minutes of ESC call ...

* Present:
    + Christian, Muthu, Sophie, Stephan, Eike, Norbert, Bjoern, Robinson, janI,
      Caolan, Michael, Andars, Kendy, Olivier, David, Miklos, Michael S, Armin,
      Thorsten, Bubli, Jan-Marek

* Completed Action Items:
    + submit development budget to board (Bjoern)
    + encourage Turkish hack-fest date confirmation (Bjoern)
        + April 30th -> May 1st.
    + update release plan for 5.2 and 5.3 (Christian)
        [ added to the wiki and udpated 5.1 version to account for RC3 ]
    + setup a tinderbox VM for VS. 2015 (Christian)
        [ being setup now, planned to hook-up later today ]
    + create the 5.1 projects for pootle (Christian)
        [ are being created and synching now - should be available later
          then will trigger an update for the template project ]
    + talk around the gerrit update with Norbert (Cloph)
        [ gerrit update delayed by the need for 5.1.1.3
          planned to update it in-place this weekend (Norbert)
              + was updating to Debian 8 base-line
              + requires creating a new machine etc.
              + will update in-line instead for now. ]

* Pending Action Items:
    + UI changes from non-committers in gerrit: post list to UX team (Kendy)
         [ assigned to kendy and push to list ]
    + double-check duplicate libmar/src, update/src (Kendy)

* Release Engineering update (Christian/JanI)
    + got the chance to do a 2nd build (JanI)
    + 5.0.6 RC1 - due April 12th.
    + 5.1.2 RC1 week 11, March 15th
        + planned to be done by Jan
        + Late Features (for 5.1.2)
            + New Slide Transitions: polish
                [ ... debugging & work - some Intel fixing ]
            + UserAgent display & tweakage
                [ still not done ... ]
            + documentation update planned.
    + Android & iOS Remote
        + updates still planned

* Documentation (Olivier)
    + asking for help on the list to build docs around new features
    + contacted a couple of new guys interested in helping out there
    + setting up internal tooling, keys etc.
    + branching of translations ?
        + since 5.1 - there are lots of new pages in the help
          that need translation
        + is 5.1 stable in terms of translation ?
            + new pages arrive in master.
        + already branched translations (Cloph)
            + bug in rc2 tag that made people think there was an issue.
            => why we had RC3 - there is no issue, move along.
            + pootle is currently being filled up as of now
                + tomorrow it will be done: separate master & 5.1 branches.
                + changes on master will not harm translators.

* GSoC 2016 (Thorsten, JanI)
    + https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/GSoC/Ideas
    + 3 admin volunteers: janI, Moggi, Thorsten
    + next step - mid next month: opens for students to apply.
    + last chance to add new GSoC ideas
        + people without projects to mentor: Eike, Caolan, Michael M, Norbert, Andras
    + if you did not get a mentor invite ping us
    + unclear quite where to sign-up; not seen a mail (Bjoern)