ESC meeting minutes: 2024-04-04

[vmiklos]

• Present:

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

• Completed Action Items:

• Pending Action Items:

• Release Engineering update (Cloph)

  • 7.6: 7.6.7 RC1 week 16
  • 24.2: 24.2.3 RC1 week 15

• Welcome Jonathan Clark

  • New RTL/CTL/CJK developer

  • working for TDF

  • reviewing bug backlog currently

  • preferred IRC nick? (Xisco)

    • jclark or so

• Documentation (Olivier)

  • New Help

    • Some CSS fixes (JJ)

  • Helpcontents2

    • Fixes and updates (D. MAddern)
    • Housekeeping some “D’oh! you found a bug” (ohallot)
    • Updates on hyphenation pages ( L. Nemetz)

  • Guides

    • WIP
    • xml:id (Open Document Format for Office Applications (OpenDocument) Version 1.3. Part 3: OpenDocument Schema)
      • Is it implemented/used in LO?
      • It’s implement in Writer, but only for a fraction of the elements allowed by the schema (Michael S)
      • should work for text:p and other metadata-related ones
      • see LibreOffice Developer's Guide: Chapter 6 - Office Development - The Document Foundation Wiki
      • bottom of the page has the details, can generate an ID using the API / by a macro
      • would be helpful for translation as well (Olivier)
      • also on the TDF wiki these days (Thorsten)

  • API website looks outdated, it’s on 7.4 (Olivier)

    • https://api.libreoffice.org/
      AI: Cloph to update this

  • Bugzilla Documentation statistics
    269(269) bugs open

  • Updates:
    BZ changes 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
    created 8(-4) 52(-9) 88(3) 229(-2)
    commented 15(0) 102(-15) 242(3) 893(-2)
    resolved 1(-6) 20(-6) 38(-2) 117(-4)

  • top 10 contributors:
    Pierre F made 30 changes in 1 month, and 30 changes in 1 year
    Olivier Hallot made 29 changes in 1 month, and 260 changes in 1 year
    Stéphane Guillou made 18 changes in 1 month, and 262 changes in 1 year
    Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 17 changes in 1 month, and 23 changes in 1 year
    Ilmari Lauhakangas made 14 changes in 1 month, and 92 changes in 1 year
    Vernon, Stuart Foote made 14 changes in 1 month, and 83 changes in 1 year
    Heiko Tietze made 13 changes in 1 month, and 94 changes in 1 year
    Kaganski, Mike made 12 changes in 1 month, and 67 changes in 1 year
    UNKNOWN made 11 changes in 1 month, and 11 changes in 1 year
    Dione Maddern made 10 changes in 1 month, and 21 changes in 1 year

• UX Update (Heiko)

  • Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
    246(246) (topicUI) bugs open, 41(41) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
  • Updates:
    BZ changes 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
    added 4(-5) 18(-1) 20(0) 30(-1)
    commented 50(-41) 265(-10) 536(37) 2029(18)
    removed 1(1) 1(1) 1(1) 13(0)
    resolved 8(1) 28(3) 80(5) 313(3)
  • top 10 contributors:
    Stéphane Guillou made 112 changes in 1 month, and 665 changes in 1 year
    Heiko Tietze made 95 changes in 1 month, and 1153 changes in 1 year
    Vernon, Stuart Foote made 59 changes in 1 month, and 287 changes in 1 year
    Eyal Rozenberg made 29 changes in 1 month, and 170 changes in 1 year
    Kaganski, Mike made 25 changes in 1 month, and 118 changes in 1 year
    Justin Luth made 18 changes in 1 month, and 140 changes in 1 year
    Patrick Luby made 17 changes in 1 month, and 24 changes in 1 year
    Devansh Varshney made 16 changes in 1 month, and 20 changes in 1 year
    Ady made 12 changes in 1 month, and 134 changes in 1 year
    m.a.riosv made 12 changes in 1 month, and 62 changes in 1 year
  • [Bug 160505] Implement “recency” navigation for Calc module and make available
    from TB or Sidebar Navigator
  • [Bug 160249] Support marking text as having an arbitrary language
  • [Bug 160452] Calc: default anchor everything to CELL
  • [Bug 160447] styles: allow us to copy, clone styles, plz
  • [Bug 160441] F11 Stylist deck – provide a user’s “favorite” style grouping for
    each style category
  • [Bug 160445] change default of Settings > Application Colors > Custom Colors >
    Automatic from “Light” to “System Theme”
    • LibreOffice Design: "LibreOffice has a dark mode but uses Light for th…" - Fosstodon
  • [Bug 160442] export “style sheets” and import them – a long way to go yet,
    isn’t it?
  • [Bug 160411] Support an “XY+Value” scatter plot chart type
  • [Bug 160350] Replies to comment are in reverse order
  • [Bug 160349] Add toolbar icons to change UI and scheme to switch Light/Dark
  • [Bug 160324] Column resize handle touch-target too small
    → + [Bug 35694] “Page number” automatic field stops counting before last page if
    offset >0 (see comment 22)
    + already has input from Mike K
    → + [Bug 160317] Pressing Tab with partially selected numbered paragraphs deletes
    content instead of changing level

• Crash Testing (Caolan)

  • 28(+18) import failure, 1(-7) export failures
  • 3 coverity issues
  • 10 ossfuzz issues
    • sc HTML one keeps finding problems
  • runtime gone from 3-4 days to 1.5 days for a crashtest run

• Crash Reporting (Xisco)

  • 7.6.5.2 6336(+0)
  • 7.6.6.3 43(+0)
  • 24.2.0.3 13858(+741)
  • 24.2.1.2 8152(+1706)
  • 24.2.2.2 458(+0)

  → signatures in Reports for version: 24.2.2.2 not resolved

• Mentoring (Hossein)

  • New draft blog post:
    Crash fixes part 3 - Testing crashes
    Crash fixes part 3 - Testing crashes - LibreOffice Development Blog
    committer… 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
    open 76(1) 155(-4) 175(11) 175(11)
    reviews 456(6) 1590(-24) 4070(78) 12514(202)
    merged 250(-15) 1087(-88) 3433(17) 12472(62)
    abandoned 6(-7) 52(-23) 170(-9) 663(-3)
    own commits 177(11) 732(-58) 2250(-8) 9292(8)
    review commits 75(2) 322(-9) 956(21) 3060(49)
    contributor… 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
    open 60(11) 102(13) 106(13) 106(13)
    reviews 830(14) 2892(-188) 8064(62) 29820(136)
    merged 67(40) 153(24) 368(35) 1836(26)
    abandoned 5(-4) 23(-40) 287(-4) 684(-2)
    own commits 58(16) 181(17) 457(34) 1109(48)
    review commits 0(0) 0(0) 0(0) 0(0)
    • easyHack statistics:
      needsDevEval 8(8) needsUXEval 1(1) cleanup_comments 333(333)
      total 414(414) assigned 30(30) open 349(349)
    • top 10 contributors:
      Pierre F made 24 patches in 1 month, and 24 patches in 1 year
      LeSasse made 19 patches in 1 month, and 19 patches in 1 year
      Rafał Dobrakowski made 10 patches in 1 month, and 15 patches in 1 year
      Armin Le Grand (allotropia) made 10 patches in 1 month, and 88 patches in 1 year
      Ritobroto Mukherjee made 9 patches in 1 month, and 9 patches in 1 year
      Stéphane Guillou made 8 patches in 1 month, and 62 patches in 1 year
      Dione Maddern made 6 patches in 1 month, and 30 patches in 1 year
      Bogdan B made 5 patches in 1 month, and 22 patches in 1 year
      Xuan Chen made 3 patches in 1 month, and 5 patches in 1 year
      Sujatro Bhadra made 3 patches in 1 month, and 3 patches in 1 year
    • top 10 reviewers:
      Vajna, Miklos made 120 review comments in 1 month, and 1092 in 1 year
      Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 118 review comments in 1 month, and 490 in 1 year
      Nabet, Julien made 114 review comments in 1 month, and 972 in 1 year
      Grandin, Noel made 110 review comments in 1 month, and 706 in 1 year
      Caolán McNamara made 108 review comments in 1 month, and 1342 in 1 year
      Olivier Hallot made 84 review comments in 1 month, and 360 in 1 year
      Christian Lohmaier made 74 review comments in 1 month, and 374 in 1 year
      Ilmari Lauhakangas made 74 review comments in 1 month, and 488 in 1 year
      Hossein made 66 review comments in 1 month, and 304 in 1 year
      Xisco Fauli made 66 review comments in 1 month, and 780 in 1 year
    • Patches automatically abandoned:
      tdf#144563 Omit unnecessary suffixes from cross-references to numbered ( Troy Rollo )
      - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/152854
      sal: osl::File allow to create files in sandbox ( Michael Meeks )
      - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/160250
      xmlsecurity nss certdb debug ( Michael Stahl )
      - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/162578
    • big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
      Aaron Bourdeaux
      AntonyDas Nadar (Collabora)
      Glen Campbell
      LeSasse
      Sahil Gautam
      Vil C

• Outreachy (Ilmari)

  • Khushi’s patch for Quick Find in Sidebar ready to merge codewise
    • soon to get this over the finish line

• GSoC (Ilmari)

  • Google Summer of Code
  • Development/GSoC/2024 - The Document Foundation Wiki
  • April 24: project rankings due
  • Patch review help appreciated: Common gerrit queries - The Document Foundation Wiki

• Commit Access

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

  • resting since: 0 weeks (limit: 20 weeks)

• Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
  gerrit_android_aarch64 jobs: 173 ok: 169 ko: 1 fail ratio: 0.58% mean_ok: 9 ( 14) median_ok: 6 ( 8)
  gerrit_android_arm jobs: 173 ok: 171 ko: 2 fail ratio: 1.16% mean_ok: 8 ( 13) median_ok: 6 ( 8)
  gerrit_android_x86 jobs: 174 ok: 167 ko: 3 fail ratio: 1.72% mean_ok: 9 ( 13) median_ok: 6 ( 8)
  gerrit_android_x86_64 jobs: 174 ok: 173 ko: 1 fail ratio: 0.57% mean_ok: 8 ( 13) median_ok: 6 ( 7)
  gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil jobs: 346 ok: 297 ko: 45 fail ratio: 13.01% mean_ok: 33 ( 38) median_ok: 27 ( 33)
  gerrit_linux_gcc_release jobs: 423 ok: 332 ko: 62 fail ratio: 14.66% mean_ok: 16 ( 19) median_ok: 14 ( 15)
  gerrit_mac jobs: 341 ok: 316 ko: 16 fail ratio: 4.69% mean_ok: 53 ( 53) median_ok: 49 ( 49)
  gerrit_windows jobs: 350 ok: 301 ko: 34 fail ratio: 9.71% mean_ok: 64 ( 93) median_ok: 68 ( 71)
  gerrit_master_ml jobs: 429 ok: 256 ko: 130 fail ratio: 30.30% mean_ok: 108 (108) median_ok: 89 ( 90)
  gerrit_master jobs: 29 ok: 16 ko: 8 fail ratio: 27.59% mean_ok: 74 ( 74) median_ok: 69 ( 69)
  gerrit_master_seq jobs: 398 ok: 241 ko: 119 fail ratio: 29.90% mean_ok: 110 (110) median_ok: 91 ( 91)

  • tests that failed more than twice in last seven days
    3 CppunitTest_vcl_cjk gerrit_windows
    5 aborted by jenkins job timeout gerrit_windows
    5 Killed by the kill-wrapper gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
    9 CppunitTest_services gerrit_linux_gcc_release
  • this week was mostly smooth sailing (Cloph)
    • Windows build times went up: 50 mins (in Feb) → 65 mins
    • the first number is the actual building, the one in () includes the time waiting in the queue

• What’s cooking (Miklos)

  • A11y update (Michael W)
    • gtk4: implement new text interface methods for text/character extent handling,
      related GTK upstream fixes
    • Accerciser improvements
  • Working on a procedure to ease translation of guides (ODT documents) (ohallot)
    • so there would be no need to manually review what content needs updating

• Move of Jenkins to a different system (Cloph)

  • right now it’s a VM on the TDF hypervisor
  • moving it to a cloud VM instead
  • also the external tarballs are problematic to be fetched for fdroid
    • where is that hosted? (Thorsten)
    • it was at SUSE, now it’s just a VM (Cloph)
  • should be mostly invisible for the users, just some minutes of downtime (Cloph)

• COOL Days 2024 (Miklos)

  • COOL Days 2024 - 8-10 April - Cambridge, UK - Collabora Office and Collabora Online 8th → 10th April
  • LibreOffice Technology hackfest as part of it

• QA update (Xisco)

  • UNCONFIRMED: 1155 (+23)

    • enhancements: 282 (+2)
    • needsUXEval: 13 (+1)
    • haveBackTrace: 10 (-1)
    • needsDevAdvice: 44 (+0)
    • documentation: 3 (+1)
    • android: 0 (-1)
    • iOS: 0 (+0)
    • Online: 9 (+0)

  • Most pressing bugs:
    New:

  None

  • New high severity bugs of the week:
    None

• QA stats (Stéphane)

  • Weekly Bug Summary
    +115 -16 (-99) overall)
    many thanks to the top bug squashers:
    Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 21
    QA Administrators 11
    Caolán McNamara 9
    m_a_riosv 8
    Mike Kaganski 7
    Heiko Tietze 5
    V Stuart Foote 4
    Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 3
    Rafael Lima 3
    Balázs Varga (allotropia) 2

  • top 10 bugs reporters:
    Tyler 10
    Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 5
    Michael Otto 5
    peter josvai 5
    Mike Kaganski 3
    Eyal Rozenberg 2
    Manfredi Marceca 2
    Regina Henschel 2
    Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2
    Telesto 2

  • top 10 bugs fixers:
    Caolán McNamara 9
    Kaganski, Mike 5
    Rafael Lima 3
    Stéphane Guillou 3
    Vernon, Stuart Foote 3
    Balazs Varga 2
    Heiko Tietze 2
    Henschel, Regina 2
    Kelemen, Gabor 2
    Patrick Luby 2

  • top 10 bugs confirmers:
    Stéphane Guillou 21
    UNKNOWN 13
    Heiko Tietze 5
    Kaganski, Mike 5
    m.a.riosv 4
    Nabet, Julien 3
    Robert Großkopf 2
    Bogaboga Man 1
    Dariusz 1
    Gerald Pfeifer 1

• Bisected bugs open: keyword ‘bisected’

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

  done by:
     Stéphane Guillou       6
     Michael Warner         1
     Raal                   1
     Timur                  1
     Xisco Fauli            1
  

• Bibisected bugs open: keyword ‘bibisected’

  • Bug List: LibreOffice Bi-bisected

  done by:
     Stéphane Guillou       6
     Michael Warner         1
     Raal                   1
     Timur                  1
     Vernon, Stuart Foote   1
     Xisco Fauli            1
  

• all bugs tagged with ‘regression’

  • 1243(-6) bugs open of 13283(+13) total 22(-2) high prio.

    done by:
    Stéphane Guillou 5
    Ady 1
    Michael Warner 1
    m.a.riosv 1
    Vernon, Stuart Foote 1
    Xisco Fauli 1

• ~Component count net * high severity regressions

  • Bug List
    Writer - 16(+0)
    Calc - 2(-1)
    Impress - 1(+0)
    LibreOffice - 1(-1)
    UI - 1(+0)

  by OS:
  All - 18(-1)
  Linux - 3(-1)
  Mac OS X - 0(+0)
  Windows - 1(+0)

• ~Component count net * all regressions

  • Bug List
    Writer: other - 443(+0)
    Calc - 225(-1)
    Impress - 126(+1)
    LibreOffice - 53(+0)
    Draw - 51(-1)
    Writer: docx filter - 45(+0)
    Crashes - 42(-4)
    Base - 40(+0)
    UI - 37(+0)
    Borders - 36(+0)
    Writer: perf - 35(+0)
    Writer: other filter - 31(-1)
    Chart - 24(+0)
    Printing and PDF export - 24(+0)
    RTL - 24(+0)
    filters and storage - 22(+0)
    BASIC - 19(+0)
    Writer: doc filter - 16(+0)
    graphics stack - 13(-1)
    Formula Editor - 7(+0)
    framework - 3(+0)
    Extensions - 2(+0)
    sdk - 2(+0)
    Linguistic - 1(+0)