ESC meeting minutes: 2024-05-09

  • Present:

    • Cloph, Gabriel, Heiko, Hossein, Ilmari, Jonathan, Olivier, Xisco, sockseight, Caolan, Stephane, Miklos
  • Completed Action Items:

  • Pending Action Items:

  • Release Engineering update (Cloph)

    • 7.6: 7.6.7 release: this week, tomorrow
    • 24.2: 24.2.4 RC1 in 1 week
    • 24.8: first alpha this week, from master, tomorrow
      • week 23 is the feature freeze, 4 weeks
        • string / UI freeze 4 weeks after that
      • if you have a late feature proposal, announce that here
    • MAR-based updater will be enabled by default on Windows, but not Linux (Hossein)
      • rpm/deb update is handled by distro packages
      • for the ones taking binaries from TDF
      • TDF to provide rpm/deb repos?
      • the files are hosted already
      • just the repo defs are missing
      • suggesting to provide these repos
      • proposal is to povide repos and ignore MAR on Linux for now
      • interested in doing the scripting work? (Miklos)
        • the important part is the description / dependencies (Hossein)
        • willing to help
      • linux downloads are 2% of TDF downloads (Cloph)
        • so not a huge amount, but not objecting
        • only the the ones which are covered by rpm/deb binaries
      • what is the lag between Ubuntu-provided packages / TDF releases? (Olivier)
  • Documentation (Olivier)

    • Helpcontents2
      • Updates and fixes (A Gelmini. S. Horacek, fitoshido)
      • Changes in makefiles (cloph)
      • Updates in doc properties (Dublin Core) by Dione Maddern
    • Core
      • Extended tips for sparklines
    • Guides
      • important fix by M. Stahl will trigger format review
        • in all guides,
        • starting after LO 24.2.4
        • tdf#159366
    • bugs with >20 comments
      • hard to follow, to understand what is the actual request
      • sometimes asking: if this feature is still used
      • thanks to the precise bugreports
    • Bugzilla Documentation statistics
      263(263) bugs open
    • Updates:
      BZ changes 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
      created 14(5) 39(2) 107(7) 225(4)
      commented 20(10) 61(0) 255(5) 854(6)
      resolved 7(2) 23(5) 54(6) 121(4)
    • top 10 contributors:
      Olivier Hallot made 42 changes in 1 month, and 239 changes in 1 year
      Stéphane Guillou made 28 changes in 1 month, and 253 changes in 1 year
      Vernon, Stuart Foote made 22 changes in 1 month, and 107 changes in 1 year
      Ilmari Lauhakangas made 10 changes in 1 month, and 73 changes in 1 year
      Kaganski, Mike made 8 changes in 1 month, and 74 changes in 1 year
      Nabet, Julien made 6 changes in 1 month, and 59 changes in 1 year
      Cor Nouws made 5 changes in 1 month, and 8 changes in 1 year
      Heiko Tietze made 4 changes in 1 month, and 76 changes in 1 year
      nobu made 4 changes in 1 month, and 16 changes in 1 year
      Kira Tubo made 2 changes in 1 month, and 2 changes in 1 year
  • UX Update (Heiko)

    • Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
      240(240) (topicUI) bugs open, 35(35) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam

    • Updates:
      BZ changes 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
      added 4(-1) 10(1) 15(-1) 21(-3)
      commented 64(48) 186(30) 525(-6) 1761(-60)
      removed 0(-2) 4(-1) 5(0) 12(-1)
      resolved 8(2) 31(1) 79(-2) 308(-7)

    • top 10 contributors:
      Heiko Tietze made 110 changes in 1 month, and 1031 changes in 1 year
      Vernon, Stuart Foote made 108 changes in 1 month, and 317 changes in 1 year
      Stéphane Guillou made 51 changes in 1 month, and 621 changes in 1 year
      Cor Nouws made 21 changes in 1 month, and 33 changes in 1 year
      Dieter made 18 changes in 1 month, and 139 changes in 1 year
      Ilmari Lauhakangas made 16 changes in 1 month, and 131 changes in 1 year
      Eyal Rozenberg made 10 changes in 1 month, and 125 changes in 1 year
      Ady made 6 changes in 1 month, and 122 changes in 1 year
      jan d made 5 changes in 1 month, and 5 changes in 1 year
      UNKNOWN made 5 changes in 1 month, and 5 changes in 1 year

    • [Bug 161002] Missing item “Insert/Filed/More Fields
” in LibreOffice Draw

    • [Bug 160986] show ‘X %’ instead of ‘X%’

    • [Bug 153309] Prevent direct formatting on writer by a password.
      → + [Bug 98902] Right clicking on selected text unselects it if the cursor is on
      a misspelled word

    • [Bug 160955] When selecting an alternative link target for an OLE object, button
      says “Insert”

    • [Bug 160954] Can’t change OLE Object link target from context menu and
      properties dialog

    • [Bug 160949] When editing an OLE object but not taking any action - undo edit

    • [Bug 160950] Warn before performing a destructive/lossy edit of OLE object

    • [Bug 146448] DOCX: A drawing object has a “Remove Textbox” which creates an
      empty frame (Captionbox/image frame is converted to Drawing object)

    • [Bug 158526] page number display in the status bar

    • [Bug 160920] Allow choosing the page style from the sheets tab

    • [Bug 160908] “Edit cell background highlight”

    • Vertical tabs 99528 – Better handling for multiline tabs

      • many dialogs with many tabs are now changed to use vertical tabs
      • recent change by Samuel
      • concern if this will be 100% by the time 24.8 is out (Xisco)
      • more afraid if these vertical tabs work nicely in so many dialogs (Heiko)
        • think of macOS, Windows, etc.
      • https://conference.libreoffice.org/assets/Conference/Almeria/Caolan-2019-NativeGtk.pdf I tried a few variations of tab placement before, but maybe more luck this time (Caolan)
        • a slide mentions the dialog with the most tabs, some 16, won’t fit even the left-hand-side
      • sounds similar to the German shortcuts topic (Xisco)
        • would be good to have consensus here, before going further
      • ask the design team to provide input? (Miklos)
        • people interested in the topic are informed (Heiko)
        • the change was kind of welcome
        • looks great on Gnome, broken with kf5
          • looks more like a list, not tabs
          • macOS/Windows need checking
          • to make it really appealing, needs more work, though
          • expect a lot of effort should come after the first commits are in
        • also consider the doc team’s work to update screenshots (Olivier)
        • but if all work is done, it may be a nice fresh look (Heiko)
          • indeed, looks nice (Olivier)
        • so this is welcome, but very much error-prone (Heiko)
          AI: invite Samuel next week if there are still burning fires (Heiko)
  • Crash Testing (Caolan)

    • 24(-39) import failure, 20(-39) export failures
      - Development/Crashtesting - The Document Foundation Wiki is useful again
    • 1 coverity issue
      - just hit the weird possible coverity misunderstanding of virtual base warnings with a hammer
    • 6 ossfuzz issues
      - 5 timeouts, 1 new crash in 3rd party lib
  • Crash Reporting (Xisco)

    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/signature/static%20%20%60com::sun::star::document::DocumentProperties::create'::%601'::catch$14()
    
    • New in 24.2 branch. Most reported crash atm
  • Mentoring (Hossein)

    • New EasyHack
      tdf#160992 - Fix DPI dependent tests
      160992 – Fix DPI dependent tests
      committer
 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
      open 81(-11) 142(-21) 178(-17) 178(-17)
      reviews 450(100) 1206(56) 3718(76) 12462(22)
      merged 350(51) 1140(127) 3369(127) 12593(81)
      abandoned 13(4) 55(-2) 172(-2) 656(-1)
      own commits 250(27) 827(103) 2303(119) 9229(1)
      review commits 51(3) 224(-8) 871(14) 3012(-51)
      contributor
 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
      open 37(4) 77(7) 103(8) 103(8)
      reviews 962(132) 2774(178) 7906(220) 29522(6)
      merged 23(3) 98(-20) 385(5) 1635(-61)
      abandoned 9(-4) 49(-5) 288(-10) 704(-3)
      own commits 25(0) 105(-8) 449(10) 1126(-7)
      review commits 0(0) 0(0) 0(0) 0(0)
      • easyHack statistics:
        needsDevEval 8(8) needsUXEval 1(1) cleanup_comments 326(326)
        total 408(408) assigned 26(26) open 348(348)
      • top 10 contributors:
        Armin Le Grand (allotropia) made 7 patches in 1 month, and 87 patches in 1 year
        Ritobroto Mukherjee made 5 patches in 1 month, and 15 patches in 1 year
        made 4 patches in 1 month, and 7 patches in 1 year
        Kira Tubo made 4 patches in 1 month, and 14 patches in 1 year
        Jakub Koƛcielak made 4 patches in 1 month, and 4 patches in 1 year
        colton Garrett made 4 patches in 1 month, and 4 patches in 1 year
        Stéphane Guillou made 3 patches in 1 month, and 7 patches in 1 year
        Stéphane Guillou made 3 patches in 1 month, and 58 patches in 1 year
        Sahil Gautam made 3 patches in 1 month, and 4 patches in 1 year
        Jonathan Clark made 3 patches in 1 month, and 3 patches in 1 year
      • top 10 reviewers:
        Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 106 review comments in 1 month, and 512 in 1 year
        Ilmari Lauhakangas made 102 review comments in 1 month, and 548 in 1 year
        Hossein made 86 review comments in 1 month, and 338 in 1 year
        CaolĂĄn McNamara made 84 review comments in 1 month, and 1440 in 1 year
        Michael Stahl made 80 review comments in 1 month, and 920 in 1 year
        Thorsten Behrens made 70 review comments in 1 month, and 596 in 1 year
        Grandin, Noel made 64 review comments in 1 month, and 698 in 1 year
        Kaganski, Mike made 56 review comments in 1 month, and 472 in 1 year
        Vajna, Miklos made 56 review comments in 1 month, and 1078 in 1 year
        Christian Lohmaier made 56 review comments in 1 month, and 362 in 1 year
      • Patches automatically abandoned:
        basegfx: BColorStops shouldn’t derive from std::vector ( TomaĆŸ Vajngerl )
        - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/158710
        tdf#114441 change use of sal_uLong to better integer types ( Achintya Sharma )
        - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/159028
        wip: don’t typedetect ole before load ( Caolán McNamara )
        - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/161084
        tdf#155856 Added cmake to DocumentLoader example ( Konstantin Limarev )
        - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/162978
  • GSoC (Ilmari)

  • Commit Access

    • Jonathan Clark
      • pretty happy with the commits so far (Caolan)
      • with the condition to self-review in areas where you’re confident, and not otherwise
      • also please help out with reviews for changes by others
        => go ahead (all)
        AI: send welcome mail (Xisco)
        AI: enable the commit bit (Cloph)
  • LibreOffice Technology hackfest at Budapest (Miklos)

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

    • resting since: 4 weeks (limit: 20 weeks)
  • Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
    gerrit_android_aarch64 jobs: 202 ok: 193 ko: 7 fail ratio: 3.47% mean_ok: 10 ( 13) median_ok: 7 ( 8)
    gerrit_android_arm jobs: 204 ok: 194 ko: 6 fail ratio: 2.94% mean_ok: 9 ( 12) median_ok: 7 ( 9)
    gerrit_android_x86 jobs: 201 ok: 193 ko: 7 fail ratio: 3.48% mean_ok: 10 ( 13) median_ok: 7 ( 9)
    gerrit_android_x86_64 jobs: 204 ok: 196 ko: 5 fail ratio: 2.45% mean_ok: 10 ( 13) median_ok: 8 ( 10)
    gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil jobs: 410 ok: 353 ko: 46 fail ratio: 11.22% mean_ok: 42 ( 44) median_ok: 41 ( 42)
    gerrit_linux_gcc_release jobs: 461 ok: 394 ko: 55 fail ratio: 11.93% mean_ok: 19 ( 21) median_ok: 15 ( 16)
    gerrit_mac jobs: 417 ok: 355 ko: 44 fail ratio: 10.55% mean_ok: 53 ( 55) median_ok: 49 ( 50)
    gerrit_windows jobs: 432 ok: 314 ko: 103 fail ratio: 23.84% mean_ok: 69 (114) median_ok: 71 ( 85)
    gerrit_master_ml jobs: 500 ok: 281 ko: 188 fail ratio: 37.60% mean_ok: 127 (127) median_ok: 99 ( 99)
    gerrit_master jobs: 61 ok: 40 ko: 17 fail ratio: 27.87% mean_ok: 100 (101) median_ok: 83 ( 83)
    gerrit_master_seq jobs: 440 ok: 241 ko: 172 fail ratio: 39.09% mean_ok: 130 (131) median_ok: 102 (102)

    • tests that failed more than twice in last seven days
      3 UITest_sw_navigator gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      4 aborted by jenkins job timeout gerrit_windows
      4 CppunitTest_svx_unit gerrit_linux_gcc_release
      4 JunitTest_toolkit_unoapi_1 gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      5 Killed by the kill-wrapper gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      5 CppunitTest_sw_ooxmlexport7 gerrit_linux_gcc_release
      5 CppunitTest_sw_rtfexport8 gerrit_linux_gcc_release
      12 Killed by the kill-wrapper gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil_branch
      13 CppunitTest_sw_a11y gerrit_windows
    • this week: we had an unexpected restart of Jenkins last Thursday (Cloph)
    • it affected a couple of builds
    • also yesterday: Jenkins disk was filled up, caused a bigger distruption
    • it’s not easy to trigger builds for these
      • possibly will work this around by rebasing
    • Windows failure on Friday: failed some builds due to leftovers
    • good news: macOS clang crash seems to be fixed by a patch, thanks Noel
  • What’s cooking (Miklos)

  • QA update (Xisco)

    • UNCONFIRMED: 1208 (+28)

      • enhancements: 281 (+5)
      • needsUXEval: 5 (-2)
      • haveBackTrace: 10 (+0)
      • needsDevAdvice: 47 (+0)
      • documentation: 6 (+2)
      • android: 0 (+0)
      • iOS: 0 (+0)
      • Online: 9 (+0)
    • Most pressing bugs:
      New:

    None

    • New high severity bugs of the week:

      None

  • QA stats (StĂ©phane)

  • Bisected bugs open: keyword ‘bisected’

    done by:
       Stéphane Guillou       4
       Raal                   2
    
  • Bibisected bugs open: keyword ‘bibisected’

    done by:
       Stéphane Guillou       4
       Raal                   2
    
  • all bugs tagged with ‘regression’

    • 1236(+4) bugs open of 13341(+14) total 23(+2) high prio.

      done by:
      Stéphane Guillou 3
      Ady 2
      m.a.riosv 2
      Kaganski, Mike 1
      Raal 1

  • ~Component count net * high severity regressions

    • Bug List
      Writer - 15(+1)
      Calc - 2(+0)
      Impress - 2(+0)
      UI - 2(+1)
      LibreOffice - 1(+0)

    by OS:
    All - 17(+1)
    Linux - 4(+1)
    Mac OS X - 0(+0)
    Windows - 2(+0)

  • ~Component count net * all regressions

    • Bug List
      Writer: other - 433(+1)
      Calc - 227(+3)
      Impress - 127(+0)
      Draw - 52(-1)
      LibreOffice - 51(+0)
      Writer: docx filter - 45(+0)
      Base - 40(+0)
      Crashes - 39(+1)
      UI - 38(+1)
      Borders - 35(+0)
      Writer: perf - 34(-1)
      Writer: other filter - 30(+0)
      Printing and PDF export - 25(+1)
      Chart - 24(+0)
      RTL - 23(+0)
      filters and storage - 22(+0)
      BASIC - 20(+0)
      Writer: doc filter - 16(+0)
      graphics stack - 12(+0)
      Formula Editor - 7(+0)
      framework - 3(+0)
      Extensions - 2(+0)
      sdk - 2(+0)
      Linguistic - 1(+0)
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