[Libreoffice-qa] ESC budget item review meeting agenda: 2023-06-22 16:00 CEST

[Ilmari Lauhakangas]

Hi,

this will be an exceptional meeting where we decide on the advice to 
give to TDF board of directors regarding projects to tender. Minutes 
will be kept in the pad:

https://pad.documentfoundation.org/p/esc

You can join using Jitsi here:

https://jitsi.documentfoundation.org/esc

TDF staff may add more items up until the meeting starts. Unfortunately 
due to time constraints we were unable to review every item. Any 
omission can be discussed in the meeting.

I will run the meeting.

Regards,
Ilmari Lauhakangas
Development Marketing at TDF

* Present:
     + Affiliated with TDF:
     + Affiliated with Collabora:
     + Affiliated with allotropia:
     + Unaffiliated:

* Spreadsheet with comments from TDF staff: 
https://nextcloud.documentfoundation.org/s/i9CSEs2gjFisc2y

* Budget pages for reference:
     + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Budget2021
     + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Budget2022
     + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Budget2023

* Propose to drop it
     + Automated test tools for finding text rendering defects
     + Rolling Release: Finish MAR-based autoupdater for Windows (2021)
     + Stabilize cross-page table layouting (2022)

* Propose to put it on hold for now
     + XLSX Aggressive Competitors tracker: table styles (ranked 6 in 
Feb 2023)
     + Power optimization research (ranked 43 in Feb 2023)

* Propose to split it into smaller tenders
     + Missing ODF Features (general collection)

* Reviewed items
     + Cleanup & further improve ODF conformance (2021)
     + Convert Impress slideshow to drawinglayer primitives (2021)
     + Font subsetter for font embedding (2022)
     + XLSX Aggressive Competitors tracker: gridlines for 3d line charts 
(2022)
     + Look-ahead styleref field for Writer (2022)
     + Normalized spell checking (2022)
     + SVG rendering improvements (ranked 4 in Feb 2023)
     + Remove/Replace usages of XOR-Paint (2022)
     + XLSX Aggressive Competitors tracker: support math equations in 
Calc shapes (ranked 12 in Feb 2023)
     + Missing ODF Features: The attribute draw:text-rotate-angle is 
interpreted, but there exists no user interface to change it. (ranked 33 
in Feb 2023)
     + Missing ODF Features: Attribute svg:d of <draw:path> some of the 
possible commands are missing (ranked 30 in Feb 2023)
     + Missing ODF Features: Draw:shadow-offset-x/y only partially 
implemented (ranked 38 in Feb 2023)
     + Missing ODF Feature: <draw:regular-polygon> missing completely 
(ranked 33 in Feb 2023)
     + Replace remaining Carbon functions with non-Carbon functions 
(macOS) (ranked 38 in Feb 2023)
     + Tests for drawinglayer and basegfx (ranked 41 in Feb 2023)
     + Bitmaps in vcl: Merge RGB and A layer into one (2022)
     + Make Firebird implementation production-ready (ranked 3 in Feb 2023)
     + ODT export nondeterminism (2022)
     + Writer tables: support cell margins (next to cell padding) (2021)
     + Rotated Writer TextFrames (ranked 9 in Feb 2023)
     + Allow inline graphics, formulas in impress (and draw), open 
equation with inline formulas from PPT, PPS, PPTX, PPSX (ranked 1 in Feb 
2023)

* For reference, top 15 still relevant ideas from the February 2023 ESC 
ranking:
     1: Allow inline graphics, formulas in impress (and draw), open 
equation with inline formulas from PPT, PPS, PPTX, PPSX
     2: Migrating to single modern 2D graphics library
     3: Make Firebird implementation production-ready
     4: SVG rendering improvements
     5: Fix unreliable unit tests
     6: XLSX Aggressive Competitors tracker: table styles
     9: Rotated Writer TextFrames
     9: Continuous Section Breaks
     12: XLSX Aggressive Competitors tracker: support math equations in 
Calc shapes
     13: 3D rotation of Impress shapes
     14: Chart creation speed
     17: Split-pane documents
     17: Improve visual appearance of tracked changes
     17: Unit in numerical inputs
     19: Add more combo chart types