[Libreoffice] minutes of tech. steering call ...

[Michael Meeks]

* Present:
	+ Thorsten, Stephan, Mitch, Eike, Andras, David,
	  Bjoern, Kendy, Caolan, Michael S, Petr, Rainer,
	  Lionel, Tor, Markus

* Completed Action Items:
	+ add merged msi details to 3.5 release page (Andras)
	+ add unexpected mingw regressions to MingW 'most-annoying' (Rainer)
	+ send ssh keys for Linux build machine access to Fridrich (Caolan)
	+ concrete debug proposal for the public list (Stephan)
	+ poke at and 'adopt' some easy hacks:
	  http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Easy_Hacks_by_required_Skill (All)
	+ tinderbox owners should change names & Thorsten to prune server (All)
		+ looks lots prettier ~done

* Pending Action Items
        + [in progress] default to TM safe (non-TDF) branding (Thorsten)
        + [in progress] enable on-line updates for QA in cross-compiled dailies (Kendy)
	+ [in progress] extract 64bit build hardware from firewall (Kendy / Admins)
	+ come up with a list of QA heros for next meeting (Rainer)
	+ ask Christian wrt. Mac / PPC (Fridrich)
	+ python/wizards merge for 3.5 & strip old versions (Bjoern)

* Action Items

* Release Engineering update (Petr)
	+ 3.5.0-beta0
		- coming soon, kicking the tires of the build process /
		  stabilising
		+ commit deadline is Monday Nov 28 (next Monday)
		+ feature freeze is 1 week later
	+ Please check most annoying 3.5 bugs:
		+ https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37361
		+ Windows error / during installation
		+ extension registration / terminal launch issues

* Java 7 (Stephan)
	+ requests / concern about it
		+ already enabled for Linux
		+ we should enable for Windows
		+ duplicate the entry from XML file from Linux -> Windows
		  & sanity check.
	+ rumoured instability with Java 7
		+ is it generally fixed / still broken ?
AA:	+ enable Java 7 for Windows, post qa list to give it a try (Stephan)

* Unit tests issue (Markus [Moggi])
	+ calc unit tests take around 30 seconds now
		+ move some of them to tinderboxes / defer building
	+ we have tons of filter tests - ~20 files to import & calc etc.
	+ make subsequentcheck - the solution (Stephan)
		+ the JUnit UNO API tests are a pain (Michael)
	+ can we use 'make build' instead ?
		+ concerned to run some basic tests every time
	+ have lots of tests, that are nice, but don't need to
	  be executed every time.
	+ no need for more different test rules (Bjoern)
	+ add them to subsequentcheck
	+ if we run just cppunittests in subsequenttests (Bjoern)
		+ fast & easier to debug
		+ ie. disable Java, and avoid undebuggable uno tests
	+ tests should be executed with tinderboxes, useful (Markus)
		+ have found problems, l10n issues etc.
	+ subsequentcheck
		+ number of ways to improve it (Caolan)
	+ Bjoern has a nice write-up of how to debug it here:
		+ http://sweetshark.livejournal.com/2271.html
	+ can't we just run 'make build' and then 'make'
		+ want to extend the tests yet further ...
AA:	+ move some slow tests over to 'make subsequentcheck' (Markus)
		+ should be a ~trivial makefile rename / tweak
		+ make subsequentcheck afterwards

* Officially kill bit-rotted pch work (Norbert in absentia)
	+ eager to kill them, they're unmaintainable, bit-rots
	  with each commit (Kendy)
	+ tried to use them once 6 momths ago, failed miserably (Tor)
AA:	+ remove them, or file easy hack for the same (Norbert)

* NlpSolver (Michael)
	+ un-maintained, Sun extension, no live up-stream
	+ flatten it into git as a module instead

* Cross-compiling MSIs building (Mitch)
	+ slow but steady, continuing build.pl etc. re-factor

* QA Update (Rainer)
	+ had to leave early.

* bug priority handling (Lionel)
	+ https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39950
	+ vs. wrong icon issue - severity
AA:	+ help out diving deeper into it next week (Caolan)
		+ is it a missing copy-constructor ?

* Cor's bug reporting context ?
	+ table of who found what 3.5 bugs, how good they are ?
		+ T-shirt prizes ?
	+ resources low for triage, can we easily
	  assess quality of bug-reports for a fair metric ?
		+ discuss with Rainer next time.

* 3.5 most annoying bugs ...
	+ https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=37361&hide_resolved=1

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