minutes of ESC call ...

[Michael Meeks]

* Present:
	+ Norbert, Eike, Stephan, Bjoern, Markus, Michael M, Rainer,
	  Michael S, Mirek, Andras, Kendy, Petr, Cedric

* Completed Action Items
	+ 3.6 blocker: Java not detected on Windows (fixed thanks to Stephan)
	+ send list of new bugzilla component names (Michael S.)
	+ create those components (Michael M.)
	+ dig out the best bug-assignees wiki page for Fridrich (Rainer)

* Pending Action Items
        + [in progress] add encryption default UI option in 3.6 (Thorsten)
	+ implement default document / style-loading before feature-freeze (Cedric)
	+ update the splash-screen image for 3.6 (Astron)

* Release Engineering update (Petr)
        + 3.6 / Alpha 1 / Beta 1 status
		+ problems building after frantic feature merges
			+ smoke-testing works, misc. regressions nailed.
			+ lots of build / testing
			+ we have a Beta1 tag
			+ building, hope to up-loads builds over weekend
		+ triple review for all features on libreoffice-3-6
			+ Markus' color-scales & data-bars coming for B2
	+ 3.5.5 rc1 - freeze on 11th June ...

* # of phone-lines issue (Michael)
	+ 26 default recipients of agenda, of whom ~5 ~never show.
	+ 20 lines maximum without incurring extra fees
	+ volunteers to be pulled in only when needed (Cedric)
	+ could we use a Mumble server (Bjoern)
	+ wait and see if we hit the problem again (Stephan)

* GSOC update (Cedric)
	+ remind mentors - need to have a fall-back mentor to
	  cover vacations etc.
	+ poke Cedric with names
	+ good for students to get their work into master
	  when it is working
		+ requirement for mid-term payment anyway

* UI / design update (Astron/Mirek/Alexander)
	+ Kendy/Mirek in-person hackery
		+ start center tweaking / improvement
		+ glass-menu improvements
	+ splash-screen: call for proposals in the wiki
		+ put your cool artwork proposal here:
		  http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Design/Playground/Splash_screen
	+ Icon refresh update
		+ pending license statements from authors
	+ Template / master-pages
		+ long discussion on ML
		+ ship Alex's designs
		+ several designs to the wiki
		+ font issues need unwinding
			+ interop. issues there.
		+ font embedding an ideal future solution (Tibby)
AA:		+ ship the existing nine new pretty templates in place
		  of the old ugly ones (Bjoern)
	+ bit behind for GSOC projects designs

* LinuxTag summary (Bjoern)
	+ fun discussions with Jurgen, Svante, etc.
	+ certification discussion went well
	+ lots of positive big deployment contacts

* Wiki / Feature page update (Michael)
	+ we should do that:
	  https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/3.6
	+ needs to be ~complete before building web pages / marketing
	+ stubs for master / feature commits created at:
	  https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/3.7

* Windows 8 certification (Eike)
AA:	+ have a poke at the requirements (Andras)

* MSI cross-compile / packaging (Tibby)
	+ write a small wrapper for msi creation code
	+ getting a windows VM setup for re-factoring

* QA update (Rainer)
	+ QA call roundup
		+ bugzilla version picker change
		+ having issues with OS ver. numbering / sort orders
		+ created new version for 3.7 master
	+ question wrt. backtraces in bug reports
		+ prefer to get them as text files attachments
			+ avoids polluting queries
		+ should we recomment text file attachments for
		  back-traces ?
		+ inconclusive & hard to enforce.

* 3.5 most annoying bugs ...
	+ 67 open (of 229) older 67/226 62/219 60/213 67/211 68/205 71/205 68/199 74/201
	     29%                   30%    28%    28%    32%    33%    35%    34%    37%
	+ https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=37361&hide_resolved=1

* 3.6 most annoying bugs ...
	+ 4 open (of 15) older 8/13
	     27%                62%
	+ https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=44446&hide_resolved=1

* 3.5 bugs tagged with 'regression'
	+ 173(+0) bugs open of 609(+19) total

	+ Started to double-count some classes of regression, to split
	  them out: Crashes and Borders
		+ temporarily distorts graphs
		+ encourages fixing of these bugs

	* Component    count net *
	+ Writer       - 68 (-4)
	+ Presentation - 21 (+2)
	+ Spreadsheet  - 18 (+3)
	+ LibreOffice  - 15 (+0)
	+ Borders      - 14 (-1)
	+ Crashes      - 11 (+0)
	+ Drawing      - 10 (+1)
	+ Writer / RTF - 7  (-3)
	+ Database     - 8  (-1)
	+ Basic        - 2  (+0)

	+ https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=regression%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&resolution=---&query_format=advanced&product=LibreOffice&list_id=36764

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