minutes of ESC call ...

[Michael Meeks]

* Present:
	+ Norbert, Rainer, David, Stephan (Astron), Stephan B,
	  Fridrich, Tor, Kohei, Cedric, Petr, Michael, Andras,
	  Thorsten, Caolan, Eike, Kendy, Alexander, Markus,
	  Bjoern
		+ ran out of phone-lines - urk.

* Completed Action Items
        + pull up misc. internal versions for 3.6 (Fridrich)
		+ currently updating all the Strba-filter stack libs
        + connect Rainer with sysadmins wrt. status/live issues ticker
                + done on list
        + switch to ChromeOS fonts in master if no reply from Liberation
          team (Caolan)
		+ resolution: update internal Liberation fonts as/when
        + rename VCL API to make it GetBeamerFoo & fix (Michael)
		+ much cleaner.
        + write 2 paragraph gerrit teaser to dev-list (Bjoern)

* Pending Action Items
        + [in progress] add encryption default UI option in 3.6 (Thorsten)

* GSOC update (Cedric)
	+ progressing nicely, check students are working,
	  ping quiet ones

* UI / design update (Astron/Mirek/Alexander)
	+ Icon refresh (Astron)
		+ cataloging what can be refreshed
		+ contact Lapo/Jakub later today
		+ target is Beta 1
	+ Template / master-pages / fonts re-work (Alexander)
		+ delay using new fonts for 3.6 (metric
		  compatibility)
		+ new branch: feature/master-page created
		+ work getting up-loaded later today
		+ embedded /  SVG resources in the wiki
	+ extra/source/shellnew (Alexander)
		+ are these the default empty document templates ?
		+ no - everything is hard-coded (Cedric)
AI:		+ implement style-loading before feature-freeze (Cedric)
	+ lots of nice UI work in 3.6 already
		+ many thanks to Kendy, Mirek, Astron, Alexander etc.
	+ work on remote-control continues (Astron)
	+ Windows theming work ongoing (Kendy)
AI:	+ update the splash-screen image for 3.6 (Astron)
	+ wish to contact GSOC students wrt. designs

* Release Engineering update (Petr)
        + 3.5.4 retrospective
		+ pushed yesterday, lots of bug fixes,
		  annoying regression with shortcut translation
		  found - but just after the RC2 tag.
		+ should we stretch the gap between release
		  candidates ?
		+ bug had been there for ages pre RC1
	+ 3.5.5: currently planned after 3.6.0
		+ prolly too late currently
		+ will shift to release between B2 and B3
        + 3.6 status
		+ Alpha1 tag today, at point that the
		 tinderboxes looked green.
	+ Stress Warning - approaching feature-freeze -
		+ prepare for angst.
		+ plan to branch / feature-freeze on Tuesday
		+ then new features will require tripple review

* Known features racing the freeze (Michael)
	+ CMIS / sharepoint integration (Cedric)
	+ UI cleanups / improvements (Kendy)
	+ color scales / data-bar dialogs (Markus)
	+ master-page improvements (Bjoern)
		+ artwork, traditionally frozen later
	+ read-only document re-work (Stephan)
	+ improved text properties for Corel Draw import (Fridrich)
	+ re-licensing & Regina's work inclusion (Michael)

* Quality of round-robin patch review (Markus)
	+ often generalists review specific patches for master
	+ gerrit should be able to help (Norbert)
		+ queueing and checking them
		+ one-day timeout from gerrit: if no protest,
		  auto-merge to master.
	+ concerns wrt. early merging, integrate everything
	  that builds and looks reasonable (Fridrich)
	+ people who are asked to do weekly patch-review
		+ should be devolving those reviews where unusure
		  to specialists
		+ specialists must react quickly if they want this.

* git submodules status (Norbert)
	+ push back until 3.6.2 - out of time

* 3.6 blocker: Java not detected on Windows
	+ breaks all of 'base'
	+ would be good to fix before B1
	+ https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48946

* LinuxTag update (Michael/Thorsten/Bjoern)
	+ Daniel Naber - LanguageTool etc.

* re-basing on ALv2 code update (Michael)
	+ please continue to hold queue of new / big code cleanup
	+ some level of reverting/re-writing of last 0.3% of unclear commits
	+ please ask before reverting code commits that are not your own

* QA update (Rainer)
	+ Java problem on windows for 3.6 a priority.
	+ bugzilla version renaming (discussin QA call)
        + create new bugzilla components
AI:		+ send list of new component names (Michael S.)
AI:		+ create those components (Michael M.)
        + think over consequences of moving master -> 3.6 on release etc. (Rainer)
		+ blocking on new versioning scheme
	+ https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/How_to_Improve_Bugzilla
AI:	+ dig out the assignment wiki page for Fridrich (Rainer)

* 3.5 most annoying bugs ...
	+ 67 open (of 226) older 62/219 60/213 67/211 68/205 71/205 68/199 74/201
	     30%                   28%    28%    32%    33%    35%    34%    37%
	+ https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=37361&hide_resolved=1

* 3.6 most annoying bugs ...
	+ 8 open (of 13)
	     62%
	+ https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=44446&hide_resolved=1

* 3.5 bugs tagged with 'regression'
	+ 173(+12) bugs open of 590(+23) total

	+ Started to double-count some classes of regression, to split
	  them out: Crashes and Borders
		+ temporarily distorts graphs
		+ encourages fixing of these bugs

	* Component    count net *
	+ Writer       - 72 (+8)
	+ Presentation - 19 (+1)
	+ Borders      - 15
	+ LibreOffice  - 15 (-1)
	+ Spreadsheet  - 15 (+3)
	+ Crashes      - 11
	+ Drawing      - 10 (+1)
	+ Writer / RTF - 10 (+1)
	+ Database     - 9  (+0)
	+ Basic        - 2  (+0)

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

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