ESC meeting minutes: 2020-01-30

[Eivind Samseth]

Just wanted to ping this issue, as I see the gerrit patch was abandoned?
https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/86216/2

The builds should be compiled with the ./autogen.sh --with-macosx-sdk=10.13 option so we can have proper releases on macOS again

It’s now close to a year since the last working major release, 6.2, for a majority of macOS users

Best,
Eivind


> On 30 Jan 2020, at 20:04, Eivind Samseth <eisa01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 30 Jan 2020, at 16:25, Miklos Vajna <vmiklos at collabora.com> wrote:
>> 
>> * QA update (Xisco)
>>   + Most pressing bugs:
>>    Old:
>>        + After Update to 6.1.4 on macOS fonts are blurred on retina
>> display (xcode 10)
>>           + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122218
>>             + probably depends on xcode version (Xisco)
>>             + but newer xcode is required by notarization (Cloph)
>>               + ideal would be to build with xcode 10 entirely
>>               + HiDPI screen for Cloph would be great (Michael)
>>               + found out: not a regression, but it is from a user’s PoV
> 
> Is there any update on this issue?
> 
> I see there’s been some patches in gerrit that should fix it, but they have not been committed for almost a month now
> 
> In a nutshell, you need to build with macOS SDK 10.13, as SDK 10.14 and 10.15 produce blurry results
> I have confirmed SDK 10.13 work with Xcode 11 on a recent nightly build
> 
> The last working version for a majority of macOS users is 6.2.8
> 
> Blurry screens is both annoying and is an ergonomic issue, it’s not good for your eyesight
> 
> At a minimum the download page for macOS users should warn of this issue and point to 6.2.8 for users with Retina screens, people should not have to Google this known problem
> 
> There were two users on the bug report that found this issue and looked into it, that could potentially be helpful to get in contact with for further macOS work?
> I’m not a developer — just been doing QA on macOS bugs from time to time :)
> 
> Best,
> Eivind