ESC meeting minutes: 2020-01-16

* Present:
    + Stephan, Caolan, Michael S, Miklos, Eike, Ilmari, Cloph, Heiko, Sophie, Olivier, Muhammet, 
Michael W

* Completed Action Items:

* Pending Action Items:
   + Propose new certified developers (Kendy, Stephan, Thorsten)
     + still waiting
   + file GSoC idea about gstreamer for Windows (Ilmari)
     [ canceled, turns out it doesn’t make sense ]

* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
   + Marketing says 6.5 will be 7.0 (Sophie)
AI:      + update configure (Cloph)
   + 6.4 status
     + RC2 is on the servers, RC3 next week
     + libffi is sorted out on libreoffice-6-4-0
   + 6.3 status
     + 6.3.5 release, RC1 in 2 weeks
   + Remotes
   + Android viewer: old core.git viewer is currently broken on master
     + both arch64 and x86 (crash on doc load, will investigate)
   + Online
     + libreoffice-6-4 branch is created

* Documentation (Olivier)
   + New Help
       + More improvements in XHP Editor (ohallot)
          + Menus x buttons.
          + Help for XHP and Codemirror editor
          + https://newdesign.libreoffice.org/xhpeditor/index.php
   + HelpContent2
       + More fixes in contents (Seth Chaiklin, Stan Horacek, Olivier)
   + Guides
       + Full thrust for updates in
          + Impress 6.4
          + Getting started 6.4
          + and several translations for the current guides.

* UX Update (Heiko)
   + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
       236(236) (topicUI) bugs open, 261(261) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
   + Updates:
       BZ changes   1 week    1 month    3 months   12 months
            added      5(-6)     21(-3)     47(-4)     110(-6)
        commented     65(-43)   271(-10)   851(-9)    2511(-9)
          removed      0(0)       1(-2)      6(0)       16(-1)
         resolved      6(2)      23(-2)     74(0)      234(1)
   + top 10 contributors:
         Heiko Tietze made 167 changes in 1 month, and 1137 changes in 1 year
         Foote, V Stuart made 87 changes in 1 month, and 457 changes in 1 year
         Seth Chaiklin made 56 changes in 1 month, and 85 changes in 1 year
         Roman Kuznetsov made 50 changes in 1 month, and 312 changes in 1 year
         Dieter Praas made 44 changes in 1 month, and 364 changes in 1 year
         m.a.riosv made 14 changes in 1 month, and 35 changes in 1 year
         *UNKNOWN* made 12 changes in 1 month, and 12 changes in 1 year
         Jim Raykowski made 9 changes in 1 month, and 43 changes in 1 year
         Kaganski, Mike made 9 changes in 1 month, and 69 changes in 1 year
         R. Green made 8 changes in 1 month, and 8 changes in 1 year

   + New tickets with needsUXEval Jan/09-18

     * Color Name Visible in Sidebar
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130034
     * ALPHABETICAL INDEX: make it easier to index ranges of pages
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130003
     * Add "save and reload" option in the cancel Confirmation box that appears
       when attempting to reload a modified document
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129882
     * Can "Inherit from" ever be used in "Numbering Style" dialog?
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129910
     => in discussion

->   * No proper spacing between pages in "Hide Whitespace mode"
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130023
     => accepted

     * For enhancement: option to show/hide toolbar of Tabbed Toolbar Interface
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129936
     * All non-svg icons are blurry, no dark svg icons
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129946
     * UI (rfe): Alphabetize the special character subsets
       + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129907
     => DUP, WF

* Crash Testing (Caolan)
   + 27(-2) import failure, 4(+0) export failures
   + 2 coverity issues
   + 8 ossfuzz issues (all timeouts)

* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
   + 6.3.3.2    39566(+3950)
   + 6.3.4.2    10653(+3535)
   + 6.4.0.1    340(+118)
   + 6.4.0.2    33(+0)

* Hackfests & Events (Thorsten)
  + hope to have one each quarter.
  + plans for this year:
    + FOSDEM 2020 (in 2 weeks)
         + HackFest February 3rd and 4th, again probably in Beta Coworking (after FOSDEM)
        + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Hackfest/FOSDEM2020
          please add your name to the participants list
      + devroom is approved, will be on Saturday
        + talks submitted: Caolan, Thorsten (will do the lightning), Ilmari,
          Kendy, Andras, Pedro, Michael, Heiko, Xisco
      + CMS room might be interesting too (Thorsten)

* GSoC 2020 (Ilmari)
   + https://opensource.googleblog.com/2019/12/announcing-google-summer-of-code-2020.html
       + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas
       + Please review the ideas for any obsolete ones
         + Not much has happened (Ilmari)
       + Please all of you at least came up with a new idea (Thorsten)
       + We have lots of good ideas (Heiko)
       + Would anyone want to mentor PPTX stuff like transitions or macro-related stuff? (Ilmari)
       + Org application opens soon (Thorsten)
         + 5th Feb is the deadline (Ilmari)
AI:          + will take care of the application process (Thorsten)
            + submission period is now open (Ilmari)
    + LibreOffice developer bootcamp (Muhammet)
      + in total, more than 140 students got introduced to open source concepts
      + 15 completed
     + now running a weekly mini-hackfest on Saturdays (5-10 students)
     + Muhammet gives them tips, helping each other
     + LibreOffice developer workshop upcoming, 25th-28th Jan
       + 30 students applied so far
       + requirement is a bit higher now (some c++ experience now required)
         + also: ability to read English documentation

* mentoring/easyhack update
         committer...   1 week     1 month      3 months      12 months
                 open     108(14)     185(29)       199(32)       208(33)
              reviews     770(-94)   3106(-627)   13062(-415)   54491(-658)
               merged     339(17)    1311(-51)     4959(32)     17784(12)
            abandoned      21(0)       92(2)        270(6)        918(12)
          own commits     272(28)    1072(-37)     4082(-81)    14812(-21)
       review commits      79(-37)    410(-43)     1153(0)       4332(3)
       contributor...   1 week      1 month     3 months    12 months
                 open       32(-24)     84(9)       84(8)       87(8)
              reviews     1126(-70)   3194(569)   4688(829)   7547(850)
               merged       37(-7)     141(-2)     275(24)     925(-1)
            abandoned        9(0)       31(1)      208(5)      480(3)
          own commits       39(-15)    167(11)     362(61)    1009(55)
       review commits        0(0)        0(0)        0(0)        0(0)
   + easyHack statistics:
      needsDevEval 6(6)   needsUXEval 1(1)   cleanup_comments 207(207)
      total 256(256)   assigned 8(8)   open 234(234)
   + top 10 contributors:
         Seth Chaiklin made 48 patches in 1 month, and 66 patches in 1 year
         Weblate made 10 patches in 1 month, and 16 patches in 1 year
         Yusuf Keten made 10 patches in 1 month, and 10 patches in 1 year
         mesut çifci made 10 patches in 1 month, and 10 patches in 1 year
         Onur Yılmaz made 9 patches in 1 month, and 9 patches in 1 year
         Henrie, Alex made 5 patches in 1 month, and 6 patches in 1 year
         Kemal Ayhan made 4 patches in 1 month, and 4 patches in 1 year
         PhD. Ayhan YALÇINSOY made 4 patches in 1 month, and 4 patches in 1 year
         LibreOfficiant made 4 patches in 1 month, and 90 patches in 1 year
         Szabolcs Tóth (NISZ) made 4 patches in 1 month, and 14 patches in 1 year
   + top 10 reviewers:
         Nabet, Julien made 232 review comments in 1 month, and 2411 in 1 year
         Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 160 review comments in 1 month, and 965 in 1 year
         Bergmann, Stephan made 129 review comments in 1 month, and 1097 in 1 year
         Meeks, Michael made 127 review comments in 1 month, and 778 in 1 year
         Kaganski, Mike made 127 review comments in 1 month, and 847 in 1 year
         Vajna, Miklos made 121 review comments in 1 month, and 1585 in 1 year
         Michael Stahl made 118 review comments in 1 month, and 1561 in 1 year
         Behrens, Thorsten made 106 review comments in 1 month, and 1571 in 1 year
         Timar, Andras made 106 review comments in 1 month, and 1333 in 1 year
         Grandin, Noel made 102 review comments in 1 month, and 1167 in 1 year
   + big CONGRATULATIONS to contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
         Shashikant Kadam


* Commit Access
   + None

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Bjoern/Kendy/Thorsten)
   + sleep -6 weeks

* Jenkins / CI update (Christian)
   from:Thu Jan  9 15:09:07 2020
   master linux rel  jobs:  80 ok:  80 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 0.00%
   master linux dbg  jobs:  78 ok:  76 ko:   2 fail ratio:  2.56 % break:   2 broken duration: 3.94%
   master mac rel    jobs:  57 ok:  53 ko:   4 fail ratio:  7.02 % break:   2 broken duration: 7.38%
   master mac dbg    jobs:  53 ok:  50 ko:   2 fail ratio:  3.77 % break:   1 broken duration: 1.78%
   master win rel    jobs: 105 ok:  94 ko:   8 fail ratio:  7.62 % break:   8 broken duration:12.09%
   master win dbg    jobs: 111 ok: 102 ko:   6 fail ratio:  5.41 % break:   5 broken duration: 8.85%
   master win64 dbg  jobs: 105 ok: 101 ko:   3 fail ratio:  2.86 % break:   3 broken duration: 5.13%
   master gerrit lin jobs: 523 ok: 404 ko:  84 fail ratio: 16.06% time for ok: mean:  19 median:  19
   master gerrit plg jobs: 499 ok: 322 ko: 131 fail ratio: 26.25% time for ok: mean:  27 median:  25
   master gerrit win jobs: 529 ok: 365 ko: 108 fail ratio: 20.42% time for ok: mean:  53 median:  54
   master gerrit mac jobs: 531 ok: 404 ko:  87 fail ratio: 16.38% time for ok: mean:  36 median:  24
   master gerrit all jobs: 513 ok: 279 ko: 160 fail ratio: 31.19% time for ok: mean:  67 median:  57
 + https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/tmp/gerrit_200116.html
 + nothing stands out (Cloph)

 + clang builder now use sberg’s kill-wrapper
   + looks promising so far (Stephan)


 + slaves needed “make distclean”, but slave-cleaning job doesn’t do that
   so couple builds failed because of the system updates
(unrelated to the wrapper, just happened at the same time)
   + should we change the job to do distclean? (Stephan)
     + you can even do ‘git clean’ (Cloph)
 + Luke Benes worked on 32bit TB setup during holidays, now on cloph to
   integrate into jenkins
   + it’s a tinderbox, not for gerrit changes (Cloph)

* l10n (Sophie)
  + Online.git creates Gerrit changes, so please don’t touch po files in git!
  + not a problem in core.git, have an interim repo there
  + workshop tomorrow with the Creole team to onboard them (Sophie)

* Graphics architecture (Thorsten)
 * https://pad.documentfoundation.org/p/ESC_graphics_architecture
 * skia / vulkan: to try it, export SAL_ENABLESKIA=1 on master (Miklos)
   + metabug: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129062
     + 13 fixed bugs
   + Lubos works on this to make it the default on Windows (at some stage)

* docx/xlsx competitive marketing issues (Miklos)
 + docx metabug status: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128194 6 open bugs
 + xlsx metabug status: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128382 4 open bugs
  + 1 DOCX bug fixed since last week, thanks to NISZ

* https://meet.jit.si/tdfesc vs https://jitsi.documentfoundation.org/esc (Miklos)
 + Cloph: no difference
 + Olivier: TDF instance needs no survey at the end
 + Heiko: like the self-hosted way
 + Ilmari: it was fine
 + Eike: it was OK
=> let’s continue here on the TDF instance

* QA update (Xisco)
   + Please help flesh out the monthly reports:
         https://nextcloud.documentfoundation.org/s/2qbepFYXXan4ief

   + UNCONFIRMED: 625 (+6)
       + enhancements: 73  (-5)
       + needsUXEval: 0 (-6)
       + haveBackTrace: 0 (-1)
       + needsDevAdvice: 11 (+0)
       + documentation:  4 (+1)
       + android:  6 (+1)
       + iOS:  0 (+0)
       + Online:  21 (+3)



   + Most pressing bugs:
    New:
       + Navigator mode can no longer be set from its Navigation dialog, entangled with Findbar 
'navigate by' droplist--affected by position of the dialog
           + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130004
           + needs bisecting

    Old:
    Fixed:


   + New high severity bugs of the week:
       + CRASH: Scrolling down document
           + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129887
           + fixed, thanks to Serge

       + Section links are lost on save and reload  (see c3-c4)
           + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129883
          + Noel? (bisected just 2 days ago)


* QA stats
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
     +131  +38 (-143) overall)
     many thanks to the top bug squashers:
      QA Administrators       13
      Timur                   11
      Tor Lillqvist           10
      Heiko Tietze            9
      Xisco Faulí             8
      Buovjaga                8
      V Stuart Foote          7
      Roman Kuznetsov         4
      Caolán McNamara         4
      Julien Nabet            4

   + top 10 bugs reporters:
      TorrAB                  6
      Markus Elfring          5
      sdc.blanco              5
      christoph_egger         4
      R. Green                4
      Gerald Pfeifer          3
      NISZ LibreOffice Team   2
      crap                    2
      Athos                   2
      Gerhard Weydt           2

   + top 10 bugs fixers:
      Lillqvist, Tor          10
      McNamara, Caolán        4
      Luboš Luňák             4
      *UNKNOWN*               3
      Tünde Tóth              3
      Michael Stahl           3
      Roman Kuznetsov         2
      Brinzing, Oliver        2
      Németh, László          2
      Adolfo Jayme Barrientos 2

   + top 10 bugs confirmers:
      Xisco Faulí             27
      Dieter Praas            13
      Nabet, Julien           9
      Heiko Tietze            9
      Timur                   7
      Roman Kuznetsov         4
      *UNKNOWN*               4
      Dagmara                 4
      Alex Thurgood           3
      Budea, Áron             3


* Highest-Priority bugs (aka "MABs"):
  + http://bit.ly/2lJAAJI
    6.0 : 1/52 -     1 %  (+0)
    5.4 : 1/40 -     2 %  (+0)
    5.3 : 0/54 -     0 %  (+0)
    5.2 : 0/43 -     0 %  (+0)
    5.1 : 1/36 -     2 %  (+0)
    5.0 : 0/64 -     0 %  (+0)
    4.4 : 0/76 -     0 %  (+0)
    4.3 : 2/73 -     2 %  (+0)
    4.2 : 1/133 -    0 %  (+0)
    4.1 : 3/85 -     3 %  (+0)
    4.0 : 3/82 -     3 %  (+0)
    old : 6/244 -    2 %  (+0)


* Bisected bugs open: keyword 'bisected'
  + more accurate - down to a single commit.
  + http://bit.ly/2dyIfDy
  +

    done by:
       Xisco Faulí             5
       Raal                    4
       Telesto                 4
       NISZ LibreOffice Team   2
       Tõnnov, Mihkel          1
       Roman Kuznetsov         1
       Budea, Áron             1


* Bibisected bugs open: keyword 'bibisected'
  + http://bit.ly/2cSCXlS
  +

    done by:
       Xisco Faulí             5
       Raal                    4
       Telesto                 4
       NISZ LibreOffice Team   2
       Tõnnov, Mihkel          1
       Roman Kuznetsov         1
       Budea, Áron             1


* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
  + 1134(-9) bugs open of 9236(+13) total 2(+0) high prio.

    done by:
       Timur                   4
       Xisco Faulí             3
       Raal                    2
       Roman Kuznetsov         2
       Telesto                 2
       Dieter Praas            1
       NISZ LibreOffice Team   1
       Foote, V Stuart         1


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

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


* ~Component   count net * all regressions
  + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
    Writer: other            - 318(-5)
    Calc                     - 225(-1)
    Impress                  - 130(-2)
    Writer: docx filter      - 71(-1)
    LibreOffice              - 64(+0)
    Draw                     - 44(+0)
    UI                       - 41(+1)
    Borders                  - 37(-2)
    Base                     - 34(-1)
    Writer: perf             - 32(+0)
    Crashes                  - 32(-1)
    Writer: other filter     - 30(+0)
    Writer: doc filter       - 29(+0)
    graphics stack           - 27(+1)
    RTL                      - 23(+0)
    filters and storage      - 22(+0)
    Printing and PDF export  - 19(+0)
    BASIC                    - 18(+0)
    Chart                    - 17(+0)
    framework                - 2(+0)
    sdk                      - 1(+0)
    Installation             - 1(+1)