[Libreoffice] minutes of tech steering call ...

[Michael Meeks]

* Attending:
	+ Norbert, Bjoern, Kendy, Caolan, Petr,
	  Rene, Michael, Andras, David, Fridrich

* Action item review:
AA:	+ "writer useless in Japan" bug - in progress (Caolan)

* daily snapshot downloads
	+ tinderbuild script consolidation underway (Kendy)
		+ single script for all platforms
		+ log mailing beautiful
AA:		+ next step binary uploads, coming soon (Kendy)
AA:		+ Norbert to share his script
		+ code in bootstrap/bin/tinbuild
	+ http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ setup (thanks Thorsten)

* 3.3.1 status update
	+ translators working hard
		+ 52 languages improved coverage since 3.3.0
		+ better spell-checking coverage
		+ completeness expected to increase further 3.3.2
	+ Win32 help packs finished up-loading
	+ Mac / Linux / main binaries there / distributed
	+ rc2 / release expected on Tuesday.
AA:	+ chase new Evolution addressbook bug (Michael)
	+ web / phone-home updating service
		+ should be disabled for Linux's native update services
		+ will be disabled on vendor products
		+ awaiting community impl.

* FOSDEM summary
	+ extremely encouraging:
		+ T-shirts sold well and paid for themselves + Cor's travel
		+ 1200 stickers many stuck to laptops
		+ random congratulations from unknown people
		+ our dev room well attended, lots of great content
		+ several people contributing code changes at the booth
	+ need a volunteer to edit and up-load the video recordings (poke Kendy)
	+ FOSDEM (as always) rocks.

* m98 merging progress update
	+ bootstrap, libs-extern, libs-extern-sys,
	  libs-gui, postprocess, ure, sdk - done.
AA:	+ libs-core - in progress (Thorstens)
AA:	+ filters - in progress (Michael)
AA:	+ help - in progress (Kendy)
AA:	+ calc - near complete (Kohei)
	+ base, impress, writer - pre-merged
	* the critical path is here.
	* m100 is next
	* smaller pull-ups in a future not distracted by
	  lots of one-off launch / heavy lifting.

* Google Summer of Code
	+ integrate with Easy Hacks
AA:	+ building page of tasks (Fridrich)

* patches/dev300/apply merging (Bjoern)
	+ impl. a shell script to merge patches with nice commit info
	+ remove OOo4Kids*, CrossWin32, Evo 1.x connector

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 michael.meeks at novell.com  <><, Pseudo Engineer, itinerant idiot