Minutes of ESC call ...

* Present:
    + Stephan, Sophie, Miklos, Christian, Kendy, Heiko, Caolán, Thorsten, Xisco,
      Stefan W, Michael S, Jan-Marek, Eike, Olivier

* Completed Action Items:
    + look at and/or confirm un-confirmed documentation bugs (Olivier)
        + some patches approved this week
        + no unconfirmed documentation bugs now

* Pending Action Items:
    + mass conversion of helpcontent (Cloph)
       [ so far only the UI updated, then help, and then will trigger the auto
         conversion ]
       [ online – templates updated, but it removed some translations – pending on
         pootle maintainers apply the patch on the AWS instance, all the
         translations were removed :-( - not a data loss, but not appearing in
         the UI ] http://termbin.com/s3lb 
       [ but does not make sense to move to another platform ]
    + 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
        + the last of the 5.2 line
        + tagged, Windows has a problem, has to tweak parallelism, but nearly done
    + 5.3.3 RC1 – due April 18th
        + Everything according to the plan
        + Xisco will do it
            + Tuesday or Wednesday
    + 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
        + nothing new
        + translation problems; quite a lot of strings have changed in the context,
          but not the string
            + would be great to have a tool to convert, but not working on such
              yet (Cloph)
    + Android & iOS Remote
        + no news
    + online
        + no news, Michael away

* Documentation (Olivier)
    + Patches to fix helpcontent (HC) mistakes (Gabor, Johnny)
    + Lecture on HC in University (UFABC), seeking for support on doc
        + Other FLOSS projects struggling with XML HC (gimp, blender, inkscape)

* UX Update (Heiko)
   + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
        249(249) (topicUI) bugs open, 469(469) (needsUXEval) needs to be
        evaluated by the UXteam
    + Updates:
        BZ changes   1 week   1 month    3 months   12 months  
             added      0(-3)     9(-2)     34(-2)     490(-2) 
         commented     17(-6)   143(-31)   605(-34)   3567(-28)
           removed      0(0)      0(-1)      8(0)       38(0)  
          resolved      4(-1)    19(-1)     94(1)      224(4)  
    + top 10 contributors:
          Tietze, Heiko made 89 changes in 1 month, and 2268 changes in 1 year
          Foote, V Stuart made 43 changes in 1 month, and 667 changes in 1 year
          Thomas Lendo made 34 changes in 1 month, and 78 changes in 1 year
          Buovjaga made 24 changes in 1 month, and 361 changes in 1 year
          LibreTraining made 22 changes in 1 month, and 39 changes in 1 year
          Faulí Tarazona, Xisco made 21 changes in 1m, and 398 changes in 1y
          Philips, Yousuf made 17 changes in 1 month, and 1246 changes in 1 year
          Kainz, Andreas made 11 changes in 1 month, and 31 changes in 1 year
          Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 10 changes in 1m, and 73 changes in 1y
          kompilainenn made 9 changes in 1 month, and 32 changes in 1 year

    + Blog post final standard color palette
    + Posting about Notebookbar today
        + from Andreas K., people interested
    + talking about GSoC

* Crashtest update (Caolan)
    + 0 import failure, 0 export failures
        + 2 runs in a row
    + 153 coverity issues, working again
        + coverity was not working for a couple of weeks, catching up
    + Google / ossfuzz: 26 fuzzers active now
        + MS word format fixes to be pushed today

* 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 6th 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 ?
        + likely date sometime in June
            + not nailed down yet, looks like June 24
        + http://doodle.com/poll/nyctg6i2zibi8854

* mentoring/easyhack update (Kendy)
    + 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      72(10)      95(8)       123(10)      130(10) 
               reviews     457(63)    1815(33)     4648(54)    17283(-52)
                merged     274(77)    1002(132)    2763(75)    10272(94) 
             abandoned      15(4)       52(-1)      164(-3)      640(2)  
           own commits     423(90)    1576(-160)   4540(368)   17354(0)  
        review commits      76(-19)    326(-190)    908(76)     3511(3)  
        contributor...   1 week     1 month     3 months    12 months   
                  open      16(-1)      33(-6)      45(-3)       46(-3) 
               reviews     660(148)   2108(156)   5682(169)   19295(196)
                merged      36(-9)     183(11)     343(21)      892(14) 
             abandoned       8(4)       28(2)       76(-3)      255(-8) 
           own commits      36(-11)    164(16)     303(36)      833(9)  
        review commits       0(0)        0(0)        0(0)         0(0)  
    + easyHack statistics:
       needsDevEval 23(23)   needsUXEval 0(0)   cleanup_comments 189(189)   
       total 229(229)   assigned 27(27)   open 175(175)   
    + received patches from 11 emails the last month without license statement
    + top 5 contributors:
          Gelmini, Andrea made 43 patches in 1 month, and 106 patches in 1 year
          Carl, Jens made 25 patches in 1 month, and 25 patches in 1 year
          Kainz, Andreas made 19 patches in 1 month, and 33 patches in 1 year
          Widl Bernhard made 6 patches in 1 month, and 6 patches in 1 year
          Beck Thomas made 5 patches in 1 month, and 5 patches in 1 year
    + top 5 reviewers:
          Stahl, Michael made 222 review comments in 1 month, and 1179 in 1 year
          Behrens, Thorsten made 156 review comments in 1 month, and 397 in 1 year
          Nabet, Julien made 122 review comments in 1 month, and 335 in 1 year
          Vajna, Miklos made 109 review comments in 1 month, and 1202 in 1 year
          Holešovský, Jan made 102 review comments in 1 month, and 453 in 1 year
    + big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since
      last report:
          mestaritonttu mestaritonttu@mail.com 
          Säger Andreas villeroy@t-online.de 
          Beck Thomas thomas.beck@cib.de 
          UNKNOWN rechenelf@googlemail.com Committer
          Magee, Timothy timothy@eastlincoln.net 
          Dewan Aditya callmedewan@gmail.com 
          Gorse Mike mgorse@suse.com 
          Hares Atef atefhares1@gmail.com 
          Baidya Udayan udayanbaidya@gmail.com 
          Gabriel Herrera gabriel.herrerasanz@cib.de 
          Manfred Blume manfred.blume@cib.de 
          Widl Bernhard bernhard.widl@cib.de 
          Zu Ximeng uznomis@yahoo.com 
          Jain Umang mailumangjain@gmail.com 
          Nielen Dennis d.nielen@posteo.nl 
          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!
    + please fill your column in the gsoc selection spreadsheet
    + 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
    + AI: Send the sorted & rated document to the mentors (Thorsten)

* crash reporter news (Xisco)
    + http://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/?days=128
    + http://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/5.2.3.3
        + 371
    + http://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/5.2.6.2
        + 540

* Commit Access

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Bjoern/Kendy/Thorsten)
    + 2 week sleep.

* Jenkins / CI update (Norbert)
    + [ Norbert missing ]

* l10n (Sophie)
    + Update of LibreOffice Online in Pootle is needed (Cloph?)
        + waiting for the fix from the Pootle people
        + ETA? (Kendy)
            + fix to be deployed later today (Cloph)

* Mac OS X 10.8 support (Michael S)
    + the only platform that does not have thread safe statics
      cf. https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93119
    + de-facto unsupported by Apple since August 2015
      https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201222
    + Mozilla dropped support September 2016
      
https://support.mozilla.org/t5/Install-and-Update/Firefox-support-has-ended-for-Mac-OS-X-10-6-10-7-and-10-8/ta-p/32725
    + Chrome dropped support April 2016
      https://chrome.googleblog.com/2015/11/updates-to-chrome-platform-support.html
    + deprecation warning in 5.4, and drop for 5.5? (Thorsten)
        + around 2nd half of May
        + OK to wait the month (Michael S.)
        + shouldn’t block OS update (Cloph)
        + support to wait 1 month (Kendy)
    + needs some work on Android too (Miklos)
        + toolchain update etc.
        + but shouldn’t affect the runtime (Miklos)
    + release note that etc. (Thorsten)

* twitter commit-notification bot – resurrect or kill? (Cloph)
    + No updates since Nov 2016 ( https://twitter.com/LOcommits )
    + introduced back with
      https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55971
    + make it working the same way as the bug twitter? (Thorsten)
    + should be easy to update (Cloph)
    + moderately useful – let’s create an Easy Hack to resurrect this
        + AI: will do the Easy Hack (Cloph)

* QA update (Xisco)

    + UNCONFIRMED: 467 (+10)
        + enhancements: 44  (+6)
        + needsUXEval: 1 (+1)
        + haveBackTrace: 10 (0)
        + needsDevAdvice: 41 (+7)
        + documentation:  0 (-8)

    + Most Pressing Bugs: http://tdf.io/mostressingbugs
        + New:
            + Some new pivot charts crashes:
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107062
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107072
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107102
                + please make sure to add them to the tracker bug (Miklos)

        + Older:
                + Crash in: SwWriteTable::SwWriteTable(SwTable const*,SwHTMLTableLayout const*)
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105769
                + Win 64-bits
            + FORMATTING: When undo and redo, custom styles and formatting lost, or full crash.
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88555
                + Bubli ?
                    + back in action soon (Thorsten)
            + 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 Grandin, Thanks!
                +  Crash in: SwWrtShell::CalcAndSetScal - in Writer paste table from Calc multiple 
times using autocaption (steps in comment 6) 
                    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102286
                    + Fixed by Caolán McNamara, Thanks!
 
* QA stats
  + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
    +145    -83 (+62 overall)
    many thanks to the top bug squashers:
        Markus Mohrhard       12
        Buovjaga               7
        Caolán McNamara        6
        Alex Thurgood          5
        Miklos Vajna           5
        V Stuart Foote         5
        Eike Rathke            4
        Adolfo Jayme           4
        Yousuf Philips (jay)   3
        Cor Nouws              2
        Telesto                2
        Xisco Faulí            2
        Samuel Mehrbrodt (CIB) 2
        Szymon Kłos            2
        Regina Henschel        2

  + top 10 bugs reporters:
        bureautiquelibre        9
        Philips, Yousuf         7
        Kainz, Andreas          7
        Henschel, Regina        6
        Telesto                 5
        Vajna, Miklos           4
        Thomas Lendo            4
        Cor Nouws               3
        Faulí Tarazona, Xisco   3
        Kosiorek, Bartosz       3

  + top 10 bugs fixers:
        Mohrhard, Markus       9
        Vajna, Miklos          5
        McNamara, Caolán       5
        Behrens, Katarína      3
        Philips, Yousuf        2
        Kłos, Szymon           2
        Buovjaga               2
        Rathke, Eike           2
        Kelemen, Gabor         2
        Stahl, Michael         2

* Highest-Priority bugs (aka "MABs"):
        5.3: 2/34   -  5%
        5.2: 3/31   -  9%
        5.1: 2/34   -  5%
        5.0: 2/58   -  3%
        4.4: 4/75   -  5%
        4.3: 5/72   -  6%
        4.2: 6/132  -  4%
        4.1: 4/80   -  5%
        4.0: 4/81   -  4%
        old: 29/253 - 11%

* bisected bugs open: keyword 'bisected'
        + more accurate - down to a single commit.
        + 364 (of 1347) older 359/1332 362/1326 358/1318 357/1307 351/1293 352/1284
                + http://bit.ly/2dyIfDy
    + Done by:
        Faulí Tarazona, Xisco   5
        Raal                    3
        Vajna, Miklos           1
        Budea, Áron             1
        Benes, Luke             1

* Bibisected bugs open: keyword 'bibisected'
        + 440 (of 1897) older 435/1882 437/1875 431/1866 430/1854 420/1836 420/1826
          423/1814
                + http://bit.ly/2cSCXlS

    + Done by:
        Faulí Tarazona, Xisco   6
        Raal                    3
        Vajna, Miklos           1
        Budea, Áron             1
        Justin L                1

* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
        + 782(+0) bugs open of 5862(+15) total 10 high prio.

    + Done by:
        Alex Thurgood           4
        Faulí Tarazona, Xisco   4
        Foote, V Stuart         3
        Telesto                 2
        Pedro                   2
        Cor Nouws               1
        Buovjaga                1
        Vajna, Miklos           1
        Mikhail Novosyolov      1
        Budea, Áron             1

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

    + ~Component   count net * all regressions
                Writer: other - 124 (-2)
                         Calc - 122 (-7)
                      Impress - 75 (+0)
          Writer: docx filter - 70 (+1)
                  LibreOffice - 57 (+0)
                           UI - 46 (+0)
           Writer: doc filter - 38 (+0)
               graphics stack - 36 (+0)
                         Draw - 32 (+0)
                      Borders - 31 (+1)
                         Base - 31 (+2)
         Writer: other filter - 24 (+2)
                 Writer: perf - 23 (+1)
                      Crashes - 22 (-1)
                        Chart - 21 (+0)
          filters and storage - 21 (+0)
      Printing and PDF export - 14 (+0)
                        BASIC - 12 (+0)
                    framework -  4 (+0)
                   Extensions -  4 (+0)
                 Installation -  1 (+0)
            + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i