ESC meeting minutes: 2023-10-12

  • Present:

    • Hossein, Michael W, Ilmari, Olivier, Caolan, Michael S, Stephan, Miklos, Eike, Cloph, Thorsten
  • Completed Action Items:

    • grant Caolan commit access in libcmis.git (Cloph)
      • Caolan already prepared a release, thanks for that
  • Pending Action Items:

    • Set up a daily tinderbox for the python-based windows installer (Cloph)
  • Release Engineering update (Cloph)

    • 7.6 status: 7.6.3 rc1 in 3 weeks
    • 7.5 status: 7.5.8 rc1 was tagged yesterday, last planned release of the 7.5 line
  • Documentation (Olivier)

    • Helpcontent2

      • Updates in menus and toolbars (ohallot, buovjaga)
      • fixes after translation round (ohallot, J. Nabet, A. Barrientos)
    • Guides

      • Addressing new features for 24.2 (P. Schofield)
      • Resuming Calc Guide update 7.6 (S. Fanning)
      • Progress in Getting Started 7.6 (R. Thornton)
    • Bugzilla Documentation statistics
      271(271) bugs open

    • Updates:
      BZ changes 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
      created 5(-5) 21(2) 74(2) 294(-4)
      commented 9(-9) 46(-3) 237(1) 1082(-8)
      resolved 0(-3) 6(0) 32(0) 159(-7)

    • top 10 contributors:
      Ilmari Lauhakangas made 18 changes in 1 month, and 124 changes in 1 year
      Stéphane Guillou made 16 changes in 1 month, and 352 changes in 1 year
      Olivier Hallot made 14 changes in 1 month, and 436 changes in 1 year
      Nabet, Julien made 8 changes in 1 month, and 39 changes in 1 year
      aswath t made 7 changes in 1 month, and 7 changes in 1 year
      steve made 4 changes in 1 month, and 18 changes in 1 year
      Xisco Fauli made 4 changes in 1 month, and 14 changes in 1 year
      Kaganski, Mike made 3 changes in 1 month, and 72 changes in 1 year
      Rathke, Eike made 2 changes in 1 month, and 10 changes in 1 year
      Judi made 2 changes in 1 month, and 2 changes in 1 year

  • UX Update (Heiko)

    • Missing Heiko
    • Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
      259(259) (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 19(9) 26(13) 32(12) 56(12)
      commented 62(-11) 209(13) 474(-11) 2262(-61)
      removed 1(1) 1(1) 2(1) 20(1)
      resolved 3(-3) 26(-7) 84(-4) 319(-11)
    • top 10 contributors:
      Heiko Tietze made 107 changes in 1 month, and 1355 changes in 1 year
      Stéphane Guillou made 93 changes in 1 month, and 531 changes in 1 year
      Ilmari Lauhakangas made 39 changes in 1 month, and 241 changes in 1 year
      Eyal Rozenberg made 32 changes in 1 month, and 316 changes in 1 year
      Kaganski, Mike made 28 changes in 1 month, and 146 changes in 1 year
      Kelemen, Gabor made 18 changes in 1 month, and 24 changes in 1 year
      Bogdan B made 17 changes in 1 month, and 115 changes in 1 year
      Vernon, Stuart Foote made 16 changes in 1 month, and 389 changes in 1 year
      Fortin Tam, Jean-François made 11 changes in 1 month, and 16 changes in 1 year
      Balazs Varga made 9 changes in 1 month, and 9 changes in 1 year
  • Crash Testing (Caolan)

    • 12(-1) import failure, 0(+0) export failures
    • 2 coverity issues
    • 1 ossfuzz issue, a timeout
  • Crash Reporting (Xisco)

  • Mentoring (Hossein)
    committer… 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
    open 61(-1) 99(0) 157(5) 216(6)
    reviews 314(98) 952(-84) 3248(-52) 11618(60)
    merged 226(20) 847(-44) 2917(-35) 12718(56)
    abandoned 6(-2) 28(-12) 141(-3) 639(-2)
    own commits 151(-8) 574(-38) 2037(5) 9701(-1)
    review commits 47(2) 174(2) 618(4) 3050(9)
    contributor… 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
    open 19(-1) 65(4) 98(3) 126(3)
    reviews 634(60) 2096(8) 6818(-32) 30552(30)
    merged 8(-1) 40(-7) 185(-25) 2070(-51)
    abandoned 5(-2) 34(2) 204(0) 615(-3)
    own commits 16(5) 66(6) 208(-3) 1107(5)
    review commits 0(0) 0(0) 0(0) 0(0)

    • easyHack statistics:
      needsDevEval 8(8) needsUXEval 1(1) cleanup_comments 321(321)
      total 400(400) assigned 21(21) open 354(354)
    • top 10 contributors:
      Stéphane Guillou made 8 patches in 1 month, and 37 patches in 1 year
      Bogdan B made 5 patches in 1 month, and 99 patches in 1 year
      Srebotnjak, Martin made 4 patches in 1 month, and 20 patches in 1 year
      Sahil Gautam made 3 patches in 1 month, and 10 patches in 1 year
      Dan Horák made 3 patches in 1 month, and 4 patches in 1 year
      Ankit Kumar Jaipuriar made 3 patches in 1 month, and 3 patches in 1 year
      Priyadarshi, Apurva made 2 patches in 1 month, and 2 patches in 1 year
      Hannah Meeks made 2 patches in 1 month, and 5 patches in 1 year
      Omkar Acharekar made 2 patches in 1 month, and 8 patches in 1 year
      Adam Seskunas made 2 patches in 1 month, and 4 patches in 1 year
    • top 10 reviewers:
      Caolán McNamara made 128 review comments in 1 month, and 590 in 1 year
      Xisco Fauli made 94 review comments in 1 month, and 764 in 1 year
      Michael Stahl made 92 review comments in 1 month, and 1142 in 1 year
      Vajna, Miklos made 66 review comments in 1 month, and 908 in 1 year
      Nabet, Julien made 58 review comments in 1 month, and 974 in 1 year
      Ilmari Lauhakangas made 56 review comments in 1 month, and 410 in 1 year
      Grandin, Noel made 54 review comments in 1 month, and 584 in 1 year
      Hossein made 40 review comments in 1 month, and 276 in 1 year
      Kaganski, Mike made 28 review comments in 1 month, and 372 in 1 year
      Heiko Tietze made 26 review comments in 1 month, and 294 in 1 year
    • big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
      Ioan-Teodor Teugea
    • Reviewed 2 old EasyHacks to make sure they are still relevant
      Reviewing Older EasyHacks - The Document Foundation Wiki
    • Added a new blog post
      Python LibreOffice extension: create and debug
      Python LibreOffice extension: create and debug - LibreOffice Development Blog
    • wiki has a hello world extension (Ilmari)
    • SDK examples
      • problems with building on Windows
      • tdf#155956 (confirmed) and tdf#155959 (needs confirmation)
    • sent a proposal to the dev list around extension build service (Hossein)
      • this was discussed during the LO conference
      • proposed to have a build service, see The LibreOffice October 2023 Archive by thread
      • would be happy to do some work in this area
      • will wait a week and see what’s the feedback (Hossein)
  • Commit Access

    • None
  • Developer Certification (Stephan/Miklos/Thorsten/László)

    • resting since: 2 weeks (limit: 20 weeks)
  • Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
    gerrit_android_aarch64 jobs: 152 ok: 147 ko: 3 fail ratio: 1.97% mean_ok: 9 ( 17) median_ok: 6 ( 12)
    gerrit_android_arm jobs: 152 ok: 147 ko: 3 fail ratio: 1.97% mean_ok: 10 ( 18) median_ok: 6 ( 11)
    gerrit_android_x86 jobs: 152 ok: 145 ko: 5 fail ratio: 3.29% mean_ok: 9 ( 16) median_ok: 5 ( 9)
    gerrit_android_x86_64 jobs: 153 ok: 147 ko: 4 fail ratio: 2.61% mean_ok: 9 ( 17) median_ok: 5 ( 11)
    gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil jobs: 324 ok: 251 ko: 65 fail ratio: 20.06% mean_ok: 44 ( 50) median_ok: 43 ( 46)
    gerrit_linux_gcc_release jobs: 362 ok: 298 ko: 46 fail ratio: 12.71% mean_ok: 24 ( 30) median_ok: 18 ( 23)
    gerrit_mac jobs: 310 ok: 277 ko: 24 fail ratio: 7.74% mean_ok: 52 ( 52) median_ok: 46 ( 46)
    gerrit_windows jobs: 357 ok: 230 ko: 115 fail ratio: 32.21% mean_ok: 66 ( 89) median_ok: 56 ( 59)
    gerrit_master_ml jobs: 425 ok: 196 ko: 200 fail ratio: 47.06% mean_ok: 112 (113) median_ok: 85 ( 85)
    gerrit_master jobs: 40 ok: 20 ko: 17 fail ratio: 42.50% mean_ok: 93 ( 97) median_ok: 57 ( 57)
    gerrit_master_seq jobs: 383 ok: 176 ko: 181 fail ratio: 47.26% mean_ok: 113 (114) median_ok: 89 ( 89)

    • https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/tmp/gerrit_231012.html
    • tests that failed more than twice in last seven days:
      3 CppunitTest_sw_mailmerge2 gerrit_windows
      3 CppunitTest_sw_ooxmlexport17 gerrit_mac
      3 CppunitTest_vcl_png_test gerrit_linux_gcc_release
      3 UITest_sw_sidebar gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      4 CppunitTest_sw_mailmerge gerrit_windows
      4 CppunitTest_vcl_gtk3_a11y gerrit_linux_gcc_release
      6 CppunitTest_starmath_qa_cppunit gerrit_windows
      7 CppunitTest_framework_dispatch gerrit_windows
      8 Killed by the kill-wrapper gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      14 CppunitTest_sc_subsequent_filters_test3 gerrit_windows
      20 UITest_sw_navigator gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
    • sc_subsequent_filter_test3 probably fixed by
      “make testCondFormatFormulaListenerXLSX reliable”
      https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/157686 (thx Caolán)
    • sw_navigator: another problematic test was disabled yesterday (thx Noel)
    • this week looks promising (Cloph)
      • sc_subsequent_filter_test3 failures is improving, thanks Caolan
      • sw_navigator is also better: a flaky part is disabled, thanks Noel
      • CppunitTest_framework_dispatch should be also improved (Caolan)
  • What’s cooking (Miklos)

    • multi-page floating tables in Writer, see tdf#157119 for details (Miklos)

    • JDK bump to 17 (Michael W)

    • a11y update (Michael W)

      • WIP: switch a11y text attributes from custom ones to IAccessible2 attributes

      on Windows and support spelling error reporting (tdf#157696)

      • Improve screen reader announcement of Word Count dialog (tdf#157633,
        orca#419)
      • Status bar announcement (tdf#157639, nvda#15591)
    • ItemSet rework (Thorsten)

      • Armin keeps working on this
      • hope the codebase will be much cleaner after this
      • it’s great to have good test coverage, pointing out failures left&right
        • good to find problems earlier
    • testing with multiple visual studio versions (Hossein)

      • CI has no manpower for this (Cloph)
      • right now also the baseline doesn’t support newer VS
      • usually we test with baseline during CI (Miklos)
        • and then you are free to play around with something newer locally if you want (Stephan)
        • should definitely avoid different compiler versions on different Jenkins builders
      • is something needed to dump the VS version info? (Hossein)
        • failed to figure out the VS version in the build
        • do a verbose build, cl.exe path has the info ideally (Stephan)
        • it’s rather rare that we run into runtime issue with different VS versions
      • the baseline is the latest compiler in a given line (Cloph)
        • the compiler path + version would be nice to print out (Hossein)
        • should be visible to see 2019 vs 2022 (Cloph)
        • e.g. 16.11.31 currently (2019)
  • QA update (Xisco)

    • Missing Xisco, Ilmari jumping in :slight_smile:

    • Teaching QA newcomers to do bisecting.

    • UNCONFIRMED: 1097 (-36)

      • enhancements: 268 (-13)
      • needsUXEval: 23 (+11)
      • haveBackTrace: 10 (+0)
      • needsDevAdvice: 36 (+1)
      • documentation: 2 (+0)
      • android: 0 (+0)
      • iOS: 0 (+0)
      • Online: 11 (+0)
    • Most pressing bugs:
      New:

    None

  • QA stats (Stéphane)

    • Weekly Bug Summary
      +108 +13 (-138) overall)
      many thanks to the top bug squashers:
      QA Administrators 24
      Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 20
      Buovjaga 19
      Heiko Tietze 6
      Timur 5
      Mike Kaganski 4
      Xisco Faulí 4
      BogdanB 3
      Julien Nabet 3
      Justin L 3

    • top 10 bugs reporters:
      Xisco Faulí 9
      Mike Kaganski 5
      Regina Henschel 3
      skagon 3
      tomekluke 3
      Adalbert Hanßen 2
      Attila Szűcs 2
      Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 2
      Heiko Tietze 2
      Massimo B. 2

    • top 10 bugs fixers:
      Timur 4
      Justin Luth 3
      Patrick Luby 3
      Vajna, Miklos 3
      Xisco Fauli 3
      Bogdan B 2
      Caolán McNamara 2
      Grandin, Noel 2
      Heiko Tietze 2
      Henschel, Regina 2

    • top 10 bugs confirmers:
      Stéphane Guillou 31
      Xisco Fauli 17
      Ilmari Lauhakangas 10
      Dieter 8
      Kira Tubo 6
      m.a.riosv 6
      UNKNOWN 5
      Roman Kuznetsov 4
      Heiko Tietze 3
      Weghorn, Michael 3

  • Bisected bugs open: keyword ‘bisected’

    done by:
       Xisco Fauli           11
       Kira Tubo              5
       Stéphane Guillou       3
       Bogdan B               2
       Kelemen, Gabor         2
       Raal                   2
       Aron Budea             1
       Ilmari Lauhakangas     1
       Juan C. Sanz           1
       Weghorn, Michael       1
    
  • Bibisected bugs open: keyword ‘bibisected’

    done by:
       Xisco Fauli           11
       Kira Tubo              5
       Stéphane Guillou       3
       Bogdan B               2
       Kelemen, Gabor         2
       Raal                   2
       Aron Budea             1
       Ilmari Lauhakangas     1
       Weghorn, Michael       1
       Samuel Mehrbrodt       1
    
  • all bugs tagged with ‘regression’

    • 1228(+4) bugs open of 12888(+30) total 14(-1) high prio.

      done by:
      Xisco Fauli 11
      Kira Tubo 5
      Stéphane Guillou 3
      Bogdan B 2
      Roman Kuznetsov 1
      Ilmari Lauhakangas 1
      Alex Thurgood 1
      Juan C. Sanz 1
      Kelemen, Gabor 1
      Weghorn, Michael 1

  • ~Component count net * high severity regressions

    • Bug List
      Writer - 8(+0)
      Calc - 3(+0)
      LibreOffice - 2(+0)
      UI - 1(+0)
      Printing and PDF export - 0(-1)

    by OS:
    All - 9(-1)
    Linux - 3(+0)
    Mac OS X - 0(+0)
    Windows - 2(+0)

  • ~Component count net * all regressions

    • Bug List
      Writer: other - 429(+1)
      Calc - 224(-4)
      Impress - 137(+0)
      LibreOffice - 52(+2)
      Draw - 47(+0)
      Crashes - 45(-1)
      Base - 42(+2)
      Writer: docx filter - 42(+1)
      UI - 37(+1)
      Borders - 35(-1)
      Writer: perf - 34(+1)
      Writer: other filter - 32(+1)
      Printing and PDF export - 26(+0)
      RTL - 23(+0)
      Chart - 22(+0)
      BASIC - 17(+0)
      filters and storage - 17(-1)
      Writer: doc filter - 15(+0)
      graphics stack - 12(+0)
      Formula Editor - 5(+0)
      framework - 4(+0)
      Extensions - 2(+0)
      Linguistic - 2(+1)
      sdk - 2(+0)