ESC meeting minutes: 2022-05-05

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* Present:
    + Heiko, Caolan, Cloph, Hossein, Stephan, Sophie, Thorsten, Miklos, Olivier, Michael S, Xisco, Kendy, Eike, Lubos, Gabriel

* Completed Action Items:
    + None

* Pending Action Items:
    + None

* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
    + 7.4 status: alpha for 7.4.0 next week, feature freeze in June
    + 7.3 status: 7.3.3 was released as final
    + 7.2 status: 7.2.7 rc2 to be tagged later today
    + Remotes: Android, iOS
    + Android viewer

* Documentation (Olivier)
    + New Help (no news)
    + Helpcontent2
       + updates and fixes (S. Chaiklin, ohallot, Adolfo...)
       + ScripForge help (A. Romedenne, flywire)
    + Guides
       + Updates in Base Guide 7.4 (ohallot, S. Fanning, flywire)
       + Impress and Draw Guides (P. Schofield, K. Kriek)

    + Bugzilla Documentation statistics
        228(228) bugs open
    + Updates:
        BZ changes   1 week   1 month   3 months   12 months
           created     24(20)   59(5)     118(5)      333(4)
         commented     36(28)   92(27)    264(16)    1447(5)
          resolved      5(4)    32(-2)     64(0)      221(-3)
    + top 10 contributors:
          Seth Chaiklin made 101 changes in 1 month, and 145 changes in 1 year
          Olivier Hallot made 53 changes in 1 month, and 493 changes in 1 year
          Telesto made 14 changes in 1 month, and 34 changes in 1 year
          Xisco Fauli made 14 changes in 1 month, and 88 changes in 1 year
          Dieter made 12 changes in 1 month, and 100 changes in 1 year
          Ilmari Lauhakangas made 11 changes in 1 month, and 117 changes in 1 year
          Nabet, Julien made 7 changes in 1 month, and 80 changes in 1 year
          Henschel, Regina made 6 changes in 1 month, and 24 changes in 1 year
          Kaganski, Mike made 5 changes in 1 month, and 85 changes in 1 year
          Németh, László made 3 changes in 1 month, and 6 changes in 1 year

* UX Update (Heiko)
    + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
        274(274) (topicUI) bugs open, 85(85) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
    + Updates:
        BZ changes   1 week    1 month   3 months   12 months
             added     10(4)      19(0)     32(3)       60(4)
         commented     74(-14)   289(51)   672(15)    2604(28)
           removed      1(-1)      8(2)     17(1)       41(2)
          resolved      4(-7)     33(2)     92(-11)    380(-4)
    + top 10 contributors:
          Heiko Tietze made 230 changes in 1 month, and 1909 changes in 1 year
          Seth Chaiklin made 101 changes in 1 month, and 162 changes in 1 year
          Telesto made 57 changes in 1 month, and 298 changes in 1 year
          Dieter made 45 changes in 1 month, and 232 changes in 1 year
          Xisco Fauli made 30 changes in 1 month, and 100 changes in 1 year
          Kaganski, Mike made 28 changes in 1 month, and 162 changes in 1 year
          Eyal Rozenberg made 27 changes in 1 month, and 91 changes in 1 year
          Robert Großkopf made 13 changes in 1 month, and 28 changes in 1 year
          Timur made 12 changes in 1 month, and 114 changes in 1 year
          Ilmari Lauhakangas made 12 changes in 1 month, and 256 changes in 1 year
 ->  + [Bug 148934] TOC hyperlinks not compliant with PDF/UA, no <alt> contents
        + add <alt> to ToC hyperlinks for PDF/UA compliance
     + [Bug 148299] Master Document: Give warning, if filename/path of a subdocument
            has consecutive spaces
 ->  + [Bug 148153] Frame should respect page margins
        + should "keep inside text boundaries" also respect left/right margins?
        + make sure to consider layout compatibility (Miklos)
     + [Bug 146445] Change behaviour of anchor to character in an empty paragraph
            (see comment 15)
 ->  + [Bug 148867] The difficulty to select a whole Table in order to manipulate
            its properties
        + tender https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113603
 ->  + [Bug 148848] Make "Auto Spellcheck" a module-level or document-level option
        + recommended change
     + [Bug 145596] provide word count annotation to document canvas, alternative
            to current line count

* Crash Testing (Caolan)
    + 10(+0) import failure, 3(+0) export failures
      + crashtesting vm unavailable (8 weeks)
      + any updates on this?
        + right now waiting for remote hands (Cloph)
        + Guilhem / Nicolas working on this (Thorsten)
    + 0 coverity issues
    + 19 ossfuzz issues (down from 28 yesterday)
      + 4 crashes

* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.2.6.2
         + (-2) 779 781 522 558 428 373 166 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.3.1.3
         + (-27) 1119 1146 986 1887 2139 1652 1345 810 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.3.2.2
         + (+148) 2249 2101 1664 934 0

   + Fixed a couple of EXCEPTION_INT_DIVIDE_BY_ZERO
   + waiting for the result of 7.3.3 next week

* Mentoring/EasyHack update (Hossein)
          committer...   1 week     1 month      3 months     12 months
                  open      68(-17)    124(-17)     126(-18)      129(-18)
               reviews     316(-46)   1088(-140)   3482(-118)   12528(-82)
                merged     292(26)    1176(-37)    3886(-57)    15676(-33)
             abandoned      20(6)       56(-15)     314(4)        826(-3)
           own commits     240(42)     903(28)     2896(-41)    12488(0)
        review commits      31(-4)     158(-27)     731(-44)     3654(-28)
        contributor...   1 week     1 month      3 months     12 months
                  open      14(-11)     56(-6)       57(-7)        59(-8)
               reviews     764(-8)    2816(-190)   9022(-146)   34396(-154)
                merged       9(1)       39(-2)      197(-4)      1395(-28)
             abandoned       5(-6)      31(-53)     182(1)        456(-7)
           own commits       9(6)       30(-5)      247(-3)      1446(-9)
        review commits       0(0)        0(0)         0(0)          0(0)
    + easyHack statistics:
       needsDevEval 8(8)   needsUXEval 1(1)   cleanup_comments 303(303)
       total 366(366)   assigned 18(18)   open 319(319)
    + top 10 contributors:
          xuenhua made 6 patches in 1 month, and 6 patches in 1 year
          Attila Bakos made 3 patches in 1 month, and 34 patches in 1 year
          Batmunkh Dorjgotov made 2 patches in 1 month, and 2 patches in 1 year
          flywire made 2 patches in 1 month, and 10 patches in 1 year
          Vincent Reher made 2 patches in 1 month, and 2 patches in 1 year
          Isha Desai made 2 patches in 1 month, and 2 patches in 1 year
          Kevin Suo made 1 patches in 1 month, and 36 patches in 1 year
          Dhiraj Holden made 1 patches in 1 month, and 7 patches in 1 year
          Vaibhav Malik made 1 patches in 1 month, and 13 patches in 1 year
          Nick Wingate made 1 patches in 1 month, and 1 patches in 1 year
    + top 10 reviewers:
          Michael Stahl made 104 review comments in 1 month, and 1214 in 1 year
          Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 88 review comments in 1 month, and 946 in 1 year
          Thorsten Behrens made 82 review comments in 1 month, and 794 in 1 year
          Nabet, Julien made 68 review comments in 1 month, and 580 in 1 year
          Xisco Fauli made 60 review comments in 1 month, and 884 in 1 year
          Kaganski, Mike made 58 review comments in 1 month, and 758 in 1 year
          Vajna, Miklos made 56 review comments in 1 month, and 610 in 1 year
          Ilmari Lauhakangas made 56 review comments in 1 month, and 292 in 1 year
          Hossein - made 48 review comments in 1 month, and 228 in 1 year
          Weghorn, Michael made 38 review comments in 1 month, and 122 in 1 year
    + Patches automatically abandoned:
        update hunspell dictionaries for Turkish language ( Ali Safaya )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/118649
        tdf#51665: (WIP) Support diagonal borders in Writer-Tables ( Bayram Çiçek )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/120262
            - was part of a GSoC work, would be a pity to loose this (Heiko)
            - author mentioned to Hossein that the intention is to finish it (Hossein)
            - poked Bayram on Telegram (Heiko)
        Introduce fpicker test for win32 as an executable ( Hossein )
            - Restored, marked as work-in-progress
            - It is not yet complete
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/126907
        SwNavigator: grey out headings that are not visible in the document ( Jim Raykowski )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/126991
        debug check for SolarMutex when modifying SfxItemPool ( Luboš Luňák )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/130426
        tdf#145967: Add an infobar for files embedded with restricted fonts ( Ramreiso Kashung )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/130532
    + worried that this list is not reviewed (Xisco)
      + just reading the list through is not enough
      + Hossein can review patches from non-committers
      + not worried about changes from committers (Caolan)
      + would focus on changes which are ~done, just not reviewed (Xisco)
    + what is the way to mark the change as "don't abandon this"? (Hossein)
      + 1 month change -> no reply -> abandon in 1 month
    + what is the problem: maybe a matter of documentation? (Lubos)
      + perhaps the author is afraid to "ping", while this is OK
      + if author is not a committer, no reply from reviewers -> flag that
    + every case is different, but perhaps can improve the message (Xisco)
    + e.g. what will happen next? when? what to do to avoid that? (Hossein)
AI: create wiki to page to describe these + then link to that from gerrit comments (Hossein)
    + ideally if the abandon has to happen, then abandon it early, not later by pootle bot (Ilmari)

  + LibreOffice Gerrit Quiz
    + learning material from Ilmari and Hossein:
      https://moodle.documentfoundation.org/course/view.php?id=6
    + also plan to use this in the future to see the current knowledge level of a new contributor
  + New dev blog post (draft)
    String types in LibreOffice C/C++ code
    https://dev.blog.documentfoundation.org/?p=116&preview=1&_ppp=4c588c899d

* GSoC (Hossein/Ilmari)
    + Timeline: https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline
    + May 12th is the deadline for the slot request

* Commit Access
  + None

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Kendy/Thorsten/László)
  + resting since: 17 weeks (limit: 20 weeks)

* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
    from:Thu Apr 28 13:53:00 2022
    master linux rel  jobs: 126 ok: 126 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master linux dbg  jobs:  96 ok:  91 ko:   2 fail ratio:  2.08 % break:   2 broken duration: 1.48%
    master mac rel    jobs:  25 ok:  24 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master mac dbg    jobs:  27 ok:  25 ko:   1 fail ratio:  3.70 % break:   1 broken duration: 5.56%
    master win rel    jobs:  63 ok:  63 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master win dbg    jobs:  73 ok:  73 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master win64 dbg  jobs:  68 ok:  68 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master gerrit lin jobs: 525 ok: 426 ko:  75 fail ratio: 14.29% time for ok: mean:  24 median:  21
    master gerrit plg jobs: 506 ok: 347 ko: 113 fail ratio: 22.33% time for ok: mean:  58 median:  54
    master gerrit win jobs: 601 ok: 362 ko: 178 fail ratio: 29.62% time for ok: mean:  67 median:  63
    master gerrit mac jobs: 561 ok: 415 ko:  60 fail ratio: 10.70% time for ok: mean:  43 median:  37
    master android    jobs: 505 ok: 405 ko:  67 fail ratio: 13.27% time for ok: mean:  32 median:  26
    master gerrit all jobs: 571 ok: 264 ko: 219 fail ratio: 38.35% time for ok: mean: 152 median: 152
   + https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/tmp/gerrit_220505.html
   + tests that failed more than twice in last seven days
      3 CppunitTest_services                gerrit_mac
      3 CppunitTest_sw_uiwriter6                gerrit_mac
      3 UITest_impress_tests                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      4 UITest_calc_tests6                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      5 CppunitTest_sw_uiwriter6                gerrit_windows
      6 Killed by the kill-wrapper                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      6 JunitTest_chart2_unoapi                gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      7 CppunitTest_sc_macros_test                gerrit_windows
      7 CppunitTest_sw_mailmerge                gerrit_windows
      8 CppunitTest_sw_layoutwriter                gerrit_linux_gcc_release
     24 CppunitTest_sw_layoutwriter2                gerrit_windows
     44 CppunitTest_sdext_pdfimport                gerrit_windows started April 28
  + good news: kill-wrapper killed much less tests this week
  + sw_layoutwriter2 failures: new Windows test -> reverted now
  + sdext_pdfimport failures: not sure if this is related to font changes -> still outstanding

* l10n (Sophie)
  + no updates

* List of developers invited to LibOCon
  + how should we proceed? (Sophie)
  + what does it mean that one is invited? (Miklos)
    + usually a guesture towards volunteers (Sophie)
  + need ~15 names
  + do we pay travel/expenses for them? (Caolan)
    + yes (Sophie)
    + so most useful to people who are far away, perhaps
  + ideal would be e.g. first-time contributors (Thorsten)
    + perhaps good to create some sort of criteria
  + if you have good ideas who to invite, send those names to Sophie? (Miklos)
    + good idea (Thorsten)
  + deadline for suggestions is mid-June (Sophie)
  + would also need 2-3 people to review suggestions
    + can help (Stephan, Lubos, Michael S)

* What’s cooking (Miklos)
  + 16k cols in Calc (Lubos)
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133764
  + MSO-style data tables for charts (Tomaz)
    + see initial commits in master
  + Working on SmartArt (Armin)
    + hope to get a blog post out soon regarding the current state
    + any news on this? (Heiko)
      + expecting it soon (Michael S)
  + Adding content controls to Writer (Miklos)
    + inline <w:sdt> in DOCX, focusing on the rich text/checkbox/dropdown types
  + feature/scaling-geometry-provider (Jan-Marek)
    + focusing on Wayland
    + scenario: multiple monitors with different DPI scaling factor, handle that
  + PDF Accessibility checker (PDF/UA) (olivier)
    + Need PDF/UA checker
       + How good is veraPDF (FOSS) https://verapdf.org/ for validation
       + other suggestions for PDF/UA checkers
       + the tool would be used to check the result of the work
    + Need assistance to write PDF/UA checker tender
       + expert in a11y welcome to help me
    + Jan-Marek created a bug about this (Xisco)

        + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136822

      + might have some experience here

* QA update (Xisco)
    + UNCONFIRMED: 1737 (-95)
        + enhancements: 269  (+5)
        + needsUXEval: 8 (+1)
        + haveBackTrace: 6 (-2)
        + needsDevAdvice: 28 (+0)
        + documentation:  14 (+5)
        + android:  3 (+0)
        + iOS:  0 (+0)
        + Online:  10 (+0)

    + 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
           + started to happen with a new macOS version
           + somebody has to do the work to keep up with the new Apple requirements
             + sometimes this works, sometimes now (Stephan)


    Removing from the list:

        + 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
            + To be tendered in 2022: https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/2022/msg00400.html

    + New high severity bugs of the week:
        + In Tools > Options > View - add an option to control appearance of context-sensitive toolbars (on, off, automatic)
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38850
            + feature request
            + easyhack? hints welcome!

* QA stats
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
      +104  +31 (-132) overall)
      many thanks to the top bug squashers:
       QA Administrators       17
       Buovjaga                14
       Xisco Faulí             13
       Justin L                7
       Timur                   7
       Michael Warner          6
       sdc.blanco              6
       Michael Weghorn         5
       Dieter                  4
       Heiko Tietze            4

    + top 10 bugs reporters:
       Telesto                 9
       sdc.blanco              8
       Timur                   4
       Roman Kuznetsov         3
       Adalbert Hanßen         2
       Michael Weghorn         2
       Rafael Lima             2
       SheetJS                 2
       healthtipslive          2
       jj201                   2

    + top 10 bugs fixers:
       Xisco Fauli             10
       Justin Luth             6
       Seth Chaiklin           6
       Heiko Tietze            2
       Henschel, Regina        2
       Kaganski, Mike          2
       NISZ LibreOffice Team   2
       Nabet, Julien           2
       Németh, László          2
       Weghorn, Michael        2

    + top 10 bugs confirmers:
       Xisco Fauli             76
       Ilmari Lauhakangas      20
       Dieter                  11
       Ezinne Nnamani          7
       Roman Kuznetsov         7
       Timur                   7
       Heiko Tietze            6
       Raal                    4
       Weghorn, Michael        3
       *UNKNOWN*               2

* 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 : 1/246 -    0 %  (+0)

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

     done by:
        Telesto                4
        Aron Budea             3
        Raal                   3
        Martin Srdoš           2
        Roman Kuznetsov        1
        Andreas Heinisch       1
        Ilmari Lauhakangas     1
        Kelemen, Gabor         1
        Weghorn, Michael       1
        Xisco Fauli            1

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

     done by:
        Aron Budea             3
        Raal                   3
        Telesto                3
        Martin Srdoš           2
        Roman Kuznetsov        1
        Andreas Heinisch       1
        Timur                  1
        Ilmari Lauhakangas     1
        Kelemen, Gabor         1
        Weghorn, Michael       1

* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
   + 1269(+12) bugs open of 11743(+18) total 11(+0) high prio.

     done by:
        Telesto                6
        Ilmari Lauhakangas     2
        Xisco Fauli            2
        Roman Kuznetsov        1
        Andreas Heinisch       1
        Aron Budea             1
        Dieter                 1
        Timur                  1
        Kelemen, Gabor         1
        phv                    1

* ~Component   count net * high severity regressions
   + http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
     Writer        - 6(+0)
     LibreOffice   - 2(+0)
     Calc          - 1(+0)
     Draw          - 1(+0)
     Impress       - 1(+0)

   by OS:
     All           - 9(+0)
     Linux         - 0(+0)
     Mac OS X      - 0(+0)
     Windows       - 2(+0)

* ~Component   count net * all regressions
   + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
     Writer: other            - 454(+9)
     Calc                     - 204(+2)
     Impress                  - 121(+4)
     Writer: docx filter      - 60(+0)
     Crashes                  - 56(+1)
     LibreOffice              - 53(+1)
     UI                       - 46(+1)
     Draw                     - 43(+0)
     Writer: perf             - 40(+0)
     Borders                  - 37(+1)
     Base                     - 34(+0)
     Writer: other filter     - 34(+1)
     Chart                    - 25(+0)
     RTL                      - 24(+1)
     Writer: doc filter       - 21(+0)
     Printing and PDF export  - 20(+0)
     BASIC                    - 18(+1)
     filters and storage      - 16(+0)
     graphics stack           - 16(-1)
     Formula Editor           - 2(+0)
     Linguistic               - 1(+0)
     framework                - 1(+0)
     sdk                      - 1(+0)



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