ESC meeting minutes: 2024-03-14

Miklos Vajna vmiklos at collabora.com
Thu Mar 14 15:34:36 UTC 2024


* Present:
     + Regina, Xisco, Stephan, Michael W, Heiko, Caolan, Miklos, Olivier, Michael S, Cloph

* Completed Action Items:
   + Dev certification: came up with an initial proposal for the current cycle (Miklos)

* Pending Action Items:

* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
     + 7.6: 7.6.6 RC2 next week
     + 24.2.2 RC2 next week
     + MAR update
       + enabled now for 24.0.0 -> 24.1.1, seems to work
       + RC<N> -> final will be enabled; otherwise just final -> next final
       + thanks a lot (Stephan)
       + does this mean end-users can already use this? (Xisco)
         + it's experimental for 24.2, but yes (Cloph)
           + need to opt in via tools -> options
         + on master, no longer experimental, but still need to opt in (Stephan)
           + for now, hardcoded to check once a week

* Documentation (Olivier)
     + New Help
        + Fixes in Windows build (A. Timar)
     +Helpcontent2
        + Fixes and updates (Pierre F, Stragu)
     + Guides
        + Calc & Writer guides published
        + Updates of guides in translations weblate soon.
     + Bugzilla Documentation statistics
         274(274) bugs open
     + Updates:
         BZ changes   1 week   1 month   3 months   12 months
            created     21(8)     48(9)     71(13)    228(2)
          commented     47(34)   105(24)   224(34)    909(25)
           resolved      8(5)     19(4)     30(5)     116(4)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Vernon, Stuart Foote made 36 changes in 1 month, and 81 changes in 1 year
           Olivier Hallot made 35 changes in 1 month, and 273 changes in 1 year
           Pierre F made 21 changes in 1 month, and 21 changes in 1 year
           Heiko Tietze made 21 changes in 1 month, and 104 changes in 1 year
           Stéphane Guillou made 20 changes in 1 month, and 279 changes in 1 year
           Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 15 changes in 1 month, and 20 changes in 1 year
           Dione Maddern made 11 changes in 1 month, and 11 changes in 1 year
           *UNKNOWN* made 11 changes in 1 month, and 11 changes in 1 year
           Mac made 7 changes in 1 month, and 9 changes in 1 year
           Bogdan B made 6 changes in 1 month, and 53 changes in 1 year

* UX Update (Heiko)
     + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
         247(247) (topicUI) bugs open, 35(35) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
     + Updates:
         BZ changes   1 week   1 month   3 months   12 months
              added      6(1)     14(4)     15(4)       26(2)
          commented     63(6)    226(24)   466(-9)    2025(-2)
            removed      0(0)      0(0)      1(0)       14(-1)
           resolved      6(0)     29(1)     77(-2)     318(0)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Heiko Tietze made 108 changes in 1 month, and 1207 changes in 1 year
           Stéphane Guillou made 59 changes in 1 month, and 635 changes in 1 year
           Vernon, Stuart Foote made 51 changes in 1 month, and 265 changes in 1 year
           Ady made 34 changes in 1 month, and 152 changes in 1 year
           Ilmari Lauhakangas made 25 changes in 1 month, and 185 changes in 1 year
           Bob Harvey made 12 changes in 1 month, and 13 changes in 1 year
           Eyal Rozenberg made 12 changes in 1 month, and 146 changes in 1 year
           Rafael Lima made 11 changes in 1 month, and 77 changes in 1 year
           Kaganski, Mike made 10 changes in 1 month, and 99 changes in 1 year
           Nabet, Julien made 10 changes in 1 month, and 27 changes in 1 year
     + [Bug 160185] Would like a width control for Web view in Writer (like in Google
            Docs' Pageless view)
     + [Bug 160194] Add all 3 Spotlight commands (Paragraph Style, Character Style,
            Direct Formatting) to Style Inspector
     + [Bug 159906] A11Y sidebar: Too many issue reports about direct character
            formatting
     + [Bug 160167] Bullets and Numbering dialog: Selection label
     + [Bug 160114] ZOOM factor: make it change in all Writer instances (in all
            writer windows)
     + [Bug 160125] Standard Palette - Dark Blue 1 (from COL_DEFAULT_SHAPE_STROKE) is
            lighter than Blue
     + [Bug 157981] personal / custom dictionaries should be easily portable
  -> + [Bug 159794] inconsistency in backspacing through indents
       + Zero 'before text' indent first before removing paragraph break
       + inconsistency sounds suspicious (Michael S)

* Crash Testing (Caolan)
     + 2(+0) import failure, 0(+0) export failures
     + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Crashtesting
     + 0 coverity issues
     + 5 ossfuzz issues
       - 1 crash (atypical crypto config), 1 OOM, 3 timeouts

* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
     + 7.6.4.1    39396(+2417)
     + 7.6.5.2    2110(+1158)
     + 24.2.0.3    11049(+1376)
     + 24.2.1.2    2245(+1594)

     - https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/signature/ScOutputData::SetClipMarks(ScOutputData::OutputAreaParam%20&,ScCellInfo%20*,SvxCellHorJustify,__int64)

     - New in 24.2. Introduced by 1d2380516ac9871743c5a5455f0734d02be8eade

     - related to https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129847


* Mentoring (Hossein)
   + Missing Hossein
           committer...   1 week     1 month    3 months    12 months
                   open      64(-8)     136(-7)    138(-6)      138(-6)
                reviews     382(-44)   1550(12)   3766(56)    12054(-16)
                 merged     255(-39)   1256(18)   3389(6)     12410(-72)
              abandoned      19(-4)      75(7)     179(7)       668(5)
            own commits     171(-29)    806(35)   2264(-29)    9375(-74)
         review commits      85(14)     358(37)    918(23)     3039(-11)
         contributor...   1 week      1 month    3 months    12 months
                   open      29(-12)      69(-2)     71(-1)       71(-2)
                reviews     758(-130)   3148(26)   7964(-34)   29828(-268)
                 merged      30(-2)      139(14)    358(-14)    1903(-49)
              abandoned       3(-42)     210(-9)    302(-4)      694(-5)
            own commits      47(10)      187(32)    415(31)     1069(16)
         review commits       0(0)         0(0)       0(0)         0(0)
     + easyHack statistics:
        needsDevEval 8(8)   needsUXEval 1(1)   cleanup_comments 326(326)
        total 409(409)   assigned 26(26)   open 349(349)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Kurt Nordback made 18 patches in 1 month, and 22 patches in 1 year
           Dr. David Alan Gilbert made 18 patches in 1 month, and 41 patches in 1 year
           Pierre F made 16 patches in 1 month, and 16 patches in 1 year
           Armin Le Grand (allotropia) made 12 patches in 1 month, and 85 patches in 1 year
           Stéphane Guillou made 10 patches in 1 month, and 62 patches in 1 year
           Dione Maddern made 8 patches in 1 month, and 24 patches in 1 year
           Ahmed Hamed made 6 patches in 1 month, and 6 patches in 1 year
           Luv Sharma made 5 patches in 1 month, and 15 patches in 1 year
           Weblate made 3 patches in 1 month, and 20 patches in 1 year
           Devansh Varshney made 3 patches in 1 month, and 4 patches in 1 year
     + top 10 reviewers:
           Vajna, Miklos made 170 review comments in 1 month, and 1068 in 1 year
           Caolán McNamara made 160 review comments in 1 month, and 1274 in 1 year
           Grandin, Noel made 126 review comments in 1 month, and 652 in 1 year
           Ilmari Lauhakangas made 92 review comments in 1 month, and 494 in 1 year
           Michael Stahl made 86 review comments in 1 month, and 984 in 1 year
           Thorsten Behrens made 84 review comments in 1 month, and 640 in 1 year
           Nabet, Julien made 78 review comments in 1 month, and 934 in 1 year
           Hossein made 74 review comments in 1 month, and 292 in 1 year
           Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 68 review comments in 1 month, and 474 in 1 year
           Christian Lohmaier made 66 review comments in 1 month, and 346 in 1 year
     + Patches automatically abandoned:
         tdf#158108: Update to ICU 74.1 ( Taichi Haradaguchi )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/158749
         Enable uno API calls to affect updating links ( Håkon Hægland )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/161628
     + big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
           Adlair Cerecedo-Mendez
           Hassan Sajjad
           Jonah Janzen
           Teodora Balaj

* Outreachy (Ilmari)

* GSoC (Ilmari)
     + https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2024/organizations/libreoffice
     + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/2024
     + till March 18: Potential participants discuss application ideas

* Commit Access

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Miklos/László/Gabriel)
   + resting since: 20 weeks (limit: 20 weeks)
   + have an initial proposal from Miklos + feedback from Stephan, needs more time

* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
gerrit_android_aarch64     jobs: 165 ok: 151 ko:  11 fail ratio: 6.67% mean_ok:   9 ( 11) median_ok:   7 (  8)
gerrit_android_arm         jobs: 164 ok: 158 ko:   5 fail ratio: 3.05% mean_ok:  10 ( 11) median_ok:   8 (  8)
gerrit_android_x86         jobs: 165 ok: 150 ko:  12 fail ratio: 7.27% mean_ok:   9 ( 11) median_ok:   8 (  8)
gerrit_android_x86_64      jobs: 164 ok: 159 ko:   4 fail ratio: 2.44% mean_ok:  10 ( 11) median_ok:   8 (  8)
gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil jobs: 336 ok: 243 ko:  85 fail ratio: 25.30% mean_ok:  37 ( 38) median_ok:  35 ( 36)
gerrit_linux_gcc_release   jobs: 385 ok: 314 ko:  56 fail ratio: 14.55% mean_ok:  17 ( 18) median_ok:  14 ( 15)
gerrit_mac                 jobs: 332 ok: 293 ko:  27 fail ratio: 8.13% mean_ok:  51 ( 51) median_ok:  48 ( 48)
gerrit_windows             jobs: 347 ok: 278 ko:  43 fail ratio: 12.39% mean_ok:  60 ( 96) median_ok:  55 ( 74)
gerrit_master_ml           jobs: 402 ok: 222 ko: 141 fail ratio: 35.07% mean_ok: 112 (113) median_ok:  98 ( 99)
gerrit_master              jobs:  52 ok:  27 ko:  18 fail ratio: 34.62% mean_ok: 102 (102) median_ok:  92 ( 92)
gerrit_master_seq          jobs: 350 ok: 195 ko: 123 fail ratio: 35.14% mean_ok: 113 (113) median_ok:  98 ( 98)
    + https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/tmp/gerrit_240314.html
    + tests that failed more than twice in last seven days
       3 CppunitTest_sw_layoutwriter2                gerrit_windows
       3 UITest_writer_tests2                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       4 CppunitTest_sw_ooxmlexport5                gerrit_linux_gcc_release
       5 CppunitTest_sw_ooxmlexport21                gerrit_linux_gcc_release
       7 CppunitTest_sw_a11y                gerrit_windows
       7 JunitTest_sw_complex                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       9 UITest_writer_tests8                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
     + this week was good, nothing stands out (Cloph)
       + some "application failed to launch dialogs" problems, on Windows
       + bot is taken offline automatically, but then this reduces the build bandwidth

* What’s cooking (Miklos)
     + A11y update (Michael W)
        + gtk4: implement initial support for text attributes
        + Accerciser: Improvements for Gtk 4 apps merged upstream, plan to look into Wayland support
        + pending Gerrit change to port Java a11y test to C++:
          https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/164231
     + 3D shapes, extruded shapes (Regina)
       + currently looking at importing the material properties
       + would like to talk some 3D expert :-)
         + Armin could be a candidate

* COOL Days 2024 (Miklos)
   + https://www.collaboraoffice.com/cool-days-2024/  8th -> 10th April
   + contributors can submit 5 mins talk proposals at https://eventyay.com/e/0512424d/cfs
   + LibreOffice Technology hackfest as part of it

* QA update (Xisco)
     + UNCONFIRMED: 1124 (-9)
         + enhancements: 280  (-1)
         + needsUXEval: 9 (+1)
         + haveBackTrace: 10 (+0)
         + needsDevAdvice: 46 (+1)
         + documentation:  6 (-2)
         + android:  0 (+0)
         + iOS:  0 (+0)
         + Online:  9 (+0)


     + Most pressing bugs:
      New:

     None

      Old:
         + Selection invisible in a11y High Contrast modes with SKIA/Raster, Skia/Vulkan unaffected
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160036
             + bisected to Noel. Skia Upgrade (m116)
               + maybe a further upgrade would help
               + in theory could bisect skia as well (Caolan)
      Fixed:
         + CRASH: using ALT+RETURN twice
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160095
             + Fixed. thanks to Julien


     + New high severity bugs of the week:
         + CRASH: undoing conditional format
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160149
             + bisected to Mike

         + UI. RTL: Horizontal scrolling for right-to-left Sheet moves in opposite direction (macOS and Linux)
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93352
             + bibisected

* Copyright year in the about dialog (Xisco)
   + Recent bugreport -> fixed by Julien on master
   + Should this be backported?

       - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/164748

       - affects l10n strings (Cloph)

         - could be fixed, would be a better way

AI: file easy hack to move the year out of the about dialog l10n strings (Xisco)
   + backport or not? (Xisco)
     + can take care of this to not break l10n strings (Cloph)
     + see value in picking it to living branches (Caolan)
       + if people want to do it, it's logical
   => go ahead with backporting, linking the minutes in the gerrit change (all)
AI: Cloph to comment on the gerrit change to inform Martin (Cloph)

* QA stats (Stéphane)
     + Current QA weekly focus: Hyperlinks meta. https://pad.documentfoundation.org/p/qa
     + Interesting consolidated/clarified bugs:
         + sd: Wrong hyperlink for object linked to target in document when exported to PDF: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100893
         + sd: Hyperlinked objects can't be Ctrl + clicked until file is reloaded: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156159
     + QA dashboard data updated: https://stragu.shinyapps.io/lo_qa_dashboard/
     + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
       +117  +7 (-110) overall)
       many thanks to the top bug squashers:
        QA Administrators       18
        Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 16
        Rafael Lima             7
        Adolfo Jayme Barrientos 5
        Heiko Tietze            5
        m_a_riosv               5
        Buovjaga                4
        Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 4
        Balázs Varga (allotropia) 3
        Xisco Faulí             3

     + top 10 bugs reporters:
        peter josvai            7
        Rafael Lima             5
        Xisco Faulí             4
        Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 3
        Jeff Fortin Tam         3
        Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 3
        V Stuart Foote          3
        Ian Eales               2
        J Johnson               2
        Justin L                2

     + top 10 bugs fixers:
        Adolfo Jayme Barrientos 5
        Balazs Varga            3
        Kelemen, Gabor          3
        Heiko Tietze            2
        Rafael Lima             2
        Telesto                 2
        Thorsten Behrens (CIB)  2
        Xisco Fauli             2
                                1
        David Gilbert           1

     + top 10 bugs confirmers:
        *UNKNOWN*               19
        Stéphane Guillou        17
        Dieter                  11
        Ilmari Lauhakangas      5
        Nabet, Julien           5
        Raal                    5
        Vernon, Stuart Foote    5
        Ady                     4
        Heiko Tietze            4
        Rafael Lima             3


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

      done by:
         Stéphane Guillou       5
         Raal                   2
         Xisco Fauli            2


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

      done by:
         Stéphane Guillou       5
         Raal                   2
         Xisco Fauli            2


* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
    + 1245(-6) bugs open of 13246(+10) total 20(+0) high prio.

      done by:
         Xisco Fauli            2
         Ady                    1
         Raal                   1
         Robert Großkopf        1
         Stéphane Guillou       1
         Vernon, Stuart Foote   1


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

    by OS:
      All           - 14(+0)
      Linux         - 5(+0)
      Mac OS X      - 0(+0)
      Windows       - 1(+0)


* ~Component   count net * all regressions
    + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
      Writer: other            - 443(-3)
      Calc                     - 225(+2)
      Impress                  - 127(-1)
      LibreOffice              - 55(+1)
      Draw                     - 52(+1)
      Crashes                  - 46(+0)
      Writer: docx filter      - 45(+0)
      Base                     - 39(+0)
      UI                       - 37(+1)
      Borders                  - 36(+0)
      Writer: perf             - 35(+0)
      Writer: other filter     - 31(+0)
      Printing and PDF export  - 25(-2)
      Chart                    - 24(+0)
      RTL                      - 23(+0)
      filters and storage      - 22(-1)
      BASIC                    - 19(-1)
      Writer: doc filter       - 16(+0)
      graphics stack           - 12(+0)
      Formula Editor           - 7(+0)
      framework                - 3(+0)
      Extensions               - 2(+0)
      sdk                      - 2(+0)
      Linguistic               - 1(+0)


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