minutes of ESC call ...
Michael Meeks
michael.meeks at collabora.com
Thu Jan 16 10:21:48 PST 2014
* Present:
+ Cedric, Miklos, Caolan, Kendy, Fridrich, Adam, Andras, Cloph, Jacobo,
Stephan, Markus, Michael M, David T, Eike, Robinson, Kohei, Bjoern
* Completed Action Items
+ Connect moggi with local Frieburg guys (Bjoern)
+ planning required for hack-fests generally.
* Pending Action Items:
+ need design for copying styles between templates (Cor Nouws/other UX?)
cf. http://www.mail-archive.com/libreoffice-ux-advise@lists.freedesktop.org/msg01658.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/libreoffice-ux-advise@lists.freedesktop.org/msg01663.html
[ UX hack-fest item for progress ? ]
+ Review patches in the queue (Andrzej)
[ blocking getting an Android pre-release of this out ]
[ one reviewed, but not submitted, some non-reviewed changes yet - but at least the updated
version in Google play - for people who signed up for beta testing.
Andrzej reviewing & pushing patches, otherwise Cloph to push as is ].
+ Buy an iPhone for testing vs. Dev. budget (Cloph)
[ UI checked, and testing release in progress ]
+ look into non-functioning 'install' button in update dialog (Kendy / Andras)
[ Kendy has security concerns around downloading & executing pieces here
not a trivial fix. Signing / build verification discussion stalled.
Investigation ongoing. ].
+ Online Help needs update to match current behavior (Help -> Check for Updates -> Help)
https://help.libreoffice.org/swriter/EXTENSIONS_HID_CHECK_FOR_UPD_DLG
* Release Engineering update (Christian)
+ 4.1.5 RC1 status
+ currently synching to the mirror network -> public after the call
no negative feedback at the moment
+ 4.2 code freeze / branch status (Christian)
+ scanned the MAB list for critical issues
+ a11y crasher - only in release builds
+ IA2 is experimental (Mst)
+ PDF export loosing images: fdo#72530 (ironic)
+ A couple of font issues, fdo#50855, fdo#77628
+ otherwise MABs are already fixed: install on mac & dep. issue on Linux
* GSoC is approaching (Fridrich)
+ collect ideas https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas
+ Many tasks need mentors.
+ Org. Application time is Feb 3rd.
+ would be good to have ideas page presentable by then.
+ need to focus on high quality students & applications (Fridrich)
+ Cedric & Fridrich interested to do the project admin again
+ could we create another page with a grab-bag of ideas with less
mentoring bandwidth ?
AI: + mentors - prune / remove already done ideas from each side (All)
AI: + create a general ideas page, dis-connected from GSoC (Fridrich)
+ pruning non-mentored tasks to the new page.
* Crashtest update (Markus)
+ new crash-test / data:
+ cf. http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/crashtest/
+ http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/crashtest/2bb1a845a25ca9a39c96f37995453844461aed4e/
+ import crashes pretty good now
+ export still not good
+ validation errors still high unfortunately
* FOSDEM (Kendy)
+ Standard Hotel 'Astrid' bookings to share at:
+ http://www.astridhotel.be/index-en.html
+ Usability hack-fest 2x days after FOSDEM:
+ https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Hackfest/FOSDEM2014#Participants
+ good to register ...
* Certification update (Kendy/Bjoern/Stephan)
* AbiWord import filter (Fridrich)
+ concerned wrt. 4.3 due to new framework changes etc.
+ target it for 4-2-1 as experimental ? (Michael)
+ already part of libwpftwriterlo - hard to make experimental (Fridrich)
+ no problem without the experimental flag (Markus)
+ self contained, import filter, no big danger.
+ no real UI changes, beyond a new filter string (Fridrich)
AI: + "Abiword Document", poke translators (Fridrich)
+ ie. to l10n at global.libreoffice.org
+ 3x volunteers: Markus, Michael, David to review it.
* QA (Robinson)
+ Bugzilla Migration update
+ no update.
+ Need-advice bug list bits ?
+ "Writer no longer uses Text and Background Colours from
Windows High-Contrast theme for displaying document" (a11y)
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71511 (Bjoern)
+ " Any >>= operator and typelib_TypeClass_ENUM" (Stephan to poke)
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64394
+ All Most Annoying Bugs -> priority Highest (Bjoern)
+ all non MABs at priority Highest -> to priority high.
+ concern that people will just up their priorities (Michael)
+ no mechanism to stop people re-prioritising bugs.
+ currently have fewer bugs in priority highest than MABs (Bjoern)
+ not changing the MAB dependencies yet.
+ will un-subscribe the dev-list from MAB, change, and re-subscribe
so only 2x mails to the dev list.
+ prepare for some spam if you're subscribed directly.
* QA stats:
+ https://bugs.freedesktop.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
+137 -98 (+39 overall)
many thanks to the top bug squashers:
Maxim Monastirsky 16
sophie 8
Foss 7
Michael Stahl 6
Kohei Yoshida 6
Jean-Baptiste Faure 5
tommy27 5
Zolnai Tamás 5
Eike Rathke 4
* Open 4.2 MAB
+ 17/65 17/59 21/58 15/45 14/38 13/29 8/23 7/20
26% 28% 36% 33% 37%
+ https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=65675&hide_resolved=1
* Open 4.1 MAB
+ 36/142 33/138 32/137 32/136 29/130 29/127 28/125 28/122 28/119 27/118
25% 23% 23% 23% 22% 23% 22% 23% 24% 23%
+ https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=60270&hide_resolved=1
* Open 4.0 MAB
+ 52/208 52/208 55/208 56/208 55/208 56/208 57/208 57/205 57/204
25% 25% 26% 26% 26% 27% 27% 28% 28%
+ https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=54157&hide_resolved=1
* Bibisected bugs open: whiteboard 'bibsected'
+ 44/176 44/175 44/170 46/169 48/169 48/168 49/167 48/164 48/162 49/160
+ http://bit.ly/VQfF3Q
* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
+ 348(-1) bugs open of 2221(+15) total
* ~Component count net *
Writer - 103 (+0)
Spreadsheet - 48 (-1)
Libreoffice - 34 (-1)
Presentation - 25 (+0)
Crashes - 24 (+1)
Database - 23 (+0)
Drawing - 16 (+1)
Borders - 16 (+0)
BASIC - 7 (+0)
Migration - 3 (+0)
+ http://bit.ly/15mM2Yn - for devs ( no NEEDINFO / UNCONFIRMED )
+ 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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