minutes of ESC call ...

[Michael Meeks]

* Present:
	+ Andras, Mirek, Michael, Kendy, Stephan, Eike, Fridrich,
	  David, Michael S, Petr, Rainer, Mitch, Caolan, Markus,
	  Cedric, Tor, Kohei

* Completed Action Items
	+ ask Astron to show up and/or Mirek for UI team (Michael)
	+ concrete bugzilla component proposal for next time (Michael S)
	+ re-visit ChromeOS fonts in another week's time (Caolan)
		+ potential issues with fontconfig fallbacks
AA:		+ switch to them in master if no reply (Caolan)
	+ send magic who-has-accounts command to Cedric (Norbert)

* Pending Action Items
	+ [working on it] pull up misc. internal versions for 3.6 (Fridrich)
		+ latest cairo build bust on Windows - cairo needed for svg
	+ propose repeat-format bits to the ODF/TC (Eike / Thorsten)
AA:		+ Kohei needs to ack / sign off for Thorsten (Kohei)
        + rename VCL API to make it GetBeamerFoo & fix (Michael)
	+ add encryption default UI option in 3.6 (Thorsten)
	+ write 2 paragraph gerrit teaser to dev-list for gerrit (Bjoern)
	+ [pending] think over consequences of moving master -> 3.6 on release etc. (Rainer)
		+ some technical issues to be cleared, needs admin help [next week]

* Action Items review

* GSOC update (Cedric)
	+ make sure students are ready, beginning of coding in 11 days

* UI / design intro (Mirek)
	+ Mirek: from czech republic, 19, enthusiastic :-)
	+ working on GSOC projects, testing a new process
	+ analysing the proposals, one more week to get some
	  tentative designs.
	+ working on web buttons, conference banner etc.

* UI: Alexander's nice new templates
	+ better than what we have now
	+ GSOC project around templates management / new document dialog
	+ Licensing for templates: CC0 is ideal ...
		+ templates must be entirely original CC0 work.
	+ currently have only 5-6 templates.
AA:	+ get Alexander commit access & give a free hand (Michael)

* UI: lots of talks wrt. document themes
	+ styles for the whole document
	+ something we'd like to do
		+ using well-defined style names and sticking to them,
		  easy to switch between them.
	+ we need to be able to style the built-in / default styles,
	  with no name / just an ID in ODF.
	+ existing feature to import styles from another doc (Michael S)

* Release Engineering update (Petr)
	+ 3.5.4 - freeze on May 14th (Monday)
		+ please merge pending / outstanding patches
		+ lots of nice fixes already, looks promising
	+ Petr to decide if we need a new 3.5.x release during 3.6 ?
	+ 3.6 status
		+ June 4th feature-freeze: ~three weeks out

* build machines (Fridrich)
	+ both Linux build machines outside the VPN
	+ unwinding over-complex build environment
		+ reducing need to ship custom std libs
AA:	+ look at bytemark / win32 tinderboxes (Fridrich)

* bugs with patches in bugzilla (Michael)
	+ unwound half a dozen or more
	+ please encourage people to send patches to the mailing list

* OLE2 performance issue (Caolan)
	+ major regression fix as side-effect of stricter security
	  validation of streams.
	+ fix / patch and further speedup sent to list for review

* QA update (Rainer/Petr)
	+ add new components
		+ "sdk", "framework", "graphics", "filters"
		+ bugzilla assistant - reads components from wiki
			+ add them with different style.
AA:		+ create new components next week (Rainer)
	+ thoughts on a live / current issues ticker:
		- "wiki page looks ugly", "release in 3 days" etc.
		+ avoids mailing list panics etc. ?
		+ RSS feed / mailing-list for that ? - too late.
AA:		+ connect Rainer / sysadmins about ticker (Thorsten)
	+ Tango / icon problems
		+ printer icons look greyed out in menus
		+ Astron / Alex are the best contacts
AA:		+ ask Jimmac for update Tango icons (Mirek/Astron)


* 3.5 most annoying bugs ...
	+ 67 open (of 211) older 68/205  71/205  68/199 74/201 73/193 66/183
	     32%                   33%     35%     34%    37%    38%   36%
	+ https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=37361&hide_resolved=1

* 3.5 bugs tagged with 'regression'
	+ 145(-4) bugs open of 532(+27) total

	* Component    count net *
	+ Writer       - 53 (+1)
	+ Presentation - 22 (-3)
	+ LibreOffice  - 13 (-3)
	+ Spreadsheet  - 10 (+0)
	+ Drawing      - 9  (+0)
	+ Database     - 9  (+1)
	+ Writer / RTF - 8  (-2)
	+ 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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