ESC meeting minutes: 2024-04-04

  • 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? :slight_smile: (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

    • API website looks outdated, it’s on 7.4 (Olivier)

    • 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”
    • [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
        RafaƂ 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
        CaolĂĄn 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)

  • Commit Access

  • Developer Certification (Stephan/Miklos/LĂĄszlĂł/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)

  • 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 (StĂ©phane)

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

    done by:
       Stéphane Guillou       6
       Michael Warner         1
       Raal                   1
       Timur                  1
       Xisco Fauli            1
    
  • Bibisected bugs open: keyword ‘bibisected’

    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)