Minutes of ESC call: 2017-01-19

Present: Caolán, Heiko, Kendy, JanI, Miklos, Stephan, Olivier, Cloph, Eike,
         Lionel, Michael S, Sweetshark, Jan-Marek

* Completed Action Items:
      + send wastack a commit access welcome & scope mail (Lionel)
        + produce a week-by-week trend / graph of last year’s work (JanI)
                + September – September numbers here 
https://conference.libreoffice.org/assets/Conference/Brno/iversen-development-mentoring.pdf
      + test over the weekend – decide RC2 or release on Tuesday (Xisco)
                - http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/minutes-of-ESC-call-tp4205182p4205508.html
      + Can Olivier look at Documentation unconfirmed bugs ? (Olivier)
        [ went through them, some more to go, handling ongoing ]
      + send Raal a commit access welcome & scope mail – for tests (JanI)

* Pending Action Items:
      + setup bibisect repository for 4.3 with Norbert (Xisco)
      + give authorization to Xisco on jenkins in-person @ FOSDEM (Norbert)
      + do the area layout / issue revert for 5.3 (Xisco)
      + revert ‘online’ toolbar / textwrap patch for 5.3 (Thorsten)

      + investigate https://beta.opendocumentformat.org/testsets/all/en (Xisco)
                [ https://gitlab.com/odfplugfest/odfserver
                  More progress still waiting for Jos’ help ]

* Release Engineering update (Christian)
    + 5.2.5 retrospective
        + OK to release, one patch wrt. Mailmerge
            + is it important for 5.2.5, do we need RC2? (Cloph)
            + cannot mail mailmerge in the body, but OK to wait for
              5.2.6 (Jan-Marek)
            => OK to skip RC2, abandon the patch in libreoffice-5-2-5
        + good to release the next week
    + 5.3.0 RC3
          + tagging at the end of the week (since rc2 was delayed re
          codesigning issue)
        + Thursday around 1pm
        + final release as planned
    + Updated Marketing in TDF call (Sophie)
    + Android & iOS Remote (Cloph)
          + new build in the beta channel needing promotion to production.
        + some pending patches, will publish when reviewed
    + online (Michael)

* Documentation (Olivier)
    + More patches for Help Contents on typos found by translators
    + More nice patches from Gabor Kelemen
    + Updated Chapter 3 of Getting Started 5.2 (olivier)
    + Help in LO now links to Askbot and Documentation services (Guilhem)
        + should we have one more link in the dialog [new stuff – now there is
          a dialog asking the user if they want to be forwarded to the online
          help. See 6a41cef3]
        + not really necessary, the link is available in the help menu, when
          people click the help button they want description of that feature,
          not general assistance, but might offer way to download (Cloph)
        + dialog is good idea, but tricky to let user install software (Olivier)
    + contact with Fabio – more contributions to the online help: better
      navigation

* UX Update (Heiko)
    + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
       252(252) (topicUI) bugs open, 478(478) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
    + Updates:
       BZ changes   1 week   1 month    3 months   12 months  
            added      5(2)     13(1)      40(-1)     499(-7) 
        commented     74(2)    234(-15)   850(-7)    3728(53) 
          removed      2(2)      3(2)      10(0)       36(3)  
         resolved     14(7)     34(4)     105(3)      170(12) 
   + top 10 contributors:
         Tietze, Heiko made 130 changes in 1 month, and 1953 changes in 1 year
         Foote, V Stuart made 56 changes in 1 month, and 669 changes in 1 year
         Iversen, Jan made 25 changes in 1 month, and 456 changes in 1 year
         Cor Nouws made 21 changes in 1 month, and 451 changes in 1 year
         Buovjaga made 18 changes in 1 month, and 358 changes in 1 year
         Faulí Tarazona, Xisco made 18 changes in 1 month, and 205 changes in 1 year
         Telesto made 16 changes in 1 month, and 27 changes in 1 year
         tommy27 made 13 changes in 1 month, and 82 changes in 1 year
         Kevin, Suo (锁琨珑) made 13 changes in 1 month, and 17 changes in 1 year
         Zolnai, Tamás made 12 changes in 1 month, and 19 changes in 1 year

    + blog post about DIY Notebookbar published
        + 
https://design.blog.documentfoundation.org/2017/01/16/diy-ui-how-to-create-your-own-notebookbar/
        + ~1700 hits in 3 days (slightly below average)
        + some +1 from the community, some concerns about tidy from experts
    + were talking about a callout solution for warnings
    + guideline for sidebar accessibility in progress

* Crashtest update (Caolan)
    + 1 import failure, 1 export failures
    + 6 coverity issues.
    + Google / ossfuzz. Ongoing, 12 fuzzers (file formats) in play now
        + finding quite a lot, ongoing

* TDF / Budgeting / Brainstorming (Thorsten)
    + checkout spreadsheet:
https://demo.collaboracloudsuite.com/tdf/index.php/apps/richdocuments/index#719_%2FESC%20minutes
    + if you haven’t filled this out yet, please do! (Bjoern)

* FOSDEM (JanI)
    + dev-room:
        + https://fosdem.org/2017/schedule/track/open_document_editors/
        + Infra meeting tuesday 9:30 to 13:00
        + Staff meeting tuesday 13:00 to ?
    + call for help, please add yourself to the pad if you can help:
        1. staffing the booth on Saturday and Sunday
        2. participating to the community dinner on Saturday night
        3. being at the different meetings + hackfest on Monday and Tusday
        https://pad.documentfoundation.org/p/fosdem 
                
* Hackfests (Bjoern)
    + next venues / suggestions
    + FOSDEM hackfest
        + please put your name to the following wiki if you are coming: 
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Hackfest/FOSDEM2017

    + Italian hack-fest coming up: 4 days May 27-30th
         + Perugia University
         + successful students get course credits
         + expect 15+ experienced students.
           + Osvaldo helping out.
           + janI prepares a presentation + handon exercise pr day
         + planning to go if he can (Bjoern)

* mentoring/easyhack update (janI)
   + openhub statistics (2016-11-29), 284(284) people did 15495(15495) commits in 12 month in 
8301307(8301307) lines of code
   + gerrit/git statistics:
         committer...   1 week     1 month      3 months     12 months   
                 open      72(39)     100(41)      105(40)       108(41) 
              reviews     607(138)   1675(130)    3980(143)    17694(8)  
               merged     236(38)     866(23)     2654(65)      9448(411)
            abandoned      16(6)       35(3)       131(7)        664(34) 
          own commits     102(37)     301(-108)   3118(-361)   17570(-33)
       review commits       0(-1)      17(-51)     483(-100)    3483(-60)
       contributor...   1 week     1 month     3 months     12 months    
                 open      20(0)       46(1)       47(1)         47(0)   
              reviews     608(143)   1738(102)   4918(-4)     18077(64)  
               merged      22(-15)     81(-29)    200(-100)     868(-379)
            abandoned      11(-1)      46(8)       70(1)        328(-57) 
          own commits       0(-1)       1(-10)    123(-88)      841(-370)
       review commits       0(0)        0(0)        0(0)          0(0)   
   + easyHack statistics:
      needsDevEval 22(22)   needsUXEval 0(0)   cleanup_comments 189(189)   
      total 227(227)   assigned 22(22)   open 181(181)   
   + top 5 reviewers:
         Iversen, Jan made 237 review comments in 1 month, and 1635 in 1 year
         Mohrhard, Markus made 185 review comments in 1 month, and 1795 in 1 year
         Rathke, Eike made 102 review comments in 1 month, and 1346 in 1 year
         Timar, Andras made 90 review comments in 1 month, and 444 in 1 year
         Stahl, Michael made 83 review comments in 1 month, and 1120 in 1 year
        + normal week.
   + working on a set of slides for FOSDEM

* GsoC project application phase starts today! (Thorsten)
    + designate org admins
    + get wiki into shape, fill the google form (with style)
    + Ideas page – contains also the finished projects, should be cleaned
      up (Michael S.)
    + org admins the last year: JanI, Moggi, Thorsten
    + this year – volunteers?
       + JanI will have a look

* crash reporter news (Markus)
    + http://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/5.3.0.2

* Commit Access
+ Aleksandar Stefanović, 
https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/q/owner:%22Aleksandar+Stefanovi%25C4%2587+%253Ctheonewithideas%2540gmail.com%253E%22
           + Makes a lot of good work on Android
           + JanI sends welcome email.
      + Bartosz Kosiorek (nominated as certified developer)
        + https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/q/owner:Bartosz
    + AI: Mail Norbert wrt. Aseksandar (gerrit refuses to add him), and welcome
      mail to both (JanI) Done (JanI)

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Bjoern/Kendy/Thorsten)
    + Bartosz Kosiorek
    + Justin Luth
    + Mike Kaganski
    + all accepted

* Jenkins / CI update (Norbert)

* l10n (Sophie)

* QA update (Bjorn)
    + Xisco is taking an exam

    + UNCONFIRMED: 477 (+1)
        + enhancements: 41  (+3)
        + needsUXEval: 0 (-4)
        + haveBackTrace: 14 (0)
        + needsDevAdvice: 36 (-7)
          + Documentation: 5 (-2)
 
    + Most Pressing Bugs: http://tdf.io/mostressingbugs
      + Open
          + FILESAVE: PowerPoint pps causes LO to crash or freeze…
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87204
                + GDI object count overflow → crash.

      + Older:
            + Crash in: ScPostIt::CreateCaption(ScAddress const &,SdrCaptionObj const *)
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105055
                + results in hang on re-load.
            + Firebird: Trying to close Firebird-DB without saving leads to hang of LO 
                    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105062

        + Fixed:
            + MacOS main package – no longer signed
                    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104915
                + thanks to Tor.
            + Crash when closing LibreOffice after opening Master Pages deck in 
SfxModule::GetResMgr()
                    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105188
                + thanks to Michael Stahl.
            + Crash when click a "New Theme..." in Gallery on detached SideBar
                    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105017
                    + fixed – thanks to Noel Grandin.
            + Crash when Click "Add Separator" in Customize Toolbox / Crash in: 
SvxConfigPage::InsertEntry(SvxConfigEntry *,SvTreeListEntry *,bool), cuilo.dll
                    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105014
                + thanks to Muhammet Kara / back-ported


* QA stats

  + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
    +144    -122        (+22 overall)
    many thanks to the top bug squashers:
        Xisco Faulí           22
        Heiko Tietze           9
        Maxim Monastirsky      6
        m.a.riosv              6
        Buovjaga               6
        V Stuart Foote         5
        Pranav Kant            4
        Julien Nabet           4
        Regina Henschel        4
        Justin L               4
        Telesto                4
        Gabor Kelemen          3
        Michael Stahl          3
        Caolán McNamara        3
        Noel Grandin           3

  + top 10 bugs reporters:
        Telesto               27
        Haleh Alemasoom        9
        Volga                  5
        Aprax                  5
        Kevin Suo              4
        amersdorfer            2
        grofaty                2
        Jean Noel              2
        gilward.kukel          2
        Xisco Faulí            2

  + top 10 bugs fixers:
        McNamara, Caolán       4
        Henschel, Regina       4
        Noel Grandin           3
        Xisco Faulí            3
        Kant, Pranav           3
        Nabet, Julien          2
        Hosny, Khaled          2
        Iversen, Jan           2
        Justin L               2
        Kaganski, Mike         2

* Highest-Priority bugs (aka "MABs"):
        5.3: 4/24   - 16%
        5.2: 4/27   - 14%
        5.1: 1/32   -  3%
        5.0: 3/57   -  5%
        4.4: 4/73   -  5%
        4.3: 4/70   -  5%
        4.2: 6/132  -  4%
        4.1: 3/79   -  3%
        4.0: 4/81   -  4%
        old: 28/250 - 11%
        + http://bit.ly/2dp3mwC

* Bisected bugs open: keyword 'bisected'
    + more accurate - down to a single commit.
    + 338/1196 338/1187 320/1161 310/1143 305/1116 305/1101 303/1087
                + http://bit.ly/2dyIfDy

    + Done by:
        Xisco Faulí            6
        Budea, Áron            3
        Kaganski, Mike         1

* Bibisected bugs open: keyword 'bibisected'
    + 410/1737 410/1727 395/1700 389/1680 382/1651 381/1633 378/1618
        + http://bit.ly/2cSCXlS

    + Done by:
        Xisco Faulí            6
        Budea, Áron            2
        Benes, Luke            1
        Kaganski, Mike         1

* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
    + 767(+6) bugs open of 5646(+20) total 14(-1) high prio.

    + Done by:
        Xisco Faulí            6
        Telesto                3
        Buovjaga               2
        Nabet, Julien          1
        Olivier R.             1
        Timur                  1
        Mikhail Novosyolov     1
        Benes, Luke            1
        MM                     1
        Kaganski, Mike         1

        * ~Component   count net * high severity regressions
           LibreOffice - 5 (-1)
               Writer  - 3 (+0)
                  Calc - 2 (+0)
                  Base - 2 (+0)
               Impress - 2 (+0)
                + http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E

                by OS:
                        + Windows - 5
                        + Mac     - 5
                        + All     - 3
                        + Linux   - 1

        * ~Component   count net * all regressions
          Writer: other - 132 (-1)
                   Calc - 121 (+3)
                Impress - 72 (+1)
           Writer: docx - 67 (+0)
            LibreOffice - 57 (-1)
                     UI - 44 (+1)
            Writer: doc - 39 (+0)
                Crashes – 36 (+0)
         graphics stack - 36 (+1)
                Borders - 33 (+0)
                   Base - 31 (+0)
                   Draw – 29 (+0)
         Writer: filter – 25 (+0)
       filter / storage – 20 (+0)
                  Chart - 17 (+1)
     print / PDF export - 14 (+1)
           Writer: perf – 19 (+1)
                  BASIC - 10 (+0)
              framework -  3 (+0)
             Extensions -  2 (+0)
           Installation -  1 (+0)
                    sdk -  1 (+0)
         Formula Editor -  1 (+0)
             + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i