minutes of ESC call ...

[Michael Meeks]

* Present:
	+ Kendy, Stephan, Kohei, Eike, Michael M, Andras, Markus,
	  Cedric, Caolan, Ahmed, Tibby, Fridrich, Petr, Joel, Bjoern

* Completed Action Items
	+ send out next round of certification invitations (Stephan/Bjoern/Thorsten)
	+ write the start of a dependency graphing tool (Michael)
	+ more helpful / shorter bugzilla links (?) (Kendy)
		+ made public the query - but has to be per-user selected
		+ otherwise we need to use bit.ly or equivalent
	+ fdo#37580 - can't reproduce in 4.1.x - can we get more details (Joel)
		+ closed it

* Pending Action Items
	+ Bugzilla attachments not set to autodetect (Bjoern)
		+ sent to Tollef - who is deadly busy just now.
	+ disable Rhino / Beanshell unless in experimental mode (Michael M)
	+ helping out with code-pointers for UI bugs (Kendy)
		+ [ pending ]
	+ look at gradient / clipart issues (Michael)
	+ drop the unused xmerge filters, but retain the framework (Timar)
	+ SLES11 / temporary PTF for the server ? using SP3 toolchain ? (Kendy)
		[ pending new packages ]

* Oman conference (Ahmad)
	+ workshop to encourage new contributors
	+ introduction, how to use, download, how to develop
	+ encouraged translators to get involved
	+ general status:
		+ solved most of the RTL editing bugs
		+ plenty of UI & other issues to go

* Release Engineering update (Petr)
	+ 4.0.1 retrospective
		+ went well, >120 bugs fixed
		+ build problems with rc1 delaying it one day
			=> knock-on delay for rc2
		+ really need two weeks rc1 -> rc2
		+ huge numbers of patches getting tripple review
		  between Monday and rc2 tag
	+ 4.0.2 rc1 *next deadline is Monday*
		+ March 11th
	+ 3.6.6 rc1 commit deadline 1.5 weeks out: Monday Mar 18

* UX input
	+ design team / new icon set being considered (Ahmad)
		+ svg files for each icon most appreciated
	+ concern wrt. open-issues on the UX advise list (Markus)
		+ unfortunate for first patch developers

* GSOC ideas page:
	Needs updating by 28th Mar.
	https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/Gsoc/Ideas

* large-scale code changes / re-indenting pending .2 release in one month

* gnumake enabled improvements (Bjoern)
	+ killing off delivered headers - they bust LTO
	  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61627#c3
	+ work needs to be done post 4.0.2 (ie. next month)
	+ postpone topic until Michael S back from vacation

* Coverity progress (Markus/Julien/Norbert/Caolan)
	+ work ongoing, would be nice to have a writer guy around

* Automated crash on import test results (Markus)
	+ work ongoing

* Certification Program (Stephan/Kendy/Bjoern)

* Hard Hacks:
	+ http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/HardHacks
	+ pending updates tomorrow.
	+ plan to have 2 writer, 1 spread, 1 draw/impress etc.
	fdo#61025 - Crash when adding a comment on a cell (Markus)
	fdo#40594 - FILEOPEN .docx (MSO2010) does not show CHART object (Michael)
	fdo#59932 - FILEOPEN: Text boxes with bulleted lists containing (Muthu)

* QA update (Joel)
	+ under 150 unconfirmed vs. 4.0, help appreciated with triage.
		http://tinyurl.com/aoj2mwu.
		(checkout topic in #libreoffice-qa)
	+ QA contest coming up with swag / prizes

* Open 4.1 MAB / regressions
	+ 4 (of 8) older 2/5 1/2 3/3
	+ https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=60270&hide_resolved=1

* Open 4.0 MAB / regressions
	+ 17 (of 105) older 14/99 15/96 16/94 16/91 13/79 17/76 10/69 14/64 13/48 13/41
	     16%             14%   16%   17%   18%   22%   22%   14%   22%   27%   32%
	+ https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=54157&hide_resolved=1

* 3.6 most annoying bugs ...
	+ 77 (of 214) older 75/211 76/210 57/189 44/175 45/175 43/174 42/173 36/166
	     36%             36%    36%    30%    25%    25%    25%    24%     22%
	+ https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=44446&hide_resolved=1

* Bibisected bugs open: whiteboard 'bibsected'
	+ 32 (of 79) older 27/72
	+ re-built the query to avoid pre bibisected mess
**		http://bit.ly/VQfF3Q - has the latest query for un-fixed bisected bugs

* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
	+ 286(-6) bugs open of 1353(+20) total

	* ~Component   count net *
	+ Writer       - 93 (-7)
	+ Presentation - 30 (+0)
	+ Spreadsheet  - 26 (-2)
	+ LibreOffice  - 28 (-2)
	+ Crashes      - 19 (-2)
	+ Database     - 24 (+2)
	+ Drawing      - 19 (+2)
	+ Borders      - 14 (+1)
	+ Migration    -  5 (+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
	+ Migration: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=43489&hide_resolved=1

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