ESC meeting minutes: 2023-07-06

* Present:
     + Cloph, Caolan, Gabriel, Heiko, Hossein, Ilmari, Thorsten, Michael W, Stephan, Stephane, Eike, Justin, Xisco, Ilmari, Miklos, Olivier, Khaled, Michael S, sockseight

* Completed Action Items:
   + give Jaume commit access (Cloph)
   + send the invite mail to Jaume (Caolan)

* Pending Action Items:

* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
     + 7.6 status: rc1 this week
       + will enter hard freeze for strings and UI
       + from now on libreoffice-7-6 will require 1 review
       + libreoffice-7-6-0 will be only created for rc2
     + 7.5 status: 7.5.5 rc2 next week

* Documentation (Olivier)
     + New Help
         + 24.2 as master in online help
     + Helcontent2
         + updates for Scriptforge (A. Romedenne)
         + Spotlight help page (Nay Catina - NCSD)
         + Updates and fixes (ohallot, A. Gelmini, S, Chaiklin, S. Horacek, JC Sanz)
     + Guides
         + work in progress

     + Bugzilla Documentation statistics
         273(273) bugs open
     + Updates:
         BZ changes 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
            created 5(-2) 28(-1) 82(-11) 299(-9)
          commented 1(-26) 67(-6) 197(-55) 1009(-31)
           resolved 0(-1) 5(-1) 31(-6) 165(-7)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Stéphane Guillou made 42 changes in 1 month, and 261 changes in 1 year
           Olivier Hallot made 24 changes in 1 month, and 477 changes in 1 year
           Seth Chaiklin made 12 changes in 1 month, and 302 changes in 1 year
           Kaganski, Mike made 7 changes in 1 month, and 104 changes in 1 year
           Nabet, Julien made 6 changes in 1 month, and 32 changes in 1 year
           Robert Großkopf made 4 changes in 1 month, and 14 changes in 1 year
           Heiko Tietze made 3 changes in 1 month, and 108 changes in 1 year
           Leroy made 3 changes in 1 month, and 3 changes in 1 year
           Eyal Rozenberg made 2 changes in 1 month, and 15 changes in 1 year
           Perdreau, Regis made 2 changes in 1 month, and 9 changes in 1 year

* UX Update (Heiko)
     + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
         273(273) (topicUI) bugs open, 68(68) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
     + Updates:
         BZ changes 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
              added 5(1) 18(3) 30(-1) 60(3)
          commented 46(6) 207(-32) 825(-9) 2449(6)
            removed 0(-1) 1(-1) 9(-2) 29(0)
           resolved 2(0) 21(-6) 101(-3) 316(-2)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Heiko Tietze made 103 changes in 1 month, and 1482 changes in 1 year
           Stéphane Guillou made 53 changes in 1 month, and 394 changes in 1 year
           Eyal Rozenberg made 46 changes in 1 month, and 292 changes in 1 year
           Kaganski, Mike made 31 changes in 1 month, and 150 changes in 1 year
           ady made 30 changes in 1 month, and 74 changes in 1 year
           Justin Luth made 29 changes in 1 month, and 78 changes in 1 year
           Ilmari Lauhakangas made 24 changes in 1 month, and 224 changes in 1 year
           Vernon, Stuart Foote made 21 changes in 1 month, and 386 changes in 1 year
           Dieter made 14 changes in 1 month, and 258 changes in 1 year
           Hossein made 13 changes in 1 month, and 72 changes in 1 year
     + [Bug 156171] Text-to-columns defective, generating more lines than in source data
     + [Bug 156156] Add Help button to sidebar
     + [Bug 155740] Support distinction rather than override of conflicting
            subdocument styles
     + [Bug 156046] Autocorrect replaces " - " with " – " instead of " — " (en-dash
            instead of em-dash)
     + [Bug 156089] When setting the Heading/Outline Numbering for a level to "None",
            still getting separators
     + [Bug 156087] Add an "all pages" view mode to Draw to scroll through all pages in
            canvas (without needing Page Pane)
     + [Bug 156099] Rename "rotation object" to "solid of revolution"

* Crash Testing (Caolan)
     + 61(+26) import failure, 30(+27) export failures
       - found a crash, fixed it, added an assert, got a bunch more!
         fixed those, awaiting results again
     + 0 coverity issues
     + 5 ossfuzz issues
       - 1 new leak, now fixed

* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.4.7.2
          + (+1) 472 471 380 318 250 251 118 0
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.5.3.2
          + (-67) 711 778 1109 1355 1174 1029 702 453 0
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.5.4.2
          + (+252) 969 717 365 0

    + 7.5.4.2 spreadsheets shared in https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2023-July/090574.html
    + submitted several fixes based on crashreports (Xisco)
      + some intersection with crashtesting (Caolan)

* Mentoring (Hossein)
   + Finalised and published a blog post on dev blog:
     + Parallel build: tuning the build
       https://dev.blog.documentfoundation.org/2023/07/04/parallel-build-tuning-the-performance/
   + New draft on dev blog:
    + ccache for a 5 minute LibreOffice compilation
      https://dev.blog.documentfoundation.org/?p=875&preview=1&_ppp=3f23b9e45c
      + Needs a patch for Windows to get merged
           committer... 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
                   open 71(4) 107(-3) 169(-9) 179(-10)
                reviews 340(62) 1084(38) 3022(106) 10776(48)
                 merged 321(36) 1267(86) 3317(100) 12397(30)
              abandoned 13(3) 57(3) 156(-2) 647(-9)
            own commits 179(17) 740(29) 2331(-4) 10206(17)
         review commits 64(18) 220(15) 727(28) 3007(16)
         contributor... 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
                   open 22(-3) 40(1) 235(4) 240(4)
                reviews 866(82) 2964(178) 8172(166) 31728(108)
                 merged 16(9) 50(-8) 367(-5) 2732(37)
              abandoned 3(-1) 10(2) 53(-2) 504(12)
            own commits 21(12) 65(-3) 236(5) 1012(8)
         review commits 0(0) 0(0) 0(0) 0(0)
     + easyHack statistics:
        needsDevEval 8(8) needsUXEval 1(1) cleanup_comments 329(329)
        total 398(398) assigned 27(27) open 344(344)
     + top 10 contributors:
           Dipam Turkar made 6 patches in 1 month, and 9 patches in 1 year
           Dr. David Alan Gilbert made 6 patches in 1 month, and 18 patches in 1 year
           Luigi Iucci made 4 patches in 1 month, and 5 patches in 1 year
           Armin Le Grand (allotropia) made 4 patches in 1 month, and 71 patches in 1 year
           Colomban Wendling made 3 patches in 1 month, and 24 patches in 1 year
           Baole Fang made 3 patches in 1 month, and 24 patches in 1 year
           Juan C. Sanz made 2 patches in 1 month, and 6 patches in 1 year
           Satya Kompella made 2 patches in 1 month, and 4 patches in 1 year
           Rafał Dobrakowski made 2 patches in 1 month, and 7 patches in 1 year
           Czeber László made 2 patches in 1 month, and 14 patches in 1 year
     + top 10 reviewers:
           Caolán McNamara made 144 review comments in 1 month, and 186 in 1 year
           Nabet, Julien made 88 review comments in 1 month, and 942 in 1 year
           Vajna, Miklos made 74 review comments in 1 month, and 762 in 1 year
           Timar, Andras made 64 review comments in 1 month, and 408 in 1 year
           Xisco Fauli made 58 review comments in 1 month, and 776 in 1 year
           Vajngerl, Tomaž made 56 review comments in 1 month, and 456 in 1 year
           Michael Stahl made 52 review comments in 1 month, and 1060 in 1 year
           Grandin, Noel made 32 review comments in 1 month, and 570 in 1 year
           Samuel Mehrbrodt made 32 review comments in 1 month, and 74 in 1 year
           Castro, Henry made 30 review comments in 1 month, and 84 in 1 year
     + big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
           Nay Catina Dia-Schneebeli

* GSoC (Ilmari)
   + Phase 1 evaluations: July 10 - July 14 18:00 UTC
     + next week (heads-up for mentors)

* Commit Access

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Miklos/Thorsten/László)
   + resting since: 13 weeks (limit: 20 weeks)

* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
gerrit_android_aarch64 jobs: 209 ok: 183 ko: 9 fail ratio: 4.31% mean_ok: 12 ( 24) median_ok: 9 ( 17)
gerrit_android_arm jobs: 207 ok: 174 ko: 14 fail ratio: 6.76% mean_ok: 12 ( 22) median_ok: 8 ( 17)
gerrit_android_x86 jobs: 209 ok: 180 ko: 9 fail ratio: 4.31% mean_ok: 13 ( 23) median_ok: 9 ( 17)
gerrit_android_x86_64 jobs: 210 ok: 177 ko: 15 fail ratio: 7.14% mean_ok: 13 ( 24) median_ok: 8 ( 19)
gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil jobs: 430 ok: 283 ko: 94 fail ratio: 21.86% mean_ok: 53 ( 65) median_ok: 50 ( 55)
gerrit_linux_gcc_release jobs: 424 ok: 318 ko: 66 fail ratio: 15.57% mean_ok: 26 ( 33) median_ok: 24 ( 29)
gerrit_mac jobs: 441 ok: 297 ko: 99 fail ratio: 22.45% mean_ok: 45 ( 46) median_ok: 41 ( 41)
gerrit_windows jobs: 446 ok: 276 ko: 103 fail ratio: 23.09% mean_ok: 60 ( 91) median_ok: 62 ( 85)
gerrit_master jobs: 455 ok: 227 ko: 156 fail ratio: 34.29% mean_ok: 92 ( 94) median_ok: 81 ( 83)
    + https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/tmp/gerrit_230706.html
    + tests that failed more than twice in last seven days
       3 CppunitTest_framework_dispatch gerrit_windows
       3 CppunitTest_sw_a11y gerrit_windows
       3 JunitTest_ridl_remote gerrit_linux_gcc_release
       3 UITest_calc_tests8 gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
       4 CppunitTest_chart2_export3 gerrit_mac
       4 CppunitTest_sc_subsequent_export_test gerrit_linux_gcc_release
       6 Killed by the kill-wrapper gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil_branch
       7 Killed by the kill-wrapper gerrit_mac
       7 CppunitTest_sw_mailmerge gerrit_windows
      10 Killed by the kill-wrapper gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
    + some mac timeout-kills not classified properly, fixed with
      https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/lode/+/154105 thx sberg
    + was a normal week (Cloph)

* What’s cooking (Miklos)
   + multi-color gradients (Armin)
     + Heiko & Regina is creating pre-defined MCGRs, so e.g. rainbow can be inserted
   + document themes (Tomaz)
   + tdf#155118 multi-page floating tables in Writer (Miklos)

* LibreOffice conference Bucharest 2023 (Gabriel)
   + call for papers: https://events.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice-conference-2023/cfp
     + was extended till 15th July
   + what is the status wrt recruiting volunteers for the different parts of the workshop? (Gabriel)
     + discussed this in the team in Munich (Hossein)
     + idea is to present different parts of the workshop
     + will write down who does what
     + most part of the workshop is covered by someone by now
     + general discussions is not covered: e.g. opensource/free software in general can be provided by a university professor if wanted
     + will send details soon
     + great, want to see what parts are uncovered (Gabriel)
     + university feedback was: focus on actual programming
     + other feedback: at the end the students should feel they contributed something
     + easiest to mentor when the solution is already known (Hossein)
       + needs time
     + do you know the number of students to expect? (Hossein)
       + 2-3 students or more?
       + aware of >10 subscribers (Gabriel)
       + will continue promoting
       + would prefer to set a minimum (Hossein)
         + perhaps 5-7 as min
         + already at 12 as of 2 weeks ago, fear not (Gabriel)
         + hope close to 20
       + upper limit? (Thorsten)
         + if hands-on mentoring is needed
         + might also generate interest
         + 2 rooms are booked (Gabriel)
         + probably can't handle more than 20-25 (Thorsten)
         + have experience with ~15 attendees (Hossein)
         + then then can happen that half of them don't come the next day / until the end
       + We have to account for a potential high rate of dropouts (Stephane)
         + A helper is always good
         + We can also encourage peer-learning, students helping each other
       + should think of someone else helping Hossein (Gabriel)
         + expect to be busy with organizing
       + perhaps involve a few students prior to the conference, to help Hossein
       + will raise the idea to the university (Gabriel)
     + experience from Brazil (Xisco)
       + one problem was: many students appeared then many went away in the middle
       + wondering: if the university can give some kind of certificate
       + discussed this with the university (Gabriel)
         + officially this is not possible
         + but something nominal would be nice, perhaps TDF can give something? (Gabriel)
         + something like this happened in Brazil?
         + yes, that was indeed the case (Olivier)
         + could TDF implement something like this?
           + will discuss this later (Olivier, Gabriel)

* QA update (Xisco)
     + UNCONFIRMED: 1186 (+1)
         + enhancements: 277 (+4)
         + needsUXEval: 14 (+6)
         + haveBackTrace: 8 (+0)
         + needsDevAdvice: 34 (+0)
         + documentation: 4 (+0)
         + android: 3 (+0)
         + iOS: 0 (+0)
         + Online: 12 (+0)

     + Most pressing bugs:
      New:

     None

     + New high severity bugs of the week:
         + Regression: dashed lines become solid when breaking imported SVG / exporting to SVG
             + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155211
             + bisected to Lubos
             + affects editing (breaking) as well as SVG export
             + affects long-standing TexMaths extension
             + code pointers provided by reporter

* QA stats (Stéphane)
     + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
       +80 +51 (-134) overall)
       many thanks to the top bug squashers:
        QA Administrators 25
        ⁨خالد حسني⁩ 14
        Justin L 12
        Maxim Monastirsky 12
        Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 10
        Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) 7
        Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 5
        Caolán McNamara 4
        Xisco Faulí 4
        Aron Budea 3

     + top 10 bugs reporters:
        Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) 8
        Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 4
        Eyal Rozenberg 3
        Mike Kaganski 3
        Regina Henschel 3
        Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 2
        Hossein 2
        LucasLibre 2
        Timur 2
        Heiko Tietze 1

     + top 10 bugs fixers:
        Samuel Mehrbrodt 7
        Justin Luth 4
        Caolán McNamara 3
        Kaganski, Mike 3
        Michael Stahl 3
        خالد حسني 3
        Aron Budea 2
        Henschel, Regina 2
        Jim Raykowski 2
        Monastirsky, Maxim 2

     + top 10 bugs confirmers:
        Stéphane Guillou 14
        m.a.riosv 9
        Balazs Varga 8
        Kelemen, Gabor 7
        Nabet, Julien 4
        Dieter 3
        Raal 3
        Michael Stahl 2
        steve 2
        خالد حسني 2

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

      done by:
         Kelemen, Gabor 1
         Raal 1
         Stéphane Guillou 1

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

      done by:
         Kelemen, Gabor 1
         خالد حسني 1
         Raal 1
         Stéphane Guillou 1

* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
    + 1190(+1) bugs open of 12633(+7) total 13(+0) high prio.

      done by:
         Stéphane Guillou 2
         Kelemen, Gabor 1
         خالد حسني 1
         Robert Großkopf 1

* ~Component count net * high severity regressions
    + http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
      Writer - 8(+0)
      Calc - 3(+0)
      Draw - 1(+0)
      LibreOffice - 1(+0)

    by OS:
      All - 9(+0)
      Linux - 2(+0)
      Mac OS X - 0(+0)
      Windows - 2(+0)

* ~Component count net * all regressions
    + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
      Writer: other - 418(+1)
      Calc - 213(-2)
      Impress - 132(+1)
      LibreOffice - 51(+2)
      Crashes - 45(+0)
      Draw - 45(+0)
      Writer: docx filter - 45(-1)
      Base - 42(+0)
      UI - 36(+0)
      Writer: perf - 33(+0)
      Borders - 32(+0)
      Writer: other filter - 30(+0)
      Chart - 25(+0)
      Printing and PDF export - 23(-1)
      RTL - 23(+0)
      BASIC - 18(+0)
      filters and storage - 18(+1)
      Writer: doc filter - 13(+0)
      graphics stack - 12(+0)
      Formula Editor - 3(+0)
      Extensions - 2(+0)
      framework - 2(+0)
      sdk - 2(+0)
      Linguistic - 1(+0)