ESC meeting minutes: 2022-05-12

[Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Present:
    + Kendy, Stephan, Hekio, Ilmari, Cloph, Olivier, Caolán, Miklos, Thorsten,
      Michael S., Xisco, Eike

* Completed Action Items:
    + None

* Pending Action Items:
    + create wiki to page to describe the gerrit auto-abandon process + then link to that from gerrit comments (Hossein) -> Not done

* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
    + 7.4 status: 7.4.0 alpha 1 is tagged, feature freeze in June
      + beta 1 in 4 weeks + feature freeze
      + late features: SmartArt editing, to revisit next week (Thorsten)
      + Skia is disabled on libreoffice-7-3, but not on master (Xisco)
    + 7.3 status: 7.3.4 rc1 next week
    + 7.2 status: 7.2.7 has been announced as final today
    + Remotes: Android, iOS
    + Android viewer

* Documentation (Olivier)
   + New Help
       + better support for RTL languages (buovjaga)
   + Helcontent2
       + Updates and fixes (A. Gelmini, ohallot, S. Chaiklin)
       + Scriptforge Help (A. Romedenne)
   + Guides
       + Updates on going in Impress (P. Schoffield, K. Kriek)
       + Updates in Base Guide (S. Fanning)

    + Bugzilla Documentation statistics
        227(227) bugs open
    + Updates:
        BZ changes   1 week    1 month   3 months   12 months
           created     13(-11)   36(-23)   113(-5)     322(-11)
         commented      8(-28)   79(-13)   233(-31)   1438(-9)
          resolved      6(1)     12(-20)    65(1)      213(-8)
    + top 10 contributors:
          Seth Chaiklin made 80 changes in 1 month, and 157 changes in 1 year
          Xisco Fauli made 14 changes in 1 month, and 83 changes in 1 year
          Ilmari Lauhakangas made 11 changes in 1 month, and 109 changes in 1 year
          Olivier Hallot made 11 changes in 1 month, and 465 changes in 1 year
          Telesto made 11 changes in 1 month, and 35 changes in 1 year
          Kaganski, Mike made 7 changes in 1 month, and 87 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
          Dieter made 4 changes in 1 month, and 101 changes in 1 year
          Németh, László made 3 changes in 1 month, and 6 changes in 1 year

* UX Update (Heiko)
    + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
        277(277) (topicUI) bugs open, 81(81) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
    + Updates:
        BZ changes   1 week   1 month    3 months   12 months
             added      5(-5)    15(-4)     30(-2)      57(-3)
         commented     65(-9)   271(-18)   686(14)    2575(-29)
           removed      2(1)      9(1)      19(2)       42(1)
          resolved      6(2)     26(-7)     87(-5)     368(-12)
    + top 10 contributors:
          Heiko Tietze made 180 changes in 1 month, and 1869 changes in 1 year
          Seth Chaiklin made 86 changes in 1 month, and 161 changes in 1 year
          Telesto made 41 changes in 1 month, and 290 changes in 1 year
          Dieter made 35 changes in 1 month, and 216 changes in 1 year
          Xisco Fauli made 33 changes in 1 month, and 98 changes in 1 year
          Kaganski, Mike made 26 changes in 1 month, and 164 changes in 1 year
          Timur made 24 changes in 1 month, and 125 changes in 1 year
          Cor Nouws made 16 changes in 1 month, and 50 changes in 1 year
          Foote, V Stuart made 15 changes in 1 month, and 388 changes in 1 year
          Eyal Rozenberg made 14 changes in 1 month, and 93 changes in 1 year
    + 10 new tickets with needsUXAdvice since May/05
      + [Bug 149037] Should "Name" and "Description" have icons in the Format menu?
      + [Bug 149013] Description of images, OLE objects and shapes is not exported
             to HTML
      + [Bug 143197] Writer: hidden link between list and chapter numbering
      + [Bug 149030] UI: Make the animation effect list a drop down in the sidebar
   -> + [Bug 149010] "Previous Link" and "Next Link" should only appear on Frames
             Options tab
        + draw:chain-next-name attribute is currently only implemented for Frames,
          implement for "Text box" as well?
        + do we want chained text boxes?
          + there was a gsoc project for this (Miklos)
          + http://gsoc15-draw.logdown.com/posts/276831-text-chaining-in-draw-an-attempt-to-specifications (Michael S)
          http://gsoc15-draw.logdown.com/posts/283339-text-chaining-in-draw-results-at-midterm
          https://matteocam.github.io/output/announcing-chained-text-in-draw-a-prototype-implementation.html
          + would welcome a patch to finish this feature (Miklos)
          + would need hiding for images, sure.
      + [Bug 148740] UI Issue: In View->Styles, the `+` gets hidden when the cursor is
             on a parent style
   -> + [Bug 149000] PDF Accessibility: Checker dialog should have a "Print report"
             button
        + Word has a sidebar for this (Heiko)
      + [Bug 148979] Field context menu should have "Update Field" item
   -> + [Bug 148967] Include a HUD inside the Standard toolbar
        + would bring LO UI closer to MSO
        + active discussion in progress
        + could be also part of sidebar
        + could replace the findbar
        + like the Heiko's idea to make this is gsoc idea and/or tender proposal (Kendy)
      + [Bug 148941] Make label of the field for an image's text alternative consistent

* Crash Testing (Caolan)
    + 91(+81) import failure, 14(+11) export failures
      - crashtesting has returned
      - better than expected
      - know that the main crash there is repeated a lot, Lubos already pushed a fix
        - let's see the results in the next round
    + 0 coverity issues
    + 12 ossfuzz issues
      - 2 crashes, 2 "leaks", 4 timeouts, 2 OOM

* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.2.6.2
         + (-133) 646 779 781 522 558 428 373 166 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.3.1.3
         + (-299) 847 1146 986 1887 2139 1652 1345 810 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.3.2.2
         + (-627) 1622 2249 2101 1664 934 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.3.3.2
         + (+555) 555 0

    + mdds::flat_segment_tree<long,bool>::insert_to_pos

    + Still most reported crash in 7.3.3.2

    + Update mdds


   + Crashes fixed in 7.3.3.2

    - SwLayoutFrame::ContainsContent()

    - Fix commit is not known

    - sw::mark::FindFieldSep(sw::mark::IFieldmark const &)

    Thanks to Michael Stahl

    - slideshow::internal::RandomWipe::operator()(double)

    Thanks to Thorsten



* Mentoring/EasyHack update (Hossein)
          committer...   1 week     1 month     3 months     12 months
                  open      86(18)     144(20)     146(20)       149(20)
               reviews     264(-52)   1020(-68)   3314(-168)   12434(-94)
                merged     299(7)     1208(32)    3860(-26)    15701(25)
             abandoned      14(-6)      59(3)      313(-1)       826(0)
           own commits     262(22)     953(50)    2911(15)     12534(46)
        review commits      38(7)      155(-3)     681(-50)     3624(-30)
        contributor...   1 week    1 month    3 months    12 months
                  open      44(30)     78(22)     82(25)       84(25)
               reviews     820(56)   2900(84)   8954(-68)   34420(24)
                merged      11(2)      44(5)     178(-19)    1370(-25)
             abandoned       2(-3)     25(-6)    159(-23)     436(-20)
           own commits      14(5)      39(9)     215(-32)    1419(-27)
        review commits       0(0)       0(0)       0(0)         0(0)
    + easyHack statistics:
       needsDevEval 8(8)   needsUXEval 1(1)   cleanup_comments 307(307)
       total 368(368)   assigned 18(18)   open 322(322)
    + top 10 contributors:
          xuenhua made 7 patches in 1 month, and 7 patches in 1 year
          Srebotnjak, Martin made 4 patches in 1 month, and 20 patches in 1 year
          Nagy Tibor made 2 patches in 1 month, and 31 patches in 1 year
          Batmunkh Dorjgotov made 2 patches in 1 month, and 2 patches in 1 year
          Attila Bakos made 2 patches in 1 month, and 33 patches in 1 year
          flywire made 2 patches in 1 month, and 10 patches in 1 year
          Isha Desai made 2 patches in 1 month, and 2 patches in 1 year
          Fišeras, Aurimas made 1 patches in 1 month, and 1 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
    + top 10 reviewers:
          Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 100 review comments in 1 month, and 938 in 1 year
          Thorsten Behrens made 90 review comments in 1 month, and 806 in 1 year
          Michael Stahl made 74 review comments in 1 month, and 1200 in 1 year
          Nabet, Julien made 62 review comments in 1 month, and 594 in 1 year
          Kaganski, Mike made 54 review comments in 1 month, and 736 in 1 year
          Xisco Fauli made 52 review comments in 1 month, and 874 in 1 year
          Vajna, Miklos made 46 review comments in 1 month, and 614 in 1 year
          Christian Lohmaier made 44 review comments in 1 month, and 218 in 1 year
          Ilmari Lauhakangas made 44 review comments in 1 month, and 286 in 1 year
          Hossein made 40 review comments in 1 month, and 228 in 1 year
    + big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
          Daniel Kozar
          Mark Hung
    + we have lots of easy hacks, some of them are obsolete by now (Miklos)
      + a systematic review of these would be nice, how to handle that the best way?
      + let's wait for Hossein to discuss this

* 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: 18 weeks (limit: 20 weeks)

* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
    from:Thu May  5 13:53:13 2022
    master linux rel  jobs: 129 ok: 129 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master linux dbg  jobs:  97 ok:  93 ko:   4 fail ratio:  4.12 % break:   4 broken duration: 3.85%
    master mac rel    jobs:  59 ok:  58 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master mac dbg    jobs:  57 ok:  57 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master win rel    jobs:  95 ok:  95 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master win dbg    jobs: 102 ok: 102 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master win64 dbg  jobs:  97 ok:  97 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master gerrit lin jobs: 501 ok: 401 ko:  78 fail ratio: 15.57% time for ok: mean:  22 median:  19
    master gerrit plg jobs: 476 ok: 343 ko: 103 fail ratio: 21.64% time for ok: mean:  56 median:  53
    master gerrit win jobs: 557 ok: 360 ko: 154 fail ratio: 27.65% time for ok: mean:  60 median:  57
    master gerrit mac jobs: 524 ok: 385 ko:  92 fail ratio: 17.56% time for ok: mean:  40 median:  36
    master android    jobs: 509 ok: 394 ko:  87 fail ratio: 17.09% time for ok: mean:  30 median:  23
    master gerrit all jobs: 564 ok: 271 ko: 228 fail ratio: 40.43% time for ok: mean:  78 median:  73
   + https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/tmp/gerrit_220512.html
   + one of the macs are back this week (Cloph)

* l10n (Sophie)
  + no updates

* What’s cooking (Miklos)
  + 16k cols in Calc (Lubos)
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133764
  + feature/chartdatatable: 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
  + Adding content controls to Writer (Miklos)
    + inline <w:sdt> in DOCX, rich text/checkbox/dropdown types
  + feature/scaling-geometry-provider for Wayland (Jan-Marek)
    + scenario: multiple monitors with different DPI scaling factor, handle that
  + parallel installation set packing (Thorsten)

* ESC composition (Caolan)
  + board approved the suggestion from the ESC (Kendy)

* QA update (Xisco)
    + UNCONFIRMED: 1715 (-22)
        + enhancements: 271  (+2)
        + needsUXEval: 6 (-2)
        + haveBackTrace: 5 (-1)
        + needsDevAdvice: 28 (+0)
        + documentation:  16 (+2)
        + android:  4 (+1)
        + 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)

    + New high severity bugs of the week:
        + Crash mergedlo!SfxViewFrame::Notify+0xf87
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148913
            + Jan-Marek?
            + Xisco has trouble to reproduce it reliably

* QA stats
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
      +109  -5 (-119) overall)
      many thanks to the top bug squashers:
       Caolán McNamara         8
       Mike Kaganski           8
       Timur                   7
       Buovjaga                6
       Olivier Hallot          6
       Xisco Faulí             6
       QA Administrators       5
       Andreas Heinisch        4
       Heiko Tietze            4
       Michael Warner          4

    + top 10 bugs reporters:
       Mike Kaganski           7
       Xisco Faulí             7
       sdc.blanco              7
       Telesto                 5
       Eyal Rozenberg          4
       Olivier Hallot          4
       David Melik             3
       Aron Budea              2
       BDF                     2
       Jambunathan K           2

    + top 10 bugs fixers:
       McNamara, Caolán        6
       Olivier Hallot          5
       Andreas Heinisch        3
       Németh, László          3
       Rathke, Eike            3
       Timur                   3
       Xisco Fauli             3
       Henschel, Regina        2
       Hung, Mark              2
       Justin Luth             2

    + top 10 bugs confirmers:
       Xisco Fauli             21
       Dieter                  14
       Ilmari Lauhakangas      10
       Timur                   9
       Heiko Tietze            7
       Raal                    7
       Rafael Lima             7
       BogdanB                 4
       Henschel, Regina        4
       Kaganski, Mike          4

* 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:
        Raal                   7
        Xisco Fauli            7
        Timur                  3
        Ilmari Lauhakangas     2
        Kaganski, Mike         2
        Telesto                2
        Roman Kuznetsov        1
        Hossein                1
        Justin Luth            1

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

     done by:
        Xisco Fauli            7
        Raal                   6
        Timur                  3
        Ilmari Lauhakangas     2
        Kaganski, Mike         2
        Telesto                2
        Roman Kuznetsov        1
        Emanuele Gissi         1

* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
   + 1272(+3) bugs open of 11766(+23) total 11(+0) high prio.

     done by:
        Xisco Fauli            7
        Timur                  3
        Kaganski, Mike         2
        Raal                   2
        Telesto                2
        Dieter                 1
        Emanuele Gissi         1
        Harald Koester         1
        Ilmari Lauhakangas     1
        Foote, V Stuart        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            - 461(+7)
     Calc                     - 202(-2)
     Impress                  - 125(+4)
     Writer: docx filter      - 61(+1)
     Crashes                  - 56(+0)
     LibreOffice              - 52(-1)
     UI                       - 45(-1)
     Draw                     - 44(+1)
     Writer: perf             - 40(+0)
     Borders                  - 38(+1)
     Base                     - 34(+0)
     Writer: other filter     - 34(+0)
     Chart                    - 25(+0)
     RTL                      - 24(+0)
     Writer: doc filter       - 21(+0)
     Printing and PDF export  - 20(+0)
     BASIC                    - 17(-1)
     filters and storage      - 16(+0)
     graphics stack           - 16(+0)
     Formula Editor           - 2(+0)
     Linguistic               - 1(+0)
     framework                - 1(+0)
     sdk                      - 1(+0)