Minutes of ESC call: 2015-08-13

* Present:
    + Sophie, Norbert, Christian, Stephan, Eike, Kendy, Jacobo, Robinson, Miklos, Thorsten, Caolan, 
Muthu
 
* Completed Action Items:
    + register at the conference: http://conference.libreoffice.org/2015/registration/ (all)
        [ mandatory from security reasons (Sophie) ]
        [ Sophie sending mail to all the mailing lists ]
        [ at the beginning of September, will send some additional conf. info (Sophie) ]
    + track & support help XML status (Kendy)
        [ some mails this week (Kendy) ]
        [ ongoing effort anyway ]
 
* Pending Action Items:
    + have a look at the CppUnit to implement 'expected failure' (Jan-Marek)
        [ investigated the current CPPUNIT version and Qt test suite,
          will be able to hack on that the next week @DebCamp ]
    + 'make -k stagingcheck' prototype (Bjoern)
    + have a look at revert notification (author + committer + the person who reverted) (Norbert)
    + review Giuseppe's webdav work in gerrit (Kendy/?)
        + https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/17189/
        [ have a VM for testing against, code looks good in general, need to verify & push (Kendy) ]
    + come up with a fun new name for 'blocker' (Robinson)
        [ got a couple of proposals, will send an email (Robinson) ]
    + re-arrange the help XML for the menu changes (Jay)
        [ Jay was away for vacation, promised to have a look at
          HelpAuthoring.oxt over the weekend (Kendy) ]
    + UserAgent - drop bundled-languages (Michael)
    + UserAgent - produce a patch for review (Michael)
    + check 'make check' on a Windows 32bit box instead (Norbert)
        [ box in the transit to the hoster - any day now ]
        [ be prepared for a load of failures ]
    + promote Development Mentoring Lead Job Offer through all channels: Universities, Companies, 
Clubs, ex-GSoCers etc. (all)
      
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/2015/07/15/tdf-freelance-job-opening-201507-01-development-mentoring-lead/
        [ please spread the word (Bjoern) ]
        [ print some leaflets too & distribute (Bjoern) ]
 
* Release Engineering update (Christian)
    + 4.4.6 - status
        + RC1 - week 40 (week starting 28th September)
        + last of the 4.4 line
    + 5.0.1 - RC1 this week
        + heavy-duty triple-review process for libreoffice-5-0-1 branch
            + 1x review for 5-0 and +2 more for 5-0-1
        + RC1 released to the public
        + Major bugs
            + scanning crashes on 64bit Windows build (Cloph)
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92478
                + backtrace available
            + some translations cut off
                + not related to help untraslated though
                + does not affect the official TDF builds luckily (Cloph)
                + but affects downstream - should be fixed (Cloph)
            + anything? (Robinson)
        + RC2 to be tagged the next week (Cloph)
        + 5.0 project being set up in pootle
        + Late Feature Status (Michael)
              + removed the LibreOfficeKit pieces, not cherry-picking features any more (Kendy)
              + OpenGL / double-buffer RenderContext (Kendy)
                  + still ongoing (Miklos)
                      + let's see what's the state at the next week's ESC (Kendy)
                  + OpenGL by default to be re-visit @ ESC for 5.0.1 for some H/W on Windows.
              + gtk3+ (Caolan)
                  + turned on by default, but the decision should be on the distros if they want it 
(Caolan)
    + Android & iOS Remote
 
* UX Update (Kendy)
    + still vacation time, Kendy away yesterday, and also the following 2 weeks
 
* Documentation (Olivier)
    + proposal to have also the sources of the help files as ODT
        + Flat ODT sounds fine (Kendy)
        + do we have tooling for them? (Eike)
            + filters are xslt based, possible to run offline on .fodt (Kendy)
            + they are in dev-tools repo, easy to use (Kendy)
                + xsltproc dev-tools/helpauthoring/filter/soffice2xmlhelp.xsl helpfile.fodt > 
helpfile.xhp
    + some problems with the filters, Olivier will report (Kendy)
 
* Crashtest update (Caolán)
    + 0 import failures, 0 export failures, 0 coverity warnings
        + that with updated set of files
        + update takes 14 hours (scanning bugzillas), 24 hours the testing (Caolan)
    + awesome :-) (Kendy)
 
* GSoC (Cedric/Thorsten)
    + Next important dates:
        + Aug. 17: pencils down
        + Aug. 21: firm pencils down & start of evaluations
             + !!! 1 week from now !!!
        + Aug. 28: final evaluations deadline
    + mentor summit: Cedric & Moggi going
    + conference travel - poking the students now (Cedric)
        + 3 students will definitely go, have registered
        + let's hope there will be more :-)
 
* Hackfests (Bjoern)
    + Aarhus LibreOffice conference bits ?
        + Hackfest topic: "C++11 in LibreOffice"
        + look into easy, easy C++11 EasyHacks for that
            + like Stephans "init list ctors for UNO-Sequences", or
              using type-alias etc.
            + !!!please file easy hacks if you have ideas!!! (Bjoern)
    + Hamburg, Germany: Oct 23rd -> 25th
        + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Hackfest/Hamburg2015
        + would be great to see everyone there.
    + next venues / suggestions
        + Belgium another candidate ...
    + seems there was a Japanese hackfest (Thorsten)
        + anybody has details?
            + something on priv. marketing list (Sophie)
 
* l10n Update (Sophie)
    + Kendy can backport the string change (Sophie)
 
* Developer Certification (Stephan/Bjoern/Kendy/Thorsten)
    + pending / shelved for now - wait 4 weeks.
 
* Jenkins update (Norbert)
    + average week (Norbert)
    from:Thu Aug  6 13:55:27 2015
    master linux rel  jobs:136 ok:132 ko:4  fail ratio:2.94%  break:4 broken duration:0.7%
    master linux dbg  jobs:104 ok:98  ko:6  fail ratio:5.76%  break:6 broken duration:5.66%
    master mac rel    jobs:130 ok:123 ko:7  fail ratio:5.38%  break:6 broken duration:2%
    master mac dbg    jobs:135 ok:126 ko:7  fail ratio:5.18%  break:6 broken duration:0.95%
    master win rel    jobs:96  ok:83  ko:12 fail ratio:12.49% break:7 broken duration:16.55%
    master win dbg    jobs:96  ok:88  ko:8  fail ratio:8.33%  break:5 broken duration:3.64%
    master win64 dbg  jobs:74  ok:64  ko:10 fail ratio:13.51% break:7 broken duration:19.53%
    lo-4.4 mac        jobs:10  ok:9   ko:1  fail ratio:9.99%  break:1 broken duration:1%
    gerrit win rel    jobs:261 ok:184 ko:74 fail ratio:28.35%
    gerrit lin rel    jobs:258 ok:222 ko:34 fail ratio:13.17%
    gerrit mac rel    jobs:260 ok:220 ko:37 fail ratio:14.23%
    gerrit all        jobs:258 ok:166 ko:90 fail ratio:34.88%
 
* 4.3 MABs - what's the plan with them? (Kendy)
   + Re-check and prioritize -> anything more? (Robinson)
     https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=mab4.3
       + will they became 5.0 MAB's or priority / severity? (Kendy)
           + restricing the priority / severity still in progress, so probably both (Robinson)
  
* Easy Hacks:
    + new easy-hacks thanks to:
        + Michael Stahl       
        + http://bit.ly/1KR4HWX
    + create your own by setting whiteboard to eg.
            "easyHack difficultyBeginner skillCpp topicCleanup"
 
* QA update (Robinson)
    + UNCONFIRMED at 463
    + needAdvice at 15
    + Testing new MAB-replace Bugzilla patches
    + Most Pressing Bugs:
        http://bit.ly/1CIXqPZ
           + Priority highest in the last week ...
             + None in the last week
           + Outstanding bugs
             + tdf#92687 - Rendering: Rotated text blurry and unreadable with GTK3
             + tdf#92478 - CRASH when open "scan > scanner source" on windows 10 x64.
 
* QA stats 
  + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
    +213    -128        (+85 overall)
    many thanks to the top bug squashers:
        Maxim Monastirsky     21
        Cor Nouws             11
        V Stuart Foote         8
        Miklos Vajna           6
        Adolfo Jayme           6
        Gordo                  5
        m.a.riosv              5
        Alex Thurgood          4
        Eike Rathke            4
        Yousuf (Jay) Philips   4
        Matthew Francis        4
        Caolán McNamara        4
        Terrence Enger         3
        Frederic Parrenin      2
        raal                   2
 
* Open 5.0 MAB
  + 1/12 1/12 1/12 1/12 1/12 1/12 2/12 2/12 3/12 5/11 6/12 5/11 6/11 5/9 6/9 5/8 5/8 4/7
  + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=86696&hide_resolved=1
 
* Open 4.4 MAB
  + 11/60 11/60 10/60 10/60 10/60 10/60 12/60 14/61 16/61 17/61 17/61 16/60 19/60 15/56 16/56
  + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=79641&hide_resolved=1
 
* Open 4.3 MAB
  + 59/168 61/168 61/168 61/168 62/168 62/168 64/169 65/169 72/169 73/170 75/170 78/170 77/169
  + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=75025&hide_resolved=1
 
* Bibisected bugs open: whiteboard 'bibisected'
  + 328/991 314/964 309/956 311/951 305/936 305/931 310/925 310/921 320/915 330/909 329/898 335/895
    + http://tdf.io/bibibugs
 
* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
        + 612(-3) bugs open of 4098(+19) total 42 high prio.
 
        * ~Component   count net * high severity regressions
                  Calc - 17 (+1)
                Writer - 10 (+0)
           LibreOffice -  7 (-1)
               Impress -  5 (+0)
                    UI -  1 (+0)
   filters and storage -  1 (+0)
                  Base -  1 (+0)
                + http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
 
        * ~Component   count net * all regressions
                Writer - 209 (-1)
                  Calc - 121 (+3)
               Impress - 49 (-3)
               Crashes - 43 (+2)
                    UI - 39 (+0)
           LibreOffice - 38 (-2)
        graphics stack - 24 (+0)
                  Base - 23 (+1)
               Borders - 23 (-1)
                  Draw - 20 (+0)
   filters and storage - 12 (+0)
                 Chart - 11 (+0)
Printing and PDF export- 10 (+0)
                 BASIC -  8 (-1)
             framework -  5 (+0)
            Linguistic -  4 (+0)
        Formula Editor -  4 (+0)
            Extensions -  2 (+0)
                + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i