ESC meeting minutes: 2024-07-18

  • Present:

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

  • Pending Action Items:

  • Release Engineering update (Cloph)

    • 24.8.0 rc2 in 1 week
      • libreoffice-24-8 now needs +1 review
    • 24.2.6 rc1 in 4 weeks, as a current plan
    • EOL extension (Ilmari)
      • more overlap between new vs old version (Cloph)
      • stop doing 2 RCs for the .5, .6
      • and no libreoffice-x-y-z branch for those
      • or space out minor versions further, less frequency
      • less tags → less builds → more overlap with the same mount of builds
      • two tags the same week is problematic
      • good to think this through & get back to this next week
  • Documentation (Olivier)

    • Helpcontents2
      • Updates and fixes (ohallot, Bogdan Buzea, Pierre F)
    • Guides
      • Community active reviewing GS guide before end July.
    • Bugzilla Documentation statistics
      251(251) bugs open
    • Updates:
      BZ changes 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
      created 9(1) 27(4) 93(0) 237(4)
      commented 18(5) 76(12) 243(12) 895(-5)
      resolved 2(-2) 13(0) 56(-5) 141(1)
    • top 10 contributors:
      Olivier Hallot made 38 changes in 1 month, and 275 changes in 1 year
      Kaganski, Mike made 14 changes in 1 month, and 80 changes in 1 year
      Ilmari Lauhakangas made 13 changes in 1 month, and 94 changes in 1 year
      Raal made 12 changes in 1 month, and 16 changes in 1 year
      m.a.riosv made 11 changes in 1 month, and 28 changes in 1 year
      Stéphane Guillou made 8 changes in 1 month, and 196 changes in 1 year
      Henschel, Regina made 7 changes in 1 month, and 17 changes in 1 year
      Dione Maddern made 6 changes in 1 month, and 104 changes in 1 year
      Pierre F made 6 changes in 1 month, and 36 changes in 1 year
      Heiko Tietze made 6 changes in 1 month, and 87 changes in 1 year
  • UX Update (Heiko)

    • Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
      238(238) (topicUI) bugs open, 32(32) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam

    • Updates:
      BZ changes 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
      added 5(1) 10(3) 13(3) 19(2)
      commented 44(-8) 174(12) 456(-8) 1771(11)
      removed 0(0) 0(-2) 5(0) 10(0)
      resolved 6(2) 21(-1) 75(-1) 285(-5)

    • top 10 contributors:
      Heiko Tietze made 82 changes in 1 month, and 963 changes in 1 year
      Vernon, Stuart Foote made 52 changes in 1 month, and 336 changes in 1 year
      Ady made 25 changes in 1 month, and 123 changes in 1 year
      Eyal Rozenberg made 24 changes in 1 month, and 162 changes in 1 year
      Dieter made 21 changes in 1 month, and 155 changes in 1 year
      Ilmari Lauhakangas made 19 changes in 1 month, and 143 changes in 1 year
      Rafael Lima made 16 changes in 1 month, and 69 changes in 1 year
      Stéphane Guillou made 13 changes in 1 month, and 608 changes in 1 year
      Kira Tubo made 8 changes in 1 month, and 20 changes in 1 year
      Cor Nouws made 6 changes in 1 month, and 25 changes in 1 year

    • [Bug 162060] Add items to watch window from r-click

    • [Bug 160511] “box around character” uses too much padding above (matter of taste)
      → + [Bug 160470] CALC: EDITING: Cannot remove or create COLUMNAR data groups when
      “unrelated” columns contain AUTOFILTERS. Rows work fine
      + input is appreciated in the bug

    • [Bug 161657] [DOCX] LibreOffice shouldn’t try to import the comment style from
      DOCX files

    • [Bug 161557] Duplicate Options Menu (“Field”) in Tabbed Interface

    • blog post PEER-TO-PEER COLLABORATION WITH LIBREOFFICE

  • Crash Testing (Caolan)

  • Crash Reporting (Xisco)

    • 24.2.2.2 17817(+509)
    • 24.2.3.2 15015(+671)
    • 24.2.4.2 8885(+1812)
    • 24.2.5.2 492(+0)
  • Mentoring (Hossein)

    • Added a new draft blog post around fuzz testing
      Fuzz testing to maintain LibreOffice code quality
      Fuzz testing to maintain LibreOffice code quality - LibreOffice Development Blog
    • Added a new Wiki page for fuzz testing
      Fuzz testing
      Fuzz testing - The Document Foundation Wiki
      committer… 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
      open 91(-26) 186(-15) 187(-18) 187(-18)
      reviews 524(118) 1840(66) 3672(118) 13106(72)
      merged 319(0) 1406(12) 3650(129) 12873(106)
      abandoned 13(-12) 82(-4) 200(-4) 726(3)
      own commits 208(-18) 861(15) 2523(80) 9428(56)
      review commits 59(23) 314(11) 755(13) 3093(9)
      contributor… 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
      open 40(-1) 100(0) 100(-4) 100(-4)
      reviews 928(-16) 3476(20) 8166(208) 29828(182)
      merged 17(5) 131(7) 275(-5) 1549(-32)
      abandoned 8(-1) 25(-1) 83(-4) 720(5)
      own commits 29(18) 148(14) 331(14) 1213(9)
      review commits 0(0) 0(0) 0(0) 0(0)
      • easyHack statistics:
        needsDevEval 9(9) needsUXEval 1(1) cleanup_comments 325(325)
        total 410(410) assigned 24(24) open 351(351)
      • top 10 contributors:
        Bogdan B made 69 patches in 1 month, and 88 patches in 1 year
        Pierre F made 8 patches in 1 month, and 32 patches in 1 year
        made 5 patches in 1 month, and 13 patches in 1 year
        Armin Le Grand (allotropia) made 5 patches in 1 month, and 82 patches in 1 year
        Srebotnjak, Martin made 4 patches in 1 month, and 21 patches in 1 year
        Kira Tubo made 4 patches in 1 month, and 18 patches in 1 year
        Dione Maddern made 4 patches in 1 month, and 67 patches in 1 year
        Ritobroto Mukherjee made 4 patches in 1 month, and 22 patches in 1 year
        Theppitak Karoonboonyanan made 3 patches in 1 month, and 4 patches in 1 year
        Weblate made 2 patches in 1 month, and 33 patches in 1 year
      • top 10 reviewers:
        Nabet, Julien made 212 review comments in 1 month, and 972 in 1 year
        Christian Lohmaier made 140 review comments in 1 month, and 472 in 1 year
        Taichi Haradaguchi made 128 review comments in 1 month, and 328 in 1 year
        Xisco Fauli made 124 review comments in 1 month, and 744 in 1 year
        Vajna, Miklos made 122 review comments in 1 month, and 1170 in 1 year
        Thorsten Behrens made 118 review comments in 1 month, and 690 in 1 year
        Ilmari Lauhakangas made 88 review comments in 1 month, and 604 in 1 year
        Caolán McNamara made 86 review comments in 1 month, and 1480 in 1 year
        Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 80 review comments in 1 month, and 634 in 1 year
        Kaganski, Mike made 72 review comments in 1 month, and 490 in 1 year
      • Patches automatically abandoned:
        tdf#155856 Port C++ SDK example make file to cmake / qmake ( Hossein )
        → Restored
        - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/153540
        tdf#51357 add TriangleWipe transition to svg export by impress ( Devansh Varshney )
        → Restored
        - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/163658
        Enable additonal functions in editable section while in readonly-mode ( Oliver Specht )
        - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/165031
        tdf#138293 - Add “save sketches on slides on exit” ( Devansh Varshney )
        → Restored
        - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/165144
        tdf#95174 - SQL parser support for catalog and schema ( Devansh Varshney )
        - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/165279
        tdf#88918: Enable editing of hyperlinks for shapes ( Omkar Nikam )
        → Restored
        - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/166396
        tdf#42982: Improve UNO API error reporting ( Jakub Kościelak )
        - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/167065
        [API CHANGE] Drop unused Font group from Common config options ( Gabor Kelemen )
        - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/167646
  • GSoC (Ilmari)

    • Midterm evaluations - all completed
  • LiboCon

  • Commit Access

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

    • resting since: 12 weeks (limit: 20 weeks)
  • Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
    gerrit_android_aarch64 jobs: 180 ok: 171 ko: 4 fail ratio: 2.22% mean_ok: 14 ( 22) median_ok: 10 ( 15)
    gerrit_android_arm jobs: 179 ok: 173 ko: 4 fail ratio: 2.23% mean_ok: 13 ( 21) median_ok: 11 ( 15)
    gerrit_android_x86 jobs: 179 ok: 172 ko: 4 fail ratio: 2.23% mean_ok: 13 ( 20) median_ok: 10 ( 14)
    gerrit_android_x86_64 jobs: 180 ok: 174 ko: 3 fail ratio: 1.67% mean_ok: 15 ( 22) median_ok: 11 ( 16)
    gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil jobs: 369 ok: 290 ko: 64 fail ratio: 17.34% mean_ok: 55 ( 61) median_ok: 51 ( 55)
    gerrit_linux_gcc_release jobs: 431 ok: 352 ko: 49 fail ratio: 11.37% mean_ok: 27 ( 32) median_ok: 20 ( 25)
    gerrit_mac jobs: 362 ok: 330 ko: 18 fail ratio: 4.97% mean_ok: 51 ( 51) median_ok: 45 ( 45)
    gerrit_windows jobs: 396 ok: 292 ko: 85 fail ratio: 21.46% mean_ok: 65 ( 77) median_ok: 65 ( 71)
    gerrit_master_ml jobs: 473 ok: 247 ko: 178 fail ratio: 37.63% mean_ok: 108 (108) median_ok: 105 (105)
    gerrit_master jobs: 48 ok: 28 ko: 14 fail ratio: 29.17% mean_ok: 86 ( 86) median_ok: 73 ( 73)
    gerrit_master_seq jobs: 423 ok: 219 ko: 163 fail ratio: 38.53% mean_ok: 111 (111) median_ok: 107 (107)

    • tests that failed more than twice in last seven days:
      3 CppunitTest_sd_import_tests gerrit_linux_gcc_release
      3 CppunitTest_writerperfect_writer gerrit_windows
      4 CppunitTest_chart2_dump gerrit_windows
      4 CppunitTest_sw_htmlexport gerrit_windows
      4 JunitTest_sd_unoapi gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      5 UITest_calc_tests gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      6 CppunitTest_sw_autocorrect gerrit_windows
      8 UITest_writer_tests gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      12 CppunitTest_sw_a11y gerrit_windows
      32 aborted by jenkins job timeout gerrit_windows
    • increased timeout for a11y UI tests that occasionally failed on slow Windows
      builder (Michael W):
      Diff - 5495a2ef9c5e0a457c44e2fe0f6a62effda43ebc^! - core - Gitiles
    • last week was OK (Cloph)
      • jenkins timeouts over the weekend, caused by 2 bots, now fixed
      • a11y text improvements, see above
      • time between change upload → waiting for the builder is reduced
  • What’s cooking (Miklos)

    • A11y update (Michael W)
      • tdf#155447: Reporting of accessible ID to provide stable identifiers for
        spell check dialog, related Qt and Orca upstream changes, GTK 4 discussion
    • RTL/CTL/CJK update (Jonathan)
    • drawinglayer system-dependent primitive renderer (SDPR) for cairo (Armin)
    • Dummy clipboard for UITests (Noel)
      • hopefully helps with the stability on Windows
  • QA update (Xisco)

    • UNCONFIRMED: 1196 (-19)

      • enhancements: 281 (+6)
      • needsUXEval: 10 (+5)
      • 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)

    • Base UI going blank: 161865 – Base's Table Design View and Create View not editable anymore (Windows)

    • Dashboard data updated: https://stragu.shinyapps.io/lo_qa_dashboard/

    • Weekly Bug Summary
      +85 +15 (-119) overall)
      many thanks to the top bug squashers:
      QA Administrators 16
      Mike Kaganski 11
      Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 11
      Heiko Tietze 9
      Buovjaga 6
      Michael Weghorn 6
      Patrick Luby (volunteer) 5
      Rafael Lima 4
      V Stuart Foote 4
      Jonathan Clark 3

    • top 10 bugs reporters:
      Daniele 5
      Vas 5
      Mike Kaganski 4
      Buovjaga 3
      SATYA SRINIVAS K 3
      Xisco Faulí 3
      Paolo Benvenuto 2
      Rafael Lima 2
      Regina Henschel 2
      nao 2

    • top 10 bugs fixers:
      Kaganski, Mike 6
      Weghorn, Michael 4
      Heiko Tietze 3
      Jonathan Clark 3
      Patrick Luby 3
      Balazs Varga 2
      Ilmari Lauhakangas 2
      Jim Raykowski 2
      Justin Luth 2
      Rafael Lima 2

    • top 10 bugs confirmers:
      Stéphane Guillou 23
      Ilmari Lauhakangas 11
      m.a.riosv 7
      Weghorn, Michael 4
      Heiko Tietze 3
      Ady 2
      Dieter 2
      Kaganski, Mike 2
      Patrick Luby 2
      Raal 2

  • Bisected bugs open: keyword ‘bisected’

    done by:
       Stéphane Guillou       3
       Raal                   2
       Aron Budea             1
       Xisco Fauli            1
    
  • Bibisected bugs open: keyword ‘bibisected’

    done by:
       Raal                   3
       Stéphane Guillou       2
       Aron Budea             1
       Xisco Fauli            1
    
  • all bugs tagged with ‘regression’

    • 1237(-4) bugs open of 13484(+16) total 24(-4) high prio.

      done by:
      m.a.riosv 3
      Stéphane Guillou 3
      Kaganski, Mike 1
      Raal 1
      Robert Großkopf 1
      Xisco Fauli 1

  • ~Component count net * high severity regressions

    • Bug List
      Writer - 12(-2)
      Calc - 4(-2)
      Impress - 2(+0)
      LibreOffice - 2(+0)
      UI - 2(+0)
      Base - 1(+0)

    by OS:
    All - 15(-4)
    Linux - 5(+0)
    Mac OS X - 0(+0)
    Windows - 4(+0)

  • ~Component count net * all regressions

    • Bug List
      Writer: other - 421(-5)
      Calc - 233(+0)
      Impress - 125(+1)
      LibreOffice - 50(-1)
      Draw - 48(+0)
      Crashes - 46(+0)
      Writer: docx filter - 45(+1)
      Base - 42(+0)
      UI - 39(+0)
      Writer: perf - 35(+1)
      Borders - 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 - 18(+2)
      graphics stack - 12(+0)
      Formula Editor - 10(+0)
      framework - 3(+0)
      Extensions - 2(+0)
      sdk - 2(+0)
      Linguistic - 1(+0)