ESC meeting minutes: 2024-06-06

  • Present:

    • Cloph, Hossein, Olivier, Heiko, Ilmari, Jonathan, Michael S, Michael W, Caolan, Regina, Stephan, Thorsten, Xisco, Nonso, Eike, Miklos
  • Completed Action Items:

    • MAR update: include OS info in the user agent or file a bug to do it (Cloph)
  • Pending Action Items:

  • Release Engineering update (Cloph)

    • 24.2: 24.2.4 is to be out today; 24.2.5 RC1 in 3 weeks
      • 24.2.2 MAR update was broken (Stephan)
        • taken down by now?
        • yes
        • will re-generate the update with the fix (Cloph)
    • 24.8:
      • feature freeze (beta1) this week, later today or tomorrow
      • beta2 in 2 weeks, if needed
      • string / UI freeze in 3 weeks
      • late features?
        • late addition to the notes page in Impress in the works (Thorsten)
          • search not working perfectly yet (would need to find & open
            the notes pane in case a match is found - borderline bugfix perhaps)
  • Edge Hill University (Nonso)

    • lecturer there
    • Ilmari invited to this call
    • planning an extension to a text editor, some sort of AI assistant
    • for the scholar domain
    • thought of LibreOffice, want the result to be open-source
    • would be interested in having mentoring help, if his students get stuck
    • didn’t know if this would be extension vs core (Ilmari)
    • we have “AI assistant with ChatGPT” on the extension site
      AI assistant with ChatGPT » Extensions
    • do you need any “blessing” from TDF?
      • would like a “letter of support” from devs, to clarify the dev community is OK with this
      • looking for best-effort mentoring for now.
      • the ESC is not an official body of the foundation to sign something like this, though (Ilmari)
        • if it’s to be official, that has to go to the board
    • extension vs built-in? (Miklos)
      • extension (Nonso)
      • sounds similar to deepl/lightproof (Cloph)
      • grammar checking sounds similar, not thinking it would be controversial as an extension (Caolan)
      • We have a DeepL link as possible model (Olivier)
    • re mentoring/support: normally on the developer mailing list / chat (Ilmari)
    • will this be a project for your students? (Hossein)
      • students to work with the researcher here (Nonso)
      • will also have a developer on their side
      • looking for lightweight mentors
      • dev mailing list / IRC sounds great for this (Hossein)
      • what language model would you use?
        • intend to use Meta Llama, and add custom model(s) on top of it (Nonso)
  • Documentation (Olivier)

    • New Help
      • CSS bug fix (buovjaga)
    • Helpcontents2
      • updates and fixes (D. Maddern, ohallot, S. Horacek)
      • Note: Help page for LET function on the way (ohallot)
    • Guides
      • work in progress
    • Bugzilla Documentation statistics
      250(250) bugs open
    • Updates:
      BZ changes 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
      created 10(-7) 50(3) 113(0) 231(7)
      commented 22(2) 100(11) 264(7) 891(20)
      resolved 3(-7) 27(-3) 68(1) 133(2)
    • top 10 contributors:
      Dione Maddern made 61 changes in 1 month, and 92 changes in 1 year
      Olivier Hallot made 49 changes in 1 month, and 261 changes in 1 year
      Stéphane Guillou made 22 changes in 1 month, and 252 changes in 1 year
      Heiko Tietze made 15 changes in 1 month, and 85 changes in 1 year
      Dieter made 13 changes in 1 month, and 18 changes in 1 year
      Ilmari Lauhakangas made 12 changes in 1 month, and 81 changes in 1 year
      Óvári made 10 changes in 1 month, and 13 changes in 1 year
      Timur made 6 changes in 1 month, and 8 changes in 1 year
      Bogdan B made 4 changes in 1 month, and 13 changes in 1 year
      Vernon, Stuart Foote made 4 changes in 1 month, and 106 changes in 1 year
  • UX Update (Heiko)

    • Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
      239(239) (topicUI) bugs open, 38(38) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
    • Updates:
      BZ changes 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
      added 5(-2) 11(-2) 16(-2) 24(-1)
      commented 51(-41) 210(-16) 546(-7) 1729(-28)
      removed 0(0) 0(-1) 5(0) 10(0)
      resolved 11(5) 33(6) 80(0) 288(-5)
    • top 10 contributors:
      Heiko Tietze made 120 changes in 1 month, and 950 changes in 1 year
      Stéphane Guillou made 109 changes in 1 month, and 663 changes in 1 year
      Eyal Rozenberg made 57 changes in 1 month, and 170 changes in 1 year
      Vernon, Stuart Foote made 24 changes in 1 month, and 303 changes in 1 year
      Dieter made 12 changes in 1 month, and 117 changes in 1 year
      m.a.riosv made 12 changes in 1 month, and 49 changes in 1 year
      Henschel, Regina made 11 changes in 1 month, and 37 changes in 1 year
      Jérôme made 10 changes in 1 month, and 14 changes in 1 year
      Ilmari Lauhakangas made 8 changes in 1 month, and 129 changes in 1 year
      Ady made 7 changes in 1 month, and 117 changes in 1 year
    • [Bug 161411] UI Better wording for ASCII-only characters
    • [Bug 161395] “Whole numbers” is ambiguous
    • [Bug 161393] Allow typing a date directly into the ad-hoc field when creating
      a custom date property
    • [Bug 161373] Font-family fallback list is not respected/not working
    • [Bug 161378] Improve/create visibility for font fallback lists in the UI
    • [Bug 161093] Chart Properties sidebar only accommodates 4 chart type previews,
      but the Pie category now has 6
    • [Bug 161364] Search in both values & formulae
  • Vertical tabpages state (Samuel/Thorsten)

    • let’s have it in, re-evaluate it next week how it’s going (Xisco)
    • 161355 – Vertical tabs: Incorrect hover feedback on non-GTK - Vertical tabs:
      Incorrect hover feedback on non-GTK
    • 161351 – vertical tab dialogs--List styles examples are not readable - vertical tab dialogs–
      List styles examples are not readable
    • 161026 – Vertical Tab dialogs--Mouse cursor over tab not activated until pointer touches bottom edge (Win) - Vertical Tab dialogs–
      Mouse cursor over tab not activated until pointer touches bottom edge (Win)
    • Currently a mix between vertical and horizontal tabs (Heiko)
      • still have a bit of time till the UI freeze (Xisco)
      • a mix of vertical vs horizontal don’t look consistent
      • do we know how many dialogs are still to be converted?
      • probably not many with multiple tab lines
      • just looking at the bugs, looks slightly less bad to me now? (Thorsten)
      • the idea was to use those which had 2 or 3 lines only
      • are there any left?
        • e.g. character & paragraph formatting dialog in Writer is still un-converted (Heiko)
        • character is single-line (Ilmari)
        • for paragraph, there is a patch in gerrit (Xisco)
      • seeing some artifacts in generic and kf5 UI (Olivier)
        • think that’s an older problem (Ilmari)
      • really need a consistent UI here, if we change (Heiko)
        • mouse hover, over the tab, looks poor, needs fixing
      • Char format is one vs two lines depending on RTL, probably (Hossein)
      • Visually similar in some UI plugins to a single line broken into two
      • More issues when you enable RTL/CTL and CJK at the same time
      • RTL is not shown, it is in the back of CJK
      • To test, enable Asian and/or CTL in Tools > Options > Languages and Locales
      • list styles is vertical from the sidebar (Regina)
        • horizontal from the toolbar, which is inconsistent
      • suggest: re-check this next week, again (Xisco)
        • still have a few weeks to just undo this last minute if needed.
  • Crash Testing (Caolan)

    • 22(-2) import failure, 19(-1) export failures
    • 0 coverity issues
      • 2 new but fixed again
    • 9 ossfuzz issues
      • 7 timeouts, 1 OOM, 1 int overflow
  • Crash Reporting (Xisco)

    • 7.6.6.3 7480(+632)
    • 7.6.7.2 1896(+779)
    • 24.2.0.3 19710(+544)
    • 24.2.1.2 16405(+623)
    • 24.2.2.2 13833(+1041)
    • 24.2.3.2 7710(+2497)
    • looks normal / nothing special to report
  • Mentoring (Hossein)

  • New EasyHack
    tdf#161195 - Allow Right-to-Left brochure printing in Draw / Impress
    161195 – Allow Right-to-Left brochure printing in Draw / Impress
    committer… 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
    open 53(-41) 170(-13) 173(-10) 173(-10)
    reviews 326(26) 1298(-12) 3312(-74) 12510(6)
    merged 229(12) 1151(-94) 3176(-63) 12660(-33)
    abandoned 18(11) 57(9) 157(-5) 668(9)
    own commits 172(12) 830(-69) 2296(-32) 9276(8)
    review commits 47(-5) 231(2) 761(-34) 3006(-2)
    contributor… 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
    open 33(-3) 98(-2) 98(-4) 98(-4)
    reviews 634(-62) 2902(-208) 7360(-220) 29462(-98)
    merged 14(-2) 76(-6) 332(-15) 1563(-12)
    abandoned 3(-5) 23(-4) 96(-44) 712(2)
    own commits 21(4) 98(-3) 379(-18) 1140(-1)
    review commits 0(0) 0(0) 0(0) 0(0)
    • easyHack statistics:
      needsDevEval 9(9) needsUXEval 1(1) cleanup_comments 329(329)
      total 411(411) assigned 29(29) open 349(349)
    • top 10 contributors:
      Dione Maddern made 25 patches in 1 month, and 61 patches in 1 year
      Weblate made 6 patches in 1 month, and 28 patches in 1 year
      LeSasse made 4 patches in 1 month, and 23 patches in 1 year
      Hubert Figuière made 3 patches in 1 month, and 9 patches in 1 year
      Zainab Abbasi made 3 patches in 1 month, and 4 patches in 1 year
      Jakub Kościelak made 3 patches in 1 month, and 7 patches in 1 year
      Srebotnjak, Martin made 2 patches in 1 month, and 17 patches in 1 year
      Marco Pinto made 2 patches in 1 month, and 6 patches in 1 year
      Bayram Çiçek made 2 patches in 1 month, and 3 patches in 1 year
      Kurt Nordback made 2 patches in 1 month, and 25 patches in 1 year
    • top 10 reviewers:
      Caolán McNamara made 154 review comments in 1 month, and 1532 in 1 year
      Ilmari Lauhakangas made 102 review comments in 1 month, and 556 in 1 year
      Thorsten Behrens made 82 review comments in 1 month, and 620 in 1 year
      Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 74 review comments in 1 month, and 550 in 1 year
      Vajna, Miklos made 72 review comments in 1 month, and 1084 in 1 year
      Michael Stahl made 66 review comments in 1 month, and 886 in 1 year
      Grandin, Noel made 64 review comments in 1 month, and 712 in 1 year
      Christian Lohmaier made 60 review comments in 1 month, and 380 in 1 year
      Hossein made 58 review comments in 1 month, and 310 in 1 year
      Heiko Tietze made 44 review comments in 1 month, and 250 in 1 year
  • GSoC (Ilmari)

    • Midterm evaluations deadline 12 July
  • Commit Access

  • LibreOffice Technology hackfest at Budapest (Miklos)

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

    • resting since: 7 weeks (limit: 20 weeks)
  • Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
    gerrit_android_aarch64 jobs: 149 ok: 144 ko: 0 fail ratio: 0.00% mean_ok: 9 ( 10) median_ok: 7 ( 8)
    gerrit_android_arm jobs: 149 ok: 142 ko: 4 fail ratio: 2.68% mean_ok: 9 ( 10) median_ok: 7 ( 7)
    gerrit_android_x86 jobs: 149 ok: 144 ko: 0 fail ratio: 0.00% mean_ok: 9 ( 10) median_ok: 7 ( 7)
    gerrit_android_x86_64 jobs: 149 ok: 144 ko: 1 fail ratio: 0.67% mean_ok: 9 ( 10) median_ok: 7 ( 8)
    gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil jobs: 305 ok: 246 ko: 47 fail ratio: 15.41% mean_ok: 41 ( 41) median_ok: 42 ( 42)
    gerrit_linux_gcc_release jobs: 356 ok: 289 ko: 48 fail ratio: 13.48% mean_ok: 16 ( 17) median_ok: 14 ( 14)
    gerrit_mac jobs: 328 ok: 275 ko: 39 fail ratio: 11.89% mean_ok: 53 ( 53) median_ok: 49 ( 49)
    gerrit_windows jobs: 372 ok: 230 ko: 116 fail ratio: 31.18% mean_ok: 85 (153) median_ok: 72 ( 96)
    gerrit_master_ml jobs: 418 ok: 191 ko: 187 fail ratio: 44.74% mean_ok: 163 (173) median_ok: 118 (118)
    gerrit_master jobs: 67 ok: 26 ko: 35 fail ratio: 52.24% mean_ok: 184 (184) median_ok: 129 (129)
    gerrit_master_seq jobs: 348 ok: 166 ko: 148 fail ratio: 42.53% mean_ok: 157 (161) median_ok: 118 (118)

    • tests that failed more than twice in last seven days
      3 UITest_sw_navigator gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      8 UITest_writer_tests4 gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      24 CppunitTest_sw_a11y gerrit_windows
      25 aborted by jenkins job timeout gerrit_windows
    • MSVC -analyze switch disabled for CI builds (when JENKINS_HOME is set)
    • build times are now way faster on Windows, due to this (Cloph)
    • CppunitTest_sw_a11y was bad till Saturday, interestingly better since then
  • What’s cooking (Miklos)

  • invitation list for LibOCon (Michael W)

    • sent link to formal ESC members by email
    • please enter your suggestions before ESC call next week
  • Community Townhall Meeting (Heiko)

    • idea from BoD call on Monday
    • a bit of an “ask me anything” style
    • would be done per-project, including one for development
    • any feedback, let the board know
    • no objections from the ESC side (all)
    • had an AMA session on reddit a few years ago, it went well (Heiko)
  • QA update (Xisco)

    • UNCONFIRMED: 1161 (+20)

      • enhancements: 270 (-5)
      • needsUXEval: 10 (+0)
      • haveBackTrace: 10 (+0)
      • needsDevAdvice: 45 (+0)
      • documentation: 4 (+1)
      • android: 0 (+0)
      • iOS: 0 (+0)
      • Online: 9 (+0)
    • Most pressing bugs:
      New:

    None

  • QA stats (Stéphane)

    • Weekly Bug Summary
      +111 -6 (-93) overall)
      many thanks to the top bug squashers:
      Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 14
      QA Administrators 10
      Heiko Tietze 9
      Mike Kaganski 8
      László Németh 4
      Rafael Lima 4
      Thorsten Behrens (allotropia) 4
      Buovjaga 3
      Hossein 3
      Justin L 3

    • top 10 bugs reporters:
      johnks 7
      Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 6
      Mike Kaganski 4
      Xisco Faulí 4
      Eyal Rozenberg 3
      Olivier Hallot 3
      Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 3
      László Németh 2
      Miklos Vajna 2
      Regina Henschel 2

    • top 10 bugs fixers:
      Heiko Tietze 5
      Kaganski, Mike 5
      Németh, László 4
      Thorsten Behrens (CIB) 4
      Justin Luth 3
      Samuel Mehrbrodt 3
      Balland-Poirier, Laurent 2
      Caolán McNamara 2
      Grandin, Noel 2
      Rafael Lima 2

    • top 10 bugs confirmers:
      Stéphane Guillou 15
      m.a.riosv 7
      Heiko Tietze 6
      Nabet, Julien 6
      Alex Thurgood 5
      Robert Großkopf 4
      Ady 3
      Ilmari Lauhakangas 3
      Kaganski, Mike 3
      Xisco Fauli 3

  • Bisected bugs open: keyword ‘bisected’

    done by:
       Stéphane Guillou       5
       Raal                   4
       Xisco Fauli            3
       Aron Budea             1
       Kaganski, Mike         1
       Timur                  1
    
  • Bibisected bugs open: keyword ‘bibisected’

    done by:
       Stéphane Guillou       6
       Raal                   4
       Xisco Fauli            4
       Aron Budea             1
       Timur                  1
    
  • all bugs tagged with ‘regression’

    • 1244(-7) bugs open of 13405(+15) total 24(+1) high prio.

      done by:
      Stéphane Guillou 4
      Xisco Fauli 4
      Ady 1
      Eyal Rozenberg 1
      Ilmari Lauhakangas 1
      m.a.riosv 1
      Kaganski, Mike 1
      Telesto 1
      Timur 1

  • ~Component count net * high severity regressions

    • Bug List
      Writer - 14(+1)
      Calc - 3(+0)
      Impress - 2(+0)
      LibreOffice - 2(+0)
      UI - 2(+0)

    by OS:
    All - 17(+1)
    Linux - 5(+0)
    Mac OS X - 0(+0)
    Windows - 2(+0)

  • ~Component count net * all regressions

    • Bug List
      Writer: other - 429(-2)
      Calc - 230(-1)
      Impress - 126(+0)
      LibreOffice - 52(-1)
      Draw - 51(-1)
      Writer: docx filter - 44(+0)
      Base - 42(+0)
      Crashes - 42(+1)
      UI - 39(-4)
      Borders - 34(-1)
      Writer: perf - 34(+0)
      Writer: other filter - 32(+1)
      Printing and PDF export - 26(+0)
      Chart - 24(+0)
      RTL - 23(+0)
      BASIC - 21(+0)
      filters and storage - 21(+0)
      Writer: doc filter - 16(+0)
      graphics stack - 13(+0)
      Formula Editor - 7(+0)
      framework - 3(+0)
      Extensions - 2(+0)
      sdk - 2(+0)
      Linguistic - 1(+0)