[Libreoffice] Minutes of the tech. steering call

[Jan Holesovsky]

Present: Rainer, Mitch, Norbert, Kendy, Andras, Bjoern, Caolan, Petr,
Kohei, Michael, Christian, Francois

* Finished Action Items:
        + conference papers:
                + Michael
                        + meet the ESC panel ...
                        + status report for the last year's work ?
                + Mitch
                        + feedback from a new C++ extension author
        + create / re-use wiki page how to contact other teams for more
          complex features "proposals" (Petr)
        + go through the not-yet-fixed Most Annoying 3.4 bugs, and see
          how many of them are / are not in 3.3.x already (Rainer)
        + get Norbert access for the developer web-page / CMS (Michael)
        + in-progress: create QA mailing list (Rainer)
                * done on freedesktop.org
        + 3.4.2 pre-announce for QA (Petr)
        + release notes for 3.4.2 rc1 bug#39277 - (Petr)

* Pending Action Items:
        + review Norbert's updated C app (Kendy, Tor)
        + mail bugzilla query wrt. regression to dev list (Michael)
        + easy hacks - completion / fixing (Bjoern)
        + in-progress: get SmartArt into master feature (Thorsten)
        + conference papers:
                + http://conference.libreoffice.org/submit-your-paper/
                + Francois
                        + making LibreOffice easier to port
                + Cedric
                        + GSOC update - double-slot
                        + what's next in writer
                + Norbert:
                        + onegit / tinderbox
        + enable on-line updates for QA for dailies ... (Kendy)
        + clarify the developer instructions to point more at the wiki
          (Norbert)
        * add the verision to the subdir structure 
          http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/src/<version>/
          (Thorsten)
        * make the download of the git tarball more prominent on the
          download page (Thorsten)
        * script that downloads the git sources for you (Norbert)
        * dig up the SFLC AL2/LGPLv3+ header (Michael)

* Agenda items
        + 3.4.2 release status (Petr)

                * 2 serious bugs reported, considered blockers => RC3
                * RC3 builds available, if no blocker, will become final
                * no changes to the schedule, let's get changes in
                  earlier - into RC1, not into RC2

        + new developer concerns (Michael)
                + source archive download structure is a mess

                        * http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/src/
                        * we have a huge directory containing
                          everything :-(
                        * we should refactor that - people tend to
                          download wrong tarballs :-(
AA                      * add the version to the subdir structure, like
                          http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/src/<version>/ (Thorsten)

                + people struggling with git checkouts etc.

                        * no git-gc for a long time - we should do that
                          more often to me more friendly for http://
                          cloning
AA                      * make the download of the git tarball more
                          prominent on the download page (Thorsten)
AA                      * script that downloads the git sources for you
                          (Norbert)

                + --with-vendor switch?

                        * discussed, Caolan will come up with a patch

                + Including AL2 licensed work

                        + need a pro-forma combined AL2/LGPLv3+ header
AA                              + SFLC has one somewhere, needs digging
                                  up (Michael)
                        + potentially for pure makefile changes, a few
                          AL2 files in the interim are perhaps not so
                          bad.

                + let's not merge from release branch to master any more

                        * RC3 is the last one
                        * let's consider / reconsider for 3.5.0

        + QA update (Rainer)

                * nothing serious happened the last week [except
                  the blocker & RC3 :-)]

        + Roundup of what we're working on
        + Questions ?