ESC meeting minutes: 2023-09-14

vmiklos · September 14, 2023, 2:46pm

Present:
- Gabriel, Heiko, Hossein, Ilmari, Khaled, Regina, Stephan, Miklos, Stephane, Olivier, Thorsten, Cloph, Michael S, Eike
Completed Action Items:
- update the core.git README.md with the new Linux baseline (Cloph)
Pending Action Items:
- Try gtk4 local builds, Qt6 local builds (Cloph)
Release Engineering update (Cloph)
- 7.6 status: 7.6.2 rc1 in 1 week
  - 7.6.1 is announced as final
  - 7.6.2 rc2 in 3 weeks
- 7.5 status: 7.5.7 rc1 in 4 weeks
  - plan to cut an additional point release in 2 weeks with just 1 RC
Documentation (Olivier)
- Helpcontents2
  - Updates on UNO command in UI (ohallot)
  - fixes (stragu, B. Kosiorek, ohallot)
- Guides
  - Work in progress.
- Bugzilla Documentation statistics
  270(270) bugs open
- Updates:
  BZ changes 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
  created 5(0) 18(1) 77(0) 298(-2)
  commented 18(5) 61(4) 261(10) 1105(1)
  resolved 0(-1) 5(0) 30(-2) 164(-3)
- top 10 contributors:
  Olivier Hallot made 17 changes in 1 month, and 437 changes in 1 year
  Stéphane Guillou made 11 changes in 1 month, and 336 changes in 1 year
  Ilmari Lauhakangas made 9 changes in 1 month, and 111 changes in 1 year
  Heiko Tietze made 8 changes in 1 month, and 118 changes in 1 year
  Jim Avera made 5 changes in 1 month, and 5 changes in 1 year
  Kaganski, Mike made 5 changes in 1 month, and 77 changes in 1 year
  Seth Chaiklin made 5 changes in 1 month, and 306 changes in 1 year
  skierpage made 3 changes in 1 month, and 3 changes in 1 year
  steve made 3 changes in 1 month, and 14 changes in 1 year
  Mike Saunders made 3 changes in 1 month, and 4 changes in 1 year
UX Update (Heiko)
- Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
  264(264) (topicUI) bugs open, 60(60) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
- Updates:
  BZ changes 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
  added 6(-2) 15(0) 23(0) 51(-2)
  commented 73(12) 216(33) 475(25) 2380(-6)
  removed 0(0) 1(0) 2(0) 24(-3)
  resolved 10(1) 37(5) 87(7) 334(3)
- top 10 contributors:
  Heiko Tietze made 137 changes in 1 month, and 1404 changes in 1 year
  Stéphane Guillou made 50 changes in 1 month, and 479 changes in 1 year
  Eyal Rozenberg made 30 changes in 1 month, and 317 changes in 1 year
  ady made 28 changes in 1 month, and 114 changes in 1 year
  Dieter made 25 changes in 1 month, and 257 changes in 1 year
  Bogdan B made 16 changes in 1 month, and 102 changes in 1 year
  Vernon, Stuart Foote made 16 changes in 1 month, and 404 changes in 1 year
  steve made 13 changes in 1 month, and 29 changes in 1 year
  Kaganski, Mike made 12 changes in 1 month, and 125 changes in 1 year
  Henschel, Regina made 11 changes in 1 month, and 44 changes in 1 year
- [Bug 157208] “Find and Replace” dialog’s error notifications should be
  more noticeable, not an unformatted label in the middle
- [Bug 156907] Writer on Mac confuses users when opening a document from
  a readonly location.
- [Bug 156438] Apply heuristic for choosing visible language group tab when
  opening dialog
- [Bug 156970] Revert 7.6 Style Box in Menu Bar to 7.5 Style Box in Menu Bar
- [Bug 157178] Toolbars disappear
  → + [Bug 157038] Auto Spell Checker Prevents Cell Selection Right Click
- [Bug 151557] Changing text direction with command .uno:ParaRightToLeft
  changes text alignment
- [Bug 89914] UI: Bookmarks in Status Bar display differently when window
  not maximized
- [Bug 156890] Spotlight colors hide expand/collapse arrows
  → + [Bug 157142] The formula input field and the selected cell field above the
  top of the spreadsheet should be populated at all times when the Calc
  window is available for viewing.
  + it’s all related to the input handler area, it’s module-based, not document-based (Eike)
- removed some global options from the options dialog (Heiko)
  - removed it from the UI, the option is there, the advanced settings dialog still has it
Crash Testing (Caolan)
- 13(+0) import failure, 0(+0) export failures
- ??? coverity issues
- Google / ossfuzz: ?? fuzzers active now
Crash Reporting (Xisco)
- https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.5.4.2
  + (-97) 499 596 628 668 706 981 969 717 365 0
- https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.5.5.2
  + (-169) 1173 1342 1349 852 1012 0
- https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.5.6.2
  + (+132) 132 0
- https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.6.0.3
  + (-308) 1615 1923 440 0
- Fixed in 7.5.6.2
  - ScTable::DeleteCol(sc::ColumnSet const &,short,long,long,unsigned __int64,bool *)
- Thanks to László
- SalInstanceTreeView::get_drag_source()
- Thanks to Caolán
Mentoring (Hossein)
- Prepared USB sticks contents (VM/binary/source/doc) for the LibOCon 2023 workshop
- Found a way to download/install VS modules (semi)automatically via a Layout file
  Use command-line parameters to install Visual Studio | Microsoft Learn
  - will update the wiki later (Hossein)
- Finalized and published a blog post on dev blog
  Catalog and schema support for SQL functions - difficulty interesting EasyHack - LibreOffice Development Blog
  committer… 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
  open 73(-5) 125(4) 181(5) 228(7)
  reviews 370(-38) 1394(10) 3428(-48) 11562(28)
  merged 246(-45) 1064(4) 3324(-69) 12856(-9)
  abandoned 16(-8) 74(5) 148(-6) 656(2)
  own commits 183(-14) 733(29) 2188(26) 9962(-50)
  review commits 50(5) 226(14) 654(-8) 3082(7)
  contributor… 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
  open 26(9) 51(8) 80(12) 102(12)
  reviews 648(-72) 2824(36) 7632(-130) 31232(-144)
  merged 13(-5) 81(5) 214(-1) 2237(-65)
  abandoned 3(-5) 170(1) 189(2) 615(-3)
  own commits 13(0) 79(1) 212(-8) 1091(5)
  review commits 0(0) 0(0) 0(0) 0(0)
  - easyHack statistics:
    needsDevEval 8(8) needsUXEval 1(1) cleanup_comments 326(326)
    total 402(402) assigned 21(21) open 356(356)
  - top 10 contributors:
    Dipam Turkar made 26 patches in 1 month, and 48 patches in 1 year
    Armin Le Grand (allotropia) made 4 patches in 1 month, and 75 patches in 1 year
    Ahmed Eltokhy made 3 patches in 1 month, and 12 patches in 1 year
    Sahil Gautam made 3 patches in 1 month, and 8 patches in 1 year
    Dan Horák made 3 patches in 1 month, and 3 patches in 1 year
    Montane, Joan made 2 patches in 1 month, and 2 patches in 1 year
    NOGATA, Jun made 2 patches in 1 month, and 2 patches in 1 year
    Stéphane Guillou made 2 patches in 1 month, and 31 patches in 1 year
    Czeber László made 2 patches in 1 month, and 19 patches in 1 year
    Quentin PAGÈS made 2 patches in 1 month, and 2 patches in 1 year
  - top 10 reviewers:
    Caolán McNamara made 138 review comments in 1 month, and 478 in 1 year
    Thorsten Behrens made 132 review comments in 1 month, and 490 in 1 year
    Vajna, Miklos made 120 review comments in 1 month, and 882 in 1 year
    Nabet, Julien made 110 review comments in 1 month, and 970 in 1 year
    Vajngerl, Tomaž made 78 review comments in 1 month, and 434 in 1 year
    Michael Stahl made 78 review comments in 1 month, and 1156 in 1 year
    Kaganski, Mike made 68 review comments in 1 month, and 378 in 1 year
    Xisco Fauli made 68 review comments in 1 month, and 728 in 1 year
    Christian Lohmaier made 64 review comments in 1 month, and 404 in 1 year
    Ilmari Lauhakangas made 64 review comments in 1 month, and 382 in 1 year
  - Patches automatically abandoned:
    update hunspell dictionaries for Turkish language ( Ali Safaya )
    - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/118649
    python3: upgrade to release 3.11.1 ( Taichi Haradaguchi )
    - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/145054
  - big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
    Darshan Upadhyay (Collabora)
    Dung Saga
  - review bot adds reviewers even to gerrit changes for distro branches, could that be avoided? doesn’t look useful (Miklos)
    AI: ignore distro branches when adding reviewers (Xisco)
  - also changes get the reviewer from the original author, which doesn’t help for distro branches (Michael S)
    - looks like that’s a separate mechanism (Miklos)
GSoC (Ilmari/Thorsten)
- done for this year (Ilmari)
- almost (Thorsten)
  - GSoC panel at the conference + blog post presenting the results
  - blog post will be published soon (Ilmari)
Outreachy (Ilmari)
- https://www.outreachy.org/ – Applied with two intern slots
- Mentor sign up deadline September 29: looking for mentors
  - LibreOffice: Call for Outreachy mentors and volunteers
  - if you have time to mentor & idea: please speak up now
- Project timeline is Dec → March
- Not looking for mentors at this stage, have 2 projects already
Commit Access
Developer Certification (Stephan/Miklos/Thorsten/László)
- resting since: 20 weeks (limit: 20 weeks)
- Stephan reached out to some of them
Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
gerrit_android_aarch64 jobs: 138 ok: 137 ko: 1 fail ratio: 0.72% mean_ok: 7 ( 10) median_ok: 4 ( 6)
gerrit_android_arm jobs: 139 ok: 137 ko: 1 fail ratio: 0.72% mean_ok: 6 ( 8) median_ok: 4 ( 6)
gerrit_android_x86 jobs: 138 ok: 136 ko: 2 fail ratio: 1.45% mean_ok: 7 ( 10) median_ok: 4 ( 6)
gerrit_android_x86_64 jobs: 139 ok: 137 ko: 1 fail ratio: 0.72% mean_ok: 6 ( 9) median_ok: 4 ( 6)
gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil jobs: 314 ok: 229 ko: 81 fail ratio: 25.80% mean_ok: 35 ( 36) median_ok: 34 ( 36)
gerrit_linux_gcc_release jobs: 330 ok: 272 ko: 46 fail ratio: 13.94% mean_ok: 14 ( 16) median_ok: 13 ( 14)
gerrit_mac jobs: 308 ok: 251 ko: 52 fail ratio: 16.88% mean_ok: 44 ( 44) median_ok: 41 ( 41)
gerrit_windows jobs: 295 ok: 242 ko: 50 fail ratio: 16.95% mean_ok: 53 ( 56) median_ok: 47 ( 47)
gerrit_master_ml jobs: 402 ok: 205 ko: 180 fail ratio: 44.78% mean_ok: 64 ( 64) median_ok: 60 ( 60)
gerrit_master jobs: 34 ok: 20 ko: 12 fail ratio: 35.29% mean_ok: 49 ( 49) median_ok: 46 ( 46)
gerrit_master_seq jobs: 357 ok: 185 ko: 158 fail ratio: 44.26% mean_ok: 65 ( 65) median_ok: 61 ( 61)
- https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/tmp/gerrit_230914.html
- tests that failed more than twice in last seven days
  data not plausible (stats miss build-agent info), need to check the stats generation scripts
  3 CppunitTest_sc_subsequent_filters_test4 gerrit_mac
  4 CppunitTest_chart2_uichart gerrit_linux_gcc_release
  4 CppunitTest_desktop_lib gerrit_linux_gcc_release
  4 CppunitTest_drawinglayer_processors gerrit_windows
  4 CppunitTest_sc_pivottable_filters_test gerrit_mac
  4 CppunitTest_sw_mailmerge gerrit_mac
  4 CppunitTest_sw_odfimport gerrit_linux_gcc_release
  4 CppunitTest_sw_ooxmlimport2 gerrit_linux_gcc_release
  4 CppunitTest_vcl_gtk3_a11y gerrit_linux_gcc_release
  4 UITest_math_demo gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
  5 CppunitTest_sw_ooxmlexport17 gerrit_mac
  6 CppunitTest_framework_dispatch gerrit_windows
  6 CppunitTest_starmath_qa_cppunit gerrit_windows
  6 UITest_calc_tests8 gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
  8 CppunitTest_vcl_gtk3_a11y gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
  8 CppunitTest_vcl_pdfexport gerrit_linux_gcc_release
  10 JunitTest_chart2_unoapi gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
  10 UITest_sw_fieldDialog gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
  18 Killed by the kill-wrapper gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
  35 Killed by the kill-wrapper gerrit_mac
  38 UITest_sw_navigator gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
  - Noel disabled some unstable navigator asserts here, should help for the next time
What’s cooking (Miklos)
- C++20 (Stephan)
- multi-page floating tables in Writer, see tdf#157119 for details (Miklos)
- JDK bump to 17 (Michael W)
  - waiting for JDK 17 to be installed on builders
    - the Linux builders have it installed now
  - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/155827
    - 1 mac still needs updating (Cloph)
    - Windows already prefers JDK 17 instead of the old JDK 11
- Right-to-left math layout and other Math improvements (Khaled)
  - continued worked on the visual editing mode
  - on by default now
  - the “source” editing mode is now hidden, so there is 1 edit window only
  - improving things for non-OpenSymbol cases
- import of Word drawing canvas, that is wpc element (Regina)
  - made some progress
  - hit a principal problem: the drawingML and VML markup is not a superset of each other
  - see the mail just sent to the dev mailing list
- Making MissingUnitTests more approachable for new devs (Ilmari)
  - hope to have it in the actual wiki soon
LibreOffice conference Bucharest 2023 (Gabriel)
- almost finished with the preparations
- will have 2 main rooms (workshop in parallel)
- community section in Wed afternoon
- main days: Thu → Sat (21st → 23rd)
- Thu evening: dinner
- Fri evening: hackfest
- Gabriel will share info about the events in general
- ask questions in the conf telegram group
- also have a survival guide, focusing on how to reach the venue, shared by Mike
- it’s worth having an ESC call in-person if possible (Thorsten)
  - it opens up the ESC and gives the opportunity for people to ask questions
  - it’s quite different to the usual schedule
  - good to have a wider perspective
  - best to ask the organizers to give us a timelost (Thorsten)
    AI: ask for a slot (Gabriel)
- can schedule something (Gabriel)
QA update (Xisco)
- UNCONFIRMED: 1168 (-34)
  - enhancements: 282 (+1)
  - needsUXEval: 8 (-3)
  - haveBackTrace: 12 (-1)
  - needsDevAdvice: 34 (-2)
  - documentation: 3 (+0)
  - android: 0 (+0)
  - iOS: 0 (+0)
  - Online: 11 (-1)
- Most pressing bugs:
  New:
None
- New high severity bugs of the week:
  - LO pastes previously copied content instead of what was last copied from other app (Windows 10; see comment 11)
    - 148647 – LO pastes previously copied content instead of what was last copied from other app (Windows 10; see comment 11)
    - not marked as a regression
  - LibreOffice 7.6.0 copying of formulas in writer table – relative distance of cells in formula not preserved after copying to other lines
    - 157132 – LibreOffice 7.6.0 copying of formulas in writer table – relative distance of cells in formula not preserved after copying to other lines
    - bisected to Bjoern
QA stats (Stéphane)
- Weekly Bug Summary
  +110 +0 (-129) overall)
  many thanks to the top bug squashers:
  Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 20
  Buovjaga 10
  QA Administrators 10
  Xisco Faulí 8
  Heiko Tietze 7
  Julien Nabet 7
  Michael Weghorn 5
  Mike Kaganski 5
  ⁨خالد حسني⁩ 5
  Justin L 4
- top 10 bugs reporters:
  Jim Avera 5
  Jeff Fortin Tam 4
  Mike Kaganski 4
  Regina Henschel 4
  Xisco Faulí 4
  Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 3
  Adrián L. 2
  Faisal 2
  NicolasC 2
  Rafael Lima 2
- top 10 bugs fixers:
  Nabet, Julien 4
  Weghorn, Michael 4
  خالد حسني 4
  Stéphane Guillou 3
  Xisco Fauli 3
  Andreas Heinisch 2
  Caolán McNamara 2
  Grandin, Noel 2
  Heiko Tietze 2
  Kaganski, Mike 2
- top 10 bugs confirmers:
  Stéphane Guillou 24
  Xisco Fauli 21
  Ilmari Lauhakangas 16
  m.a.riosv 11
  Heiko Tietze 6
  Dieter 5
  Nabet, Julien 4
  Faisal 3
  Kaganski, Mike 3
  Weghorn, Michael 3

Bisected bugs open: keyword ‘bisected’

more accurate - down to a single commit.
Bug List: LibreOffice Bi-bisected

done by:
   Stéphane Guillou       6
   Xisco Fauli            4
   Kelemen, Gabor         2
   Ilmari Lauhakangas     1
   Justin Luth            1
   Weghorn, Michael       1
   Kaganski, Mike         1
   Raal                   1

Bibisected bugs open: keyword ‘bibisected’

Bug List: LibreOffice Bi-bisected

done by:
   Stéphane Guillou       6
   Xisco Fauli            4
   Kelemen, Gabor         2
   Ilmari Lauhakangas     1
   Justin Luth            1
   Weghorn, Michael       1
   Kaganski, Mike         1
   Raal                   1

all bugs tagged with ‘regression’
- 1187(+10) bugs open of 12785(+29) total 14(+2) high prio.
  
  done by:
  Stéphane Guillou 8
  Xisco Fauli 4
  Kelemen, Gabor 2
  Kira Tubo 2
  m.a.riosv 2
  Andreas Heinisch 1
  Bogdan B 1
  Ilmari Lauhakangas 1
  Justin Luth 1
  Weghorn, Michael 1
~Component count net * high severity regressions
- Bug List
  Writer - 9(+1)
  Calc - 3(+0)
  LibreOffice - 1(+0)
  Printing and PDF export - 1(+1)
by OS:
All - 10(+2)
Linux - 2(+0)
Mac OS X - 0(+0)
Windows - 2(+0)
~Component count net * all regressions
- Bug List
  Writer: other - 415(+7)
  Calc - 222(+4)
  Impress - 131(+2)
  LibreOffice - 49(-1)
  Crashes - 45(+0)
  Draw - 44(+0)
  Base - 42(+0)
  Writer: docx filter - 41(+0)
  Borders - 36(+2)
  Writer: perf - 33(+0)
  UI - 32(+0)
  Writer: other filter - 31(+0)
  Printing and PDF export - 24(+1)
  RTL - 23(+0)
  Chart - 22(+0)
  BASIC - 17(-1)
  filters and storage - 17(+1)
  Writer: doc filter - 15(+0)
  graphics stack - 12(-2)
  Formula Editor - 4(+0)
  framework - 4(+0)
  Extensions - 2(+0)
  sdk - 2(+0)
  Linguistic - 1(+0)