ESC meeting minutes: 2019-11-14

* Present:
    + Xisco, Olivnier, Michael S, Stephan, Heiko, Cloph, Ilmari, Thorsten, Caolan, Michael W, 
Miklos, Kendy, Michael M


* Completed Action Items:

* Pending Action Items:
   + Propose new certified developers (Kendy, Stephan, Thorsten)
     + still waiting
   + Committer welcome mail for Pedro Pinto Silva (Kendy)
   + Gifts to developers outside the regular contributors: write some guidelines on nominating 
(Olivier)
     + started

* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
   + 6.4
     + beta1 + libreoffice-6-4 created by Xisco yesterday
     + Late features?
       + Nothing at the moment
   + 6.3 status: 6.3.4 rc1 will be tagged next week
   + Remotes
      + Android remote: fresh release done
   + Android viewer
     + break iterators are missing – breaking Asian documents
     + plans to fix it (Cloph)
   + Online

   + macOS builds: update the build baseline to Cathalina + xcode11
     + only for the TDF builds, expect no runtime changes
     + AI: update the ReleaseBuilds wiki page after this is done (Cloph)

* Documentation (Olivier)
   + New Help
      + Fixes and adjustments (ohallot)
    + Helpcontent2
      + Fixes in pages (LibreOfficiant, M. Kaganski)
      + Muted L10n in several strings (ohallot)
      + New Help pages on Calc functions (ohallot)
    + Google seasons of Doc
      + progressing
    + Guides (Calc Guide )
      + Stalled

* UX Update (Heiko)
   + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
       230(230) (topicUI) bugs open, 250(250) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
   + Updates:
       BZ changes   1 week    1 month   3 months   12 months
            added      10(5)     25(0)     49(-2)     107(-1)
        commented     101(60)   305(36)   811(28)    2166(46)
          removed       0(0)      0(0)      0(0)       16(-1)
         resolved       6(4)     17(-1)    76(1)      196(4)
   + top 10 contributors:
         Heiko Tietze made 174 changes in 1 month, and 804 changes in 1 year
         dieterp made 81 changes in 1 month, and 304 changes in 1 year
         Kainz, Andreas made 56 changes in 1 month, and 262 changes in 1 year
         Foote, V Stuart made 37 changes in 1 month, and 365 changes in 1 year
         Xisco Faulí made 27 changes in 1 month, and 325 changes in 1 year
         Thomas Lendo made 21 changes in 1 month, and 269 changes in 1 year
         John made 19 changes in 1 month, and 19 changes in 1 year
         Cor Nouws made 18 changes in 1 month, and 166 changes in 1 year
         Roman Kuznetsov made 16 changes in 1 month, and 281 changes in 1 year
         *UNKNOWN* made 15 changes in 1 month, and 15 changes in 1 year

  + New tickets with needsUXEval Nov/07-14

     * Options Update Dialog change
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128725
     * Options Print Dialog update
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128723
     * Options -> User Data should not default tab
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128722
     * Options View Dialog update
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128721
     * Find & Replace Dialog update
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128703
  -> * Add more tools to the new Table section in the Writer Sidebar
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128683
       + talk to Tamas Zolnai to avoid conflicts (Miklos)
     * Right mouse button use to expand collapse entries in Navigator
       can cause confusion
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128362
     * image compress and impress optimization Defaults
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128658
     => in discussion

     * List Styles can't be deleted in Custom Styles view
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128557
     => accepted

     * Create a command to open context menu, bindable to keyboard shortcuts
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128695
     * Presence of features covering the means to achieve in Navigator common
       tasks focusing on headers
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128624
     => invalid, potential dup

  + GSoC project / blog post
    + 
https://design.blog.documentfoundation.org/2019/11/05/proposal-to-conveniently-highlight-and-inspect-styles-in-libreoffice-writer/
    + added to https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas#User_Experience

  + Promotion of tip of the day (TotD) update on Twitter – volunteer(s) are doing patches

* Crash Testing (Caolan)
   + 21(-4) import failure, 9(+6) export failures
     - all imports failures are writer, and all but 1 export are also writer
   + 25 (+2, -5) coverity issues
   + 18 (12 timeouts, 6 crashes) oss-fuzz issues
     - all crashes a msword related formats

* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/6.2.7.1
        + (+217) 1473 1256 1378 1607 1549 2481 1309 959 673 186 0
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/6.2.8.2
        + (+193) 568 375 320 198 0
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/6.3.1.2
        + (+135) 1297 1162 1454 1783 2151 3406 2696 2886 2262 820 0
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/6.3.2.2
        + (+135) 3622 3487 4392 3950 3273 4801 1698 0
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/6.3.3.2
        + (+966) 1820 854 0

   + talking to Moggi about missing symbols
   + 6.4 beta 1: expect first reports next week

* Hackfests & Events (Thorsten)
  + hope to have one each quarter.
  + plans for next year:
    + FOSDEM 2020
      + devroom is approved, will be on Saturday
      + CfP deadline is end of November (Michael)

* mentoring/easyhack update
         committer...   1 week      1 month      3 months      12 months
                 open       85(9)      152(22)       157(26)       170(26)
              reviews     1287(64)    4891(-244)   12984(-126)   54692(-80)
               merged      406(62)    1623(60)      4675(208)    17107(220)
            abandoned       17(-10)     89(1)        213(4)        839(-2)
          own commits      364(74)    1541(38)      3977(265)    14783(107)
       review commits       83(7)      366(-4)       948(-33)     4283(-35)
       contributor...   1 week     1 month    3 months     12 months
                 open      14(0)      28(5)       29(5)        31(5)
              reviews     203(12)    667(-11)   2055(103)    3803(151)
               merged      12(-11)    38(-99)    145(-119)    713(-130)
            abandoned       2(-1)      7(-5)      31(-8)      313(-24)
          own commits      18(-13)    71(-95)    182(-122)    942(-134)
       review commits       0(0)       0(0)        0(0)         0(0)
   + easyHack statistics:
      needsDevEval 6(6)   needsUXEval 1(1)   cleanup_comments 199(199)
      total 245(245)   assigned 3(3)   open 225(225)
   + top 10 contributors:
         LibreOfficiant made 16 patches in 1 month, and 70 patches in 1 year
         Balazs Varga made 6 patches in 1 month, and 56 patches in 1 year
         Mattia Rizzolo made 4 patches in 1 month, and 4 patches in 1 year
         Tünde Tóth made 3 patches in 1 month, and 33 patches in 1 year
         Ricardo Palomares made 2 patches in 1 month, and 4 patches in 1 year
         Attila Bakos made 2 patches in 1 month, and 2 patches in 1 year
         himajin100000 made 2 patches in 1 month, and 26 patches in 1 year
         Pranam Lashkari made 1 patches in 1 month, and 1 patches in 1 year
         Peter Levine made 1 patches in 1 month, and 1 patches in 1 year
         Yunusemre Şentürk made 1 patches in 1 month, and 1 patches in 1 year
   + top 10 reviewers:
         Timar, Andras made 140 review comments in 1 month, and 1268 in 1 year
         Kłos, Szymon made 138 review comments in 1 month, and 486 in 1 year
         Vajna, Miklos made 126 review comments in 1 month, and 1527 in 1 year
         Michael Stahl made 120 review comments in 1 month, and 1434 in 1 year
         Behrens, Thorsten made 117 review comments in 1 month, and 1631 in 1 year
         Bergmann, Stephan made 112 review comments in 1 month, and 1056 in 1 year
         Holešovský, Jan made 102 review comments in 1 month, and 870 in 1 year
         Meeks, Michael made 93 review comments in 1 month, and 613 in 1 year
         Grandin, Noel made 91 review comments in 1 month, and 1136 in 1 year
         Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 81 review comments in 1 month, and 905 in 1 year
   + Patches automatically abandoned:
       uitest for bug tdf#126685 ( Zdenek Crhonek )
           - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/78575
       it's a docker anti-pattern to get the latest fixes during image build ( Andras Timar )
           - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/78645
   + big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
         Pranam Lashkari

* Commit Access
   + None

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Bjoern/Kendy/Thorsten)
   + sleep -1 weeks

* Jenkins / CI update (Christian)
   from:Thu Nov  7 15:15:43 2019
   master linux rel  jobs: 144 ok: 144 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
   master linux dbg  jobs: 130 ok: 126 ko:   3 fail ratio:  2.31 % break:   2 broken duration: 1.42%
   master mac rel    jobs:   0 ok:   0 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
   master mac dbg    jobs:   0 ok:   0 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
   master win rel    jobs: 123 ok: 106 ko:  17 fail ratio: 13.82 % break:  14 broken duration: 9.69%
   master win dbg    jobs: 130 ok: 121 ko:   9 fail ratio:  6.92 % break:   8 broken duration: 3.46%
   master win64 dbg  jobs: 128 ok: 113 ko:  15 fail ratio: 11.72 % break:  13 broken duration:10.68%
   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%
   master gerrit lin jobs: 549 ok: 455 ko:  77 fail ratio: 14.03% time for ok: mean:  19 median:  17
   master gerrit plg jobs: 539 ok: 367 ko: 123 fail ratio: 22.82% time for ok: mean:  28 median:  26
   master gerrit win jobs: 565 ok: 388 ko: 142 fail ratio: 25.13% time for ok: mean:  50 median:  50
   master gerrit mac jobs: 542 ok: 429 ko:  72 fail ratio: 13.28% time for ok: mean:  36 median:  26
   master gerrit all jobs: 489 ok: 268 ko: 163 fail ratio: 33.33% time for ok: mean:  69 median:  58
  + https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/tmp/gerrit_191114.html
  + tests that failed more than twice in last seven days:
     3 CppunitTest_sc_ucalc
     3 CppunitTest_sw_macros_test
     3 CppunitTest_vcl_PixelTest
     4 CppunitTest_sw_uiwriter
     4 UITest_calc_tests4
     5 CppunitTest_sw_uwriter
     6 CppunitTest_sd_tiledrendering
    16 UITest_chart

* l10n (Sophie)
  + no Sophie this week
  + weblate instance status: still discovering, feedback collection
  + already migrated from pootle for master, 6.3 may or may not be migrated
  + pondering also importing the old history, not sure if it will be worth it
  + new language: Malay
  + is Online migrated to weblate as well? (Miklos)
    + plan: do the same, at some state (Cloph)
    + perhaps better git integration
    + updated templates on both pootle/weblate and core/online
      + no project is on both (avoids confusion)

* Graphics architecture (Thorsten)
 * https://pad.documentfoundation.org/p/ESC_graphics_architecture
 * skia status: see the updated feature/skia branch in core.git (Miklos)
   * hope to merge this branch to master after the libreoffice-6-4 branch-off
   * current defaults: enabled build-time, disabled runtime
     (later: replace the OpenGL default with skia+vulkan on Windows)
 * watch the dev list for detailed questions (Thorsten)

* docx/xlsx-aggressive-competitors (Miklos)
 + docx metabug status: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128194 7 open bugs
 + xlsx metabug status: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128382 4 open bugs
  + unchanged from last week

* Developer's guide drawings (Ilmari)
   + Ilmari suddenly realised it makes no sense to create UML diagrams in Draw
   + The drawings contain tailored representations of class relations, which cannot be acquired via 
Doxygen
   + Planning to use PlantUML - has simple plain-text notation, can be made pretty with CSS-like 
styles
   + Context: plans to replace bitmaps with something editable
     + plan to import the content into some (separate?) wiki (Dennis is interested)
   + use Draw for the task? (Heiko)
     + ideal tool generates this from plain text input (Ilmari)

* QA update (Xisco)

   + Please help flesh out the monthly reports:
         https://nextcloud.documentfoundation.org/s/2qbepFYXXan4ief

   + UNCONFIRMED: 570 (-32)
       + enhancements: 79  (-12)
       + needsUXEval: 6 (+1)
       + haveBackTrace: 0 (+0)
       + needsDevAdvice: 13 (+0)
       + documentation:  10 (-1)
       + android:  6 (-5)
       + iOS:  1 (-10)
       + Online:  14 (+0)


   + Most pressing bugs:
    New:
       + MySQL/MariaDB direct Connection: time-values not written to table
           + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128698
           + not yet bisected
    Old:
        + Save-As behavior on MacOS Catalina
           + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126638
           + not happening for everyone

        + After Update to 6.1.4 on macOS fonts are blurred on retina
display (xcode 10)
           + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122218
             + probably depends on xcode version (Xisco)
             + but newer xcode is required by notorization (Cloph)
               + ideal would be to build with xcode 10 entirely
               + HiDPI screen for Cloph would be great (Michael)
               + found out: not a regression, but it is from a user’s PoV


   + New high severity bugs of the week:
       + Restart in safe mode: Open containig folder doesn't work and Show user profile gets a 
error message
           + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128538
           + Stephan ?


* QA stats
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
     +149  -7 (-172) overall)
     many thanks to the top bug squashers:
      QA Administrators       22
      Xisco Faulí             18
      Timur                   11
      Caolán McNamara         9
      Julien Nabet            9
      Buovjaga                8
      V Stuart Foote          6
      Christian Lohmaier      6
      NISZ LibreOffice Team   4
      Alex Thurgood           4

   + top 10 bugs reporters:
      Xisco Faulí             14
      NISZ LibreOffice Team   13
      andreas_k               7
      Rizal Muttaqin          4
      Heiko Tietze            3
      csongor                 2
      ricky.tigg              2
      Michael Weghorn         2
      Volga                   2
      sdc.blanco              2

   + top 10 bugs fixers:
      McNamara, Caolán        9
      Nabet, Julien           7
      Adolfo Jayme Barrientos 4
      Christian Lohmaier      3
      Rathke, Eike            2
      Vajna, Miklos           2
      Muhammet Kara           2
      Kaganski, Mike          2
      Mehrbrodt, Samuel       2
      Alex Thurgood           2

   + top 10 bugs confirmers:
      Xisco Faulí             61
      Heiko Tietze            12
      dieterp                 11
      Alex Thurgood           10
      Nabet, Julien           9
      *UNKNOWN*               7
      Brinzing, Oliver        5
      m.a.riosv               5
      Timur                   5
      Raal                    4


* Highest-Priority bugs (aka "MABs"):
  + http://bit.ly/2lJAAJI
    6.0 : 1/52 -     1 %  (+0)
    5.4 : 1/40 -     2 %  (+0)
    5.3 : 0/53 -     0 %  (+0)
    5.2 : 0/43 -     0 %  (-2)
    5.1 : 0/35 -     0 %  (+0)
    5.0 : 0/64 -     0 %  (+0)
    4.4 : 0/75 -     0 %  (+0)
    4.3 : 2/73 -     2 %  (+0)
    4.2 : 2/133 -    1 %  (+0)
    4.1 : 1/83 -     1 %  (+0)
    4.0 : 3/82 -     3 %  (+0)
    old : 4/242 -    1 %  (+0)


* Bisected bugs open: keyword 'bisected'
  + more accurate - down to a single commit.
  + http://bit.ly/2dyIfDy
  + 696/3707 695/3676 697/3658 689/3633 692/3624 695/3606 693/3586

    done by:
       Xisco Faulí            22
       NISZ LibreOffice Team   6
       Raal                    1
       writepaperforme2        1
       Weghorn, Michael        1


* Bibisected bugs open: keyword 'bibisected'
  + http://bit.ly/2cSCXlS
  + 871/4533 868/4502 870/4483 861/4457 865/4447 868/4427 867/4406

    done by:
       Xisco Faulí            23
       NISZ LibreOffice Team   6
       Raal                    1
       Weghorn, Michael        1


* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
  + 1160(+11) bugs open of 9040(+40) total 3(+1) high prio.

    done by:
       Xisco Faulí            26
       NISZ LibreOffice Team   7
       Alex Thurgood           3
       Buovjaga                1
       Henschel, Regina        1
       Weghorn, Michael        1


* ~Component   count net * high severity regressions
  + http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
    Calc          - 1(+0)
    UI            - 1(+0)
    Base          - 1(+1)

  by OS:
    Windows       - 0(+0)
    Mac OS X      - 1(+0)
    Linux         - 0(+0)
    All           - 2(+1)


* ~Component   count net * all regressions
  + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
    Writer: other            - 317(+2)
    Calc                     - 225(+2)
    Impress                  - 130(+0)
    Writer: docx filter      - 77(-2)
    LibreOffice              - 71(+2)
    Draw                     - 45(+1)
    UI                       - 39(-1)
    Borders                  - 39(-1)
    Base                     - 37(+1)
    Writer: perf             - 35(+0)
    Crashes                  - 34(+3)
    Writer: doc filter       - 32(+0)
    graphics stack           - 29(+1)
    Writer: other filter     - 29(-1)
    RTL                      - 22(-1)
    filters and storage      - 22(+0)
    Chart                    - 20(+2)
    Printing and PDF export  - 19(+0)
    BASIC                    - 18(+0)
    framework                - 3(+0)
    sdk                      - 1(+0)