minutes of ESC call ...

* Present:
    + Cloph, Eike, Stephan, Thorsten, Markus, Andras, Miklos, Robinson,
      Muthu, Lionel, Bjoern, Michael S, Michael M

* Completed Action Items:
    + poke Florian - to add Miklos, Muthu (Michael)
        [ added ]

* Pending Action Items:
    + please file an Easy-Hack this week: just a bug with whiteboard: (All)
            "EasyHack DifficultyBeginner SkillCpp TopicCleanup"
        + thanks to:
            + Stephan, Michael, Lionel, Ashdod
        + http://bit.ly/1DTbesP
    + fix BSA login / XML-RPC issues (Cloph)
        [ Rob Snelders - had the idea of running on the same host - after
          the switch-over ]
    + ask Fridrich, Cedric wrt. GSOC leadership etc. (Kendy)
        [ Cedric will do the admin but not mentoring ]
        Cedric/Fridrich as last year
        AI: all review / amend ideas page: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas
    + look into setting up OpenID proxy after 4.4.0 release (Cloph)
    + remove the 'EasyHack' piece from anything 2yrs old (Bjoern)

* Bugzilla migration update (Robinson)
    + BugZilla migration on track for -this- Saturday, January 24, ~1600 UTC
        + then go/no-go decision - lets see.

* Release Engineering update (Cloph)
    + 4.3.6 RC1 status
        + public, on main LibreOffice web-site
    + 4.4.0 RC3 status
        + not yet tagged; still a couple of patches waiting in gerrit.
        + want to tag after the call, before 9pm European time
        + rounded up some patch review.
        + https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/q/status:open+project:core+branch:libreoffice-4-4-0,n,z
    + 4.4.x
        + lots of OpenGL fixes going in
            + adapting for other platforms & older versions
            + some larger changes; hunting some memory corruptions
                + even checking to see if cards are supported -
                  can kill some cards (Caolan)
                     + should do it once per instance.
                + caching that is done in the helper process (Markus)
                     + not an app bug - a low-level one (Caolan)
            + also deeper vcldemo features for testing etc.
                + no concerns ?
        + OpenCL fixing also ongoing, but more limited.
    + Android
        + new viewer out; patches welcome
    + Android & iOS Remote
        + patches in gerrit not reviewed yet

* Crashtest update (Markus)
    + running again, still some issues with the host
    + not as fast as expected with 64 cores
    + big issue is Java for validation checking
    + results look quite nice
        + 21 import issues, 790 export issues - mostly writer files.
            + possibly a shared DOC/DOCX crasher.
    + Caolan fixed a number of import crashers
    + will do an asan test over the weekend.

* FOSDEM bits (Eike)
    + Brussels, Belgium -- February 2015 (next weekend)
        + if you want to go to the FOSDEM dinner - on Friday 8pm
            + poke Sophie - if you don't like beef (and/or want to book)
        + hardware
            + Eike bringing last year's monitor
                + Markus bringing a TDF Mac mini
                + Florian a TDF netbook
        + should we do hardware exchange at FOSDEM ?

* 4.4 under-the-hood (Michael)
    + review / contributions welcome - started to build it.
    + 2x dialog-like things are left (Caolan)
    + OOXML tokenizer XSLT -> Python http://vmiklos.hu/blog/ooxmltok.html (Miklos, Kendy)
    + https://skyfromme.wordpress.com/2015/01/05/auld-lang-syne/
    + currently 25 active clang compiler plugins (nr. of cxx w/o plugin*.cxx in compilerplugins/)
    + plus 27 inactive (experimental) clang compiler plugins (most of them are used manually)

* Hackfests (Bjoern)
    + initial scheduling for 2015:
        + Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
            + happy to have us back
            + suggested March 19th, 20th: Thur / Fri.
            + happens during GSOC application phase.
        + Cambridge, UK - May 2015 contact: Michael
    + easy to setup VM's in Amazon cloud for then (Cloph)

* GSoC (Kendy)
    + February, 9th: Mentoring organizations can begin submitting applications to Google.

* UX Update (Kendy)
    + Kendy skiing ...

* Certification (Stephan/Bjoern/Kendy)

* Jenkins update (Norbert)
  + http://ci.libreoffice.org/view/Dashboard/
     + Norbert has a sick nick - sadly.

* QA (Robinson)
    + UNCONFIRMED at 290
         + lowest for three years
           https://bugs.freedesktop.org/reports.cgi?product=LibreOffice&datasets=UNCONFIRMED
         + only 111 of those are platform independant: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/report.cgi?x_axis_field=op_sys&y_axis_field=component&z_axis_field=&no_redirect=1&query_format=report-table&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&product=LibreOffice&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&longdesc_type=allwordssubstr&longdesc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&bug_id=&bug_id_type=anyexact&emailtype1=substring&email1=&emailtype2=substring&email2=&emailtype3=substring&email3=&chfieldvalue=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&j_top=AND&f1=noop&o1=noop&v1=&format=table&action=wrap
    + increasing # of people working on bibisecting
    + New component: 'Android Viewer'
    + NeedAdvice: Bug 58920 - VIEWING: "Error: Reference not found" should be replaced with reference-name
       https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=58920

* QA stats:
  + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/page.cgi?id=weekly-bug-summary.html
    +142 -122 (+20 overall)
    many thanks to the top bug squashers:
        Matthew Francis 37
        Robinson Tryon 13
        Beluga 11
        Martin Pitt 6
        Stephan Bergmann 5
        Adolfo Jayme 5
        Caolán McNamara 5
        tommy27 4
        raal 4
        Lionel Elie Mamane 4

* Open 4.5 MAB
  + 0/1 0/1 0/1 0/1
  + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=86696&hide_resolved=1

* Open 4.4 MAB
  + 14/38 11/34 6/26 6/24 7/24 7/22 5/19 4/18 3/17 3/16 3/16 4/16
     36% 32% 23% 25% 29% 31% 26% 22% 17%
  + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=79641&hide_resolved=1

* Open 4.3 MAB
  + 86/154 84/152 86/151 86/148 84/146 58/117 33/90 19/73 17/65 16/64 16/64
     55% 55% 56% 58% 57% 49% 36% 26% 26% 25% 18%
  + https://bugs.freedesktop.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=75025&hide_resolved=1

* Bibisected bugs open: whiteboard 'bibisected'
  + 226/616 229/601 214/564 208/532 208/526 182/488 190/481 189/475 190/470
    + http://bit.ly/VQfF3Q

* all bugs tagged with 'regression'
    + 450(+11) bugs open of 3383(+34) total
        * ~Component count net *
                Writer - 154 (+8)
           Spreadsheet - 91 (+0)
          Presentation - 36 (+3)
               Crashes - 23 (+1)
           Libreoffice - 23 (+0)
              Graphics - 19 (+1)
              Database - 19 (-1)
               Drawing - 19 (-1)
                    UI - 18 (-1)
               Borders - 16 (-2)
               Filters - 11 (+1)
           Print / PDF - 11 (+0)
                 Chart - 10 (+0)
               Formula - 4 (+2)
                 BASIC - 4 (+0)
            Extensions - 3 (+0)
             framework - 2 (+0)
          Installation - 2 (+0)
                   sdk - 1 (+0)
        Impress Remote - 0 (+0)
            Linguistic - 0 (+0)