[Libreoffice] Minutes of LibreOffice technical group call

[Michael Meeks]

Present:        Thorsten, Caolan, Rene, Michael
Invited:        Petr, Fridrich, David, Kendy

* previous actions
	+ all completed

* adding emacs/vi formatting comments to files
	+ agreed; at top of header
AA:	+ add to easy-hacks list & do in a week if not done (Thorsten)

* enable --maintainer-mode
AA:	+ yes, but only for autogen.sh (Michael)

* MySQL client license awfulness (FOSS exception)
	+ problems mostly with poorly licensed extension => not bundle it ?

* gtk3 work
	+ gtk+ undergoing massive changes still, new themeing system etc.
AA:	+ drop it in a feature branch to keep an eye on (Caolan)
AA:	+ add how-to for feature branch creation/merge to wiki (Kendy)
AA:	+ poke gtk+ team on main-loop / mutex integration (Michael)

        + decided to continue merging patches until 30th October

* master open for commits feedback
	+ Rene - happy enough, despite teething troubles with patches
	+ Fridrich - impressed with improvements in buildability
	+ continue as-is until end October

* next beta builds
	+ Petr tagging / up-loading source
		+ build over weekend / due early next week
	+ Fridrich - working on Mac / PPC machine setup
	+ Thorsten - will get to Mac / Intel builds

* should we intensively test -Beta- binaries before releasing
	+ preferably testtool usage is continuous process on master
	+ decision to release early, and if problems, release again, etc.

* tinderboxen
	+ couple of prototypes in-place
	+ Kendy's already mailing people on breakage
AA:		+ mails should CC every committer in interval
		+ mails should report the interval helpfully.
	+ more tinderboxes appreciated

* pending patches
	+ some nice-to-have pending chunks:
		+ Linux quick starter (Kendy)
		+ LWP filter (Michael)
		+ better Evolution addressbook (Caolan)
		+ VBA fixes (from Noel)
		+ valgrind-alloc - tweaked (Michael)
		+ Netbook / small-screen fixes ? (Rodo)
	+ only seven RedHat patches left.
	
* coding style
	+ no huge cleanups planned
	+ incrementally build good guidelines for new code
	+ punt further thought until next year

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