minutes of ESC call ...

* Present:
    + Stephan, Olivier, Eike, Michael M, Heiko, Sophie, Cloph,
      Miklos, Kendy, Caolán, Thorsten

* Completed Action Items:
    + remove internal file-picker from the options page (Heiko)
    + add internal file-picker removal to “pending removal”
      release-notes in 6.0 (Heiko)
       + ticket for discussion; Rene has concerns
       https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114484
         commit comment was misleading just disabled file (Michael)
           + the internal print dialog is not shown at all, see comment on
             ticket (Heiko) ]

* Pending Action Items:
    + come up with a list of retiring committers to mail (Norbert)

* Release Engineering update (Christian)
   + 5.4.4 RC2
        + released as final yesterday.
        + issue installing on WinXP – forgot the SDK switch to enable it.
           + builds are running, and will replace builds on mirrors when done
           + re-doing and replace & announce on twitter.
    + 6.0 RC1
        + builds are done, and up-loading
        + no additional branch yet – but on -6-0 branch
        + still in 1x review mode.
        + 6-0-0 branch is due Jan 9th for RC2.
        + late features
            + gpg4libre branch (Thorsten)
               [ almost done with decrypting – but negative time.
                 expect things next week. ] 
            + HTML help pieces (Olivier)
               [ still working, not yet ready – fixing l10n issues
                 working sfx2 to make it work.
                 Kendy has a patch to help out. ]
            + ‘experimental’ Calc / threading UI setting (Michael)
               [ disabled threading by default for 6.0
                 not got this setting in ? (Michael)
                    + apparently patch in 6-0 (Eike)
                      + fine with keeping it in if translators are happy
                      + no problem (Sophie)
                    + seems its not in – lets push it but mark it highly
                      experimental (Eike) ]
            + VC Runtime re-distributable installer (Cloph)
               [ change added to master, included in TB builds,
                 will cherry-pick to 6-0 branch ]
   + Android
        + patch for unified headers don’t switch to llvm on ARM
        + working for Intel & ARM – but still in gerrit
        + along with patches avoiding Nnullptr exceptions loading docs.
   + Online
        + 6.0.0 RC1 source up-loaded
        + ongoing fixing & polish there.

* Documentation (Olivier)
   + Working on the XSLT transformation to get relative paths for help
          + same pages will serve local and online versions
   + Several corrections and additions to help pages
   + Working on the LO call to the local help in HTML
   + Guides 6.0: Stalled. Holliday season
   + found issue with online docs (Stephan)
          + start page – get a re-direct to somewhere with no-redirect token
          + something broke; filed a red-mine ticket.

* UX Update (Heiko)
    + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
        254(254) (topicUI) bugs open, 328(328) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
    + Updates:
        BZ changes   1 week   1 month    3 months   12 months  
             added      2(0)     10(-1)     39(-4)     109(-5) 
         commented     26(-6)   152(-25)   538(-36)   2192(-68)
           removed      0(0)      2(0)       3(-2)      21(0)  
          resolved      5(2)     20(0)      58(2)      243(1)  
    + top 10 contributors:
          Tietze, Heiko made 63 changes in 1 month, and 1059 changes in 1 year
          Philips, Yousuf made 30 changes in 1 month, and 785 changes in 1 year
          Xisco Faulí made 22 changes in 1 month, and 395 changes in 1 year
          Foote, V Stuart made 19 changes in 1 month, and 352 changes in 1 year
          Thomas Lendo made 16 changes in 1 month, and 409 changes in 1 year
          Zolnai, Tamás made 16 changes in 1 month, and 145 changes in 1 year
          Henschel, Regina made 13 changes in 1 month, and 125 changes in 1 year
          kompilainenn made 13 changes in 1 month, and 25 changes in 1 year
          Monastirsky, Maxim made 12 changes in 1 month, and 33 changes in 1 year
          Cor Nouws made 10 changes in 1 month, and 181 changes in 1 year

  + late changes to Draw main menu
       + https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/46867/
       + could also be done without string changes
       + getting very late wrt. freezes (Michael)
           + lets not make a habit of it.
       + if several strings – not important to break freeze (Sophie)
       + can we get it in without the string changes ? (Heiko)
       => lets keep it as is – and do it in -6-1

  + new default colors for shapes, problem with unit tests
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112541
    + http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/unit-test-for-COL-DEFAULT-SHAPE-FILLING-tt4229400.html
    + changing the default color – to have a different non-sky-blue name
       + have to update hundreds of files in the unit tests.
       + can we change behavior of unit tests.
       + https://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/include/svx/xdef.hxx
       + in the past didn’t write the defaults (Miklos)
           + changing these broke existing docs.
           + think we have version checks in place now.
           + did you check affecting existing documents ?
               + not tested (Heiko)
           + breaks lots of unit tests.
       + need to separate default on filter from default in UI.

 + ugly track changes / tooltip issue over them.
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114523
   + worse when you don’t show them – but they are there.
   + hacking on this now.

* Crash Hunting (Caolan)
    + 98 (-18) import failure, 0 export failures
        + another run of the imports – gone down to 98
        + another run in progress
        + still some calc threading issues pending.
    + 14 (+6) coverity
        + all the new 6 are fixed
        + another run over Christmas to confirm just java bits left
    + 44 (+1) fuzzers * 3 sanitizers+engine combos (asan+libfuzzer,
            ubsan+libfuzzer, asan+afl), writer html newly added
        + 6 hours of html testing locally passed
        + will enable it up-stream.
    + sec list – idefense report vs. fixed bug in 5.4.x
        + need to note it was fixed already.
    + calc issue, need to sanitize that in the new year.

* Crash Reporter (Xisco sadly missing)
    + http://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/5.3.6.1
        + 1602 (last 7 days) (down)
    + http://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/5.3.7.2
        + 1107 (last 7 days) (up)
    + http://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/5.4.2.2
          + 3992 (last 7 days) (up)
          + Updater still the main crasher
    + http://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/5.4.3.2
          + 2762 (last 7 days) (up)
        + lots of people decided to update ? – a peak here.
        + looking forward to 5.4.4 – which fixes main crashers in 5.4.3.

* Hackfests & Events (Thorsten)
    + FOSDEM hack-fest / meetings
        + confirmed for following Monday/Tuesday at ICAB
        + dates confirmed (Monday + Tuesday), book your travel!
        + Bedford – overbooked right now; didn’t get a group rate (Heiko)
            + hurry to book.
        + La Grande Cloche over the street.
    + Hamburg – 1st new-style hackfest
        + deferred to next year ...
            + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Hackfests/HackfestTNG
        + should meet with locals
    + fallback plan for March in either Italy or Germany
    + still looking for people who want help learning how to fix
      their problems interactively at a hackfest.

* mentoring/easyhack update
          committer...   1 week     1 month     3 months    12 months   
                  open      67(-14)    117(-14)    119(-13)     123(-13)
               reviews     599(-4)    2202(208)   4894(-30)   18690(136)
                merged     428(86)    1551(229)   3557(192)   11871(204)
             abandoned      28(-14)    135(14)     267(17)      744(18) 
           own commits     339(-8)    1545(76)    4246(-9)    13944(181)
        review commits      56(-15)    343(5)      866(-9)     3337(5)  
        contributor...   1 week     1 month     3 months    12 months   
                  open      17(-6)      38(3)       39(1)        43(1)  
               reviews     845(-80)   3324(190)   7735(111)   24245(279)
                merged      13(-15)     85(-9)     234(-9)     1183(-1) 
             abandoned       2(-6)      23(-1)      57(-4)      346(-1) 
           own commits      13(-15)     86(-9)     240(-10)     866(-11)
        review commits       0(0)        0(0)        0(0)         0(0)  
    + easyHack statistics:
       needsDevEval 37(37)   needsUXEval 1(1)   cleanup_comments 206(206)   
       total 255(255)   assigned 24(24)   open 192(192)   
    + top 5 contributors:
          Gelmini, Andrea made 24 patches in 1 month, and 211 patches in 1 year
          Goncharuk, Lera made 8 patches in 1 month, and 13 patches in 1 year
          Donkers, Winfried made 8 patches in 1 month, and 29 patches in 1 year
          Gabriel Chiquini made 4 patches in 1 month, and 6 patches in 1 year
          Latini, Marina made 3 patches in 1 month, and 4 patches in 1 year
    + top 5 reviewers:
          Pootle bot made 237 review comments in 1 month, and 741 in 1 year
          Holešovský, Jan made 203 review comments in 1 month, and 1143 in 1 year
          Behrens, Thorsten made 195 review comments in 1 month, and 1068 in 1 year
          Stahl, Michael made 195 review comments in 1 month, and 1987 in 1 year
          Rathke, Eike made 152 review comments in 1 month, and 1142 in 1 year
    + big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:

* XHTML export filter (Miklos)
    + remember recent commits for XHTML / XSLT.
    + added a new flag to HTML export to produce XHTML
        + far from perfect but a good start.
    + profiling XHTML export – a large cost is compiling XSLT thing.
        + 2x XHTML exports in writer.
    + XSLT is the default still, but now have the C++ one too.
    + in case no-one shouts: prefer to move to C++ not XSLT
        + no time for it just now to do it completely.
    + thoughts ?
    + no fan of XSLT (Thorsten)
        + fixing bits here & there had to re-write.
        + one good bit – exercises the flat-odf filter
        + Regina working on fixing that.
    + perhaps keep it around and deprecate it.
    + generally the concept is powerful if you love XSLT (Thorsten)
    + patch to change type of pictures (Kendy)
        + useful for flat-odt (Thorsten)

* Commit Access

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Bjoern/Kendy/Thorsten)
    + sleep for 16 weeks.

* Jenkins / CI update (Christian)
    from:Thu Dec 14 16:17:23 2017
    master linux rel  jobs: 204 ok: 201 ko:   3 fail ratio:  1.47 % break:   2 broken duration: 
0.17%
    master linux dbg  jobs: 133 ok: 130 ko:   1 fail ratio:  0.75 % break:   1 broken duration: 
0.74%
    master mac rel    jobs: 141 ok: 140 ko:   1 fail ratio:  0.71 % break:   1 broken duration: 
1.15%
    master mac dbg    jobs: 137 ok: 135 ko:   2 fail ratio:  1.46 % break:   2 broken duration: 
2.71%
    master win rel    jobs:  94 ok:  85 ko:   9 fail ratio:  9.57 % break:   9 broken 
duration:11.47%
    master win dbg    jobs: 114 ok: 101 ko:  13 fail ratio: 11.40 % break:  12 broken duration: 
9.92%
    master win64 dbg  jobs: 106 ok:  93 ko:  13 fail ratio: 12.26 % break:  12 broken duration: 
8.68%
    lo-5.3 mac        jobs:   0 ok:   0 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: 472 ok: 434 ko:  36 fail ratio: 7.63%
    master gerrit plg jobs: 472 ok: 334 ko: 125 fail ratio:26.48%
    master gerrit win jobs: 326 ok: 274 ko:  49 fail ratio:15.03%
    master gerrit mac jobs: 321 ok: 301 ko:  16 fail ratio: 4.98%
    master gerrit all jobs: 470 ok: 260 ko: 182 fail ratio:38.72%
    + split of Linux builds helps reduce the load on Win/Mac
    + un-related build failures un-related to build/test framework
    + pretty solid.
    + 90 more builds on master in the last 7 days.

* l10n (Sophie)
    + did the strings get pushed ?
         + updated templates on pootle for RC
         + previously strings were un-translated (Cloph)
             + now there are translations, but marked as fuzzy
             + now can see un-translated only.
         + plan to remove the fuzzy marker
             + hope to get a partial de-fuzz this year.

* Blurry icons (Heiko)
    + a PNG issue for hidpi screens.
    + why not use SVG icons instead ?
    + quikee wrote some code to render SVG icons (Kendy)
       + need to look into what the state is
       + adds some startup-time potentially.
       + need to measure startup impact.
    + SVG renderer we have is not the fastest in the world (Thorsten)
       + with some caching – in a good shape.
    + thought it was solved ? Just switching.
    => ask quikee what he recommends.

* QA update (Xisco)

    + UNCONFIRMED: 394 (-7)
        + enhancements: 40  (-10)
        + needsUXEval: 0 (+0)
        + haveBackTrace: 7 (-2)
        + needsDevAdvice: 28 (-3)
        + documentation:  2 (-2)
        + android:  15 (-3)

    + Most Pressing Bugs: http://tdf.io/mostressingbugs
        + New:
             + Draw filter export to PDF/A-1a crashes LO & system
                   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114314
                   + Xorg crash → notourbug.

        + Fixed:

* QA stats
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
      +133  +34 (-129) overall)
      many thanks to the top bug squashers:
       Buovjaga                14
       Olivier Hallot          13
       Xisco Faulí             11
       Heiko Tietze            10
       Yousuf Philips (jay)    9
       Michael Stahl           6
       Maxim Monastirsky       6
       Timur                   5
       Eike Rathke             5
       Markus Mohrhard         4

    + top 10 bugs reporters:
       Yousuf Philips (jay)    9
       Telesto                 7
       Volga                   6
       squeezechart            4
       Ljiljan                 3
       Jim Raykowski           2
       Philippe Hemmel         2
       Aron Budea              2
       Thomas Lendo            2
       Nemo_bis                2

    + top 10 bugs fixers:
       Olivier Hallot          11
       Stahl, Michael          6
       Mohrhard, Markus        4
       McNamara, Caolán        3
       Philips, Yousuf         3
                               2
       Justin L                2
       Tietze, Heiko           2
       Rathke, Eike            2
       Abe, Takeshi            1

    + top 10 bugs confirmers:
       Buovjaga                27
       Xisco Faulí             13
       Philips, Yousuf         11
       Jacques Guilleron       6
       Dieter Praas            6
       Budea, Áron             4
       Foote, V Stuart         4
       Tietze, Heiko           4
       Alex Thurgood           4
       Henschel, Regina        3


* Highest-Priority bugs (aka "MABs"):
   + http://bit.ly/2lJAAJI
     5.3 : 2/49 -     4 %  (+0)
     5.2 : 2/39 -     5 %  (+0)
     5.1 : 1/35 -     2 %  (+0)
     5.0 : 2/62 -     3 %  (+0)
     4.4 : 2/76 -     2 %  (+0)
     4.3 : 6/75 -     8 %  (+2)
     4.2 : 6/134 -    4 %  (+0)
     4.1 : 3/84 -     3 %  (+0)
     4.0 : 4/83 -     4 %  (+0)
     old : 25/258 -   9 %  (+0)


* Bisected bugs open: keyword 'bisected'
   + more accurate - down to a single commit.
   + http://bit.ly/2dyIfDy
   + 410/1796 420/1795 413/1767 416/1760 414/1748 425/1735 417/1714 

     done by:
        Xisco Faulí            2
        Budea, Áron            1
 

* Bibisected bugs open: keyword 'bibisected'
   + http://bit.ly/2cSCXlS
   + 500/2409 510/2407 500/2376 502/2369 500/2355 510/2341 501/2317 

     done by:
        Xisco Faulí            2
        Budea, Áron            1


* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
   + 876(-8) bugs open of 6623(+8) total 6(-1) high prio.

     done by:
        Xisco Faulí            3
        Telesto                2
        Raal                   2
        Cor Nouws              1
        MM                     1
        Jacques Guilleron      1
        Budea, Áron            1


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

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


* ~Component   count net * all regressions
   + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
     Writer: other            - 157(-4)
     Calc                     - 149(+0)
     Impress                  - 91(+0)
     Writer: docx filter      - 74(-1)
     LibreOffice              - 69(+0)
     UI                       - 47(-1)
     Writer: perf             - 34(+0)
     graphics stack           - 34(+0)
     Draw                     - 33(+0)
     Writer: doc filter       - 33(+0)
     Base                     - 29(+0)
     Borders                  - 28(+0)
     filters and storage      - 27(+1)
     Writer: other filter     - 25(+0)
     Crashes                  - 20(+1)
     Chart                    - 19(-3)
     BASIC                    - 16(+1)
     Printing and PDF export  - 15(-1)
     framework                - 5(+0)
     Linguistic               - 2(+0)
     Extensions               - 1(+0)
     Installation             - 1(+0)
     sdk                      - 1(+0)