minutes of ESC call ...

* Present:
  * Hangout: Kendy, Joel, Kohei, Michael M, Petr, Tsahi,
             Caolan, Bjoern
  * Phone: Stephan, Ahmad, Christian, David, Eike, Norbert,
             Ellie, Cedric, Cloph, Lionel, Michael S

* Completed Action items:
  + get windows build-bot setup (Kendy)
    [ running well, one of the fastest tinderboxes,
      doing incremental Windows builds of master + gerrit ]
  + update visible bugzilla versions to hide ~all legacy versions (Joel)
    [ doing some tests, BSA is done - versions are hidden
      with fdo - if hidden, can't edit a bug to that version,
      ping Tollef for advice ]

* Pending Action items:
  + get remaining GOSC guys introduced on the QA list (Cedric)
    [ poking them individually ]
  + working on Date API fix for rc3 (Eike/Michael S)
    [ near to an end, decision whether to transport UTC
      or localtime, not quite clarified, hope to sort it
      out before tomorrow evening on IRC ]
  + get windows build-bot setup (Thorsten)
  + remember to invite pepp for next week (Michael)

* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
        + 3.6.7 rc2 update
    + out on the mirrors, been pre-announced, hopefully
      the final release.
  + 4.1.0 rc3 status ...
    + Monday is the deadline for RC3, if dates not ready,
      veto tag creation
    + we hope RC3 is our final release
      + testing much appreciated.
    + remove the .0 version from RC3,
AI: + improve configure to avoid versioning mistakes (Cloph)
  + TDF Windows build hardware is in-flight to Munich
  + tripple review continues on libreoffice-4-1-0 branch
  + double review for libreoffice-4-1

* 4.1 status / MAB review (all)
  + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=60270&hide_resolved=1
    + formcontrol issue -> dtardon on it.
    + coretext issues: fdo#66577, fdo#665971
      + tml on vacation - can Khaled help ?
    + IE / .odt integration issue -> timar ?
    + start time foo
      + are we using AFMs in anger ?
      + pspfontcache: should have AFM info in it.
      + seems to be being re-written in error
        (caolan)
  + fdo#65338 - really positive response to bibisect requests
    + thanks to jorendc for the bibsect & Lubos for the fix.
AI: + file svg / help->about issue in master as 4.2 MAB (Astron)

* QA update (Joel)
  + BSA is updated, if selected a collapsed / old version, it
    recommends you update.
  + QA Contest update
    + got very close to the goal: 24->25% of the bugs triaged
    + Joren & Joel counting now:
      + hopefully will know in the next week who won.
    + quite a lot of guys put in a substantial amount of time
      + now hovering at 921 unconfirmed bugs.
      + before at 1191 unconfirmed bugs.
  + etherpad is up, thanks to Robison & Florian for hard work testing etc.
  + skipping tomorrows' QA call.
  + Need_Advice bugs input appreciated (more of them now)
    + 10 bugs (-3) in that state (thanks)
    + http://tinyurl.com/ce6d8km
  + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
    +142 -397 (-255 overall)
      + however -285 are stale / NEEDINFO closures
    many thanks to the top five:
      Jorendc 11
      James 11
      mariosv 9
      Michael Stahl 5
      David Tardon 5
  + another needinfo round for six month old bugs - next week.
    + ask for info, wait a month, close if none.
  + Final stats for round 1:
    + 25% of bugs in needinfo - touched in some way => preserved.
    + 75% closed as invalid.
      + got a few E-mails, a couple why invalid ?
      + responded: we need info, please provide.

* FISL event roundup (Bjoern)
  + Awesome conference in Brazil, great attendance,
    + good workshops, amazing community growth
    + new people coming in; some communication
      difficulties; face-to-face is easier
  + Intel offered vtune licenses - LibreOffice a great
    test case, how to proceed from there ?
    + get some vtune licenses from there, or
    + give them samples to play around with ?
AI: + send details to Pierre-Eric (Bjoern)

* GSOC update (Cedric)
  + please mentor your students, mid-term evaluations
    + around 2 weeks away ...
    + Mon 29th July until end of that week

* UX input (Astron)
  + not so much on the list, no chat last week.
    + controversy - insert ruler
AI: + fdo#60858 needs input (Astron)
  + need to ship rulers again even though awful (Cedric)
    + need to add code to guess / fixup paths too (Michael)
AI: + file a bug to split out that piece (Cedric)
  + and the UI piece which is horrible needs thought too (Cedric)
    + always someone uses a fn. that almost everyone
      thinks is useless (Astron)
    + avoid bringing back the garish / pixellated ruler
      imagery
  + prefer sidebar option when enabled to enable it
    for all components by default, rather than using
    the menu.
  + discussion about the theme for the planet is ongoing.

* Certification Program (Stephan/Kendy/Bjoern)
  + nothing much happening.

* Help -> Send Feedback issue (Bjoern)
  + lots of things sent via BSA are support requests which are invalid.
  + idea to have a mailing list instead for English pre-processing,
    as per French (but doesn't save any time)
  + instead send them to ask.libreoffice.org ?
    + and hope to escalate those to bugs ?
  + another option is a landing page (Joel)
    + concern wrt. escallation latency etc. from Ask
    + better to have a clear landing page
    + "definite bug" -> help
    + "support" -> ask
    + "instructions" -> wiki
  + should we re-use Mozilla's work ? (Michael)
    + https://input.mozilla.org/en-US/feedback
  + launchpad has a similar problem (Bjoern)
    + openid makes account creation easy;
      button to turn it into a question ->
      invalid -> askbot
  + bugzilla / account creation is painful - ask / openid is easier
  + Rob asked the design list to do something like that (Astron)
    + http://dl.dropbox.com/u/87946285/libreoffice/feedback/feedback-page.html
  + ongoing issue with fdo (can't use openID)
    + Robinson - might be able to improve 'ask' to add a
      'file a bug' button to fdo for ask moderators.
      + and auto-set it to NEW ?
      + avoids authentication / openID issues
AI: + talk to Robinson about that (Joel)
    + can do all the data collection there before push
      to bugzilla
      + share de-duplication with Ask guys ?

* UI dialog conversion (Caolan)
  + 290 dialogs so far
    + Qudos to:
      + excellent work from KACST
        + converting the help as well which is great.
      + also Andras' students and others doing good work there.
  + somewhat over 1/2 way to the goal and improving.

* Open 4.2 MAB
  + 2/2
  + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65675

* Open 4.1 MAB
        + 7 (of 52) older 7/48 2/42 4/39 5/37 7/32 3/26 3/23 4/17 3/16 3/16
             14% 15%
        + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=60270&hide_resolved=1

* Open 4.0 MAB
        + 12 (of 135) older 12/134 12/133 12/132 16/132 14/130 16/129 16/128 18/129
             9% 9% 9% 9% 12% 11% 13% 14% 13%
        + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=54157&hide_resolved=1

* 3.6 most annoying bugs ...
        + 62 (of 243) older 60/241 57/238 63/237 65/236 68/235 67/232 69/231 71/229
             25% 25% 24% 27% 28% 29% 30% 31% 32%
        + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=44446&hide_resolved=1

* Bibisected bugs open: whiteboard 'bibsected'
        + 34 (of 123) older 36/122 38/119 37/114 39/114 41/112 36/105 35/100
                http://bit.ly/VQfF3Q

* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
  + 298(+4) bugs open of 1723(+26) total

  * ~Component count net *
          Writer - 92 (-2)
     Libreoffice - 27 (+1)
     Spreadsheet - 27 (+0)
        Database - 26 (+1)
    Presentation - 26 (-1)
         Crashes - 22 (-1)
         Drawing - 18 (+0)
         Borders - 14 (+0)
           BASIC - 3 (+1)
       Migration - 3 (+0)

        + 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