Minutes of ESC call: 2014-07-31

Eike Rathke erack at redhat.com
Thu Jul 31 07:46:30 PDT 2014


* Present:
    + Lionel, Stephan, Christian, Kendy, Eike, Muthu, Kohei, Markus,
      Robinson, Jacobo, Michael S, Miklos

* Completed Action Items
    + RC3 respin / RC4 with spell-checking patch (Cloph)
      + done, released as public final version
    + update + enable the bibisect on Windows (Cloph)
      + currently uploading, 201 builds, 1.8GB, ~9MB per build
    + enable checkin of windows bibisect (Cloph)
      + will be updated by tinderbox builds

* Pending Action Items:
    + ask UX advise wrt. wrench icons (revert or not ?) (Astron)
    + blog about the sad realities of web plugins (Bjoern)
    + setup some VM's that can be created on-demand (Cloph)
        + done for the hackfest, non-public
        + working on creating a public machine
    + open-source newer Synezip tests / speak at the conference (Umesh)
    + Ask for 1-2 more dev-list moderators & re-visit next-week (Michael)
    + contact Michael / the list when students show up (Jan Marek)

* GSOC Update (Cedric)
    + at least 6 students will be at the conference in Bern
    + a student presentation slot has been created:
        + thus students can prepare a 5-6 minute lightning talk on their project

* Release Engineering update (Christian)
    + 4.2.6 status
      + will be released tomorrow (Friday)
    + 4.3.0 retrospective / MABs ...
    + Android Remote
    + 4.3.1 late feature
          + OpenGL context on OSX including 3D models in impress (Markus)
    + all on track (Cloph)

* Windows quick starter reportedly broken in 4.3
  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80466
    + is it worth fixing this or should we just kill the quick starter?
    + do we have real data if it helps at all when turned on? (Kendy)
    + remove for 4.3.1 ? re-enable for 4.3.2 if fix is possible?
        + let's try that for 4.3.1 RC1

* how to deal with 10.5 OSX
    + wouldnt it need a fork anyway, if we introduce C++11 features?
        + maybe, but I at least don't care; has always been communicated
          that 10.5 commits on master are only acceptable as long as
          they don't hinder us going forward (Stephan)
        + create a branch Douglas can work on

* Crashtest update (Markus)
    + http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/crashtest/82127a86dc1d127a3b6caa8279163aab1ccf119a/
    + new results - complete run
    + hopefully new builds next week

* Certification Committee (Stephan/Bjoern/Kendy)
     + waiting until ~September

* Hackfests (Bjoern)
    + Boston Hackfest
        * Went well, many thanks to Xamarin for hosting.
          + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Events/2014/US_Summer_Hackfest
          + Badly need more easy hacks ...
    + Interest in Portland, OR for hosting a future hackfest.
    + Munich hack-fest (Jan-Marek):
        http://www.it-muenchen-blog.de/2014/07/bug-squashing-party-2014/
        + will have a BSP come-together; if someone says they're coming
          just show up etc.
           + November 21st-23rd, 2014
           https://wiki.debian.org/BSP/2014/11/de/Munich
           + we should drop by with 2 or 3 developers, if possible
    + Toulouse Hackfest ...
        + Confirmed for Nov. 15-16th
        + more details: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Hackfest/Toulouse2014
    + Be great to have -really- easy easy hacks for devs (Bjoern)

* QA (Robinson)
    + Also possible crasher if Quickstarter is enabled
        + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80927
    + other recently "interesting" bugs
        + VIEWING: Bad Font Rendering in KDE
          https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59818
    + 4.3.0 looks OK from QA point of view? (Kendy)
        + (other than what I mentioned) yes (Robinson)
    + unconfirmed bug count under 700

* UX Update (?)
    + [ no Astron / Mirek ]

* Bern Conference
  + book hotel if you didn't already, many are full
  + there will be a PGP keysigning party, see
    + https://conference.libreoffice.org/2014/ksp-keysigning-party/
      upload your key as indicated
    + not only to strengthen the web of trust but also fun socializing

* QA stats:
  + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
    +141    -132        (+9 overall)
    many thanks to the top bug squashers:
        Joel Madero         14
        Foss                 9
        ign_christian        8
        Jorendc              8
        tommy27              7
        Michael Stahl        6
        Julien Nabet         5
        David Tardon         5
        Owen Genat           5
        Jean-Baptiste Faure  5
        Caolán McNamara      4

* Open 4.4 MAB
  + 3/7 3/7 2/5 1/2 1/1
  + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=79641&hide_resolved=1

* Open 4.3 MAB
  + 11/47 14/47 14/45 19/43 10/32 6/27 5/24 5/22 3/20 5/16 4/12 2/8 3/7 2/5
     23%   29%   33%   44%   31%   22%  20%  22%  15%
  + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=75025&hide_resolved=1

* Open 4.2 MAB
  + 84/236 85/235 82/229 81/222 76/215 74/212 74/210 71/207 71/205 73/200
     35%    36%    35%    36%    35%    34%    35%    34%    34%    36%
  + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=65675&hide_resolved=1

* Bibisected bugs open: whiteboard 'bibsected'
  + 119/331 102/308 92/296 84/283 84/280 81/274 79/265 75/259 70/249
    + http://bit.ly/VQfF3Q

* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
    + 427(-1) bugs open of 2902(+16) total
            ~Component   count net *
                Writer - 124 (-7)
           Spreadsheet - 80 (+4)
               Crashes - 32 (+0)
           Libreoffice - 27 (+2)
                    UI - 27 (+1)
          Presentation - 27 (-1)
              Graphics - 22 (+1)
              Database - 21 (+0)
               Borders - 17 (-2)
               Filters - 13 (+0)
               Drawing - 13 (+0)
           Print / PDF - 11 (-1)
                 Chart -  7 (+0)
            Extensions -  5 (+0)
               Formula -  5 (+0)
                 BASIC -  4 (+0)
          Installation -  3 (+0)
             framework -  3 (+0)
            Linguistic -  3 (+0)
                   sdk -  0 (+0)
        Impress Remote -  0 (+0)
  + http://bit.ly/15mM2Yn - for devs ( no NEEDINFO / UNCONFIRMED )


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