[Libreoffice-qa] minutes of ESC call ...

Thu Aug 29 07:35:46 PDT 2013

* Present:
    + Bjoern, Eike, Andras, Michael M, Cloph, Thorsten, Kohei, Tsahi,
      Stephan, Robinson, Lionel, Cedric, Caolan
* Completed Action Items:
    + Major / API incompatibility release timing ? (Bjoern)
       [ discuss this at the conference ]
    + poke fdo admins for own BZ instance (Thorsten)
       [ Tollef swamped, but willing & able to do it, timeframe later this year,
          estimate is a few days of work ]
    + dig out the URL for GSOC travel funding (Cedric)
       [ no URL for that, but acknowledgement from Carol, Students to ask for re-imbursement
         to Google for up to $500 - just need to mail her with the receipts, it goes onto
         their card ]
    + upgrade 3.6 users to 4.0.5 once that is out (Cloph)
       [ update switched on 3.6 -> 4.0.5 and 4.1 -> 4.1.0, in a few
         days update to 4.1.1 - waiting on feedback.
         Makes sense - have some slow mirrors (Thorsten) ]
    + Submit conference talks
        * http://conference.libreoffice.org/2013/en/call-for-papers
        + Calc talk (Kohei)
        + Silverstripe 3 talk (Cloph)
        + release engineering overview (Cloph)
        + New tools for QA engagement (Robinson)
        + Howto get involved in QA (Robinson / Joel)
        + UX / design talk / plan meet-up (Mirek) - Kendy to poke ?
* Pending Action Items:
    + roll out Easy Hack rotation, incrementally improve afterwards (Robinson)
       [ still reducing the delta between Robinson test & Florian's deployed server
         getting close though ]
    + switch to pure sidebar mode in master - but not enabled by
      default, except in Impress (Caolan)
    + come up with a proposal on what still needs improving in sidebar land (Astron)
    + Submit conference talks
        * http://conference.libreoffice.org/2013/en/call-for-papers
        + overview of long-term cleanups (Caolan) 1/2 talk
        + perhaps invite Tom Tromey for a gdb talk (Caolan)
        + Server installation GUI (Florian Reisinger)
    + People submitting late talks: please poke Thorsten/Florian/Andy
        + otherwise they might be missed.
* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
    + 4.1.1 status
        + released today; out and being downloaded left & right.
    + no deadline this week (a small break)
    + 4.1.2 RC1 - next Monday - branch-off
    + how does the release schedule look during the conference ? (Michael)
        + 4.0.6 is after the conf (Cloph)
        + 4.1.2 complete before conference week (final release)
    + how did it go ? easier ? (Michael)
        + manual version error, but otherwise better (Cloph)
        + already pretty automated, using Petr's script (thanks)
* UX input (Astron/Mirek)
* New commit access bits:
    + Jesus Corrius - he missed the fdo migration (somehow)
* Heads up for 4.1.2 change (Stephan)
    + changes some URE library names, not completely private, but
      used around the place. Adding 'lo' suffix to avoid name conflict
      with windows / system libraries
    + https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/5667/
    + couple of tricky bits: sal_textenc / sunjavaplugin libs dlopen'ed by name, but it works
      and needs someone to review / ack it.
AI:    + review / merge (Andras)
* QA update (Robinson)
    + good progress on the QA list, addressing various projects
    + still working on recruiting - pause until mid September.
    + unconfirmed creeping up slightly in the short term.
    + 3x of the 3.6 MABs still left to be migrated.
    + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
        +162    -113    (+49 overall)
         many thanks to the top five bug squashers:
            ign_christian         12
            Maxim                 10
            tommy27                9
            Thomas van der Meulen  8
            Andras Timar           8
* Open 4.2 MAB
        + 5/6 5/6 6/6 7/7 2/2 2/2 1/1
        + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65675
* Open 4.1 MAB
        + 17/89 15/85 15/81 13/77 8/68 11/64 3/55 7/52 7/48 2/42 4/39 5/37 7/32
           19%   18%   19%   17%  12%   17%   5%  14%  15%
        + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=60270&hide_resolved=1
* Open 4.0 MAB
        + 50/180 52/180 44/171 32/157 14/138 13/137 12/137 12/135 12/134 12/133
           28%    29%    26%    20%    10%     9%     9%     9%     9%     9%
        + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=54157&hide_resolved=1
* Open 3.6 MAB
        + 7/178 9/179 22/190 60/245 62/244 60/243 62/243 60/241 57/238 63/237 65/236
           4%    5%     12%   25%    25%    25%    25%    25%    24%    27%    28%
        + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=44446&hide_resolved=1
* Bibisected bugs open: whiteboard 'bibsected'
        + 36/167 37/137 41/137 33/128 33/125 34/124 34/123 36/122 38/119 37/114 39/114
                + http://bit.ly/VQfF3Q
* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
        + 343(+12) bugs open of 1919(+26) total
        * ~Component   count net *
                Writer - 102 (+2)
           Spreadsheet -  46 (+2)
           Libreoffice -  40 (+3)
          Presentation -  26 (+1)
               Crashes -  23 (+0)
              Database -  20 (+0)
               Borders -  17 (+2)
               Drawing -  16 (+0)
             Migration -   3 (+0)
                 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
        + Migration: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=43489&hide_resolved=1


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