ESC meeting minutes: 2023-12-14

projects
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  • Present:

    • Heiko, Caolan, Cloph, Hossein, Olivier, Ilmari, Michael S, Michael W, Stephan, Thorsten, Xisco, Miklos, Eike, Justin

  • Completed Action Items:

    • Update Stephan’s affiliation at LibreOffice Engineering Steering Committee — The Document Foundation (Ilmari)
    • enable Android builds for libreoffice-7-6 Jenkins builds (Cloph)
      • almost done, will do it later today
    • contact Gwyn about the security list (Stephan)
      • next step: apply for officesecurity@ membership
      • Caolan is an admin there, will get notification

  • Pending Action Items:

  • Release Engineering update (Cloph)

    • 7.6: 7.6.5 RC1 in 7 weeks?
    • 24.2: RC 1 next week (UI freeze)

      • beta1 is tagged, branch is created

      • late features (Michael S)

        • working on the new ODF encryption
        • want to get rid of some obsolete checkboxes
        • also an extern library (argon2) for a better KDF function
        • assume it’s already packaged in ~all existing distros
        • if you need string changes after RC1, ping us (Cloph)

      • late features (Samuel M / Thorsten)

        • improve UX (and avoid traps for users) around macro security settings
    + fixes tdf#158576

     + patchset: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/160751 (and relationship

       chain)

     + small enough, and fits the bill hopefully, with overall security

       improvements?

     + goal is to have it as a much less confusing setup (Thorsten)

     + any objections?

       + none (all)

  • Documentation (Olivier)

    • Helpcontents2

      • Continuing updates on Menus (ohallot)
      • New page on Help offline (R. Lima)

    • Guides

      • Work in progress for 24.2 guides

    • Bugzilla Documentation statistics
      274(274) bugs open

    • Updates:
      BZ changes 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
      created 5(1) 13(2) 42(-4) 265(-3)
      commented 10(4) 35(0) 107(-35) 941(-33)
      resolved 3(2) 4(1) 14(-1) 138(-3)

    • top 10 contributors:
      Stéphane Guillou made 26 changes in 1 month, and 337 changes in 1 year
      Jérôme made 14 changes in 1 month, and 23 changes in 1 year
      Kaganski, Mike made 11 changes in 1 month, and 77 changes in 1 year
      Heiko Tietze made 8 changes in 1 month, and 105 changes in 1 year
      Caolán McNamara made 4 changes in 1 month, and 4 changes in 1 year
      m.a.riosv made 4 changes in 1 month, and 11 changes in 1 year
      Raal made 4 changes in 1 month, and 6 changes in 1 year
      Seth Chaiklin made 4 changes in 1 month, and 320 changes in 1 year
      Werner Tietz made 4 changes in 1 month, and 4 changes in 1 year
      Balland-Poirier, Laurent made 3 changes in 1 month, and 3 changes in 1 year

  • UX Update (Heiko)

    • Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
      253(253) (topicUI) bugs open, 46(46) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
    • Updates:
      BZ changes 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
      added 6(1) 13(1) 16(0) 29(0)
      commented 111(28) 294(84) 543(53) 2255(66)
      removed 0(-1) 1(0) 3(0) 15(0)
      resolved 7(-6) 28(3) 78(-3) 334(1)
    • top 10 contributors:
      Heiko Tietze made 149 changes in 1 month, and 1335 changes in 1 year
      Stéphane Guillou made 107 changes in 1 month, and 624 changes in 1 year
      ady made 33 changes in 1 month, and 133 changes in 1 year
      Dieter made 30 changes in 1 month, and 233 changes in 1 year
      Vernon, Stuart Foote made 24 changes in 1 month, and 308 changes in 1 year
      Ilmari Lauhakangas made 20 changes in 1 month, and 226 changes in 1 year
      Seth Chaiklin made 16 changes in 1 month, and 81 changes in 1 year
      Rafael Lima made 15 changes in 1 month, and 119 changes in 1 year
      Eyal Rozenberg made 12 changes in 1 month, and 218 changes in 1 year
      Matt K made 11 changes in 1 month, and 17 changes in 1 year
    • [Bug 158439] Design: UI Inconsistency in “Target in Document” dialog to define
      a hyperlink
      → + [Bug 158685] Implement a simple calculation of values to input size and
      position of draw objects
    • [Bug 106316] New sidebar deck for comments
    • [Bug 158657] Revamp the online update dialog
    • [Bug 158533] Incorrectly export number 0 form calc to PDF
    • [Bug 158647] add a ‘comments reviewing’ pane
      → + [Bug 158628] pressing backspace on list with empty paragraph moves the text
      to previous item or out of the list
    • [Bug 130278] Line spacing “Fixed” not setable if the odt comes from doc
    • [Bug 158601] Page direction not the same as sheet direction
    • [Bug 158588] Redesign font embedding options in sfx2/…/documentfontspage.ui
      → + [Bug 158587] Improve column/row highlighting in Calc
      • kudos to Sahil Gautam
      • like it :slight_smile: (Caolan)

  • Crash Testing (Caolan)

    • 25(+1) import failure, 3(+0) export failures
    • 735 coverity issues
      • down from thousands, to hundreds :slight_smile:
    • 3 ossfuzz issues
      • 2 timeouts, 1 OOM

  • Crash Reporting (Xisco)

    • 7.5.8.2 2618(+564)
    • 7.5.9.2 112(+0)
    • 7.6.1.2 10294(+365)
    • 7.6.2.1 30731(+2648)
    • 7.6.3.2 2930(+1073)
    • 7.6.4.1 709(+0)

    Regressions in 7.6:

  • Mentoring (Hossein)

  • Outreachy (Ilmari)

  • Commit Access

  • Developer Certification (Stephan/Miklos/Thorsten/László)

    • resting since: 10 weeks (limit: 20 weeks)

  • Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
    gerrit_android_aarch64 jobs: 206 ok: 186 ko: 17 fail ratio: 8.25% mean_ok: 8 ( 10) median_ok: 5 ( 7)
    gerrit_android_arm jobs: 206 ok: 180 ko: 22 fail ratio: 10.68% mean_ok: 9 ( 10) median_ok: 6 ( 7)
    gerrit_android_x86 jobs: 204 ok: 182 ko: 17 fail ratio: 8.33% mean_ok: 8 ( 10) median_ok: 6 ( 7)
    gerrit_android_x86_64 jobs: 207 ok: 180 ko: 22 fail ratio: 10.63% mean_ok: 7 ( 9) median_ok: 5 ( 7)
    gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil jobs: 415 ok: 326 ko: 62 fail ratio: 14.94% mean_ok: 37 ( 38) median_ok: 34 ( 35)
    gerrit_linux_gcc_release jobs: 480 ok: 391 ko: 65 fail ratio: 13.54% mean_ok: 15 ( 16) median_ok: 13 ( 14)
    gerrit_mac jobs: 423 ok: 346 ko: 48 fail ratio: 11.35% mean_ok: 47 ( 47) median_ok: 43 ( 43)
    gerrit_windows jobs: 441 ok: 293 ko: 95 fail ratio: 21.54% mean_ok: 74 (134) median_ok: 73 (101)
    gerrit_master_ml jobs: 519 ok: 247 ko: 194 fail ratio: 37.38% mean_ok: 151 (151) median_ok: 125 (126)
    gerrit_master jobs: 57 ok: 27 ko: 28 fail ratio: 49.12% mean_ok: 139 (144) median_ok: 150 (150)
    gerrit_master_seq jobs: 459 ok: 220 ko: 163 fail ratio: 35.51% mean_ok: 150 (151) median_ok: 125 (125)

    • https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/tmp/gerrit_231214.html

    • tests that failed more than twice in last seven days
      3 CppunitTest_sw_mailmerge gerrit_windows
      3 CppunitTest_sw_uiwriter3 gerrit_windows
      3 UITest_autofilter gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      4 CppunitTest_sw_ooxmlexport17 gerrit_mac
      4 CppunitTest_test_a11y gerrit_windows
      6 CppunitTest_sd_export_tests-ooxml2 gerrit_windows

       - Caused by only one not merged patch(Xisco)

      9 Killed by the kill-wrapper gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      27 aborted by jenkins job timeout gerrit_windows

    • this week: windows timeout are getting better (Cloph)

      • mostly last week, but not sure what got fixed

    • these hangs, are these dbgutil builds? (Caolan)

      • was hoping it’s a dbgutil build where a hang is meant to be an abort
      • yes (Cloph)

    • some failures are caused by translation updates went wrong, now fixed.

  • What’s cooking (Miklos)

    • Multi-page floating tables in Writer, see tdf#158081 for details (Miklos)
    • A11y update (Michael W)
      • tdf#123864, implement reporting of “checkable” a11y state
      • improving the state of toolbar buttons reporting
    • Android (Michael W)
      • now available in Weblate for translation, thanks cloph!
      • build-time lint checks enabled
    • Import of Word drawing canvas (Regina)
    • ODF Package encryption (Michael S, see above)
      • Authenticated encryption with associated data (AEAD) means there is a hash(equivalent) to verify the data and we can have additional data next to some IV

  • QA update (Xisco)

    • UNCONFIRMED: 1038 (+17)

      • enhancements: 240 (+5)
      • needsUXEval: 6 (+1)
      • haveBackTrace: 12 (+0)
      • needsDevAdvice: 36 (-1)
      • documentation: 3 (+0)
      • android: 0 (+0)
      • iOS: 0 (+0)
      • Online: 10 (+0)

    • Most pressing bugs:
      New:

    None

    Old:
   + Plain text copied to clipboard and pasted to CSV is not saved.
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154339
       + bisected to Szymon, Xisco has a proposed partial revert
Fixed:

  • QA stats (Stéphane)

    • Weekly Bug Summary
      +118 +11 (-113) overall)
      many thanks to the top bug squashers:
      QA Administrators 20
      Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 14
      Balázs Varga (allotropia) 9
      Heiko Tietze 6
      m.a.riosv 6
      Patrick Luby 5
      Buovjaga 4
      Dieter 4
      Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 4
      Laurent Balland 4

    • top 10 bugs reporters:
      Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 13
      Rafael Lima 7
      Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 4
      Jérôme 3
      Regina Henschel 3
      Telesto 3
      Justin L 2
      Samuel Mehrbrodt (allotropia) 2
      Xisco Faulí 2
      david.vantyghem 2

    • top 10 bugs fixers:
      Balazs Varga 9
      Patrick Luby 5
      Balland-Poirier, Laurent 3
      Grandin, Noel 2
      Kelemen, Gabor 2
      Nabet, Julien 2
      Balázs Ágasvári 1
      Caolán McNamara 1
      Ilmari Lauhakangas 1
      Justin Luth 1

    • top 10 bugs confirmers:
      Stéphane Guillou 14
      m.a.riosv 13
      Balazs Varga 8
      UNKNOWN 5
      Heiko Tietze 4
      Vernon, Stuart Foote 4
      Nabet, Julien 3
      Raal 3
      Rafael Lima 3
      Weghorn, Michael 3

  • Bisected bugs open: keyword ‘bisected’

    done by:
   kemaldonado            2
   stcasey                2
   Stéphane Guillou       2
   Xisco Fauli            2
   Kira Tubo              1
   Raal                   1
   Timur                  1

  • Bibisected bugs open: keyword ‘bibisected’

    done by:
   kemaldonado            2
   stcasey                2
   Stéphane Guillou       2
   Xisco Fauli            2
   Ilmari Lauhakangas     1
   Kira Tubo              1
   Raal                   1
   Timur                  1

  • all bugs tagged with ‘regression’

    • 1231(+5) bugs open of 13026(+17) total 23(+2) high prio.

      done by:
      Stéphane Guillou 2
      Xisco Fauli 2
      Bogdan B 1
      Ilmari Lauhakangas 1
      Raal 1
      Samuel Mehrbrodt 1
      stcasey 1
      Telesto 1
      Timur 1

  • ~Component count net * high severity regressions

    • http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
      Writer - 13(-1)
      Calc - 3(+0)
      Impress - 2(+2)
      LibreOffice - 2(+0)
      Printing and PDF export - 1(+1)
      UI - 1(+0)

    by OS:
    All - 16(+1)
    Linux - 6(+2)
    Mac OS X - 0(+0)
    Windows - 1(+0)

  • ~Component count net * all regressions

    • http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
      Writer: other - 428(-3)
      Calc - 228(+3)
      Impress - 132(+0)
      LibreOffice - 53(+1)
      Draw - 50(+0)
      Crashes - 48(+2)
      Writer: docx filter - 43(+0)
      Base - 41(+0)
      UI - 38(+0)
      Borders - 36(+1)
      Writer: perf - 35(+1)
      Writer: other filter - 32(+1)
      Printing and PDF export - 27(+1)
      RTL - 25(+1)
      Chart - 22(+0)
      filters and storage - 21(+0)
      BASIC - 18(-1)
      Writer: doc filter - 16(+0)
      graphics stack - 12(+0)
      Formula Editor - 6(+0)
      framework - 3(+0)
      Extensions - 2(+0)
      sdk - 2(+0)
      Linguistic - 1(+0)

  • Next ESC call? (Miklos)

    • skip next 2 weeks?
    • skip the 28th Dec? (Thorsten)
    • Cloph will be out
      => cancel the one on 28th Dec
      => 21th Dec will be held, Thorsten or Stephan will run it

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