ESC meeting minutes: 2022-10-06

[Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Present:
    + Ilmari, Thorsten, Xisco, Caolan, Hossein, Michael S, Kendy, Miklos, Olivier, Heiko

* Completed Action Items:
    + None

* Pending Action Items:
    + Enable firebird as non-experimental for macOS app store builds (Cloph)

* Release Engineering update (Xisco)
    + 7.4 status: 7.4.2 rc2 this week, already tagged this morning
    + 7.3 status: 7.3.7 rc1 in 1 week
    + Appstores: no changes
      + will sit down with Cloph next week to talk about the Windows side (Thorsten)
      + macOS is ready, offering 7.3.6 (Xisco)

* Documentation (Olivier)
    + Helpcontents2
        + Minor fixes and enhancements (R. Lima)
        + Introducing Upper/Lower Sorbian in Help (WIP) (ohallot)
    + Guides
       + Work in progress for Impress & Draw 7.4 (P. Schofield)
    + Bugzilla Documentation statistics
        241(241) bugs open
    + Updates:
        BZ changes   1 week   1 month   3 months   12 months
           created     6(-3)    34(0)      74(-9)     305(-1)
         commented     6(-19)   68(-2)    162(-21)   1242(-38)
          resolved     2(0)     14(0)      33(-7)     195(0)
    + top 10 contributors:
          Rafael Lima made 43 changes in 1 month, and 245 changes in 1 year
          Olivier Hallot made 31 changes in 1 month, and 481 changes in 1 year
          Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 11 changes in 1 month, and 31 changes in 1 year
          Heiko Tietze made 11 changes in 1 month, and 100 changes in 1 year
          Tuomas Hietala made 9 changes in 1 month, and 11 changes in 1 year
          Telesto made 8 changes in 1 month, and 31 changes in 1 year
          Foote, V Stuart made 8 changes in 1 month, and 30 changes in 1 year
          Ilmari Lauhakangas made 7 changes in 1 month, and 89 changes in 1 year
          Stéphane Guillou made 7 changes in 1 month, and 14 changes in 1 year
          Alain Romedenne made 5 changes in 1 month, and 36 changes in 1 year

* UX Update (Heiko)
    + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
        272(272) (topicUI) bugs open, 65(65) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
    + Updates:
        BZ changes   1 week    1 month   3 months   12 months
             added     11(-3)     26(7)     32(7)       55(7)
         commented     84(-28)   281(22)   562(53)    2239(30)
           removed      0(-1)      3(-1)     8(-1)      33(0)
          resolved      6(-1)     29(-2)    77(2)      315(0)
    + top 10 contributors:
          Heiko Tietze made 161 changes in 1 month, and 1553 changes in 1 year
          Rafael Lima made 61 changes in 1 month, and 177 changes in 1 year
          Foote, V Stuart made 61 changes in 1 month, and 272 changes in 1 year
          Timur made 60 changes in 1 month, and 143 changes in 1 year
          Eyal Rozenberg made 58 changes in 1 month, and 139 changes in 1 year
          Dieter made 36 changes in 1 month, and 228 changes in 1 year
          Roman Kuznetsov made 35 changes in 1 month, and 184 changes in 1 year
          Telesto made 21 changes in 1 month, and 177 changes in 1 year
          steve made 18 changes in 1 month, and 26 changes in 1 year
          Kaganski, Mike made 13 changes in 1 month, and 146 changes in 1 year
   + new tickets since Sep/29
     + [Bug 151378] Highlighting all animation in the animation panel of
            the sidebar attached to object is inconsistent
     + [Bug 151365] Consider letting +/- change zoom level in Read-Only mode
     + [Bug 151345] Consider adding "Move to Top" and "Move to Bottom" buttons
            under effects list
     + [Bug 151342] Animation sidebar rendering cut off in a displeasing manner
     + [Bug 151346] Support searching current slide only
     + [Bug 151343] Inconvenient to drag an animation effect to the end of the list
     + [Bug 151338] When selecting a cell or table row/column,
            "Position & Size" regards entire table
     + [Bug 151337] Can't change table row height without selecting the row
     + [Bug 151320] Add ability to toggle a reader / reading view (mode) in Writer
     + [Bug 151322] Stop identifying italic with slanted/oblique
     + [Bug 151324] Support changing the default sequencing of multiple animations
     + [Bug 151323] UI menu and dialog window titles: fix typography of
            the user interface (title case, apostrophe and quotation marks)
 ->  + [Bug 151314] Please support e-mail client Betterbird (Thunderbird fork)
            for sending documents
     + [Bug 151313] "Resist" being opened as a tiny/mostly-hidden window
 ->  + [Bug 151306] Default width for numbering is insufficient
       + Writer can have a tab after the numbering portion, but not Impress
     + [Bug 149360] No UI for setting alternating table row backgrounds
     + [Bug 151238] Windows 11 Scroll bar arrows hidden when set visible
     + [Bug 151305] Need indication of when separators + number will exceed the width
     + [Bug 140881] LO fails opening WOFF and WOFF2 fonts
 ->  + [Bug 151215] Let me choose different fonts for different languages in
            the same group
       + per-language fonts are requested (vs per-script ones what we have today, as in latin/ctl/cjk)
       + this per-script-category stuff is the same as msoffice, making it language specific isn't directly mapable to those formats as far as I know (Caolan)
     + [Bug 151222] GALLERY: Option to add files to a "Favourites" gallery
     + [Bug 151284] Size submenu of table selection context menu not clear enough
     + [Bug 151255] a suggestion: a specialized version of Writer: LibrePublisher
            (based on MasterDocument-Writer)
     + [Bug 151280] UI - font settings not visible by default
     + [Bug 151020] Writer: Caption strings should be set to document language
            instead of UI language
     + [Bug 151233] Setting color of right border not working for overwrite
            with toolbar icons (OK with Format cells)
     + [Bug 151223] let's drop "bold" and "italic", and assign CRTL+B to "strong",
            CRTL+i to emphasis
     + [Bug 151205] New Paste Special Operations: Maximum, Minimum

 -> + The tip of the day 106/223
     + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148777
     + "Citation management? Use a 3rd party extension."
    -> "Need to do citation? You can use 3rd-party citation managers such as Zotero."
    + perhaps advertise 2 of these, not just Zotero? (Miklos)
    + what is the bibliography status in Word? (Hossein)
      + you could do such a research (Miklos)
    + no objections (all)

* Crash Testing (Caolan)
    + 28(-13) import failure, 4(-8) export failures
      - fixed one more since
    + 0 coverity issues
    + 9 ossfuzz issues
      - build broken since conference, might have fixed it today

* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.3.6.2
         + (+132) 523 391 313 139 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.4.0.3
         + (+12) 798 786 1197 1114 864 528 0
   + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/7.4.1.2
         + (+451) 1653 1202 783 0

   + better to wait a couple of weeks till we have data from 7.4.2

* Mentoring/easyhack update (Hossein)
          committer...   1 week      1 month      3 months    12 months
                  open      61(-11)     133(7)       136(7)       145(7)
               reviews     204(-158)   1228(-90)    2936(-86)   11944(-106)
                merged     223(-107)   1258(-98)    3328(-62)   15325(-44)
             abandoned      11(-13)      70(-2)      174(-3)      842(5)
           own commits     162(-87)     935(-106)   2496(-8)    11747(-53)
        review commits      29(-26)     228(-22)     585(-20)    3130(-18)
        contributor...   1 week      1 month      3 months     12 months
                  open      53(-48)     128(-52)     134(-50)      145(-50)
               reviews     624(-288)   3018(-196)   7612(-152)   33060(-138)
                merged       4(-19)      76(-12)     251(-5)       963(-32)
             abandoned       6(-2)       25(4)        74(5)        355(-24)
           own commits       9(-8)       77(-9)      198(-1)      1062(-5)
        review commits       0(0)         0(0)         0(0)          0(0)
    + easyHack statistics:
       needsDevEval 9(9)   needsUXEval 1(1)   cleanup_comments 308(308)
       total 370(370)   assigned 14(14)   open 326(326)
    + top 10 contributors:
            made 13 patches in 1 month, and 13 patches in 1 year
          Armin Le Grand (allotropia) made 9 patches in 1 month, and 13 patches in 1 year
          Paris Oplopoios made 7 patches in 1 month, and 75 patches in 1 year
          Povilas Kanapickas made 4 patches in 1 month, and 9 patches in 1 year
          Javier Salamanca made 3 patches in 1 month, and 4 patches in 1 year
          Chenxiong Qi made 3 patches in 1 month, and 3 patches in 1 year
          Dante DM made 2 patches in 1 month, and 3 patches in 1 year
          Radhey Parekh made 2 patches in 1 month, and 3 patches in 1 year
          Juan C. Sanz made 2 patches in 1 month, and 3 patches in 1 year
          Aron Fischer made 2 patches in 1 month, and 2 patches in 1 year
    + top 10 reviewers:
          McNamara, Caolán made 128 review comments in 1 month, and 736 in 1 year
          Xisco Fauli made 92 review comments in 1 month, and 890 in 1 year
          Grandin, Noel made 90 review comments in 1 month, and 408 in 1 year
          Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 86 review comments in 1 month, and 1012 in 1 year
          Nabet, Julien made 72 review comments in 1 month, and 748 in 1 year
          Michael Stahl made 72 review comments in 1 month, and 1066 in 1 year
          Thorsten Behrens made 70 review comments in 1 month, and 856 in 1 year
          Vajngerl, Tomaž made 68 review comments in 1 month, and 392 in 1 year
          Rathke, Eike made 64 review comments in 1 month, and 338 in 1 year
          Christian Lohmaier made 58 review comments in 1 month, and 298 in 1 year

* Commit Access
  + None

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Kendy/Thorsten/László)
  + resting since: 3 weeks (limit: 20 weeks)

* Jenkins / CI update (Cloph)
  + Missing Cloph

* What’s cooking (Miklos)
  + Writer content controls, PDF export work is still in progress (Miklos)
  + Khaled continues to work on non-latin text area (Hossein)
    + also a fix from Caolan, thanks
    + last 2-3 months, color fonts / emojis work is awesome (Caolan)

* BoD asks whether we can re-evaluate LOOL atticisation (Stephan)
    + see <https://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/board-discuss/2022/msg00744.html> for details: "the board resolves to postpone formally atticizing
      Online for three more months. Unless the de-atticization requirements
      (3 different developers contributing non-trivially) are fulfilled by then, and/or
      if necessary binding corporate commitments are not made by 2022-10-01, Online
      will be automatically moved to the attic."
    + apparently some activity at <https://github.com/freeonlineoffice/online>
    + would be useful to have a technical statement here (Thorsten)
    + limit was the start of the October (Kendy)
      + review of non-trivial commits in the repo would be good
    + who could do this check to see if there are 3 devs with non-trivial commits? (Miklos)
      + best if they are a non-Collaboran (Kendy)
      + Xisco/Hossein/Cloph? (Thorsten)
AI: do this (Xisco)
      + many commits are taken from COOL, good to focus on the commits which are in this repo specifically (Kendy)

* QA update (Xisco)
    + UNCONFIRMED: 1746 (+2)
        + enhancements: 289  (+8)
        + needsUXEval: 16 (+6)
        + haveBackTrace: 7 (+1)
        + needsDevAdvice: 27 (+1)
        + documentation:  9 (+0)
        + android:  3 (+0)
        + iOS:  0 (+0)
        + Online:  13 (+1)

    + Most pressing bugs:
     None

    + New high severity bugs of the week:
        + Formula bar in Calc is moved to down
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150664
            + Samuel?

        + Menu bar and right tool bar are invisible, but functional in high-contrast-mode/theme
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98067
              + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=150622 is a little similar, esp with sidebar icons and I'm looking into it (Caolán)
            + needs bisecting

* QA stats
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
      +94  +38 (-143) overall)
      many thanks to the top bug squashers:
       Timur                   20
       خالد حسني               18
       Julien Nabet            11
       QA Administrators       10
       Eike Rathke             9
       Rafael Lima             7
       Justin L                6
       Heiko Tietze            5
       Adolfo Jayme Barrientos 4
       Caolán McNamara         3

    + top 10 bugs reporters:
       Hamza                   4
       Alex Thurgood           3
       Eyal Rozenberg          3
       Rafael Lima             3
       Timur                   3
       Dieter                  2
       Hossein                 2
       Jeff Fortin Tam         2
       Nik Gervae              2
       peter josvai            2

    + top 10 bugs fixers:
       خالد حسني               6
       Kaganski, Mike          3
       McNamara, Caolán        3
       Vajna, Miklos           3
       Andreas Heinisch        2
       Rafael Lima             2
       Timur                   2
       Weghorn, Michael        2
       Andras Timar            1
       Balland-Poirier, Laurent 1

    + top 10 bugs confirmers:
       Timur                   14
       Rafael Lima             7
       Roman Kuznetsov         7
       Dieter                  5
       Nabet, Julien           4
                               3
       Rathke, Eike            3
       Aron Budea              2
       Heiko Tietze            2
       *UNKNOWN*               1

* 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 : 0/35 -     0 %  (+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 : 1/83 -     1 %  (-1)
     old : 1/246 -    0 %  (+0)

* Bisected bugs open: keyword 'bisected'
   + more accurate - down to a single commit.
   + http://bit.ly/2dyIfDy
   + 883/6321 892/6315 899/6307 899/6290 888/6266 886/6256 889/6247

     done by:
        Timur                  4
        Aron Budea             1

* Bibisected bugs open: keyword 'bibisected'
   + http://bit.ly/2cSCXlS
   + 1030/7285 1041/7279 1044/7269 1048/7251 1042/7229 1041/7218 1043/7210

     done by:
        Timur                  5
        Aron Budea             1

* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
   + 1186(-10) bugs open of 12036(+9) total 8(+0) high prio.

     done by:
        Timur                  5
        Alex Thurgood          2
        Aron Budea             1
        Cor Nouws              1
        Dieter                 1
        Stéphane Guillou       1

* ~Component   count net * high severity regressions
   + http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
     Writer        - 5(+0)
     Calc          - 1(+0)
     Draw          - 1(+0)
     LibreOffice   - 1(+0)

   by OS:
     All           - 7(+0)
     Linux         - 0(+0)
     Mac OS X      - 0(+0)
     Windows       - 1(+0)

* ~Component   count net * all regressions
   + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
     Writer: other            - 425(-3)
     Calc                     - 196(+2)
     Impress                  - 117(-2)
     Writer: docx filter      - 58(-1)
     Crashes                  - 52(+0)
     LibreOffice              - 47(+0)
     Draw                     - 41(+0)
     UI                       - 39(+1)
     Base                     - 36(+0)
     Writer: perf             - 36(-1)
     Borders                  - 33(-1)
     Writer: other filter     - 31(+0)
     Chart                    - 23(+0)
     RTL                      - 23(+0)
     Writer: doc filter       - 19(-1)
     BASIC                    - 18(+0)
     Printing and PDF export  - 16(-1)
     filters and storage      - 14(+0)
     graphics stack           - 13(-1)
     Formula Editor           - 3(+0)
     framework                - 2(+0)
     Linguistic               - 1(+0)
     sdk                      - 1(+0)