minutes of ESC call ...

Thu Jul 5 08:13:32 PDT 2012

* Present
	+ Rainer, Markus, Mirek, Mitch, Michael, Michael S, Eike,
	  Ellie, Thorsten, Bjoern, Kohei, Cedric

* Completed action items
	+ file GSoC / mentor session for Berlin (Cedric)
	+ look into cppunit related build issues on Win32 / master (Michael)
	+ poke SPI wrt. sysadmin contract (Michael)
	+ mail the winning / new splash images to Thorsten (Astron)
	+ new master builds for Windows (Fridrich)
		+ the Bytemark builds should produce a test-able build
	+ work on unifying spaetz + David's gerrit related tools (Bjoern)
		+ stick with horror shell / logerrit for now in master
		+ moving to 'git review' from openstack in future (David)
		  http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GitReview
	+ disable cxx0x options in our builds by default (Bjoern)
		+ obsolete - gcc maintainers got it together
	+ [pending] merge the new pretty templates in place of the old ugly ones (Astron)
		+ new problems shown up with this -
		+ Caolan has tool for templates to strip lang tags so it works
			+ try template lang tag stripping tool
		+ need to fix & merge for Beta3

* Pending Action Items
	+ check new templates are using auto-fitting functionality (Thorsten)
	+ notify all committers when we have a nice simple, minimal
	  statement of what is required for gerrit written (Bjoern)
	+ adapt & bring closer the 3.5.6 schedule (Petr)

* UI / design update (Astron)
	+ templates
		+ have merged much nicer templates (Astron)
		+ slightly different set to those previewed, but good
		+ crediting: get --author right when pushing git commits
AI:		+ crediting: can we separate tempates in the credits page (Spaetz?)
	+ pretty new splash-screen and shell artwork committed to master
		+ can we detect if there is no need for a splash
	+ lots of thinking going on about improving the options dialog
	+ take Mango icon update under CC-By-SA (for now)
		+ push what we want for now
		+ add credits to the license file.

* GSOC update (Cedric)
	+ next week - mid-term evaluations for both students & mentors
		+ every student must file their evaluation
		+ every mentor -must- file their evaluations to pass/fail etc.
		  not filing is a 'no' and bad-karma for the project.
		+ features need merging into master.
			+ ideally the 2nd half of the work should
			  be done directly in master.

* Release Engineering update (Thorsten)
	+ 3.5.5 status
		+ RC3 is announced & live, including a few new fixes
		=> final absent drastic new showstoppers
	+ 3.6.0 Beta 3
		+ being sent to the mirrors, announce tonight/saturday
		+ new artwork will be delayed until RC1.
		+ RC1 tagging ~mid next week.
		+ final release at end of month

* re-basing update (Michael)
	+ ~68/~70 modules complete.
	+ will incorporate migrate of idlc -> uccp
	+ discuss other migrations as/when/next

* gerrit update (Bjoern)
	+ lots of fixes / reports from Miklos - thanks
	+ firehose gerrit updates to the mailing list
	  until complaints.
		+ quite a number blocked by moderation
AI:		+ look at gerrit moderation issues / regex's (Thorsten)

* un-merged patches in bugzilla (Michael S / Caolan)
	+ several committed, patch flags removed for patches
	  not intended to be integrated (debug, sample), or patches
	  integrated but not completely fixing the bug
	+ ongoing work to clean up.

* MSI cross-compilation (Eilidh)
	+ feature/crossmsi branch created
		+ an msidb subset using Wine created
		+ links to LGPL wine libraries
	+ blog post to follow

* QA update (Rainer)
	+ contracting bugzilla improvements (blocking on SPI)
		+ funding approved
	+ openhatch - do we have feedback ?
		+ not much coming as of now
	+ interest in attracting low-frequency code contributors to QA

* Mac installer icon theme (Mirek)
AA:	+ help Mirek updating artwork for that (Thorsten)

* new masterpages (Bjoern)
	+ crash when opening vector-art templates fixed.
AA:	+ be nice if design team blog about new templates - mention B3 (Mirek)

* ohloh non-updating (Eike)
	+ they have been poked about it & are working on it.

* 4.0 - when is it ? (Kendy)
	+ punted until Kendy & SBerg are back from vacation ...
	+ Berlin conference is a bit late for this ...

* 3.5 most annoying bugs ...
	+ 70 open (of 243) older 73/241 72/238 68/231 67/229 67/226 62/219 60/213 67/211
	     29%                   30%   30%    29%    29%    30%    28%    28%    32%
	+ https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=37361&hide_resolved=1

* 3.6 most annoying bugs ...
	+ 11 (of 35) older 5/26 5/21 3/19 4/15 8/13
	     31%            19%  24%  16%  27%  62%
	+ https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=44446&hide_resolved=1

* 3.5 bugs tagged with 'regression'
	+ 169(-8) bugs open of 661(+18) total
	+ Started to double-count more classes of regression, to split
	  them out more easily: Crashes, Borders, Migration
		+ temporarily distorts graphs
		+ encourages fixing of these bugs

	* ~Component   count net *
	+ Writer       - 62 (-3)
	+ Spreadsheet  - 21 (+1)
	+ Presentation - 21 (-2)
	+ LibreOffice  - 14 (-1)
	+ Crashes      - 18 (+2)
	+ Borders      - 11 (-1)
	+ Drawing      - 11 (+0)
	+ Writer / RTF - 6  (-1)
	+ Database     - 7  (+0)
	+ Basic        - 3  (+0)
	+ Migration    - 4  (+0)

	+ https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?keywords=regression%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&resolution=---&query_format=advanced&product=LibreOffice&list_id=36764
	+ Migration tracker: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43489

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