minutes of the ESC Call 2014-08-14

[Bjoern Michaelsen]

* Present
    + Robinson, Miklos, Christian, Bjorn, Michael S, Muthu
 
* Completed Action Items
    + setup some VM's that can be created on-demand (Cloph)
        + done for the hackfest, non-public
        + working on creating a public machine
        + initial version based on Amazon marketplace Ubuntu 14.04 base,
          using a community version for upcoming events, which is more
          freely distributable
* Pending Action Items:
    + ask UX advise wrt. wrench icons (revert or not ?) (Astron)
    + blog about the sad realities of web plugins (Bjoern)
    + open-source newer Synezip tests / speak at the conference (Umesh)
    + Ask for 1-2 more dev-list moderators & re-visit next-week (Michael)
    + contact Michael / the list when students show up (Jan Marek)
    + help Cloph with the quickstarter disabling (Andras)
      https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/10817/
      https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/10669/

* GSOC Update (Cedric)
    + poke students
 
* Release Engineering update (Christian)
    + RC2 tagging tommorrow
    + 4.3.1 RC2 status
    + Android Remote
    
* support of non-SSE2 capable CPUs
    + by accident (switch to MSVC 2012) the 4.3 Windows release requires SSE2
    + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82430
    + https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/10838/  might help
    + since these CPUs were made until 2005 most likely users run WinXP
      should we support them at least as long as WinXP?
    => reenable non-SSE2 support, but need testers

* Crashtest update (Markus)
    + no Markus (maybe we should broaden the skill base to read these?)
 
* Certification Committee (Stephan/Bjoern/Kendy)
    + waiting until ~September (nearly there)

* commit access confusion:
    + OTRS finally dead and gone in the docs, I hope (Bjoern)
    + Norbert set up a branch for Doug, which should nicely solve this for porting patches
AI:      + porting patches shouldnt be needed anymore on master, see after remaining changes in gerrit (Bjoern)
    + Samuel: on hold -- too many common mentors/reviewers are on vacation still

* USA Hackfest update (Michael?)
    + Boston Hackfest
        + hosted by Xamarin, had some engineers come over
        + some good bugfixing, some good mentoring ...
 
* Hackfests (Bjoern)
    + Seattle 'Libre-Fest' (Robinson)
        https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Events/2014/Seattle_LibreFest
        + October 26, 2014
        + Bug-triaging/Intro-to-community event
        + Following SeaGL conference
    + Munich hack-fest (Jan-Marek):
        http://www.it-muenchen-blog.de/2014/07/bug-squashing-party-2014/
        + will have a BSP come-together; if someone says they're coming
          just show up etc.
           + November 21st-23rd, 2014
           https://wiki.debian.org/BSP/2014/11/de/Munich
           + we should drop by with 2 or 3 developers, if possible
    + Toulouse Hackfest ...
        + Confirmed for Nov. 15-16th
        + more details: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Hackfest/Toulouse2014
    + Be great to have -really- easy easy hacks for devs (Bjoern)
 
* QA (Robinson)
    + UNCONFIRMED count creeping up. Recruiting again
    + More inquiries re: Windows quickstarter https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80927
    + Multiple q's and bugs filed re: video playback support in Impress
    https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79546 - OSX (plays in QT, not in LO)
        + Do we document our policy for video/audio playback? (using system framework)
        + Status of VLC support?
            + Different support on different distros (Bjoern)
  
* UX Update (Astron / Mirek)
    + no UX attendance
 
* Bern Conference
    + book your hotels!
 
* QA stats:
  + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
    +221    -251        (-30 overall)
    many thanks to the top bug squashers:
        QA Administrators   110
        Maxim Monastirsky   29
        Julien Nabet         9
        Foss                 8
        Jay Philips          6
        Joel Madero          5
        Michael Stahl        5
        tommy27              5
        Jean-Baptiste Faure  4
        Urmas                4
 
* Open 4.4 MAB
  + 4/8 4/8 3/7 3/7 2/5 1/2 1/1
  + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=79641&hide_resolved=1
 
* Open 4.3 MAB
  + 14/52 14/50 11/47 14/47 14/45 19/43 10/32 6/27 5/24 5/22 3/20
     26%   28%   23%   29%   33%   44%   31%   22%  20%  22%  15%
  + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=75025&hide_resolved=1
 
* Open 4.2 MAB
  + 83/244 83/243 84/236 85/235 82/229 81/222 76/215 74/212 74/210 71/207
     34%    34%     35%    36%    35%    36%    35%    34%    35%    34%
  + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=65675&hide_resolved=1
 
* Bibisected bugs open: whiteboard 'bibsected'
  + 136/361 127/349 119/331 102/308 92/296 84/283 84/280 81/274 79/265 75/259
    + http://bit.ly/VQfF3Q
 
* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
    + 435(-4) bugs open of 2952(+8) total
        * ~Component   count net *
                Writer - 126 (-6)
           Spreadsheet - 79 (+1)
               Crashes - 33 (+2)
          Presentation - 28 (-1)
                    UI - 25 (-2)
           Libreoffice - 27 (+0)
              Database - 21 (+0)
              Graphics - 21 (-1)
               Borders - 19 (+0)
               Filters - 15 (+1)
               Drawing - 13 (+0)
           Print / PDF - 11 (+0)
                 Chart -  8 (+1)
               Formula -  5 (+0)
            Extensions -  5 (+0)
          Installation -  4 (+0)
                 BASIC -  4 (-1)
            Linguistic -  3 (+0)
             framework -  2 (-1)
                   sdk -  0 (+0)
        Impress Remote -  0 (+?)
  + http://bit.ly/15mM2Yn - for devs ( no NEEDINFO / UNCONFIRMED )