ESC meeting minutes: 2024-09-26

  • Present:

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

  • Pending Action Items:

  • Release Engineering update (Cloph)

    • 24.8.2 to be announced tomorrow
      • from rc1 (no rc2)
    • 24.8.3 rc1 in 4 weeks
    • 24.2.7 rc1 in 2 weeks
    • no https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan/25.2 yet? (Thorsten)
      • not yet, but expect similar weeks, compared to last year (Cloph)
        AI: create the plan (Cloph)
  • Documentation (Olivier)

    • New Help

      • minor refactor of the XHP DTD (Pierre F)
    • Helpcontents2

      • More updates and refactor for bookmarks (ohallot)
    • Guides

      • Progress in Calc Guide
      • Writer Guide in pt-BR is published
    • Bugzilla Documentation statistics
      227(227) bugs open

    • Updates:
      BZ changes 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
      created 8(-2) 44(-11) 115(-4) 263(1)
      commented 15(-19) 142(-38) 354(5) 1014(10)
      resolved 1(-1) 21(-4) 68(-5) 173(0)

    • top 10 contributors:
      Pierre F made 67 changes in 1 month, and 218 changes in 1 year
      Olivier Hallot made 47 changes in 1 month, and 342 changes in 1 year
      Ilmari Lauhakangas made 28 changes in 1 month, and 131 changes in 1 year
      Heiko Tietze made 21 changes in 1 month, and 91 changes in 1 year
      Dione Maddern made 13 changes in 1 month, and 96 changes in 1 year
      Nabet, Julien made 8 changes in 1 month, and 46 changes in 1 year
      nobu made 7 changes in 1 month, and 23 changes in 1 year
      nutka made 5 changes in 1 month, and 6 changes in 1 year
      Vernon, Stuart Foote made 5 changes in 1 month, and 158 changes in 1 year
      Bogdan B made 3 changes in 1 month, and 12 changes in 1 year

  • UX Update (Heiko)

    • Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
      232(232) (topicUI) bugs open, 23(23) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
    • Updates:
      BZ changes 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
      added 3(-1) 9(-6) 9(-7) 17(-7)
      commented 34(-35) 153(-31) 372(-50) 1691(-27)
      removed 0(0) 1(-1) 1(-1) 10(-1)
      resolved 6(2) 22(1) 65(-2) 267(-2)
    • top 10 contributors:
      Heiko Tietze made 79 changes in 1 month, and 905 changes in 1 year
      Vernon, Stuart Foote made 43 changes in 1 month, and 367 changes in 1 year
      Ilmari Lauhakangas made 42 changes in 1 month, and 172 changes in 1 year
      Eyal Rozenberg made 26 changes in 1 month, and 161 changes in 1 year
      Henschel, Regina made 22 changes in 1 month, and 57 changes in 1 year
      Aidar made 10 changes in 1 month, and 10 changes in 1 year
      m.a.riosv made 10 changes in 1 month, and 50 changes in 1 year
      Kira Tubo made 9 changes in 1 month, and 26 changes in 1 year
      Manu made 9 changes in 1 month, and 9 changes in 1 year
      Ady made 7 changes in 1 month, and 106 changes in 1 year

    → + Bug 163140 Add an option to fully embed fonts when exporting to PDF

    • Bug 163121 Add a toggle to make “Mouse pointer as pen” markings permanent
      or temporary
    • Bug 161972 Inserting new comment in Calc disables the “show all comments”
      setting

    → * Remove hard-coded key combination shift+ctrl+f6 (Heiko)
    + dev Remove hard-coded key combination shift+ctrl+f6
    + ESC ESC meeting minutes: 2024-09-12
    + a11y [libreoffice-accessibility] Removal of Shift+Ctrl+F6 shortcut – The Document Foundation Mailing List Archives
    + would be nice to have functionality where the arrow keys can be used after inserting a split window, then the replacement would be nicer.
    + option to keep the shortcut but don’t hardcode it? (Miklos)
    + would prefer not allocating a shortcut for this at all (Heiko)
    => submitted, follow-up 163167 – Make .uno:SplitWindow aware of sub-sequential arrow keys to adjust the splitter position

  • Crash Testing (Caolan)

  • Crash Reporting (Xisco)

    • 24.2.5.2 23082(+2093)
    • 24.2.6.2 631(+377)
    • 24.8.0.3 13882(+2579)
    • 24.8.1.2 4615(+3534)
  • Mentoring (Hossein)

  • .NET binding is merged and usable, but not in the daily builds (Hossein)
    • how to fix this?
    • aware of issues on some platforms, but not on Linux
    • daily builds use the distro config (Cloph)
      • the builders should have the .NET SDK installed
      • there might be also a problem with packaging
      • is .NET SDK part of the LODE install? (Miklos)
        • yes, see https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/lode/+/168272 (Cloph)
          committer… 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
          open 42(-25) 104(-30) 140(-16) 140(-16)
          reviews 310(-64) 1442(-20) 3604(-192) 13174(-2)
          merged 270(-106) 1383(-25) 3726(-11) 13576(157)
          abandoned 13(-11) 52(-4) 214(-7) 769(8)
          own commits 218(-71) 993(-3) 2663(79) 9905(133)
          review commits 56(5) 251(18) 682(-30) 3156(27)
          contributor… 1 week 1 month 3 months 12 months
          open 74(29) 114(11) 135(17) 135(17)
          reviews 760(-230) 3184(-106) 8352(-120) 30544(228)
          merged 26(6) 106(3) 290(-37) 1451(-12)
          abandoned 3(1) 15(1) 73(3) 573(-12)
          own commits 23(13) 91(10) 283(-43) 1275(9)
          review commits 0(0) 0(0) 0(0) 0(0)
      • easyHack statistics:
        needsDevEval 8(8) needsUXEval 1(1) cleanup_comments 329(329)
        total 416(416) assigned 25(25) open 353(353)
      • top 10 contributors:
        Pierre F made 18 patches in 1 month, and 86 patches in 1 year
        Mohit Marathe made 10 patches in 1 month, and 13 patches in 1 year
        Adam Seskunas made 9 patches in 1 month, and 27 patches in 1 year
        Kira Tubo made 7 patches in 1 month, and 27 patches in 1 year
        Dione Maddern made 5 patches in 1 month, and 83 patches in 1 year
        Bogdan B made 4 patches in 1 month, and 92 patches in 1 year
        Sohrab Kazak made 4 patches in 1 month, and 4 patches in 1 year
        Ritobroto Mukherjee made 3 patches in 1 month, and 31 patches in 1 year
        Armin Le Grand (allotropia) made 3 patches in 1 month, and 78 patches in 1 year
        Tzschichholz, Rico made 2 patches in 1 month, and 3 patches in 1 year
      • top 10 reviewers:
        Michael Stahl made 138 review comments in 1 month, and 892 in 1 year
        Caolán McNamara made 130 review comments in 1 month, and 1442 in 1 year
        Ilmari Lauhakangas made 108 review comments in 1 month, and 648 in 1 year
        Xisco Fauli made 108 review comments in 1 month, and 776 in 1 year
        Thorsten Behrens made 98 review comments in 1 month, and 658 in 1 year
        Kaganski, Mike made 92 review comments in 1 month, and 526 in 1 year
        Christian Lohmaier made 90 review comments in 1 month, and 518 in 1 year
        Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 84 review comments in 1 month, and 820 in 1 year
        Vajngerl, Tomaž made 60 review comments in 1 month, and 346 in 1 year
        Vajna, Miklos made 60 review comments in 1 month, and 1114 in 1 year
      • Patches automatically abandoned:
        tdf#155856 Port C++ SDK example make file to cmake / qmake ( Hossein )
        - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/153540
        Upgrade libjpeg-turbo to 3.0.2 ( Taichi Haradaguchi )
        - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/160072
        WIP remove alpha outputdevice and use merged alpha instead ( Noel Grandin )
        - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/160107
        tdf#51357 add TriangleWipe transition to svg export by impress ( Devansh Varshney )
        - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/163658
        NotoSansArabic: upgrade to v2.012 ( Xisco Fauli )
        - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/163822
      • big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
        Marc Mondesir
  • GSoC (Ilmari)

    • 1 project with extension, to be finished till the end of Sept
    • pending final eval from mentors
    • blog post: when the printer project is done
  • LiboCon (Cloph)

  • Commit Access

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

    • resting since: 18 weeks (limit: 20 weeks)
  • Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
    gerrit_android_aarch64 jobs: 164 ok: 160 ko: 0 fail ratio: 0.00% mean_ok: 12 ( 33) median_ok: 8 ( 23)
    gerrit_android_arm jobs: 163 ok: 160 ko: 2 fail ratio: 1.23% mean_ok: 11 ( 32) median_ok: 8 ( 21)
    gerrit_android_x86 jobs: 165 ok: 162 ko: 0 fail ratio: 0.00% mean_ok: 12 ( 32) median_ok: 8 ( 22)
    gerrit_android_x86_64 jobs: 164 ok: 157 ko: 4 fail ratio: 2.44% mean_ok: 12 ( 33) median_ok: 9 ( 21)
    gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil jobs: 335 ok: 276 ko: 52 fail ratio: 15.52% mean_ok: 51 ( 71) median_ok: 50 ( 62)
    gerrit_linux_gcc_release jobs: 376 ok: 313 ko: 40 fail ratio: 10.64% mean_ok: 25 ( 45) median_ok: 19 ( 32)
    gerrit_mac jobs: 336 ok: 305 ko: 20 fail ratio: 5.95% mean_ok: 55 ( 57) median_ok: 44 ( 46)
    gerrit_windows jobs: 318 ok: 274 ko: 30 fail ratio: 9.43% mean_ok: 67 ( 84) median_ok: 61 ( 63)
    gerrit_master_ml jobs: 379 ok: 242 ko: 104 fail ratio: 27.44% mean_ok: 129 (130) median_ok: 107 (108)
    gerrit_master jobs: 58 ok: 30 ko: 19 fail ratio: 32.76% mean_ok: 87 ( 87) median_ok: 66 ( 66)
    gerrit_master_seq jobs: 320 ok: 212 ko: 84 fail ratio: 26.25% mean_ok: 134 (135) median_ok: 109 (109)

    • tests that failed more than twice in last seven days
      3 CppunitTest_sfx2_misc gerrit_linux_gcc_release
      3 CppunitTest_svx_unit gerrit_windows
      3 CppunitTest_sw_a11y gerrit_windows
      3 UITest_impress_tests gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      4 Killed by the kill-wrapper gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      4 CppunitTest_vcl_lifecycle gerrit_linux_gcc_release
    • this week: normal week
      • nice to see the amount of Windows aborts is OK
      • some hangs, but Jenkins can handle that
      • today: more new changes than usual, otherwise fine.
  • What’s cooking (Miklos)

  • QA update (Xisco)

    • UNCONFIRMED: 1258 (+20)

      • enhancements: 305 (+5)
      • needsUXEval: 4 (-1)
      • haveBackTrace: 9 (+0)
      • needsDevAdvice: 47 (-1)
      • documentation: 3 (-1)
      • android: 0 (+0)
      • iOS: 0 (+0)
      • Online: 9 (+0)
    • Most pressing bugs:
      New:

    None

  • QA stats (Xisco)

    • Weekly Bug Summary
      +120 -14 (-113) overall)
      many thanks to the top bug squashers:
      Buovjaga 21
      QA Administrators 16
      Heiko Tietze 9
      Mike Kaganski 8
      V Stuart Foote 6
      m_a_riosv 6
      Xisco Faulí 5
      Jonathan Clark 3
      Regina Henschel 3
      Caolán McNamara 2

    • top 10 bugs reporters:
      Hossein 6
      peter josvai 6
      Mike Kaganski 4
      Buovjaga 3
      Eyal Rozenberg 3
      M-Rick 3
      Roman Kuznetsov 3
      Adalbert Hanßen 2
      Heiko Tietze 2
      Regina Henschel 2

    • top 10 bugs fixers:
      Heiko Tietze 4
      Kaganski, Mike 4
      Jonathan Clark 3
      Balland-Poirier, Laurent 2
      Caolán McNamara 2
      Patrick Luby 2
      UNKNOWN 1
      Andreas Heinisch 1
      Attila Szűcs 1
      Christian Lohmaier 1

    • top 10 bugs confirmers:
      Ilmari Lauhakangas 17
      m.a.riosv 11
      Vernon, Stuart Foote 7
      Xisco Fauli 6
      Heiko Tietze 5
      Nabet, Julien 5
      Kaganski, Mike 2
      Patrick Luby 2
      1
      UNKNOWN 1

  • Bisected bugs open: keyword ‘bisected’

    done by:
       Ilmari Lauhakangas     6
       Xisco Fauli            3
       Raal                   2
       Aron Budea             1
    
  • Bibisected bugs open: keyword ‘bibisected’

    done by:
       Ilmari Lauhakangas     6
       Xisco Fauli            3
       Raal                   2
       Aron Budea             1
    
  • all bugs tagged with ‘regression’

    • 1224(+8) bugs open of 13649(+17) total 22(+0) high prio.

      done by:
      Ilmari Lauhakangas 5
      Xisco Fauli 3
      Raal 2
      Aron Budea 1
      Hossein 1
      m.a.riosv 1
      Vernon, Stuart Foote 1

  • ~Component count net * high severity regressions

    • Bug List
      Writer - 10(+0)
      Calc - 6(+0)
      Impress - 2(+0)
      LibreOffice - 2(+0)
      UI - 1(+0)

    by OS:
    All - 14(+0)
    Linux - 5(+0)
    Mac OS X - 0(+0)
    Windows - 3(+0)

  • ~Component count net * all regressions

    • Bug List
      Writer: other - 402(+6)
      Calc - 246(+1)
      Impress - 123(+2)
      LibreOffice - 53(+0)
      Draw - 49(-1)
      Writer: docx filter - 43(-3)
      Crashes - 42(+0)
      Base - 39(+0)
      Borders - 34(+1)
      UI - 34(+0)
      Writer: perf - 33(-1)
      Writer: other filter - 32(-1)
      Printing and PDF export - 26(+0)
      Chart - 24(+0)
      RTL - 23(-1)
      BASIC - 22(+1)
      filters and storage - 21(+0)
      Writer: doc filter - 17(+0)
      graphics stack - 13(+1)
      Formula Editor - 11(+0)
      framework - 3(+0)
      sdk - 3(+0)
      Extensions - 2(+0)
      Linguistic - 1(+0)