ESC meeting minutes: 2021-12-02

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* Present:
    + Heiko, Olivier, Sophie, Caolan, Cloph, Florian, Hossein, Xisco, Miklos, Michael S, Gabriel, Eike, Florian, Aron, Kendy

* Completed Action Items:
    + None

* Pending Action Items:
    + None

* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
    + 7.2 status: 7.2.4 rc1 next week
    + 7.3 status: rc1 from libreoffice-7-3 in 3 weeks
      + late feature request: re-enable inline fieldmark support
        (https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/125558) (Thorsten)
      + nss: upgrade to release 3.73 (Thorsten)
        + don't think Windows is affected in the LO use-case (Miklos)
        + how urgent it is to update? (Thorsten)
          + the scope is signature verification (Michael S)
        + would prefer an answer ASAP, the upstream advisory mentions us
        + couple of dealing with this: (Cloph)
          + hotfix way: tag + just cherry-pick the fix
          + create a proper rc1 and fast-track it (7.1.7 and 7.2.4)
          + is it safer to go the hotfix way? (Caolan)
            + complicates the updater & can confuse users
          + 7.1 is EOL 2 days ago (Xisco)
            + no cross-updating is enabled yet (Cloph)
        + strongly recommend not leaving 7.1 un-updated (Thorsten)
        => middle-ground: bump the version but go the hotfix way (all)
    + Remotes: Android, iOS
    + Android viewer

* Documentation (Olivier)
    + New Help: no news
    + Helcontents2
       + Refactors (johnny_M, ohallot)
       + New pages for ScriptForge (R. Lima, A. Romedenne, flywire)
       + Updates (ohallot)
    + Guides
       + work in progress
       + Discussions on Base Guide
    + Bugzilla Documentation statistics
        253(253) bugs open
    + Updates:
        BZ changes   1 week    1 month   3 months   12 months
           created     16(7)      37(6)    108(-4)     329(-1)
         commented     29(-16)   152(23)   453(-18)   1682(-17)
          resolved      6(5)      17(4)     48(0)      200(1)
    + top 10 contributors:
          Olivier Hallot made 28 changes in 1 month, and 477 changes in 1 year
          JO3EMC made 17 changes in 1 month, and 19 changes in 1 year
          Kaganski, Mike made 17 changes in 1 month, and 88 changes in 1 year
          Xisco Fauli made 17 changes in 1 month, and 108 changes in 1 year
          Rafael Lima made 15 changes in 1 month, and 246 changes in 1 year
          Nabet, Julien made 10 changes in 1 month, and 42 changes in 1 year
          Tomoyuki Kubota made 6 changes in 1 month, and 29 changes in 1 year
          Heiko Tietze made 5 changes in 1 month, and 88 changes in 1 year
          Wolfgang Jäger made 5 changes in 1 month, and 5 changes in 1 year
          Alain Romedenne made 4 changes in 1 month, and 25 changes in 1 year

* UX Update (Heiko)
    + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
        256(256) (topicUI) bugs open, 157(157) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
    + Updates:
        BZ changes   1 week   1 month   3 months   12 months
             added      6(-4)    15(-1)    29(-2)      90(-7)
         commented     74(-2)   230(34)   553(-9)    3120(13)
           removed      1(1)      2(1)      4(0)       37(1)
          resolved     11(3)     32(8)     79(3)      443(3)
    + top 10 contributors:
          Heiko Tietze made 145 changes in 1 month, and 2141 changes in 1 year
          Ilmari Lauhakangas made 34 changes in 1 month, and 369 changes in 1 year
          Telesto made 29 changes in 1 month, and 598 changes in 1 year
          Dieter made 26 changes in 1 month, and 276 changes in 1 year
          Foote, V Stuart made 26 changes in 1 month, and 555 changes in 1 year
          Roman Kuznetsov made 22 changes in 1 month, and 240 changes in 1 year
          Eyal Rozenberg made 17 changes in 1 month, and 121 changes in 1 year
          *UNKNOWN* made 15 changes in 1 month, and 17 changes in 1 year
          Budea, Áron made 14 changes in 1 month, and 62 changes in 1 year
          Kaganski, Mike made 13 changes in 1 month, and 167 changes in 1 year

    + New tickets with needsUXEval Nov/25-Dec/02

      [Bug 145819] at insert a rotated image, yes and no are reversed
      [Bug 145990] Change Tab color dialog for sheet color selection to some
                   sub menu color palette
      [Bug 117484] Clicking into a cell of table will select the full table instead of
                   entering the corresponding cell
  ->  [Bug 145730] Flip Impress templates when locale setting is set to RTL language
      + would prefer RTL templates instead (Heiko)
      + should take a look at what PowerPoint does (Hossein)
      [Bug 145978] Macro Selector should remember last run module/macro
      [Bug 145977] Modules shown in the Macro Selector should be sorted alphabetically
      [Bug 145976] Description box on Macro Selector should have fixed height
      [Bug 145848] Don't close macro selector when editing macros
  ->  [Bug 145931] Auto-capitalize activated when pressing CTRL+ENTER in a merged cell
                   for splitting text manually after exit (in Calc)
      + suggest to not tweak the text on "end text edit" (Heiko)
      [Bug 138726] mixing paragraph styles gets weird format values
      [Bug 139395] Writer Paragraph Style dialog is too tall: OK/Cancel buttons are
                   not visible

* Crash Testing (Caolan)
    + 7(+0) import failure, 5(+1) export failures
         + extra crash not reproducible by dev, possible follow up patch will resolve it
    + 1 coverity issues
    + 9 ossfuzz issues
         + 5 hangs, 2 OOM, 2 crashes

* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.1.7.2
         + (+246) 1086 840 472 186 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.2.2.2
         + (-347) 2431 2778 2432 2069 1536 1134 752 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.2.3.2
         + (+1144) 1144 0
   + not very useful info, signatures are missing -> hopefully just a matter of time to wait

* Mentoring/EasyHack update (Hossein)
          committer...   1 week     1 month    3 months    12 months
                  open      69(21)     103(21)    134(21)      196(18)
               reviews     358(-10)   1256(96)   3196(-88)    9398(226)
                merged     364(29)    1509(67)   3861(49)    11424(359)
             abandoned      19(4)       57(9)     137(13)      533(18)
           own commits     288(20)    1218(29)   3220(22)    12822(50)
        review commits      81(-23)    487(43)   1054(-17)    4236(-7)
        contributor...   1 week     1 month     3 months    12 months
                  open      25(-16)     65(-9)     115(-10)     172(-8)
               reviews     968(128)   3348(222)   8586(108)   25642(814)
                merged      24(-7)     154(8)      446(-31)    1380(23)
             abandoned       3(0)       16(-1)      96(-10)     375(3)
           own commits      39(-19)    254(24)     461(-2)     1846(-16)
        review commits       0(0)        0(0)        0(0)         0(0)
    + easyHack statistics:
       needsDevEval 8(8)   needsUXEval 1(1)   cleanup_comments 277(277)
       total 332(332)   assigned 27(27)   open 278(278)
    + top 10 contributors:
          Johnny_M made 184 patches in 1 month, and 817 patches in 1 year
          Steve Fanning made 6 patches in 1 month, and 70 patches in 1 year
          Kevin Suo made 6 patches in 1 month, and 31 patches in 1 year
          Henrik Palomäki made 5 patches in 1 month, and 6 patches in 1 year
          Srebotnjak, Martin made 4 patches in 1 month, and 19 patches in 1 year
          Nagy Tibor made 4 patches in 1 month, and 38 patches in 1 year
          Attila Szűcs made 3 patches in 1 month, and 26 patches in 1 year
          Ming Hua made 3 patches in 1 month, and 20 patches in 1 year
          Po-Yen Huang made 3 patches in 1 month, and 5 patches in 1 year
          Dr. David Alan Gilbert made 3 patches in 1 month, and 12 patches in 1 year
    + top 10 reviewers:
          Olivier Hallot made 216 review comments in 1 month, and 998 in 1 year
          Kaganski, Mike made 98 review comments in 1 month, and 656 in 1 year
          Michael Stahl made 98 review comments in 1 month, and 808 in 1 year
          Xisco Fauli made 84 review comments in 1 month, and 666 in 1 year
          Nabet, Julien made 64 review comments in 1 month, and 346 in 1 year
          Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 60 review comments in 1 month, and 640 in 1 year
          McNamara, Caolán made 56 review comments in 1 month, and 402 in 1 year
          Németh, László made 50 review comments in 1 month, and 418 in 1 year
          Thorsten Behrens made 48 review comments in 1 month, and 398 in 1 year
          Rathke, Eike made 46 review comments in 1 month, and 208 in 1 year
    + big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
          mwarner
    + We had ~25 merged commits from the contributors
      + ~half is code change, and half is translations from Johnny_M
    + Responded getting started requests from the newcomers
    + Had contacts with GSoC 2021 contrbiutors, including a calls with one GSoC 2021 contrbiutor, and another call for some EasyHack
    + 1 new EasyHack to be evaluated
        https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143641
    + prefer easy hacks as a keyword in the bug (Heiko)

* Commit Access
  + None

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Kendy/Thorsten/László)
  + resting since: 21 weeks (limit: 20 weeks)
  + have a list of candidates for the next round, need their confirmation (Kendy)

* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
    from:Thu Nov 25 15:18:50 2021
    master linux rel  jobs:  94 ok:  94 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master linux dbg  jobs:  83 ok:  76 ko:   7 fail ratio:  8.43 % break:   7 broken duration:18.27%
    master mac rel    jobs:  89 ok:  89 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master mac dbg    jobs:  89 ok:  89 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master win rel    jobs:  61 ok:  61 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master win dbg    jobs:  67 ok:  67 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master win64 dbg  jobs:  64 ok:  64 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master gerrit lin jobs: 486 ok: 396 ko:  52 fail ratio: 10.70% time for ok: mean:  20 median:  18
    master gerrit plg jobs: 404 ok: 265 ko:  98 fail ratio: 24.26% time for ok: mean:  40 median:  38
    master gerrit win jobs: 532 ok: 328 ko: 142 fail ratio: 26.69% time for ok: mean:  65 median:  63
    master gerrit mac jobs: 499 ok: 376 ko:  69 fail ratio: 13.83% time for ok: mean:  29 median:  24
    master android    jobs: 383 ok: 304 ko:  34 fail ratio:  8.88% time for ok: mean:  32 median:  22
    master gerrit all jobs: 441 ok: 200 ko: 170 fail ratio: 38.55% time for ok: mean:  77 median:  71
   + https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/tmp/gerrit_211202.html
   + tests that failed more than twice in last seven days:
      3 UITest_calc_tests8                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      3 UITest_writer_tests3                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      4 CppunitTest_sw_uiwriter3                gerrit_linux_gcc_release
      4 UITest_signatureLine                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      5 UITest_writer_tests7                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      8 UITest_impress_tests                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
     14 Killed by the kill-wrapper                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
  + Jenkins was down (Cloph)
    + each build has the complete history of the change -> 5MB metadata / build
    + 150GB of data for all old builds
    + stripped the old metadata now
    + it was a mistake to restart Jenkins after all
    + status.documentfoundation.org said all is fine? (Thorsten/Miklos)
      + it's only manually updated (Cloph)
        + Guilhem set it up like this


* l10n (Sophie)
  + new language teams for Igbo and Cornish
  + GSoC mentors: please don't forget about l10n
     https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145919

* What’s cooking (Miklos)
    + Miklos sent information about autoupdater to the dev ML
        + https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2021-November/088107.html
        + current state (Florian)
          + tendered it, and it turned out that the scope got quite large
          + delivery time + budget larger than expected
          + decision: back to ESC to decide how to continue here
        + it boils down to the budget (Cloph)
          + it seems the cost/benefit ratio doesn't work out
          + if app stores have it, then we don't need this
          + it it's a lot of time, then will it be useful by the time we have it ready?
          + non-app-store binaries get stricter rules over the time
        + how do app stores affect the donation flow? (Kendy)
          + do app stores allow some kind of link to "donate now"?
            + some just forbid it
          + if auto-update works perfectly, that causes a "problem" in the donation flow as well (Cloph)
        + summary of the plan (Kendy)
          + reviewed MAR (mozilla-based proof of concept), using Moggi's django server
          + current understanding: Moggi was not happy at the end
          + looking at solutions that make sense today
          + found no single solution that provides what we need that covers all Linux/macOS/Linux
          + Linux proposal: provide a package repo (rpm/deb)
          + Windows: the most maintained project seems to be Chromium (Omaha)
          + macOS: Sparkle
          + Windows and macOS server part could be shared
            + provided by 3rd-party, latest version is kind of non-free
            + need to update the old free implementation to work with the latest Chromium and Sparkle
          + lots of complex work, not surprised that it's larger than the expected budget
        + what was the reason to start this project at all? (Heiko)
          + not heard concerns about the installer size
          + goal is: just a single notification that the new version is already downloaded, only need to restart
            + no manual download, no manual install
        + is there a user need to follow the Chrome principle? (Heiko)
          + the experience was: many users were too outdated (Thorsten)
            + can tell from updater stats, bugzilla
          + part of the reason is it's not easy to update
          + not great for security
            + c++ project, 200M users
          + auto-update without users having to do anything
          + vulnerable after 2 years still
        + some users use old versions intentionally (Heiko)
          + some users are still on XP, let's not follow that pattern (Thorsten)
          + could also have a config option to disable auto-update (Kendy)
          + the tender idea started when app stores were less mature
        + moving to rolling releases is not possible without this (Xisco)
        + Chrome auto-updater is open source (Hossein)
          + and it is still using / working with MSI (Kendy)
            + unlike mozilla (Miklos)
        + what to decide here? (Miklos)
          + is this still desirable? (Florian)
        + put it to the ranking sheet for 2022? (Miklos)
        + what helps the board: split the idea to per-platform packages? (Thorsten)
          + e.g. go the app-store way on Windows/macOS
          + if the project is too large, then easier to do 2 other smaller projects
        + the ESC recommended this project the last year, do we still recommend it? (Miklos)
        + or reduce the scope: auto-download but run the installer manually? (Cloph)
        + "yes, valid proposal, but take app-store discussion into account"? (Florian)
          + heard no objects
          + most logical is probably Windows, then macOS, then Linux way
          + can take that to the next board call
        + on the other hand, the Windows updater affects the donation flow the most (Kendy)
          + but that is for the board to decide

* Budget 2022 (Thorsten)
    + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Budget2022
    + next step: give your rating on the sheet with ideas (Thorsten)
      + deadline for voting is in 2 weeks

* https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/2021/msg00317.html (Michael S)
  * Tender: Cleanup & further improve ODF conformance
  * should we decide on a list of bugs to be fixed ahead of time or leave it up to applicants?
  * draft tender proposal posted by Florian
  * didn't make much sense, because it takes a bugzilla query, 80+ bugs, all are required
  * lots of time to even estimate all of these
  * lots of them can be only fixed if ODF is improved
  * one option: somebody writes a list of issues that are possible to be fixed
    * Regina would have the skills to build such a list
    * or Eike?
      + at the moment don't have time (Eike)
  * other idea: just leave the bugzilla query in the tender, then the bidders decide what to fix
AI: reach out to Regina to see if she is open to pick bugs manually (Michael S)

* QA update (Xisco)

    + UNCONFIRMED: 1587 (+27)
        + enhancements: 242  (-6)
        + needsUXEval: 7 (-1)
        + haveBackTrace: 2 (-1)
        + needsDevAdvice: 28 (+2)
        + documentation:  12 (+1)
        + android:  1 (+0)
        + iOS:  0 (+0)
        + Online:  10 (+4)

    + Most pressing bugs:

     New:
         None
     Old:
        + macOS: Can't save or open files using Finder dialog on Standard accounts on macOS 10.15 Catalina
           + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128233

        + Text runs of RTL scripts (e.g. Arabic, Hebrew, Persian) from
          imported PDF are reversed, PDFIProcessor::mirrorString not behaving
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104597
            + already listed here for 2 years, and many duplicates
     Fixed:

    + Calc disables header/footer or looses footer content when saves a spreadsheet ( part 2 )

    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144940

    + Fixed thanks to Attila Bakos


    + Crash when FILESAVE a calc file after delete some columns

    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=144244

    + Fixed thanks to Julien Nabet


    + New high severity bugs of the week:
        + Find Bar Ctrl+F (search of Cells in Calc): add option to set search for cell Values in stead of Formulas
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102506
            + not a regression?

        + Inserting TOC in two-column document causes lockup
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138900
            + needs bisecting

        + FILEOPEN: EMF file not displayed
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=145873
            + already fixed, thanks to Hossein

* QA stats
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
      +124  +8 (-127) overall)
      many thanks to the top bug squashers:
       QA Administrators       16
       Buovjaga                10
       Caolán McNamara         10
       Justin L                9
       Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 8
       Heiko Tietze            7
       Kevin Suo               7
       Luboš Luňák             6
       Xisco Faulí             5
       Adolfo Jayme            3

    + top 10 bugs reporters:
       Telesto                 10
       Rafael Lima             5
       Kevin Suo               4
       Mike Kaganski           4
       Xisco Faulí             4
       Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 3
       Regina Henschel         3
       jsv                     3
       Colin                   2
       Eyal Rozenberg          2

    + top 10 bugs fixers:
       McNamara, Caolán        10
       Luboš Luňák             6
       Justin Luth             5
       Adolfo Jayme Barrientos 3
       Kelemen, Gabor          3
       Kevin Suo               3
       Xisco Fauli             3
       David                   2
       Ilmari Lauhakangas      2
       Kaganski, Mike          2

    + top 10 bugs confirmers:
       Ilmari Lauhakangas      19
       Xisco Fauli             9
       Dieter                  8
       Heiko Tietze            7
       Nabet, Julien           5
       *UNKNOWN*               3
       Kaganski, Mike          3
       Kelemen, Gabor          3
       Kevin Suo               3
       McNamara, Caolán        3

* Highest-Priority bugs (aka "MABs"):
   + http://bit.ly/2lJAAJI
     6.0 : 1/53 -     1 %  (+0)
     5.4 : 0/41 -     0 %  (+0)
     5.3 : 0/54 -     0 %  (+0)
     5.2 : 0/43 -     0 %  (+0)
     5.1 : 1/36 -     2 %  (+0)
     5.0 : 0/64 -     0 %  (+0)
     4.4 : 0/76 -     0 %  (+0)
     4.3 : 0/73 -     0 %  (+0)
     4.2 : 2/134 -    1 %  (+0)
     4.1 : 3/85 -     3 %  (+0)
     4.0 : 2/83 -     2 %  (+0)
     old : 3/248 -    1 %  (+0)

* Bisected bugs open: keyword 'bisected'
   + more accurate - down to a single commit.
   + http://bit.ly/2dyIfDy
   +

     done by:
        Xisco Fauli            6
        Kevin Suo              4
        Ilmari Lauhakangas     1
        Justin Luth            1
        Kelemen, Gabor         1
        lbrmk.510              1
        Telesto                1

* Bibisected bugs open: keyword 'bibisected'
   + http://bit.ly/2cSCXlS
   +

     done by:
        Xisco Fauli            4
        Kevin Suo              3
        Timur                  2
        Budea, Áron            1
        Ilmari Lauhakangas     1
        Justin Luth            1
        Kelemen, Gabor         1
        Martin Sourada         1
        Telesto                1

* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
   + 1296(-20) bugs open of 11375(+10) total 14(-1) high prio.

     done by:
        Xisco Fauli            4
        Kevin Suo              3
        Ilmari Lauhakangas     2
        Telesto                2
        Roman Kuznetsov        1
        Kelemen, Gabor         1

* ~Component   count net * high severity regressions
   + http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
     Writer        - 10(+0)
     Calc          - 2(-1)
     Draw          - 1(+0)
     LibreOffice   - 1(+0)

   by OS:
     All           - 13(-1)
     Linux         - 0(+0)
     Mac OS X      - 0(+0)
     Windows       - 1(+0)

* ~Component   count net * all regressions
   + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
     Writer: other            - 440(-3)
     Calc                     - 223(-6)
     Impress                  - 136(+1)
     Writer: docx filter      - 54(+0)
     Crashes                  - 51(-1)
     Draw                     - 49(-1)
     UI                       - 49(-2)
     LibreOffice              - 48(-2)
     Borders                  - 43(-1)
     Writer: perf             - 41(+0)
     Base                     - 35(+1)
     Writer: other filter     - 35(+0)
     Chart                    - 29(+0)
     RTL                      - 27(+0)
     Writer: doc filter       - 23(+0)
     Printing and PDF export  - 22(-1)
     graphics stack           - 22(-1)
     BASIC                    - 18(+0)
     filters and storage      - 18(+0)
     Formula Editor           - 2(+0)
     framework                - 1(+0)
     sdk                      - 1(+0)



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