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

[Eyal Rozenberg]

Unfortunately, I won't be able to make it... :-(

Can you explain what the "reviewed items" list means? The other lists
have suggestions regarding what to do with each item; is the "reviewed
items" list what you're planning to go over during the meeting?

Also, on a semi-related note and looking forward to next year - it would
be helpful if there were some guidelines of what makes for a "good"
tender proposal, or one that's more likely to be considered and
accepted. For example: How wide the scope should be, so as to avoid a
review result of "need to split this up".

Eyal

On 21/06/2023 19:19, Ilmari Lauhakangas wrote:
> 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