minutes of ESC call ...

* Present:

+ Miklos, Kendy, Jan-Marek, Xisco, Eike, Sophie, Heiko, Caolán, David,

Cloph, Stephan, Michael S, Thorsten, Bjoern


* Completed Action Items:


* Pending Action Items:

+ look at and/or confirm un-confirmed documentation bugs (Olivier)

+ on-going

+ look at old Duden extension to see if they use UWINAPI.DLL (Thorsten)

[ Should we have a museum for such things on TDF infra ? (Michael) ]


* Release Engineering update (Christian)

+ 5.2.7 RC1

+ due next Tuesday: the last 5.2 release

+ the last of the 5.2 line

+ 5.3.2 announced as final today

+ 5.3.3 RC1 – due April 18^th

+ correction: April 18 is the correct date (previously told as 25^th)

+ the wiki template was changed incorrectly

+ 5.4. builds / master

+ Alpha 1 – April 25th(?) - hard feature-freeze May 15th(?)

alpha still from master , libreoffice-5-4 tag along with feature-freeze

+ Android & iOS Remote

+ pushed update, no extra screaming.

+ currently broken, introduced a KitKat dependency, working on an

alternative fix

+ will update apache-commons – split out of the ownCloud tarball

+ online

+ up-loaded 5.3.2.2


* Documentation (Olivier)

+ Patches to fix menus changes in help content (tdf#106861)

+ More to come

+ nice stuff by Regina, thanks!

+ Patches from Gabor Kelemen on Mail merge

+ great work!

+ HID cleanup / fixes by Caolán

+ More changes to HC for templates dialogs, discard obsolete pages, etc.

+ attending an event in Brazil, will advertise LibreOffice

+ what’s the status of the pending patches / updates for the screenshot
changes?

+ pending on the 5.3 split in pootle, hopefully to be done today

+ is there a ticket to track? (Thorsten)

+ AI: mass conversion on Monday (Cloph)

+ instance of LibreOffice Online for Documentation? (Olivier)

+ the ESC one is supposed to be used by members, please try (Kendy)


* UX Update (Heiko)

   + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
        248(248) (topicUI) bugs open, 472(472) (needsUXEval)
    + Updates:
        BZ changes   1 week    1 month    3 months   12 months
             added      3(-1)     11(1)      36(1)      492(1)
         commented     23(-16)   174(-17)   639(-25)   3595(-12)
           removed      0(0)       1(0)       8(-1)      38(-1)
          resolved      5(-5)     20(0)      93(-6)     220(4)
    + top 10 contributors:
          Tietze, Heiko made 112 changes in 1 month, and 2269 changes in 1 year
          Foote, V Stuart made 46 changes in 1 month, and 673 changes in 1 year
          Thomas Lendo made 37 changes in 1 month, and 78 changes in 1 year
          Buovjaga made 29 changes in 1 month, and 367 changes in 1 year
          Faulí Tarazona, Xisco made 24 changes in 1 month, and 398 changes in 1 year
          LibreTraining made 22 changes in 1 month, and 36 changes in 1 year
          Kainz, Andreas made 15 changes in 1 month, and 31 changes in 1 year
          Thibaut Brandscheid made 8 changes in 1 month, and 8 changes in 1 year
          Aprax made 8 changes in 1 month, and 10 changes in 1 year
          Gerry made 7 changes in 1 month, and 10 changes in 1 year
   + mascot discussion ongoing
       + to have a free-form community logo
       + dragonfly – in many languages similarly sounding to LibreOffice
   + proposal for numbering/bullet and outline dialog
       + goo.gl/Y0XIeu
       + suprisingly difficult for users
       + proposal is being controversially discussed, opinions welcome
   + standard color palette finished
       + https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/36202
       + blog post in preparation
   + talked about Notebookbars
       + GSoC student interested to fix the remaining issues

* Crashtest update (Caolan)
    + 1 import failure, 0 export failures
    + 169 coverity issues, working again
        + coverity was not working for a couple of weeks, catching up
    + Google / ossfuzz: 26 fuzzers active now, +2 new ones
        + includes rtf and cgm

* DFD / Granada talk update (Xisco)

+ Slides ( In Spanish ): https://speakerdeck.com/x1sc0/
control-de-calidad-y-desarrollo-en-proyectos-de-software-libre

+ just 4 attendees

+ recorded. Will be published in youtube


* tdf#99352: No more leaking VclPtrs, hopefully! Yay? (Bjoern)

+ there is a test in Linux dbgutil builds that assert this

+ if fires → can find out who to blame

+ not on Windows yet

+ may be interested to look at that (Thorsten)


* Hackfests (Bjoern)

+ next venues / suggestions

+ Ladies who FOSS – Berlin

+ monthly now (Bubli)

+ April 20th the next one

+ Italian hack-fest coming up: 4 days May 27-30th

+ Perugia University

+ https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Hackfest/Perugia2017

+ will sponsor accommodation/food for 4 core hacker – need names

+ first names to be added there win.

+ still looking for more mentors

+ Eike also plans to go

+ event in Spain (Xisco)

+ will be in Malaga for Open conference in May 6^th at 17:00

+ http://www.opensouthcode.org/conference/opensouthcode2017

+ an idea to do something.

+ Xisco giving a talk there too - be good to meet up.

+ Essen meeting (Bjoern)

+ German community event

+ suggestions for bike-shedding topics to get people interesting

+ UX / Extensions ?

+ suggested dates in April 15th or 23rd German community coming up with that.

+ not nailed down yet

+ http://doodle.com/poll/nyctg6i2zibi8854


* mentoring/easyhack update

    + openhub statistics (2017-03-23), 263(263) people did 15517(15517) commits in 12 month in 
9045603(9045603) lines of code
    + gerrit/git statistics:
          committer...   1 week      1 month     3 months    12 months
                  open      62(35)       87(21)     113(24)      120(24)
               reviews     394(-219)   1782(-95)   4594(52)    17335(-10)
                merged     197(-62)     870(9)     2688(-1)    10178(51)
             abandoned      11(6)        53(-4)     167(8)       638(-12)
           own commits     333(5)      1736(1)     4172(258)   17354(48)
        review commits      95(13)      516(38)     832(95)     3508(38)
        contributor...   1 week     1 month     3 months    12 months
                  open      17(-15)     39(-11)     48(-11)      49(-10)
               reviews     512(-59)   1952(4)     5513(133)   19099(92)
                merged      45(-10)    172(17)     322(25)      878(34)
             abandoned       4(0)       26(-2)      79(0)       263(-4)
           own commits      47(-8)     148(19)     267(46)      824(36)
        review commits       0(0)        0(0)        0(0)         0(0)
    + easyHack statistics:
       needsDevEval 23(23)   needsUXEval 0(0)   cleanup_comments 188(188)
       total 227(227)   assigned 27(27)   open 173(173)
    + top 5 contributors:
          Gelmini, Andrea made 46 patches in 1 month, and 103 patches in 1 year
          Carl, Jens made 16 patches in 1 month, and 16 patches in 1 year
          Kainz, Andreas made 15 patches in 1 month, and 29 patches in 1 year
          Anderson, Vitaliy made 6 patches in 1 month, and 10 patches in 1 year
          Donkers, Winfried made 6 patches in 1 month, and 54 patches in 1 year
    + top 5 reviewers:
          Stahl, Michael made 203 review comments in 1 month, and 1173 in 1 year
          Behrens, Thorsten made 148 review comments in 1 month, and 377 in 1 year
          Nabet, Julien made 133 review comments in 1 month, and 332 in 1 year
          Grandin, Noel made 105 review comments in 1 month, and 1345 in 1 year
          Vajna, Miklos made 99 review comments in 1 month, and 1176 in 1 year
    + big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
          Gorse Mike mgorse@suse.com
          Dewan Aditya callmedewan@gmail.com
          Jain Umang mailumangjain@gmail.com
          Baidya Udayan udayanbaidya@gmail.com
          Hares Atef atefhares1@gmail.com
          Bevilacqua Jean-Sébastien realitix@gmail.com
          Beck Thomas thomas.beck@cib.de
          Zu Ximeng uznomis@yahoo.com
          Surya Jeevan suryamaddu@yahoo.in
          UNKNOWN rechenelf@googlemail.com Committer
          Widl Bernhard bernhard.widl@cib.de
          Nielen Dennis d.nielen@posteo.nl
          Säger Andreas villeroy@t-online.de
          Wendling Wendling cwendling@hypra.fr

* GSoC update (Thorsten)

+ check out proposals (28 of them)

+ https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/dashboard/proposals/shared/

+ next ESC call – should decide

+ Markus already marked the invalid ones, thanks!

+ timeline:

+ April 3 - 16: review proposals

+ April 17, 16:00 UTC: deadline to submit slot requests

+ April 19, 16:00 UTC: slot allocations announced

+ April 19 - 24 16:00 UTC: choose proposals, assign mentors

+ May 4 - 29: projects public, community bonding period starts

+ May 29: last day to report inactive students

+ May 30: coding begins

+ June 26-30: first eval

+ July 24 - second eval

+ August 21- 29: pens down, wrap up

+ August 29 - September 5: final evaluations of students

+ September 6: passing projects announced


* crash reporter news (?)

+ http://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/?days=128

+ http://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/5.3.2.1

+ http://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/5.2.6.2

+ latest 5.3/5.2 – numbers are lower than usual (Xisco)


* Commit Access


* Developer Certification (Stephan/Bjoern/Kendy/Thorsten)

+ 3 week sleep.


* Jenkins / CI update (Norbert)

+ No Norbert


* l10n (Sophie)

+ pootle update: created 53 projects, but hit https://github.com/translate/
pootle/issues/5730 , so updating not finished yet

+ no translations lost, just can’t start work on 5.4 yet (Cloph)


* QA update (Xisco)


+ UNCONFIRMED: 457 (+2)

+ enhancements: 38 (-3)

+ needsUXEval: 0 (-2)

+ haveBackTrace: 10 (0)

+ needsDevAdvice: 34 (-1)

+ documentation: 8 (0)


+ Most Pressing Bugs: http://tdf.io/mostressingbugs

+ New:

+ Crash in: SwWriteTable::SwWriteTable(SwTable const *,SwHTMLTableLayout const
*)

+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105769

+ Win 64-bits

+ Older:

+ FORMATTING: When undo and redo, custom styles and formatting lost, or full
crash.

+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88555

+ Bubli ?

+ Crash in: SwWrtShell::CalcAndSetScal - in Writer paste table from Calc

+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102286

+ couldn't trigger it in the past.

+ Crash in: windows storage.dll

+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106282

+ drmemory trace – unhelpful; next steps ?


+ Fixed: http://tdf.io/fixedmostpressingbugs

+ Calc crashes to modify external link

+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106868

+ Fixed by Noel


* QA stats

+ https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html

+128 -97 (+31 overall)

many thanks to the top bug squashers:

Xisco Faulí 20

V Stuart Foote 9

Caolán McNamara 7

Buovjaga 6

Telesto 4

Samuel Mehrbrodt 3

Miklos Vajna 3

Jean-Baptiste Faure 3

Bartosz 3

Adolfo Jayme 3

Kü 2

GUTH Christophe 2

Aron Budea 2

Mark Hung 2

Volga 2


+ top 10 bugs reporters:

Thomas Lendo 10

Mehrbrodt, Samuel 8

Faulí Tarazona, Xisco 5

Henschel, Regina 3

Sophia Schroeder 2

Eugene Kin 2

Gerhard Weydt 2

gilward.kukel 2

Jim Avera 2

csongor 2


+ top 10 bugs fixers:

McNamara, Caolán 4

Mehrbrodt, Samuel 3

Vajna, Miklos 3

Kü 2

Justin L 1

Hung, Mark 1

Michaelsen, Björn 1

Specht, Oliver 1

Foote, V Stuart 1

Kant, Pranav 1


* Highest-Priority bugs (aka "MABs"):

5.3: 2/34 - 5% (+0)

5.2: 5/31 - 16% (+1)

5.1: 2/34 - 5% (+0)

5.0: 2/58 - 3% (+0)

4.4: 4/74 - 6% (+0)

4.3: 5/72 - 6% (+0)

4.2: 6/132 - 4% (+0)

4.1: 4/80 - 5% (+0)

4.0: 4/81 - 4% (+0)

old: 29/253 - 11% (+0)

+ http://bit.ly/2lJAAJI


* Bisected bugs open: keyword 'bisected'

+ 359/1332 362/1326 358/1318 357/1307 351/1293 352/1284

+ http://bit.ly/2dyIfDy


+ Done by:

Faulí Tarazona, Xisco 6

Raal 3

Budea, Áron 3

Terrence Enger 1


* Bibisected bugs open: keyword 'bibisected'

+ 435/1882 437/1875 431/1866 430/1854 420/1836 420/1826 423/1814

+ http://bit.ly/2cSCXlS


+ Done by:

Faulí Tarazona, Xisco 8

Raal 3

Budea, Áron 3

Terrence Enger 1


* all bugs tagged with 'regression'

+ 782(-5) bugs open of 5847(+8) total 14(+1) high prio.


+ Done by:

Faulí Tarazona, Xisco 6

Buovjaga 2

m.a.riosv 1

guilleron29 1

Budea, Áron 1


* ~Component count net * high severity regressions

Writer - 3 (+1)

LibreOffice - 3 (+0)

Base - 2 (+0)

Impress - 2 (+0)

Calc - 2 (+0)

Extensions - 1 (+0)

graphics stack – 1 (+0)

+ http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E


by OS:

+ All - 6

+ Mac - 5

+ Windows - 2

+ Linux - 1


* ~Component count net * all regressions

Calc - 129 (+1)

Writer: other – 126 (-1)

Impress - 75 (+2)

Writer: docx - 69 (+1)

LibreOffice - 57 (-1)

UI - 46 (-1)

Writer: doc - 38 (+0)

graphics stack - 36 (-2)

Draw – 32 (+0)

Borders – 30 (+0)

Base - 29 (+0)

Crashes – 23 (+0)

Writer: perf – 22 (-1)

Writer: filter – 22 (-2)

filter / storage – 21 (+0)

Chart - 21 (+0)

print / PDF export - 14 (+0)

BASIC - 12 (+0)

Extensions - 4 (+0)

framework - 4 (+0)

Installation - 1 (+0)

sdk - 0 (-1) [ ! gone again ]

+ http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i