minutes of ESC call ...

Thu Mar 20 09:14:25 PDT 2014

* Present
    + Christian, Norbert, Bjoern, Stephan, Cedric, Adam, Andras,
      Caolan, David, Fridrich, Markus, Miklos, Astron, Michael M,
      Robinson, Eike, Kendy, Jacobo

* Completed Action Items
    + Book Gran Canaria flights (other attendees)
    + add shell wrappers for java validators into dev-tools repo (Markus)
    + check select-all related assertion (Miklos)
        [ seems to be a 'normal' assertion firing, nothing new there ]
    + mail certification candidates to ask their permission (Stephan)
        [ have all replies ]
 
* Pending Action Items:
    + crashtest box - more research (Moggi/Cloph)
        [ still pending discovering which document is the one ...
          has a load of 140 and no work done ... ]
    + will try filing a lot of small string changes as easy hacks (Astron)
 
* Release Engineering update (Christian)
    + 4.2.3 rc1 status
        + released to the public last Friday.
    + 4.2.3 rc2 deadline next Monday.
    + 4.1.next - April 7th
    + Android / iOS remote
        + pushed Android remote with Impress laser -> alpha testing
        + anyone who signed up there can get them.
AI:     + send bluez 5.0 bug # to Caolan (Michael)
 
* UX update (Astron)
    + no huge discussions
    + concerns wrt. replacing website screenshots
       + access to website is constrained (Cloph)
       + will copy all accounts across at the weekend
       + design will come up with some nicer looking shots.
    + icons & menus & side-bar discussions ongoing
    + bulk change of case to titlecase in translations (Andras)
       + need to do the change in pootle / in the .po files.
       + don't want to spam/annoy the localizers (Astron)
         https://bugs.libreoffice.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76203
AI:    + create a meta-issue for things like this (Andras)
          + queue several of these up for 4.3
              + currently translators working 100% on 4.2
          + also changes in help wrt. help-id changes.
          + also the widget -> UI transition.
          + can we migrate existing translations for 4.3
          Meta bug created:  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76404
 
* SpinachCon. UX testing (Robinson)
    + mini / testing event happening day before LibrePlanet in Boston
        + https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/the-0th-spinachcon
        + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Events/2014/SpinachCon
    + hopefully get some good UX testing / ideas etc.
    + working with organisers
    + would be great to have a process for UX testing (Astron)
        + serious need for hard data to inform UX
 
* Security website breakage / migration
    + new site only had the overview, no details.
    + Cloph copied them across now
 
* GSoC update
    + student applications end tomorrow night.
        + 10 applications so far, some experienced students there
    + please consider what you are able to mentor:
        + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas
    + mentors registered on melange
 
* Crashtest update (Markus)
    + pending the fix.
 
* Gran Canaria hack-fest (Bjoern)
    + April 24-25, 2014 (Thu-Fri)
        + book flights etc.
 
* Certification Committee (Stephan/Bjoern/Kendy)
    six newly certified devs:
        Adam Fyne
        David Ostrovsky
        Faisal M. Al-Otaibi
        Jacobo Aragunde Pérez
        Katarína Behrens
        László Németh
AI: add them to the website (Kendy)
 
* QA (Robinson)
    + couple more QA events planned for the future
        + unconfirmed bug count is stabilizing a bit.
    + getting rid of the last 2x 4.0 MAB
        + script generates 2x bugs (in error) (Michael)
AI:     + fix that in the script (Michael)
 
* Tinderboxes now build release branches now (Cloph)
    + Linux & Mac now covered, Windows in process of install.
    + up-loaded daily builds to:
        http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/libreoffice-4-2/
        etc.
    + already had a mac doing the 4.2 release (Norbert)
 
* QA stats:
  + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
    +185    -151        (+34 overall)
    many thanks to the top bug squashers:
        sophie              12
        Jorendc             12
        Björn Michaelsen    11
        Kohei Yoshida       10
        Andras Timar         9
        Jean-Baptiste Faure  7
        Michael Stahl        6
        Mike Kaganski        6
        Maxim Monastirsky    5
        Eike Rathke          5
        Foss                 5
 
* Open 4.3 MAB
  + 1/1 1/1 1/1
  + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=75025&hide_resolved=1
 
* Open 4.2 MAB
  + 19/111 20/111 18/104 17/102 17/99 18/97 19/95 18/85 17/70 17/65 17/59
     17%    18%    17%    16%    17%   18%   20%   21%   24%   26%   28%
  + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=65675&hide_resolved=1
 
* Open 4.1 MAB
  + 84/206 85/206 86/204 81/198 80/197 37/149 37/149 34/144 34/142
     40%    41%    42%    40%    40%    24%    24%    23%    23%
  + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=60270&hide_resolved=1
 
* Open 4.0 MAB
  + 2/164 2/164 2/164 4/166 4/166 49/211 52/211 54/212 52/210 52/208
     1%    1%    1%    2%    2%    23%    24%    25%    24%    25%
  + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=54157&hide_resolved=1
 
* Bibisected bugs open: whiteboard 'bibsected'
  + 40/185 39/182 39/181 40/180 40/180 42/180 42/179 43/178
    + http://bit.ly/VQfF3Q
 
* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
    + 339(-20) bugs open of 2414(+10) total
    * ~Component   count net *
           Writer - 90 (-12)
      Spreadsheet - 54 (-5)
     Presentation - 32 (+1)
      Libreoffice - 28 (+1)
         Database - 24 (+0)
          Crashes - 22 (+1)
          Drawing - 13 (-2)
          Borders - 13 (-1)
            BASIC -  5 (+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

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