics stack           - 12(+0)
      Formula Editor           - 10(+0)
      framework                - 3(+0)
      Extensions               - 2(+0)
      sdk                      - 2(+0)
      Linguistic               - 1(+0)


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