ESC meeting minutes: 2023-10-19

  • Present:

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

  • 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 2 weeks (+2 weeks: next rc)
    • 7.5 status: 7.5.8 rc2 in 1 week
    • 24.2: end of Nov, in week 47, first alpha
  • Documentation (Olivier)

    • Helpcontents

      • Continuing update of UI and UNO help pages (ohallot)
      • Fixes by translators (S. Horacek, buovjaga)
    • Guides

      • Updates in Getting Started Guide (Rob Thornton, ohallot)
      • Updates in Calc Guide (S. Fanning)
      • Updates in Impress/Draw guides (P. Schofield)
      • Progress in guide sanitiy-check scripts (B. Antonio)
    • Bugzilla Documentation statistics
      272(272) bugs open

    • Updates:
      BZ changes 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
      created 4(-1) 20(-1) 66(-8) 292(-2)
      commented 9(0) 43(-3) 212(-25) 1080(-2)
      resolved 2(2) 5(-1) 29(-3) 157(-2)

    • top 10 contributors:
      Ilmari Lauhakangas made 15 changes in 1 month, and 125 changes in 1 year
      Stéphane Guillou made 14 changes in 1 month, and 352 changes in 1 year
      Olivier Hallot made 9 changes in 1 month, and 429 changes in 1 year
      Kaganski, Mike made 8 changes in 1 month, and 78 changes in 1 year
      aswath t made 7 changes in 1 month, and 7 changes in 1 year
      Xisco Fauli made 4 changes in 1 month, and 14 changes in 1 year
      Rathke, Eike made 2 changes in 1 month, and 10 changes in 1 year
      Elisabeth Dapper made 1 changes in 1 month, and 1 changes in 1 year
      MISY Nyias made 1 changes in 1 month, and 1 changes in 1 year
      wrigh made 1 changes in 1 month, and 1 changes in 1 year

  • UX Update (Heiko)

    • Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
      254(254) (topicUI) bugs open, 56(56) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
    • Updates:
      BZ changes 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
      added 1(-18) 17(-9) 19(-13) 42(-14)
      commented 41(-21) 141(-68) 400(-74) 2169(-93)
      removed 1(0) 2(1) 3(1) 20(0)
      resolved 11(8) 30(4) 86(2) 324(5)
    • top 10 contributors:
      Heiko Tietze made 110 changes in 1 month, and 1364 changes in 1 year
      Stéphane Guillou made 87 changes in 1 month, and 532 changes in 1 year
      Ilmari Lauhakangas made 27 changes in 1 month, and 229 changes in 1 year
      Justin Luth made 22 changes in 1 month, and 114 changes in 1 year
      Eyal Rozenberg made 18 changes in 1 month, and 247 changes in 1 year
      Kelemen, Gabor made 18 changes in 1 month, and 24 changes in 1 year
      Bogdan B made 15 changes in 1 month, and 111 changes in 1 year
      Balazs Varga made 14 changes in 1 month, and 14 changes in 1 year
      Roman Kuznetsov made 6 changes in 1 month, and 123 changes in 1 year
      Dieter made 5 changes in 1 month, and 233 changes in 1 year
    • [Bug 157605] Table rows are split into several lines when copying the table
      from Writer to a plain text program
    • [Bug 157788] Saving the “Show navigation panel” setting for a device
    • [Bug 157747] Calc select all rows and columns corner should hint at its function
    • [Bug 157716] Rename “Language settings” to “Language and Locale”
    • [Bug 148023] Numbering list tooltips doesn’t show correct content for
      non-Latin locale
    • [Bug 157681] Add an opportunity to hide any file (but not to delete it) in
      master document like a slide in a presentation
    • [Bug 157420] Allow setting a default Date and Time subtype (fixed vs non-fixed)
      and format so they can be inserted with shortcuts
      → + [Bug 157649] Dialog button accelerators should work without Alt key on Windows
    • [Bug 157627] Paste number format only
  • Crash Testing (Caolan)

    • 6(-6) import failure, 0(+0) export failures

      new run underway that includes mstahl’s latest fix

    • 1 coverity issues

      parse issue, some trickiness with std::pair and new _ustr (maybe)

    • 1 ossfuzz issue

      one timeout

  • Crash Reporting (Xisco)

    • 7.5.6.2 2328 (+245)
    • 7.5.7.1 1190 (+371)
    • 7.6.0.3 12800 (+673)
    • 7.6.1.2 6140 (+394)
    • 7.6.2.1 4348 (+1292)

    Regressions / new in 7.6 branch

  • Mentoring (Hossein)
    committer
 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
    open 52(-9) 83(-16) 142(-15) 199(-17)
    reviews 332(18) 986(34) 3306(58) 11650(32)
    merged 244(18) 909(62) 2949(32) 12751(33)
    abandoned 24(18) 42(14) 156(15) 651(12)
    own commits 177(26) 638(64) 2065(28) 9700(-1)
    review commits 64(17) 206(32) 626(8) 3037(-13)
    contributor
 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
    open 41(22) 70(5) 103(5) 138(12)
    reviews 704(70) 2224(128) 6898(80) 30542(-10)
    merged 16(8) 48(8) 178(-7) 2033(-37)
    abandoned 7(2) 37(3) 211(7) 619(4)
    own commits 21(5) 74(8) 206(-2) 1098(-9)
    review commits 0(0) 0(0) 0(0) 0(0)

    • easyHack statistics:
      needsDevEval 8(8) needsUXEval 1(1) cleanup_comments 319(319)
      total 398(398) assigned 20(20) open 353(353)
    • top 10 contributors:
      Bogdan B made 6 patches in 1 month, and 100 patches in 1 year
      Stéphane Guillou made 6 patches in 1 month, and 37 patches in 1 year
      Ankit Kumar Jaipuriar made 5 patches in 1 month, and 5 patches in 1 year
      Priyadarshi, Apurva made 2 patches in 1 month, and 2 patches in 1 year
      Srebotnjak, Martin made 2 patches in 1 month, and 20 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 6 patches in 1 year
      Darshan Upadhyay made 2 patches in 1 month, and 3 patches in 1 year
      Mihai Vasiliu made 2 patches in 1 month, and 2 patches in 1 year
      Khushi Gautam made 2 patches in 1 month, and 2 patches in 1 year
    • top 10 reviewers:
      CaolĂĄn McNamara made 142 review comments in 1 month, and 624 in 1 year
      Xisco Fauli made 110 review comments in 1 month, and 776 in 1 year
      Michael Stahl made 90 review comments in 1 month, and 1156 in 1 year
      Ilmari Lauhakangas made 80 review comments in 1 month, and 430 in 1 year
      Nabet, Julien made 54 review comments in 1 month, and 960 in 1 year
      Vajna, Miklos made 54 review comments in 1 month, and 898 in 1 year
      Grandin, Noel made 50 review comments in 1 month, and 584 in 1 year
      Kaganski, Mike made 46 review comments in 1 month, and 384 in 1 year
      Hossein made 34 review comments in 1 month, and 270 in 1 year
      Patrick Luby made 26 review comments in 1 month, and 86 in 1 year
    • big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
      Khushi Gautam dpskhu13108@gmail.com
      Federico Gallo
      Joel Puronaho
      Martin Gube
      Matthew Kogan (Epoq)
    • this week, tried to focus on finalize the submission / review of newcomers
      • review it faster

      • discussed with Ilmari

        • some of the easy hacks are suggested to many people

          • it’s good to have many details for such tasks / blog post
        • tried to make the UNO API error improvement easy hack easier to understand → describe it more, make it more obvious

        • UNO API error reporting - LibreOffice Development Blog

        • first it looks easy, then actually reproducing the exception throwing is harder

        • will expand on this & publish it later

        • hope this will be helpful

        • another easy hack that is related to picking data types instead of sal_uLong

          • needs explanation

          • it’s far from obvious what is the replacement

          • have some details to explain this, in a blog post

        • hope to finalize the blog post & publish it in the next few days

  • Commit Access

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

    • resting since: 3 weeks (limit: 20 weeks)
  • Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
    gerrit_android_aarch64 jobs: 149 ok: 142 ko: 1 fail ratio: 0.67% mean_ok: 11 ( 15) median_ok: 8 ( 12)
    gerrit_android_arm jobs: 148 ok: 142 ko: 4 fail ratio: 2.70% mean_ok: 12 ( 16) median_ok: 9 ( 12)
    gerrit_android_x86 jobs: 149 ok: 144 ko: 1 fail ratio: 0.67% mean_ok: 10 ( 14) median_ok: 7 ( 11)
    gerrit_android_x86_64 jobs: 149 ok: 145 ko: 3 fail ratio: 2.01% mean_ok: 13 ( 17) median_ok: 9 ( 12)
    gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil jobs: 309 ok: 243 ko: 54 fail ratio: 17.48% mean_ok: 47 ( 50) median_ok: 41 ( 45)
    gerrit_linux_gcc_release jobs: 374 ok: 290 ko: 63 fail ratio: 16.84% mean_ok: 27 ( 30) median_ok: 19 ( 22)
    gerrit_mac jobs: 304 ok: 258 ko: 26 fail ratio: 8.55% mean_ok: 54 ( 54) median_ok: 46 ( 47)
    gerrit_windows jobs: 396 ok: 245 ko: 129 fail ratio: 32.58% mean_ok: 67 ( 76) median_ok: 64 ( 68)
    gerrit_master_ml jobs: 419 ok: 206 ko: 167 fail ratio: 39.86% mean_ok: 101 (101) median_ok: 95 ( 95)
    gerrit_master jobs: 39 ok: 25 ko: 10 fail ratio: 25.64% mean_ok: 85 ( 85) median_ok: 84 ( 84)
    gerrit_master_seq jobs: 376 ok: 181 ko: 153 fail ratio: 40.69% mean_ok: 103 (103) median_ok: 97 ( 97)

    • https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/tmp/gerrit_231019.html
    • tests that failed more than twice in last seven days
      3 CppunitTest_sc_subsequent_filters_test3 gerrit_windows
      3 CppunitTest_sw_mailmerge gerrit_windows
      4 Killed by the kill-wrapper gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      4 Killed by the kill-wrapper gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil_branch
      4 CppunitTest_editeng_core gerrit_linux_gcc_release
      4 CppunitTest_sw_ooxmlexport17 gerrit_mac
      5 CppunitTest_filter_svg gerrit_mac
      6 CppunitTest_sw_uiwriter6 gerrit_mac
      11 UITest_sw_navigator gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
    • this week was a good week (Cloph)
      • especially regarding the failures related to the kill wrapper
      • other failures: nothing to worry about, these mostly caught real breakage
      • filter_svg and sw_uiwriter6 are in this category
      • sw_navigator: more unstable parts are now disabled, thanks to Noel
        • wonder if these problems are caused by the one process execution (Xisco)
        • will give it a try and see if it helps
  • What’s cooking (Miklos)

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

      • overflow mechanism for columns (Heiko)
        • related bug: tdf#157301
        • WF’ed since possible with Calc
          • think Word doesn’t have this feature
          • think possible in ODF
    • JDK bump to 17 (Michael W)

      • all done by now
      • thanks to Cloph for updating some last builders
    • A11y update (Michael W)

    • ItemSet rework (Michael S)

      • next change is up on gerrit, Armin is debugging the detected problems
  • QA update (Xisco)

  • QA stats (StĂ©phane)

  • Bisected bugs open: keyword ‘bisected’

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

    done by:
       Bogdan B               5
       Kira Tubo              5
       Stéphane Guillou       4
       Xisco Fauli            3
       Raal                   2
       Aron Budea             1
       Ilmari Lauhakangas     1
       Juan C. Sanz           1
       Kelemen, Gabor         1
    
  • all bugs tagged with ‘regression’

    • 1227(-1) bugs open of 12911(+23) total 14(+0) high prio.

      done by:
      Stéphane Guillou 8
      Kira Tubo 6
      Xisco Fauli 4
      Raal 2
      Ilmari Lauhakangas 1
      phv 1
      m.a.riosv 1

  • ~Component count net * high severity regressions

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

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

  • ~Component count net * all regressions

    • Bug List
      Writer: other - 426(-3)
      Calc - 223(-1)
      Impress - 138(+1)
      LibreOffice - 51(-1)
      Draw - 48(+1)
      Crashes - 44(-1)
      Base - 42(+0)
      Writer: docx filter - 42(+0)
      UI - 37(+0)
      Borders - 35(+0)
      Writer: perf - 34(+0)
      Writer: other filter - 33(+1)
      Printing and PDF export - 26(+0)
      RTL - 24(+1)
      Chart - 22(+0)
      filters and storage - 20(+3)
      BASIC - 16(-1)
      Writer: doc filter - 15(+0)
      graphics stack - 13(+1)
      Formula Editor - 5(+0)
      framework - 4(+0)
      Extensions - 2(+0)
      sdk - 2(+0)
      Linguistic - 1(-1)
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