Minutes of ESC call 2017-08-24

* Present:
    + Armin, Heiko, Olivier, Shinnok, Thorsten, Miklos, Sophie, Eike, Stephan,
      Michael S, Cloph, Jan-Marek

* Completed Action Items:
    + poke people if they are around for GSoC evals (Thorsten)

* Pending Action Items:
    + find out if we have projects & mentors for Capstone (Shinnok)
    + Update the roadmap wiki with new 5.3.6/7 dates (Christian)
    + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/ScreenshotsAtInstall
        + work out what a good idea is here (Kendy, Thorsten)
          + next week or remove...
    + create redirect / transparent proxy so that we can use
      help.libreoffice.org directly even for the new stuff (Christian)
      [ sitemap exists, but not functional yet ]
    + build a write-up of the differences cross-platform (Xisco)
      [ done, Heiko wants to discuss a possible multiplier ]

* Release Engineering update (Christian)
    + 5.3.6 RC1 is on the mirrors, to be announced early next week
    + 5.4.1 RC2 is due this week, a bit of delay due to additional fixes
      + https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/q/status:open+project:core+branch:libreoffice-5-4-1
    + Android & iOS Remote
    + Android viewer
        + 10% of users reported crashes, not yet rolling out
        + AI: connect to uznomis[m] / Ximeng to take a look if possible (Christian)
    + Online
    + Not enough tinderboxes? (Thorsten)
      + Christian’s box is the only one providing daily builds for macOS
        + Mac CI will be back in 1-2 weeks, that’s the hope
        + would be good to have 1-2 mac tinderboxes at any rate
      + Linux builds are always off for 2-3 days around releases
        + only affects RPM/DEB, Markus provides archives

* Documentation (Olivier)
     + More work on SEO data for BoD
     + Help pages for undocumented features (Impress Remote)
     + Updated help pages (SUBTOTAL,  CDATE)
     + More help fixes by G. Kelemen and A. Barrientos
     + Help online: Shall we keep Google search or find a internal solution?
           See “Search” tab of https://goo.gl/7zWZ8W
         + Is there any massive critics? (Thorsten)
         + The site is already crawled (large site, lots of pages * languages) 
         + Can we limit hits to a single language? (Christian)
           + Not at the moment (Olivier)
         + Perhaps something less invasive (i.e. not Google but DDG?)
           + Having this as someone else’ problem is great (Thorsten)
     + Doumentation team producing Guides updates weekly
       + Target is 6.0 release in sync with code
     + Staff activities.

* UX Update (Heiko)
    + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
        257(257) (topicUI) bugs open, 419(419) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
    + Updates:
        BZ changes   1 week    1 month   3 months   12 months  
             added      7(-1)     15(3)     31(2)      346(-1) 
         commented     44(-12)   170(7)    484(-5)    3311(13) 
           removed      0(-1)      2(-1)     5(-1)      44(-1) 
          resolved      6(-1)     31(-8)    69(3)      287(6)  
    + top 10 contributors:
          Tietze, Heiko made 140 changes in 1 month, and 1603 changes in 1 year
          Philips, Yousuf made 49 changes in 1 month, and 1486 changes in 1 year
          Foote, V Stuart made 44 changes in 1 month, and 604 changes in 1 year
          Cor Nouws made 41 changes in 1 month, and 363 changes in 1 year
          Faulí Tarazona, Xisco made 23 changes in 1 month, and 466 changes in 1 y
          Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 22 changes in 1 month, and 51 changes in 1 y
          Thomas Lendo made 21 changes in 1 month, and 407 changes in 1 year
          Timur made 13 changes in 1 month, and 70 changes in 1 year
          Telesto made 12 changes in 1 month, and 73 changes in 1 year
          Buovjaga made 11 changes in 1 month, and 352 changes in 1 year

    + Mascot >180 proposals, and counting
    + Open Source survey 1400 participants, evaluation comes next
    + Talked about taking direct formatting/character style from headings into ToC
      https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87604
      question is whether or not to take all properties
      + there are related tickets, resolved and open (Miklos)

* Crash Reporting (Caolan)
    + 24(+0) import failure, ~700(+0) export failures
    + 13 coverity issues
    + Google / ossfuzz: ?? fuzzers active now

* Crash Reporter (Xisco)
    + http://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/?days=128
    + http://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/5.3.4.2
        + 1982 (last 7 days)
    + http://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/5.3.5.2
        + 420(last 7 days)
    + http://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/5.4.0.3
        + 1982 (last 7 days)

* Hackfests & Events (Bjoern)
    + next venues / suggestions
    + LibreOffice Conference
    + Google Mentor Summit right after the conference
      + application deadline is next week, hurry up if you want to go (and are a mentor)

* mentoring/easyhack update (Shinnok)
          committer...   1 week     1 month     3 months     12 months    
                  open      55(-21)    118(3)      123(1)        130(1)   
               reviews     584(-90)   1905(-51)   5047(60)     17022(114) 
                merged     180(-53)    856(-93)   2688(-54)    10507(35)  
             abandoned      12(-7)      65(-18)    219(-1)       649(-7)  
           own commits     236(37)     524(228)   1373(-273)   14353(-198)
        review commits      88(16)     195(86)     355(-5)      2838(-29) 
        contributor...   1 week      1 month    3 months    12 months   
                  open      33(-19)      68(0)      70(0)        74(0)  
               reviews     716(-205)   2432(3)    6194(134)   20715(251)
                merged      51(12)      130(30)    343(11)     1256(35) 
             abandoned       4(-8)       28(2)      60(2)       250(3)  
           own commits      52(10)      116(50)    181(9)       900(35) 
        review commits       0(0)         0(0)       0(0)         0(0)  
    + easyHack statistics:
       needsDevEval 28(28)   needsUXEval 1(1)   cleanup_comments 196(196)   
       total 248(248)   assigned 14(14)   open 200(200)   
    + top 5 contributors:
          Gelmini, Andrea made 27 patches in 1 month, and 125 patches in 1 year
          Dhall, Varun made 20 patches in 1 month, and 27 patches in 1 year
          Carl, Jens made 19 patches in 1 month, and 93 patches in 1 year
          Spiteri, Jean made 6 patches in 1 month, and 9 patches in 1 year
          Dewan Aditya made 5 patches in 1 month, and 36 patches in 1 year
    + top 5 reviewers:
          [ who is dummy ? ]
          *dummy* made 223 review comments in 1 month, and 235 in 1 year
          Stahl, Michael made 207 review comments in 1 month, and 1693 in 1 year
          Mohrhard, Markus made 186 review comments in 1 month, and 1363 in 1 year
          Holešovský, Jan made 169 review comments in 1 month, and 899 in 1 year
          Rathke, Eike made 116 review comments in 1 month, and 1241 in 1 year
    + big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
          Cor Nouws cno@nouenoff.nl
          Sanjaykumar Girishkumar Patel sp1663@live.mdx.ac.uk


* GSoC update (Thorsten / Markus / JanI)
    + timeline:
        + August 21 - 29: pens down, wrap up – this is now!
        + August 29 - September 5: final evaluations of students
        + September 6: passing projects announced
    + one open slot for mentor summit – Oct. 15-16 (right after LibOCon)
        + tell Thorsten if you are a mentor this year & want to go!
        + if we don’t use it, it will be taken by Google soon

* Commit Access
    + None this week

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Bjoern/Kendy/Thorsten)
    + sleeping for 6 weeks

* Jenkins / CI update (Christian)
    + updated jenkins itself, updated slaves (now called “agents”) with java8 to
 run jenkins client
    + granted mkara perms to cancel and retrigger jobs
    from:Thu Aug 17 16:05:15 2017
    master linux rel  jobs: 144 ok: 139 ko:   5 fail ratio:  3.47 % break:   1 broken duration: 
0.60%
    master linux dbg  jobs: 110 ok:  70 ko:  38 fail ratio: 34.55 % break:  22 broken 
duration:31.39%
    master mac rel    jobs: 145 ok: 139 ko:   6 fail ratio:  4.14 % break:   2 broken duration: 
0.92%
    master mac dbg    jobs: 154 ok: 144 ko:  10 fail ratio:  6.49 % break:   5 broken duration: 
4.20%
    master win rel    jobs: 104 ok:  88 ko:  16 fail ratio: 15.38 % break:  12 broken 
duration:14.77%
    master win dbg    jobs: 105 ok:  94 ko:  11 fail ratio: 10.48 % break:  10 broken 
duration:10.60%
    master win64 dbg  jobs: 109 ok: 101 ko:   8 fail ratio:  7.34 % break:   6 broken 
duration:10.21%
    lo-5.3 mac        jobs:   6 ok:   6 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 
0.00%
    lo-5.4 mac        jobs:   0 ok:   0 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 
0.00%
    branch gerrit all jobs:   0 ok:   0 ko:   0 fail ratio: 0.00%
    master gerrit lin jobs: 323 ok: 277 ko:  43 fail ratio:13.31%
    master gerrit plg jobs: 321 ok: 212 ko: 103 fail ratio:32.09%
    master gerrit win jobs: 325 ok: 271 ko:  49 fail ratio:15.08%
    master gerrit mac jobs:   0 ok:   0 ko:   0 fail ratio: 0.00%
    master gerrit all jobs: 327 ok: 188 ko: 126 fail ratio:38.53%
    + good idea to use topics for related changes, so deps are not missed when submitting 
(Thorsten, Miklos)
         + otherwise gerrit lists dependent patches under ‘Related changes’ - but
         it’s easy to miss

* l10n (Sophie/Christian)
   + nothing new, work is ongoing

* QA update (Xisco)

    + UNCONFIRMED: 447 (-28)
        + enhancements: 44  (-3)
        + needsUXEval: 1 (+0)
        + haveBackTrace: 9 (-1)
        + needsDevAdvice: 31 (+0)
        + documentation:  1 (-1)

    + Most Pressing Bugs: http://tdf.io/mostressingbugs
        + New:
          + Crash sigsegv opening a file with invalid style:map
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111934
              + Michael Stahl fixed this one, thanks!

        + Older:
          + CALC - crashes on COPYing 3+ whole rows to clipboard with OpenGL
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108299 
                + crash-reporter shows similar issues:
                  Windows - dumping clipboard to OS before final exit.
                + shutdown / exit ordering nightmare wrt. Clipboard
                + apparently exacerbated by OpenGL

        + Fixed:

          + FILESAVE ODT: Crash while saving after deleting all comments
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111524
                + Fixed thanks to Michael Stahl.

          + Formulas not localized
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111332
                + Fixed thanks to cloph re-tagging 5.3.6 etc.

* QA stats

    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
      +132  +90 (-117) overall)
      many thanks to the top bug squashers:
       Xisco Faulí             18
       Jean-Baptiste Faure     11
       Heiko Tietze            8
       Cor Nouws               7
       Yousuf Philips (jay)    5
       Adolfo Jayme            5
       Buovjaga                5
       Alex Thurgood           5
       Szymon Kłos             4
       Julien Nabet            4
       Michael Stahl           4
       Justin L                4
       Timur                   3
       Telesto                 3
       Olivier Hallot          3

    + top 10 bugs reporters:
       Aron Budea              10
       Tamás Zolnai            7
       Elmar                   6
       krishna [:kr1shna]      6
       Thomas Lendo            5
       Regina Henschel         4
       Xisco Faulí             3
       Gabor Kelemen           3
       Alex Thurgood           3
       Yousuf Philips (jay)    2
       Yan Pas                 2
       Frederic Parrenin       2
       Óvári                   2
       Luis                    2
       raal                    2

    + top 10 bugs fixers:
       Aron Budea              10
       Tamás Zolnai            7
       Elmar                   6
       krishna [:kr1shna]      6
       Thomas Lendo            5
       Regina Henschel         4
       Xisco Faulí             3
       Gabor Kelemen           3
       Alex Thurgood           3
       Yousuf Philips (jay)    2
       Yan Pas                 2
       Frederic Parrenin       2
       Óvári                   2
       Luis                    2
       raal                    2


* Highest-Priority bugs (aka "MABs"):
   + http://bit.ly/2lJAAJI
     5.3 : 3/44 -     6 %  (+2)
     5.2 : 2/38 -     5 %  (+0)
     5.1 : 1/34 -     2 %  (+0)
     5.0 : 2/61 -     3 %  (+0)
     4.4 : 3/76 -     3 %  (+0)
     4.3 : 6/73 -     8 %  (+0)
     4.2 : 6/134 -    4 %  (+0)
     4.1 : 3/83 -     3 %  (+0)
     4.0 : 4/83 -     4 %  (+0)
     old : 28/257 -   10 %  (+0)

* Bisected bugs open: keyword 'bisected'
   + more accurate - down to a single commit.
   + http://bit.ly/2dyIfDy
   + 381/1551 377/1541 383/1533 381/1515 380/1500 378/1488 385/1485 

     done by:
        Faulí Tarazona, Xisco   4
        Raal                    4
        Budea, Áron             1
        Kaganski, Mike          1

* Bibisected bugs open: keyword 'bibisected'
   + http://bit.ly/2cSCXlS
   + 477/2152 471/2139 476/2129 469/2106 468/2088 468/2075 475/2071 

     done by:
        Faulí Tarazona, Xisco   6
        Raal                    3
        Kaganski, Mike          2
        Terrence Enger          1
        Budea, Áron             1

* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
   + 887(+11) bugs open of 6279(+20) total 7(+0) high prio.

     done by:
        Faulí Tarazona, Xisco   7
        Raal                    5
        Kaganski, Mike          2
        Faure, Jean-Baptiste    1
        Terrence Enger          1
        Budea, Áron             1
        Buovjaga                1

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

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

* ~Component   count net * all regressions
   + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
     Writer: other            - 147(+1)
     Calc                     - 140(+2)
     Impress                  - 83(+0)
     Writer: docx filter      - 73(+1)
     LibreOffice              - 73(+3)
     UI                       - 52(+1)
     Writer: doc filter       - 42(+0)
     Draw                     - 37(+0)
     graphics stack           - 36(+0)
     Writer: perf             - 32(+0)
     Base                     - 31(+1)
     Borders                  - 30(+0)
     Writer: other filter     - 29(+0)
     filters and storage      - 24(+1)
     Chart                    - 20(+0)
     Printing and PDF export  - 17(+0)
     BASIC                    - 15(+0)
     Crashes                  - 15(-1)
     framework                - 4(+1)
     Installation             - 3(+0)
     Extensions               - 2(-1)
     Linguistic               - 2(+0)
     sdk                      - 1(+1)