[Libreoffice] minutes of tech steering call ...

[Olivier Hallot]

Hi TSC,

Can such minutes be posted in TDF blog? I think it deserves publicity: 
Either for its content and for visibility + vitality of the TSC and 
LibreOffice.
Thanks

Regards
Olivier

Em 17-06-2011 11:13, Michael Meeks escreveu:
> Present:
> 	Norbert, Rainer, Michael, David, Caolan, Kendy,
> 	Andras, Bjoern, Cedric, Thorsten, Petr, Andreas Mantke,
> 	Fridrich
>
> * completed AA's
>          + Petr to bump priority of most serious issues in 3.4.1
>          + looking into lighting up the update reminder service (Kendy)
> 		+ conditionally used only when build-special is set
> 		+ requires patching / enabling for 3.4.1 / reviews
> 		  appreciated.
>          + provide current linux environment gio / glib / gtk+ etc.
>            versions to Caolan (Fridrich)
> 		+ we include glib these days anyway for rsvg
> 		+ cairo issues, so stick with last pre-cairo gtk ?
> 			+ can we use RTLD_DEEPBIND to overcome it ?
> AA:			+ remove old non-cairo cases (Caolan)
> AA:		+ can now completely junk gnome-vfs backend (Caolan)
> 			+ incl. startup performance issue
> AA:		+ bin dlsym'd fontconfig&  non-fontconfig code
> 		  paths (Caolan)
>
> * AA still pending:
>          + Easy Hacks - completion / fixing (Bjoern)
>          + get SmartArt into master as an experimental feature (Thorsten)
>
> * Agenda
>          + Action Items
>          + Extensions repo progress (Andreas Mantke)
> 		+ worked with kind plone developer Elisabeth Leddy to
> 		  improve S/W centre for extensions, all in svn trunk
> 		+ working with Florian&  Alex Werner to get setup on Kermit
> 		+ python problem solved
> 		+ due to be ready this evening
> 		+ potential issues around blob storage of extn's
> 		+ needs UI team input ...
> 		+ just update http://extensions.libreoffice.org/ re-direction
> 		+ use second plone sub-centre for templates ...
> 		+ need to transfer existing extn's from current wiki page.
> 		+ extended QA phase not neccesary
>          + Releng bits (Petr)
>                  + 3.3.3 release RC1 / summary / 3.3.4 thoughts
> 			+ available on download page
> 			+ fixes a number of annoying inc. security bugs
> 			+ 3.3.4 in the plan for ~two months from now,
> 		 	  pending interest for merging fixes.
> 			+ should we drop review for 3.3.4 (Bjoern) ?
> 				- not many changes anyway, could review pre-release ?
> 				- lack of interest may avoid pre-release review too ...
> 				- leave single review in-place for 3.3.4
>                  + 3.4.1 status / roundup
> 			+ RC1 being up-loaded currently, for announce soon
> 			+ -lots- of important bug fixes, some data-loss
> 			  issues, many key 'most annoying' bugs.
> 			+ plenty left to work on
>                  + QA feedback (Rainer)
> 			+ eager to focus work on 3.4.x
> 				+ not much more man-power needed in 3.3.x
> 			+ un-touched bug report count still climbing
> 				+ 200 more in last six weeks.
> 				+ despite good work of triagers
> 				+ focus on most critical
> 			+ LibreOffice QA weekend in Essen this weekend ...
> AA:			+ put Rainer in touch with Gerv (Michael)
>
>          + Adabas DB - disable / removal for 4.0 (Francois)
> 		+ a proprietary solution that was historically part of StarOffice
> 		+ StarOffice version was crippled anyway - 100Mb size limit etc.
> 		+ never shipped with OpenOffice.org
> 		+ decision:
> 			+ kill it completely dead (Caolan, Michael, Norbert, Bjoern, Cedric)
> 		+ thanks Francois for great research / consensus building
> 	+ security co-ordination ... (Thorsten)
> 		+ issues fixed in 3.3.3, how to handle it ?
> 		+ mention it in the release notes in future.
> AA:		+ add Thorsten to security list so he can co-ordinate (Michael)
>          + GSOC update / deadlines reminder (Cedric)
> 		+ all students on-track, good integration
> 	+ ux-advise feedback / status
> 		+ looks good, lots of nice successful interaction there
> 	+ gnumake4 migration (Bjoern)
> 		+ rebased into 1 linear line of patches, based on m106
> 		+ please do not touch the following modules, they are already
> 		  gbuildized in gnumake4:
> 			 basebmp basegfx canvas cppcanvas dbaccess idl
> 			 linguistic oox regexp reportdesign sax starmath
> 			 ucbhelper unotools wizards writerfilter
> 			 xmlreader xmlscript
> 	+ no news from Lanedo
> 		+ Mitch was on vacation
> 	+ future of the bug tracking system
> 		+ Rainer will have more ideas after the QA weekend
>
> * Longer term items:
>          + continue Lanedo' list of things that suck (Mitch)
>          + discussion concerning discussion concerning
>            future of our bug tracking System (Rainer)
>

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