minutes of ESC call ...

[Jacobo Aragunde Pérez]

El 22/05/14 17:57, Michael Meeks escribió:
> * Present
>     + Christian, Stephan, Bjoern, Norbert, Eike, Andras, Fridrich, Miklos,
>       Michael M, Jacobo, Robinson, Eilidh, Markus, Caolan, Tor, Adam,
>       Michael S, Norbert, Kendy
>  
> * Completed Action Items
>     + send address sanitiser example (Markus)
>         + http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2014-May/061142.html
>     + chasing build / test intermittency:
>         [ seem to have vanished ]
>     + Add StarOffice OOoXML export removal to 4.2 release notes (Cloph)
>     + Add students to the commiter group (Norbert)
>     + Avoiding big binary checkins (update git hook) (Miklos)
>         [ assuming good faith - chatty message to help people ]
>     + walk through old gerrit changes, nag people, abandon changes (Bjoern)
>         [ done before branch-off, some will be abandoned in a week cf. note,
>           could expire these automatically - auto-abandon ? ]
>     + fix git importing service (Kendy)
>  
> * Pending Action Items:
>     + crashtest box - more research (Moggi/Cloph)
>         [ ongoing ]
>     + encourage icon authors to put them into git (Astron)
>     + fix the Java bridge for MSVC2012 for 4.3 (Michael S.)
>         [ current plan to do before the branch-off ... (bit late) ]
>     + create easy hack to find an auto-abandon config/setting for a gerrit (Bjoern)
>     + schedule a new coverity build (moggi)
>         [ tried during the weekend,
>           coverity analysis takes longer than 24hours etc. (Caolan)
>             + may change the timeout to 36 hours ?
>             + have enabled debugging so coverity can see asserts
>             + not the problem still timing out ... ]
>  
> * GSOC Update (Fridrich)
>     + started on Monday.
>         + poke Fridrich / Cedric if no sign of students.
>            + should have sent telephone contacts already.
>     + please give them a welcome & help to get spun up.
>     + all going well.
>  
> * FISL Brazil Update (Fridrich)
>    + huge event, FOSDEM but in Latin America, and no dev-rooms.
>       + several big halls for keynotes
>    + LibreOffice well represented: several talks
>    + Document Liberation & Flat ODF promoted by Fridrich
>    + FISL release of LibreOffice etc.
>    + great work there, huge community.
>  
> * Release Engineering update (Christian)
>     + 4.3.0 Beta 1 status
>        + tagged yesterday.
>        + branch libreoffice-4-3 created
>           + Windows build delayed, will be tonight / tomorrow
>           + MacOS 10.6 needed a patch, not exactly the tag
>           + only Beta1 -> no need for a separate tag.
>        + investigating Windows test failures (spellchecking)
>           + a python issue related to UI mode - not seen when
>             running from the terminal; different return value
>             internally; around stdout/in etc.
>           + now patched.
>             http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/tree/external/python3/python-3.3.3-py17797.patch.1
>           + will run on XP and later without crashing.
>           + currently a problem with Java runtime on Windows XP
>           + problems with Tools->Macros->Python ... tries to init
>             Java VM.
> AI:          + create / promote a 4.3 MAB for WinXP/Java (Cloph)
>     + 4.2.5 RC1 status ...
>        + deadline next Monday: get fixes into gerrit so on the radar ...
>  
>     + ... Now Feature Frozen ...
>         + tripple approval needed for new features.
>         + bug bug fixes welcome on the branch with no review.
>         
>     + Late features ?
>             + libreofficekit bits / rename etc.
>             + OpenGL pieces / status
>                + experimentalising 3D chart bits.
>                + impress work as well.
>             + some changes in language listbox (Eike)
>                + switching to a combo-box, so can enter an arbitrary lang_tag
>                   + due today.
>             + preserving & rendering OOXML Artistic Effects (Jacobo)
>  



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Jacobo Aragunde
Software Engineer at Igalia