minutes of ESC call ...

* Present:
    + Kendy, Michael, Stephan, Eike, Olivier, Xisco, Caolan, Michael Stahl, Christian,
      Sophie, Miklos, Bubli
 
* Completed Action Items:
    + create blank 5.5 wiki / release notes page (Cloph)
       [ copied the 5.3 dates, but not checked conference template etc.
         not added to the overall releae page yet ]
    + investigate signing issues during make / check around files (Cloph)
       [ when session is closed builds succeed, not watching remotely helps it seems,
         was mainly 5.2 release affected; not looking into it – 5.2 EOL.
         5.4 build now working without any failures with a patch.
         Moved screenshot dependency – to depend on signing not vv. ]

* Pending Action Items:
    + mass conversion of helpcontent (Cloph)
       [ Polished patches in gerrit, prepared for inclusion.
         Removed old / obsolete tags – will be ready for the 5.4 Beta.
         Will package images into the libo base package, so far not
         many localized images; now in a separate directory not Galaxy img. Theme
            + created the patches a long time ago (Bubli)
               + patch to scp2 project created locally (Cloph) ]

* Release Engineering update (Christian)
    + 5.3.3 RC2
      + released as final earlier today.
    + 5.4.0 Beta 1 May 16th
      + branching next week.
    + 5.3.4 RC1 – week after.
    + Android & iOS Remote
      + some patches integrated; thanks for reviews.
      + no new build from those yet.
    + online – 5.3.3 source release.
      + sent source archives over, not published yet.
AI:   + dig out E-mail from Andras & put on-line (Cloph)

* Documentation (Olivier)
    + Help contents updates by Gabor Kelemen on Template manager
    + Massive cleanup of obsolete XML attributes by cloph
    + Documentation meeting on May 10th.
        + few attendees; more hoped for next time.
    + “Documented vs “Undocumented” BASIC commands/constants and functions
       tdf#84675:  https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84675
       “Add missing BASIC function and constant documentation”
        + do we want to make these visible ?
        + No issue with that (Michael)
          + can we split the VBA compatibility ones out → own section.
        + Bug extracted commands / functions from the source (Olivier)
          + can you read the impl. to get the parameters (Michael)
    + Good to have things documented so harder to break (Miklos)

* UX Update (Heiko)
    + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
        256(256) (topicUI) bugs open, 462(462) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
    + Updates:
        BZ changes   1 week   1 month   3 months   12 months  
             added      4(1)     12(3)     33(2)      467(-9) 
         commented     40(-4)   165(17)   535(-28)   3524(-15)
           removed      0(-1)     3(0)      7(0)       42(1)  
          resolved      2(1)     12(-3)    78(-3)     230(1)  
    + top 10 contributors:
          Philips, Yousuf made 168 changes in 1 month, and 1343 changes in 1 year
          Tietze, Heiko made 52 changes in 1 month, and 2091 changes in 1 year
          Buovjaga made 27 changes in 1 month, and 367 changes in 1 year
          Foote, V Stuart made 27 changes in 1 month, and 652 changes in 1 year
          Thomas Lendo made 24 changes in 1 month, and 107 changes in 1 year
          Faulí Tarazona, Xisco made 13 changes in 1 month, and 412 changes in 1 year
          Henschel, Regina made 13 changes in 1 month, and 136 changes in 1 year
          Pinto, Marco A.G. made 12 changes in 1 month, and 12 changes in 1 year
          LibreTraining made 11 changes in 1 month, and 50 changes in 1 year
          Telesto made 10 changes in 1 month, and 54 changes in 1 year
    + Heiko on vacation; UX call at a bad time for Kendy, cancelled.

* Crash Reporting (Caolan)
    + 2(-10) import failure, 0(+0) export failures
       + new assert that fired finding dates problems.
       + need to spend some time on crash testing to find these 2.
    + 101 coverity issues
       + down a bit.
    + Google / ossfuzz: 28 fuzzers active now, ww6 added, ww8 smoketesting
       + nothing new coming from previous file-formats, trailed off.
       + not enabled other options: ASAN, UBsan & AFL – added as an option.
       + did we track the mystery joker filing bogus CVEs ? (Michael)
           + no-one seems to know (Caolan)
           + E-mail the mitre list ? ...

* Malaga update (Xisco)
    + will be in Malaga for Open conference in May 6th at 17:00
         + http://www.opensouthcode.org/conference/opensouthcode2017
    + Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/x1sc0/libreoffice-open-south-code
         + 10 attendees
         + encouraging people to get involved.

* Hackfests (Bjoern)
    + next venues / suggestions
    + Ladies who FOSS ? (Bubli)
    + Italian hack-fest coming up: 4 days May 27-30th
         + Expectation match ? Presentation preparation etc. ? ...
         + Perugia University
             + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Hackfest/Perugia2017
                + Bjoern, Eike, Miklos, Cloph signed up.
                + full house for accomodation/food
    + Hamburg meeting (Bubli)
        + German community event
        + looking for a venue – moved to Hamburg from Essen ?
        + suggestions for bike-shedding topics to get people interesting
            + UX / Extensions ?
        + Weekend of June 24 – Friday → Sun.
    + Open Tech Summit (Heiko)
        + May/25 Potsdam
        + http://opentechsummit.net/

* mentoring/easyhack update
    + openhub statistics (2001-01-01), -1(-1) people did -1(-1) commits in 12 month in -1(-1) lines 
of code
         + Is that really so ? -1 lines is a lot ...
    + gerrit/git statistics:
          committer...   1 week     1 month      3 months   12 months   
                  open      75(16)     110(9)       144(15)     151(15) 
               reviews     486(-13)   1609(65)     4638(71)   17093(45) 
                merged     214(18)     862(-49)    2626(17)   10238(46) 
             abandoned       5(-1)      41(-10)     156(-7)     625(-12)
           own commits     345(-32)   1403(-103)   4858(31)   16997(32) 
        review commits      79(34)     230(-16)     992(27)    3495(29) 
        contributor...   1 week     1 month     3 months    12 months   
                  open      15(-11)     38(-1)      54(0)        55(0)  
               reviews     519(16)    1792(-47)   5496(-53)   19746(116)
                merged      30(9)      100(-6)     419(2)      1066(3)  
             abandoned       0(-2)      13(-7)      70(0)       236(-4) 
           own commits      36(17)     107(2)      355(9)       847(13) 
        review commits       0(0)        0(0)        0(0)         0(0)  
    + easyHack statistics:
       needsDevEval 24(24)   needsUXEval 0(0)   cleanup_comments 190(190)   
       total 234(234)   assigned 27(27)   open 179(179)   
    + top 5 contributors:
          Carl, Jens made 31 patches in 1 month, and 54 patches in 1 year
          Gelmini, Andrea made 9 patches in 1 month, and 98 patches in 1 year
          Johnny_M made 8 patches in 1 month, and 25 patches in 1 year
          Zu Ximeng made 7 patches in 1 month, and 9 patches in 1 year
          Kainz, Andreas made 5 patches in 1 month, and 37 patches in 1 year
    + top 5 reviewers:
          Holešovský, Jan made 258 review comments in 1 month, and 662 in 1 year
          Stahl, Michael made 218 review comments in 1 month, and 1299 in 1 year
          Mohrhard, Markus made 114 review comments in 1 month, and 1732 in 1 year
          Vajna, Miklos made 102 review comments in 1 month, and 1172 in 1 year
          Rathke, Eike made 99 review comments in 1 month, and 1345 in 1 year
    + big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
          Magee, Timothy timothy@eastlincoln.net 
          AlexeyVlasov alexey.vlasov.work@gmail.com 
          Olivier R olivier.dev@grammalecte.net 
          Werner Tietz karlooforum@arcor.de 
          Jim Raykowski raykowj@gmail.com 
          Viscido Viscido marcoviscido@gmail.com 
          Ilmari Lauhakangas ilmari.lauhakangas@libreoffice.org 
          Piotr Drąg piotrdrag@gmail.com 
          Catherine Vance catvance77@gmail.com 

* GSoC update (Thorsten)
    + timeline:
         + Currently in community bonding period.
             + students showing up; people introduced themselves on the list.
             + need to update the project plan – pwrt. overlapping / thinner projects
         + 10 students accepted – to do great things.
         + 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 (Xisco)
    + http://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/?days=128 
    + http://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/5.3.2.2 
        + 4172 (last 7 days)
    + http://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/5.2.6.2 
        + 2328 (last 7 days)
    + GDI resource starvation
        + fix in for 5.4 – back-porting to 5.3 ?

    + Crash in: SfxItemPool::Put(SfxPoolItem const &,unsigned short) 
         + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106424
         + Crash number #1 in 5.2.6.2 and #4 in 5.3.2.2
         + Jochen Nitschke submited a patch in gerrit
         https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/37499/

    + Sent emails to reporters of bugs ‘crash’ + NEEDINFO
         + 25 emails sent so far.
        + to see if they can get steps.

* Commit Access

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Bjoern/Kendy/Thorsten)
    + 0 week sleep → ping ping ping ...

* Jenkins / CI update (Norbert)
    + missing.

* l10n (Sophie)
    + quiet again; people are working on 5.4

* QA update (Xisco)

    + QA Stats from ESC meetings from Jan 2016 to Apr 2017 collected here: 
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:QA-Stats-Apr-2017.ods

    + UNCONFIRMED: 450 (-7)
        + enhancements: 48  (+5)
        + needsUXEval: 5 (+2)
        + haveBackTrace: 11 (-1)
        + needsDevAdvice: 35 (-1)
        + documentation:  0 (+0)

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

          + New:
           + MailMerge: Writer crashes using wizard 2nd time through
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105002
                        + Bisected to Noel’s commit
                        + Noel doesn’t know what’s going on – advice appreciated.
           + MAILMERGE: Crash while saving new document 
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107729
                        + Introduced in mailmerge refactoring – Kendy ?
                    + had a brief look (Kendy)
                        + not very straightforward; assert protects a later crash.
                        + need to cancel the mail-merge creation to trigger it.
                        + there for 18 months, without it being noticed.
                        + hope to look at it tomorrow; not a 5 minute fix.
                        + crash-reporter shows 400x of this signature.

          + Older:  
            + Scrolling font list with previews enabled makes LO crash ( steps in comment 36 )
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106265
                + Tomaz has a fix; moggi concerned wrt. left-over GDI handles
                    + Tomaz isn’t concerned and/or frightened to do a big
                      re-factor without more tests here.
                    + back-port to 5.3 – and see what happens (?)

            + CRASH: Libreoffice crashes while inserting the header/footer in a document
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107568

            + Writer crashes immediately after opening this .docx in Windows 7
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106161
                + Bisected to Justin Luth’s commit

          + Fixed:
           + CRASH: when closing Calc document
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107706
                + Thanks to Noel.

           + FILEOPEN: assertion ‘len >= 0’ at sequence.cxx:664
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107709
                + Thanks to Michael Stahl.

           + FILEOPEN crash on opening svg-result of slide export
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107142
                + Thanks to Takeshi Abe.

* QA stats
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
      +156  -3 (-178) overall)
      many thanks to the top bug squashers:
       QA Administrators       47
       Yousuf Philips (jay)    15
       Timur                   13
       Buovjaga                11
       Eike Rathke             5
       Xisco Faulí             5
       Aron Budea              5
       Olivier Hallot          5
       Alex Thurgood           5
       V Stuart Foote          5
       Julien Nabet            4
       Katarina Behrens (CIB)  3
       Maxim Monastirsky       3
       Caolán McNamara         3
       Jean-Baptiste Faure     3

    + top 10 bugs reporters:
       Yousuf Philips (jay)    27
       Telesto                 14
       Terrence Enger          5
       Gabor Kelemen           4
       Oliver Brinzing         4
       Xisco Faulí             4
       Regina Henschel         4
       Volga                   4
       Timur                   4
       Ofir                    3
       Mike Kaganski           2
       Jeff Martin             2
       Cor Nouws               2
       Julien Nabet            2
       ffs                     1

    + top 10 bugs fixers:
       Yousuf Philips (jay)    27
       Telesto                 14
       Terrence Enger          5
       Gabor Kelemen           4
       Oliver Brinzing         4
       Xisco Faulí             4
       Regina Henschel         4
       Volga                   4
       Timur                   4
       Ofir                    3
       Mike Kaganski           2
       Jeff Martin             2
       Cor Nouws               2
       Julien Nabet            2
       ffs                     1


* Highest-Priority bugs (aka "MABs"):
   + http://bit.ly/2lJAAJI
     5.3 : 4/37 -     10 %  (+2)
     5.2 : 4/33 -     12 %  (+3)
     5.1 : 2/34 -     5 %  (+0)
     5.0 : 2/60 -     3 %  (+0)
     4.4 : 4/75 -     5 %  (+0)
     4.3 : 5/72 -     6 %  (+0)
     4.2 : 6/133 -    4 %  (+0)
     4.1 : 4/81 -     4 %  (+0)
     4.0 : 4/81 -     4 %  (+0)
     old : 27/253 -   10 %  (+0)


* Bisected bugs open: keyword 'bisected'
   + more accurate - down to a single commit.
   + http://bit.ly/2dyIfDy
   + 371/1380 374/1374 373/1366 370/1360 371/1357 364/1347 359/1332 

     done by:
        Faulí Tarazona, Xisco   4
        Raal                    3
 

* Bibisected bugs open: keyword 'bibisected'
   + http://bit.ly/2cSCXlS
   + 453/1941 455/1933 453/1921 449/1914 449/1910 440/1897 435/1882 

     done by:
        Faulí Tarazona, Xisco   5
        Raal                    3
        Terrence Enger          2
        Budea, Áron             1


* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
   + 810(-5) bugs open of 5948(+20) total 12(+0) high prio.

     done by:
        Faulí Tarazona, Xisco   4
        Telesto                 3
        Buovjaga                2
        Terrence Enger          2
        Alex Thurgood           2
        Nabet, Julien           1
        guilleron29             1
        Philips, Yousuf         1
        Budea, Áron             1
        Henschel, Regina        1


* ~Component   count net * high severity regressions
   + http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
     LibreOffice   - 4(+0)
     Impress       - 2(+0)
     Base          - 2(+0)
     Writer        - 2(+1)
     Calc          - 1(+0)
     Extensions    - 1(+0)
     BASIC         - 0(-1)

   by OS:
     Windows       - 3(+1)
     All           - 3(-1)
     Mac OS X      - 5(+0)
     Linux         - 1(+0)


* ~Component   count net * all regressions
   + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
     Writer: other            - 137(-5)
     Calc                     - 121(-1)
     Impress                  - 79(-1)
     Writer: docx filter      - 71(+2)
     LibreOffice              - 60(+0)
     UI                       - 49(+1)
     Writer: doc filter       - 41(+2)
     graphics stack           - 35(-2)
     Draw                     - 32(+0)
     Base                     - 31(+0)
     Borders                  - 30(+0)
     Writer: other filter     - 27(+2)
     Writer: perf             - 23(-1)
     filters and storage      - 22(+1)
     Chart                    - 20(+0)
     Crashes                  - 19(-6)
     Printing and PDF export  - 17(+1)
     BASIC                    - 14(+0)
     Extensions               - 5(+1)
     framework                - 4(+0)
     Linguistic               - 1(+1)
     Installation             - 1(+0)