[Libreoffice] minutes of tech steering call ...

[Michael Meeks]

Attending: Andras, Thorsten, Norbert, Kendy, Caolan, Kohei, Petr, Bjorn

	+ Bjorn introduction & welcome

        + 3.3.0 round-up / post-mortem
		+ overall release went very well
			+ positive surprise by lack of issues
			+ no overly negative QA result
		+ wiki help
			+ web services should be treated as software
			+ not fully there by RC, it doesn't ship
		+ still an overly manual build / up-load process

        + merge things into 3.3.1 ...
                + new icons
AA:			+ announce a new deadline for RC1 (Thorsten)
			+ move to artists checking in and exporting
			  icons themselves
                + web help directed English (Kendy)
AA:             + Kohei's "writer useless in Japan" bug pair (Caolan to swap)
		+ Thorsten - collecting pending svg/pdf patches for review
		+ Caolan/David - list of trivial pieces
		+ Andras - lots of l10n improvements ...
			+ already cherry picked
			+ many translations pending for 3.3.1 RC1
AA:			+ ping translators to be done for 3.3.1 soon (Andras)
AA:		+ WMF rendering crasher - make it a blocker (Michael)
                + review blockers ( currently seven open )
			+ move mail merge issues to 3.3.2
			+ punt template issue to 3.3.2

	* RC1 due for tagging - Monday 7th heads  (Andras)

        + 3.4 / cherry picking / merging plans (Norbert)
		+ dev300 imported - 425 CWS'
			+ typical conflicts with modelines
			+ include guards re-work a problem
			+ only few whitespace problems
			+ hids, gnumake, etc. re-work an issue
		+ overall 5000 conflicts, varies per repo
		+ conservative premerge works well
		* do merge in separate repos
			+ merge into a feature branch
AA:		+ create separate staging repositories (Michael)
		* continue building pre-merges (Norbert, Michael)
		+ postponing Norbert's new gnumake features until
		  dev300 merge.
AA:		+ create integration/dev300 branch (Norbert)

        + nightly snapshots
                + status of public availability etc.
AA:		+ need public links / DNS domain love (Thorsten)

        + FOSDEM update (Kendy)
		+ hoodies - for devs + booth guys
		+ T-shirts - for sale
		+ stickers for laptops
		+ beds for everyone inc. volunteers; sorted by Thorsten.

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