ESC meeting minutes: 2024-03-21

Miklos Vajna vmiklos at collabora.com
Thu Mar 21 15:34:16 UTC 2024


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

* Completed Action Items:
     + communicate the copyright year backport decision on the gerrit to Martin (Cloph)

* Pending Action Items:
     + file easy hack to move the copyright year out of the about dialog l10n strings (Xisco)

* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
     + 7.6: 7.6.6 RC2 this week, tagged on Tue, going to tag an RC3 later
       + see that the branch had a commit that was reverted on master (Xisco)
       + should we also have that in the RC3?
         + would be reverted in 7.6.7
         + will push the reverts (also for 7.6.6) to gerrit (Xisco)
           + if conflicts are non-trivial, poke Oliver (Michael S)
     + 24.2.2 RC2 this week, probably tomorrow
     + MAR updates (Stephan)
       + 32bit one looks OK; 64bit looks problematic
       + need to check, possibly it's the wrong symlink problem (Cloph)
         + patch size was not matching

* Documentation (Olivier)
     + New Help (no news)
     + Helpcontents 2
         + Updates and fixes (G. Kelemen, ohallot)
     + Guides
         + Evaluation of CAT tools for Guides translations

     + Bugzilla Documentation statistics
         273(273) bugs open
     + Updates:
         BZ changes   1 week    1 month   3 months   12 months
            created     17(-4)     60(12)    82(11)    232(4)
          commented     27(-20)   129(24)   239(15)    898(-11)
           resolved      4(-4)     23(4)     34(4)     117(1)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Vernon, Stuart Foote made 47 changes in 1 month, and 87 changes in 1 year
           Olivier Hallot made 37 changes in 1 month, and 265 changes in 1 year
           Pierre F made 29 changes in 1 month, and 29 changes in 1 year
           Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 21 changes in 1 month, and 24 changes in 1 year
           Heiko Tietze made 21 changes in 1 month, and 99 changes in 1 year
           Stéphane Guillou made 20 changes in 1 month, and 266 changes in 1 year
           Dione Maddern made 15 changes in 1 month, and 15 changes in 1 year
           Ilmari Lauhakangas made 14 changes in 1 month, and 92 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

* UX Update (Heiko)
     + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
         248(248) (topicUI) bugs open, 37(37) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
     + Updates:
         BZ changes   1 week   1 month   3 months   12 months
              added      7(1)     14(0)     16(1)       26(0)
          commented     78(15)   242(16)   465(-1)    2006(-19)
            removed      0(0)      0(0)      1(0)       14(0)
           resolved      5(-1)    28(-1)    72(-5)     313(-5)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Heiko Tietze made 110 changes in 1 month, and 1184 changes in 1 year
           Stéphane Guillou made 90 changes in 1 month, and 661 changes in 1 year
           Vernon, Stuart Foote made 60 changes in 1 month, and 284 changes in 1 year
           Ady made 23 changes in 1 month, and 148 changes in 1 year
           Patrick Luby made 16 changes in 1 month, and 19 changes in 1 year
           Devansh Varshney made 14 changes in 1 month, and 14 changes in 1 year
           Ilmari Lauhakangas made 13 changes in 1 month, and 157 changes in 1 year
           m.a.riosv made 11 changes in 1 month, and 70 changes in 1 year
           Nabet, Julien made 10 changes in 1 month, and 27 changes in 1 year
           Kaganski, Mike made 9 changes in 1 month, and 98 changes in 1 year
     + [Bug 159286] Single click inside text field should select full field if
            it has the placeholder text
     + [Bug 160282] Ranges references text colors for in-cell editing of formulas
            are too dark for dark mode, causing low contrast
     + [Bug 160241] Scrollbar arrows not always visible despite Windows settings
     + [Bug 160255] Named Ranges Should Be Able to be Used in Conditional Formatting
            Dialog Box
     + [Bug 160230] MRU Recent files list entries numbered, no need to be
     + [Bug 160227] Add timer/clock to single-screen presentation

  -> * https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157591
       + context menu: "add to dictionary" -- no need to deselect word before
       + .ui just means this used to be an RSC menu in the past (Caolan)
       + the menu is a bit special as the suggested words are menu items
         + could take the recent docs sub-menu as example
       + possibly just nobody converted this to a .xml context menu

* Crash Testing (Caolan)
     + 15(+13) import failure, 1(+1) export failures
       - new since https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/164788
       - https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Crashtesting
     + 0 coverity issues
     + 6 ossfuzz issues
       - 2 new fuzzers, calc html import fuzzer, and (Noel G) fods to xls export fuzzer
       - 1 new calc html issue found

* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
     + 7.6.5.2    3536(+1426)
     + 24.2.0.3    12197(+1148)
     + 24.2.1.2    4121(+1876)

* Mentoring (Hossein, Michael W)
    + dev blog post: "Test improvement – More and better tests for LibreOffice"
      + https://dev.blog.documentfoundation.org/2024/03/18/test-improvement-more-and-better-tests-for-libreoffice/
           committer...   1 week     1 month     3 months    12 months
                   open      81(17)     158(22)     160(22)      160(22)
                reviews     534(152)   1670(120)   3884(118)   12246(192)
                 merged     230(-25)   1199(-57)   3313(-76)   12397(-13)
              abandoned      13(-6)      73(-2)     179(0)       672(4)
            own commits     154(-17)    799(-7)    2216(-48)    9330(-45)
         review commits      70(-15)    344(-14)    910(-8)     3003(-36)
         contributor...   1 week     1 month     3 months     12 months
                   open      34(5)       75(6)       75(4)         75(4)
                reviews     722(-36)   3068(-80)   7812(-152)   29732(-96)
                 merged      27(-3)     130(-9)     353(-5)      1852(-51)
              abandoned       5(2)      206(-4)     299(-3)       689(-5)
            own commits      26(-21)    162(-25)    409(-6)      1039(-30)
         review commits       0(0)        0(0)        0(0)          0(0)
     + easyHack statistics:
        needsDevEval 8(8)   needsUXEval 1(1)   cleanup_comments 329(329)
        total 411(411)   assigned 27(27)   open 348(348)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Pierre F made 22 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
           Stéphane Guillou made 10 patches in 1 month, and 62 patches in 1 year
           Kurt Nordback made 9 patches in 1 month, and 23 patches in 1 year
           Armin Le Grand (allotropia) made 8 patches in 1 month, and 85 patches in 1 year
           Ahmed Hamed made 6 patches in 1 month, and 6 patches in 1 year
           Rafał Dobrakowski made 4 patches in 1 month, and 9 patches in 1 year
           Weblate made 3 patches in 1 month, and 21 patches in 1 year
           Luv Sharma made 3 patches in 1 month, and 15 patches in 1 year
           Sujatro Bhadra made 3 patches in 1 month, and 3 patches in 1 year
     + top 10 reviewers:
           Vajna, Miklos made 184 review comments in 1 month, and 1080 in 1 year
           Caolán McNamara made 136 review comments in 1 month, and 1294 in 1 year
           Nabet, Julien made 124 review comments in 1 month, and 982 in 1 year
           Grandin, Noel made 102 review comments in 1 month, and 650 in 1 year
           Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 102 review comments in 1 month, and 490 in 1 year
           Ilmari Lauhakangas made 96 review comments in 1 month, and 486 in 1 year
           Michael Stahl made 86 review comments in 1 month, and 960 in 1 year
           Thorsten Behrens made 76 review comments in 1 month, and 640 in 1 year
           Hossein made 70 review comments in 1 month, and 294 in 1 year
           Christian Lohmaier made 66 review comments in 1 month, and 362 in 1 year
     + Patches automatically abandoned:
         convert UseOnPage bit flags to struct of bools ( Tomaž Vajngerl )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/159562
         WIP: move UpdateAttr to SfxHint ( Bjoern Michaelsen )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/162037
         WIP: move UpdateAttr to SfxHint ( Bjoern Michaelsen )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/162065
         sc: use pGridWin.size() in for loops instead of hardcoded 4 ( Tomaž Vajngerl )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/162173
     + big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
           David Carter
           Ritobroto Mukherjee

* Outreachy (Ilmari)
     + Omkar's blog: https://omkaracharekar.hashnode.dev/

* GSoC (Ilmari)
     + https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2024/organizations/libreoffice
     + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/2024
     + April 2: application deadline
     + still looking for mentors, but it's under control

* Commit Access

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Miklos/László/Gabriel)
AI: Stephan to reach out to the discussed candidate

* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
gerrit_android_aarch64     jobs: 188 ok: 183 ko:   4 fail ratio: 2.13% mean_ok:  11 ( 17) median_ok:   7 ( 11)
gerrit_android_arm         jobs: 187 ok: 175 ko:   9 fail ratio: 4.81% mean_ok:  10 ( 16) median_ok:   7 (  8)
gerrit_android_x86         jobs: 189 ok: 185 ko:   3 fail ratio: 1.59% mean_ok:  11 ( 16) median_ok:   8 ( 11)
gerrit_android_x86_64      jobs: 188 ok: 178 ko:   8 fail ratio: 4.26% mean_ok:  11 ( 17) median_ok:   8 ( 11)
gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil jobs: 383 ok: 300 ko:  76 fail ratio: 19.84% mean_ok:  38 ( 45) median_ok:  35 ( 40)
gerrit_linux_gcc_release   jobs: 421 ok: 362 ko:  47 fail ratio: 11.16% mean_ok:  18 ( 23) median_ok:  14 ( 17)
gerrit_mac                 jobs: 388 ok: 347 ko:  31 fail ratio: 7.99% mean_ok:  54 ( 55) median_ok:  48 ( 48)
gerrit_windows             jobs: 421 ok: 244 ko: 155 fail ratio: 36.82% mean_ok:  66 (174) median_ok:  61 (133)
gerrit_master_ml           jobs: 460 ok: 208 ko: 220 fail ratio: 47.83% mean_ok: 197 (203) median_ok: 145 (146)
gerrit_master              jobs:  51 ok:  20 ko:  29 fail ratio: 56.86% mean_ok: 200 (200) median_ok: 187 (187)
gerrit_master_seq          jobs: 408 ok: 188 ko: 190 fail ratio: 46.57% mean_ok: 192 (197) median_ok: 140 (140)
    + tests that failed more than twice in last seven days
       3 UITest_sw_navigator                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       4 CppunitTest_sw_ooxmlexport19                gerrit_linux_gcc_release
       7 JunitTest_sw_unoapi_3                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       7 UITest_calc_tests4                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       7 UITest_writer_tests8                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      14 CppunitTest_sw_a11y                gerrit_windows
      68 aborted by jenkins job timeout                gerrit_windows
     + we started to have a big problem with the Windows build (Cloph)
       + all 68 failed earlier yesterday or today
       + 3 affected machines
       + hard to auto-take-care-of this problem
       + once the box is rebooted, it's OK
       + so it's not a poor test? (Stephan)
         + the timeout handler kills processes, found no leftover processes (Cloph)
         + is it better after a reboot? (Stephan)
           + so far the builds are good after a reboot (Cloph)
       + default timeout was 30 mins (no output), now reduced to 20 mins
     + also a large set of small fixes (24-25) was submitted, good to go by smaller pieces (Cloph)

* What’s cooking (Miklos)
     + A11y update (Michael W)
        + gtk4: implemented initial support for text attributes
        + Accerciser: working on better Wayland support
     + 3D shapes, extruded shapes (Regina)
       + import material of extruded shapes is now done
     + SVG Filters (Xisco)

         - feMerge, feComposite, feBlend


* COOL Days 2024 (Miklos)
   + https://www.collaboraoffice.com/cool-days-2024/  8th -> 10th April
   + LibreOffice Technology hackfest as part of it

* QA update (Xisco)
     + UNCONFIRMED: 1151 (+27)
         + enhancements: 284  (+4)
         + needsUXEval: 8 (-1)
         + haveBackTrace: 10 (+0)
         + needsDevAdvice: 45 (-1)
         + documentation:  7 (+1)
         + android:  0 (+0)
         + iOS:  0 (+0)
         + Online:  9 (+0)


     + Most pressing bugs:
      New:
          None
      Old:
      Fixed:
         + Selection invisible in a11y High Contrast modes with SKIA/Raster, Skia/Vulkan unaffected
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160036
             + Thanks to Patrick

     + New high severity bugs of the week:
         + Inserted GIF flipped vertically; previews in Gallery flipped or mangled
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160016
             + bisected to Tomaz

         + allow to "Encrypt with GPG key" on save using public keys with unknown Ownertrust
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160184
             + not marked as a regression

* Timezone change (Cloph)
   + next week: unchanged
   + Berlin time summer time after that

* QA stats (Stéphane)
     + Clarified/consolidated bugs:
         * (sd) Object's internal hyperlinks / interactions to slides are not functional when exporting presentation to PDF: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103562
     + QA Dashboard data updated: https://stragu.shinyapps.io/lo_qa_dashboard/
     + Wiki tables (top bugs/enhancement/regression by CC/dupes) updated: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Bugzilla/Statistics#Bugs
     + Weekly report: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
       +109  +8 (-85) overall)
       many thanks to the top bug squashers:
        Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 12
        QA Administrators       10
        Mike Kaganski           6
        Julien Nabet            5
        Heiko Tietze            4
        V Stuart Foote          4
        Adolfo Jayme Barrientos 3
        Alain Romedenne         3
        Buovjaga                3
        Justin L                3

     + top 10 bugs reporters:
        Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 3
        contact                 3
        peter josvai            3
        steve                   3
        Cor Nouws               2
        Csábi Frigyes           2
        Dan Dascalescu          2
        Daniel Dubourg          2
        Eric Champy             2
        Eyal Rozenberg          2

     + top 10 bugs fixers:
        Kaganski, Mike          4
        Alain Romedenne         3
        Justin Luth             3
        Nabet, Julien           3
        Adolfo Jayme Barrientos 2
        Adriano M               1
        Andreas Heinisch        1
        Aung, Khant Oo          1
        Heiko Tietze            1
        Köse, Gülşah            1

     + top 10 bugs confirmers:
        Stéphane Guillou        21
        Heiko Tietze            6
        *UNKNOWN*               5
        Vernon, Stuart Foote    5
        Nabet, Julien           3
        Raal                    3
        m.a.riosv               3
                                1
        Adolfo Jayme Barrientos 1
        Ady                     1


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

      done by:
         Aron Budea             2
         Raal                   2
         Stéphane Guillou       2
         Michael Warner         1


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

      done by:
         Raal                   2
         Stéphane Guillou       2
         Aron Budea             1
         Michael Warner         1


* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
    + 1247(+2) bugs open of 13256(+10) total 20(+0) high prio.

      done by:
         Raal                   2
         Stéphane Guillou       2
         Michael Warner         1
         Kaganski, Mike         1
         Robert Großkopf        1
         Xisco Fauli            1


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

    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            - 444(+1)
      Calc                     - 226(+1)
      Impress                  - 126(-1)
      LibreOffice              - 54(-1)
      Draw                     - 52(+0)
      Crashes                  - 46(+0)
      Writer: docx filter      - 45(+0)
      Base                     - 39(+0)
      UI                       - 37(+0)
      Borders                  - 36(+0)
      Writer: perf             - 35(+0)
      Writer: other filter     - 32(+1)
      Chart                    - 24(+0)
      Printing and PDF export  - 24(-1)
      RTL                      - 24(+1)
      filters and storage      - 22(+0)
      BASIC                    - 19(+0)
      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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