* Present: + Norbert, Ptyl, Eike, Kendy, Cloph, Stephan, Caolan, David, Robinson, Moggi, Miklos, Andras, Michael S, Bjoern, Jacobo, Chris Sherlock * Completed Action Items: + check Matus' startup performance measurement for layered images.zip (Kendy) AI: [ check the stats vs. master ] (Kendy) * Pending Action Items: + fix BSA login / XML-RPC issues (Cloph) [ confident we'll have a solution in time for switch-over ] * Bugzilla migration update (Robinson) + looking good, talked with Tollef on the 6th + doing more testing this weekend + BugZilla migration on track for => Saturday, January 24, ~1600 UTC * Release Engineering update (Cloph) + 4.4.0 RC2 + tagged today and the libreoffice-4-4-0 branch created + builds for all platforms triggered + announce to early testing late tonight / tomorrow + includes new templates - result of the competition + thanks to Kendy/David for making that happen. + thanks too to template submitters: + Alexander Wilms + Edmund Laugasson + Jun NOGATA + Michael Kovarik + Péter Szathmáry + Zirk + no further late features expected + libreoffice-4-4 - one extra review for bug fixes + libreoffice-4-4-0 - triple review required ie. pick from -4-4 +2 reviews + 4.3.6 RC1 + due this Monday - January 12th + Android / iOS Remote + patches in gerrit to add support for new UI (android wearable) + iOS - update translations, was it pushed ? + Pebble watch port added by Gülşah + thanks to Norbert for merging repositories + 4.2 + is a review still necessary ? + some people still push to 4.2 - some Linux Distros are still on it. + do we still want to review that ? or let anyone do it ? + not concern wrt. Eike / Markus (Michael) => still do reviews. * Crashtest update (Markus) + mailed the new asan results out + some fun in there with binary filters. + Caolan fixed a number of things + crash-testing didn't change much over Xmas - since few large changes. + has new hardware got provisioned yet ? + problems with complex disks setup + all disks go in some big raid or somesuch. -> helps other machines as backup. + concerns over writing GB's of basically junk data to a cluster + new host will be a backup space as well as a testing machine. + more disks for high-availability than the crash-test VM + down to the targetted bit more than 1x day for the run. + now at nearly 80k files. + how big is the win below 1x day ? + not so many crasher related crashes. + want to dedicate more cores for performance regressions + want to run again with memory sanitizer + only a handful of crashers left in the list (Caolan) + most remaining import crashers are just paranoid / misleading asserts. + still some left on export crashers (Markus) + may want to run some image formats at some point (Markus) + opportunities with fonts too (Michael) * Easy Hack extension (Bjoern) + looked at last year's easy-hacks stats + 100x easy-hacks created in 2014 - 40x resolved. + total # open easy-hacks is much reduced. + with GSOC coming up it is important to have them. + Design easy-hacks (Kendy) + add a new TopicUI or TopicDesign (Bjoern) + when you see something silly in the code (has that ever happened?) (Michael) + restrain yourself & instead file a bug, set whiteboard to: "EasyHack DifficultyBeginner SkillCpp TopicCleanup" + and move on. + please people file at least one. + some new C++11 features which may help + could we make Coverity reports easy hacks ? + concern wrt. keeping # down - takes a while to fix them (Michael) + concern to get Easy Hackers -> move to harder stuff + how can we get people into bigger / bug-fixing ? (Michael) + problem: experienced people taking things that should go to new contributors (Moggi) + somewhat anti-social / wasting an entry point. + please point this out if we see it happening & encourage -> harder bugs. + 40% opened & closed in 2014 + down-side, lots of others are ancient. + should we just close those ? AI: + look at closing un-touched easy-hacks next time. * FOSDEM bits (Kendy) + Bruessels, Belgium -- February 2015 + Cor doing T-shirts (hopefully) + 20+ talks submitted / update - lots of good content. + kendy presenting the LibreOffice design team in open-source design dev-roomn + Book a room at 'Hotel Astrid' to be near the team: cheap as well ... * Win64 work (DavidO) + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/msvc-x86_64 + UNO bridge fixed (thanks to Mark Williams) + http://imgur.com/1Z27hMq + Patch review appreciated: + https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/q/status:open+project:core+branch:master+topic:msvc_win32_x86-64,n,z + calc starts to hit memory limits with large sheets so - appreciated (Michael) * Crashreporter (Kendy) + the unused crashrep gone - thanks Caolán! + horrible, un-maintained, bespoke solution + no server side etc. + still it is useful to have a tool that collects the crashes + has a dashboard (?) + are there existing cross-platform free s/w tools that do that? + ABRT [https://github.com/abrt/abrt/wiki/ABRT-Project] - Linux only + http://code.google.com/p/google-breakpad/ + Mozilla (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Socorro) uses that: + Breakpad for the client side + Socorro for the server side + https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/report/index/7b04fc8d-9bed-406d-b2b9-c508a2150103 + breakpad (Markus) + looked into it - stack un-winding on the server side + really cross-platform, eg. Android-Fennec supported (Kendy) + launchpad there but - linux-only (Bjoern) + conensus on breakpad + needs quite some engineering work however. * Hackfests (Bjoern) + initial scheduling for 2015: + Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain + happy to have us back + suggested March 19th, 20th: Thur / Fri. + happens during GSOC application phase. + Cambridge, UK - May 2015 contact: Michael * GSoC (Kendy) + February, 9th: Mentoring organizations can begin submitting applications to Google. + who will take care of GSoC this year ? AI: + ask Fridrich, Cedric and head-hunt (Kendy) * UX Update (Kendy) + decided on the new templates + chosen nine templates of many + lots (sadly) had English text + problematic for localisation + 4x very nice Impress templates + how to handle ux-advise in bugzilla + improved the workflow there to encourage the design people to reply directly etc. + will post minutes shortly. + lots of other nice improvements: + hi-dpi improvements by Tomaž + many cleanups by various people (Adolfo, Caolán, Jay, Stuart) + side-bar for change-tracking * Certification (Stephan/Bjoern/Kendy) + quiet week. * Jenkins update (Norbert) + working on making Windows more resilient to stop it hanging + trying to get some Linux VMs up to have 3x platforms * gerrit daily digest AWOL (Bjoern) + seems to have been fixed : thanks. * Etherpad for annual report (Bjoern) + you too can add something here: http://pad.documentfoundation.org/p/annualreport * Commit access + Gülşah - pebble watch remote * Kohei + moving on from full-time work on LibreOffice. + vote of thanks + for all the great work on the spreadsheet over the years + hopefully have time to volunteer too. * Regressions - the story (Chris S) + quite a few regression bugs around EMF + some work in a branch eg. private/tbsdy/emf + a unit test suite in cppcanvas (Miklos) + only a single test but ... + worked with thorsten on that + who is eager to switch cppcanvas -> DrawingLayer + problems with InkML / bezier curves * QA (Robinson) + UNCONFIRMED under 400 - a 100x reduction since last time + Increasing # of bugs bisected + concern wrt. no cross-platform solution for AV (Michael) + blame the Mpeg-LA. + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Media_Support/Summary#Audio_Formats * Regression redux (Michael) + great work on base - thanks to Lionel, Julien Nabet, Noel Grandin + needAdvice: Bug 55364 - Bundled Extensions create huge amount of files in appdata (slows roaming profiles) + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55364 + Please add yourself to FindTheExpert: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Find_the_expert + QA Team preparing for support during bugzilla migration + do we need to announce the migration ? (Bjoern) + Announced on TDF/LibreOffice lists; some individuals will get notified anyway (Robinson) + general public would like to know etc (Bjorn) + posted on Twitter / Reddit and other places (Robinson) * QA stats: + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html +137 -142 (-5 overall) many thanks to the top bug squashers: QA Administrators 55 Adolfo Jayme 10 Jay Philips 6 Julien Nabet 6 Matthew Francis 6 Alex Thurgood 5 V Stuart Foote 4 Joel Madero 4 Beluga 3 Markus Mohrhard 3 * Open 4.5 MAB + 0/1 0/1 + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=86696&hide_resolved=1 * Open 4.4 MAB + 6/26 6/24 7/24 7/22 5/19 4/18 3/17 3/16 3/16 4/16 5/15 4/14 3/12 23% 25% 29% 31% 26% 22% 17% + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=79641&hide_resolved=1 * Open 4.3 MAB + 86/151 86/148 84/146 58/117 33/90 19/73 17/65 16/64 16/64 15/63 16/63 16/60 56% 58% 57% 49% 36% 26% 26% 25% 18% 23% 25% 26% + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=75025&hide_resolved=1 * Bibisected bugs open: whiteboard 'bibisected' + 214/564 208/532 208/526 182/488 190/481 189/475 190/470 173/446 170/441 + http://bit.ly/VQfF3Q * all bugs tagged with 'regression' + 430(-20) bugs open of 3307(+50) total * ~Component count net * Writer - 139 (+3) Spreadsheet - 82 (-10) [!] Presentation - 29 (+0) Crashes - 25 (-1) Libreoffice - 24 (-1) Database - 22 (-7) [!] UI - 22 (+0) Drawing - 20 (+0) Graphics - 21 (+1) Borders - 17 (-2) Filters - 12 (+0) Chart - 11 (-3) [!] Print / PDF - 11 (+0) BASIC - 4 (-1) Installation - 3 (+0) Extensions - 3 (+0) Formula - 2 (+0) sdk - 1 (+0) framework - 1 (+0) Linguistic - 1 (+0) Impress Remote - 0 (+0)
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