ESC meeting minutes: 2024-09-26

Miklos Vajna vmiklos at collabora.com
Thu Sep 26 14:32:07 UTC 2024


* Present:
   + Thorsten, Cloph, Heiko, Hossein, Ilmari, Jonathan, Michael S, Michael W, Olivier, Regina, Stephan, Xisco, Miklos, Caolán

* Completed Action Items:

* Pending Action Items:

* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
   + 24.8.2 to be announced tomorrow
     + from rc1 (no rc2)
   + 24.8.3 rc1 in 4 weeks
   + 24.2.7 rc1 in 2 weeks
   + no https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan/25.2 yet? (Thorsten)
     + not yet, but expect similar weeks, compared to last year (Cloph)
     AI: create the plan (Cloph)

* Documentation (Olivier)
     + New Help
        + minor refactor of the XHP DTD (Pierre F)
     + Helpcontents2
        + More updates and refactor for bookmarks (ohallot)
        +
     + Guides
        + Progress in Calc Guide
        + Writer Guide in pt-BR is published

     + Bugzilla Documentation statistics
         227(227) bugs open
     + Updates:
         BZ changes   1 week    1 month    3 months   12 months
            created      8(-2)     44(-11)   115(-4)     263(1)
          commented     15(-19)   142(-38)   354(5)     1014(10)
           resolved      1(-1)     21(-4)     68(-5)     173(0)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Pierre F made 67 changes in 1 month, and 218 changes in 1 year
           Olivier Hallot made 47 changes in 1 month, and 342 changes in 1 year
           Ilmari Lauhakangas made 28 changes in 1 month, and 131 changes in 1 year
           Heiko Tietze made 21 changes in 1 month, and 91 changes in 1 year
           Dione Maddern made 13 changes in 1 month, and 96 changes in 1 year
           Nabet, Julien made 8 changes in 1 month, and 46 changes in 1 year
           nobu made 7 changes in 1 month, and 23 changes in 1 year
           nutka made 5 changes in 1 month, and 6 changes in 1 year
           Vernon, Stuart Foote made 5 changes in 1 month, and 158 changes in 1 year
           Bogdan B made 3 changes in 1 month, and 12 changes in 1 year

* UX Update (Heiko)
     + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
         232(232) (topicUI) bugs open, 23(23) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
     + Updates:
         BZ changes   1 week    1 month    3 months   12 months
              added      3(-1)      9(-6)      9(-7)      17(-7)
          commented     34(-35)   153(-31)   372(-50)   1691(-27)
            removed      0(0)       1(-1)      1(-1)      10(-1)
           resolved      6(2)      22(1)      65(-2)     267(-2)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Heiko Tietze made 79 changes in 1 month, and 905 changes in 1 year
           Vernon, Stuart Foote made 43 changes in 1 month, and 367 changes in 1 year
           Ilmari Lauhakangas made 42 changes in 1 month, and 172 changes in 1 year
           Eyal Rozenberg made 26 changes in 1 month, and 161 changes in 1 year
           Henschel, Regina made 22 changes in 1 month, and 57 changes in 1 year
           Aidar made 10 changes in 1 month, and 10 changes in 1 year
           m.a.riosv made 10 changes in 1 month, and 50 changes in 1 year
           Kira Tubo made 9 changes in 1 month, and 26 changes in 1 year
           Manu made 9 changes in 1 month, and 9 changes in 1 year
           Ady made 7 changes in 1 month, and 106 changes in 1 year

  -> + Bug 163140 Add an option to fully embed fonts when exporting to PDF
     + Bug 163121 Add a toggle to make "Mouse pointer as pen" markings permanent
           or temporary
     + Bug 161972 Inserting new comment in Calc disables the "show all comments"
           setting

  -> * Remove hard-coded key combination shift+ctrl+f6 (Heiko)
       + dev https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2024-September/092436.html
       + ESC https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2024-September/092447.html
       + a11y https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/accessibility/msg01194.html
       + would be nice to have functionality where the arrow keys can be used after inserting a split window, then the replacement would be nicer.
       + option to keep the shortcut but don't hardcode it? (Miklos)
         + would prefer not allocating a shortcut for this at all (Heiko)
       => submitted, follow-up https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163167

* Crash Testing (Caolan)
     + 24(+6) import failure, 22(+7) export failures
       - https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Crashtesting
       - existing problem is now happening more frequently
     + 310 coverity issues
     + 1 ossfuzz issue
       - ppt import timeout

* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
     + 24.2.5.2    23082(+2093)
     + 24.2.6.2    631(+377)
     + 24.8.0.3    13882(+2579)
     + 24.8.1.2    4615(+3534)

* Mentoring (Hossein)
  + Added a new draft blog post
    Options Pages and UNO Commands
    https://dev.blog.documentfoundation.org/?p=1250&preview=1&_ppp=71baa2970d
+ .NET binding is merged and usable, but not in the daily builds (Hossein)
   + how to fix this?
   + aware of issues on some platforms, but not on Linux
   + daily builds use the distro config (Cloph)
     + the builders should have the .NET SDK installed
     + there might be also a problem with packaging
     + is .NET SDK part of the LODE install? (Miklos)
       + yes, see https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/lode/+/168272 (Cloph)
           committer...   1 week      1 month     3 months     12 months
                   open      42(-25)     104(-30)    140(-16)      140(-16)
                reviews     310(-64)    1442(-20)   3604(-192)   13174(-2)
                 merged     270(-106)   1383(-25)   3726(-11)    13576(157)
              abandoned      13(-11)      52(-4)     214(-7)       769(8)
            own commits     218(-71)     993(-3)    2663(79)      9905(133)
         review commits      56(5)       251(18)     682(-30)     3156(27)
         contributor...   1 week      1 month      3 months     12 months
                   open      74(29)      114(11)      135(17)       135(17)
                reviews     760(-230)   3184(-106)   8352(-120)   30544(228)
                 merged      26(6)       106(3)       290(-37)     1451(-12)
              abandoned       3(1)        15(1)        73(3)        573(-12)
            own commits      23(13)       91(10)      283(-43)     1275(9)
         review commits       0(0)         0(0)         0(0)          0(0)
     + easyHack statistics:
        needsDevEval 8(8)   needsUXEval 1(1)   cleanup_comments 329(329)
        total 416(416)   assigned 25(25)   open 353(353)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Pierre F made 18 patches in 1 month, and 86 patches in 1 year
           Mohit Marathe made 10 patches in 1 month, and 13 patches in 1 year
           Adam Seskunas made 9 patches in 1 month, and 27 patches in 1 year
           Kira Tubo made 7 patches in 1 month, and 27 patches in 1 year
           Dione Maddern made 5 patches in 1 month, and 83 patches in 1 year
           Bogdan B made 4 patches in 1 month, and 92 patches in 1 year
           Sohrab Kazak made 4 patches in 1 month, and 4 patches in 1 year
           Ritobroto Mukherjee made 3 patches in 1 month, and 31 patches in 1 year
           Armin Le Grand (allotropia) made 3 patches in 1 month, and 78 patches in 1 year
           Tzschichholz, Rico made 2 patches in 1 month, and 3 patches in 1 year
     + top 10 reviewers:
           Michael Stahl made 138 review comments in 1 month, and 892 in 1 year
           Caolán McNamara made 130 review comments in 1 month, and 1442 in 1 year
           Ilmari Lauhakangas made 108 review comments in 1 month, and 648 in 1 year
           Xisco Fauli made 108 review comments in 1 month, and 776 in 1 year
           Thorsten Behrens made 98 review comments in 1 month, and 658 in 1 year
           Kaganski, Mike made 92 review comments in 1 month, and 526 in 1 year
           Christian Lohmaier made 90 review comments in 1 month, and 518 in 1 year
           Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 84 review comments in 1 month, and 820 in 1 year
           Vajngerl, Tomaž made 60 review comments in 1 month, and 346 in 1 year
           Vajna, Miklos made 60 review comments in 1 month, and 1114 in 1 year
     + Patches automatically abandoned:
         tdf#155856 Port C++ SDK example make file to cmake / qmake ( Hossein   )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/153540
         Upgrade libjpeg-turbo to 3.0.2 ( Taichi Haradaguchi )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/160072
         WIP remove alpha outputdevice and use merged alpha instead ( Noel Grandin )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/160107
         tdf#51357 add TriangleWipe transition to svg export by impress ( Devansh Varshney )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/163658
         NotoSansArabic: upgrade to v2.012 ( Xisco Fauli )
             - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/163822
     + big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
           Marc Mondesir

* GSoC (Ilmari)
   + 1 project with extension, to be finished till the end of Sept
   + pending final eval from mentors
   + blog post: when the printer project is done

* LiboCon (Cloph)
  + in 2 weeks
  + all attendees, whether speaker or not, please register: https://conference.libreoffice.org/2024/register
  + if you want to attend the development workshop, please register here: https://conference.libreoffice.org/2024/register-to-workshop
  + remote talks? (Miklos)
    + welcome to send a pre-recorded video (Cloph)
    + contact Sophie/Italo on that

* Commit Access

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Miklos/László/Gabriel)
   + resting since: 18 weeks (limit: 20 weeks)

* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
gerrit_android_aarch64     jobs: 164 ok: 160 ko:   0 fail ratio: 0.00% mean_ok:  12 ( 33) median_ok:   8 ( 23)
gerrit_android_arm         jobs: 163 ok: 160 ko:   2 fail ratio: 1.23% mean_ok:  11 ( 32) median_ok:   8 ( 21)
gerrit_android_x86         jobs: 165 ok: 162 ko:   0 fail ratio: 0.00% mean_ok:  12 ( 32) median_ok:   8 ( 22)
gerrit_android_x86_64      jobs: 164 ok: 157 ko:   4 fail ratio: 2.44% mean_ok:  12 ( 33) median_ok:   9 ( 21)
gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil jobs: 335 ok: 276 ko:  52 fail ratio: 15.52% mean_ok:  51 ( 71) median_ok:  50 ( 62)
gerrit_linux_gcc_release   jobs: 376 ok: 313 ko:  40 fail ratio: 10.64% mean_ok:  25 ( 45) median_ok:  19 ( 32)
gerrit_mac                 jobs: 336 ok: 305 ko:  20 fail ratio: 5.95% mean_ok:  55 ( 57) median_ok:  44 ( 46)
gerrit_windows             jobs: 318 ok: 274 ko:  30 fail ratio: 9.43% mean_ok:  67 ( 84) median_ok:  61 ( 63)
gerrit_master_ml           jobs: 379 ok: 242 ko: 104 fail ratio: 27.44% mean_ok: 129 (130) median_ok: 107 (108)
gerrit_master              jobs:  58 ok:  30 ko:  19 fail ratio: 32.76% mean_ok:  87 ( 87) median_ok:  66 ( 66)
gerrit_master_seq          jobs: 320 ok: 212 ko:  84 fail ratio: 26.25% mean_ok: 134 (135) median_ok: 109 (109)
    + tests that failed more than twice in last seven days
       3 CppunitTest_sfx2_misc                gerrit_linux_gcc_release
       3 CppunitTest_svx_unit                gerrit_windows
       3 CppunitTest_sw_a11y                gerrit_windows
       3 UITest_impress_tests                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       4 Killed by the kill-wrapper                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       4 CppunitTest_vcl_lifecycle                gerrit_linux_gcc_release
   + this week: normal week
     + nice to see the amount of Windows aborts is OK
     + some hangs, but Jenkins can handle that
     + today: more new changes than usual, otherwise fine.

* What’s cooking (Miklos)
   + A11y update (Michael W)
     + NVDA:
         + https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issues/17198
           NVDA error when using Microsoft Pinyin (IME for Chinese):
         + https://github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issues/17218
           LO checkbox status not reported for braille displays
     + tdf#160837 "ACCESSIBILITY: toolbar positions are incorrectly reported to AT-SPI2"
   + RTL/CTL/CJK update (Jonathan)
     + tdf#129808 DOC CJK line height too narrow with fNoExtLeading
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129808
       + Fixed
     + tdf#85435 DOC line spacing wrong due to text grid
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85435
       + Fixed
     + tdf#163105 Not every kashida opportunity is used
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163105
       + General Arabic justification refactor / consolidated duplicated code
       + Behavior now consistent between Writer and Edit Engine
       + More words will have kashida where they are supposed to be
       + Last change in flight
     + tdf#140767 Implement Syriac justification
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140767
       + In flight
   + CairoSDPR from Armin
     + meta-bug (should there be any issues): https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163129
   + Playing with a new baseline with Windows, from Windows Server 2012R2 to Windows 11 (Cloph)
     + and then perhaps a VS update
   + New script to check latest version of external libraries (Xisco)
     + https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/173618, will push it soon
   + Qt welding (Omkar Acharekar, Michael W)

       + initial implementation based on Omkar's Outreachy work merged to master now

   + Add basic transition to ODF 1.4 (Xisco)

       + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Budget2024#Basic_transition_tasks

       + nice to see, MSO already writes this (Olivier)

       + not writing 1.4 yet (Xisco)

       + maybe will change the version, but not before features are implemented? (Xisco)

         + think we need it earlier (Regina)

         + no need to implement all features

         + it's OK if we are able to write a subset

       + will give it a try to change the default (Xisco)


* QA update (Xisco)
     + UNCONFIRMED: 1258 (+20)
         + enhancements: 305  (+5)
         + needsUXEval: 4 (-1)
         + haveBackTrace: 9 (+0)
         + needsDevAdvice: 47 (-1)
         + documentation:  3 (-1)
         + android:  0 (+0)
         + iOS:  0 (+0)
         + Online:  9 (+0)


     + Most pressing bugs:
      New:

     None


     + New high severity bugs of the week:
         + CRASH: undoing slide duplication with a slide with comments
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163144
             + Tomaž ?

* QA stats (Xisco)
     + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
       +120  -14 (-113) overall)
       many thanks to the top bug squashers:
        Buovjaga                21
        QA Administrators       16
        Heiko Tietze            9
        Mike Kaganski           8
        V Stuart Foote          6
        m_a_riosv               6
        Xisco Faulí             5
        Jonathan Clark          3
        Regina Henschel         3
        Caolán McNamara         2

     + top 10 bugs reporters:
        Hossein                 6
        peter josvai            6
        Mike Kaganski           4
        Buovjaga                3
        Eyal Rozenberg          3
        M-Rick                  3
        Roman Kuznetsov         3
        Adalbert Hanßen         2
        Heiko Tietze            2
        Regina Henschel         2

     + top 10 bugs fixers:
        Heiko Tietze            4
        Kaganski, Mike          4
        Jonathan Clark          3
        Balland-Poirier, Laurent 2
        Caolán McNamara         2
        Patrick Luby            2
        *UNKNOWN*               1
        Andreas Heinisch        1
        Attila Szűcs            1
        Christian Lohmaier      1

     + top 10 bugs confirmers:
        Ilmari Lauhakangas      17
        m.a.riosv               11
        Vernon, Stuart Foote    7
        Xisco Fauli             6
        Heiko Tietze            5
        Nabet, Julien           5
        Kaganski, Mike          2
        Patrick Luby            2
                                1
        *UNKNOWN*               1


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

      done by:
         Ilmari Lauhakangas     6
         Xisco Fauli            3
         Raal                   2
         Aron Budea             1


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

      done by:
         Ilmari Lauhakangas     6
         Xisco Fauli            3
         Raal                   2
         Aron Budea             1


* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
    + 1224(+8) bugs open of 13649(+17) total 22(+0) high prio.

      done by:
         Ilmari Lauhakangas     5
         Xisco Fauli            3
         Raal                   2
         Aron Budea             1
         Hossein                1
         m.a.riosv              1
         Vernon, Stuart Foote   1


* ~Component   count net * high severity regressions
    + http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
      Writer        - 10(+0)
      Calc          - 6(+0)
      Impress       - 2(+0)
      LibreOffice   - 2(+0)
      UI            - 1(+0)

    by OS:
      All           - 14(+0)
      Linux         - 5(+0)
      Mac OS X      - 0(+0)
      Windows       - 3(+0)


* ~Component   count net * all regressions
    + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
      Writer: other            - 402(+6)
      Calc                     - 246(+1)
      Impress                  - 123(+2)
      LibreOffice              - 53(+0)
      Draw                     - 49(-1)
      Writer: docx filter      - 43(-3)
      Crashes                  - 42(+0)
      Base                     - 39(+0)
      Borders                  - 34(+1)
      UI                       - 34(+0)
      Writer: perf             - 33(-1)
      Writer: other filter     - 32(-1)
      Printing and PDF export  - 26(+0)
      Chart                    - 24(+0)
      RTL                      - 23(-1)
      BASIC                    - 22(+1)
      filters and storage      - 21(+0)
      Writer: doc filter       - 17(+0)
      graphics stack           - 13(+1)
      Formula Editor           - 11(+0)
      framework                - 3(+0)
      sdk                      - 3(+0)
      Extensions               - 2(+0)
      Linguistic               - 1(+0)


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