Minutes of the ESC call: 2015-06-11

* Present: Bjoern, Caolan, Miklos, Jay, Kendy, Stephan, David, Michael S, Sophie, Christian
           Robinson

* Completed Action Items:
    + send updated ESC composition -> board approval (Michael)
        + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/ESC
    + review toolbar / menu changes for feature loss (Sophie)
        [ done, and monitoring the ongoing changes ]
    + fixup .uno:InsertRows / .uno:InsertColumns action names (PhilJung)
    + add Philip Jung to committers, and send welcome mail (Norbert)
         Done
 
* Pending Action Items:
    + find some developer/sysadmin'y type people to train in CI maintenance (Cloph/Norbert)
        [ had a chat after the call with Cloph - started this; ongoing ]
    + move problem writer tests from check -> subsequentcheck for sw.all (Michael S)
    + can we get Win64 tinderbox builds up-loaded ? (Thorsten)
        [ Cloph can do that - Win64 builds for him now ]
    + encourage QA guys to test mork / thunderbird bits on Win64 (Robinson)
        [ encouraged people to build there; still blocking on the availability of the builds ]
    + link from the developer pages: (Sophie)
          + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/RecentStringChanges
    + create GSOC idea wrt. auto-generating screenshots for Documentation (Norbert)
        [ https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas ]
    + re-arrange the help XML for the menu changes (Jay)
        [ did not get to the help yet, still completing the menu changes first ]
 
* Release Engineering update (Cloph / Robinson)
    + 5.0.0 - Beta 2
          + Beta 3 done due to a blocker (cursor not repainting)
          + signed with a new certificate - working timestamping
              + 4.4.4 RC2 used that too
              + potential problems with some antiviruses, Cloph notified few vendors
          + status
              + every patch integrated
          + small update of the schedule: the final release will be 1 week later due to Marketing
          + Late Feature Status (Michael)
              + LibreOfficeKit / Online tweaks (Kendy)
                  + mostly fixes this week etc.
              + OpenGL / double-buffer RenderContext (Kendy)
                  + similar - lots of fixes, some other bits for review in gerrit
              + gtk3+ theming, embedded video, cut/paste (Caolan)
                  + theming done
              + Win64
                  + pending more QA work
                  + building problem that Cloph had is sorted out
    + 4.4.4 RC2 status
        + built, OS X still uploading
        + will announce after the call
    + Android & iOS Remote
 
* UX Update (Kendy)
    + agreed an updated startcenter - mostly color changes
    + breeze? - default on OS X
        + the most complete theme we have these days
        + should it default on other platforms too? (Cloph)
        + does not look that should happen now (Jay)
          https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90194
 
* Documentation (?)
    + Help editing extension - HelpAuthoring.oxt (Kendy)
        + where to put it? 
        + help.git not ideal - for packaging (Miklos)
        + dev-tools? or core? (Kendy)
            + dev-tools, and upload the .oxt somewhere where people can find it (Kendy)
            + or sdk-examples:  https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/gitweb?p=sdk-examples.git;a=summary 
(Bjoern)
        + addition xml files are needed (Sophie)
            + to find the locations of files in the helpfiles (Sophie)
            + xml files (maintransform.xml, allfiles.tree) mentions here - 
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/HelpContent
            + help.git
 
* Crashtest update (Caolán)
    + 40 outstanding the last week, now 11
    + 1 import, 10 export
    + 3 fixes pushed, hopefully the next run will be even better
    + many of these are corner cases, could trigger something else in other files
 
* GSoC (Thorsten/Cedric/Fridrich)
    + make sure students are on-track
    + mid-term is not so far out - June 26th, deadline July 3rd.
        + that is soon! - eval in 2 weeks
    + is everything fine? (Cedric)
        + yes
 
* Hackfests (Bjoern)
    + 'Virtual Hackfest' idea ?
    + Hamburg, Germany: Oct 23rd -> 25th
        + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Hackfest/Hamburg2015
            + draft page; to be filled out
        + great to see everyone there.
    + next venues / suggestions
        + Belgium another candidate ...

* ./logerrit testbranch (Bjoern)
    + testbuild your feature branch before merge
    + mostly intended as a template: use it as base for your own scripting
 
* l10n Update (Sophie)
    + migrating, to be finished at the end of the week
    + pootle downtime expected
 
* Developer Certification (Stephan/Bjoern/Kendy/Thorsten)
    + at the beginning
 
* New Committers
 
* Jenkins update (Norbert)
    + new / faster Windows CI hardware ?
         not yet. waiting for hardware
    from:Thu Jun  4 14:05:11 2015
    master linux rel jobs:186 ok:165 ko:20  fail ratio:10.75% break:14 broken duration:7.19%
    master linux dbg jobs:107 ok:77  ko:29  fail ratio:27.1%  break:7 broken  duration:26.24%
    master mac rel   jobs:152 ok:135 ko:17  fail ratio:11.18% break:4 broken  duration:4.4%
    master mac dbg   jobs:149 ok:137 ko:12  fail ratio:8.05%  break:5 broken  duration:3.22%
    master win rel   jobs:128 ok:116 ko:12  fail ratio:9.37%  break:7 broken  duration:8.17%
    master win dbg   jobs:129 ok:121 ko:8   fail ratio:6.2%   break:5 broken  duration:4.71%
    lo-4.4 mac       jobs:16  ok:15  ko:1   fail ratio:6.24%  break:1 broken  duration:1.94%
    gerrit win rel   jobs:214 ok:111 ko:103 fail ratio:48.13%
    gerrit lin rel   jobs:213 ok:189 ko:24  fail ratio:11.26%
    gerrit mac rel   jobs:213 ok:177 ko:36  fail ratio:16.9%
    gerrit all       jobs:213 ok:100 ko:112 fail ratio:52.58%
 
* Easy Hacks:
    + new easy-hacks thanks to:
        + Michael Meeks
        + http://bit.ly/1KR4HWX
    + create your own by setting whiteboard to eg.
            "easyHack difficultyBeginner skillCpp topicCleanup"

* Is it possible to generate statistics on documents in bugzilla (Jay)
    + it's possible to download documents from the bugzilla by a script (Kendy)
        + you can download & and use whatever tool (Miklos)
        + if you have the tool, easy to run it on the Crashtest machine (Cloph)
    + but I'm not aware of a tool that would generate the stats (Kendy)
    + try to contact Adam... (Robinson)
    + First version can be simple: Unzip, run through and sum (Robinson)

* QA (Robinson)
    + UNCONFIRMED at 350
    + needAdvice at 11
    + Interest in Win 64bit, Windows 10, and even Android on x86-64.
      More testers appreciated!
    + BugHunting Session 5.0.0 RC1: June 19-21
      https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugHunting_Session_5.0.0_RC1
 
    + MAB - in the past, the bugs from a discontinued version were moved
      to a live version (when still problematic), will that happen with 4.3 MAB? (Kendy)
        + The plan is to use the PRIORITY / SEVERITY instead (Robinson)
        + to be merged later this week (Robinson)
 
* QA stats:
  + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
    +153    -221        (-68 overall)
    many thanks to the top bug squashers:
        QA Administrators     96
        Caolán McNamara       16
        Gordo                 13
        Yousuf (Jay) Philips   9
        Beluga                 8
        raal                   6
        Adolfo Jayme           5
        Eike Rathke            5
        Jean-Baptiste Faure    4
        Philippe Jung          4
        László Németh          3
        tommy27                3
        David Tardon           3
        Andras Timar           2
        Michael Stahl          2
 
* Open 5.0 MAB
  + 5/11 6/12 5/11 6/11 5/9 6/9 5/8 5/8 4/7 2/5 0/3 1/3 1/3 1/3 0/2 0/2
  + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=86696&hide_resolved=1
 
* Open 4.4 MAB
  + 17/61 17/61 16/60 19/60 15/56 16/56 15/53 15/53 14/52 15/52 14/51 14/50
  + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=79641&hide_resolved=1
 
* Open 4.3 MAB
  + 73/170 75/170 78/170 77/169 77/169 78/167 79/166 79/166 80/165 79/163
  + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=75025&hide_resolved=1
 
* Bibisected bugs open: whiteboard 'bibisected'
  + 330/909 329/898 335/895 333/874 337/869 334/849 334/839 327/831 330/820
    + http://tdf.io/bibibugs
 
* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
    + 594(-5) bugs open of 3895(+14) total
 
        * ~Component   count net * high priority regressions
                  Calc - 13
                Writer -  8
               Impress -  7
           LibreOffice -  7
                  Base -  2
                    UI -  2
                + http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
 
        * ~Component   count net *
                Writer - 208 (-3)
                  Calc - 114 (-4)
               Impress - 51  (+3)
               Crashes - 45  (-6)
           LibreOffice - 39  (+0)
                    UI - 31  (-1)
        graphics stack - 26  (+0)
                  Draw - 21  (+0)
               Borders - 20  (+2)
                  Base - 18  (-1)
   filters and storage - 12  (+0)
 Printing / PDF export - 10  (+0)
                 Chart - 10  (+0)
             framework -  4  (+0)
            Extensions -  4  (+0)
                 BASIC -  4  (-1)
        Formula Editor -  4  (-1)
                   sdk -  1  (+0)
          Installation -  1  (+0)
            Linguistic -  1  (-1)
                + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i