ESC meeting minutes: 2020-06-04

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

* Completed Action Items:
    + run ‘make check’ as part of the TDF CI for online.git (Cloph)
    + put the deprecation notice to the 7.0 release notes for macOS 10.10 & 10.11 (Ilmari)

* Pending Action Items:
    + fix Jenkins_Callgrind at some stage (Cloph)
      [ must be an env var mismatch, custom LD_LIBRARY_PATH causes problems ]


* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
    + 7.0 status
      + UI freeze & string freeze in the first week of July
      + decide next week: if a beta2 is needed (so far nobody asked for it)
      + input from QA/l10n would be great (Thorsten)
        + no blocker fixed that would need a beta2 ATM (Xisco)
        + in favor of not having beta2 (Sophie)
      + there will be 3 RCs (Cloph)
    + 6.4 status: rc1 for 6.4.5 next week
    + 6.3 status: no more releases planned
    + Remotes
    + Android viewer
      + now green
    + Online
      + libreoffice-7-0 branch is created (Andras)

* Documentation (Olivier)
    + New Help
       + Fixes in JS and CSS (buovjaga, ohallot)
    + Helpcontents2
       + Improvements/review in Calc function syntax description (S. Fanning)
       + conversion DE-EN for section mnemonics (Johnny_M)
       + Updates in contents (ohallot, fitoshido)
    + Google Seasons of Doc
       + receiving proposals
    + Guides
       + Discussions of new templates for 7.0
         + for the guides, not for LibreOffice in general

* UX Update (Heiko)
    + Bugzilla (topicUI) statistics
        243(243) (topicUI) bugs open, 275(275) (needsUXEval) needs to be evaluated by the UXteam
    + Updates:
        BZ changes   1 week    1 month    3 months    12 months
             added     10(-2)     33(-3)      90(2)      183(1)
         commented     79(-18)   400(-64)   1029(-23)   3500(5)
           removed      0(0)       2(-1)      37(0)       46(0)
          resolved      6(1)      49(-7)     126(-2)     345(2)
    + top 10 contributors:
          Heiko Tietze made 226 changes in 1 month, and 1993 changes in 1 year
          Telesto made 172 changes in 1 month, and 255 changes in 1 year
          Foote, V Stuart made 65 changes in 1 month, and 608 changes in 1 year
          Dieter Praas made 49 changes in 1 month, and 541 changes in 1 year
          BogdanB made 37 changes in 1 month, and 67 changes in 1 year
          Ilmari Lauhakangas made 33 changes in 1 month, and 129 changes in 1 year
          Kainz, Andreas made 28 changes in 1 month, and 435 changes in 1 year
          Xisco Fauli made 27 changes in 1 month, and 579 changes in 1 year
          Martin van Zijl made 18 changes in 1 month, and 18 changes in 1 year
          Monastirsky, Maxim made 16 changes in 1 month, and 52 changes in 1 year

      + New tickets with needsUXEval May/29-Jun/04

        * User Data fields are cut
          + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133058
        * No margin or padding on the left of the cell name field
          + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133057
        * Endnote Heading for HTML and Epub exports
          + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133577
        * Sound to verify document has been saved
          + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133585
        * FIND & REPLACE DIALOG: Improve find and replace for character
          attributes
          + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133439
        * Improve word completion suggestions
          + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133494
        => in  discussion, unconfirmed


    ->  * Data loss in tables when opening odt file (libreoffice writer
          document)
          + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133611
          + text in cell, then number format is applied, text is gone
          + not a regression

        * Replace hard-coded paste limit to 24117248 cells with a warning
          dialog
          + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133545
        => new

        * No freehand drawing buttons in Draw 6.4.2.2
          + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133561
        * Make "current selection" persistent in F/R dialogue
          + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133480
        * Writer comments ruler UI control problems
          + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133569
        * Pressing CTRL+W with a single document open closes LibreOffice
          + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133542
        => WF, WFM, NAB

* Crash Testing (Caolan)
    + 15(+0) import failure, 5(+0) export failures
      progress here thanks to mst
    + ??? coverity issues
        upload woes continue
    + 9 ossfuzz issues, 2 fixed but pending ossfuzz build

* Crash Reporting (Xisco)
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/6.3.6.2
        + (+518) 1376 858 668 529 283 0
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/6.4.2.2
        + (-302) 2731 3033 3501 3702 4322 5765 6869 6527 8046 6988 3716 0
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/6.4.3.2
        + (-1347) 4896 6243 7540 6577 5725 4328 2199 0
    + https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/version/6.4.4.2
        + (+2032) 3670 1638 0
Since 6.4 without steps
- 
https://crashreport.libreoffice.org/stats/signature/std::vector%3CMsgRange,std::allocator%3CMsgRange%3E%20%3E::_Emplace_reallocate%3CMsgRange%20const%20&%3E
* GSoC 2020 (Ilmari)
    + Projects announced: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/05/05/9769/
    + June 1, 2020 - August 24, 2020: Students work on their projects
    + 6 projects accepted
    + the game is on, students are reporting more or less regularly
      + remind your students if it's not happening

* Mentoring/easyhack update
          committer...   1 week     1 month     3 months    12 months
                  open      83(-5)     150(6)      154(4)       163(1)
               reviews     490(122)   1750(94)    4120(10)    21543(-114)
                merged     336(42)    1651(-35)   4553(10)    19067(39)
             abandoned      23(2)      102(9)      269(-4)     1038(7)
           own commits     255(3)     1314(-66)   3744(-12)   15630(-11)
        review commits     149(42)     502(74)    1194(55)     4714(64)
        contributor...   1 week      1 month     3 months     12 months
                  open       20(-12)     67(-9)       69(-9)       71(-9)
               reviews     1238(128)   4590(184)   11064(200)   40158(452)
                merged       72(29)     182(57)      345(43)      935(66)
             abandoned       15(9)       38(5)       127(-1)      555(9)
           own commits      108(55)     262(89)      515(75)     1221(101)
        review commits        0(0)        0(0)         0(0)         0(0)
    + easyHack statistics:
       needsDevEval 8(8)   needsUXEval 3(3)   cleanup_comments 224(224)
       total 269(269)   assigned 25(25)   open 225(225)
    + top 10 contributors:
          Steve Fanning made 82 patches in 1 month, and 84 patches in 1 year
          Johnny_M made 68 patches in 1 month, and 88 patches in 1 year
          Gökay ŞATIR made 13 patches in 1 month, and 13 patches in 1 year
          LibreOfficiant made 12 patches in 1 month, and 126 patches in 1 year
          himajin100000 made 6 patches in 1 month, and 18 patches in 1 year
          Weblate made 4 patches in 1 month, and 53 patches in 1 year
          Ilmari Lauhakangas made 3 patches in 1 month, and 23 patches in 1 year
          Aditya Sahu made 3 patches in 1 month, and 7 patches in 1 year
          Attila Bakos made 3 patches in 1 month, and 14 patches in 1 year
          mesut çifci made 3 patches in 1 month, and 16 patches in 1 year
    + top 10 reviewers:
          Timar, Andras made 198 review comments in 1 month, and 1385 in 1 year
          Olivier Hallot made 180 review comments in 1 month, and 520 in 1 year
          Behrens, Thorsten made 168 review comments in 1 month, and 1234 in 1 year
          Michael Stahl made 98 review comments in 1 month, and 1422 in 1 year
          Adolfo Jayme Barrientos made 94 review comments in 1 month, and 1078 in 1 year
          Vajngerl, Tomaž made 92 review comments in 1 month, and 260 in 1 year
          Grandin, Noel made 66 review comments in 1 month, and 1117 in 1 year
          Nabet, Julien made 66 review comments in 1 month, and 1832 in 1 year
          Meeks, Michael made 60 review comments in 1 month, and 846 in 1 year
          Bergmann, Stephan made 60 review comments in 1 month, and 889 in 1 year
    + Patches automatically abandoned:
        Bazel: Upload LibreOffice API to Maven Central ( David Ostrovsky )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/87819
            - neutral on this (Thorsten)
            - against it (Cloph)
              - comments are not addressed so far

        Uppercase typo ( Sophia Schroeder )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/88022
            - little value for lots of noise (work for translators) (Olivier, Sophie)

        tdf#131437 speed-up: avoid adding into recent list when doc loaded ( Serge Krot (CIB) )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/90775

        tdf#108766 related: Persist Navigator outline tracking mode setting ( Jim Raykowski )
            - https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/91338
            - will ping Jim, asking if this is useful work (Heiko)

    + big CONGRATULATIONS to new contributors who have at least 1 merged patch, since last report:
          Gökay ŞATIR (Collabora)
          Michael Warner
          Markus Keller

* Commit Access
    + None

* Developer Certification (Stephan/Kendy/Thorsten)
    + sleep 15 weeks
    + seeking for a new person as a replacement for Bjoern, who is currently
      inactive

* Jenkins / CI update (Christian)
    from:Thu May 28 13:33:37 2020
    master linux rel  jobs:  41 ok:  40 ko:   1 fail ratio:  2.44 % break:   1 broken duration: 
0.11%
    master linux dbg  jobs:  35 ok:  24 ko:   9 fail ratio: 25.71 % break:   7 broken 
duration:21.18%
    master mac rel    jobs:  49 ok:  49 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 
0.00%
    master mac dbg    jobs:  50 ok:  50 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 
0.00%
    master win rel    jobs:  65 ok:  65 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 
0.00%
    master win dbg    jobs:  73 ok:  73 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 
0.00%
    master win64 dbg  jobs:  71 ok:  71 ko:   0 fail ratio:  0.00 % break:   0 broken duration: 
0.00%
    master gerrit lin jobs: 642 ok: 536 ko:  70 fail ratio: 10.90% time for ok: mean:  24 median:  
23
    master gerrit plg jobs: 550 ok: 325 ko: 185 fail ratio: 33.64% time for ok: mean:  33 median:  
30
    master gerrit win jobs: 658 ok: 451 ko: 158 fail ratio: 24.01% time for ok: mean:  57 median:  
56
    master gerrit mac jobs: 714 ok: 397 ko: 274 fail ratio: 38.38% time for ok: mean:  37 median:  
32
    master gerrit all jobs: 599 ok: 207 ko: 332 fail ratio: 55.43% time for ok: mean:  95 median:  
91
   + https://dev-www.libreoffice.org/tmp/gerrit_200604.html
   + tests failing more than twice in last seven days
      3 CppunitTest_sc_databaserangeobj
      3 CppunitTest_sw_odfexport
      4 CppunitTest_svl_qa_cppunit
      4 CppunitTest_sw_ooxmlexport5
      5 CppunitTest_sd_tiledrendering
      5 CppunitTest_sw_uwriter
      6 JunitTest_toolkit_unoapi_1
     11 CppunitTest_sw_layoutwriter
     11 CppunitTest_sw_uiwriter
     28 UITest_calc_demo
     54 CppunitTest_dbaccess_hsqldb_test
     65 CppunitTest_dbaccess_RowSetClones

     + suffering from unstable tests (Cloph)
       + some java tests are unstable since the bump of the jdk
       + Noel already disabled the most painful ones
       + rebase -> but then have to wait a little
     + Stephan looked at the UITest_calc_demo instability
       + https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/90380 "Make Chart Creation Wizard async"

* l10n (Sophie)
  + Swahili: new localization
  + work is ongoing

* Graphics architecture (Thorsten)
  * https://pad.documentfoundation.org/p/ESC_graphics_architecture
  * skia / vulkan: to try it on master (Lubos)
    + metabug: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129062
      + 3 (-1) open bugs, 65 total (+0)

* ODF extensions (Michael S)
  + surprised to find 39 of them in the code
  + please add new ones to wiki
    
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/ODF_Implementer_Notes/List_of_LibreOffice_ODF_Extensions#LibreOffice_ODF_extensions
    + all these should be listed on the wiki page!
    + they didn't go into 1.3, partly due to this
    + please take care of this
    + there is a "check implementer notes" script to check missing entries (Thorsten)
      + assuming you at least added a test for the extension, the script should catch badness
AI: build a commit list + names (Thorsten)
    + please take care

* LibreOffice Conference will be Online (Sophie)
  + CfP will be shorter
  + deadline to submit your talks: 21st July
  + 
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/06/02/opensuse-libreoffice-conference-2020-will-take-place-online/
  + could we have workshops? (Thorsten)
    + difficult for longer sessions (Sohpie)
    + perhaps could do a Jitsi session
    + exce

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

    + UNCONFIRMED: 820 (+55)
        + enhancements: 90  (+4)
        + needsUXEval: 17 (+0)
        + haveBackTrace: 1 (+0)
        + needsDevAdvice: 12 (+0)
        + documentation:  12 (+1)
        + android:  3 (-1)
        + iOS:  0 (+0)
        + Online:  14 (+0)



    + Most pressing bugs:
     New:
                None

     Old:
       + macOS: Can't Save As after installing language pack on Catalina
           + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=132025
           + more info here: “Subject: Budget 2020 proposals and macOS Catalina support / 
onboarding” on the dev list (Heiko)

       + Opening ODS file rise Incorrect Format exception. Opened well with OpenOffice 4.1.3
           + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116079
           + regression from the fastparser gsoc work from 2016
          + Mohammed is no longer around, Julien is asking for tips

        + Text runs of RTL scripts (e.g. Arabic, Hebrew, Persian) from imported PDF are reversed, 
PDFIProcessor::mirrorString not behaving
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104597
            + Thorsten looking at it
     Fixed:
       + Beta 7.0.0.0 crashes upon dragging a document into its window
                + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133527                  + 
Thanks to Mike


    + New high severity bugs of the week:
        + Cannot sign existing PDF, ' .tmp does not exist' from 6.4
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130354
            + already fixed, thanks to Miklos

        + FILEOPEN DOC: Endnotes not at end of document
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133145
            + Miklos will take a look

        + Crash after redo (steps in comment 5)
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133326
            + Noel?

        + LO70b1: on macOS: langpack installer reports invalid installation of LO70, cannot install 
langpack
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133511
            + not a regression?

        + Tools > Options has no check boxes
            + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133582
            + already fixed, thanks Rizal

* QA stats
    + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
      +195  +45 (-123) overall)
      many thanks to the top bug squashers:
       QA Administrators       15
       Szabolcs Toth           8
       Telesto                 7
       V Stuart Foote          6
       Xisco Faulí             6
       Michael Stahl (CIB)     5
       Alex Thurgood           4
       László Németh           4
       Adolfo Jayme            3
       Aron Budea              3

    + top 10 bugs reporters:
       Telesto                 23
       Xisco Faulí             16
       JBrown                  8
       Regina Henschel         7
       NISZ LibreOffice Team   5
       sergio.callegari        5
       Bruce Armstrong         4
       Aron Budea              3
       R. Green                3
       Rizal Muttaqin          3

    + top 10 bugs fixers:
       Michael Stahl           5
       Németh, László          4
       Adolfo Jayme Barrientos 3
       Luboš Luňák             3
       McNamara, Caolán        3
                               2
       Grandin, Noel           2
       Justin Luth             2
       Kaganski, Mike          2
       Weghorn, Michael        2

    + top 10 bugs confirmers:
       Xisco Fauli             21
       BogdanB                 13
       Dieter Praas            10
       Heiko Tietze            8
       Nabet, Julien           7
       *UNKNOWN*               5
       Foote, V Stuart         5
       Ilmari Lauhakangas      5
       Telesto                 5
       b. s.                   5


* Highest-Priority bugs (aka "MABs"):
   + http://bit.ly/2lJAAJI
     6.0 : 1/52 -     1 %  (+0)
     5.4 : 1/41 -     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 : 5/245 -    2 %  (+0)


* Bisected bugs open: keyword 'bisected'
   + more accurate - down to a single commit.
   + http://bit.ly/2dyIfDy
   + 761/4308 745/4274 737/4241 737/4219 728/4195 708/4160 704/4138

     done by:
        Xisco Fauli           22
        Telesto                7
        Ilmari Lauhakangas     2
        Budea, Áron            1
        Weghorn, Michael       1


* Bibisected bugs open: keyword 'bibisected'
   + http://bit.ly/2cSCXlS
   + 943/5169 924/5130 917/5096 915/5071 905/5045 883/5006 877/4982

     done by:
        Xisco Fauli           23
        Telesto                6
        BogdanB                3
        Budea, Áron            2
        Ilmari Lauhakangas     2
        Glogowski, Jan-Marek   1
        Weghorn, Michael       1


* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
   + 1199(+17) bugs open of 9734(+39) total 8(-2) high prio.

     done by:
        Xisco Fauli           16
        Telesto               11
        Roman Kuznetsov        1
        Budea, Áron            1
        BogdanB                1
        Dieter Praas           1
        Glogowski, Jan-Marek   1
        Timur                  1
        Alex Thurgood          1
        Wolfgang Jäger         1


* ~Component   count net * high severity regressions
   + http://bit.ly/1HWHb3E
     Calc          - 4(+0)
     Writer        - 3(+0)
     Impress       - 1(+0)
     LibreOffice   - 0(-1)
     Printing and PDF export - 0(-1)

   by OS:
     All           - 5(+0)
     Linux         - 1(+0)
     Mac OS X      - 0(+0)
     Windows       - 2(-2)


* ~Component   count net * all regressions
   + http://bit.ly/1BUdI8i
     Writer: other            - 344(+6)
     Calc                     - 228(-3)
     Impress                  - 134(+1)
     LibreOffice              - 64(+1)
     Writer: docx filter      - 56(+2)
     Crashes                  - 47(-1)
     Draw                     - 45(+0)
     Borders                  - 41(+0)
     UI                       - 40(+0)
     Writer: perf             - 40(+4)
     Base                     - 31(+1)
     graphics stack           - 28(+0)
     Writer: doc filter       - 27(+0)
     Writer: other filter     - 27(+0)
     Printing and PDF export  - 25(+0)
     Chart                    - 23(-1)
     RTL                      - 23(+0)
     filters and storage      - 22(+1)
     BASIC                    - 16(+0)
     framework                - 2(+0)
     Formula Editor           - 1(+0)
     Installation             - 1(+0)
     sdk                      - 1(+0)