ESC meeting minutes: 2024-07-11

  • Present:

    • Caolan, Heiko, Hossein, Ilmari, Jonathan, Michael W, Olivier, Stephan, Cloph, Michael S, Xisco, Stephane, Miklos
  • Completed Action Items:

  • Pending Action Items:

  • Release Engineering update (Cloph)

    • 24.8.0 rc1 is out and rc2 in 2 weeks
      • libreoffice-24-8 now needs 1 review
    • 24.2.5 rc2 accounced today
      • 24.2.6 rc1 in 5 weeks, as a current plan
  • Documentation (Olivier)

    • Helpcontents2
      • Refactor pages on Styles (D, Maddern)
      • Housekeeping (ohallot, Pierre F, buovjaga, J. Nabet, A Gelmini)
      • New pages on VBA ( A. Romedenne)
    • Guides
      • Updates in Getting started 24.8, anticipating next release
      • Guides “SanityCheck.oxt” extension by @bantoniof
    • Bugzilla Documentation statistics
      247(247) bugs open
    • Updates:
      BZ changes 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
      created 8(7) 23(-2) 93(-1) 233(1)
      commented 13(12) 64(-9) 231(1) 900(10)
      resolved 4(3) 13(-2) 61(-1) 140(0)
    • top 10 contributors:
      Olivier Hallot made 30 changes in 1 month, and 267 changes in 1 year
      Raal made 12 changes in 1 month, and 16 changes in 1 year
      Kaganski, Mike made 11 changes in 1 month, and 76 changes in 1 year
      Justin Luth made 8 changes in 1 month, and 10 changes in 1 year
      Stéphane Guillou made 8 changes in 1 month, and 210 changes in 1 year
      Heiko Tietze made 6 changes in 1 month, and 88 changes in 1 year
      m.a.riosv made 6 changes in 1 month, and 23 changes in 1 year
      UNKNOWN made 5 changes in 1 month, and 5 changes in 1 year
      Rafael Lima made 5 changes in 1 month, and 80 changes in 1 year
      Ilmari Lauhakangas made 4 changes in 1 month, and 85 changes in 1 year
  • UX Update (Heiko)

    • Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
      238(238) (topicUI) bugs open, 29(29) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
    • Updates:
      BZ changes 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
      added 4(2) 7(0) 10(-1) 17(-1)
      commented 52(17) 162(21) 464(15) 1760(8)
      removed 0(0) 2(0) 5(-1) 10(-1)
      resolved 4(2) 22(-7) 76(-1) 290(0)
    • top 10 contributors:
      Heiko Tietze made 93 changes in 1 month, and 968 changes in 1 year
      Vernon, Stuart Foote made 52 changes in 1 month, and 337 changes in 1 year
      Stéphane Guillou made 30 changes in 1 month, and 602 changes in 1 year
      Eyal Rozenberg made 27 changes in 1 month, and 165 changes in 1 year
      Dieter made 26 changes in 1 month, and 157 changes in 1 year
      Ady made 23 changes in 1 month, and 123 changes in 1 year
      Ilmari Lauhakangas made 13 changes in 1 month, and 138 changes in 1 year
      Kira Tubo made 11 changes in 1 month, and 28 changes in 1 year
      Kaganski, Mike made 9 changes in 1 month, and 75 changes in 1 year
      Cor Nouws made 6 changes in 1 month, and 25 changes in 1 year
    • [Bug 161934] “Top 10” item in Autofilter filter drop-down is ambiguous
    • [Bug 137879] LO should know not to try and recover temporary files
      → + [Bug 161978] Suppress editing of comments from other authors
      • also not deleting comment of others would be nice (Miklos)
    • [Bug 161956] Overhaul terminology on the “Text along Path” dialog
      → + [Bug 161950] Setting to add XY shift to pasted drawing etc. objects
    • [Bug 161949] When toggling an item in toolbar context menu > Visible Buttons
      - keep the menu open
  • Crash Testing (Caolan)

  • Crash Reporting (Xisco)

    • 24.2.1.2 18736(+429)
    • 24.2.2.2 17308(+649)
    • 24.2.3.2 14344(+840)
    • 24.2.4.2 7073(+1958)
  • Mentoring (Hossein)

    • New EasyHack from Mike K. to drop Fraction class from tools
      161837 – Drop Fraction class from tools
    • tools → options, a sub-page there that opens an inner dialog?
      • Security → Macro security opens an inner dialog, for example (Miklos)

      • will ask on the dev mailing list (Hossein)

         committer...   1 week     1 month     3 months    12 months
                 open     117(2)      201(-7)     205(-6)      205(-6)
              reviews     406(-96)   1774(24)    3554(96)    13034(36)
               merged     319(5)     1394(119)   3521(122)   12767(14)
            abandoned      25(5)       86(-2)     204(14)      723(22)
          own commits     226(60)     846(93)    2443(98)     9372(46)
        

        review commits 36(-21) 303(-5) 742(-12) 3084(-16)
        contributor… 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
        open 41(1) 100(8) 104(11) 104(11)
        reviews 944(-40) 3456(212) 7958(220) 29646(24)
        merged 12(-29) 124(-1) 280(-11) 1581(-8)
        abandoned 9(1) 26(-1) 87(-13) 715(-2)
        own commits 11(-24) 134(-3) 317(-18) 1204(-5)
        review commits 0(0) 0(0) 0(0) 0(0)

      • easyHack statistics:
        needsDevEval 9(9) needsUXEval 1(1) cleanup_comments 324(324)
        total 409(409) assigned 23(23) open 352(352)

      • top 10 contributors:
        Bogdan B made 65 patches in 1 month, and 84 patches in 1 year
        Weblate made 5 patches in 1 month, and 33 patches in 1 year
        Ritobroto Mukherjee made 5 patches in 1 month, and 22 patches in 1 year
        Srebotnjak, Martin made 4 patches in 1 month, and 21 patches in 1 year
        Pierre F made 4 patches in 1 month, and 28 patches in 1 year
        Theppitak Karoonboonyanan made 3 patches in 1 month, and 4 patches in 1 year
        Kira Tubo made 3 patches in 1 month, and 17 patches in 1 year
        Stéphane Guillou made 2 patches in 1 month, and 62 patches in 1 year
        Adam Seskunas made 2 patches in 1 month, and 16 patches in 1 year
        made 2 patches in 1 month, and 10 patches in 1 year

      • top 10 reviewers:
        Nabet, Julien made 232 review comments in 1 month, and 982 in 1 year
        Vajna, Miklos made 146 review comments in 1 month, and 1158 in 1 year
        Taichi Haradaguchi made 128 review comments in 1 month, and 326 in 1 year
        Xisco Fauli made 128 review comments in 1 month, and 742 in 1 year
        Christian Lohmaier made 118 review comments in 1 month, and 466 in 1 year
        Thorsten Behrens made 114 review comments in 1 month, and 688 in 1 year
        Ilmari Lauhakangas made 96 review comments in 1 month, and 602 in 1 year
        Caolán McNamara made 84 review comments in 1 month, and 1464 in 1 year
        Kaganski, Mike made 80 review comments in 1 month, and 500 in 1 year
        Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 66 review comments in 1 month, and 592 in 1 year

      • Patches automatically abandoned:
        sal: osl::File allow to create files in sandbox ( Michael Meeks )
        - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/160250
        tdf#155856 Added cmake to complextoolbarcontrols ( Konstantin Limarev )
        - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/162396
        tdf#45904 Move Java SwViewSetting tests to C++ ( Luv Sharma )
        - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/163551
        Revert “remove null checks for mpObj in UIObjectUnoObj” ( Stephan Bergmann )
        - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/165034
        tdf#157129 ww8import: Add unit test ( Steven Casey )
        - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/167027
        WIP: Fix automatic font color decision ( Gülşah Köse )
        - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/167029
        implement tdf#121111 test ( Keldin Maldonado )
        - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/167179
        WIP: change bindings autotimer to not use explicit timeout values ( Caolán McNamara )
        - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/167342
        WIP: keep everything at lowest priority and defer if any input when fired ( Caolán McNamara )
        - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/167343

      • big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
        Peter Hagen (willow-media.nl)

  • GSoC (Ilmari)

    • Midterm evaluations deadline 12 July - all completed
      • some slightly delayed projects, too
  • LiboCon

  • Commit Access

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

    • resting since: 11 weeks (limit: 20 weeks)
  • Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
    gerrit_android_aarch64 jobs: 200 ok: 190 ko: 10 fail ratio: 5.00% mean_ok: 13 ( 28) median_ok: 10 ( 20)
    gerrit_android_arm jobs: 201 ok: 191 ko: 8 fail ratio: 3.98% mean_ok: 13 ( 28) median_ok: 10 ( 20)
    gerrit_android_x86 jobs: 200 ok: 189 ko: 11 fail ratio: 5.50% mean_ok: 14 ( 29) median_ok: 11 ( 20)
    gerrit_android_x86_64 jobs: 201 ok: 189 ko: 8 fail ratio: 3.98% mean_ok: 14 ( 29) median_ok: 12 ( 21)
    gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil jobs: 403 ok: 316 ko: 77 fail ratio: 19.11% mean_ok: 50 ( 66) median_ok: 48 ( 62)
    gerrit_linux_gcc_release jobs: 477 ok: 393 ko: 58 fail ratio: 12.16% mean_ok: 28 ( 44) median_ok: 22 ( 37)
    gerrit_mac jobs: 405 ok: 365 ko: 29 fail ratio: 7.16% mean_ok: 53 ( 66) median_ok: 46 ( 54)
    gerrit_windows jobs: 431 ok: 313 ko: 100 fail ratio: 23.20% mean_ok: 66 ( 97) median_ok: 70 ( 74)
    gerrit_master_ml jobs: 512 ok: 265 ko: 203 fail ratio: 39.65% mean_ok: 143 (150) median_ok: 127 (130)
    gerrit_master jobs: 61 ok: 36 ko: 20 fail ratio: 32.79% mean_ok: 95 (100) median_ok: 89 ( 97)
    gerrit_master_seq jobs: 454 ok: 232 ko: 183 fail ratio: 40.31% mean_ok: 143 (149) median_ok: 129 (133)

    • tests that failed more than twice in last seven days
      3 CppunitTest_writerperfect_writer gerrit_windows
      9 CppunitTest_sw_a11y gerrit_windows
      37 aborted by jenkins job timeout gerrit_windows
    • this week: some Windows bots still sometimes go into a state that all later builds fail, without a way to easily detect this state (Cloph)
    • experimenting with a cloud builder for the more busy hours
    • also one more server upcoming, will be used as a Windows builder
  • What’s cooking (Miklos)

    • A11y update (Michael W)
      • looking into vertical tabpage a11y, related code cleanup
    • RTL/CTL/CJK update (Jonathan)
    • drawinglayer system-dependent primitive renderer (SDPR) for cairo (Armin)
    • python 3.10 upgrade (Xisco)
      • some knock-on problems, but think everything is sorted out for now

      • 3.10 is still not EOL till 2026

      • Status of Python versions (Hossein)

      • any plans for 3.12? (Hossein)

        • 161947 – python3: bundle setuptools has to be fixed first (Xisco)

        • was discussed on IRC (Ilmari)

        • would be a problem for Debian 12 backports, if we then modified the code and removed support for older versions

        • Xisco said he doesn’t plan to update to 3.11 for now

          • for 25.8, maybe
    • freedesktop git mirror is back (Miklos)
      • including cgit & emails on libreoffice-commits@
  • QA update (Xisco)

    • UNCONFIRMED: 1215 (+30)

      • enhancements: 275 (+10)
      • needsUXEval: 5 (+1)
      • haveBackTrace: 9 (+0)
      • needsDevAdvice: 47 (+0)
      • documentation: 5 (+0)
      • android: 0 (+0)
      • iOS: 0 (+0)
      • Online: 9 (+0)
    • Most pressing bugs:
      New:

    None

  • QA stats (Stéphane)

  • Bisected bugs open: keyword ‘bisected’

    done by:
       Stéphane Guillou       5
       Raal                   3
       Ilmari Lauhakangas     1
       Xisco Fauli            1
    
  • Bibisected bugs open: keyword ‘bibisected’

    done by:
       Stéphane Guillou       5
       Raal                   3
       gladys                 2
       Ilmari Lauhakangas     1
       Xisco Fauli            1
    
  • all bugs tagged with ‘regression’

    • 1241(+7) bugs open of 13468(+14) total 28(+4) high prio.

      done by:
      Stéphane Guillou 5
      Ady 2
      m.a.riosv 2
      Heiko Tietze 1
      Ilmari Lauhakangas 1
      Alex Thurgood 1
      Balland-Poirier, Laurent 1
      Bielefeld, Rainer 1
      Xisco Fauli 1

  • ~Component count net * high severity regressions

    • Bug List
      Writer - 14(+0)
      Calc - 6(+3)
      Impress - 2(+0)
      LibreOffice - 2(+0)
      UI - 2(+0)
      Base - 1(+1)

    by OS:
    All - 19(+3)
    Linux - 5(+0)
    Mac OS X - 0(+0)
    Windows - 4(+1)

  • ~Component count net * all regressions

    • Bug List
      Writer: other - 426(+2)
      Calc - 233(+2)
      Impress - 124(+1)
      LibreOffice - 51(+0)
      Draw - 48(+0)
      Crashes - 46(+2)
      Writer: docx filter - 44(+0)
      Base - 42(+0)
      UI - 39(+0)
      Borders - 34(+0)
      Writer: perf - 34(+0)
      Writer: other filter - 32(+0)
      Printing and PDF export - 27(+0)
      Chart - 24(+0)
      RTL - 23(+0)
      filters and storage - 21(+0)
      BASIC - 19(+0)
      Writer: doc filter - 16(+0)
      graphics stack - 12(+0)
      Formula Editor - 10(+1)
      framework - 3(+0)
      Extensions - 2(+0)
      sdk - 2(+0)
      Linguistic - 1(+0)