ESC meeting minutes: 2022-07-28

[Jan Holesovsky <kendy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Present: 
    + Kendy, Heiko, Hossein, Caolán, Ilmari, Michael W., Cloph, Michael S., Xisco, Tomaž, Olivier, 

* Completed Action Items:
    + enable commit access for Hannah (Cloph)

* Pending Action Items:

* Release Engineering update (Cloph) 
    + 7.4 status
      + 7.4 RC2 this week?
          + has been tagged yesterday
          + hard code freeze now
          + 2 additional reviews needed
          + builds to be available tomorrow evening on the mirrors
          + additional buildfix needed for aarch64 windows build
            https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/137568
            + no need to re-spin
      + RC3 to be in 2 weeks (week 32)
    + 7.3 status: 7.3.6 rc1 in 3 weeks?
      + week 33
    + Appstores
      + filed the tax forms for MS app store
      + finalizing the listing, eg. the pricing

* Documentation (Olivier)
    + New Help
        + No news
    + Helpcontents2
        + SourceForge Help page (R. Lima)
        + Updates in master password (Caolán)
    + Guides
        + Stalled - vacation time :-)
    + Bugzilla Documentation statistics
        239(239) bugs open
    + Updates:
        BZ changes   1 week   1 month   3 months   12 months  
           created     3(2)     33(-9)     96(-2)     331(1)  
         commented     5(4)     60(-12)   291(-10)   1463(3)  
          resolved     1(1)     16(-3)     43(0)      209(1)  
    + top 10 contributors:
          Olivier Hallot made 23 changes in 1 month, and 463 changes in 1 year
          Seth Chaiklin made 20 changes in 1 month, and 330 changes in 1 year
          Kaganski, Mike made 12 changes in 1 month, and 96 changes in 1 year
          Rafael Lima made 11 changes in 1 month, and 313 changes in 1 year
          Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 9 changes in 1 month, and 24 changes in 1 year
          Nabet, Julien made 9 changes in 1 month, and 89 changes in 1 year
          Alain Romedenne made 6 changes in 1 month, and 38 changes in 1 year
          Németh, László made 6 changes in 1 month, and 12 changes in 1 year
          Ezinne Nnamani made 6 changes in 1 month, and 6 changes in 1 year
          Timur made 6 changes in 1 month, and 28 changes in 1 year

* UX Update (Heiko)
    + was on vacation & in the in-person meetings; not much to report
    + but people working on the new icon themes
      + looking forward to that
    + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
        271(271) (topicUI) bugs open, 61(61) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
    + Updates:
        BZ changes   1 week   1 month   3 months   12 months  
             added      7(4)     15(7)     18(5)       44(6)  
         commented     46(17)   144(39)   509(-20)   2237(-14)
           removed      0(0)      1(0)      3(-3)      29(0)  
          resolved      4(1)     19(-2)    63(-6)     324(1)  
    + top 10 contributors:
          Heiko Tietze made 79 changes in 1 month, and 1543 changes in 1 year
          Timur made 31 changes in 1 month, and 75 changes in 1 year
          Rafael Lima made 23 changes in 1 month, and 95 changes in 1 year
          Roman Kuznetsov made 21 changes in 1 month, and 202 changes in 1 year
          Telesto made 18 changes in 1 month, and 183 changes in 1 year
          Bielefeld, Rainer made 13 changes in 1 month, and 19 changes in 1 year
          Hossein made 12 changes in 1 month, and 38 changes in 1 year
          m.a.riosv made 9 changes in 1 month, and 9 changes in 1 year
          Pierre Fortin made 8 changes in 1 month, and 8 changes in 1 year
          Aron Budea made 7 changes in 1 month, and 24 changes in 1 year
    + bug 150182 - Pivot Table Filter is inaccessible from main menu, and its label in 
          context menu doesn't distinguish it from e.g. Standard Filter
    + bug 150040 - Feature Request (Writer): Delete parts of an image after cutting
    + bug 150005 - Default Cell Borders thickness not customizable using the toolbar 
          buttons
    + bug 149984 - Add sortable counts to AutoFilter drop down
    + bug 149944 - Base: Dialog for User Administration couldn't be resized - too 
          small when translated to German to show all buttons

* Crash Testing (Caolan)
    + 113(+32) import failure, 73(+27) export failures
      - one issue likely fixed in next run
      - fairly stable, the most offensive fixed recently
    + 2 coverity issues
      - opaque what code triggers this
    + 7 ossfuzz issues
      - one crash left
    + CVE's were announced

* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
   + symbols were missing in 7.3.5
     + resolved, Cloph uploaded yesterday
     + not much info from the latest version yet due to that
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.2.7.2
         + (-4) 512 516 479 484 410 396 382 314 268 167 0 
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.3.3.2
         + (-66) 701 767 878 1041 1063 1438 1797 1583 1417 1055 555 0 
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.3.4.2
         + (+23) 1695 1672 1581 1128 963 675 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.3.5.2
         + (+550) 550 0

* Mentoring/easyhack update (Hossein)
   + not much this week
   + working on reviews for Easy Hacks
     + looking at the older ones - from 2015/16
     + checking if the issue still relevant & if the code pointer is still valid
     + checking for repeating issues too
       + like the gallery has changed a lot in the meantime etc.
       + Regina helping too
   + also working on things for virtual hackfests
     + for the students working with Hossein
     + hope to give them more difficult stuff too
          committer...   1 week     1 month      3 months    12 months    
                  open      69(22)     129(15)      139(17)      139(17)  
               reviews     252(-88)   1062(-120)   2756(-80)   12244(-18) 
                merged     191(-4)     847(-135)   3470(-92)   15187(-89) 
             abandoned       7(-5)      52(-6)      166(-5)      811(-3)  
           own commits     143(8)      558(-53)    2540(-63)   11882(-114)
        review commits      35(-19)    179(-44)     589(-4)     3366(-26) 
        contributor...   1 week     1 month      3 months    12 months   
                  open      54(31)      99(13)      110(17)      115(18) 
               reviews     652(32)    2400(-180)   7806(-92)   33330(-88)
                merged      15(-24)     91(-11)     179(4)      1204(5)  
             abandoned       9(2)       39(0)       107(1)       468(4)  
           own commits       9(-24)     68(-14)     172(5)      1219(-3) 
        review commits       0(0)        0(0)         0(0)         0(0)  
    + easyHack statistics:
       needsDevEval 8(8)   needsUXEval 1(1)   cleanup_comments 305(305)   
       total 365(365)   assigned 16(16)   open 321(321)   
    + top 10 contributors:
          Paris Oplopoios made 29 patches in 1 month, and 48 patches in 1 year
          Hannah Meeks made 13 patches in 1 month, and 15 patches in 1 year
          Attila Bakos made 3 patches in 1 month, and 33 patches in 1 year
          Ehsan Movahedian made 2 patches in 1 month, and 2 patches in 1 year
          Kurt Nordback made 2 patches in 1 month, and 2 patches in 1 year
          Armin Le Grand (allotropia) made 2 patches in 1 month, and 2 patches in 1 year
          Nagy Tibor made 1 patches in 1 month, and 30 patches in 1 year
          Attila Szűcs made 1 patches in 1 month, and 13 patches in 1 year
          Daniel Lohmann made 1 patches in 1 month, and 3 patches in 1 year
          Aman Jha made 1 patches in 1 month, and 2 patches in 1 year
    + top 10 reviewers:
          Vajngerl, Tomaž made 132 review comments in 1 month, and 496 in 1 year
          Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 128 review comments in 1 month, and 1082 in 1 year
          Thorsten Behrens made 70 review comments in 1 month, and 846 in 1 year
          Hossein made 60 review comments in 1 month, and 270 in 1 year
          Xisco Fauli made 60 review comments in 1 month, and 902 in 1 year
          Kaganski, Mike made 58 review comments in 1 month, and 656 in 1 year
          Nabet, Julien made 54 review comments in 1 month, and 672 in 1 year
          McNamara, Caolán made 52 review comments in 1 month, and 564 in 1 year
          Vajna, Miklos made 46 review comments in 1 month, and 522 in 1 year
          Michael Stahl made 42 review comments in 1 month, and 1174 in 1 year
    + Patches automatically abandoned:
        WIP Convert internal vcl bitmap formats transparency->alpha (II) ( Noel Grandin )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/114168
        tdf#91326 Temporarily hide last line option in text boxes and similar objects ( Po-Yen Huang )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/129807
        tdf#148594: sw_layoutwriter2: Add unittest ( Xisco Fauli )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/133213
        WIP clang-tidy modernize-pass-by-value ( Noel Grandin )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/134461
        Bug 132858 - Minor edits needed to Calc Help files to re-align Pivot Table description with latest 6.4 software ( Thomas Piasny )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/134617
    + big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
          ali abdollahian
          Poonam Shokeen

* GSoC (Hossein/Ilmari)
  + Timeline: https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/timeline
  + Midterm Evaluation deadline tomorrow
    + Tomaž finishing the evaluations today

* Commit Access

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Kendy/Thorsten/László) 
  + resting since: 26 weeks (limit: 20 weeks)

* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
  + there was one hiccup, OOM situation & Jenkins had to be restarted
  + 2 Windows machines with build trouble
    + pending windows update related, maybe?
    + Cloph applied the update & rebooted, now fine
    from:Thu Jul 21 13:50:32 2022
    master linux rel  jobs:  95 ok:  95 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master linux dbg  jobs:  89 ok:  89 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master mac rel    jobs:   0 ok:   0 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master mac dbg    jobs:   0 ok:   0 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master win rel    jobs:  76 ok:  76 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master win dbg    jobs:  80 ok:  80 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master win64 dbg  jobs:  76 ok:  76 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
    master gerrit lin jobs: 339 ok: 279 ko:  41 fail ratio: 12.09% time for ok: mean:  20 median:  18
    master gerrit plg jobs: 283 ok: 206 ko:  60 fail ratio: 21.20% time for ok: mean:  42 median:  42
    master gerrit win jobs: 357 ok: 231 ko: 105 fail ratio: 29.41% time for ok: mean:  52 median:  46
    master gerrit mac jobs: 328 ok: 267 ko:  37 fail ratio: 11.28% time for ok: mean:  39 median:  36
    master android    jobs: 278 ok: 241 ko:  22 fail ratio:  7.91% time for ok: mean:  19 median:  16
    master gerrit all jobs: 324 ok: 176 ko: 120 fail ratio: 37.04% time for ok: mean:  69 median:  56
   + https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/tmp/gerrit_220728.html
   + tests that failed more than twice in last seven days
      3 UITest_impress_tests            gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
      4 UITest_writer_tests             gerrit_linux_clang_dbgutil
     15 CppunitTest_sc_vba_macro_test           gerrit_windows (bot hiccups)

* 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
    + proceeding with merging now - one by one to master
    + some commits still left
    + ODF support is the major thing to implement next

* LiboCon - CfP
  https://events.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice-conference-2022/cfp
  only three days left to file your proposals

* QA update (Xisco)
    + UNCONFIRMED: 1724 (-10)
        + enhancements: 294  (-2)
        + needsUXEval: 7 (+3)
        + haveBackTrace: 6 (+0)
        + needsDevAdvice: 28 (-1)
        + documentation:  16 (+0)
        + android:  3 (+0)
        + iOS:  0 (+0)
        + Online:  12 (+0)

    + Most pressing bugs:
      None

    + New high severity bugs of the week:
        + Writer crash when entering a paragraph break or carriage return
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=146500
            + Michael S?

        + Crash when customizing Menu
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149966
            + Stephan B?
            + was introduced in 7.4 - could affect the release

        + LibreOffice Calc hangs on opening the particular file
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150034
            + Tunde? Fix in gerrit

* QA stats
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
      +89  +15 (-98) overall)
      many thanks to the top bug squashers:
       QA Administrators       12
       Mike Kaganski           8
       Regina Henschel         7
       Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 6
       Faisal                  5
       Timur                   5
       V Stuart Foote          5
       Caolán McNamara         4
       Rafael Lima             4
       raal                    4

    + top 10 bugs reporters:
       Mike Kaganski           5
       Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 2
       Ido                     2
       Marino Luna             2
       NISZ LibreOffice Team   2
       Rafael Lima             2
       TorrAB                  2
       Andy                    1
       Gerry                   1
       Laurent BP              1

    + top 10 bugs fixers:
       Henschel, Regina        6
       McNamara, Caolán        5
       Kelemen, Gabor          3
                               2
       Justin Luth             2
       Kaganski, Mike          2
       Andreas Heinisch        1
       Aron Budea              1
       Balazs Varga            1
       Balland-Poirier, Laurent 1

    + top 10 bugs confirmers:
       Rafael Lima             13
       Timur                   7
       m.a.riosv               7
       Raal                    6
       Roman Kuznetsov         5
       Kaganski, Mike          4
       Nabet, Julien           4
       Németh, László          3
       Aron Budea              2
       Axel Braun              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:
        Kaganski, Mike         2
        Raal                   2
        Timur                  2
 
* Bibisected bugs open: keyword 'bibisected'
   + http://bit.ly/2cSCXlS
   + 

     done by:
        Raal                   2
        Timur                  2
        Kaganski, Mike         1
        Nabet, Julien          1

* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
   + 1217(-2) bugs open of 11901(+8) total 11(+0) high prio.

     done by:
        Timur                  3
        Dieter                 1
        Kamil Landa            1
        Kaganski, Mike         1
        Németh, László         1
        Raal                   1
        raving                 1
        Robert Großkopf        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            - 440(-2)
     Calc                     - 195(+1)
     Impress                  - 120(-3)
     Writer: docx filter      - 60(+1)
     Crashes                  - 57(+2)
     LibreOffice              - 47(+0)
     Draw                     - 46(+0)
     UI                       - 44(+0)
     Writer: perf             - 36(+0)
     Borders                  - 35(-1)
     Base                     - 33(+1)
     Writer: other filter     - 32(-1)
     RTL                      - 24(-1)
     Chart                    - 23(+0)
     Writer: doc filter       - 21(+0)
     BASIC                    - 18(+0)
     Printing and PDF export  - 17(+0)
     filters and storage      - 15(+0)
     graphics stack           - 14(-1)
     Formula Editor           - 3(+1)
     framework                - 2(+0)
     Linguistic               - 1(+0)
     sdk                      - 1(+0)